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| Pacific Ocean Blue - Legacy Edition | 
| List Price: $29.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 43 reviews)
Sales Rank: 2577
Category: Music
Artist: Dennis Wilson
Publisher: Sony Legacy
Studio: Sony Legacy
Manufacturer: Sony Legacy
Label: Sony Legacy
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5 x 0.6
UPC: 886970791625
EAN: 0886970791625
ASIN: B00104CIN2
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | River Song | | • | What's Wrong | | • | Moonshine | | • | Friday Night | | • | Dreamer | | • | Thoughts Of You | | • | Time | | • | You And I | | • | Pacific Ocean Blues | | • | Farewell My Friend | | • | Rainbows | | • | End Of The Show | | • | Tug Of Love (Previously Unreleased bonus track) | | • | Only With You (Previously Unreleased bonus track) | | • | Holy Man (Instrumental) (Previously Unreleased bonus track) | | • | Mexico(Previously Unreleased bonus track) |
Disc 2
| • | Under The Moonlight (Previously Unreleased) | | • | It's Not Too Late (Previously Unreleased) | | • | School Girl (Previously Unreleased) | | • | Love Remember Me (Previously Unreleased) | | • | Love Surrounds Me (Previously Unreleased) | | • | Wild Situation (Previously Unreleased) | | • | Common (Previously Unreleased) | | • | Are You Real (Previously Unreleased) | | • | He's A Bum (Previously Unreleased) | | • | Cocktails(Previously Unreleased) | | • | I Love You(Previously Unreleased) | | • | Constant Companion(Previously Unreleased) | | • | Time For Bed(Previously Unreleased) | | • | Album Tag Song(Previously Unreleased) | | • | All Alone | | • | Piano Variations On Thoughts Of You (Previously Unreleased) | | • | Holy Man (Taylor Hawkins Version Previously Unreleased bonus track) |
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Album Description
Deluxe Edition Two CD set of 33 tracks with Limited Edition First Run Collector's Packaging. After 30 years, this lost classic reemerges to the delight of fans worldwide. Since coming out in 1977, this CD had only been released for six months in 1991. This collection contains never officially released tracks from Dennis' Bambu album which only existed as bootlegs for decades. Per Dennis Wilson 'Everything that I am or will ever be is in the music. If you want to know me, just listen.' Features 'Holy Man' an unfinished track that never received Dennis' vocal part with Taylor Hawkins of the Foo Fighters laying down brand new vocals. This limited edition deluxe packing feature 50 page, full color book with two brand new essays and never-before-seen photos and memorabilia.
Amazon.co.uk
Apart from the non-release of Smile, the biggest lament of hardcore Beach Boys fans is that Bruce Johnston aside, none of the non-Brian Wilson solo albums are available on CD. But now, for fans of late drummer Dennis Wilson, there's reason to celebrate as his only-released solo album gets the reissue it deserves. Widely acknowledged as the finest Beach Boys solo effort, it's now presented with clarity, allowing the full sonic palette--the punch of opening "River Song" for example--to be heard in its intended glory. Wilson's raspy vocal may have been past its prime, but it's still affecting and ably supported by the sumptuous production values he gave the album. With high quality tracks such as the funky "Dreamer" and the poignant "Farewell My Friend", this will appeal to anyone with even a passing interest in The Beach Boys, as well as a delight for hardcore fans as the unreleased tracks (from the unfinished follow up Bambu, easily match the original's quality. While the disappointing absence of earlier singles ("Lady" or "Sound of Free") prevents this from being a definitive career anthology, this is as essential a Beach Boys artefact as Pet Sounds or Sunflower/Surf's Up. -?Thom Allott
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| Customer Reviews: Read 38 more reviews...
 Pacific Ocean Blue is a gem September 30, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This album is much better than I expected. The melodies, harmonies, and production techniques exhibit Wilson's immense talent. I found the music very relaxing and enjoyable. I recommend this to people with an open mind about music.
 Another overrated "Wilson" production September 19, 2008
1 out of 10 found this review helpful
I love The Beach Boys--and especially related to Dennis' spirit and great heart.. and feel they are certainly one of the top musical forces to come out of the USA in the last 50 years.But they, and especially Brian,and now even PACIFIC OCEAN BLUE have been SO overrated...I just finished watching the BEAUTIFUL DREAMER Smile-era documentary retrospective and Brian is held up as the greatest things since musical invention...jeesh! PET SOUNDS sold poorly (until relatively recently) and SMILE was never released! There were OTHER great groups of the era..go listen to bands like THE RASCALS and THREE DOG NIGHT or even JAN AND DEAN for instance.Every bit as brilliant and "heavenly" as the kids from Hawthorne.
 Not worth the price!!!! September 3, 2008
3 out of 18 found this review helpful
Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue has been released in a "Legacy" edition with a second disc of bonus material. The packaging has overblown hype suggesting this may be the best solo release by a Beach Boy. Give me a break!!!!
The original recording is not awful. It isn't particularly interesting either. Nothing about it merits the release of a "Legacy" edition and there is absolutely nothing of interest on the disc of bonus material. That Legacy edition is being sold as a full-price two CD set is shameful.
In the Wilson family Dennis got the looks and Brian got all of the song-writing genius.
For great solo Beach Boys works see Smile or That Lucky Old Sun.
 Great music September 1, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
It was a collector`s item for years and this great reissue proves it right. If Holland is one of your favorite Beach Boy's albums - it definitly is one of mine BB-favorites - than Pacific Ocean Blue is a must have-item. Great music.
Nice in small doses August 26, 2008
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
I'm generally of the opinion that "masterpiece" is a word that's too easily used these days to describe just about anything anybody says is good, and in this case that caution particularly applies. This is a good album, and Dennis Wilson's rough-hewn baritone makes for quite a few high points. But what works best on here are the arrangements for each song, as opposed to the songs themselves. There's a few memorable songs on this album, including "Farewell, My Friend," "The River Song," and the title song, but none are up to the caliber of what this Wilson brother often contributed to the Beach Boys ("Forever," "Never Learn Not To Love," "Only With You," to name a few). Likewise, said arrangements get downright lugubrious sometimes; what might have been intended as a sinking into a pool of sound (as older brother Brian Wilson often managed with his arrangements)occasionally feels like trudging through a mud bog. I can listen to this album in bits and pieces, but trying to listen to it in one go turns into a chore awfully quickly. Most of it is nice to listen to, all the same.
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