Beach Boys Unreleased Recordings Surface

The story of the Beach Boys will be told this month in a new documentary and a soundtrack with previously unreleased songs.

Endless Harmony: The Beach Boys Story will premiere Aug. 23 on VH1. The two-hour special, touted as the first documentary completed with the full cooperation of the Beach Boys, was produced by Delilah Films. Capitol Records Home Video will release the film in November.

The Capitol Records soundtrack, due Aug. 11, includes five previously unreleased songs: one by Brian Wilson and Rick Henn, two by the late Dennis Wilson, one by Mike Love and one, Al Jardine's "Loop De Loop," that was originally recorded in 1969 and re-recorded last month with new lead vocals.

Endless Harmony also features live, demo, rehearsal, remixed, and alternate tracks of such hits as "Help Me, Rhonda," "California Girls," and "Good Vibrations." Only two tracks on Endless Harmony have been previously released in these versions. Starting next year, Capitol will re-release all out-of-print Beach Boys albums originally issued in the '70s on the group's Brother Records label.

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Song Stories

“Youth Knows No Pain”

Lykke Li | 2011

“Like on 'Youth Knows No Pain' — we are the ones that should demonstrate, because we can take it,” Likke Li said. “We can pierce ourselves, take Ecstasy, dance all night and still go to work at our McDonald's jobs.” Despite the hedonistic sentiment in the song, the Swedish singer also admitted in hindsight her youth had repercussions. “I remember when I was 18-19 and feeling that I know it all,” Li said. “I always feel that I know it all. But that song is about realizing you don’t, and reflecting, ‘Boy, if I only knew what would follow.’”

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