Wake the World: The Friends Sessions

Album by The Beach Boys

Wake the World: The Friends Sessions is a box set by American rock band the Beach Boys, released in 2018. The collection presents session recordings from the period around their 1968 Friends album, highlighting the band's mellow, pastoral pop, close vocal harmonies and understated psychedelic and chamber-pop arrangements that reflect a quieter, experimental phase in their late-1960s career.
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  1. 1.
    Meant for You (alternate version with session intro)
    2:17
  2. 2.
    Friends (backing track)
    2:38
  3. 3.
    Friends (a cappella)
    2:19
  4. 4.
    Wake the World (alternate version)
    2:11
  5. 5.
    Be Here in the Morning (back track)
    2:20
  6. 6.
    When a Man Needs a Woman (early take basic track)
    0:50
  7. 7.
    When a Man Needs a Woman (alternate version)
    2:08
  8. 8.
    Passing By (alternate version)
    1:43
  9. 9.
    Anna Lee the Healer (session excerpt)
    1:21
  10. 10.
    Anna Lee the Healer (a cappella)
    1:53
  11. 11.
    Little Bird (back track)
    2:00
  12. 12.
    Little Bird (a cappella)
    2:04
  13. 13.
    Be Still (alternate take with session excerpt)
    2:08
  14. 14.
    Even Steven
    2:52
  15. 15.
    Diamond Head (alternate version with session excerpt)
    4:33
  16. 16.
    New Song (Transcendental Meditation) (back track with partial vocals)
    1:51
  17. 17.
    Transcendental Meditation (back track with session excerpt)
    2:21
  18. 18.
    Transcendental Meditation (a cappella)
    1:51
  19. 19.
    My Little Red Book
    2:45
  20. 20.
    Away
    0:56
  21. 21.
    I'm Confessin' (demo)
    2:17
  22. 22.
    I'm Confessin'/ You're as Cool as Can Be 1
    1:37
  23. 23.
    You're as Cool as Can Be 2
    1:13
  24. 24.
    Be Here in the Morning Darling
    3:29
  25. 25.
    Our New Home
    2:01
  26. 26.
    New Song
    1:26
  27. 27.
    Be Still (alternate track)
    1:03
  28. 28.
    Rock and Roll Woman
    2:18
  29. 29.
    Time to Get Alone (alternate version demo)
    2:03
  30. 30.
    Untitled 1/25/68
    1:06
  31. 31.
    Passing By (demo)
    2:33
  32. 32.
    Child Is Father of the Man (original 1966 track mix)
    3:36

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