one of the best things they've done) and the earlier single 'Sound of the Free b/w Lady (a.ka. Imagine what out-takes there are, rumours of material recorded with brother Brian (the so-called 'Hamburger Sessions'), the material intended for the never released 'Bamboo', the Vietnam-themed ballad 'Carry Me Home' (intended for 'Holland' and later covered on Primal Scream's 'Dixie-Narco' e.p. Clearly the business folk should get together with those disputing ownership and sort things out - a reissue on Rhino in the style of the new Nico-compilation 'The Frozen Borderline' or the deluxe 'Loaded' is sorely needed. It joins albums like Tim Buckley's 'Star Sailor' (.but you can buy three albums from Embrace-tribute act Starsailor?) and Neil Young's 'Time Fades Away' that can be picked up for several poundage on vinyl, but aren't on cd (though TFA was meant to have been issued on cd in the mid-90s, I've never seen a copy). There are rumours of copyright/ownership issues - hence the lack of remastered/reissued copies of this album. I picked up a vinyl copy in a fish market in Worcester (!!!) for 25-earth-pounds and have some cd copies kind folk have copied for me, one from vinyl and one from the 1991-cd. A cursory look at Amazon or E-Bay will confirm that cd-copies of 'Pacific Ocean Blue' are going for a silly price, which will confound those folk aware you can get all manner of crap from The Beach Boys on remastered CD. So, I guess 'Pacific Ocean Blue' is the new 'Smile'? 'Pacific Ocean Blue' featured in Mojo a few years ago when a reissue was rumoured, though I'm not convinced the writer had heard much of it & shortly after it seemed a hip name to drop, the lame Richard Ashcroft citing it in relation to his Brian Wilson-featuring dud of a second album. This is quite absurd, as it has been available twice - upon its release in 1977 on album and tape, and then reissued on CD in 1991 - probably lost amid the many Beach Boys-reissues of that time ('Pet Sounds' got its first meaningful CD reissue about this time). I guess now that Brian Wilson has released a version of his legendary 'Smile' (decidely hit and miss and not the album that would have been released in the 60s - see the 'Good Vibrations' box-set or bootlegs for a more honest version), 'Pacific Ocean Blue' has probably become the new 'Smile' - a holy grail for Beach Boys fans and hip record collectors. Written by Dennis Wilson and Gregg Jakobson except 1 & 11 written by Dennis Wilson & Carl Wilson 2 written by Dennis Wilson, Gregg Jakobson & M Horn 6 written by Dennis Wilson and Jim Dutch 7 written by Dennis Wilson & Karen Lamm-Wilson 8 written by Dennis Wilson, Gregg Jakobson & Karen Lamm-Wilson 9 written by Dennis Wilson and Mike Love & 10 written by Dennis Wilson. Reissued on CD by Caribou Records/CBS in 1991. Produced by Dennis Wilson and Gregg Jakobson.
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