The Beach Boys - Landlocked (1990)

This earlier incarnation of the so-called Landlocked sessions duplicates much of the Invasion Unlimited release, but has the good graces to also include several tracks taken from the other lost Brian Wilson album, Adult Child. The tracks from Landlocked include early/alternate versions of several songs which would later appear on Surf's Up, although many of these tracks wouldn't see the official light of day until the Good Vibrations box set (have I mentioned just how great the box set is?) More of a scattershot set than the Invasion Unlimited set, this set boasts better sound, and the inclusion of such dubious rarities as "Mony Mony" and "Ruby Baby", plus the compilers felt the need to hear early versions of the detestable "Hey Little Tomboy" and the laughable "H.E.L.P. Is On The Way." The producers also throw in a couple of tracks from various sessions which were not apparently connected to any particular album project, such as "Over The Waves" "Child of Winter" and Dennis Wilson's solo single release, "Lady." One of the tracks, the so-called "It's About Time" take, doesn't even sound like the Beach Boys, as someone counts off what turns into an extended tom-tom/drum solo, later morphing into an organ-driven line which may or may not be a tracking session to "It's About Time" (I doubt it) The Adult Child tracks are truly embarrassing, with Carl and Brian singing a surreal lyric in "Life Is For the Living" over a brassy big band track, "Hey Little Tomboy" is an alternate version with more harmonies backing it, but still as creepy as ever, "Deep Purple" sounds like Brian is doing late-night karaoke on this classic song, and Carl throatily sings "Everybody Wants To Live." It was releases like this one that eventually turned me off of collecting bootlegs, since much of the material has been released in official places, with better sound, and little new or different can be found here that's truly different or unique. And the variable sound, lack of documentation, and scattershot nature of the tracks is more frustrating than enlightening.
"AZRA" in a box below the Compact Disc logo on the CD, looks like a "Rights Society" code but not sure.