Worst Beach Boys Song on Holland - Part 5 in an Ongoing Series

The Beaks of Eagles and the Fairy Tale are both pretty hopeless. Voting for the Fairy Tale.

― Sacco, Vanzetti, Passantino... (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 18:17 (4 years ago) Permalink

The end (unfortunately) of the Chapin/Fataar era.

The live album's after this?

― Sacco, Vanzetti, Passantino... (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 18:22 (4 years ago) Permalink

Fairy Tale the obvious choice but can it be counted as part of the album proper?

― fit and working again, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 18:24 (4 years ago) Permalink

I'll vouch for Beaks Of Eagles - think I've said it on ILM before, but it's all about the connotative backing harmonies that swoop and soar around the monologue.

Wish Mount Vernon wasn't on here, it's not part of the album and it's not even good in a funny way. I've listened to it a few times and it doesn't even make any sense.

Discounting Mount Vernon, I think I'm gonna vote for Funky Pretty as it's the only one I can't remember.

― dog latin, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 18:25 (4 years ago) Permalink

This is a really solid album through and through I reckon though.

― dog latin, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 18:25 (4 years ago) Permalink

"Funky Pretty" is awesome!

― Sacco, Vanzetti, Passantino... (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 18:26 (4 years ago) Permalink

Voting Leaving this Town which drags the album down with its length.

― fit and working again, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 18:28 (4 years ago) Permalink

You bastards have got me seeking out a copy of this now, crims!: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_in_Paradise

― dog latin, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 18:39 (4 years ago) Permalink

yeah the live album after this is really good, features Fataar/Chapin's "We Got Love" (which was bumped from this album, perhaps unfairly, in favor of "Sail on Sailor"). These polls are about the studio album though.

I debated including the fairy tale - I mean it was included with the original LP so it does belong, in a way. I agree its pretty uniformly terrible - its actively annoying to listen to.

― High in Openness (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 18:49 (4 years ago) Permalink

also Funky Pretty is great yeah wtf - no voting for that!

― High in Openness (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 18:49 (4 years ago) Permalink

Are we not going to do "Keepin the Summer Alive"? That, in my opinion is the last true Beach Boys album before they all died or splintered off and it is actually defensible in many ways.

― dog latin, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 19:06 (4 years ago) Permalink

Sorry about "Funky Pretty", I just don't remember it off the top of my head!

― dog latin, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 19:07 (4 years ago) Permalink

the instrumental version of "fairy tale" is the worst song in the good vibrations box set.

― abanana, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 19:12 (4 years ago) Permalink

Worst song, I'm not sure. But "Only With You" is def. the best.

― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 19:12 (4 years ago) Permalink

Are we not going to do "Keepin the Summer Alive"? That, in my opinion is the last true Beach Boys album before they all died or splintered off and it is actually defensible in many ways.

I wasn't planning on it. Mostly because a) I've never heard it/don't own it, and b) (if we wanna get technical) Dennis isn't on it, so its disqualified on the grounds of not including a key member. But yeah I can see how it can be considered the last legitimate release - everyone was still alive and involved (to varying degrees)

Cover is so totally WTF:

― High in Openness (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 20:13 (4 years ago) Permalink

anyway I'm downloading it now, will maybe poll it later

― High in Openness (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 20:35 (4 years ago) Permalink

"Mount Vernon And Fairway". Good idea, horrible execution.

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 21:05 (4 years ago) Permalink

huh you know I gotta say Keepin the Summer Alive is not as terrible as I was expecting - there's something kind of off about it, the production seems rather tin-eared, but there is tons of great singing on it, even if the songwriting is pretty boring/uninspired (none of the really ridiculous "high concept" stuff that showed up on their late 70s material is present). I'd definitely say its better than MIU

― High in Openness (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 21:24 (4 years ago) Permalink

"Goin' On" is pretty great -- and the vocal riff is stolen from Smile...

― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 21:35 (4 years ago) Permalink

megalolz

― High in Openness (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 21:40 (4 years ago) Permalink

LOOOOOL 80s! I want to go in a zorb ball in the sea!

― the next grozart, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 22:50 (4 years ago) Permalink

I'm increasingly falling for this record. My copy is on vinyl, but I love the production on this — all the Moog basses and whirring synth sounds on tunes like "The Trader," "Funky Pretty" (which has a great tag, btw) and "Steamboat," IIRC.

― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 15 May 2009 15:28 (4 years ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Sunday, 17 May 2009 23:01 (4 years ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Monday, 18 May 2009 23:01 (4 years ago) Permalink

ooh biggest vote-getter yet!

― High in Openness (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 18 May 2009 23:07 (4 years ago) Permalink

who voted for big sur! gosh

― iatee, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 04:16 (4 years ago) Permalink

the outtake version is like 100x better, but the holland version is still one of the best things on here

― iatee, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 04:17 (4 years ago) Permalink

Saturday, June 9, 2012
BRIAN WILSON COMES TO MY HOME
during the making of holland,i became friends with marilyn ,brians wife.one day they both came to my house,i then lent brian my trusty little Uher tapedeck, so he could record stuff at his (rented) house.

when they were finished and left holland, i got my tape deck back, and on the reel that was still on there, was a snippet of a song, that they never recorded.

here is that snippet...

https://rapidshare.com/files/4085215737/WALLOFTAPES.brian_in_holland.mp3

― retro-shittified (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 11 June 2012 19:44 (11 months ago) Permalink

yeahhh, saw that -- i think i'd heard it before, maybe from the same dude? he seems to be slightly crazy, but he's got some amazing tapes! the song is an old folk song, i think, i've heard a jazzy version of it i think?

― tylerw, Monday, 11 June 2012 20:01 (11 months ago) Permalink

I hadn't heard this particular outtake before - I've heard plenty of in-studio stuff but this seemed like a rare glimpse into Brian's actual songwriting process, you hear him fumbling around for phrases, trying different stuff out (always with those pounding triplets/8th notes lol)

― retro-shittified (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 11 June 2012 20:03 (11 months ago) Permalink

closest point of comparison I can think of is the Cocaine Sessions actually haha

― retro-shittified (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 11 June 2012 20:04 (11 months ago) Permalink

just came across this version, never heard of it before. v weird explicit drug refs in the lyrics (which I think are different in the Boys' version...?)

― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 19:59 (1 month ago) Permalink

wiki sez :
... failed supergroup called KGB, from the initials of Ray Kennedy (co-writer of "Sail On, Sailor"), Barry Goldberg on keyboards and Bloomfield on guitar. The band had a rhythm section of Rick Grech on bass and Carmine Appice on drums. Grech and Bloomfield immediately quit after its release, stating they never had faith in the project. The album was not well received, but it did contain the standout track "Sail On, Sailor". Its authorship was credited only to "Wilson-Kennedy", and had a bluesy, darker feel, along with Ray Kennedy's original cocaine related lyrics.

this was in '74, so after Holland had already come out. I guess this song has been covered quite a bit, apparently.

― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 20:02 (1 month ago) Permalink

You bastards have got me seeking out a copy of this now, crims!: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_in_Paradise

also omg at this

The rest are original numbers, all containing both titular and lyrical references to summer and/or surfing, with the exception of the Transcendental Meditation-influenced "Strange Things Happen". The quasi-rap number "Summer of Love" was originally intended to be a duet with Bart Simpson for a planned Simpsons movie.The song was instead used in an episode of Baywatch.

― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 20:21 (1 month ago) Permalink

fucking incredible Mike Love o-face at 0:14

― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 20:25 (1 month ago) Permalink

Is that even the same song? Other than the melody and chord changes, it's almost completely different.

― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 22:02 (1 month ago) Permalink