I was actually disappointed you didn't vote, nti! I was looking at older threads and I remembered you were a pretty big fan.
gonna post 3 more in a bit.
― iatee, Saturday, 13 August 2011 01:56 (twelve years ago) link
#63
You're So Good To Me - Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)70 points, 3 votes, 1 #1 vote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjvHKDcp_P8
― iatee, Saturday, 13 August 2011 02:02 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think I had that one on my ballot but yeah it is great. like their version of stripped down garage rock. vocals on the chorus are killer
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 13 August 2011 02:24 (twelve years ago) link
wow, didn't know boettcher was involved on here comes the night
― dell (del), Saturday, 13 August 2011 02:34 (twelve years ago) link
effin' blasting here comes the night disco edit right now
― dell (del), Saturday, 13 August 2011 02:38 (twelve years ago) link
#62
Aren't You Glad - Wild Honey74 points, 3 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyi_TBBBYK4
― iatee, Saturday, 13 August 2011 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
one of the things I ended up removing from my ballot, I think. I'm glad it got some support. I've always thought it should be the first song on the album.
― iatee, Saturday, 13 August 2011 02:42 (twelve years ago) link
amazing song, prob my favorite on wild honey? just classic beach boys chord changes, perfect vocals. impossible to argue with
― dell (del), Saturday, 13 August 2011 02:46 (twelve years ago) link
This was my #4. I am a huge Wild Honey fan and this is the standout song.
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 13 August 2011 02:59 (twelve years ago) link
tell me tell me you know what I mean
beep badeep badeep
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 13 August 2011 03:08 (twelve years ago) link
yes!!
― dell (del), Saturday, 13 August 2011 03:09 (twelve years ago) link
man...
― dell (del), Saturday, 13 August 2011 03:11 (twelve years ago) link
#61
That's Not Me - Pet Sounds 75 points, 3 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHCEppiiXL8
― iatee, Saturday, 13 August 2011 03:15 (twelve years ago) link
must. stop . listening . to . 'aren't you glad . .
― dell (del), Saturday, 13 August 2011 03:17 (twelve years ago) link
love the percussion in this one
― iatee, Saturday, 13 August 2011 03:18 (twelve years ago) link
Great Mike vocal on "That's Not Me."
― timellison, Saturday, 13 August 2011 03:20 (twelve years ago) link
two great mike vocals in a row, actually
― iatee, Saturday, 13 August 2011 03:20 (twelve years ago) link
yes yes and yes! that crystalline mike love sound. i don't care how adolescent the lyrics might come across; this song is devastating on so many levels
the organ, the percussion, the background vocal harmonies. it's situated in-between a bunch of emotionally resonant songs such that it feels almost lightweight by contrast, but man
― dell (del), Saturday, 13 August 2011 03:22 (twelve years ago) link
aren't you glad was my #8, love that song
forgot about you're so good to me, wouldn't have voted for it but solid tune
― buzza, Saturday, 13 August 2011 03:24 (twelve years ago) link
guitar figure reprised on 'the night was so young', if i'm not mistaken
― dell (del), Saturday, 13 August 2011 03:24 (twelve years ago) link
background vox in that's not me are positively unreal. seriously wonder if those guys ever sounded so sublime before or since then
― dell (del), Saturday, 13 August 2011 03:27 (twelve years ago) link
like, cannot listen to 1:40 to 1:50 or so w/o getting total chills
― dell (del), Saturday, 13 August 2011 03:30 (twelve years ago) link
only one of the bottom 10 i'm not familiar with is california saga but that sounds pretty good and i like/love the other 9, picked 2/10 so far
― buzza, Saturday, 13 August 2011 03:33 (twelve years ago) link
i feel really lucky, b/c i "discovered" pet sounds when i was 19, and listened to it every night for a month, it was like a ritual, i just soaked it up...i don't think i had ever been so blown away by a record before that. just listening to what they sounded like when they all sang together, it was so affecting. you hear the stories about brian wilson supposedly praying to make a beautiful record or whatever. i dunno, but whatever mojo he had going on at that time was obv. extremely effective
― dell (del), Saturday, 13 August 2011 03:37 (twelve years ago) link
gonna do one more tonight
― iatee, Saturday, 13 August 2011 03:37 (twelve years ago) link
#60
Wind Chimes - Smiley Smile / Smile76 points, 4 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crcq3G18JLchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2VkxzhWbxI
2004 version vastly superior imo but the part where the drums come in at about 2:00 bugs me to no end, a tasteless addition to the song
― iatee, Saturday, 13 August 2011 03:39 (twelve years ago) link
surprised that didn't finish a bit higher, that's the one song i kicked myself for not including after i submitted my ballot
― buzza, Saturday, 13 August 2011 03:40 (twelve years ago) link
if i walked into a church and heard ppl singing like the vocals on that's not me, i'd so quickly be like 'where do i sign up?'
― dell (del), Saturday, 13 August 2011 03:40 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, get what you mean, that fill is so naff
― dell (del), Saturday, 13 August 2011 03:44 (twelve years ago) link
i can't listen to the 2004 Smile because of the vocals
― buzza, Saturday, 13 August 2011 04:00 (twelve years ago) link
eh, i like the rockin' part of windchimes.
― tylerw, Saturday, 13 August 2011 04:01 (twelve years ago) link
weirdly, the first version i heard was by baby lemonade. does anyone remember that band? http://powerpopcriminals.blogspot.com/2010/10/baby-lemonade-wonderful-ep-1993-baby.html
― tylerw, Saturday, 13 August 2011 04:03 (twelve years ago) link
Sure, saw them when they were Arthur Lee's backing band once.
― timellison, Saturday, 13 August 2011 04:15 (twelve years ago) link
baby lemonade is the wondermints of arthur leexp
― buzza, Saturday, 13 August 2011 04:16 (twelve years ago) link
Great Mike vocal on "That's Not Me." --timellison
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 13 August 2011 04:21 (twelve years ago) link
yes! i dunno if i've ever thought about it quite that way, but i'm thinking you are totally otm
― dell (del), Saturday, 13 August 2011 04:25 (twelve years ago) link
^cosign this, and also this
like, cannot listen to 1:40 to 1:50 or so w/o getting total chills― dell (del), Saturday, 13 August 2011
― dell (del), Saturday, 13 August 2011
― bentelec, Saturday, 13 August 2011 04:27 (twelve years ago) link
There's also another version of "Wind Chimes" on the box set (which is my favorite), and there's an instrumental bootleg too.
― little mushroom person (abanana), Saturday, 13 August 2011 05:40 (twelve years ago) link
Here's the version that's on the box set:youtu.be/sRFE-24ucxc?t=2m20s
― little mushroom person (abanana), Saturday, 13 August 2011 05:43 (twelve years ago) link
ha i put you're so good to me at #1
― caek, Saturday, 13 August 2011 07:37 (twelve years ago) link
I voted for it too... not #1 though. Poll results lookin' good so far!
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Saturday, 13 August 2011 14:10 (twelve years ago) link
#59
http://www.sergent.com.au/beachboys/addsomemusic.jpgAdd Some Music To Your Day - Sunflower78 points, 4 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBkA4-U4MPk
― iatee, Saturday, 13 August 2011 14:13 (twelve years ago) link
see, sunflower has never quite lived up to its promise for me. bit of a mystery, b/c i have an enormous soft spot for "sunshine pop" in all of its forms, and this record, with Deirdre, etc., occupies that territory more than anything else in their catalog . but i don't know. whenever i listen to this record it just runs right past me without ever satisfactorily settling in. that being said, i love the way they run through ridiculous vocal acrobatics in this song that you just know they more or less tossed off, but would take hours upon hours of studio time for other acts to replicate
― dell (del), Saturday, 13 August 2011 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
Poll results lookin' good so far!
yeah, new u.s. citizens or just ppl in general should be presented with a comp containing these results. already completely devastating, and we're not even a dozen songs in. i remember telling an ex-gf that i LOVED the beach boys, and of course she was like "oh, Aruba, Jamaica, ooh i want to take her..." can be really tough to overcome people's ingrained prejudices regarding certain artists. but have a feeling whatever songs end up here would go a long way towards dispelling all those preconceptions
― dell (del), Saturday, 13 August 2011 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
#58
Cool, Cool Water - Sunflower79 points, 4 voteshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niktpOfb79w
― iatee, Saturday, 13 August 2011 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
Weekend results! Cool! For some reason I thought you were going to do the next batch on Monday.
― L.P. Hovercraft (WmC), Saturday, 13 August 2011 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
decided to do about 10 a day for a week
― iatee, Saturday, 13 August 2011 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
this song. oh man.
― dell (del), Saturday, 13 August 2011 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
add some music to your day was on my shortlist. A bit schmaltzy but I listened to it over and over again as part of a self-made GV CD3-esque loop a few years back.
― skip, Saturday, 13 August 2011 17:20 (twelve years ago) link