It's About Time: Beach Boys Poll Results

The Trader is a bit half baked for me - like Sail on Sailor without a proper hook. Pleasant track though.

Carl really is a trooper. I wonder what he thought after realizing he was now fronting a disco act.

I think this was actually Carl's idea iirc...? by all accounts reception of the song was awful, fans really turned on them.

honestly it's weird that they didn't enlist Van McCoy for that track and make it a genuine hit

yeah, i feel like carl was way into it? and in retrospect he was right? i dunno, cos when yr dealing w/the beach boys all the dysfunctional family sitch invariably comes into play, and being in a band is difficult enough w/o any of that.

You're right, I'm sure he was into it, he probably dragged some of the band kicking and screaming. It still must have been weird to hear that percussion kick in after spending 15 years of being a way different band. Then again they made so many stylistic shifts in their career that maybe it was no big deal.

yeah, i feel like they were probably just like "wtf, let's do this. who cares." guess there are stories of them being booed at concerts when they played it?

#68

River Song - Pacific Ocean Blue (Dennis Wilson)
62 points, 3 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4yFWBbG_ZA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJeHcHzGyZQ

best Dennis song by a good margin! Love that piano intro.

yeah, didn't vote for any solo tracks (except for "wrinkles" natch), but this one is great.

there's a "making-of" clip of that song floating around featuring Dennis conducting the gospel choir in the studio

amazing opener to the album, but not the Dennis solo tune I voted for. happy to see something from POB place.

gonna do two more then I gotta run

5 this evening/tonight

is there a good book about the BBs in the 70s & 80s (& onward if needed)? I'm interested to learn more about the seedier side of the band. The 60s will have some of that too (Golden Penetrators & all that) but I don't want a book mostly focused on the 60s. I want the decadence in (alleged) decline.

#67

Our Prayer - 20/20
64 points, 3 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swQ1h_As22Q

seediest bio ever = Heroes and Villains. starts (and ends) with Dennis' death.

xp

I voted "Our Prayer" pretty high, top 5 iirc; those harmonies are haunted

I voted for Our Prayer. no many how many times I listen to it I just cannot get my head around the vocal arrangement, it's so strange.

yeah, beautiful track. still nothing i voted for so far, though!

I probably should've voted for "Our Prayer" but didn't. I've started a couple of mixes with it.

maybe I've listened to too much Perotin and Gesualdo but that doesn't sound so special in comparison.

another great potential album opener though.

#66

Let’s Go Away For Awhile - Pet Sounds
65 points, 3 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwGkv7cuM1k

have you guys heard this album, it's pretty good

ah, i voted for this one. never gets old.

Love the two Pet Sounds instrumentals -- though, like, "Our Prayer," their slightness made me eventually cut them from my ballot.

I voted River Song really high. I don't know that it's the best Dennis song but it's the one that I think of the most. I like how it does a lot over the course of three-and-a-half minutes or so (see also It's About Time from Sunflower).

though, like, "Our Prayer," their slightness made me eventually cut them from my ballot.

wait, what?

oh shit I just realized that #70 on my spreadsheet is actually #69 cause the first row is empty. so uh, add 1 to all those ranks, we're doing a top 69 and the next one is #64

it's still an appropriate starting place, cause #70 only got 2 votes whereas 69 on got 3+

#64

California Saga: Big Sur - Holland
66 points, 3 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KASDsSaJy64
http://www.filesmap.com/mp3/y8KP/the-beach-boys-big-sur-alternate-version/

last 3 later I guess

eh, almost voted for our prayer and let's go away... this waa a tough poll. those are really beautiful songs that are hard to argue with

wait, what?

They were on my shortlist of 40 or so. I needed justifications for cutting stuff, so short instrumentals seemed like a good place to start.

oh shit I just realized that #70 on my spreadsheet is actually #69 cause the first row is empty. so uh, add 1 to all those ranks, we're doing a top 69 and the next one is #64

Cool with me.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc400/c471/c47141hsv99.jpg

I think the Beach Boys were pretty happy with 69 overall.

feel like first image iatee posted in this thread is jut so representative of their uncanny coalescence of cheese and genius during their musty seventies, lurching into eighties on surfboard wax and taco dust fumes days

okay, I just found this thread and I'm real happy to see two of my votes right off the bat

I didn't specify what album my top 20 tracks were from but good call on 'here comes the night'. I'm sure you'll figure out what out album my 'gettin hungry' vote is from (but I don't expect it to place)

'trader' is a great song that I voted for. I didn't know of its existence until this poll

'trader' does lose steam but that chorus sounds amazing

I'm disappointed I didn't know about this earlier. How do we vote for these things?

Good list so far tho. Love the disco "Here Comes the Night" (tho that vid Tyler posted is so NSFW). Fun fact: it's co-arranged and produced by Curt Boettcher of Millennium/Saggitarius fame.

is it too nsfw? there's a shower scene but u know, pretty tasteful stuff.

I'm disappointed I didn't know about this earlier. How do we vote for these things?

Keep a closer eye on ILM and/or Site New Answers?

This is where the ballot schedule is maintained: Thread for coordinating the order and timing of ILM ballot polls

/I'm disappointed I didn't know about this earlier. How do we vote for these things? /

Keep a closer eye on ILM and/or Site New Answers?

This is where the ballot schedule is maintained: Thread for coordinating the order and timing of ILM ballot polls
--L.P. Hovercraft (WmC)

Thanks -- tho I assume voting is closed for this, right? That link says otherwise.

Yeah, ended yesterday, and the results thread started today. Led Zeppelin voting is going to start next week. The only emailed-ballot music poll going on right now is Jazz Albums.

Oh, wait, this is the results thread. whoops

Surprised to see see people saying Trader drifts off, I've always loved that second half of it. Holland is a mixed bag for me but I've always thought Trader, Leaving This Town and Sail On Sailor are some of the very best songs they did, hopefully they will all place.

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.

#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

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

wow, didn't know boettcher was involved on here comes the night

effin' blasting here comes the night disco edit right now

#62

Aren't You Glad - Wild Honey
74 points, 3 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyi_TBBBYK4

Are all the other Wilsons still dead? This seems like a lot of money for only 1/3 of the Wilsons.

no dennis isn't dead anymore

he's the drummer in gay dad now

it's a ton of money but w/e. gonna grow a beard for this tbh

http://www.civilwaracademy.com/images/john-reynolds.jpg

i got a designated driver which means PARTY TIME

JAMAICA KEY LARGO ETC

al jardine is worth it

already psyched

what have i done

do the beach boys have their own tequila

seeing Brian a couple years ago was enough for me.

are they playing in the uk?

Nothing's been announced :/

R.I.P. Paul Tanner

Without whom there would be no "Trombone Dixie."

Or 'I Just Wasn't Made For These Times'.

SiriusXM is running Beach Boys channel through July. It's wonderfully inclusive: lots of bad solo stuff and fun oddities (three Love You tracks in the last 45 minutes!) squeezed in between the hits.