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
Aren't You Glad is kind of cool, but I keep waiting for "wah wah, ho wah" to come in. I don't know, it just sounds like they took Water and made it more conventional and less interesting.
― the wheelie king (wk), Saturday, 13 August 2011 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
2004 version vastly superior imo
that's just baffling to me
― the wheelie king (wk), Saturday, 13 August 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
huh. i like it precisely b/c it takes on that pop song trajectory. tbh sometimes get bored with the smile-era workouts that anticipate stereolab's career
― dell (del), Saturday, 13 August 2011 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, I could just get lost in Smile bootlegs forever. I love all of the half-formed ideas, different arrangements, sudden radical shifts, etc.
― the wheelie king (wk), Saturday, 13 August 2011 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
in fact, I think Smiley Smile is way better than 2004 Smile for that reason. It's probably my favorite album of theirs taken as a whole, although not many tracks from it made my ballot (and I didn't do an album ballot). I kind of wish Wilson would have just taken all of his various demos and ideas and bits and pieces and edited them together into a sprawling mess of a double album in '67. I don't think it's nearly as interesting in its "finished" form.
― the wheelie king (wk), Saturday, 13 August 2011 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
i love sunflower but add some music and cool cool water are ones i usually skip
― buzza, Saturday, 13 August 2011 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
The finished Smile is somewhere around 52 minutes, though, right? I don't think it leaves much out.
xp
― timellison, Saturday, 13 August 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
you skip cool cool water??!! i don't even know, man.
― dell (del), Saturday, 13 August 2011 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
i like that youtube version posted above which is from warmth of the sun as compared to the sunflower version
― buzza, Saturday, 13 August 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
he may not have left anything out, but he cleaned it all up, and smoothed over the rough edges to the point where he removed everything that was interesting about it. the two wind chimes versions posted above are a great example. Or compare a bootleg version of the original Mrs. O'Leary's Cow to the re-recorded version.
― the wheelie king (wk), Saturday, 13 August 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
couldn't agree with you more!
― dell (del), Saturday, 13 August 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
wk offtm
― shining like national dog shit (Neanderthal), Saturday, 13 August 2011 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
it's slower and spacier, i should download that
― buzza, Saturday, 13 August 2011 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, wk, can't agree with that at all. I think most of the 2004 Smile was remarkably true to the original arrangements.
― timellison, Saturday, 13 August 2011 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
(The original Smile arrangements, that is. Obviously the Smiley Smile versions of "Vege-Tables," "Wind Chimes," etc. were much different.)
― timellison, Saturday, 13 August 2011 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
cool cool water is such a gas
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 13 August 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
#57
Country Air - Wild Honey 84 points, 5 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDksmHtklqY
― iatee, Saturday, 13 August 2011 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
ahhh, about time another one of mine shows up
― stop listening to the lyrics so much. you're ruining music (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 13 August 2011 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
country air is great, maybe my fave from wild honey? of course i didn't vote for it. too many great songs!
― tylerw, Saturday, 13 August 2011 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
#56
Please Let Me Wonder - Today! 88 points, 4 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc4jR7ajbpw
― iatee, Saturday, 13 August 2011 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
can you imagine any other poll where a song this good gets #56
― iatee, Saturday, 13 August 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
oh man what a tune. have always wanted to sing that w/ a quartet
― shining like national dog shit (Neanderthal), Saturday, 13 August 2011 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
such an amazing song. The one potential negative is its combination of directness and weirdness - who would ever say "please forgive my shaking" - but the chorus is about as good as it gets in the BBs catalog. And obviously the arrangement and sentiment are so operatic and over the top that it's better considered as a song the narrator is thinking to himself, not singing to someone else.
Such diversity of sound and situation so far in the countdown.
― skip, Sunday, 14 August 2011 00:17 (twelve years ago) link
#55
Wild Honey - Wild Honey90 points, 4 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmOE92ACzZY
― iatee, Sunday, 14 August 2011 00:32 (twelve years ago) link
Wild Honey is being well represented so far, hope that means Darlin' will make it.
― Kitchen Person, Sunday, 14 August 2011 00:48 (twelve years ago) link
#52 (3-way tie)
Then I Kissed Her - Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)92 points, 4 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwnTzl9HPJM
― iatee, Sunday, 14 August 2011 01:45 (twelve years ago) link
^^first cover to appear...?
I voted for Country Air, love to play that song on the organ
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Sunday, 14 August 2011 02:39 (twelve years ago) link
Wild Honey is being well represented so far, hope that means Darlin' will make it. --Kitchen Person
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 14 August 2011 04:00 (twelve years ago) link
It's one thing for a record to sound like it came from a later time, but I think Wild Honey is an extraordinary example. Just the fact that it was recorded in 1967...I mean, I know John Wesley Harding and The Notorious Byrd Brothers came out around the same time, but "Wild Honey" and "Darlin'" sound like early '70s AM radio. In 1967.
― timellison, Sunday, 14 August 2011 05:08 (twelve years ago) link
I was hoping for some of these Wild Honey megaclassics to place a little higher. Aren't You Glad and the title track should both be in the top twenty.
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 14 August 2011 05:24 (twelve years ago) link
David Cassidy version of "Darlin'" (produced by Bruce Johnston, Flo and Eddie on background vocals?) is really good, too.
Why, by the way, did I never know that Johnston wrote "I Write the Songs" (also on that Cassidy album, later covered by Barry Manilow)?
― timellison, Sunday, 14 August 2011 05:31 (twelve years ago) link