It's About Time: Beach Boys Poll Results

I think it might be a mono/stereo thing, actually. Mono appears to have a longer outro.

I haven't heard the mono album mix so that may be, though I've also read that the single mix was designed to sound better on circa-1960 car radios.

Actually this is IMO one of Mike Love's best lyrics. Apparently a completely true and accurate account of a girl he knew who asked to borrow her dad's car to go to the library but really had other things in mind. And it really was a Ford Thunderbird. Think of how different the song's meter would have had to been if her dad drove, say, a Studebaker Hawk...

The mono album mix and single mix appear to be the same thing according to Spotify.

"Shortnin' Bread" (great track btw)

agree!

In some downtime, what's the best track on MIU? I'd take Peggy Sue.

"Come Go With Me", at least of the MIU songs I know.

re: mono vs. stereo - I would want to check a vintage vinyl copy to know for sure though - there's been alot of remastering and retouching over the years, and small differences often go unnoticed by the record companies. For instance, several of the songs on the "Classics selected by Brian Wilson" comp sound very different than the same songs on the regular CDs. That disc sounded way off to my ears, as if it has been reprocessed with more reverberation or something.

Don't remember much about that album except "Matchpoint of Our Love" being more "Matchpoint of Our LOLz". "Sweet Sunday Kinda Love" is quite nice perhaps? Expunged the album from my memory tbh.

#35

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Beach_Boys_-_Friends_(single).jpg

Friends - Friends
137 poits, 7 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyxTMfh81K4

Didn't vote for it but it's a good one

did that img not work, I can't tell I'm on a phone

re: Fun Fun Fun. According to the Beach Boys album archive the album and single versions are indeed different:
http://www.surfermoon.com/tracks/files/f/fun_fun_fun.shtml
http://www.surfermoon.com/tracks/files/f/fun_fun_fun2.shtml

iatee, it won't steal any thunder if I go ahead and start Led Zeppelin balloting, will it?

fit and working, they could be talking about the stereo LP version though. the mono album version should be the same as the mono single.

This track has a creepy edge to it. Kind of like the album cover.

xp yeah, i see what you're saying

wmc I thought that's how it worked, one votes while the last one posts the results

ok, just wanted to check. the fewer hard and fast rules, the higher the enthusiasm level, I think.

this got two votes tho

almost voted for that American Spring track myself. definitely the standout track on the album, a really interesting piece of work.

I think it might be a mono/stereo thing, actually. Mono appears to have a longer outro.

the coda is the best thing about this song!

#34

I'm Waiting For the Day - Pet Sounds
140 points, 6 votes, 1 #1 vote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QsdMKybsJg&feature

YOU DIDN'T THINK!

Great song

and the Pet Sounds parade begins!

I wonder if any of the songs from Pet Sounds might not make it? Maybe the title track?

that's probably the only one.

Perhaps "I Know There's an Answer" and "You Still Believe in Me" could slip through the cracks.

"waiting for the day" = really great, though it didn't make my ballot. starts out a little bit ho-hum, but it goes so many different places in the space of three minutes. good example of the pocket symphony thing wilson was shooting for at this time.

33

Kiss Me, Baby - Today!
141 points, 5 votes, 1 #1 vote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoJ-yulhF8o

4 real this time

re: Today's cover photo - why are they hanging out by the pool in sweaters

since we already saw that one:

#32

Can't Wait Too Long - Rarity/Outtake
144 points, 5 votes, 1 #1 vote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHXGvDP8iLI

my #1

yeah this one was way up there for me as well, remember being totally knocked out the first time I heard it. Oddly, structurally it reminds me of that other legendary outtake "You Know My Name, Look Up the Number", with the different permutations on a single theme being strung together. Of course, the effect here is entirely different - less comical, alternately exuberant and meditative, and of course with better vocals

Damn, forgot how good that one was.

it's not hard to see how Brian felt overwhelmed by the prospect of stringing all these musical ideas together into a cohesive 40-minute LP during the Smile process. This one track has about 15 of them, and it's a mess, but an enjoyable mess.

Fun Fun Fun should have been top 10!

the weird thing is, by all accounts Can't Wait Too Long was written/constructed AFTER Smile had already crashed and burned

yay for can't wait too long!

woulda been my #1 too. had I voted :/

I'm collecting late/missed votes and showing the alt results when it's over, so you can still send one. someone else voted it high too, so that would potentially make it bizarro world top 20.

can't wait too long was my #2 i think. prefer the good vibrations box set version -- that opening! good lord.

Dom you didn't vote?! wtf

also I'm lazy and still haven't compiled the album results so it's not too late for anyone to officially vote for those

heh, that sounds like me at work.

"When's the ad deadline?"
"When do you want it to be?"

i know i know. it was a busy time when this was happening, and I just couldn't get it together. but maybe I can think about it today and come up w/something. also I'm lazy

can't wait too long needs you

it's a mess, but an enjoyable mess.
--skip

I've said it like 10 times on ilm but this song is straight stereolab

maybe not the bongos + shouty "baby you know that I/can't wait forever" part but yeah I definitely think the 'Lab took notes on this one

What instrument/effects are used for the bass that comes in at about 1:20?