It's About Time: Beach Boys Poll Results

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?

I think this might have made my ballot if I'd done more research listening before voting. But it still felt like I listened to nothing but Beach Boys for a week!

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

pretty basic - sounds like picked bass with a slapback echo/plate reverb on it to me

Anyone know why they abandoned this one after that much work on it, given how promising it was? I have to mentally shift the lyrics from the last part to the lushly-produced middle section for it to work as a song.

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

Just sounds like regular old bass to me. If it's Carol Kaye, she played a P-Bass with pick and mute which leads to that plunky sound.

Can't wait to long also kind of reminds me of Child is Father to the Man in its structure. Instrumental parts + a minimal repeated lyrical riff of sorts.

IDG the stereolab connection though?

I know Brian liked to use a bass harmonica for that buzzy low sound sometimes, though this did sound like a bass guitar. I'm not a bassist so not familiar with common effects pedals or amp settings.

oh wait no I was thinking of Carol's bass tag at the end, sorry.

1:20 mark = I'm a little less sure what's going on, sounds like there might be Carol's standard P-bass pick + mute as well as a bass run through a fuzz/distortion channel? Fuzz just might be a guitar too though.

xp

didn't high llamas actually cover this at some point? am i making that up?

at 1:20 the bass line is also doubled with piano. that might be what you're talking about

IDG the stereolab connection though?

wordless vocals, droning two chord changes, multiple permutations of a single theme - these are things Stereolab did a lot of

xp

just noticed your screen name lol

Oh, and "Kiss Me Baby" amongst my higher picks - one of their best lyrics. The second verse is especially devastating - so many mood shifts in such a short space - "As I drove away I felt a tear/it hit me I was losing someone dear/Told my folks I would be alright/tossed and I turned, my head was so heavy/Then I wondered as it got light/were you still awake like me?"

Spectacular!

Not the clean plucked bass, but the fuzzy bass or thick stringed guitar on the right channel, also prominent at 1:54 - 2:04