It's About Time: Beach Boys Poll Results

Feel the vibrations
In all the sensations
or gtfo

two deep-ish cuts (non-singles, non-pet sounds) in a row ahead

let's hear some guesses

let the wind blow?

Til I Die?

Feel Flows

i wanna pick you up

Vegetables?

Gettin Hungry?

I'm Bugged at my old Man!

(btw this thread should've been called I'm Bugged at My Poll, Man)

#17

Feel Flows - Surf's Up
224 points, 11 votes

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

skip called it!

love this song, synths on it are bonkers

also reportedly ALL Carl...?

in a way, Surf's Up is a throwback in the way that the Feel Flows-Til I Die-Surf's Up trio of songs is SO much better than anything else on the album. This track was used in the Almost Famous ending credits. Total jam.

i think feel flows was what I hoped carl's solo album would be like.

long promised road and a day in the life of a tree are up there xp

i think feel flows was what I hoped carl's solo album would be like.

I know right? instead it's like his attempt to completely get away from everything he did with the Beach Boys.

#16

Let The Wind Blow - Wild Honey
225 points, 9 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IslzZ5MqZkM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrjMXrf6C7Y

I like the song but I'm pretty surprised it made #16. lotta wild honey love round here.

deep cut parade.

I was about to slag this one but the 3/4 meter and up and down vocals put me in a bit of a trance.

As does the whole album, to be honest.

ha, called it! my #2, so beautifully simple & spooky.

I love "Let The Wind Blow", also my #2.

there is a really good post on one of the other threads about the lyrics in this song and how fantastic the delivery is at the bridge, let me see if I can find it

I think Girl Don't Tell Me might be my favorite Beach Boys track. Although I didn't vote for it as #1.

Those last few are nice and all but.. pretty gosh dang underwhelming.

agreed!

We could use a big crowd-pleasing single. Dance Dance Dance?

Has "When I Grow Up (To Be A Man)" come up yet? Another I forgot to vote for.

#15

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cd/Beach_Boys_-_Darlin%27.jpg

Darlin' - Wild Honey
241 points, 10 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6xoJeq-rto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ1WlesVxgc

oddly Mike Love has kept this in their live repertoire

in mike love's head this and Kokomo are the only things the beach boys released after pet sounds

good song tho. Carl really shines.

there's your big crowd pleasing single

I was about to predict this but thought if those other Wild Honey tracks got so high that it would be top 10. "Darlin" must have seemed like a step backward at the time but you have to think it has held up better than most of the hippy dippy shit it was surrounded by.

in the culture, not the album.

that's the only crowd pleasing single left, from hereon it's just love you and miu tracks

"Break Away" got a vote from me.... yeah the production is a bit dryer than it could have been, but even as it is it's great - it's a testament to the usual richness of BW's producing that a song with such elaborate backing vocals, brass instruments, etc. could seem "underproduced".... maybe in comparison to the '65-'66 period Beach Boys but not late-'60s pop music in general.

BTW this song was a major hit in the UK and many other countries, but bombed in the US.

"Girl Don't Tell Me" didn't get my vote but it's a great song. It's neat how you could hear the Beach Boys both influencing and being influenced by the Beatles on numerous songs by both bands.

Wow, Wild Honey popular with this crowd.... "Darlin'" is probably the catchiest song from this set, although I also love the Stevie Wonder cover and "I'd Love Just Once To See You" (dark horse for a top-15 placing here!)

I like the songs on Wild Honey but the production turns me off- sounds "boxy" or something. Like it was recorded in a closet.

nah that was Smiley Smile

I like the production on Smiley Smile!

you best believe i do

I like the songs on Wild Honey but the production turns me off- sounds "boxy" or something. Like it was recorded in a closet.

this is where they started using the home studio right? smiley smile was still Gold Star & Western.

^^^no

Nevertheless, the Beach Boys still needed to complete an album to fulfil their obligations to Capitol Records, so a replacement was hastily recorded, largely at Brian Wilson's new home studio in Bel Air, during June and July.

this is why Smiley Smile has no drums, no echo chamber, etc.

I like the songs on Wild Honey but the production turns me off- sounds "boxy" or something. Like it was recorded in a closet.

> yeah but also in a way refreshing in a way

oops, Dept. of Redundancy Dept....

in a way this is one of the things I love most about the Beach Boys' catalog, their willingness (even eagerness) to make abrupt stylistic changes in the face of near total disdain from their target audience. they typify and embody this conflict that plays itself out repeatedly in the music biz - band captures youthful imagination and audience refuses to accept any further development. even if the subsequent development produces amazing music. the artist who is able to sustain an audience through a host of stylistic shifts is amazingly rare (Beatles, Bowie, Dylan, Stones)

yeah, I want to compare Wild Honey to what came before but it's not going to work. i guess i want to hear all that space.

xpost

because really, Mike Love is right - most of the time people don't wanna hear new and different shit. they want you to do the same thing over and over again.

xp