It's About Time: Beach Boys Poll Results

#70

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Here Comes the Night - Wild Honey / L.A. Light Album
60 points, 3 votes (2 Wild Honey votes, 1 LA vote)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjz_P3ey2Oc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZtTUeR6WS0

dunno what to say 'cept "aw hell yeah!" a good 60% of my mike love love is based on this song (the disco version), and he only appears in the forefront in the "here comes.. the night.. " ridiculous parts. i unapologetically, unironically love the disco version to no end. not to scare you guys off, but it comes on pretty frequently on repeat in my household. (which yeah, is pretty much a de facto miu at this point, except minus the guru adulation and meditation instructions but plus lager and weed. or the opposite. tbf i'm lost after combing through those seventies records)

I really like the single cover art

lol at mike love's voice being vocoded in version iatee posted. SHOW SOME RESPECT G-DAMMIT

this is pretty sexxay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRsvkWokUqU

YES!!

here come here come here come here comes

the night

obligatory shot of dennis on the bongos.

lolll at brian in that video

lol

and then cousin carl wilson comes in and spooges over everything

as it should be

bruce johnston was/is such a good sport

yah, also dw's fleetwood mac t=shirt all time

he was banging Christine McVie at the time

missed op that lindsey buckingham didn't produce a BBs album around this time. sure he would've jumped at the chance. as would all of the coke dealers in los angeles.

#69

The Trader - Holland
61 points, 4 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4dxHyhRDlc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flSpDgZQhu0

I get some fleetwood vibes off that one
come to think of it

good tune with a rather odd structure. loses steam by the second half.

there was some connections between the Mac and the BBs but I don't think it went muchfo farther than Dennis (Christine shows up on some Bamboo stuff, I think? And Dennis appears on some Mac track? I forget. plus I hate Fleetwood Mac.)

yeah it does lose sorta drift off in the second half

minus 'lose'

shakey, why do i feel if i sat you down in a room intervention-style, with some drugs and five of your best friends, you would recant on yr alleged no-no to fm shit?

and by "friends", i mean jerk-asses from ilm

missed op that lindsey buckingham didn't produce a BBs album around this time. sure he would've jumped at the chance. as would all of the coke dealers in los angeles.

In the 33-1/3 book on Tusk, Walter Egan talks about him and Lindsey always eating at the same deli as Brian in the mid/late-70s but never going up to him and talking to him!

can we all move to LA in the 70s please

btw lol @ Al's guitar strap breaking in the middle of that Here Comes the Night video

xxxp

xxp lol that's great. didn't they work together (or try to) in the 80s? is he on the first brian solo album, can't remember.
think i like the live version of trader better. but yeah, when it starts i think it's going to be awesome, but it's kind of dull in the end.

yeah you're right, tyler!

"He Couldn't Get His Poor Old Body to Move" ♦ (Lindsey Buckingham / Brian Wilson) – 2:36

haaa, classic song title

wait that's a bonus track only - I guess they didn't include it

yeah I could swear Lindsay's name is in the liner notes of the first released BW solo album (along with Christopher Cross and Terence Trent D'Arby, I think? lol)

can we all move to LA in the 70s please

wish i were joking, but yeah, that's pretty much the first stop on my time machine when affordable versions roll out circa 2015

i think i've read some interview where buckingham was really disappointed with the circumstances surrounding those sessions, thanks to wilson's psychiatrist/guru dude.

that would make sense

is there a thread 'rank the decades + cities you want to time machine travel to'?

LOL at that video. Brian looks horrible and their dancing is hilarious. Carl really is a trooper. I wonder what he thought after realizing he was now fronting a disco act.

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

it's a staple live, pretty sure it's one of his favorite songs

I love "Love & Mercy" & think of it for reasons I'm not sure I can explain as a sister to "Let The Wind Blow"

I always thought "Your Imagination" was a bit of a rehash of L&M - same descending bass line, etc.

I'm the only fan of Rio Grande? One For the Boys?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD0X6Um8ZC4

I like Rio Grande too. Especially the "i want the river to take me home" etc. part and the following "night bloomin' jasmin" section that follows it. As I said upthread, quite Smilesque.

"Night Bloomin' Jasmine" was from 1980 (Cocaine Sessions, IIRC) -- which is largely why it sounds better than everything else's in the suite.

Rio Grande's great. I ought to try that Brian Wilson solo more. I remember it being quite good.

I'm a big fan of 'baby let your hair grow long'...kinda love you esque

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rNLiHVQsU0
this is one that just missed the cut

^^ this is one of several songs I have trouble convincing my friends that it's really the Beach Boys

I think the tape was slowed down on this one and "It's Over Now" to obtain a deeper-sounding voice?

Figured I'd bump this thread to ask this since its been the most active Beach Boys thread recently. Is there any particular reason why the M.I.U./L.A. (Light Album) two-fer is OOP? I was curious because I see that it was reissued with the same batch of all those other two-fers back in 2001, but only seems to be available by spending like $100 for a new copy or $40 used, while all the other reissues are really easy to track down. Is it because they are that awful? Do we blame nefarious Mike Love shenanigans?

Also, just want to thank you guys for this thread. I've long been one of those guys that only owns Pet Sounds and took for granted all the early surf, girls, and cars stuff without exploring any deeper. Since this thread concluded I've bought and immersed myself in everything from Today! up to Surf's Up. Going to order the Carl/Holland and 15 Big Ones/Love You sets soon as well. Love this stuff.

It's probably because those albums are awful. Then again, Keepin the Summer Alive/BB85 is still available for cheap.

Don't forget the Smile Sessions ships this tues.!

Ooh, I have a copy of this. Wanna buy it? £100.

Seriously, if someone wants to give me $80 for that crappy CD then it's all yours. Completism be damned...

I'll stick to my vinyl copy, with lyric sheets to sing along with "Matchpoint of Our Love"

Yeah the only half-decent/half memorable tracks on this are Diane from MIU (a real stinker of an album). LA is slightly better, with Good Timin', Lady Lynda, Full Sail, Angel Come Home and of course Here Comes The Night (Disco Version) being saved from the late '70s toilet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fviwc3YeG8&feature=related

anyone going to the reunion concerts this year? i'm going to plunk down 95 bucks on Saturday

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250 bucks to sit in the first 20 rows

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Is that at the Q?

blossom

pavilion seats

cavs will be hosting the NBA finals at the Q on that date iirc

couldn't pay me to watch them at this point

$1250 will get you in the weirdos and Mike Love thread

I would see brian wilson solo again, if it were cheap

foster the people are rumored to be opening

:-0

okay I would pay $95 to see mike love do 'pumped up kicks'

only seems to be available by spending like $100 for a new copy or $40 used, while all the other reissues are really easy to track down. Is it because they are that awful?

this is totally inexplicable to me and must have only happened in the last few years. I bought the CD twofer for a few bucks about 5 years ago.

student demonstration kicks

pumped up kicks would seg really well into do it again

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.