It's About Time: Beach Boys Poll Results

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

I voted for Our Prayer. no many how many times I listen to it I just cannot get my head around the vocal arrangement, it's so strange.

yeah, beautiful track. still nothing i voted for so far, though!

I probably should've voted for "Our Prayer" but didn't. I've started a couple of mixes with it.

maybe I've listened to too much Perotin and Gesualdo but that doesn't sound so special in comparison.

another great potential album opener though.

#66

Let’s Go Away For Awhile - Pet Sounds
65 points, 3 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwGkv7cuM1k

have you guys heard this album, it's pretty good

ah, i voted for this one. never gets old.

Love the two Pet Sounds instrumentals -- though, like, "Our Prayer," their slightness made me eventually cut them from my ballot.

I voted River Song really high. I don't know that it's the best Dennis song but it's the one that I think of the most. I like how it does a lot over the course of three-and-a-half minutes or so (see also It's About Time from Sunflower).

though, like, "Our Prayer," their slightness made me eventually cut them from my ballot.

wait, what?

oh shit I just realized that #70 on my spreadsheet is actually #69 cause the first row is empty. so uh, add 1 to all those ranks, we're doing a top 69 and the next one is #64

it's still an appropriate starting place, cause #70 only got 2 votes whereas 69 on got 3+

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.