Great Mike vocal on "That's Not Me."
― timellison, Saturday, 13 August 2011 03:20 (twelve years ago) link
two great mike vocals in a row, actually
― iatee, Saturday, 13 August 2011 03:20 (twelve years ago) link
yes yes and yes! that crystalline mike love sound. i don't care how adolescent the lyrics might come across; this song is devastating on so many levels
the organ, the percussion, the background vocal harmonies. it's situated in-between a bunch of emotionally resonant songs such that it feels almost lightweight by contrast, but man
― dell (del), Saturday, 13 August 2011 03:22 (twelve years ago) link
aren't you glad was my #8, love that song
forgot about you're so good to me, wouldn't have voted for it but solid tune
― buzza, Saturday, 13 August 2011 03:24 (twelve years ago) link
guitar figure reprised on 'the night was so young', if i'm not mistaken
― dell (del), Saturday, 13 August 2011 03:24 (twelve years ago) link
background vox in that's not me are positively unreal. seriously wonder if those guys ever sounded so sublime before or since then
― dell (del), Saturday, 13 August 2011 03:27 (twelve years ago) link
like, cannot listen to 1:40 to 1:50 or so w/o getting total chills
― dell (del), Saturday, 13 August 2011 03:30 (twelve years ago) link
only one of the bottom 10 i'm not familiar with is california saga but that sounds pretty good and i like/love the other 9, picked 2/10 so far
― buzza, Saturday, 13 August 2011 03:33 (twelve years ago) link
i feel really lucky, b/c i "discovered" pet sounds when i was 19, and listened to it every night for a month, it was like a ritual, i just soaked it up...i don't think i had ever been so blown away by a record before that. just listening to what they sounded like when they all sang together, it was so affecting. you hear the stories about brian wilson supposedly praying to make a beautiful record or whatever. i dunno, but whatever mojo he had going on at that time was obv. extremely effective
― dell (del), Saturday, 13 August 2011 03:37 (twelve years ago) link
gonna do one more tonight
― iatee, Saturday, 13 August 2011 03:37 (twelve years ago) link
#60
Wind Chimes - Smiley Smile / Smile76 points, 4 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crcq3G18JLchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2VkxzhWbxI
2004 version vastly superior imo but the part where the drums come in at about 2:00 bugs me to no end, a tasteless addition to the song
― iatee, Saturday, 13 August 2011 03:39 (twelve years ago) link
surprised that didn't finish a bit higher, that's the one song i kicked myself for not including after i submitted my ballot
― buzza, Saturday, 13 August 2011 03:40 (twelve years ago) link
if i walked into a church and heard ppl singing like the vocals on that's not me, i'd so quickly be like 'where do i sign up?'
― dell (del), Saturday, 13 August 2011 03:40 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, get what you mean, that fill is so naff
― dell (del), Saturday, 13 August 2011 03:44 (twelve years ago) link
i can't listen to the 2004 Smile because of the vocals
― buzza, Saturday, 13 August 2011 04:00 (twelve years ago) link
eh, i like the rockin' part of windchimes.
― tylerw, Saturday, 13 August 2011 04:01 (twelve years ago) link
weirdly, the first version i heard was by baby lemonade. does anyone remember that band? http://powerpopcriminals.blogspot.com/2010/10/baby-lemonade-wonderful-ep-1993-baby.html
― tylerw, Saturday, 13 August 2011 04:03 (twelve years ago) link
Sure, saw them when they were Arthur Lee's backing band once.
― timellison, Saturday, 13 August 2011 04:15 (twelve years ago) link
baby lemonade is the wondermints of arthur leexp
― buzza, Saturday, 13 August 2011 04:16 (twelve years ago) link
Great Mike vocal on "That's Not Me." --timellison
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 13 August 2011 04:21 (twelve years ago) link
yes! i dunno if i've ever thought about it quite that way, but i'm thinking you are totally otm
― dell (del), Saturday, 13 August 2011 04:25 (twelve years ago) link
^cosign this, and also this
like, cannot listen to 1:40 to 1:50 or so w/o getting total chills― dell (del), Saturday, 13 August 2011
― dell (del), Saturday, 13 August 2011
― bentelec, Saturday, 13 August 2011 04:27 (twelve years ago) link
There's also another version of "Wind Chimes" on the box set (which is my favorite), and there's an instrumental bootleg too.
― little mushroom person (abanana), Saturday, 13 August 2011 05:40 (twelve years ago) link
Here's the version that's on the box set:youtu.be/sRFE-24ucxc?t=2m20s
― little mushroom person (abanana), Saturday, 13 August 2011 05:43 (twelve years ago) link
ha i put you're so good to me at #1
― caek, Saturday, 13 August 2011 07:37 (twelve years ago) link
I voted for it too... not #1 though. Poll results lookin' good so far!
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Saturday, 13 August 2011 14:10 (twelve years ago) link
#59
http://www.sergent.com.au/beachboys/addsomemusic.jpgAdd Some Music To Your Day - Sunflower78 points, 4 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBkA4-U4MPk
― iatee, Saturday, 13 August 2011 14:13 (twelve years ago) link
see, sunflower has never quite lived up to its promise for me. bit of a mystery, b/c i have an enormous soft spot for "sunshine pop" in all of its forms, and this record, with Deirdre, etc., occupies that territory more than anything else in their catalog . but i don't know. whenever i listen to this record it just runs right past me without ever satisfactorily settling in. that being said, i love the way they run through ridiculous vocal acrobatics in this song that you just know they more or less tossed off, but would take hours upon hours of studio time for other acts to replicate
― dell (del), Saturday, 13 August 2011 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
Poll results lookin' good so far!
yeah, new u.s. citizens or just ppl in general should be presented with a comp containing these results. already completely devastating, and we're not even a dozen songs in. i remember telling an ex-gf that i LOVED the beach boys, and of course she was like "oh, Aruba, Jamaica, ooh i want to take her..." can be really tough to overcome people's ingrained prejudices regarding certain artists. but have a feeling whatever songs end up here would go a long way towards dispelling all those preconceptions
― dell (del), Saturday, 13 August 2011 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
#58
Cool, Cool Water - Sunflower79 points, 4 voteshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niktpOfb79w
― iatee, Saturday, 13 August 2011 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
Weekend results! Cool! For some reason I thought you were going to do the next batch on Monday.
― L.P. Hovercraft (WmC), Saturday, 13 August 2011 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
decided to do about 10 a day for a week
― iatee, Saturday, 13 August 2011 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
this song. oh man.
― dell (del), Saturday, 13 August 2011 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
add some music to your day was on my shortlist. A bit schmaltzy but I listened to it over and over again as part of a self-made GV CD3-esque loop a few years back.
― skip, Saturday, 13 August 2011 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
Aren't You Glad is kind of cool, but I keep waiting for "wah wah, ho wah" to come in. I don't know, it just sounds like they took Water and made it more conventional and less interesting.
― the wheelie king (wk), Saturday, 13 August 2011 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
2004 version vastly superior imo
that's just baffling to me
― the wheelie king (wk), Saturday, 13 August 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
huh. i like it precisely b/c it takes on that pop song trajectory. tbh sometimes get bored with the smile-era workouts that anticipate stereolab's career
― dell (del), Saturday, 13 August 2011 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, I could just get lost in Smile bootlegs forever. I love all of the half-formed ideas, different arrangements, sudden radical shifts, etc.
― the wheelie king (wk), Saturday, 13 August 2011 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
in fact, I think Smiley Smile is way better than 2004 Smile for that reason. It's probably my favorite album of theirs taken as a whole, although not many tracks from it made my ballot (and I didn't do an album ballot). I kind of wish Wilson would have just taken all of his various demos and ideas and bits and pieces and edited them together into a sprawling mess of a double album in '67. I don't think it's nearly as interesting in its "finished" form.
― the wheelie king (wk), Saturday, 13 August 2011 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
i love sunflower but add some music and cool cool water are ones i usually skip
― buzza, Saturday, 13 August 2011 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
The finished Smile is somewhere around 52 minutes, though, right? I don't think it leaves much out.
xp
― timellison, Saturday, 13 August 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
you skip cool cool water??!! i don't even know, man.
― dell (del), Saturday, 13 August 2011 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
i like that youtube version posted above which is from warmth of the sun as compared to the sunflower version
― buzza, Saturday, 13 August 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
he may not have left anything out, but he cleaned it all up, and smoothed over the rough edges to the point where he removed everything that was interesting about it. the two wind chimes versions posted above are a great example. Or compare a bootleg version of the original Mrs. O'Leary's Cow to the re-recorded version.
― the wheelie king (wk), Saturday, 13 August 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
couldn't agree with you more!
― dell (del), Saturday, 13 August 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
wk offtm
― shining like national dog shit (Neanderthal), Saturday, 13 August 2011 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
it's slower and spacier, i should download that
― buzza, Saturday, 13 August 2011 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, wk, can't agree with that at all. I think most of the 2004 Smile was remarkably true to the original arrangements.
― timellison, Saturday, 13 August 2011 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
(The original Smile arrangements, that is. Obviously the Smiley Smile versions of "Vege-Tables," "Wind Chimes," etc. were much different.)
― timellison, Saturday, 13 August 2011 18:10 (twelve years ago) link