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.
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― 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
cool cool water is such a gas
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 13 August 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
#57
Country Air - Wild Honey 84 points, 5 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDksmHtklqY
― iatee, Saturday, 13 August 2011 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
ahhh, about time another one of mine shows up
― stop listening to the lyrics so much. you're ruining music (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 13 August 2011 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
country air is great, maybe my fave from wild honey? of course i didn't vote for it. too many great songs!
― tylerw, Saturday, 13 August 2011 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
#56
Please Let Me Wonder - Today! 88 points, 4 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc4jR7ajbpw
― iatee, Saturday, 13 August 2011 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
can you imagine any other poll where a song this good gets #56
― iatee, Saturday, 13 August 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
oh man what a tune. have always wanted to sing that w/ a quartet
― shining like national dog shit (Neanderthal), Saturday, 13 August 2011 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
such an amazing song. The one potential negative is its combination of directness and weirdness - who would ever say "please forgive my shaking" - but the chorus is about as good as it gets in the BBs catalog. And obviously the arrangement and sentiment are so operatic and over the top that it's better considered as a song the narrator is thinking to himself, not singing to someone else.
Such diversity of sound and situation so far in the countdown.
― skip, Sunday, 14 August 2011 00:17 (twelve years ago) link
#55
Wild Honey - Wild Honey90 points, 4 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmOE92ACzZY
― iatee, Sunday, 14 August 2011 00:32 (twelve years ago) link
Wild Honey is being well represented so far, hope that means Darlin' will make it.
― Kitchen Person, Sunday, 14 August 2011 00:48 (twelve years ago) link
#52 (3-way tie)
Then I Kissed Her - Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)92 points, 4 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwnTzl9HPJM
― iatee, Sunday, 14 August 2011 01:45 (twelve years ago) link
^^first cover to appear...?
I voted for Country Air, love to play that song on the organ
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Sunday, 14 August 2011 02:39 (twelve years ago) link
Wild Honey is being well represented so far, hope that means Darlin' will make it. --Kitchen Person
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 14 August 2011 04:00 (twelve years ago) link
It's one thing for a record to sound like it came from a later time, but I think Wild Honey is an extraordinary example. Just the fact that it was recorded in 1967...I mean, I know John Wesley Harding and The Notorious Byrd Brothers came out around the same time, but "Wild Honey" and "Darlin'" sound like early '70s AM radio. In 1967.
― timellison, Sunday, 14 August 2011 05:08 (twelve years ago) link
I was hoping for some of these Wild Honey megaclassics to place a little higher. Aren't You Glad and the title track should both be in the top twenty.
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 14 August 2011 05:24 (twelve years ago) link
David Cassidy version of "Darlin'" (produced by Bruce Johnston, Flo and Eddie on background vocals?) is really good, too.
Why, by the way, did I never know that Johnston wrote "I Write the Songs" (also on that Cassidy album, later covered by Barry Manilow)?
― timellison, Sunday, 14 August 2011 05:31 (twelve years ago) link
Darlin' might be the crowning achievement of post-Brian meltdown Beach Boys. Just a perfect little track. We'll have time to discuss it later though.
― skip, Sunday, 14 August 2011 05:51 (twelve years ago) link
and now I learn it's a rewrite of a track Brian wrote in 1964. Never mind.
― skip, Sunday, 14 August 2011 05:52 (twelve years ago) link
Always thought it interesting that "Then I Kissed Her" not only flips the gender but also the perspective. He wants to be the kisser, not the kissee.
"Please Let Me Wonder" was in my top 5, and is one of the first songs I play for any nonbeliever friends.
― Lee626, Sunday, 14 August 2011 12:25 (twelve years ago) link
it's pretty clear Brian knew he had something special with Darlin' given its multiple permutations that have been released over the years (a re-write of it also appears on American Spring's 1972 album) and the number of times it was covered
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Sunday, 14 August 2011 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
Kiss Me Baby - Today!92 points, 3 votes, 1 first place vote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoJ-yulhF8o
― iatee, Sunday, 14 August 2011 14:32 (twelve years ago) link
war of the !:
today! vs summer days (and summer nights!!)
― iatee, Sunday, 14 August 2011 14:49 (twelve years ago) link
Bgd vox to this are incredible.
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 14 August 2011 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
wikipedia sez:
"After Pet Sounds, the album is arguably the most acclaimed album of the Beach Boys' career. The album includes the original version of the classic hit, "Help Me, Rhonda" (titled on this album as "Help Me, Ronda")."
really? I don't think there is a clear critic's #2. maybe I'll go look at that acclaimed music site.
― iatee, Sunday, 14 August 2011 14:52 (twelve years ago) link
pet sounds -> surf's up -> today! -> sunflower -> all summer long -> smiley smile
by the acclaimed music aggregated critic measure
― iatee, Sunday, 14 August 2011 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
best album cover imo
― iatee, Sunday, 14 August 2011 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, i don't know if it gets discussed much, but i think they always had pretty great artwork, at least on their major studio efforts
― dell (del), Sunday, 14 August 2011 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
recall an entertaining ilx thread in which ppl are trying to figure out the origin of painting on surf's up
― dell (del), Sunday, 14 August 2011 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7a/Beach_Boys_-_I_Can_Hear_Music.jpg/220px-Beach_Boys_-_I_Can_Hear_Music.jpg
I Can Hear Music - 20/2092 points, 5 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlH3bZt9ooU
― iatee, Sunday, 14 August 2011 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
lol, speaking of great artwork...
― dell (del), Sunday, 14 August 2011 15:58 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I'd never seen that one! pretty trippy
― iatee, Sunday, 14 August 2011 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTY9BRCg-Ec
― iatee, Sunday, 14 August 2011 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
hilarious stage setup! carl and dennis both sound fantastic on those songs imo
― dell (del), Sunday, 14 August 2011 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
hoping at least I'm So Young places much higher than the two from side 2 of Today that already made the list. i reckon you didn't get my ballot but that album side was pretty much my top 5 along w/ darlin'
― quaff the spud you warbling milkbag (outdoor_miner), Sunday, 14 August 2011 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
Please let She Knows Me Too Well be in this chart somewhere ...
― Trudi Styler, the Creator (ithappens), Sunday, 14 August 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
nope I'm searching my gmail for your ilx name / votes and I didn't get it :( xp
― iatee, Sunday, 14 August 2011 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
if you want you + naive teen idol + can send me late ballots that we can add to the tally afterwards for an alt list
― iatee, Sunday, 14 August 2011 16:19 (twelve years ago) link