It's About Time: Beach Boys Poll Results

well, at least we've seen the last pet sounds track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnV99MQMo8k

yeah I'm not seeing it in my spam or trash either. perhaps you sent it to a different address? did you do my ilx name backwards + an extra e?

i did indeed, alas and alack

#50 (two-way tie)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/37/Beach_Boys_-_The_Little_Girl_I_Once_Knew.jpg

The Little Girl I Once Knew
93 points, 5 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8O1Wpul60E

er - non-album single

utter classic

from what I've read, the dead-time isn't actually what killed this one's radio success - it was the fact that 'barbara ann' was released less than a month after this

i am unfamiliar with a great many of these but they are all wonderful, well done to voters. this would make a great playlist.

blerghhh I noticed another math error - didn't combine 'kiss me, baby' and 'kiss me baby', which bumps it up. dunno how I didn't catch that one.

actually hmm I'm not sure

nm yeah, fucked up, 'kiss me baby' - ps: you didn't see that

this means we're back on #50

#50

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/30/Beach_Boys_-_Long_Promised_Road_%26_Deirdre.jpg/220px-Beach_Boys_-_Long_Promised_Road_%26_Deirdre.jpg

Long Promised Road - Surf's Up
96 points, 4 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVoDULF4sAM

great, great song

love the proto-emo video

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.

I was initially underwhelmed by the 2004 Smile because I liked the rough, fragmented quality of the original recordings (from the 1993 Good Vibrations box set). The new "completed" version felt too much like a whimsical musical revue. But I was eventually able to take it on its own terms.

crazy how many of these songs so far i see and think, "oh man should've voted for that one." "long promised road," so great. never seen that video either.
in re: to the 2004 smile, i don't take i as the be-all end-all version of Smile, just another piece of the puzzle.

yeah, i happened to be in some record stores on the day that 2004 smile was released, and of course they were playing it every where i went, but i wasn't in the least tempted to buy it. i remember being much more excited when the good vibrations box came out. might eventually give in one day, though, who knows...

feel like i ask this in every beach boys thread, but has anyone heard anything more about the alleged smile sessions box set? or was that just a tease.

wiki sez:
The album originally had a tentative July 12 release date, but this was later pushed back to August 9, 2011, to give the producers enough time to finish the missing pieces of the album. As that date approached, the release was again pushed back to a tentative date of October 4, 2011 and as of August 2011 has been pushed again to November 1, 2011.

assuming the hold up is really due to mike love needing more time to record the snarky commentary that will run over the entire box set, a la his contribution to "heroes and villains" on lei'd in hawaii...

Not all that excited for the smile box set unless there's some new/fresh or sonically uograded material, which seems unlikely.

love that sleeve art for I Can Hear Music! nice find. (I voted for it btw)

...and why didn't 'she's going bald' or 'gettin hungry' make it to smile?

I think 'he gives speeches' wasn't on smile either

that's true, I remember being disappointed about that

think she's going bald and getting hungry may have been recorded after smile was 'over'

hello

#49

Celebrate the News - Break Away single b-side
99 points, 4 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwE9aY5F4Jw

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7d/Beach_Boys_-_Break_Away.jpg/220px-Beach_Boys_-_Break_Away.jpg

I am a big fan of this track

my #5, wasn't sure it would make it

one of those tracks w/ relatively few votes but they all put it high. only one more song made the list w/ 4 votes, anyone want to guess?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnojeqlzo8s&feature=related

late w/ this one but another great live clip

I hadn't spent enough time with "Celebrate The News" to vote for it but I listened to it a few minutes ago & now it's on repeat; that's a pretty out-there song! gorgeous too.

one of dennis' best

the ending is intense! & spooky!

got that Heroes & Villains book from the library that Shakey recommended, gonna start it tonight

#48

Time to Get Alone - 20/20
103 points, 6 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM7vec73eSg

Hawthorne, CA rarity version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2jWSoOAjB8

Redwood (aka Three Dog Night) version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEkXa28HZ_Y

(X-post) When "Celebrate The News" takes off...hoooooollllllly shhhhhiiit. For my money DW's best track w/the Boys.

there is also *another* version in my rarities comp w/ a spoken interlude if you really luv this song

(ttga not celebrate the news)

recap:
48 Time to Get Alone 103
49 Celebrate the News 99
50 Long Promised Road 96
51 The Little Girl I Once Knew 93
52 You Still Believe In Me 93
53 I Can Hear Music 92
Kiss Me Baby 92 oops
54 Then I Kissed Her 92
55 Wild Honey 90
56 Please Let Me Wonder 88
57 Country Air 84
58 Cool, Cool Water 79
59 Add Some Music To Your Day 78
60 Wind Chimes 76
61 That's Not Me 75
62 Aren't You Glad 74
63 You're So Good To Me 70
64 California Saga - Big Sur 66
65 Let’s Go Away For Awhile 65
66 Our Prayer 64
67 River Song 62
68 The Trader 61
69 Here Comes The Night 60

no thoughts on ttga? it's not a personal favorite but I think the hawthorne version is more interesting.

I'm really happy to see Long Promised Road and The Little Girl I Once Knew in the list,they both were in my top ten. I remember trying convince someone I worked with that The Beach Boys were so much more than just a bunch of surf songs so I told him to listen to Long Promised Road, of course he hated it but he did only listen to Gary Moore so not too sure why I bothered. Little Girl is just perfection, probably my favourite song they did until Pet Sounds came out.

you could include it on pet sounds w/o changing much

#47

Forever - Sunflower
103 points, 5 votes - oops these last two were tied

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Tokxcbu_Uo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZpRfkzEIDI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcC5Ztwmir4

The bridge on "Long Promised Road" is the most gorgeous moment of any Beach Boys song Brian didn't write. Also one of the first completely effective usages of synthesizers in a pop song (following various songs on Abbey Road and Who's Next, of course). Too bad Carl never came close to creating something this good again.

feel flows imo

when the strings(?) come in near the end of ttga and repeat the melody it's one of the most beautiful moments in the beach boys catalog

i like forever but it is a little too corny/wedding song to make my top 20

'feel flows' vs. 'long promised road'

I totally forgot about that thread

yeah I would never turn off forever if it were playing but it's not a personal fav. I think dennis wilson wrote 10 better songs than that.

that said it feels 'complete' in a way that a lot of his songs don't

Forever is a beautiful song but I always thought All I Wanna Do and Tears In The Morning were quite a bit better and touched me a lot more. Sunflower really is such a great album, buying that two albums on one disc set with Surf's up really was one of the best things I bought when I was younger.

Good description of forever as "complete", a lot of Dennis tracks sound like they could use some outside tlc/help.

Time to Get Alone - interesting 3/4 track but it's more frilly than pretty IMO. One of a few really solid songs on an underappreciated album though.