One oddity I probably should have voted for: "The Old Folks at Home/Old Man River." They don't know the words to the latter, but the arrangement is so wistful and lyrical it doesn't matter.
― Melle Mel and the Coconuts (thewufs), Monday, 15 August 2011 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
this is one of those tracks whose life was completely sucked out on Smiley Smile. Love the Smile session work on it though.
― skip, Monday, 15 August 2011 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
"In Fort Worth, Texas there is a drug clinic which takes people off the streets and helps them get over bad LSD trips. They don't use any traditional medical treatment whatsoever. All they do is play the patient our Smiley Smile album and apparently this acts as a soothing remedy which relaxes them and helps them to recover completely from their trip."
... uhhhhhhhhh... perhaps Carl was referring to a secret CIA establishment investigating methods of extreme mental torture.
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Monday, 15 August 2011 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
this is one of those tracks whose life was completely sucked out on Smiley Smile.
It just got really weird and creepy.
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Monday, 15 August 2011 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks to Mike Love!
(prob)
― Mark G, Monday, 15 August 2011 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
off topic, but I'm going through that "singles collection" box and it appears there's lots of stuff in mono. Is Hushabye available in mono digitally anywhere else? I can't recall ever hearing it and it sounds great. What is it going to take to get some of those original albums in a mono/stereo twofer?
― skip, Monday, 15 August 2011 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
#43 (tie)
Wendy - All Summer Long 111 points, 6 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkqhZJTLulQ
― iatee, Monday, 15 August 2011 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
hmm, never been crazy about this song. this clip is great though.
― tylerw, Monday, 15 August 2011 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I rate it in the lower half of their radio pop hits. not a bad song but nothing that really makes it stand out.
― iatee, Monday, 15 August 2011 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, they're not spectacular but I think there are definitely things that make it stand out.
― timellison, Monday, 15 August 2011 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
yeah Wendy is okay but nothing special imho. Brian's falsetto really does approach "Mickey Mouse with a sore throat" territory here, as Mike would say
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 15 August 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
good things about this track: Brian's vocal, Mike's tag, the amateurish organ solo, the Good Vibrations-esque changes in instrumentation and sound and use of open space, especially near the end. I see where people who slag it are coming from though.
― skip, Monday, 15 August 2011 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
listening to it now, i pretty much like everything about it except the "wennnnndy" part.
― tylerw, Monday, 15 August 2011 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
It's subtle. There's no chorus. And the refrain line is this beautiful derivative of the first line of the fantastic two-part verse.
The intro is incredible.
― timellison, Monday, 15 August 2011 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
I don't understand. Our Prayer isn't an instrumental, and is one of the least "slight" things the BBs ever did. People go to school for decades and can't write stuff like that. Like, if that's slight, then Bach is AM Gold. :(
If you're trying to make me regret not voting for it, you've succeeded!
No, it's not an instrumental, but there aren't any lyrics, and it's just over a minute long. So that's why I called it "slight." But don't get me wrong: I still love it. Honestly, if I'd known it had so much support, I probably wouldn't have given it short shrift. Although I guess the other thing is that I felt like I already had too many Smile tracks.
― Get a Brain Rick Moranis (jaymc), Monday, 15 August 2011 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
but there aren't any lyrics
You know what I mean by this: the "mmm"s and "aah"s are vocables.
― Get a Brain Rick Moranis (jaymc), Monday, 15 August 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0b/Beach_Boys_-_Sail_On%2C_Sailor.jpg
Sail On Sailor - Holland111 points, 6 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDWyxogL3KMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMdaFVovbng
― iatee, Monday, 15 August 2011 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
man kinda wishing I had a stack of Beach Boys 45s just for the sleeve art alone
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 15 August 2011 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
yeah another really nice one
― iatee, Monday, 15 August 2011 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
This track epitomizes the mature Beach Boys sound
― stop listening to the lyrics so much. you're ruining music (CaptainLorax), Monday, 15 August 2011 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
also their extensive use of beards
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 15 August 2011 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
didn't vote but that would've been pretty high on mine
― balls, Monday, 15 August 2011 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
This was one of my last two or three cut - This Whole World and I Can Hear Music felt like better representations of this era and of course the Boys aren't singing. The lyrics and over-rhyming are really kind of ridiculous...VDP plus roots instrumentation doesn't really work. I love the song overall though. Who would have thought the Beach Boys would be singing about "sewer rats".
― skip, Monday, 15 August 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
I sailed an ocean, unsettled oceanThrough restful waters and deep commotionOften frightened, unenlightenedSail on, sail on sailor
I wrest the waters, fight Neptune's watersSail through the sorrows of life's maraudersUnrepenting, often emptySail on, sail on sailor
Caught like a sewer rat alone but I sailBought like a crust of bread, but oh do I wail
Seldom stumble, never crumbleTry to tumble, life's a rumbleFeel the stinging I've been givenNever ending, unrelentingHeartbreak searing, always fearingNever caring, perseveringSail on, sail on, sailor
I work the seaways, the gale-swept seawaysPast shipwrecked daughters of wicked watersUninspired, drenched and tiredWail on, wail on, sailor
Always needing, even bleedingNever feeding all my feelingsDamn the thunder, must I blunderThere's no wonder all I'm underStop the crying and the lyingAnd the sighing and my dying
Sail on, sail on sailorSail on, sail on sailorSail on, sail on sailorSail on, sail on sailorSail on, sail on sailorSail on, sail on sailorSail on, sail on sailor
who is singing lead on this, Blondie...?
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 15 August 2011 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
love this song but you nailed why it's not top 20 for me.
― fit and working again, Monday, 15 August 2011 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
yeah it's blondie
iirc carl also recorded the vocal but they prefered blondie's
― fit and working again, Monday, 15 August 2011 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
Brian Wilson was not involved at all with the song's recording sessions, leaving the basic track to be recorded by Brian's brother Carl and ex-Flame and then-Beach Boys members Ricky Fataar and Blondie Chaplin. The lead vocal was first attempted by Dennis Wilson, who sang the vocal once before leaving to go surfing. Carl was the next to attempt a vocal, but he then suggested that Chaplin make an attempt. After two takes, Carl decided that Chaplin's vocal would feature as the lead.
lol
I think Chaplin and Fataar's contributions to the band during this time are generally underrated tbh
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 15 August 2011 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
#42
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cf/AllSummerLongCover.jpg
All Summer Long - All Summer Long 114 points, 7 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upLsOaU9f2g
― iatee, Monday, 15 August 2011 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
voted for that one. surprised it placed so low. one of my favorite pop hits.
― iatee, Monday, 15 August 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
not a bad tune but not one I would really set apart from the pack ever. something about the marimba/xylophone/whatever that is kind of annoys me.
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 15 August 2011 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
ever either
love this one, tons of fun.
― tylerw, Monday, 15 August 2011 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, great song.
― fit and working again, Monday, 15 August 2011 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
I have always thought this song sounded out of tune, which kind of ruins it for me. Good coda to the pre-drugs sun-surf-cars phase of their career.
― skip, Monday, 15 August 2011 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
#40 (tie)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/65/LittleDeuceCover.jpg
Little Deuce Coupe - Little Deuce Coupe116 points, 5 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXFFLuoaMzM
― iatee, Monday, 15 August 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
I don't have a lot of opinions on this song
― iatee, Monday, 15 August 2011 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
The lyrics and over-rhyming are really kind of ridiculous...VDP plus roots instrumentation doesn't really work.
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 15 August 2011 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
invented the concept album y/n
― iatee, Monday, 15 August 2011 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
great lyrics on this
― fit and working again, Monday, 15 August 2011 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
LOVE Little Deuce Coupe. I've always gotten a kick out of how the song starts "I'm not bragging babe" and then he goes into this laundry list of reasons why his car kicks ass. It's like the prologue to "Don't Worry Baby". Mike's lead sounds as amateurish as "Luau" but the backing vocals and track have taken a huge leap forward.
― skip, Monday, 15 August 2011 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
is Don't Back Down going to make it?
definitely N
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 15 August 2011 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
as for Little Deuce Coupe, I didn't vote for it but it's classic nature is pretty indisputable. Mike Love at his best
Can't believe All Summer Long wasn't top 20 at least.
― broom air, Monday, 15 August 2011 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
dunno there's still a ton of major songs coming up
― tylerw, Monday, 15 August 2011 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/63/Beach_Boys_-_Barbara_Ann.jpg/220px-Beach_Boys_-_Barbara_Ann.jpg
Barbara Ann - Beach Boys' Party!116 points, 5 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_9hm5ibXOw
― iatee, Monday, 15 August 2011 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
I have never liked this song. Perhaps marred by 4th grade me having to witness some students singing "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb bomb Iran" to this tune as part of a school "talent show"
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 15 August 2011 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
you went to school with john mccain?
― iatee, Monday, 15 August 2011 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
more like John McCain has the mental capacities of an elementary school student from the early 80s
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 15 August 2011 21:04 (twelve years ago) link