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Beyond Pet Sounds.
Posted by hurlyburly on 11 April 2010 - 3:26am.
Best Beach Boys song AFTER Pet Sounds?
I'll go for 'The Trader' from the 'Holland' album. The change of pace around the two and a half minute mark is the dictionary definition of 'Spine-tingling'
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Any one of these...
plus honorary mentions must go to Disney Girls, All This Is That, Good Timin', The Nearest Faraway Place, Cool Cool Water, Cotton Fields, Lady Lynda...
Till I Die
Agreed - utterly fantastic, especially this version.
Couple more: an achingly beautiful track from Dennis:
And another piece that's pure Brian:
I've also got a soft spot for 1977's 'Love You' album - totally bonkers and totally at odds with anything else around at the time - to whit:
That's Easy
As a fan of the Beach Boys early stuff rather than Pet Sounds and beyond, I have to plump for Ding Dang which is in my top three Beach Boys tracks ever.
Duh...
I mean, I love Surf's Up, Heroes and Villains and 'Til I Die. They're all contenders. But, surely...
Seconded.....
In my mind the greatest Beach Boys track full stop.
Although........ every time I listen, I still get the image of an old Steve Bell "If" cartoon with rats surfing down the sewers on turds to the very same track.....
You're all wrong...
Disney Girls
Bruce Johnston's finest moment
another contender
don't forget this little gem
Best of the Beachboys
is the Best Of the Beachboys the rest is all well and good but Best of is well the best of.
Cabinessence
Really like
the acid casualtyness of this song. I mean that in a good way.
Don't Worry Baby
Yes its a little cheesy, but I do really like this one:
But it was before Pet Snounds
Or even Pet Snoods
ah, misunderemestanding
I thought it meant that the Pet Sounds LP was the pinnacle of their career, and so what was good after that in a list of good things.
Clearly that is not what was meant.
Still a good song though...
It´s About Time
Great stomper from Sunflower written by Dennis. Anyone?
Love all the suggestions so far...
...and Surf's Up is, for me, their career high. But this one, from the L.A.album, and released at the twilight of their career, has real poignancy, and could be their swansong.
Thanks for introducing me to
Thanks for introducing me to this song. I've up until now ignored all the albums released after 'Love You' thinking they were pretty much without merit but this is a great track.
Also
Forever and Add Some Music To Your Day should be considered from the excellent Sunflower album. I also like Only With You from Holland. Obviously a sucker for Dennis's stuff then.
Most of my favourites have
gone but I'd like to point out this long unreleased gem
as Carl's voice sounds ace on it
and this which Brian rolls out now and again these days
Pacific Ocean Blue
By Brother Dennis is wonderful stuff.
"River Song"
Feel Flows
from Surfs Up.
The awful '80s Mike Love/Terry Melcher songs
Too many to mention. People make such a big deal about Pet Sounds and Smile but the BBs made loads of great stuff both before and after. Every album from Pet Sounds to Love You is great apart from 15 Big Ones.
I'd also like to fly a tentative flag for those terrible Mike Love/Terry Melcher songs from the '80s with the big stupid drums and embarrasing made-for-MTV "clips". As Dick Emery would say, they're awful but I like them.
Dear Richard
Don´t EVER do that again. The same goes for you, Mike.
You love 'em really
You're just in denial
Lines about "going too far" in the car; a bearded Carl Wilson singing. Gotta love it.
Mike Love invented nostalgia in rock'n'roll when he wrote Do It Again. He was also prescient in Getcha Back - that hooking up with old boy/girlfriends thing via Friends Reunited that wrought so much damage to so many marriages. "I'll leave her .. and you leave him". Mike Love. He's the sage that spots the trends.
I love Carl and his beard
But Problem Child was even too bad for official release in the eighties. Now, if that´s not a sign of weakness then I´ll eat Mike´s noone-knows-I´m-bald caps. Not all of them. But maybe one or two.
Denial is a great place to be. Free waffles!
California Saga/California
This is my favourite
try again
Spotify playlist featuring the lot
I even added Badger King´s choice Don´t Worry Baby. He may be wrong chronologically speaking, but he´s right in every other sense.
Problem Child is not to be found on Spotify. Maybe there is a god after all. :)
http://open.spotify.com/user/m%c3%b6%c3%b6%c3%b6%c3%b6%c3%b6%c3%b6%c3%b6...
Another vote for...
'Til I Die from Surf's Up.
Magical.
Cheese
I love this Brian Wilson number from 1998-"Imagination"
Top 3 selections are:
"All I Wanna Do" from Sunflower. The greatest Mike Love song with a lot of help from Brian. What melody and atmosphere!
"Forever" from Sunflower. Dennis Wilson at his soulful best. Outstanding harmonies.
"Only With You" from Holland. Carl on the lead vocal. Surely one of the greatest pure vocalists of his time.