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« on: October 30, 2011, 01:19:01 PM » |
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What was your Beach Boys album top 5 (including solo albums) before the release of 'The Smile Sessions' and what is it now?
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Before: 1. Sunflower 2. Pet Sounds 3. Brian Wilson Presents Smile 4. Friends 5. That Lucky Old Sun
After: 1. Sunflower 2. Pet Sounds 3. The Smile Sessions 4. Friends 5. That Lucky Old Sun
I prefer TSS over BWPS, hands down, but I still like Sunflower and Pet Sounds better.
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« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2011, 01:23:26 PM » |
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Little premature for this in my opinion. Right now nothing by The Beach Boys or any other artist comes close to topping "Pet Sounds" as an album. That is having lived with the "SMiLE" material for over a decade now including BWPS. Hopefully by this time next year I'll be able to render a more precise evaluation as to where "SMiLE" fits into the grand scheme of things in regards to The Beach Boys once I've heard the material compiled in a definitive cohesive form. But it's going to take awhile (probably a year) for me to figure out where the album itself ranks although I feel the music itself is the best The Beach Boys ever recorded.
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« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2011, 01:35:23 PM » |
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1. Pet Sounds 2. SMiLE 3. Today 4. Friends 5. Summer Days/Wild Honey
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« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2011, 01:36:42 PM » |
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1. Smile 2. Sunflower 3. Pet Sounds 4. Smiley Smile 5. Love You
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« Reply #4 on: October 30, 2011, 01:47:59 PM » |
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Before and after TSS:
1. Pet Sounds 2. Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE 3. Sunflower 4. Carl and The Passions So Tough 5. Surf's Up
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« Reply #5 on: October 30, 2011, 02:16:18 PM » |
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Smile Pet Sounds Today! Smiley Smile Love You
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« Reply #6 on: October 30, 2011, 02:28:48 PM » |
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What was your Beach Boys album top 5 (including solo albums) before the release of 'The Smile Sessions' and what is it now?
Mine:
Before: 1. Sunflower 2. Pet Sounds 3. Brian Wilson Presents Smile 4. Friends 5. That Lucky Old Sun
After: 1. Sunflower 2. Pet Sounds 3. The Smile Sessions 4. Friends 5. That Lucky Old Sun
I prefer TSS over BWPS, hands down, but I still like Sunflower and Pet Sounds better.
So you're saying THE SMiLE SESSIONS causes you to suddenly prefer "Friends" and "That Lucky Old Sun" to BWPS?
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« Reply #7 on: October 30, 2011, 02:33:28 PM » |
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1. Smile Sessions 2. Pet Sounds Sessions 3. Friends 4. Smiley Smile 5. Beach Boys Today!
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« Reply #8 on: October 30, 2011, 02:34:52 PM » |
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Hasn't changed with this release (as the SMiLE music has existed since long before the box set):
1) Pet Sounds 2) SMiLE 3) Today! 4) Smiley Smile 5) Sunflower
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« Reply #9 on: October 30, 2011, 02:36:45 PM » |
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What was your Beach Boys album top 5 (including solo albums) before the release of 'The Smile Sessions' and what is it now?
Mine:
Before: 1. Sunflower 2. Pet Sounds 3. Brian Wilson Presents Smile 4. Friends 5. That Lucky Old Sun
After: 1. Sunflower 2. Pet Sounds 3. The Smile Sessions 4. Friends 5. That Lucky Old Sun
I prefer TSS over BWPS, hands down, but I still like Sunflower and Pet Sounds better.
So you're saying THE SMiLE SESSIONS causes you to suddenly prefer "Friends" and "That Lucky Old Sun" to BWPS? Yes, because TSS makes BWPS less relevant.
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« Reply #10 on: October 30, 2011, 04:32:55 PM » |
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Before & After:
Today Sunflower Love You All Summer Long Holland
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« Reply #11 on: October 30, 2011, 05:44:42 PM » |
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I think this could be simplified to a top six ...
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« Reply #12 on: October 30, 2011, 06:17:11 PM » |
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Smile, (unreleased though it may have been) was always on my BB's top list:
Pet Sounds Smile Smiley Smile Friends Today Surfer Girl (honorable mention)
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« Reply #13 on: October 30, 2011, 07:52:05 PM » |
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tHE best bb LP"s of all time..1} All Summer Long..2} Today..3}Pet Sounds..4} Concert..5} Sunflower..6} Surf"s Up....7}In concert .... 8} Love You..9} SMILE.. 10} LA light lp..11} compilation of various tracks over the years..
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« Reply #14 on: October 30, 2011, 08:47:17 PM » |
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Top 5 before
1. Pet Sounds 2. Sunflower 3. Love You 4. Today! 5. Wild Honey
Top 5 counting The SMiLE Sessions [even though I haven't heard it yet]
1. Pet Sounds 2. The SMiLE Sessions 3. Sunflower 4. Love You 5. Today!
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« Reply #15 on: October 30, 2011, 08:52:16 PM » |
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I wonder if anyone has heard the entirety of the Beach Boys discography enough to be familiar with it and Summer In Paradise is their favorite Beach Boys album?
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« Reply #16 on: October 31, 2011, 05:26:25 AM » |
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I don't hate it as much as most people. Eric Anniversario is a big fan of it, I recall.
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« Reply #17 on: October 31, 2011, 09:01:48 AM » |
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I don't hate it as much as most people. Eric Anniversario is a big fan of it, I recall.
Take the most halfway decent songs from SIP and Still Cruisin' and you have one fairly decent album there. Even with fairly mediocre songs, dem Boys' could still sing a mean tune.
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« Reply #18 on: November 01, 2011, 10:20:22 AM » |
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Smile Pet Sounds Today Sunflower Surf's up
Before and After
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« Reply #19 on: November 01, 2011, 02:29:38 PM » |
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I am about an hour or so away from uniting with my boxset.
Here is my current top 5 (changes slightly every minute or so):
Sunflower Friends Pet Sounds Surf's Up Smiley Smile
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« Reply #20 on: November 01, 2011, 03:43:37 PM » |
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1. All Summer Long 2. Pet Sounds 3. Today 4. Holland 5. Sunflower
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« Reply #21 on: November 01, 2011, 04:49:39 PM » |
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What was your Beach Boys album top 5 (including solo albums) before the release of 'The Smile Sessions' and what is it now?
Mine:
Before: 1. Sunflower 2. Pet Sounds 3. Brian Wilson Presents Smile 4. Friends 5. That Lucky Old Sun
After: 1. Sunflower 2. Pet Sounds 3. The Smile Sessions 4. Friends 5. That Lucky Old Sun
I prefer TSS over BWPS, hands down, but I still like Sunflower and Pet Sounds better.
So you're saying THE SMiLE SESSIONS causes you to suddenly prefer "Friends" and "That Lucky Old Sun" to BWPS? Yes, because TSS makes BWPS less relevant. No, what he means is, in your first list BWPS was above Friends and Lucky Old Sun. In list two, it's gone, so now you enjoy Friends and That Lucky Old Sun more than BWPS because TSS was released. 
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« Reply #22 on: November 01, 2011, 05:25:33 PM » |
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Before:
1. Holland 2. Sunflower 3. Today 4. Surf's Up 5. Purplechick Smile
After:
1. Holland 2.Sunflower 3. Today 4. Smile Sessions 5. Surf's Up
CATP should be in there, but I almost don't even consider it a Beach Boys album!!! I know it is, of course, but it stands apart from almost everything else they've done in such a distinct (and good) way.
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« Reply #23 on: November 01, 2011, 06:46:11 PM » |
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Somewhere Near Japan Kokomo Island Girl Strange Things Happen In My Car Still Cruisin Lahaina Aloha Summer In Paradise Make It Big Summer Of Love (sorry, I dig this one)
That could've made a halfway decent "last album" right there!
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« Reply #24 on: November 02, 2011, 12:10:35 AM » |
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Somewhere Near Japan Kokomo Island Girl Strange Things Happen In My Car Still Cruisin Lahaina Aloha Summer In Paradise Make It Big Summer Of Love (sorry, I dig this one)
That could've made a halfway decent "last album" right there!
Add some of the better Sweet Insanity songs and it would've been quite possibly a stronger album than BB85. "Smart Girls" of course could've been the flipside of "Summer of Love"... 
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