Your custom "TWGMTR" tracklist

[tbl]

After playing around with a few sequences I've found this one to be the most satisfying.

Isn't It Time
Daybreak Over the Ocean
Shelter
From There to Back Again
That's Why God Made the Radio
Beaches In Mind
Spring Vacation
Strange World
The Private Life of Bill and Sue
Think About the Days
Pacific Coast Highway
Summer's Gone

Although starting with IIT seems a little too obvious, I think it works well. It also suggests the overall tone of the album better than "Think about the days."
The first 4 songs have a lyrical connection of getting together and the benefits of doing so with a nice variety of musical styles.
The upbeat fade out of "From There and Back Again" leads nicely into TWGMTR, which suggests that the couple/band is getting together again.
Beaches and Spring Vacation celebrate being together.
Strange World and TPLOBAS just seem to fit lyrically and again provide nice musical variety. They also suggest that all is not perfect without being too dark.
Think About the Days seems like the perfect lead-in to Pacific Coast Highway. I like it much better here than as the opener to a generally upbeat album. It also just doesn't fit well before TWGMTR for me.
Summer's Gone is the perfect closer.

[Quzi]

This is awesome.  I'm huge into sequencing album tracks and have repaired (in my mind anyway!) many albums.  I haven't played with TWGMTR yet (still a bit too new) but noticed immediately that I was going to.  I can't wait to try some of your tracklists.

Ah...The art of sequencing.  It can take a good album -- with great tracks -- into a masterpiece!  It's amazing how many albums appear to be sequenced by chimps.

I know I did one for Summer Days/Nights that I loved....but I can't find it!!!  That album's sequence is pretty bad.

I'm with you, Bean Bag. I like to have fun with re-sequencing. And, that's all it is - fun. I don't know why it bothers some people. It's just for your personal use, and, if others like it, that's all the better. It actually has added to my enjoyment of some albums. This is what I've been using for SDASN:


SIDE A

1. California Girls
2. Amusement Parks USA
3. Salt Lake City
4. Then I Kissed Her
5. You're So Good To Me
6. And Your Dream Comes True

SIDE B

1. Girl From New York City
2. Girl Don't Tell Me
3. Let Him Run Wild
4. Help Me, Rhonda
5. Summer Means New Love
6. I'm Bugged At My Old Man

Man, I gotta find that tracklist.  I thought I jotted it down on a yellow sticky (this was before my Foobar days).  Anyway...I believe, I started with "And Your Dreams Come True."  Kind of an "Our Prayer" sort of opening -- that went into the orchestral beginning of the mighty anthem - "California Girls."

I think I tossed out "Bugged" from the list entirely.  Maybe stuck in "Graduation Day" and "Little Girl I Once Knew" too.  

Is there any evidence to suggest The Little Girl I Once Knew was around during the SD(ASN!!!) sessions or do people just like putting it on the album so it has a home? If it's the latter, doesn't that mean Trombone Dixie would be eligible to go in these mixes? They were recorded a few days apart from one another if my memory's correct. I'd have loved to see Trombone Dixie replace one of the weaker cuts.

[Micha]

Ah...The art of sequencing.  It can take a good album -- with great tracks -- into a masterpiece!  It's amazing how many albums appear to be sequenced by chimps.

I know I did one for Summer Days/Nights that I loved....but I can't find it!!!  That album's sequence is pretty bad.

I share this opinion. The last three tracks combined are too weak, and Salt Lake City needs to be on a different side of the LP than TGFNYC and Ausement Parks USA. Here's my running order:

A
1. The Girl From New York City
2. You're So Good To Me
3. Amusement Parks USA
4. Girl Don't Tell Me
5. I'm Bugged At My Old Man
6. California Girls

B
1. Then I Kissed Her
2. Salt Lake City
3. Let Him Run Wild
4. Summer Means New Love
5. Help Me, Rhonda
6. And Your Dreams Come True

Right at the moment trying to play it in my head and, well yes, that sounds good. Specially A-side: segue from 1st to 2nd track, 2->3; B-side: 1->2, 5->6. 

Hey, thank you!!!

[mabewa]

My alt.  tracklisting tries to combine the album into "light" and "heavy" sides--meaning lyrically light and heavy, kinda like "Today" (although it works better with Today because the "light" songs are so upbeat and the "heavy" songs are so mellow!).  The big difference is just subtracting "Think About the Days" and "Shelter" from the first half and having them open the second half instead.  The only other change was switching the order of Isn't It Time and the title track--just thought that Isn't It Time worked better as an opening track, plus it has that "reunion" theme going on. 

The danger here is getting an overload of nostalgia and "fun in the sun" on the first side, and having the second side sound like a Brian solo album with the Beach Boys guesting on vocals.  But actually I really like how it works--"Daybreak," for example, sounds really nice after "Private Life," and the six songs on "side two" sound really terrific together--like half of a genuinely great Beach Boys album.  Plus Al's vocals on "Think About the Days" and "From Here to Back Again" help make it less Brian-centric. 

All in all, it results in an album with two really distinctly different "sides," and that for me works better than the official tracklist.  I definitely like the second half better, but I actually like the weaker "light" songs like "Spring Vacation" and "Beaches in Mind" more when they are all together--you take them for what they are and then get on to the serious stuff. 

1).  Isn't It Time
2).  That's Why God Made the Radio
3).  Spring Vacation
4).  The Private Life of Bill and Sue
5).  Daybreak Over the Ocean
6).  Beaches in Mind

7).  Think About the Days
.  Shelter
9).  Strange World
10).  There and Back Again
11).  Pacific Coast Highway
12).  Summer's Gone

[B-Rex]

My tracklist, called From There to Back Again

Can't Wait Too Long
Daybreak Over the Ocean
Spring Vacation
Forever She'll Be My Surfer Girl
Beaches in Mind
Shelter
The Private Life of Bill and Sue

Think About the Days
Midnight's Another Day
Don't Fight the Sea
Strange World
From There to Back Again
Pacific Coast Highway
Summer's Gone

Double A-sided single:
That's Why God Made the Radio
Isn't it Time

They're catchy songs but I don't like them on the album.  I haven't heard Waves of Love yet.