Making Your Own Beach Boys Playlist/Compilation

[Jay]

Summer_Days did a great job with his collection.  If it were me, I'd add Back Home, Still Crusin' and Somewhere Near Japan to his list. Now that's a compilation I'd want a copy of. 

[TimeToGetAlone]

That's Who?

1. Cabinessence (20/20)
2. Child Is Father of the Man (Smile Sessions)
3. Wind Chimes (Smiley Smile)
4. Wild Honey
5. Busy Doin' Nothin'
6. All I Wanna Do
7. Slip On Through
8. It's About Time
9. Celebrate the News

10. Wouldn't It Be Nice (To Live Again)
11. Long Promised Road
12. Feel Flows
13. You Need a Mess of Help to Stand Alone
14. Marcella
15. Sail On Sailor
16. Funky Pretty
17. Let Us Go On This Way
18. Love Surrounds Me

[Summer_Days]

Summer_Days did a great job with his collection.  If it were me, I'd add Back Home, Still Crusin' and Somewhere Near Japan to his list. Now that's a compilation I'd want a copy of. 

Thanks. I didn't really have any more room, though. If I could, I'd add 'Meant For You', 'Cool, Cool Water', and at least one more Love You track.

[Summertime Blooz]

Is that the Wilson of Liberty on the cover? 

[Summer_Days]

You betcha.

[Dudd]

Summer_Days, I adore those covers!  

Here's a very straightforward chronological comp I made a few weeks ago with all my favourite BB songs, bar Pet Sounds and Smile material. I called it Still I Dream of It and made a stupid cover, because I'm an idiot.



01. In The Back Of My Mind
02. The Little Girl I Once Knew (seltaeb's stereo mix)
03. Can't Wait Too Long (MiC)
04. Darlin'
05. Friends
06. Wake The World
07. Be Here In The Morning
08. Passing By
09. Busy Doin' Nothin'
10. I Can Hear Music
11. Be With Me
12. I Went To Sleep
13. Time To Get Alone
14. Never Learn Not To Love
15. Break Away
16. Slip On Through
17. This Whole World
18. Cool Cool Water
19. Soulful Old Man Sunshine
20. Feel Flows
21. Wouldn't It Be Nice (To Live Again)
22. 'Til I Die
23. Marcella
24. California Saga
25. Mona
26. Good Time
27. It's Over Now
28. Still I Dream Of It

I suppose it doesn't take many chances. Maybe it's worth making another comp of really deep cuts.

[Summer_Days]

@Judd Thanks. I really love the cover to Still I Dream of It, actually. Dontcha just love Cooper Black font?


I made a compilation of my favorite Beach Boys songs too. It's called Soulful Old Man Sunshine. Here's the front and back covers:

front cover

back cover


1. Wouldn't It Be Nice
2. Let Him Run Wild
3. The Little Girl I Once Knew
4. That's Not Me
5. God Only Knows
6. The Warmth of the Sun
7. Time To Get Alone
8. Kiss Me Baby
9. Let The Wind Blow
10. The Night Was So Young
11. Soulful Old Man Sunshine
12. This Whole World
13. Please Let Me Wonder
14. Our Sweet Love
15. You Still Believe In Me
16. Wonderful
17. Darlin'
18. Caroline, No
19. Surf's Up
20. In The Back of My Mind

[Dudd]

Thank you very much. Making covers is so fun 

[bluesno1fann]

Just wondering, what kind of software were you guys using when you made your covers?

[alf wiedersehen]

Judd used photoshop

[Niko]

This is what I listen to when I need a good fix:
It's kinda stupid but whatvr////



Tracklist:
1: This Whole World
2: Big Sur 4/4
3: California Saga
4: Sherry She Needs Me
5: Break Away
6: You Need A Mess Of Help To Stand Alone
7: I Was Made To Love Her (Judd Edit)
8: Marcella
9: 4th Of July
10: Please Let Me Wonder
11: Sound of Free
12: Little Girl I Once Knew
13: Celebrate The News
14: Disney Girls (1957)
15: All This Is that
16: Sail On, Sailor
17: Getcha Back (From the 2012 Live Album)
18: All I Wanna Do
19: She Knows Me Too Well
20: Can't Wait Too Long
21: You're Still A Mystery
22: You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling
23: Warmth of the Sun
24:Til I Die (Rab edit)
25: Surf's Up

I use it alot, and I have a second one I go too sometimes, cleverly called Add Some More Music

[Shady]

17: Getcha Back (From the 2012 Live Album)

Really? Guess I need to listen to that one again

[Niko]

I love David's vocal on it. It has no autotune, and is sincere sounding

[job]

Let's see. I started this thread around the time I joined this forum.
It's been a while since then, so I figure I'd try again and decide on another track-listing, as tastes have changed.
Instead of 30 tracks, it would be 36. 18 from the 60's, 18 from the 70's onwards.

01: Surfin' Safari
02: In My Room
03: The Warmth Of The Sun
04: Do You Wanna Dance?
05: Please Let Me Wonder
06: The Little Girls I Once Knew
07: God Only Knows
08: I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
09: Good Vibrations
10: Heroes And Villains
11: Surf's Up
12: Gettin' Hungry
13: Wild Honey
14: Here Comes The Night
15: Friends
16: I Can Hear Music
17: All I Want To Do
18: Be With Me
19: Slip On Through
20: Deirdre
21: It's About Time
22: Long Promised Road
23: Feel Flows
24: Til' I Die
25: Wouldn't It Be Nice To Live Again
26: You Need A Mess Of Help To Stand Alone
27: Sail On Sailor
28: Mona
29: Honkin' Down The Highway
30: Good Timin'
31: Lady Lynda
32: Love Surrounds Me
33: Getcha Back
34: Maybe I Don't Know
35: That's Why God Made The Radio
36: Summer's Gone

Glad to see that "Love Surrounds Me" was and still is on the list!

[job]

And here's mine:

"Lonely Sea"
"Surfin' U.S.A."
"In My Room"
"Little Honda"
"The Warmth of the Sun"
"I Get Around"
"Wendy"
"All Summer Long"
"Girls on the Beach"
"When I Grow Up (To Be a Man)"
"California Girls"
"Let Him Run Wild"
"Sloop John B"
"Wouldn't It Be Nice"
"God Only Knows"
"I Just Wasn't Made for These Times"
"Good Vibrations"
"Wind Chimes"
"Wonderful"
"Darlin'"
"Meant for You"
"Little Bird"
"Busy Doin' Nothin'"
"We're Together Again"
"Do It Again"
"Time to Get Alone"
"Break Away"
"Good Time"
"Slip on Through"
"This Whole World"
"Forever"
"It's About Time"
"Fallin' in Love"
"'Til I Die"
"Surf's Up"
"(Wouldn't It Be Nice To) Live Again"
"All This Is That"
"Here She Comes"
"Leaving This Town"
"We Got Love"
"Sail On, Sailor"
"The Trader"
"California Saga: California"
"It's OK"
"Had to Phone Ya"
"Solar System"
"The Night Was So Young"
"It's Over Now"
"Come Go with Me"
"Brian's Back"
"Good Timin'"
"Full Sail"
"Love Surrounds Me"
"Baby Blue"
"4th of July"
"It's a Beautiful Day"
"Goin' On"
"Getcha Back"
"California Dreamin'"
"Kokomo"
"Summer In Paradise"
"Somewhere Near Japan"
"Pacific Coast Highway"
"Summer's Gone"

[Summer_Days]

I use a rather old version of Photoshop Deluxe. Hey, it was free.

As with that California Summertime album I made from the best tracks from Shut Down volume 2 and All Summer Long, here's an album I made from the better songs from MIU, LA Light Album AND KTSA:

Front cover

Back cover


I tried to make the album artwork look really cheesy late '70s feeling.

[Please delete my account]

I used to make 90 minute cassettes of my favourite artists to play in the kitchen which only had a cassette player. The Beach Boys one had two incarnations, here is the tracklisting of the latter one (which I still have)

Side one: Slip on through/ I get around/ when I grow up/ here today/ little Honda/ wild honey/ let the wind blow/ darlin'/ Disney girls (1957)/this whole world/ California girls/ Anna Lee, the healer/ do it again/ let him run wild/ be true to your school/ she knows me too well/ let's go trippin' (live)/ all summer long/ cabinessence/ I do

side two: our sweet love/ in blue Hawaii (Brian Wilson solo)/ that's not me/good vibrations/ hushabye/ wouldn't it be nice/ don't worry baby/ wind chimes/ breakaway/ surf's up/ all this is that/ in the parkin' lot/ I was made to love her/ the warmth of the sun/ in the back of my mind/ god only knows/ 'til i die

The idea was I would regularly change the tracklisting to give all my favourites their day in court, but soon afterwards cassette tapes gradually passed out of my life.

[Moon Dawg]

  I must learn how to make these cool covers...very nice.

[bluesno1fann]

 I must learn how to make these cool covers...very nice.

Same. I tried Photoshop one in the past, I was hopeless at it!  

And I think I love the latest cover by Summer Days!

[SenorPotatoHead]

15 Big Ones (aka simply just my favorite single A sides from the band)


1) Surfin' USA
    Fun Fun Fun
    I Get Around
    When I Grow Up (To Be A Man)
    Help Me, Rhonda
    California Girls
    The Little Girl I Once Knew
     Sloop John B

 2) Wouldn't It Be Nice
     God Only Knows
     Good Vibrations
     Heroes And Villains
     Friends
     I Can Hear Music
     Breakaway

[Summer_Days]

I'm always making more covers so...


Here's a CD comp I did for use in trying to get someone (nobody in particular yet) into the Beach Boys. No Pet Sounds tracks because the album itself would accompany this CD. I tried to pick a couple of well-known classics plus a bunch of hidden (to them) wonders and some of the band's best. A nice mix. So armed with this compilation plus Pet Sounds I'd have the ammo to charm somebody into this marvelous band. That is, if they have the ears.

Introducing to The Beach Boys

front cover


back cover



And here's yet another new album I made from the best of two albums, in this case Carl & The Passions - So Tough and Holland.  (although I love Holland the way it is, which is probably why I picked every track).

Steamboat

front cover


back cover

[Dudd]

Just oustanding. And great tracklist for Introducing. 

[Summer_Days]

Thanks! It was a toughie to see what to leave in, what to leave out, to quote my 2nd favorite song.
I'm always making up combo albums and compilations and stuff, because I love making those covers. I'm obsessed.

[Dudd]

Me too!
Here's one I tried for a Love You - A/C twofer a couple months ago...

[Summer_Days]

Awesome. Love the font use, particularly the 8-bit LOVE YOU on the back cover. A great idea since Love You and Adult Child go well together and it sure beats skippin' through 15 Big Ones tracks to get to LY on the two-fer we got.

That's a great picture of the band on the back, too. Nice one.