A mix CD of Brian inspired tracks?

[TheLazenby]

I thought of tossing all the various Brian Wilson pastiches over the years onto one handy disc... any ones you can think of?  I only know a handful:

* "Black Sheep" by Dewey Cox
* "Trigger Happy" by Weird Al Yankovic (spoofs the surf period)
* "Pancreas" by Weird Al Yankovic
* "At My Most Beautiful" by REM
* "Back In The USSR" by The Beatles
* "Shorty Blackwell" by The Monkees - Yes, it's a terrible song; but it seems to be a deliberate cross between Brian's segmented style of the time and the Beatles' "A Day In The Life."

[zachrwolfe]

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[jeffcdo]

Of course "Pale and Precious" by the Dukes of Stratosphear (XTC)

[sunnycalifornia]

Mr.Wilson - John Cale
Say We'll Meet Again - Lindsey Buckingham
Nomads - The High Llamas

[shelter]

The Surfers - Windsurfing
The First Class - Beach Baby
The Sails - Yesterday & Today (very obvious rewrite of God Only Knows)
The Boys Next Door - Mandy
Mark Eric - California Home
The Sunrays - I Live For The Sun
The Zombies - Care Of Cell 44
The Boys Next Door - Mandy
The Yellow Balloon - Yellow Balloon
Sagittarius - My World Fell Down
Ronny and the Daytonas - Little GTO
The Fantastic Baggys - Surfin' Craze
The Explorers Club - Forever
Travoltas - Waimea

[Phoenix]

Brian Wilson - Barenaked Ladies
Brian Wilson Said - Tears For Fears

[ontor pertawst]

Upholstery - Paul Williams

[kwan_dk]

Gosh, there are so many to choose from. One disc surely wouldn't be enough!

Here are some personal favourites in no particular order:

The Thrills - Big Sur
BMX Bandits - Back in her Heart / Back in my Arms
Explorers Club - Don't Forget the Sun / If You Go / Hold Me Tight (but virtually, like others have commented, anything by them  )
Ruby Suns - Maasai Mara / Trepidation Pt. II
Blake Collins - It's Summer Time
Bikeride - Carl Wilson Suite
Wondermints - Out of Mind
Tears for Fears - Brian Wilson Said
Jeffrey Foskett - Thru' my Window / Everyone's in Love with You / Nowhere
Malibooz - Bitter Water
Minus 5 - Great News around You
Splitsville - The Love Songs of B. Douglas Wilson
Florapop - You're my Baby
Tripsitter - Let Me Know You
Hal - Play the Hits
Linus of Hollywood - When I Get to California
Seth Swirsky - Summer in her Hair
Paul Steel - In a Coma / Oh No! Oh Yeah!
Strangefinger - Good Night
Simple Carnival - Monsanto House / The Girl's Upstairs / North Star
Marty Rudnick - Some Summer
Bird and the Bee - I'm a Broken Heart
The Chamber Strings - The Fool Sings without Any Song
Treefight for Sunlight - Chasing the Sun
Guster - All the Way up to Heaven
Convoy - Bah Bah Birdie
Department of Eagles - No One Does it Like You
Sparks - Over the Summer
Cherry Twister - She's Gone
Teenage Fanclub - I Need Direction
The Loose Saluta - Death Club
Pop Levi - Rude Kind of Love
Lewis Taylor - Let's Hope Nobody Finds Us
Maple Mars - The Soft Caroussel
Cut Copy - Where I'm Going
Any Version of Me  -Wasted Sun
Doves - Valley
REM - Beachball
Ocean Blue - Ticket to Wyoming
Vinyl Kings - Just Another Day
The Brother Kite - Waiting for the Time to be Right
Wilco - Summer Teeth / Outta Mind (Outta Sight)
Figurines - The Air that We Breathe
Jeff Larson - Norman
The Pearlfishers - We're Gonna Save the Summer
Rich Aucoin - Brian Wilson is Alive
Frank Ciampi - Anyway
Pugwash - It's Nice to Be Nice
Epicycle - Sunday Girl

[The Shift]

Mike Love - Brian's Back

[D409]

Wondermints - Tracy Hide (as good a Pet Sounds pastiche as is possible)

REM - At My Most Beautiful (ditto)

Spongebob Squarepants - The Best Day Ever (pure BW, I believe Andy Paley had a hand in this one)

[Alan Smith]

Dinosaur Jr - Take a run at the Sun

[ash]

Dave Edmunds - London's A Lonely Town

I absolutely love this one. You can listen to it here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwnyHglHa7k

Not sure he wrote it but it's a lost Beach Boys classic to my ears. The lyrics are funny too.

[hypehat]

The original of that is by The Tradewinds, and called New York Is A Lonely Town.

Jellyfish have a few - The Ghost At Number One, Sebrina Paste & Plato, Hush, all off Spilt Milk.

Harry Nilsson - Poli High

Raspberries - Cruisin' Music

[ash]

Didn't Jellyfish do some work with Brian when he was with Don Was ? I thought that was an interesting proposition but it must've fizzled out as so many things did at this time.
Also didn't some wag do a cover of Landy He Needs Me ? I guess that counts as Brian inspired.

[D409]

The original of that is by The Tradewinds, and called New York Is A Lonely Town.

Jellyfish have a few - The Ghost At Number One, Sebrina Paste & Plato, Hush, all off Spilt Milk.

Harry Nilsson - Poli High

Raspberries - Cruisin' Music

Forgot about Jellyfish - the banjo coda of The Ghost At Number One is pure Cabinessence (with a bit of tactical theremin !)

[AndrewHickey]

* "Shorty Blackwell" by The Monkees - Yes, it's a terrible song; but it seems to be a deliberate cross between Brian's segmented style of the time and the Beatles' "A Day In The Life."

It's a *wonderful* song, not a terrible one!

Some others no-one's mentioned:
Anything by Tripsitter, but especially Wavestrumental
The Turtles -- Surfer Dan
The Kinks -- Australia
Frank Zappa -- Let Me Take You To The Beach
Roy Wood -- Forever

[hypehat]

Didn't Jellyfish do some work with Brian when he was with Don Was ? I thought that was an interesting proposition but it must've fizzled out as so many things did at this time.
Also didn't some wag do a cover of Landy He Needs Me ? I guess that counts as Brian inspired.

Yeah, they mention working with him on some fan club flexi, I can't tell who's who, but it goes like..

Jelly: Oh yeah, and Brian Wilson came down to the studio...
Fish: Ah yeah yeah...
Jelly: That was, er, that was a lot of fun. *Nervous laughter*
Fish: Actually it wasn't a lot of fun. But it was interesting.
Jelly: We had a lot of fun. So we might be doing some writing with him.

[doinnothin]

Willips Brighton - Mouthful of Sores - (Mr. Show sketch) http://youtu.be/b1mzDR3onnI?t=1m19s

[Chocolate Shake Man]

At both the Brian Wilson show I went to a few years ago and the Beach Boys show I went to last summer, the music played during intermission and before the show was (I'm pretty sure) the same compilation of songs inspired by The Beach Boys. I'm pretty sure both Yellow Balloon and The Rain, The Park, and Other Things were songs that they played, among many, many others. I wish I could get the whole list of songs they played. Ultimately, I thought it was a brilliant choice amongst the organizations of intermission music.

[Phoenix]

I thought of some more from the "influenced by" pile:

Here, There & Everywhere - Beatles
Dear Boy - McCartney

[joshferrell]

Randy newman "I love L.A."
Doobie Bothers "What a fool believes"

[EgoHanger1966]

Lewis Taylor - Let's Hope That Nobody Finds Us

IS A MUST!

[EgoHanger1966]

Harry Nilsson - Poli High

Raspberries - Cruisin' Music

Great track, but I'd say "Down To The Valley" (alternate version) is a better contender for a BW homage. Harry musta been listenin' to some Sunflower.

[AndrewHickey]

At both the Brian Wilson show I went to a few years ago and the Beach Boys show I went to last summer, the music played during intermission and before the show was (I'm pretty sure) the same compilation of songs inspired by The Beach Boys. I'm pretty sure both Yellow Balloon and The Rain, The Park, and Other Things were songs that they played, among many, many others. I wish I could get the whole list of songs they played. Ultimately, I thought it was a brilliant choice amongst the organizations of intermission music.

I *did* have that list somewhere -- it's online -- but don't know what site it was on. Darian put the list together.
What I do have, though, is a Spotify playlist of everything that was on that list that I could find on Spotify -- http://open.spotify.com/user/stealthmunchkin/playlist/0LRMFofx7wBG3og33KRIYa .

In last year's shows, they added a few songs after Darian's playlist, though keeping that otherwise the same. I can't remember exactly, but I *think* the songs they added were A Casual Look (some doo-wop ballad of that nature anyway, maybe In The Still Of The Night or I Only Have Eyes For You), Brown-Eyed Handsome Man (though it may have been another Chuck Berry song), some famous surf instrumental (can't remember which one, maybe Walk Don't Run?), Be My Baby and The Rain, The Park And Other Things, which wasn't on Darian's playlist but was always the last song before the band came on on the three reunion shows I saw last year.

[Please delete my account]

"King of Scurf" by the Bonzo Dog Band.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9czCW_hdVk