Sunflower Album

[Surfer]

The songs like Be With Me or the other songs Of Dennis Wilson relates to my feelings towards my father.  All I Want To Do is about me and former Girl friend not my father.

[Don Malcolm]

They certainly did have a LOT of good songs around Sunflower. Back Home (the lyric) is where the LP title comes from. A 2 LP set would have been ideal (had the Beach Boys been selling anything like they should have been).

Agreed, Mike. The band was on something of a roll in 1969-70, even if they were experiencing commercial difficulties in the USA. This is the period where Carl is still emerging as the "key man" in decision-making, prior to his symbiosis with Jack Reiley that would lead to the "swap" of Bruce for Blondie and Ricky. A two-record set might have done better in the marketplace (really, it couldn't have done worse) simply for the "weight" of the material.

Might be interesting to speculate a bit on what that 2-LP set would have looked like. A retrospective today would probably include close to 30 songs, but I suspect a 2-LP "Sunflower" would have been more like 20-24, and would not have been likely to include Dennis' solo stuff, or "Break Away"/"Celebrate the News", though today we'd probably want to include them in a "69-70" retrospective....

[Cabinessenceking]

I think Sunflower as it is remains one of the band's most brilliant moves in terms of record cohesion and production. Most of the songs are very strong, the singles are certainly not smash hits but certainly respectable and all the groups members contributed, thus causing more cohesion in the group and a stronger belief in their own abilities after Brian gave up the leadership role and wrote less material.

 It was a damn shame and lack of fortune which prevented Sunflower from being a bigger release back then.

[runnersdialzero]

Wouldn't it be nice
To live with dad again
High on a hill
Makin' pinewood derby cars again

[RangeRoverA1]

Anyone acquainted with Rover's opinion on all things Dennis need not be surprised that she doesn't like Fallin' in Love. 

This reads like I don't care for all the songs written/sung by Dennis which is a big misstatement. I've mentioned here quite constantly about how I like Never Learn Not to Love, Rainbows, Slip On Through, Barbara, Pacific Ocean Blues, Tug of Love, Forever, Be with Me, It's About Time, Carry Me Home, Steamboat, River Song, Celebrate the News, 4th of July, as well as about Dennis's 1st-class vocal contributions on the early 60s-70s songs. Moreover, having listened to <Made In California> I dug (to some degree) every inclusion of his new music - Barnyard Blues, Mona Kana, My Love Lives on, WIBNTLA (in this order). So I don't really catch your point. There are loads of songs in Brian's, Mike's, Bruce's, Carl's solo careers I find boring or almost unlistenable.