Beach Boys Solo Survivor #6 Winner: Brian Wilson's "Melt Away"

[Orange Crate Art]

Melt Away

[baseball95]

Melt Away

[Please delete my account]

I've been away, so wasn't able to help the ace "Baby let your hair grow long" stay in any longer. I love that song.


I vote for Rio Grande.

[pixletwin]

Brian Wilson is the eponymous debut solo album by Brian Wilson released in July 1988 on Sire Records. Working with an array of collaborators including his therapist Eugene Landy, Wilson accordingly themed the album around love and spirituality exemplified by its lead single "Love and Mercy". Although the album's sessions were contentious, where some participants demanded a progressive artistic statement versus conventional pop songs, nearly a quarter of the LP is devoted to "Rio Grande", a piece which was intended to rekindle Wilson's experimental drive from the mid 1960s and early 1970s.
It was voted one of the best albums of 1988 by NME, and as part of its acclaim, garnered the nickname "Pet Sounds '88" among some critics.Brian Wilson has since been reissued on several different formats with bonus tracks, and cited by some as a standout in Wilson's solo oeuvre.

The album is on Spotify!

7 votes to you and your friends tonight. 

Rollin' 9 votes for RIo Grande.

By a landslide 16 votes the winner is...

Melt Away

Round#1 - Night Time August 20
Round#2 - Walkin' the Line August 22
Round#3 - Little Children August 24
Round#4 - One for the Boys August 26
Round#5 - Let it Shine August 30
Round#6 - There's So Many
Round#7 - Meet Me in My Dreams Tonight September 4
Round#8 - Baby Let Your Hair Grow Long September 8
Round#9 - Love and Mercy September 10
Round#9 - Rio Grande September 10

I was sure, despite my vote for Melt Away, that Love and Mercy would win. Goes to show that one can never assume.

New rounds coming soon.

 

[pixletwin]

You guys n gals ready to get going on this again?

 

Brian Wilson's "Imagination"
Carl Wilson's "Like A Brother"
Brian Wilson's "Gettin' In Over My Head"

Do we include Orange Crate Art?

 

[Alan Smith]

I'll be your huckleberry.

Let's go, and let's OCA it while we're at it.

Having said that I'm off to the beach for a week, so might not be around for the first plays.