BEACHES IN MIND

[Emdeeh]

Summer's Gone HAS to be the final track. It just has to be, period.

Not for me. I moved "Strange World" to the end of the album, because I found I liked having a quirky, upbeat song following the suite. Gives the whole thing a bit of a lift. That's just my tastes, tho. Yours may, and I expect will, vary.

[Micha]

I always thought that the title track should open the album, and Think About the Days should have been track 9, signifying the change into the amazing final three tracks.

In my own custom track order, I have "Think About The Days" sandwiched between "From There to Back Again" and "Pacific Coast Highway" - and I find it so perfect that this one time I recommend trying it yourself.

My order BTW opens with "Isn't It Time", features "Waves Of Love" instead of the dreadful TPLOBAS, and the first side ends with "That's Why God Made the Radio".

[stack-o-tracks]

Daybreak is definitely not the song on the album I'd get rid of if I was switching up the tracklist, but it definitely could have used a new recording. That part where they go up a half step in the last chorus is fuckin' sad & pathetic. Terrible that it ended up on what's probably going to be the last Beach Boys studio album,  but alas.


Wouldn't replace it with a cover song, that's for sure....

[Steve Latshaw]

<<In my own custom track order, I have "Think About The Days" sandwiched between "From There to Back Again" and "Pacific Coast Highway" - and I find it so perfect that this one time I recommend trying it yourself.>>

Isn't "Think About the Days" reprised at the beginning of PCH anyway?