What tracks would be on your BB compilation if...

[roll plymouth rock]

...you were compiling a Best Of The Beach Boys album of tracks released between the Smiley Smile-Sunflower period. There is a lot of interesting/enduring material from the boys during this time, but I've always felt the material from this time could be presented with more more coherence. So, if you were asked to put together a compilation that showcased their best work from this era, what would be on your cd and in what sequence? Non-album tracks and rarities are game!

[John]

Just one disc?
Okay:

1. Good Vibrations
2. Cabinessence
3. Heroes And Villains
4. Vegetables
5. With Me Tonight
6. Country Air
7. Darlin'
8. Wild Honey
9. Here Comes The Night
10. Let The Wind Blow
11. Little Bird
12. Meant For You
13. Friends
14. Wake The World
15. Time To Get Alone
16. Bluebirds Over The Mountain
17. Do It Again
18. I Can Hear Music
19. Forever
20. All I Wanna Do
21. Break Away
22. Slip On Through
23. Cottonfields
24. This Whole World
25. Susie Cincinnati
26. Tears In The Morning
27. Add Some Music To Your Day
28. Cool, Cool Water [edit]

I guess that'd fit.

[matt-zeus]

I'm bored at my desk here in work so have come up with this, I have missed out anything SMiLE related and generally avoided hits too, i've also included some Sunflower era stuff which came out later.

1. Soulful old man sunshine
2. I'd love just once to see you
3. Breakaway
4. Slip on through
5. Busy doin nothin
6. I can hear music
7. This whole world
8. We're together again
9. Good time
10. Be with me
11. I went to sleep
12. Our sweet love
13. Here comes the night
14. Add some music
15. Passing by
16. San Miguel
17. When a man loves a woman
18. Forever
19. Time to get alone
20. Old man river
21. Friends
22. Sail plane song
23. Never learn not to love
24. All I wanna do
25. With me tonight
26. Games two can play
27. Let the wind blow
28. At my window
29. Wake the world

[donald]

A compilation disc with these songs would blow some minds and cause a great deal of confusion if released to the public as a  beach boys collection.

I think they should do it.  If it were unknown Beatles or Stone songs it would already have been done.

[roll plymouth rock]

A compilation disc with these songs would blow some minds and cause a great deal of confusion if released to the public as a  beach boys collection.

I think they should do it.  If it were unknown Beatles or Stone songs it would already have been done.

I agree, and I guess that's what I mean when saying that the quality of the material is definitely here in this era, but for the average (non obsessive) music fan to get into it, the best stuff needs to be presented a bit more coherently. I love this creative period in the Boys' history!

[Smilin Ed H]

Okay:

01   Our Prayer
02   Good Vibrations
03   Heroes and Villains
04   Cabinessence
05   Wonderful
06   Wind Chimes
07   With Me Tonight
08    You're Welcome
09    Little Pad
10    Wild Honey
11    Darlin'
12    Let the Wind Blow
13    Country Air
14    Meant for You
15    Friends
16   Busy Doin' Nothin'
17   Wake the World
18    Little Bird
19    We're Together Again
20     Time To Get Alone 
21     Be With Me
22     Never Learn Not to Love
23     I Can Hear Music
24     Can't Wait Too Long
25     Do It Again
26     Break Away
27    Celebrate the News
28    Cotton Fields (single vesion)
29    Soulful Old Man Sunshine
30    Games Two Can Play
31    Add Some Music To Your Day
32    This Whole World
33    Forever
34    Tears in the Morning
35    Slip On Through
36    All I Wanna Do
37    Cool, Cool Water

A sublime double CD set.

[Alex]

I would expand it to include stuff from Smiley through the present, and make it into an unnessecarily expensive box set.

Disc 1
1. Good Vibrations
2. Heroes and Villains
3. Vegetables
4. Little Pad
5. Wind Chimes
6. Wonderful
7. Fall Breaks
8. Can't Wait Too Long
9. Wild Honey
10. Aren't You Glad
11. Country Air
12. Darlin'
13. Let The Wind Blow (In Concert version)
14. Friends
15. Be Here In The Morning
16. Little Bird
17. Be Still
18. Busy Doin' Nothin
19. Anna Lee, The Healer
20. Diamond Head

Disc 2
1. We're Together Again
2. Do It Again
3. I Can Hear Music
4. All I Want To Do
5. Be With Me
6. Bluebirds Over The Mountain
7. Never Learn Not To Love
8. Our Prayer
9. Cabin Esence
10. Won't You Tell Me
11. Celebrate the News
12. Old Man River
13. Seasons in the Sun
14. Sound of Free
15. Lady
16. Back Home (1969 version)
17. Walkin'
18. H.E.L.P. Is On The Way
19. Good Time
20. Over the Waves

Disc 3
1. Slip On Through
2. This Whold World
3. Add Some Music
4. It's About Time
5. All I Wanna Do
6. Forever
7. Tears In The Morning
8. Cool Cool Water
9. Long Promised Road
10. Take Care of Your Feet
11. Feel Flows
12. A Day In The Life of a Tree
13. Surf's Up
14. 'Til I Die
15. Wouldn't It Be Nice to Live Again
16. San Miguel
17. I'm Going Your Way
18. It's a New Day
19. Out In The Country
20. Big Sur (1970 version)

Disc 4
1. You Need a Mess of Help to Stand Alone
2. Beatrice from Baltimore
3. Marcella
4. Here She Comes
5. All This Is That
6. Cuddle Up
7. Dennis' Quad Symphony
8. I've Got a Friend
9. Carry Me Home
10. Hard Times
11. Sail On Sailor
12. Steamboat
13. Beaks of Eagles
14. Sunny Californ-i-a
15. The Trader
16. Funky Pretty
17. California Feeling (1974 version)
18. Rollin' Up to Heaven
19. Battle Hymn of the Republic
20. River Song (1973 live version)

Disc 5
1. Had to Phone Ya
2. Chapel of Love
3. Palisades Park
4. Blueberry Hill
5. Shake Rattle and Roll
6. Sea Cruise
7. Everyone's In Love With You
8. In The Still of the Night
9. You Are So Beautiful
10. Moonshine
11. What's Wrong
12. You and I
13. Thoughts of You
14. Farewell My Friend
15. Roller Skating Child
16. Mona
17. I'll Bet He's Nice
18. Johnny Carson
19. Lazy Lizzie
20. Sherry She Needs Me

Disc 6
1. Life Is For the Living
2. Deep Purple
3. Lines
4. Everybody Wants to Live
5. It's Over Now
6. Still I Dream of It
7. My Diane
8. Marilyn Rovell
9. Come Go With Me
10. Peggy Sue
11. Sweet Sunday
12. Winds of Change
13. Good Timin
14. Goin South
15. Full Sail
16. Angel Come Home
17. Love Surrounds Me
18. Lookin' Down the Coast
19. Don't Fight the Sea
20. Santa Ana Winds

Disc 7
1. Da Doo Ron Ron
2. Where We Are
3. Heaven
4. Baby Blue
5. New Orleans
6. Wild Situation
7. What You Do To Me
8. Keepin' The Summer Alive
9. Chasin' the Sky
10. Where I Belong
11. California Calling
12. It's Getting Late
13. She Believes In Love Again
14. Somewhere Near Japan
15. Make It Big
16. Orange Crate Art
17. Soul Searchin'
18. You're Still a Mystery
19. How Can We Still Be Dancin'
20. Cool Head Warm Heart
21. California Role
22. Midnight's Another Day

[grillo]

Bluebirds?!!!Come on man, that is hardly representative of the BB and it blows. Everything else is right on though.

[urbanite]

Aren't You Glad, Live in London version.   

[punkinhead]

the very end of Bluebirds is the only thing that saves the song for me...where the strings go up at the fade

[Sheriff John Stone]

Did somebody mention a compilation?

1. Add Some Music To Your Day
2. Busy Doin' Nothin'
3. Friends
4. Do It Again
5. Wind Chimes
6. Good Vibrations
7. I Can Hear Music
8. All I Wanna Do
9. Wake The World
10. Aren't You Glad
11. Slip On Through
12. Time To Get Alone
13. The Nearest Faraway Place
14. Our Sweet Love
15. Forever
16. Breakaway
17. Wonderful
18. Heroes And Villains
19. Cabin Essence
20. Vegetables
21. Can't Wait Too Long (edit)
22. With Me Tonight
23. Let The Wind Blow
24. Cool Cool Water (single edit)
25. Cottonfields
26. We're Together Again
27. Darlin'
28. This Whole World
29. Our Prayer
30. Whistle In

[roll plymouth rock]

Did somebody mention a compilation?

I tried your mix out and I like the flow of it! I added the Lei'd In Hawaii rehearsal version of God Only Knows between Cool Water + Cottonfields though

[Alex]

Bluebirds?!!!Come on man, that is hardly representative of the BB and it blows. Everything else is right on though.

Blow, it does not! It's a catchy-ass song, and I like Ed Carter's lead guitar.

[Sheriff John Stone]

Did somebody mention a compilation?

I tried your mix out and I like the flow of it! I added the Lei'd In Hawaii rehearsal version of God Only Knows between Cool Water + Cottonfields though

That's cool; good spot for it....

[donald]

I've always tried to include SOME of this era in compilations but it becomes to unwieldy when mixed with other eras.   This is the way to do it.

A two disc set of the SS/WH through SU era.   

Question is;  what to do with the good stuff from 74-75 through Somewhere Near Japan?  I think yet another era compilation is in order.

[Sheriff John Stone]

Question is;  what to do with the good stuff from 74-75 through Somewhere Near Japan?  I think yet another era compilation is in order.

Did somebody mention ANOTHER compilation?

The Beach Boys 1976-1992

1. Rock And Roll Music
2. Palisades Park
3. Good Timin'
4. Roller Skating Child
5. Wontcha Come Out Tonight
6. The Night Was So Young
7. Come Go With Me
8. Peggy Sue
9. Baby Blue
10. I'll Bet He's Nice
11. Matchpoint Of Our Love
12. Livin' With A Heartache
13. Goin' On
14. Kokomo
15. Lahaina Aloha
16. Somewhere Near Japan
17. Where I Belong
18. Getcha Back
19. California Calling
20. Back Home
21. It's OK
22. Pitter Patter
23. Sunshine
24. Lady Lynda
25. She Believes In Love Again
26. Summer In Paradise
 
 

[donald]

There is life after 74!!!!

[roll plymouth rock]

How about post Sunflower-pre 15 Big Ones era? Got a mix for that??? And no Talk To Me on the 76-92???

[Smilin Ed H]

1970-80 - and I'm going for a certain feel here...

Double CD

Cotton Fields
Slip On Through
This Whole World
Forever
All I Wanna Do
Cool, Cool Water
Lookin' at Tomorrow
Day in the Life of a Tree
Long Promised Road
Fourth of July
Feel Flows
Disney Girls
Surf's Up
'Til I Die
All This is That
Hold on Dear Brother
Marcella
Cuddle Up
Sweet Mountain
TM (the Charles Lloyd song)

Sail on Sailor
The Trader
Big Sur
Beaks of Eagles
California
Wishin' You Were Here
Had to Phone Ya
The Night Was So Young
Johnny Carson
River Song
Pacific Ocean Blues
Winter Symphony
My Diane
Pitter Patter
Country Pie
Good Timin'
California Feelin'
Down the Coastline
Angel Come Home
Love Surrounds Me
Baby Blue
Santa Ana Winds


Each is about 71-72 minutes and there were certainly several tracks I would like to add as well as a couple I'm not sure about for this particular compilation (Johhny Carson, for example).  The Santa Ana Winds is the one off KTSA, though I have a lot of time for the other one...

[roll plymouth rock]

TM, in the AM and the PM

[Sheriff John Stone]

How about post Sunflower-pre 15 Big Ones era? Got a mix for that???

Yep.

Surf's Up In Holland - So Tough!

1. Here She Comes
2. Feel Flows
3. All This Is That
4. You Need A Mess Of Help To Stand Alone
5. Long Promised Road
6. Sail On Sailor
7. The Trader
8. California Saga - Big Sur
9. California Saga - Beaks Of Eagles
10. California Saga - California
11. Disney Girls
12. We Got Love (In Concert)
13. Marcella (In Concert)
14. Only With You
15. Funky Pretty
16. Cuddle Up
17. Don't Go Near The Water
18. A Day In The Life Of A Tree
19. Til I Die
20. Surf's Up

[Smilin Ed H]

Hmmm.  I'm trying to make a 80-present day double CD (including solo stuff), but apart from the, let's say, variable quality of the material, the varying quality of the production styles makes it an uneasy listen - especially 85, BW88, SIP and Imagination.  Not pleasant.

[Sheriff John Stone]

Hmmm.  I'm trying to make a 80-present day double CD (including solo stuff), but apart from the, let's say, variable quality of the material, the varying quality of the production styles makes it an uneasy listen - especially 85, BW88, SIP and Imagination.  Not pleasant.

Are you including Keepin' The Summer Alive in this comp or starting after it?

[Smilin Ed H]

Santa Ana Winds rounds off the previous 70-80 comp.

So far...

KTSA
Heaven
Getcha Back
It's Gettin' Late
Where I Belong
She Believes in Love Again
Male Ego
California Dreamin'
Melt Away
Rio Grande
Kokomo
Somewhere Near Japan
Strange Things Happen
SIP
Still Surfin'
Run Don't Walk
Soul Searchin' (Paley version)
Like  Brother
Love and Mercy (Was version)


That Lucky Old Sun
Orange Crate Art
Wings of a Dove
This Song Wants To Sleep With You Tonight
GIOMH (Paley version, of course)
You're Still a Mystery
Lay Down Burden
Hand on My Shoulder (Blondie and Brian)
Cool Head, Warm Heart
10,000 Years
You and I (David Marks)
Sail Away (David and Al)
Live Let Live (movie version)
What Love Can Do
You Are So Beautiful (Brian and Carnie)
California (Al's acoustic version from 96)
Midnight's Another Day
That Lucky Old Sun reprise
Piano variations on You and I - an idea I swiped from Smile-Holland

[carlydenise]

I would have to go one more album and from Smiley Smile to Surf's Up.....this is actually my favorite period, so here goes:
Heroes and Villians
Good Vibrations
Wonderful
Wild Honey
I was made to love her
Darlin
Let the wind blow
How she boogalooed it
Friends
Do it again
I can hear music
All I want to do
Cotton Fields
Never learn not not love
our prayer
Slip on through
This whole world
Add some music to your day
Got to know the woman
It's about time
All I wanna do
Forever
Our sweet love
At my window
Long promised road
Feel Flows
Til I die
Surfs Up

Surf's Up and Sunflower are my favorite BB's albums ever