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20/20 is the fifteenth studio album by American rock group the Beach Boys, released on February 10, 1969 and their last studio album released with Capitol Records that contained new material for the next seventeen years. Produced by the Beach Boys, the album includes songs that span across variety of different genres including hard rock, country and psychedelic pop. The lead single "Do It Again" was the band's first attempt at revisiting the surf sound they abandoned eight albums prior and it charted at number one on the UK and Australian charts.

20/20 got its name from being the Beach Boys' twentieth album release when compilations were included in the tally. A collage inside the gatefold depicts Brian Wilson behind an eye examination chart as a play on the title. It reached number three in the UK and number 68 in the US.

VOTE OFF YOUR LEAST FAVORITE TRACK!!!

I'll tally on January 3

Do It Again
I Can Hear Music
Bluebirds Over the Mountain
Be with Me
All I Want to Do
The Nearest Faraway Place   
Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song)
I Went to Sleep
Time to Get Alone
Never Learn Not to Love
Our Prayer
Cabinessence

My least favorite is... Bluebirds Over the Mountain

Bluebirds Over the Mountain

Bluebirds Over the Mountain

Nearest Faraway Place

All I Want To Do

  Bluebirds Over the Mountain. The group's worst A side of the 60's, including Ten Little Indians.

The Nearest Faraway Place   

Nearest Faraway Place

Bluebirds Over the Mountain

All I Want To Do. The Beach Boys trying to sound "raw" never worked for me at all. And it's a really mediocre composition.

The Nearest Faraway Place.  Hadn't listened to 20/20 in a long time, and this really sticks out to me, and not in a good way.  It's well into Ferrante and Teicher territory, and a curious inclusion for a band presumably seeking relevance at the end of the 60s.  However, I guess it does qualify for the Easy Listening entry on a scattershot album.

Nearest faraway syrup

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Cotton Fields

Do It Again. There, I said it!
A very overrated single which I have literally never liked.
Give me Bluebirds, Nearest Faraway Place, Cottonfields, and especially the underrated classic All I Want To Do over Do It Again!

Bluebirds Over the Mountain

All I want to do.
(the live version is far better, specially the MiC version)

'Never Learn Not To Love'.  Pretty good song though.

Be With Me. Never been a favorite.

Nearest faraway place

Cotton Fields (album version)          love the single version.  Pixletwin, are you still doing something with non-album tracks?

So you'd choose to vote off the album centrepiece over tracks such as Do It Again, Bluebirds, and I Went To Sleep?
If you ask me that's crazy lol

The Nearest Faraway Place

Bluebirds Over the Mountain --> the fuzz lead makes me cringe every time. 

Be With Me is a pretty bad song. The lyrics of the verses have nothing to do with each other and the chorus seems very "tacked on." It's definitely feels like the work of an amateur songwriter. Not as bad as All I Want To Do, though.

Also, I Went To Sleep is gorgeous.

The Nearest Faraway Place   

I would over "Do It Again" and "I Went To Sleep".

The fact that you think "Be with Me" is the album's centerpiece is even crazier to me.

Also, "I Went to Sleep" is amazing.

Bluebirds

 :o I can't believe I just read that *excuse me while I adjust my eyes*

Girls, girls, you're both pretty.

Anyway, the centerpiece of 20/20 is 'Time To Get Alone', so don't worry about it. ;D

The lyrics aren't too important to me, and Be With Me is such an amazing song. I was blown away by it when I first listened to it!
All I Want To Do is fucking underrated, it almost makes me cry :'(
Love both songs so much, I just can't believe anyone would even try to vote them off this early!


Don't care much for either I Went To Sleep or Time To Get Alone.
Using my favourite RangeRover quote: they're both "dullville".


In my opinion Be With Me is easily the album's centrepiece. I'm just surprised that someone would strongly disagree with that.

All I Want to Do

Actually, Cotton Fields.

u rck


ALL I Want to do

The Nearest Faraway Place

What's with these votes for All I Want To Do, you boring squares?

Bluebirds gets my vote. As with Sunflower, Bruce easily provides the album low points.

Thank you :h5

I like a lot of "raw" music. But from other bands. Whenever I put on a Beach Boys record, I want to hear pretty music.

And it's a pretty basic blues rock song without any particularly great hooks.

So what is it exactly that you can't believe reading?

Well, cuz I love that song :-D I thought it was one of Mike's best leads, but we each have our own taste in music and yea and can respect yours  :).  But I applaud the guys for not always sticking with the stereotypical surf, car, girl songs.  As artists the fact that they can get away from that  every once in awhile and still make it work is a great thing.   And yea at the end of the day they're known for the "pretty music" and when I think of them that's the first thing I think of too  ::)

All I Want to Do

People talk about the guitar on "Bluebirds Over The Mountain" but everything about "All I Want to Do" screams, trying way too hard.  It comes off like people trying and failing to be "cool" and is unlistenable for me.

No, Student Demo Time is an example of trying (and failing) to be cool. But All I Want To Do is cool - and it beats Gun & Roses by two decades with the 'live-sex-on-a-track'. In your face Axl!

I don't think Dennis was trying to be cool at all. He didn't have to try - he already effortlessly was. And All I Want To Do is an honest song - Dennis was a horny bastard and here he is writing about it!

Agreed!  :hat

Bluebirds Over the Mountain

The Nearest Faraway Place  -- easy low-hanging fruit.   :)  I love the whole album -- a few songs in it gets much tougher to eliminate any.

And in a strange way, I like Bluebirds precisely because you can 'see the strings'... it sounds like a conscious, and arguably somewhat desperate, attempt to update their sound, and there's something I find poignant in that (if that makes any sense).
Or more simply, I just think the guitar sounds cool.

Bluebirds over the mountain.  Never really liked it..

To each his own, of course. I don't like his lead on the song because that's not Mike's natural singing voice. Which means he's putting on a voice, and that annoys me.

The Near, Far whatever Place

my wifes love Bluebirds and so DO I.  :p

Yea you know as much as I liked it, I wish Denny would've went ahead and sang it himself  :) he had that natural rasp his voice that Mike was trying to imitate

Bluebirds Over the Mountain

It's got to be Bluebirds Over The Mountain. That and Be With Me are the only two weak songs on the album.

Bluebirds

Get rid if it

To me this song never happend

bluebirds I guess

Nearest Faraway Place. I have championed the cause of instrumental tracks throughout this BB Survivor series but this is the weakest track in a strong lot

Tallying votes at 11 am PST. VOTE!!!!

Nearest Faraway Place

20/20 is the fifteenth studio album by American rock group the Beach Boys, released on February 10, 1969 and their last studio album released with Capitol Records that contained new material for the next seventeen years. Produced by the Beach Boys, the album includes songs that span across variety of different genres including hard rock, country and psychedelic pop. The lead single "Do It Again" was the band's first attempt at revisiting the surf sound they abandoned eight albums prior and it charted at number one on the UK and Australian charts.

20/20 got its name from being the Beach Boys' twentieth album release when compilations were included in the tally. A collage inside the gatefold depicts Brian Wilson behind an eye examination chart as a play on the title. It reached number three in the UK and number 68 in the US.

Weeze gon' shootin' dem Blue Birds over dem dar mountains! (http://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/images/smilies/survivor.gif)

VOTE OFF YOUR LEAST FAVORITE TRACK!!!

I'll tally on January 5t

Do It Again
I Can Hear Music
Be with Me
All I Want to Do
The Nearest Faraway Place   
Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song)
I Went to Sleep
Time to Get Alone
Never Learn Not to Love
Our Prayer
Cabinessence

Round#1 - Bluebirds Over the Mountain January 3

My least favorite is... All I Want To Do.

All I Want To Do.

All I Want to Do.

s'an okay song, but the others are better

Nearest Faraway Place

The Nearest Faraway Place   

Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song)

Nearest Faraway Place

Be With Me.

Never Learn Not to Love. There's more fun in telling people it's history than hearing it.

Still 'Never Learn Not To Love'.

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Never Learn Not To Love

The Nearest Faraway Yawn

The Nearest Faraway Place - gooey twinkling piano schmaltz. Mind you, it's a fantastic bit of sequencing having it follow All I Want To Do...

Surprised at the number of votes for NLNTL. It's a great song and an incredible production - maybe it's history bothers some people. Personally I can disconnect from all that...

Nearest Faraway Place

I bet part of Charlie's problem was that Denny sang it better  ::)

Cotton Fields

Nearest Faraway Place

It's amazing to me that as we go through these survivor rounds, the amount of folks saying I don't like this track or another.  Maybe just say I like this more than that.  This is The Beach Boys in the 1960's! They didn't make too many that I would say that about.  Nothing, nothing after 1963.  The Beach Boys were the GREATEST BAND of the 60's, certainly in America.  You can say The Beatles without too many raised eyebrows, but that's it.  In The World.  This is a board about the Beach Boys.  Everyday/today I read "oh, Bruce, he just Sucks" - NO he didn't.  "The Nearest Faraway Place" is gorgeous.  "Oh, Mike, he sucks" No he doesn't.  His vocal was perfect for "All I Want To Do."  Dennis, "Never Learn Not To Love" and ALL his tracks on this record are GREAT.  "Be With Me" is in my top five Dennis tracks ever.  Carl, was in total control on all the tracks he had the lead on.  I don't have to go too far into this to say it will be one of his to win this round, as "I went To Sleep" is already getting votes.

Nearest Far Away Place

Can't believe Bluebirds was voted out first  :'(

Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song)

Are you guys kidding? All I Want To Do is one of the most offensive pieces of music I've ever heard. While most Dennis songs simply bore me, All I Want To Do makes my ears bleed.

Agreed. I don't think Bruce deserves the hate he gets on this forum. Nearest Faraway Place is one of his best songs, and an excellent instrumental. All of Dennis's tracks on this album is great, with two out of three ranking in my favourites. Never Learn Not To Love is criminally underrated, people should just forget about the Manson story and enjoy the song for what it is.


How do you know my name?

He has quite the memory for names.

All I Want To Do is one of my favourite BB's tracks!

It's got IMHO Mike's best ever vocals, and it's possibly the hardest track the BB's did.
I know some fans don't like that as they are more into the traditional type of BB's music, but I'm very glad they did this.
It gives the BB's music more variety, which is another reason why I like Cottonfields, and the disco version of Here Comes The Night!

You often complain about Dennis's lyrics, and while the only one that I agree is really bad is Make It Good (I still love the song, because lyrics don't matter quite as much as the music!), the lyrics are quite decent on this song. It's not often that the BB's sing lyrics similar to that, at least this is more proof that they're not squares.
And the music itself? Oh don't get me started on how much I love it! I say Dennis should have done more songs like that, instead of moving on to love songs (which is good in it's own right). The music is exhilarating, it's badass, it's so awesome!

The MIC live version is even better, it should have become a concert staple instead of "shudder" Barbara Ann.

But not only have I never posted my name on and threads, no one else has

I stand corrected.
Didn't think many people even saw that welcome lol

Oh and "Hey Little Tomboy" or "She's Not The Little Girl I Once Knew" isn't  >:(.  And how about all those other rock songs from that era that talk about same stuff  >:(. 

All I Want To Do

All I Want To Do is offensive mostly because of the delivery... it just sounds very forced. I like The Little Girl I Once Knew but don't know how it relates to All I Want To Do. Hey Little Tomboy is also bad but more musically rewarding than All I Want To Do.

Well the beach boys at the time this album was released were labeled as "uncool" and out of touch with mainstream rock music (as I'm sure you already know).  This song proves those who thought that wrong and it has way more of a "rock and roll" edge than "Hey Little Tomboy"  :-\ at a concert I would much rather hear them playing this live than that  :-\

I've got a feeling that with that comment, you lost your credibility

Yea of course because it's a Brian song  ::)

I would have to agree with Gabo.

The chords are pretty standard, uninteresting stuff for "All I Want to Do." At least "Hey Little Tomboy" uses some interesting combinations and has some nice stuff going on.

....at least you can say that without attacking the songwriter and Brian got an early start composing, arranging, writing.  Give Denny some credit he was pretty much new at all that when this song came out  :-\

No.
In fact I always thought it was a Mike song lol.

Hey Little Tomboy is pretty uninteresting musically, and atrocious otherwise.
All I Want To Do is awesome and the chords work well on that.
And the bass line, it's just perfect!

Thank you :h5

Where did this notion that interesting chords all of a sudden make a song a "good" song come from? heck at the age of 22 Buddy Holly could write circles around both of the songs in question and only using standard chord changes.

I second that!

Cottonfields.  I like the single version much more..

I wasn't necessarily saying it makes it a good song, I was only replying to the fact that he said "All I Want to Do" was more musically rewarding than "Hey Little Tomboy."

But which song would be better to play at lets say a Monterrey Pop festival.....  :rock

It's just lost in among your hundreds of prolific posts...avatars...user-names...photos...and yes, folks do read the welcome threads.  I posted in mine on New Years Eve.  Tend it, and it will grow.

Melody implies harmony. If the melody of a song is complex the chords will also be complex. Hey Little Tomboy is more musically rewarding than All I Want To Do because it is a more complex composition. All I Want To Do is just basic.

Just because a song is basic doesn't mean it's not as good as a complex song.
To me that's irrelevant. A good song is a good song, be it basic or complex.

Yea "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" is a basic song  :quote but it's still a classic right

You are definitely confusing "complexity" with "quality". Many people do.

The Nearest Faraway Place   

I'll go with "All I Want To Do," though it's not what I want to do.

Blah blah blah. When a song doesn't follow the most basic melodic route it is usually more satisfying than one that does.

Or maybe it comes down to personal taste...

Blah blah blah is your rebuttal? :lol If what you say is true than a computer is more capable of writing beautiful music than the human mind.

Lots of rock songs talk about drugs and sex so with the BB being a rock band I don't see how they're any exception to this  ???.  Ever hear the Rolling Stone's "Under My Thumb" now those lyrics are offensive  :-\ *and it's pretty basic*

Under My Thumb isn't that offensive.

Can't say the same for Brown Sugar, however

Wow so true I almost forgot about that one  :o *and I guess that's pretty basic too  ::)*

Anyway, you're 'Rei'-ly correct when it comes to All I Want To Do - it's a great song! (See what I did there?)

It's funny, I have trouble participating in the Wild Honey and Friends rounds because there are no songs I don't love on them, but on 20/20 there are quite a few of which I have no qualms about speaking slightingly.
Starting with

"The Nearest Faraway Place"

The early rounds are always easy. By the time I'm having to vote off tracks such as Do It Again, Never Learn Not to Love, Our Prayer etc.. it's going to be a bitch.

All I Want to Do, not to be confused with the brilliant Sunflower track.

Never Learn Not to Love

I can't stand that song. I also can't stand Bluebirds over the Mountain, I'm glad it's gone!

The Nearest Faraway Place

The Nearest Faraway Place   

The Nearest... Faraway... Place!   

The Nearest Faraway Place

Cotton Fields- I prefer the single version.

P.S. Never realized 'Never Learn Not To Love' was so unpopular around here, it's in my top 10 Dennis compositions.

  Never Learn Not to Love

*Manson.

Still a great song, however

Never Learn Not to Love

Yup some people still act like Denny purposely told Manson to commit those murders  >:D which isn't the case.  When will they get that through their thick skulls?  ::).  If you went on YouTube right now and read all those hate comments towards him.....it's just sad, people always wanna have something negative to talk about.  THERE'S MORE TO DENNIS WILSON THAN JUST CHARLIE MANSON

20/20 is the fifteenth studio album by American rock group the Beach Boys, released on February 10, 1969 and their last studio album released with Capitol Records that contained new material for the next seventeen years. Produced by the Beach Boys, the album includes songs that span across variety of different genres including hard rock, country and psychedelic pop. The lead single "Do It Again" was the band's first attempt at revisiting the surf sound they abandoned eight albums prior and it charted at number one on the UK and Australian charts.

20/20 got its name from being the Beach Boys' twentieth album release when compilations were included in the tally. A collage inside the gatefold depicts Brian Wilson behind an eye examination chart as a play on the title. It reached number three in the UK and number 68 in the US.

Nearest Faraway Place has  been banished to the neareset far away place (see below). (http://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/images/smilies/survivor.gif)

VOTE OFF YOUR LEAST FAVORITE TRACK!!!

I'll tally on January 7th

Do It Again
I Can Hear Music
Be with Me
All I Want to Do   
Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song)
I Went to Sleep
Time to Get Alone
Never Learn Not to Love
Our Prayer
Cabinessence

Round#1 - Bluebirds Over the Mountain January 3
Round#2 - The Nearest Faraway Place January 5

My least favorite is... All I Want To Do.

While I am disappointed that Nearest Faraway Place is gone, a part of me is happy that it's gone instead of one of Denny's songs

All I Want to Do

Cotton fields

All I Want To Do

All I Want To Do

Eh.

Another good thing about All I Want To Do is that I show it to my friends, the majority of which don't care for the BB's, and they really like that song.
It's a great song to get people into the BB's, plus it's their heaviest, it's got Mike Love's all-time best vocal and IMO it's their coolest song  :hat
If it was up to me, it would make it into the finals.
You guys are crazy for trying to vote this off!

I don't care, I don't like it.

All I Want To Do

Thank you  :rock :h5

Instead of defending every single Dennis Wilson song, can you two just let us have our opinion. I get it, you like Dennis. I also like Dennis, but a lot of us here don't think that every single one of his songs are absolutely incredible. Deal with it.

Cotton

I know everyone has their own taste in music but people comparing him with Brian when he had so much more experience than him isn't fair.  He proved himself to be more than just the trouble making heartthrob and he wasn't taken seriously.  if you guys don't like his stuff, fine but the most opinions I've heard have something to do with how much better Brian is than him.  They were BROTHERS. Denny looked up to him and learned a lot from him and was in his shadow. he actually stepped up musically the most when Brian couldn't do it anymore.  :-\

I Went to Sleep

You're opinion on us is inaccurate. Well, me at least.
As I told Bubbly on the Friends contest:

Okay... well can you two please stop calling us crazy just because a Dennis song was voted off that you happen to like.  :)

Getting upset that a song/songwriter that you like isn't as well received as you'd like them to be is completely natural, but please, let's not make a big fuss over it anymore.

Cottonfields

I was mainly upset when someone complained about people "exalting Dennis", that's what set me off.  And I can respect your opinions but what that guy said was not cool at all   :-\

NLNTL

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Never Learn Not to Love

Nope. That wasn't cool, and I can understand why that would make you upset, but all the fussing isn't going help. In the end, you both will still have the same opinion.

'Never Learn Not To Love'. STILL.

You make some great points :) but it's not fair how Denny is constantly being compared to Brian when they're in two different leagues and have two different styles   :-\ and I know not everyone on this board is doing that but some people are and it's getting old fast.   

Well, to be fair, the point of these threads is to compare.
At this point, Dennis will inevitably be compared to Brian, as they're going head to head. The same thing will happen to the rest of the band mate as we move on down the line of albums.

All I Want To Do

Ok but the tone of some of these posts is that Denny had no talent at all and that his songs were mediocre which isn't true.  he was already thought of as the "no talent" member and the Friends and 20/20 album is when he proved those people wrong.  People can express their opinion without disrespecting him.  Most I've read from these posts are how bad his songs are and how bad he is as a songwriter  :-\

This is the point of the survivor rounds - to see what songs the majority likes/dislikes

I swear, they're becoming like OSD was at his worst, but instead of anti-Mike, it's pro-Denny.

Dennis is a GREAT songwriter and singer. That doesn't mean he never wrote some bad songs. He did.

Cotton Fields

Perfect example = Gabo

That's correct. But none of his songs from Friends or 20/20 are bad

yes he was  :) and I'm not saying all his songs were great and should win  :-\ I'm saying that people shouldn't just base their opinions about his songs on the stuff that Brian's done because he was far ahead of all of them. and I know not everyone is doing that, I'm talking about the people who are and the people who hate Never Learn Not to Love just because of what happened with Manson.  a lot of people can't talk about Denny for 5 minutes without bringing that creep up   :wall. (and I know no one here has) I'm talking about in general  

Denny was good when he tried. Have you guys heard him sing "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away"? Probably his best recorded moment.

Mike wrote it with Paul McCartney and Rengu Starr with Dennis's voice in mind  :)

Dennis's best stuff is usually associated with Mike's writing. What a talent Mike was.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjmITL1qhAQ

Yes he's the one who started this  >:(

Really?  That's awesome.  Mike co-wrote so many Beatles songs, he deserves more credit.

His rendition is beautiful and he would tear the house down with it according to "The Beach Boys In Concert" book  ;D

Mike does deserve more credit. I spend as much as possible on this board going from thread to thread telling everyone how good he is. If I don't do that, he might not get the Love at large he desrves  :)

Love and Love,
SIPM

Nope.
John Lennon wrote the whole song by himself at his home, and the song was inspired by Bob Dylan.

Nice try, SIP Mike  :lol

Think about it.  The song is called You've Got to Hide Your LOVE Away.  Mike's last name is LOVE.  Coincidence?  WAKE UP, AMERICA!

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All I Want To Do.

All I Want To Do.

it's clear now people are starting to hop on the bandwagon  ::).....

Don't worry I like Never Learn Not To Love.

It's pretty clear that hope for All I Want To Do to make it past this round is going down the drain.
In a most likely vain attempt to save this song, I change my vote from the horrendous Do It Again to Cottonfields

YOU AIN'T GOT TIME FOR DIAMONDS AND YOU PAY NO MIND TO GOLD  :rock.....

mm hmm yea ok  ::)

Cotton Fields. Does almost nothing for me.

Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song)

already ahead of you buddy  ;)

For the third time BE WITH ME.

Also this thread would be more fun if some posters just accept that not everyone loves every single song Dennis ever wrote. I personally don't think he wrote a great song until Celebrate the News, before that his stuff was middling at best.

True. To me Celebrate the News is dull and boring.

:wall we've both made it clear more than once that that's not our angle 

To some people, Ignorance is bliss

I know right and I bet you, knowing some of these people "Do It Again" is gonna win  ::)

That or Cabinessence or I Can Hear Music.
I'd vote for Be With Me to win, but if it doesn't make it I'll vote for I Can Hear Music

Cotton Fields

we think so much alike I was gonna do the exact same thing  ;D.  I think it's terrible that Gabo started this whole thing with that horrible comment and we're the ones getting all the heat  >:(

Exactly!
So far hope is not lost.
All I Want To Do is ahead of Cottonfields by one vote.
There's still a chance that it'll make it to the finals!!!   :o

That's the best thing I've read all night  :-D

Cottonfields.

Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song)

All I want To Do.

I love Dennis but this and Got To Know The Woman are among my least favourite of the group's tracks. Personally I think he (and the other writers in the group) should have just left the balls-out-rocker genre alone.

retro/messofhelp

I am going to have to politely ask you guys to accept that people have different opinions and by their very nature as opinions they are neither right nor wrong. Others like different stuff than you. Deal with it.

It's a huge drag to count votes and have to wade through your excessive back and forth. Discussion of the tracks is ok, but not to the point where you are monopolizing the thread.

I know you are both new here and your exuberance is o.k. Just rein it in a bit, ok?

All I want to do.

Be with Me

As a relative newbie to the 1968-73 material, I actually like All I Want To Do. There are better songs in the world, but I dig the "OMG this is the BBs?" shock of it, and Mike's vocals are pretty cool.

Cotton Fields

All I Want To Do.

Never Learn Not to Love--nothing to do with Manson, just not my fave tune

I'm not new...

Hate to vote for it but "cotton fields"

I understand you and I can respect other people's opinions but when they start attacking him using Brian songs as weapons like Gabo did (the guy that started this whole thing) that's the kind of stuff I was talking about.  Denny looked up to Brian and stood by his side and when Brian took a downward spiral it was Denny who really stepped up musically and some people on this board seems to have forgotten that  :-\

July 2013 is new. Not December 2013 new.

You are new.

Now... the length of your membership isn't at issue here. The issue is spamming my thread. So just apologize for helping to make this last update a HUMONGOUS PAIN IN THE NECK for me and be on your way.  ;D

Exactly! I say blame Gabo.
Virtually everywhere I see him, he trashes Denny's work!
Rarely I see him say something good about his songs
Little Bird, NLNTL and possibly Forever aside, he generally takes pleasure in what he's doing.
Yet we're the ones people complain about....

You don't know Gabo in real life. He is an anonymous guy on the internet who is entitled to his opinion, so long as he isn't breaking any rules. If you are going to spend much time here your skin needs to get a helluva lot thicker. Again, deal with it somewhere else. Don't clog up my thread with useless smilies and argumentative banter. Keep it constructive. Don't feed the trolls. etc....

Gabo's opinions don't clog my thread with spam. Move on.

6 months isn't that new in my book.
But in this case people have a difference of opinions.
I apologize for "spamming" on this thread.

P.S. At least we were having a discussion directly related to this thread, instead of starting a new topic or talk about/spam completely unrelated stuff.
In no way Retrokid and Myself are trolls. If you do think that I apologize, and please don't be misunderstood.

Look, you don't have to defend Dennis - that's not your job.

Just let it go.

Me too....... :-\

Tip of the hat to pixletwin for keeping these survivors going, must be a pain in the neck tallying the votes

We know we don't "have to" I felt the need to because he gets the short end of the stick quite a lot regarding his music.  and I'll be ready to do it again if I need to, but I don't want to ruin this guy's thread because he's right it wasn't intended for this  :-\

Quit posting about it then. This spamming is pissing me off.

You don't need to respond.

Vote,  say your peace, and go off somewhere else. Come back for the next round. That is how this works.

I'm surprised you would even care about what goes on in the Survivor threads.
You never even participate lol


Just about to say that.
Plus Dennis is dead. Someone has to defend him, he can't defend himself anymore.

Anyway enough with the discussion. Let's just go back to how Pixletwin wants the Survivor threads to be, which was frankly far more peaceful

Let's face it, when Dennis first started writing, some of his stuff was very much in the 'oh look Ringo has wrote a song, how cute' vein. It's obvious that his Friends/20/20 songs are not going to outlast the best of what Brian was still producing during this period. Dennis upped his game considerably from Sunflower onwards and I expect once the 70s album threads start the voting will reflect this.

I can understand where you're coming from but when Gabo made that comment on the Friends thread, he wasn't so much attacking the song "Be Still" he was attacking Dennis himself which is what started this whole thing.  But we said we would leave this alone, I don't wanna cause anymore problems for Pixletwin  :-\

Yeah, Gabo started this whole mess. He does this all the time, in fact there's a whole list of threads where he's said similar stuff


I dunno about that. I for one love his songs from the Friends/20/20 era. Be With Me is a masterpiece, All I Want To Do is such a great song to dance to, Never Learn Not To Love is interesting and unique, Little Bird and Be Still are both beautiful and amazing considering they are his first compositions.
The only Denny tracks I don't care for much during that period is Mona Kana, and Celebrate The News.
I feel bad for Dennis that the band treated him like that and was always under-appreciated in his own band.

Now I'm going to shut my mouth. No doubt Pixletwin is already sick of this discussion, and I have no intention of pissing him off further

Are you two going to vote your least faves or what?

We already did...
Retrokid voted for Cottonfields.
I voted for Do It Again, then changed my vote to Cottonfields in an attempt to save All I Want To Do

We already voted for Cotton Fields

If by "started this whole mess" you mean stated his opinions on music (that's the point of these rounds...) he has done nothing wrong. I'm enjoying these survivor threads because I get to see how my opinions relate to those of other hardcore fans. It's interesting to me when opinions differ, and I imagine other feel similarly.
Hopefully none of the other threads will be mucked up by this and we are able to get to every album. It would be a disappointment to stop before TWGMTR.

He was attacking Dennis himself not his song so much it was on the Friends thread

+1
BTW if you think what Gabo says about Dennis is horrible, then you should see what he has to say about Blondie and Ricky  :o

That's why we got mad cuz he was completely out of line  :-\

Agreed. Just don't see how so many people can't realize that, even though Gabo does it all the time.

No Offence, but in all seriousness we really have to shut up. Pixletwin is furious enough as it is against us, we don't want to make him more mad

Please, I say this with the utmost sincerity and kindness -

SHUT THE HELL UP

Cottonfields

 :thumbsup

Retro, I have reported your post. If you don't just learn to stop those fingers of yours from compulsively going clickety clack here in my thread, I am not going to count your thoughts in the game. You are coming off as this games first troll. I don't want you to post in this thread again until the next tally. Consider yourself on probation as far as I'm concerned.

Retrokid and messofhelp101. Pixletwin asked you twice (or even 3 times) to stop derailing the thread. You both made your point. Time to move on now, or start a new topic. This one is mainly about voting.

Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song)

Thank you.  :3d

I will be tallying at 11 am PST. Get those votes in!!!

All I want to do.

it's a tie between All I Want to Do and Cotton Fields.

Next new vote for either of those and I will declare it the winner.

all i want to do

20/20 is the fifteenth studio album by American rock group the Beach Boys, released on February 10, 1969 and their last studio album released with Capitol Records that contained new material for the next seventeen years. Produced by the Beach Boys, the album includes songs that span across variety of different genres including hard rock, country and psychedelic pop. The lead single "Do It Again" was the band's first attempt at revisiting the surf sound they abandoned eight albums prior and it charted at number one on the UK and Australian charts.

20/20 got its name from being the Beach Boys' twentieth album release when compilations were included in the tally. A collage inside the gatefold depicts Brian Wilson behind an eye examination chart as a play on the title. It reached number three in the UK and number 68 in the US.

All I Wanted To Do is to get voted off!  >:D (http://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/images/smilies/survivor.gif)

VOTE OFF YOUR LEAST FAVORITE TRACK!!!

I'll tally on January 9th

Do It Again
I Can Hear Music
Be with Me   
Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song)
I Went to Sleep
Time to Get Alone
Never Learn Not to Love
Our Prayer
Cabinessence

Round#1 - Bluebirds Over the Mountain January 3
Round#2 - The Nearest Faraway Place January 5
Round#3 - All I Want to Do January 7

My least favorite is... Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song).

Cotton Fields again

Never Learn Not to Love

Never Learn Not to Love

Never Learn Not To Love

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_m53-YPIVE84/TJluCYDFX6I/AAAAAAAAIys/Ar3QX84ZoEw/s1600/DSC_0125.JPG)

(http://southernnationalist.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Cotton-field.jpg)

Never learn not to love

I went to sleep

This is a close one but I'll go with Never Learn Not To Love this round.

Cotton Fields

Our prayer

Be with Me

You seem unsure.

Goddamnit. It was so close, too!

Cotton Fields

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.......Cotton Fields........:-X

Cotton Fields. 

I Went to Sleep

Cotton Fields

These votes for "I Went to Sleep" are making me uneasy.

I go with "Cotton Fields."

Cotton feels

'Never Learn Not To Love'

Be with me

I Went to Sleep

Never Learn Not to Love

Cotton Fields. Half-assed cover of a song that doesn't fit the band very well.

 Never Learn Not to Love

Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song)

Cotton Fields, especially since there's a better version out there.

Just Wondering, will the single version of Cottonfields be on the Sunflower Survivor round?

I think it should because:
1st. It's different enough from the original
2nd. It was originally on the European version of Sunflower anyway

Nope.......

Care to explain why?
I think I made a good point on why it should

It's not a sunflower track. Simples.

On the European version it is.
It's the opening track on the European version

So?

The European tracklisting of Sunflower is just as important as the North American tracklisting.
Besides, I don't see how you can choose against putting the single version on

I tire of your barking little puppy dog. Your vote is no longer valid in this thread. I'm a afraid I can't respect your opinion anymore in this thread.

I've been voting from the very beginning! I haven't missed a single round!

What can I do to change your decision?

I haven't chimed in much on these Survivor threads but in his instance I think he single version of Cottonfileds needs somehow to be taken into account on the upcoming Sunflower thread. For tens of thousands of European buyers this is how Sunflower was presented to them. It wasn't a bonus track, it was part of the core album.

This area would be even more interesting if it was the Beatles' albums under debate: US or UK originals?!?!?!

There really needs to be a Survivor Thread for the non-album singles

It'd have to be the UK versions of course, as they're the albums as the Beatles - and not some US record company - intended.

Pixeltwin: It's a bit mean 'banning' someone from voting just because they ask a perfectly reasonable question about Cotton Fields. The guys new and excited and into talking about the Beach Boys - cut him some slack. No need for I'm-so-superior 'barking little puppy' comments - you're not a moderator.

Anyway... Cotton Fields

Start with using PMs to persuade Pixletwin of your eligibility rather than clogging the board.

These threads are Pixletwin's gigs and He has my support to run them how he sees fit.  P has done a great job; off his own bat, and put up with some purile demands/requests to date.

I've enjoyed voting since round 1, but the last round or two are draining my easy going live and let live disposition.

I think the argument to include Cottonfields because it was on the initial '70s UK (non-warner) is kinda flaky, given the subsequent reissues of the standard line-up on vinyl and CD several times since 71.

I know, but I don't think Pixletwin should have banned me because I was saying Cottonfields deserves to be on the Sunflower survivor contest.
I think he went a bit too far, I did nothing wrong this time!  >:( :'(

I don't think it is. The domestic versions of any artist's albums are usually seen as the "definitive" ones. Just like the UK and not the US versions of the early Beatles LPs are seen as the "real" versions. And besides that, has any post-1970 reissue of Sunflower ever included Cottonfields? I think that, like others have suggested, non-album singles should have their own thread.

Anyway, I vote for Cottonfields. Because the single version is much, much better and I never cared a whole lot for the song anyway.

Maybe so, but is that enough for a ban?

Don't ask me, I didn't ban you.

Okay, please stop the side discussion on this. If pixletwin decides not to add Cottonfields to the tracklist of Sunflower so be it, even if many fans would like to see it happen. And indeed, although the original US version doesn't contain the single version, the original Sunflower releases almost elsewhere in the world, (not just Europe) did, on the Stateside label.  Afaik every Stateside release contained Cottonfields, one can savely assume Cotton Fields was added to the tracklist. So one can argue about it. But please don't make this a too big a point please.

Btw no-one was banned, and pixletwin cannot ban anyone, at the very most ignoring, and there's no boardrule against that.


But I do have one point  that I don't like:


The first remark isn't necessary at all, and not accepted on this board, even if you have a valid reason not to like someone else's behaviour. Personal stuff goes to PM's.

So in this case:
@ pixletwin: calm down
and @ messofhelp101: let it rest

I totally understand, and I'll just leave it at that.
But I'm still deeply upset, and I'd like Pixletwin not to ban me from voting

Agreed - I love the single version but the 20/20 one just feels half-baked in comparison.


Sorry SmileHolland, but just out of curiosity, are you suggesting the band had a hand in adding Cottonfields to the tracklist of Sunflower, or was this purely a decision by the label? I much prefer the European running order (completele with switcharound) and would love to know if the band had any input in this.

Be With Me.

Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song)

Cottonfields

Good question... and I can't confirm that the group had no say in it.

If I try to reconstruct the situation at the time:
- The BB got a deal with Warner Brothers
- For whatever reason their first album on Brother/Reprise (Sunflower) could not be released on that label outside the U.S. (even in 1971 outside the U.S. Surf's Up was released on Stateside)
- Except for the U.S Cotton Fields became a big hit everywhere around the world.
- Warner was able to make a deal with Stateside for releasing / distributing it on their label worldwide.

And from then on 2 scenario's are possible:

1. Stateside - seeing the potential of a good selling album which included a big hit - requested that Cotton Fields was part of the deal. And this was agreed on by either only Warner, or both Warner and the BB
2. Stateside was asked (by Warner?, The BB?, both?) to add Cotton Fields to the line-up.

At first thought I’d say the first option is more plausible, but who knows.

By the way, this still leaves the questions:
- In which way was Capitol involved in this? (Cotton Fields after all was released as their last Capitol single)
- Why did they also switch Deirdre and Got To Know The Woman in the line-up?



And a last note for the real fanatics: in a few countries (f.e. The Netherlands, and Germany) Cottonfields was released a year earlier by Capitol with a different B-side (Time To Get Alone), and that version of Cottonfields was the first one (from 20/20).
 

Cotton fields, will be history soon. Proceed!

Mess, you are not banned.

No we are not including Cotton Fields with Sunflower.

Yes we are going to have a thread (similar to the Christmas thread) for non album tracks. I've mentioned that before in multiple survivor threads. I'm just not sure how I am going to execute it.

I was a bit peeved that mess wanted to have another irrelevent discussion in a survivor thread. He was pressing the matter and the whole conversation was starting to feel like a derail to me. He wouldn't take no for an answer and seemed to want to press the issue until I relented. That is why I brought up that I was going to ignore his posts if he didn't cool down.

Good? Can we move on now?

VOTE!!!!

Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song)

Tally is coming at 12 pm PST.  :o

20/20 is the fifteenth studio album by American rock group the Beach Boys, released on February 10, 1969 and their last studio album released with Capitol Records that contained new material for the next seventeen years. Produced by the Beach Boys, the album includes songs that span across variety of different genres including hard rock, country and psychedelic pop. The lead single "Do It Again" was the band's first attempt at revisiting the surf sound they abandoned eight albums prior and it charted at number one on the UK and Australian charts.

20/20 got its name from being the Beach Boys' twentieth album release when compilations were included in the tally. A collage inside the gatefold depicts Brian Wilson behind an eye examination chart as a play on the title. It reached number three in the UK and number 68 in the US.

Gonna jump down, turn around, vote of Cotton Fields. Gonna Jump down turn around, vote off Cotton Fields today! (http://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/images/smilies/survivor.gif)

VOTE OFF YOUR LEAST FAVORITE TRACK!!!

I'll tally on January 11th

Do It Again
I Can Hear Music
Be with Me   
I Went to Sleep
Time to Get Alone
Never Learn Not to Love
Our Prayer
Cabinessence

Round#1 - Bluebirds Over the Mountain January 3
Round#2 - The Nearest Faraway Place January 5
Round#3 - All I Want to Do January 7
Round#4 - Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song) January 9

My least favorite is... Be With Me.

B w/me

Never Learn Not to Love

Never Learn Not to Love

This is where it gets difficult for me.  Do It Again.

Be With Me

Be with Me

Our Prayer. Doesn't sound as good as the Smile version.

Be With Me.

You're right! This is the one with the overdubs! I change my vote:

Replace

with

Our Prayer

Our Prayer--I know 20/20 is a hodge lodge and it works, but using the intro to SMiLE as the next to last track of 20/20 feels like too much of an after thought. Plus I don't like the overdubs

STILL 'Never Learn Not To Love'....go away, song!! :)

All good tracks IMO, but I'll go with Never Learn Not to Love.

Never Learn Not to Love

Never Learn Not to Love

Never Learn Not To Love

Now that we have the Cotton out of our ears, I can move on...

Be with me

Our Prayer

Be With Me

Never Learn Not to Love

Never learn

Never Learn Not To Love. 

Never Learn Not to Love

Vote off Be With Me, then I can stop having to type it every fucking round.

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Can't believe Never Learn Not To Love is getting so many votes! Honestly, what did Charles Manson ever do to deserve such hostility??

Seriously though, it's one of the best songs on the album...

My vote goes to Do It Again - it's amazing of course, but I've got to vote for something...

Agreed!

Our Prayer.  >:D

its a footnote, not a song. (dons flame-proof suit)

After this round I am gunning for the two SMiLE tracks.  ::)

Agree with you. DIA is a retro-themed hark back to the sun an surf days the guys had left behind them, and the subtle start of the slow train back to the hits machine.  Love the song but that's how I see it.

Never Learn Not To Love/Cease to Resist/Cease to Exist – whatever you call it – is terrific.  Another example of Dennis taking another's good works and turning it into something extraordinary.

I vote for DIA and reluctantly hope it goes MIA.

Be With Me

Dennis' arrangement for Never Learn Not To Love is far and away the best thing he had done up until that point. I'd put it in the top 3 20/20 songs.

Never Learn Not to Love

Be With Me

I Went to Sleep

Be With Me, I think.

I love Never Learn Not To Love, and
don't give a sh*t about the CM connection.
Will be a little sad to see it go.

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Time got away from me today. I'll update tomorrow folks.

Sorry.  :'(

 I will never forgive you for this!

 ;D

20/20 is the fifteenth studio album by American rock group the Beach Boys, released on February 10, 1969 and their last studio album released with Capitol Records that contained new material for the next seventeen years. Produced by the Beach Boys, the album includes songs that span across variety of different genres including hard rock, country and psychedelic pop. The lead single "Do It Again" was the band's first attempt at revisiting the surf sound they abandoned eight albums prior and it charted at number one on the UK and Australian charts.

20/20 got its name from being the Beach Boys' twentieth album release when compilations were included in the tally. A collage inside the gatefold depicts Brian Wilson behind an eye examination chart as a play on the title. It reached number three in the UK and number 68 in the US.

Never Learn Not to Vote off a song by one of THE FAMILY!!!!  (http://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/images/smilies/survivor.gif)

VOTE OFF YOUR LEAST FAVORITE TRACK!!!

I'll tally on January 14th

Do It Again
I Can Hear Music
Be with Me   
I Went to Sleep
Time to Get Alone
Our Prayer
Cabinessence

Round#1 - Bluebirds Over the Mountain January 3
Round#2 - The Nearest Faraway Place January 5
Round#3 - All I Want to Do January 7
Round#4 - Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song) January 9
Round#5 - Never Learn Not to Love January 12

My least favorite is... Our Prayer. Fish out of water track - I don't like the overdubs.

Our Prayer

Our Prayer

Jesus...all the songs left are stellar. But...'Our Prayer'.

Our Prayer

 :'( :P

 :'( :'(

You guys just had to vote of Never Learn Not To Love

Charles Manson is rolling around in his cell  >:D :lol

Jokes aside, it is a underrated song, and I'm pretty sad to see it go this early

same :(

Here we go again. Voting for the same frickin' song I have been voting for since the beginning of the 20/20 round!!!

Our Prayer

When 20/20 came out, Our Prayer would have sounded straight from heaven and blown the minds of a fan or two - I'll bet.

Be with me

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Be With Me

It's funny. Good Vibrations on Smiley Smile bugs me because it's entirely out of step with the feel of the album... but 20/20 is such an eclectic mix, Our Prayer being there doesn't bother me at all... and to my ears, sounds wonderful no matter where it pops up. I guess I'm just not much of a purist about these things.

Be With Me

I Can Hear Music.

Do It Again

Our Prayer

Our Prayer

Do It Again

Easy for now...OUR PRAYER

Be With Me.

Our Prayer

Be With Me

Dia.

Our Prayer

Blasphemy!  :p

I went to sleep

Our Prayer

I Went to Sleep

Do It Again - it was far too soon to be doing it again, they should have still been doing it

OUR Prayer

Cabinessence

I Went to Sleep

Our prayer

  I Went to Sleep. Very surprised to see Prayer getting so many votes.

Be With Me

Tally coming up at 11 am pst.  :o

I went to sleep

20/20 is the fifteenth studio album by American rock group the Beach Boys, released on February 10, 1969 and their last studio album released with Capitol Records that contained new material for the next seventeen years. Produced by the Beach Boys, the album includes songs that span across variety of different genres including hard rock, country and psychedelic pop. The lead single "Do It Again" was the band's first attempt at revisiting the surf sound they abandoned eight albums prior and it charted at number one on the UK and Australian charts.

20/20 got its name from being the Beach Boys' twentieth album release when compilations were included in the tally. A collage inside the gatefold depicts Brian Wilson behind an eye examination chart as a play on the title. It reached number three in the UK and number 68 in the US.

AHHHHH WHOOOOOOOOOO (voted me off) AHHHHHHH HMMMMMMMMMM (http://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/images/smilies/survivor.gif)

VOTE OFF YOUR LEAST FAVORITE TRACK!!!

I'll tally on January 16th

Do It Again
I Can Hear Music
Be with Me   
I Went to Sleep
Time to Get Alone
Cabinessence

Round#1 - Bluebirds Over the Mountain January 3
Round#2 - The Nearest Faraway Place January 5
Round#3 - All I Want to Do January 7
Round#4 - Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song) January 9
Round#5 - Never Learn Not to Love January 12
Round#6 - Our Prayer January 14

My least favorite is... Do It Again. A strong track, but there are little goodies in the others that I love more.

Cabinessence

Be With Me

 >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(

 :angry :angry :angry


 :'(

Cabinessence

Be With Me.

Do It Again

VERY, VERY reluctantly..... 'Cabinessence'.

Be With Me

Be with Me

Be with me

I Went to Sleep

Be With Me

Be With Me!

All remaining are great.  My vote is for Do It Again, if only for giving Mike confidence to  go back to the oldies.

I'll go with Do It Again

Be with me

Still easy.  What's left is Cake, just White/Hazelnut filling Birthday Cake.  My next slice is...

Sorry... has to be I Went To Sleep

Stop that.

Try saying that when you have to vote for the same bloody track during the whole 20/20 round!  :lol

Hell, even Mike's Beard got to vote for something else at the first round before consistently voting for "Be With Me" (Much as I love that song)!

I went to sleep

Copy and paste, my friend. Hell, I kept voting for 'Never Learn Not To Love' until it finally went away...typed it in each time. No biggie.

Be With Me

Be with Me

I Went to Sleep

set Be With Me free

do it again

Do It Again

Do It Again

‍

Be With Me.

Shockingly I'm going to say Be With Me.

:o :o :o

Do It Again

Be With Me

Be with Me 

Tally coming in about 2 hours.  :o

Do It Again

20/20 is the fifteenth studio album by American rock group the Beach Boys, released on February 10, 1969 and their last studio album released with Capitol Records that contained new material for the next seventeen years. Produced by the Beach Boys, the album includes songs that span across variety of different genres including hard rock, country and psychedelic pop. The lead single "Do It Again" was the band's first attempt at revisiting the surf sound they abandoned eight albums prior and it charted at number one on the UK and Australian charts.

20/20 got its name from being the Beach Boys' twentieth album release when compilations were included in the tally. A collage inside the gatefold depicts Brian Wilson behind an eye examination chart as a play on the title. It reached number three in the UK and number 68 in the US.

You Can Only Be With Me if you are voted off to Redemption Island. (http://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/images/smilies/survivor.gif)

VOTE OFF YOUR LEAST FAVORITE TRACK!!!

I'll tally on January 18th

Do It Again
I Can Hear Music
I Went to Sleep
Time to Get Alone
Cabinessence

Round#1 - Bluebirds Over the Mountain January 3
Round#2 - The Nearest Faraway Place January 5
Round#3 - All I Want to Do January 7
Round#4 - Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song) January 9
Round#5 - Never Learn Not to Love January 12
Round#6 - Our Prayer January 14
Round#7 - Be with Me January 16

My least favorite is... Do It Again. A strong track, but there are little goodies in the others that I love more.

Cabinessence

Cabinessence

'Cabinessence'

Do It Again.

I Went to Sleep

Do it Again

Do It Again.

Do It Again

I Went to Sleep

Do It Again

This is where things got really difficult.

I Went To Sleep. Sadly.

Time To Get Alone

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Do it Again. That mix is TERRIBLE.

Just say no to fake stereo kids.

Do It Again.  Surprised at the number of votes for CabinEssence.

I literally hoped Be With Me could have made it. For f***'s sake it's the best song off the album, hands down!

And it's pretty damn obvious that I'm still going to vote for:

Cabinessence ONLY because it's not really a 20/20 track

Cabinessence

I Can Hear Music

Do It Again

I Can Hear Music

Wow.. those are all the most classic songs on the album for me..

I say "Time To Get Alone"

Do It Again. Cabinessence may be a Smile track but the stereo mix here is far and away the best version available.

 Time to Get Alone

Cabinessence

I Can Hear Muzak

Do It Again

I Went to Sleep.

Do It Again

I went to sleep

The ones voting for 'Time To Get Alone'....care to step outside?    >:D

Do It Again.

Again.

Do It Again

Cabinessence because I prefer Cabin Essence

  That's what she said.

I'll try to tally these threads tonight in about 10 hours folks.  :3d

DIA

20/20 is the fifteenth studio album by American rock group the Beach Boys, released on February 10, 1969 and their last studio album released with Capitol Records that contained new material for the next seventeen years. Produced by the Beach Boys, the album includes songs that span across variety of different genres including hard rock, country and psychedelic pop. The lead single "Do It Again" was the band's first attempt at revisiting the surf sound they abandoned eight albums prior and it charted at number one on the UK and Australian charts.

20/20 got its name from being the Beach Boys' twentieth album release when compilations were included in the tally. A collage inside the gatefold depicts Brian Wilson behind an eye examination chart as a play on the title. It reached number three in the UK and number 68 in the US.

16 people voted to NOT Do It Again. (http://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/images/smilies/survivor.gif)

VOTE OFF YOUR LEAST FAVORITE TRACK!!!

I'll tally on January 20th

I Can Hear Music
I Went to Sleep
Time to Get Alone
Cabinessence

Round#1 - Bluebirds Over the Mountain January 3
Round#2 - The Nearest Faraway Place January 5
Round#3 - All I Want to Do January 7
Round#4 - Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song) January 9
Round#5 - Never Learn Not to Love January 12
Round#6 - Our Prayer January 14
Round#7 - Be with Me January 16
Round#8 - Do It Again January 18

My least favorite is... Cabinessence.

Cabinessence

'Cabinessence'.

Finally, it's over!

Now I can finally vote for something else!

I Went To Sleep

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I Can Hear Music

I Went To Sleep…

… but his is one of those votes I'd rather not make. Most of 20/20 is outstanding even if he album en lady isn't a cohesive whole. IWTS's production style is very different to TTGA, Cabin etc but is no less wonderful for that. As for Cabin not being a 20/20 track… hmmm, it's on every copy of 20/20 I own and that's where I heard it first…

Time To Get Alone

Cabinessence.

IWTS

I Can Hear Music - man, what a freakin' great song; meaning the remaining trio can only be nothing short of divine, especially the sublime debut of Cabinessence.  Pretty good sh*t from an album of waifs and strays.

Bubbly will kill me for this, but...

I Went To Sleep

I can hear music

I Went to Sleep

I Can Hear Music  :(

Cabinessence

I Went To Sleep

Cabinessence

I Went to Sleep

 Time to Get Alone

Hello,

I would like to cordially invite everyone who has voted or will vote for "I Went to Sleep" to FIGHT ME.

Thanks,
Bubbly Waves

I Went to Sleep

I Went To Sleep.

I Can Hear Music. Sorry Carl.

I Went To Sleep.

Time to Get Alone

I Can Hear Music.   :-\

Cabinessence, by a nose.

I Can Hear Music. no freaking contest.

Do It Again.

You're going to have to vote for another track.
Do It Again is gone

I Can Hear Music.  Not an easy choice.

Cabinessence

I Went to Sleep

I went to sleep

Tally coming in about 3 hours!  :o

i went to sleep

Oops, thanks for the heads up!  I Can Hear Music.

i went to sleep

20/20 is the fifteenth studio album by American rock group the Beach Boys, released on February 10, 1969 and their last studio album released with Capitol Records that contained new material for the next seventeen years. Produced by the Beach Boys, the album includes songs that span across variety of different genres including hard rock, country and psychedelic pop. The lead single "Do It Again" was the band's first attempt at revisiting the surf sound they abandoned eight albums prior and it charted at number one on the UK and Australian charts.

20/20 got its name from being the Beach Boys' twentieth album release when compilations were included in the tally. A collage inside the gatefold depicts Brian Wilson behind an eye examination chart as a play on the title. It reached number three in the UK and number 68 in the US.

I Went To Sleep... sigh...  :'( (http://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/images/smilies/survivor.gif)

Here we are at the final round. VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE TRACK of those remaining.

VOTE FOR YOUR MOST FAVORITE TRACK!!!

I'll tally on January 22nd

I Can Hear Music
Time to Get Alone
Cabinessence

Round#1 - Bluebirds Over the Mountain January 3
Round#2 - The Nearest Faraway Place January 5
Round#3 - All I Want to Do January 7
Round#4 - Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song) January 9
Round#5 - Never Learn Not to Love January 12
Round#6 - Our Prayer January 14
Round#7 - Be with Me January 16
Round#8 - Do It Again January 18
Round#9 - I Went to Sleep January 20

My favorite track is... Time To Get Alone!!!

I Can Hear Music

Time To Get Alone

Malarkey!

Agreed. Very sad about that one.  :'(

Agreed!  >:(

Anyway, it's gotta be 'Time To Get Alone'!

*sniff* I really love 'I Went To Sleep'. This is painful!

Most favorite track: absolutely 'Time To Get Alone'. One of the best songs the band ever did.

Time to Get Alone by a MILE--or kilometer for the rest of the major industrialized world

Cabinessence

forced to choose, i gotta go with Cabinessence

Time to Get Alone

Cabinessence

Cabinessence wins for me, if only for the tag alone.  But I do love Time to Get Alone.

I Can Hear Music

Time to Get Alone

I Can Hear Music

Cabinessence. It doesn't belong on this album, but you can't get a mix anywhere else as good as on here!

  Time to Get Alone

I Can Hear Music

Time To Get Alone

(I like Cabinessence better but I think of it as part of some other project, feels out of place here...)

Been so busy I missed some of the last round...but my favorite is still here waiting.

At this point, it's no contest.

Definitely Cabinessence.

My, my... this this is the hardest one yet. All 3 are so good, although for this album I prefer ICHM and TTGA over Cabinessence as I often forget it's on 20/20...

My vote goes to Time To Get Alone (while hoping for ICHM to be a close follow-up)

Time to Get Alone, which made enough of an impact to frame my username.

Time to Get Alone

cabinessence

Time To Get Alone, only because Cabin Essence is a Smile track to me.

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Time to Get Alone

I Can Hear Music

time to get alone

Time To Get Alone.

Time To Get Alone.

Time to Get Alone (even though it's really a Redwood track, to me…!)

Cabinessence - it's by some considerable distance the best released version of the song, and what a song!

Much as I love TTGA, Cabinessence just has so much power and energy - one of Brian's very greatest.

Cabinessence - you could say it doesn't belong on the album but it's a bit of a ragbag album anyway. And it's a work of genius (the track that is)

I missed a few rounds but for the final

Time To Get Alone. but definitely.

Of the remaining I gotta go with I Can Hear Music.   That middle accapella section rules..

I Can Hear Music

Cabinessence.

I love Time to Get Alone an awful lot, I even culled the footage from An American Band and synched it to a version that incorporates the acapella Hawthorne tag. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVfCHQbdqfQ) But even all that love isn't enough to topple Cabinessence from the peak of Mount Wilsonville for me, it's just an absolutely insane song. The first time I heard all those textures, such as that striking fuzz bass in the chorus, my little mind blossomed - for a good solid three months I just couldn't get over that "boing" backing vocals could be so effective in a song.

Tally at 11 am pst.  :3d

Cabinessence

Crabinessence

Every board I go to it's just Crabs everywhere!

Cabinessence, though TTGA is a close second

20/20 is the fifteenth studio album by American rock group the Beach Boys, released on February 10, 1969 and their last studio album released with Capitol Records that contained new material for the next seventeen years. Produced by the Beach Boys, the album includes songs that span across variety of different genres including hard rock, country and psychedelic pop. The lead single "Do It Again" was the band's first attempt at revisiting the surf sound they abandoned eight albums prior and it charted at number one on the UK and Australian charts.

20/20 got its name from being the Beach Boys' twentieth album release when compilations were included in the tally. A collage inside the gatefold depicts Brian Wilson behind an eye examination chart as a play on the title. It reached number three in the UK and number 68 in the US.

8 People could Hear Music.. not enough to win....  :'( (http://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/images/smilies/survivor.gif)

16 people lit the lamp and fire mellow, but their BB fire was put out....  :'( (http://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/images/smilies/survivor.gif)

22 people voted that it was....


Time To Get Alone will now move to the 16th slot in Super Survivor.


Round#1 - Bluebirds Over the Mountain January 3
Round#2 - The Nearest Faraway Place January 5
Round#3 - All I Want to Do January 7
Round#4 - Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song) January 9
Round#5 - Never Learn Not to Love January 12
Round#6 - Our Prayer January 14
Round#7 - Be with Me January 16
Round#8 - Do It Again January 18
Round#9 - I Went to Sleep January 20
Round#10 - I Can Hear Music January 22
Round#10 - Cabinessence January 22

Thanks for playing. Join us later today for round one of ODDS AND ENDS!!!!!

If Time To Get Alone is better than Cabinessnce than I'm an 18-year old Thai ladyboy.

Still, can't win 'em all. Looking forward to the next round!

I guess most people voted against cabin essence because it's not really a 20/20 track. I did

To me it's not any more of a travesty than Little Bird and Good Vibrations getting ousted when they did.   That being said, I would have been happy with either winner in this battle.

I would have voted against Cabinessence for the same reason if it wasn't the best mix available. The mono version they put on the Smile Sessions box just doesn't sound good, the stereo mix on here sounds wonderful.

How I Can Hear Music - or Be With Me for that matter - was beaten by Time To Get Alone I'll never understand...  :o >:(

I always liked it more. TTGA is one of my top 10 favorite BBs songs. Not one Smile track is in that top ten. Well, maybe 'Surf's Up'.

Yay! What a fantastic song.


Or maybe some just think TTGA is a better song. *shrug*

Agreed with Time To Get Alone. It's a fairly boring, uneventful song. Not bad, but certainly not good.
I think it's blasphemy that I Can Hear Music didn't win!

TTGA is Brian back in full flight after the collapse of Smile and the chill-out of Wild Honey and Friends.

In my humble opinion. I find it an inspiring, spacious piece of work.

It's a beautiful song, melodically, vocally, everything. The vocals in particular are incredible. "Inspiring, spacious piece of work" - good way to put it, John. TTGA and 'I Went To Sleep' capture Brian in that full flight again.

'Cabinessence' is one of my favorite Smile songs too. But TTGA is a bit more grand for me on a heart level. Almost the same way Pet Sounds is over Smile.

TTGA is Brian at his best without a hint of pretension. I also love the backing vocals. "Time... time... time..." it's just as grand s cabinessence, but in it's own way.