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VOTE OFF YOUR LEAST FAVORITE TRACK!!!

Tally on February 13th!!!

Slip on Through
This Whole World
Add Some Music to Your Day
Got to Know the Woman
Deirdre
It's About Time
Tears in the Morning
All I Wanna Do
Forever
Our Sweet Love
At My Window
Cool, Cool Water

My least favorite has got to be the overly saccharine "Deirdre".

At My Window

I'm sorry, I know some love it.

At My Window, no contest at this point!

I actually quite like Deirdre and to an extent, Tears In The Morning!

Tears In The Morning

It's very nicely produced, I really like the accordion, in fact on a Bruce solo album it'd probably be a highlight...

But on Sunflower it sticks out like a sore thumb and is absolutely the weak link of the album.

Got to Know the Woman

Tears

Tears in the Morning

Aw geez I dunno

Tears

Our Sweet Love - real pretty'n'all, but I find myself zoning out

got to know

Tears in the Morning.  I recently re-listened to Sunflower and decided that I don't dislike the song as much as I had previously, but I still don't think it's as good as the other songs on this album.

There are two songs I don't like on this album, and one of them is "Tears In The Morning"

Tears…

At My Window might not be the strongest BBs track in the world but I'd ask those who've already voted for it to listen again, closely… listen to the delivery of "the people must look like miniature toys…"; listen again to "poooof"; and especially listen again to the glorious fade… his is a song packed with intricacies, exquisities and brief brush strokes of utter genius.

Bruce himself has agreed with this opinion, stating that he shouldn't have made it a BB track. That being said I like it more than

Cool Cool Water--in my opinion that last 2 tracks of Sunflower are the weakest. I know I'm on an island with the Cool Cool Water track but its charm was lost on me, and I'm a SMiLE nut

Thankfully we no longer burn heretics… ;D

Tears in the Morning.   :)

Woman for me

Got to know the Woman.  I just get embarrassed listening to it.

Deirdre

More like overly the best song on the album.  :) It's got such a sweet and tender vocal, it's melodic, the sentiment is nice...I dunno, I know most here don't dig it as much as I do, but it's one of my favorite things about the whole catalog, that there's this gem sitting on Track Five of this album.

Least favorite is Cool Cool Water
.

Got to Know the Woman

Cool, Cool Water

My Sweet Love

water

..zzzzzzzzZzzzzzzzzzz....

Every round is going to be tough with this record.

I'm going to go with Tears in the Morning.  I actually like the song quite a bit, but it is a little too wimpy for a BB album.

"Got to Know the Woman."

I love "Deirdre."

Got to Know the Woman

Tears in the Morning.  I don't hate it, but whereas Deirdre is endearingly twee, this one is a little bloated in syrup.

Tears in the morning.

Tears

Got to Know the Woman

 :'( in the morning

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Got to know the womaaaaaaaan. Got to know the womaaaaan.
Got to know the womaaaaaaaan. Got to know the womaaaaan.
Got to know the womaaaaaaaan. Got to know the womaaaaan.

Tears in the morning


God that was easy

Tears in the Morning

Tears in the Morning

  Tears in the Morning    (Not because it is poor, it simply doesn't quite fit in.)

Got To Know the Woman. The only average track on an otherwise superb album.

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Tears

This is going to be tough, this is my all-time favorite album and I love every song on it.

But, anyway: Cool, Cool Water.

Tears in the Morning

Sumahama

Oops, wrong album.


Uhhh - Got To Know The WomAAAAHHHHHHHHHn

Tears in the Morning

I've always thought the continued whole-step jumps in the song to be really cool. Its unusual, in a good way.

I tend to think of sunflower as their most sunshine pop, kitschy album. It's very 70s and a bit sappy here and there but it has a unity to it. It's the whimsical, naively romantic flip side to the dark, morbid Surf's Up. Within this sunshine context Bruce's songs work really well for me and I enjoy them a lot. Macho rocker Got to Know the Woman sticks out like a sore thumb though so it definitely gets my first vote.

Cool, Cool Water

No contest.  Like "Give Peace A Chance" it's a chorus, not a song.  And while the Boys do a much better job here than John did there, it still doesn't work and is in this case, WAY too long.  This is a perfect example of what happens when artists try to please others, rather than themselves.  ::)

I think the album's kitschyness is probably enhanced by the shrillness of the mix. There isn't much in the way of guts in the soundscape, just a whole lotta top end. Steve Hoffman gave a pretty on point rundown last year:

Tears in the Morning

Deirdre

TITM... or CCW

CCW.. or TITM

Tears? Cool Water?  :-\

Aww what the heck, lets pick on Brooth!!

Tears. buh-bye  ;D

Dear god!

My guess is this will come down to This Whole World, Forever, and All I Wanna Do. I will actually be sad if All I Wanna Do gets voted off. None of the results from the others albums have saddened me, but seeing All I Wanna Do lose will make me cry tears.

No, Dear dre

You might well be right… I'm already disheartened though by the lack of love for CCW… that was one of the tracks that hooked me on the BBs in my early fan days…

This Round is going to get heavy on comments.  Already up to three pages.  Woodstock's top three is not mine.  There is only one weak track on Sunflower:

This is rather hard , being my fav BB's album - but sadly 'Woman' gets my vote , got to say great 'feel' drumming on that track

is there another album with such a clear winner and loser?

Tears. dreadful schlock of the highest order

Eh? Clear loser maybe, but I don't see such a clear winner for this album. I think it'll be a very contested vote.

Hard to think of an album with a more obvious most popular track and least popular track than "All Summer Long"

Agreed on the Dennis part. Forever is one of Dennis's and the BB's best songs, but so is Slip On Through and It's About Time, which I both prefer over Forever. Though I would still be satisfied if Forever wins. We'll see what happens

Depending on my mood, I would say the final four tracks of the album could easily win.

That's funny--I prefer the first two tracks of the album--different strokes. It's great to see such a revered album receiving such interest in this Survivor poll

Got To Know The Woman

come and do the chickun? really Dennis?

That's the best line in the song  :lol

 :lol :lol that song for me would've been perfect if it wasn't for that line when I first heard it I went from  :love to  :brow

Yeah, it wouldn't be the same without it!

Seriously though, GTNTW is the weakest Denny track off Sunflower, though it's still better than a few other songs off Sunflower. Can be very repetitive at times.
But it seems as if that people around here don't really care for the BB's efforts on Hard Rock, and it's those efforts that go early. Shame, I really like those efforts

Tally comin' in 3 1/2!  :o

The lyrical content of Dennis's music is really what does him in IMO. Brian's songs are so sensitive and sweet, while Dennis's expresses the ugly, dominating side of masculine sexuality. The protagonists of Brian's songs are the quiet guys afraid to ask girls out, while the protagonists of Dennis's songs wouldn't hesitate to force women into performing.

His music sounds just like the way he looked back in the 70s; hairy and really pretty greasy. Brian's style is just more appealing in the 21st century. Dennis was a man of his times -- macho to a fault. Brian "wasn't made for his times."

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VOTE OFF YOUR LEAST FAVORITE TRACK!!!

Tally on February 15th!!!

Slip on Through
This Whole World
Add Some Music to Your Day
Got to Know the Woman
Deirdre
It's About Time
All I Wanna Do
Forever
Our Sweet Love
At My Window
Cool, Cool Water

Round#1 - Tears in the Morning February 13

My least favorite has got to be the overly saccharine "Deirdre".

Deir deir deir deirdre

Got to know the woman. Has less musical merit than Deirdre

Got To Know The Woman

At My Window

Deirdre

Deirdre

Deirdre? Crazy talk.

There are only two songs I don't like on this album, and the one remaining is Got to know the woman

Got to Know the Woman

"Got to Know the Woman"


"Deirdre" is wonderful!

Got to Know the Woman

Deirdre

Cool, Cool Water.

Dreardry.

Got to know the woman

Got to know the woman.

I love "Deirdre," but will vote it out later.  The track I was referring to "picking on" next is "Add Some Music," a track that's great but weak in this wondrous field of beauty.  Looks like a lot of us are going to be all over the place with our votes.  "Cool Cool Water" - really?  They made this into a perfect track that was little more than a demo or section from the SMiLE sessions.  

Cool Cool Water.

Our Sweet Lard

Got to Know the Woman

Brian was a womanizer too though he just happened to be not so open about it

I'm not surprised.

At My Window

Dierdre

Got To Know The Woman

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Woman!

Deirdre

Deirdre

Got to Know the Woman

At My Window

Got to Know the Woman

I was considering going with At My Window, but it looks like Got to Know the Woman is the only realistic one this round that isn't named Deirdre.  My vote is for Got to Know the Woman, though I do like it.

Changing my vote to Deirdre even though it's my favourite Bruce song off this album.

Got to know the woman

At least his songs weren't about womanizing. I find Dennis's lyrics (assuming he wrote some of them) putrid.

At the same time, Brian wrote Love Is A Woman and Here Comes The Night, but at least those are quirky.

At My Window

Cool, cool water

Brian also wrote Roller Skating Child ("she's a roller-skating child with a ribbon in her hair/she sets my heart beating when I see her there") and Hey Little Tomboy - what a creepy pervert!

Seriously though, like most red-blooded males Dennis loved women and got horny. I'm a Guardian-reading left-wing vegetarian, but I don't have the slightest problem with Dennis singing about girls and sex. Who are you - Mother Theresa?

Anyway, my vote goes to Add Some Music To Your Day. A fine production, with several great moments, but the whole is less than the sum of its parts. It's been described as sounding like an 'ice-cream commercial' - bit unkind, but also fairly near the mark. Without doubt, my second least favourite track on Sunflower.

I completely agree with you, most rock stars then during that time did right about the kind of stuff Denny wrote but since Denny's a BB he doesn't get a pass right?  ???

I now vote for Deidre

Not to mention Smart Girls!
Sure he was under the control of Landy at the time, but still...

Got to Know the Woman

Cool, Cool Water

Subtract Some Music.

its not going to make the finals anyway and I feel like doing something different than the crowd!  :p

Deirdre

  Our Sweet Syrupy Love

I've held off on voting this round because I like all the remaining tracks too much.  It looks like I'll have to vote for Deirdre, even though I like the song, as a last-ditch effort to try to save Got To Know the Woman.

I have to give my vote for this album. I'll do my best to protect At My Window, Brian's French is so memorable ! The weakest remaining track is for me
 GTKTW.

Got To Know The Woman

Its About Time

Sorry for the delay in the tally. Bizzy weekend.  :o


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VOTE OFF YOUR LEAST FAVORITE TRACK!!!

Tally on February 19th!!!

Slip on Through
This Whole World
Add Some Music to Your Day
Deirdre
It's About Time
All I Wanna Do
Forever
Our Sweet Love
At My Window
Cool, Cool Water

Round#1 - Tears in the Morning February 13
Round#2 - Got to Know the Woman February 17

My least favorite has got to be the overly saccharine "Deirdre". Stillllllllll......

It's about time now it's about time now

Add Some Music to Your Day

At My Window is gorgeous :'(

Cool, Cool Water.

At My Window

It's About Time

At My Window

At My Window

It's about time

.....At My Window  >:D

At My Window

Dreiry

Deirdre

Add Some Music To Your Day

Great production, average song.

Deirdre

I liked Got To Know The Woman...

At My Window

Slip on Through. You're too harsh on AMW, if it were just me it would have made the final round.

Deirdre

  Switching to "At My Window" this round.

Deirdre

It's kind of sad to see all these votes for ATW.

At My Window, just because I want to see Deirdre live another round.

Our Sleep Love

dear dre

It's About Time

Deirdre

Add Some Music to Your Day  :(

Cool Cool Water

It's About Time. Too "70s rock" for me. I prefer 60s pop.

Deirdre

....this was the 70s  :-\

I'd say it's more late-60's early 70's rock.
Had it been released as a single, it would have been a success for the Beach Boys. A massive success.
Hell, it's the best song off Sunflower, hands down IMHO!

Deirdre

Cool, Cool Water

Add music

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doubtful.


definitely not.

In my opinion, hell yes! Along with Slip On Through, it's the most enjoyable song off Sunflower!
It's About Time deserves to win the Sunflower round, it is that great! Everything about it is awesome and blows away virtually anything else off Sunflower!

Slip On Through >>>>> It's About Time

Both excellent, but I prefer It's About Time just slightly

slightly as in its about time >> slip on through, or iat > sot ?

IAT>SOT

Die Deirdre, Die!

Our Sweet Love

What about those of us who like both Deirdre and At My Window :'(

Add Some Music.

It's about time.

Given the choice of "At My Window" or "Deirdre," to save - cause I love both... You guys have pushed me into a corner.

there's only one best song on Sunflower and it ain't IAT.

add some music - again.

Subtract "Add Some Music"

Deirdre

Too Much Sugar

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VOTE OFF YOUR LEAST FAVORITE TRACK!!!

Tally on February 21st!!!

Slip on Through
This Whole World
Add Some Music to Your Day
It's About Time
All I Wanna Do
Forever
Our Sweet Love
At My Window
Cool, Cool Water

Round#1 - Tears in the Morning February 13
Round#2 - Got to Know the Woman February 17
Round#3 - Deirdre February 19

My least favorite is It's About Time... There is one moment where it sounds like that group "Fourth Dimension" or something from the musical "Hair"... It bugs me.

you mean fifth dimension?

Our Sweet Love

That's the one.  :lol

At My Window

pixeltwin why is this round going so slow, maybe we should be knocking off two at a time?

Add some Music - again and again.

It's About Time we got rid of this one.

Our Sweet Love

Cool, Cool Water.

It does, doesn't it. I think it's because I was supposed to tally on Saturday but I ended not having time until Monday. So that first round just went on and on and on.

At My Window

Add Some Music

It's About Time kicks ass!! The fade - with that awesome guitar riff and Carl's no-holds-barred singing - is just incredible! Wish it went on twice as long.

Our sweet love.
Its a good song, but repetitive.

I'm voting for "At My Window."

I'm a huge fan of "It's About Time" -- like Disney Boy (1985) says, it kicks ass!

You guys are lame.

Cool Cool Water.

This is where it gets really tricky. The remaining tracks are all fantastic!

Our Sweet Love

its about time

Hard seeing superior songs being voted off while the go nowhere Cool Cool Water sticks around--my vote goes to Cool Cool Water…again

Add Some Music. Even though it is catchy it lacks some... Y'know ? Something "grandiose" which have, for me At My Window, Cool water, Forever, Our Sweet Love and of course All I Wanna do.

Add some music

+1!

It's About Time

At My Window

It's About Time

Hogwash!

"It's About Time."

At My Window

It's About Time

  At My Window - close it now

Sorry to see Dierdre go.

Anyway.. It's about time

At My Window

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Add some music

It's about time

Boo, Deirdre is awesome!

At My Window

At My Window

Add Some Music

Our Sweet Love

Becaue too sweet.

Subtract Some Music

Our Sweet Love

I'd vote for Add Some Music, but the "Music, when you're alone" part saves it. That's one of their most gorgeous vocal moments to me.

,,,,,,

Our Sheet Love

Add some music.

This is tough. It's About Time is one of my favorite rockers they layed down while At My Window is a beautiful art piece. Usually, I prefer the art pieces, but I find myself listening to It's About Time more often. I vote off At My Window.

change my vote to At My Window.

Quote your original vote when you change so it's easy on poor old me.

And here's my absolutely pointless vote for Slip On Through

It's About Time.

It's About Time

At My Window

It's a nice song but compared to the rest of the album it's a bit weak.

It's About Time!

Still sitting over in the corner...Waiting to pick on "Add Some Music To Your Day."

pixletwin,  I just got a note that my tribute to Daytona Speedweeks makes my vote unclear...like a car mangled in the ditch.  These Survivor Rounds are No Joke for some of us.  relax, I'm sure he got it.  pixle is very good at this.

At My Window.

Your messages are really hard to read! That yellow gives me a headache.

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It's About Time... this song was voted off. (I know. I went for the obvious).  (http://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/images/smilies/survivor.gif)

VOTE OFF YOUR LEAST FAVORITE TRACK!!!

Tally on February 23rd!!!

Slip on Through
This Whole World
Add Some Music to Your Day
All I Wanna Do
Forever
Our Sweet Love
At My Window
Cool, Cool Water

Round#1 - Tears in the Morning February 13
Round#2 - Got to Know the Woman February 17
Round#3 - Deirdre February 19
Round#4 - It's About Time February 21

My least favorite is SLIP ON THROUGH.

Cool Cool Water

Too bad about It's About Time, one of the most rocking songs they ever did.

At My Window

Can't believe It's About Time is gone.  My vote goes to At My Window

Add Some Music to Your Day

At My Window, much as I like it.

Slip on through.

Why has It's About Time been voted off?

Both At My Window and It's About Time got the exact same number of votes - exactly 14 each.

An honest miscount I hope, Pixeltwin, and not just you opting for your own personal preference (as i notice you yourself voted for IAT in the last round).

It could be that you've counted FeelFlows two multi-coloured posts as two seperate votes, but they're not of course.

Should It's About Time be reinstated? If not, has At My Window any right to still be here?

(If possible, I'd like to officially change my vote in the previous round from Add Some Music to At My Window - thus It's About Time wins by a single vote).

I counted It's About Time at 16 and At My Window at 13.

Here is my tally sheet:

(http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j312/abbalite/335525d9c922c278ae493d910621f876_zpse5dc971c.jpg)

Let me go back through and recount.

Our Sweet Love! Come on gais it's not thaaaat great (despite the production value)!

At My Window

Add some music

Same, it's my favourite song off Sunflower!
How AMW outlasted IAT I'll never understand.

Let's kill At My Window!

I just recounted:

It's About Time - 15 votes
Our Sweet Love - 7
At My Window - 14
Add Some Music - 8
Cool Clear Water - 4
Slip On Through - 1

Anyone want to recount it for me?

(http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j312/abbalite/842eb52957fd8402da058d196bef142b_zpsd0e110f4.jpg)

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I read this vote (since his preceding post was rather overly cryptic) as It's About Time.

Here is my recount:

It's About Time was voted off by: pixletwin, bossaroo, GertieJ, mydrknowsitkeepsmecalm, startbbtoday, bubblywaves, smilethebblovesyou, watchacave, shady, rangerover, FallBreaks, SamBFC, buddhahat, ZiggyStardust, and Feels Flow... 15 smilers.

At My Window was voted off by: MattH, Ovi, Emdeeh, LittleBird, MikeyJ, MoonDawg, woodstock, zachrwolfe, timetogetalone, LesP, MagicTransistorRadio, leggoofmyego, slippingonthrough, and SonoraDick... 14 smilers.

Do you read it the same way, DisneyBoy(1985)?

Our. Sweet. Love.

I guess the results are pretty clear. Massive shame that IAT lost by one vote!

Just hope Slip On Through makes it to the finals instead!

I'm starting to question the voting habits of these early 70's albums so far!

At My Window

At My Window...zzz.... 

How this songs is better than It's About Time I don't know. I guess BB fans just don't like hard rockers. I will be angry as hell if Slip On Through gets voted off, that's my favourite song on this album.

Our Sweet Love

Our Sweet Love

Our Sweet Love

Cool, Cool Water

Our sweet love

sweet love

Add Some Music

I second that. It's something I've noticed here, a lot of BB's fans around here don't like their hard rock songs. Yeah, I was deeply shocked that At My Window of all songs beat It's About Time!

IMHO Slip On Through is the second-best song off Sunflower, and yeah I won't be happy one bit if it doesn't make it to the finals, but I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't.

At My Window

At My Window

what's wrong with BB "rock songs"  ??? It's About Time is way better than my vote for At My Window

Our Sweet Love

FWIW I think It's About Time isn't helped by being sandwiched between Deirdre and Tears in the Morning. Maybe it's just me, but my attention starts to drift around that point in the album, then picks up again with All I Wanna Do.

At My Window

And I still think "It's About Time" is one of the best songs on the album. (Grumble, grumble....)

At My Window

At My Window.

Cool, Cool Water

I've only just woken up, but I read it as 14 each. Hang on...

You're quite right - It's About Time has 15, At My Window has 14.

That's a damn close vote though! You still originally miscounted (with ITA on 16 and AMW on 13) and when the vote is this tight a miscount could make all the difference. I think from now on people should only post one post per round to avoid confusion and preferably avoid writing lengthy cryptic messages. Just say what you're voting off and why.

Add Some Music to Your Day

Our Sweet Love by a fraction.

Slip On Through

Add Some Music

At My Window

At My Window

Disney Boy (1985),  relax.  I made my vote very clear in my second post. very.  You had the opportunity to change your vote before the tally.  I waited late to vote for that very reason.  I would have joined you in voting for "Add Some Music To Your Day," IF it had the votes to go.  It didn't.  There were only two songs in that race.  I even gave a word of caution.  Caution is Not Out!

How much does it matter? If a song is not voted off by one mere vote than the odds are it's going to be voted off in the following round.

You're right Mike's Beard.  Odds are.  "At My Window" is not likely to make the finals.  In fact "It's About Time" is just as good if not better, but neither would/will get much further.  Sometimes I'm surprised though when a track like "Soulful Old Man Sunshine," or "I Do" squeeze through and make the finals.  The way the voting was going in those Rounds didn't point in that direction.

Okay, okay  :p

For now: At My Window.

At My Window

Add Some Music

Cool, Cool Water.

Tally in a few hours.

Add Some Music to Your Day

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18 smilers voted to throw this one out The Window.  (http://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/images/smilies/survivor.gif)

VOTE OFF YOUR LEAST FAVORITE TRACK!!!

Tally on February 25th!!!

Slip on Through
This Whole World
Add Some Music to Your Day
All I Wanna Do
Forever
Our Sweet Love
Cool, Cool Water

Round#1 - Tears in the Morning February 13
Round#2 - Got to Know the Woman February 17
Round#3 - Deirdre February 19
Round#4 - It's About Time February 21
Round#5 - At My Window February 23

My least favorite is SLIP ON THROUGH.

Our Sweet Love

sweet love

Our Sweet Love

Cool, Cool Water.


Once that is gone, I'll vote for Our Sweet Love

Add Some Music to Your Day

Our Sweet Love. A little bland

Our Sweet Love

our sweet love

Cool Cool Water

Cool, Cool Water

Slip

Our Sweet Love

Our Sweet Love

Why so many votes for Our Sweet Love, it's absolutely gorgeous

Cool, Cool Water

Our Sweet Love -- and yes, it is gorgeous.

Cool Water

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Our Sweet Love

Our Sweet Love. Amazing song but the other songs are amazing too.

Our Sweet Love

Cool, Cool Water

Our Sweet Love.

Add Some Music to Your Day.

Slip On Through

Slip On Through. Not as interesting as the remaining tracks  :P

Add Some Music

Add Some Music

Our sweet love

Add some music to your day

Cool Cool Water--surprised by the votes for Slip on Through. Sunflower is the first album I heard from the BB as I started to dig "deep" into their catalogue (going beyond the greatest hits) and Slip On Through is  a great intro track and a warning that this isn't your "mother's Beach Boys"--Cool Cool Water on the other hand is a poorly formed song with basically a chorus and nothing else

Add Some Music to Your Day

"Add Some Music To Your Day"

I think it's a good exercise in atmospheric vocals and sounds. But it's just not a very interesting composition.

So again, my vote goes to Cool, Cool Water.

Im back to pick on 

add sum musick

ADD SOME MUSIC

OUR! SWEET! LOVE!

Add Some Music to Your Day

Slip on through

Add Some Music to Your Day

Add Some Music

It's honestly a tossup for me between Add Some Music and Our Sweet Love.  Both very pretty songs that are perhaps a little too pretty with Sunflower's meaty production.  These are the kinds of songs I think would sound even better on Friends, whereas some of Sunflower's other songs are perfect in the sound in which they were created.  I'll give the vote to Our Sweet Love, if only because I don't think it ever reaches the heights of Brian's section on ASM.

Our Sweet Love

Our Sweet Love

Changing my vote from Cool, Cool Water to Our Sweet Love.

Don't want to see Add Some Music go yet

Our Sweet Love

I don't agree with the tactical voting going on  :-\

Me neither. It defeats the whole point.

Have either of you watched Survivor? That is what it's all about: Tactical voting.... Really I don't think it affects the end result, which is the real point of these threads.  :3d

Oh good lord, please NO rules about changing your vote. This is for fun guys and gals.

Exactly. I wouldn't get overly concerned with the way we get there. Just have fun. The only things that are really going to matter in the end are the tracks that make it to the Super Survivor rounds and Super Looser rounds.

Tally in about 2 1/2 hours.   :o

our schweet luv

Forever

Our sweet love

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Our Sweet Love should last until... round#6.  (http://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/images/smilies/survivor.gif)

VOTE OFF YOUR LEAST FAVORITE TRACK!!!

Tally on February 27th!!!

Slip on Through
This Whole World
Add Some Music to Your Day
All I Wanna Do
Forever
Cool, Cool Water

Round#1 - Tears in the Morning February 13
Round#2 - Got to Know the Woman February 17
Round#3 - Deirdre February 19
Round#4 - It's About Time February 21
Round#5 - At My Window February 23
Round#6 - Our Sweet Love February 25

My least favorite is stillllllll....... SLIP ON THROUGH.

Slip On Through

Add some music

and my least favorite is still Amp Some Musicski

Definitely Add Some Music's time to go, and that has my vote.

You don't like the part where the boys go, "muuuuusic is iiiiiiiiin my sooooooooooul"?

Add Some Music

you typed that real well. I could hear the lyrics in my head!

well you know I want other songs to survive, thats the way the ball bounces.

Slip on through

Cool, Cool Water. Very repetitive, boring and forgetful. And I don't see how that's a better song than the brilliant Add Some Music!

I suggest you check out Steven Desper's study video on Cool Cool Water if you haven't already. I never felt like I appreciated the layers of complexity and beauty until I heard it. It just might be my favorite on the album.

Add Some Music to Your Day

Add Some Music to Your Day

Cool Cool Water

Cool Cool Water

cool cool water. I like the other tracks better.

Slip on thru.

slip

water

Slip On Through - great stuff but up against some really, really sharp competition.

Add Some Music.

Cool Cool Water

I am a huge Survivor fan….I must have missed the episodes where everyone clearly writes down their votes, contestants add the vote tallies, and change votes several times to ensure that a competitor that they like sticks around an extra round--even though they really want someone else gone. Really, these are for fun, and I am NOT advocating creating rules against changing votes, but really, if a track is your least fave it is your least fave--end of story. Vote it off and be done with it, don't sit there counting tallies to "save" a weak track that will ultimately go anyway. It's one thing when pixletwin wants a tie broken at the end, quite another when it is done early to "save" unworthy tracks.

Amen to that.  I always thought it was just a cool-sounding experiment that got kind of dull until the end, but thanks to Desper's study I've never listened to it the same way again.  It's a terrific track, and certainly one of the best on this album (against some pretty stiff competition).

Cool, Cool Water

‍

  This Whole World  :o

CCW is one of the best in their entire catalogue… loved this when I first heard it through my mother's quality hi-fi when I was a kid, as the quality was startling… the hidden background noises had me gaping. It's a close relative of All This Is That, With Me Tonight, You're Welcome, Mama Says etc to my ears… effectively a chant that transports you to another place.  The repetition is deliberate.

Cool Cool Water

Wow!

  Indefensible, I know, but "This Whole World" has fallen out of favor with me the last few years. Don't know why but it has.

Add Some Music to Your Day

Add Some Music to Your Day

Slip On Through

As much as I love it, "Cool, Cool Water."

Water

"All I Wanna Do"

Slip on Through

Cool, Cool Water.

music to your day

Forever.

Add some music

Add some music to your day

Add Some Music

"Add Some Music to Your Day"  Surprised how long this has held on and on and on...

All I Wanna Do, because I really love everything else remaining!

Slip on through

 :'(

Add Some Music

Cool, Cool Water.

Add Some Music

Tally in about 3 hours.  ;D

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VOTE OFF YOUR LEAST FAVORITE TRACK!!!

Tally on March 1st!!!

Slip on Through
This Whole World
All I Wanna Do
Forever
Cool, Cool Water

Round#1 - Tears in the Morning February 13
Round#2 - Got to Know the Woman February 17
Round#3 - Deirdre February 19
Round#4 - It's About Time February 21
Round#5 - At My Window February 23
Round#6 - Our Sweet Love February 25
Round#7 - Add Some Music to Your Day February 27

My least favorite is stillllllll....... SLIP ON THROUGH.

Slip on through

Slip

Slip on Through is awesome!

I vote for All I Wanna Do.

Forever

Slip On Through

Cool, cool water

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Cool, Cool Water

Cool, Cool Water

water

H20

Cool, Cool Water.

Only squares who don't like excellent Beach Boys rockers would vote against Slip On Through!

Cool, Cool Water

Slip On Through ain't going nowhere!

Slip on Through   :(

All I Wanna Do

Slip On Through

All I Wanna Do

Slip On Through

Water

Slip on through (please don't slip on through another round!)

Please tell me you guys are kidding.  :-[

Cool Cool Water

Slip On Through.

However, the acapella version is absolutely outstanding!

I guess it has to be Cool Cool Water for me.

Cool, Cool Water (it's not thaaaaat cool!)

Cool Cool Water. These votes against Slip on Through really surprise me--I can only assume that those voting against the track have not heard or fully appreciated the splendor of the vocals demonstrated on the MiC bonus disk---that or there really IS some anti-Dennis sentiment around here  :police:

And I can only assume those voting for "Cool, Cool Water" have not heard or fully appreciate the splendor of the vocals demonstrated in Stephen Desper's study video.

 Switching to "Cool Cool Water" this round.

Slip On Through

Forever.

True Bubbly--I'll get around to it!

slip

Cool, Cool Water

Forever

True. Even more surprising is that 3 people (so far) would rather inexplicably vote out Forever instead of a song whose time is up, like Cool Cool Water.

And those voting against Slip On Through just don't appreciate the work put in that brilliant song like they do with others

I vote for Slip On Through, because I don't like it as much as the other songs.

Cool, Cool Water.

This Whole World

Forever. I think Slip on Through is the better Dennis song from Sunflower.

I like Forever a lot... until the final verse contradicts the message of the song.

Umm... no it doesn't:

Cool, Cool Water - it ain't much of a gas against this tough competition.

Tough call. All I wanna do

And once again:

Cool, Cool Water.

Come on, it's really not that good...

I don't know how we all managed to get by before we had Rei to tell us which Beach Boys songs to like more than other Beach Boys songs.

On some other album, All I Wanna Do would be my runaway favorite. On Sunflower, which is jammed with fantastic songs, it's a different story.

Slip On Through

Cool, Cool Water

have to give CCW the boot at this point.

 :lol so true.

Cool, Cool Water.

Cool Cool Water

Unless it gets a lot more votes, guess I'll waste mine on a honest answer.  The weakest track left is:

Cool Cool Water

All i wanna do

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VOTE OFF YOUR LEAST FAVORITE TRACK!!!

Tally on March 3rd!!!

Slip on Through
This Whole World
All I Wanna Do
Forever

Round#1 - Tears in the Morning February 13
Round#2 - Got to Know the Woman February 17
Round#3 - Deirdre February 19
Round#4 - It's About Time February 21
Round#5 - At My Window February 23
Round#6 - Our Sweet Love February 25
Round#7 - Add Some Music to Your Day February 27
Round#8 - Cool, Cool Water March 1

My least favorite is stillllllll....... SLIP ON THROUGH.

Slip on Through

At this point, This Whole World.

IMHO, it goes nowhere and the backing vocals sort-of ruin the song for me.

Hope Slip On Through, Forever and by default All I Wanna Do make it to the finals!

My vote is for All I Wanna Do, though I fear Slip on Through WON'T this round

Slip On Through

But these are 4 fantastic songs, it's very hard to choose.

Don't worry. I have hope that the excellent Slip On Through would make it to the finals.

In fact, I'll just be happy if a Denny song wins the Sunflower round. It will definitely make up for the devastating loss of the Odds And Ends Part 3 round!

I can pretty much guarantee you that neither Dennis song will win.

Balderdash! We'll wait and see....

Mama cant you see, my love is growing like a big ol tree.  :afro

Slip on through

All I Wanna Do

Forever.

All I Wanna Do.

All I Wanna Do

Slip on Through

‍

Slip on Through

Slip on Through

Slip

Right, that's it! Changing my vote from This Whole World to All I Wanna Do, in the hope that Slip On Through makes it to the finals!

Slip On Oot

All I Wanna Do.

(Yeah, I voted Forever last round but I've changed my mind).

THIS WHOLE WORLD

These are definitely the four best songs on the album - well played everyone!

I actually prefer Slip On Through to Forever (though they're both awesome) and I prefer All I Wanna Do to This Whole World (though again, both awesome).

So, This Whole World it is.

(My younger self - who had goosebumps all over when he first heard TWW, before playing it on repeat for about a day - will be turning in his grave!)

All I wanna do

Now this is getting REALLY hard.

"Slip on Through"

All I Wanna Do

This Whole World

All i wanna do

Slip on Through

Slip

All I Wanna Do

Slip On Through

Slip On Through.  As much as I love this song, I cannot tolerate All I Wanna Do getting kicked out before the final round.  This Whole World and Forever are beauties as well.

Slip on Through. again.


4 key changes and a lovely bridge in under 2 minutes isn't exactly "nowhere" but to each their own.

all I wanna do

Slip On Through even though it's a great one.

Those are four excellent songs. But the least excellent one is:

Slip On Through.

Slip On Through - easily the weakest here.

Wasn't expecting so many votes for All I Wanna Do.

Slip on Through

Slip on Through

Forever.

Slip On Through by a lot

"Forever"   Though it seems the tribe has voted which is their favorite Dennis track.  And I think "Forever" is beautiful too.

No such thing as a "least" favorite in this group, but I'll vote for "All I Wanna Do."

all i wanna do :'(

All I Wanna Do.

Forever

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VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE TRACK!!!

Tally on March 5th!!!

This Whole World
All I Wanna Do
Forever

Round#1 - Tears in the Morning February 13
Round#2 - Got to Know the Woman February 17
Round#3 - Deirdre February 19
Round#4 - It's About Time February 21
Round#5 - At My Window February 23
Round#6 - Our Sweet Love February 25
Round#7 - Add Some Music to Your Day February 27
Round#8 - Cool, Cool Water March 1
Round#9 - Slip on Through March 3

All I Wanna Do is probably one of my favorite vocals from mike, but I can't say it's my favorite of the remaining 3 tracks.

I love Forever. One of the most distinct Beach Boys songs. But I doesn't float my boat like my favorite remaining track...

...THIS WHOLE WORLD...

 :3d

Damn... I really did hope for Slip On Through to make it  >:(

I suppose at this point it's gotta be Forever. To me it isn't even a contest compared to the other two songs. It's Denny's God Only Knows!

BTW, I know this is supposed to be VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE TRACK  ;) :lol

Do you mean 'Vote For Your Favourite Track'?

If so, my favourite is FOREVER.

All I Wanna Do is really unbelievably great - way ahead of it's time, it sounds as if it could've been recorded yesterday - and This Whole World is melodically perfect, however Forever really is a stone-cold classic! Dennis at his absolute best. Plus the song I'll be playing at my wedding next year... It truly deserves to win this round.

This Whole World

no contest whatsoever.

As much as I love "Forever," I'm going with the song which happens to be my second favorite BB song ever: "This Whole World"!

This Whole World

Yes. Sorry. It's only 12:55 pm here and I am already exhausted! I appreciate keeping me on task.  :3d

All I Wanna Do!!!!!

This Whole World

Forever

All I Wanna Do

All I Wanna Do

This Whole World

This Whole World

FOREVER

Forever

I love all three, they're all among my favorite Beach Boys songs. But my vote goes to:

This Whole World

I write songs myself and I have my creative ups and downs, but this is just one of those songs that always keep inspiring me. Whenever I have a writers block, or I just don't feel like writing new music, listening to these chords and melodies always gives me a goal to aim for.

This Whole World

This Whole World. 

Even though to me the bridge is lyrically weak and out of place compared to the rest, overall it's stunning and I give it the edge over Forever, which is beautiful.

Forever

‍

This Whole World

All I Wanna Do. Its one of my favorite songs of all time, by anyone.

All I Wanna Do by a long, long way. Decades ahead of its time and absolutely perfect. I could get carried away with adjectives that praise the song, though I'd be here for a while...

"This Whole World."  The other two songs are great, too, though.

Forever.

Most definitely All I Wanna Do.  The production never ceases to blow me away.

This whole world (in the absence of CCW)

My favorite track from the album (by a wide margin) is "It's About Time".  I think Eric and I are the only ones around here who really like it.  With it and the others long gone, my vote goes to:

Forever

You, Eric and me. I think It's About Time is bloody great! How anyone cannot like a song with a riff like that or with such a terrific vocal by Carl is a mystery...

It's funny, I was reading through the comments and votes and thinking about which song to vote for (it's a toss up), and I wanted to mention that It's About Time is my favorite track off of sunflower. I was very glad to see it appear twice on Made In California! Before that, it hadn't been on any compilations that I know of, except a promo compilation in 1970 or 1971. I would LOVE to hear this live one day! At an Adam Marsland show, he was taking requests, and without hesitation I requested It's About Time. Unfortunately the band hadn't played that before. I was bummed that it was voted off of here so soon.

So my vote...for more than two decades as a fan, I would never have questioned which of the 3 I liked the best...it would always have been Forever. But  This whole world has grown on me. I used to not understand why everyone made a big deal about it. I'm finally getting it. Although Forever sounds a lot better live than  This Whole World.

My vote is This Whole World, by a very slight margin.

Forever

I sang this song to my wife at our wedding, and then we danced to the original.
Fun fact: I first heard this song on "Full House" when John Stamos sang it at his character's wedding.  Separately, I loved the Beach Boys' hits.  It wasn't until years later when I ventured deeper into the BB catalog that I realized who "Forever" was originally by...boy, was I surprised! :)

(Ah heck, here's the video link if you happen to feel like gettin' sappy.  Skip to about 4:20 to hear my live wedding version. :) http://vimeo.com/62524046 (http://vimeo.com/62524046) )

Hey don't exclude me! It's About Time is a masterpiece and is easily the best song off Sunflower IMHO. It's a damn disgrace that it went so early, it may be the Beach Boy's all-time best rocker, better than even the likes of All I Want To Do and YNAMOHTSA.

And it's also a damn disgrace that Forever isn't getting as much votes as hoped for!

Forever! 

My all time favorite BB song, in fact my all time favorite song by anybody.  Played on piano during my wedding ceremony 40 years ago (gasp!) this month!

Forever - come on Dennis, come on my son!

This is a very tough one for me.  I really love This Whole World.. so much magic happens in under 2 minutes.  

However, Forever is SO pretty.  Especially the acapella version on Hawthorne.  The harmonizing bit at the end with Brian and Mike always gets me.

So anyway.. Forever gets my vote.

I don't think Mike is on the song. I believe I read somewhere that it's the Wilsons only on the vocals.

This Whole World

Have you heard the acapella version?  I'd be shocked if that wasn't Mike on the bass parts.

This Whole World

The Whole Earth Catalog

The Whole Enchilada

Gaia Completeticus

Every Little Bit of the Third Stone From the Sun

 ;D ;D ;D

Forever

Very tough to choose between All I Wanna Do and This Whole World. All I Wanna Do may be Mike's finest hour but Brian's This Whole World just pips it.

All I Wanna Do!!!!!

It's a sign of just how great Sunflower really is that so many people are picking a different favourite! What an album!

add me too  :-D

Extremely tough choice, but It's gotta be This Whole World.

Forever

forever

This Whole World

All I Wanna Do

Seems like BBS#20 lasted forever, didn't it?  ;D

Tally in 4 hours.

The 1970's...for me the last Great decade in music.  Sunflower stands with the best.  The Beach Boys, all of them, became a real band.  Together, sharing the spotlight.  With Brian in full support mode.

WE HAVE ARRIVED AT THE END OF BEACH BOYS SURVIVOR #20!!!


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16 smilers voted for Forever.  (http://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/images/smilies/survivor.gif)

AND THE WINNER OF SURVIVOR # 20 WITH 21 VOTES IS...


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Round#1 - Tears in the Morning February 13
Round#2 - Got to Know the Woman February 17
Round#3 - Deirdre February 19
Round#4 - It's About Time February 21
Round#5 - At My Window February 23
Round#6 - Our Sweet Love February 25
Round#7 - Add Some Music to Your Day February 27
Round#8 - Cool, Cool Water March 1
Round#9 - Slip on Through March 3
Round#10 - All I Wanna Do March 5
Round#10 - Forever March 5

Next 3 round will start today!!!

Great song but "all I wanna do" is a far better one

Shame on you all  ;D

I vacillate back and forth. Some days I agree with you that All I Wanna Do is the best song. I especially love the shimmery effects on the vocals.

Thanks for sharing this most personal link. It's nice to see Smiley Smilers in a more human context. Nice pipes, too. Congrats on your recent wedding (still recent you're under 1 year!)

Shame that Forever didn't win, especially after the tragedy of the Odds And Ends Part 3 round.

So now that's 2 out of 3 of the albums that Dennis dominates but didn't win. The others are 20/20 and L.A. Light Album.

Hopefully Denny will win the third one. Hopefully...

....yea.... I thought it was agreed by the majority that the 70s was considered Denny's decade (at least the first half of it).  Forever is the song that really proved that he had arrived  :-\. *shaking my head* o well

I will be surprised if he doesn't win L.A.'s.   However, when it comes to Dennis' work so far to me Little Bird's early ousting is the most surprising.

I forgot to specify how many votes went to This Whole World.

21.

Forever lost by 5 votes.

Same. But what if people would want to vote for Good Timin' instead of Denny's last masterpieces?

It's a crushing disappointment that first - Denny's Surf's Up - WIBNTLA lost to Breakaway. And now - Denny's God Only Knows - Forever lost to This Whole World!

To Retrokid, I'd say the entire 70's was Denny's decade, not just the first half. The second half had POB and his brilliant BB's vocal work on Love You and MIU, as well as Denny's Swan Songs on L.A. Light Album

Here's how I would rank Sunflower:

12: At My Window.
11: Cool, Cool Water.
10: Our Sweet Love.
9: Tears In The Morning.
8: This Whole World.
7: Got To Know The Woman.
6: Deirdre.
5: All I Wanna Do.
4: Add Some Music To Your Day.
3: Forever.
2: Slip On Through.
1: It's About Time.

I agree but when I said the first half I meant that not only was he writing awesome songs but he was at his happiest and it showed.  By the late 70s as you know his life was taking a turn for the worst and his songs were still awesome but dark.  that's why I personally like his songs that he sings with the group more so than the songs on his solo album, even though POB was a great debut for him  :)

I suppose but really it's when the 80's hit that Denny's downfall really started. As you know, Bambu was never completed because of that.

I love both his BB's songs and Solo songs, they're both essential reasons why Denny is my favourite Beach Boy!

I hear you  :).  I like how his style is so much different than the "surf style" that Mike, Al and Bruce wanted to go with.  kind of ironic too because he was the real surfer and inspired the early hits (even though Bruce surfed too, I just can't picture him as a surfer)

Agreed 100%. Though I'm pretty sure it's not so much Al. I think he only went with it in the 70's because of money. Same with Bruce, although at least he really was a surfer along with Denny. Really it's only Mike who never wanted to stop making Surf songs (along with TM songs), and it's obvious with embarrassingly outdated songs like Goin' To The Beach.

Give me Denny's style over Mike's anyday!

 :h5

Good thing this round's over... It'd be a shame for anybody to interrupt the Retro-Jar show.  ::)

The selfishly petered out...everyone was enjoying the funny banter  :P