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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2QM_H3akLk

What's up with the Good Vibrations promo. I've never seen that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7PjuaM4mR8

What song is playing around 9:00?

Thanks in advance.You guys say you're hardcore Beach Boys fans. Prove it.

My Top 5 without even thinking too hard:

- Warmth of the Sun
- Let The Wind Blow
- Let Us Go On This Way
- Wild Honey
- That's Not Me

Someone once said, here or elsewhere, that that was the 1973 "Pattycake" demo Brian did after a visit to NYC zoo.

Thanks. Makes sense... now that you said the title, I can recognize that's what he's saying. =)

he's actually singing "daddy dear" and it's not a Brian Wilson song.  this one drove me crazy for a long time after hearing it on that A&E Biography.

It's called "Little Child (Daddy Dear)"...not sure who wrote it, but it's also been recorded by Wes Montgomery, George Winston (as "Mon Enfant"), and Tony Danza of all people (as a duet with his daughter).  The song is a conversation between a father and child. 

we have had this discussion before, and my buddy Joe Amoros sent me Brian's recording which was made around the time they did 'Holland' i think?  He's all excited playing it for someone, trying to remember how it goes, then he gives up and starts playing "Susie Cincinnati".

i'd be happy to pass it along to anyone that provides me with an email address.

5 songs:
In the Back of My Mind
Little Girl I Once Knew
When a Man Needs a Woman
Busy Doin Nothing
This Whole World

It is a hilarious recording, very funny and frustrating because he never gets through more than a few bars. "Daddy Dear...oh, it's great...beautiful...it goes, it goes, Daddy dear...daddy dear...oh, i forgot it. it's great. beautiful. It goes, daddy dear..." ad infinitum.

'Course, some people were of the opinion that it wasn't Brian, but Alan.

Some still are.  ::)

I've been meaning to watch this doc for ages and here it is, it'c very good, great interviews with Marilyn, quite poignant when shes reading Brians love letters...

the "Daddy Dear" part is definitely Brian.  The speaking voice is too manic to be anyone else. Maybe Al's sitting at the piano with him and that's why it goes into "Susie"...? I'd say it's Brian singing that one too though.

:lol It's Brian. I think Al is singing along in parts on the background,l as there is more than one person singing in certain parts. I think Brian sounds a little coked up, too.

Its definitely Brian, but I wouldnt be surprised if it was Alan on Susie Cincinnati (with Brian on the keys)

I'm enjoying all of these posts, but doesn't the thread title say Your Top 5 Beach Boys ALBUMS? It doesn't say Top 5 songs. That's OK, it's my obsessive compulsive disorder acting up again. Please continue... :police:

yeah, but dude listed 5 songs.  i tried to gently correct him in my first post.  i'm gonna go ahead and list 5 albums anyway:  Friends, Wild Honey, Pet Sounds, Love You, Today!
feels good.

I'm with you bossaroo, my 5 favorite ALBUMS are:

1. Pet Sounds
2. Today
3. Love You
4. Summer Day (And Summer Nights)
5. Christmas Album

ALBUMS:

Today
Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)
Surf's Up
Holland
Pet Sounds

with Love You, Little Deuce Coupe, Sunflower, All Summer Long and Surfer Girl making up the ten.

As long as we're going with albums here, my favorites are:


1. Sunflower
2. Today
3. Pet Sounds
4. 20/20
5. All Summer Long

My favorites change everyday...ask me next week and you'll get a different answer. Except Sunflower. It's always been my all time favorite.

Here are mine:
1. Pet Sounds
2. Today
3. Sunflower
4. 20/20
5. Holland

No no! My bad, I meant songs.... I'll edit the topic.

So, anyone know whats up with the Good Vibrations promo on my original post? Looks like around 1968 or so... man, they really used up that hit, did they... dragging it on and doing promos n stuff for 3 years?

Favorite songs:

1. 'Til I Die
2. Don't Worry Baby
3. Our Sweet Love
4. A Day in the Life of a Tree
5. Friends

That GV "promo" is from a 1970 TV appearance, they also mimed to Cottonfields on that show, it was hosted by a comedian named John (er somebody) Beinborn maybe? Anyway, i've got it, its been around in trading circles for years.

Thank you. I dig Mrs. Captain America. =)

1. The Little Girl I Once Knew
2. Kiss Me Baby
3. Don't Worry Baby
4. Don't Talk
5. You Still Believe In Me

Yeah, you gotta answer that one quick.  Otherwise It'll mess up your whole day.

"Whole?"   "This Whole World"!  Aghhhhhh!!!!

its crazy how we think alike!

my current top 5 albums:
Sunflower
Holland
Wild Honey
Today!
Surf's Up

not very exciting, I know...

Top 5 albums...yikes.  Mine's probably gonna strike some folks as a little weird.

1.  SUNFLOWER
2.  20/20
3.  L.A. (LIGHT ALBUM)
4.  WILD HONEY
5.  PET SOUNDS

My albums...

1.Sunflower
2. Holland
3. Friends
4. Pet Sounds
5. MIU. Not kidding.

Friends is always on the top of my list. listening to it now :3d

Some collection Pet Sounds, Friends, Love You, Holland, Today! and Surf's Up make up my top five on any given day, with a different one of them sitting out in the cold until its turn to come back into my good (well, best) graces.

Oh, I see the topic now says 'songs' lol...so I'll list my top five favorites in that area as well:

1. Forever (DW original, NOT the remake)
2. Be With Me
3. Friends
4. Til I Die
5. Celebrate the News


Obviously I'm a huge DW fan.  :)

Songs:

1. Til I Die
2.  All I wanna Do (the Sunflower song, which I keep mixing up the title with All I want to Do)
3. My Diane (the Adult Child era version)
4.  Can't Wait Too Long
5. Everybody wants to live just once

1. California Girls
2. Be Here in the Morning
3. Celebrate the News
4. HELP Is On the Way
5. Ballad of Ole Betsy

that's just off the top of my head, I'm definitely forgetting something

Songs:

Don't Worry Baby, I Get Around, The Night Was So Young, H&V, I'll Bet He's Nice. Unless it's Time to Get Alone, Be Here in the Morning, Surfer Girl, Surf's Up and Mona. Unless it's ...

Okay top 5 for today, strictly reactionary, no weighing things out - in no particular order:

1. Fun, Fun, Fun
2. Please Let Me Wonder
3. Woudn't It Be Nice
4. Wendy
5. Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)

If I did this again tomorrow, the results would likely be different. I know it's not "cool" to love the surf/car stuff but I really do like the '63-'66 era best.

Dean
 

It's not even cool to like the Beach Boys, so listen to whatever you like.... :smokin

I've said it before and will again: f*** cool.

1. Caroline, No
2. Catch A Wave
3. The Warmth Of The Sun
4. Please Let Me Wonder
5. Busy Doin' Nothin'

i wanna hear that!  did Brian sing it?

what all is out there in the way of Adult Child/Love You demos and tracks?
I'm a big fan of the piano demos, but I've only heard "I'll Bet He's Nice", "Still I Dream Of It", and "That Special Feeling" (love that one)...

also, what are the songs from the Cocaine/Hamburger sessions?

thanks.

The earlier recording of My Diane that I'm familiar with must have been recorded around the time of 15 Big Ones (or at least that's what I thought). The lead vocals were brilliantly handled by Dennis as well, yet the overall arrangement does seem a bit more understated than on the M.I.U. version. Still, the difference is marginal at least to my ears. Great song.

I do love That Special Feeling as well. That would have been a great closing track instead of Love Is A Woman.

As far as I know, the commonly available part of the Hamburger Sessions consisted of some pieces called Yeahhh (?), Oh Lord, City Blues, Piano, You've Been Pt. 1 + 2, I Feel So Fine and an utterly painful rendition of a song you might recognise as Heroes And Villains.