'Surfs Up' side 2

[sidewinder572]

Am I the only one who thinks this is one of The Beach Boys' crowning achievements?

"Feel Flows"

"Lookin' at Tomorrow (A Welfare Song)"

"A Day in the Life of a Tree"

"'Til I Die"

"Surf's Up"

[Ian]

No your not the only one   

[Shady]

replace Surf's up with Carl on Lead with the version with just Brian, and you have a hell of a side 2

[Ian]

I agree-I don't think that Carl was really suited to that song.  You still have the partial Brian vocal from "Dove Nested Towers" on, which is cool.

[Mahalo]

Love Surf's Up side two.....but it almost seems like Surfs Up the song doesn't belong there. Who cares though, I'll take it- it's better than a having an extended dance club re-mix of SDT.

[Chris Brown]

I totally agree...its right up there with side 2 of "Today!" IMO.

[TimeToGetAlone]

I tend to focus on specific songs more than album sides as best achievements, but it certainly is an awesome side.  I love side 2 of Sunflower as well.  The last 5 are absolutely stunning for me, and even Tears In The Morning has breathtaking backing vocals.

[Emdeeh]

No disrespect to Brian, but I've never heard a BW lead on the first movement of "Surf's Up" that I liked near as much as Carl's. There's something extra in CW's vocal nuances that "makes" that movement for me.




               

[chris.metcalfe]

Add 'Fourth of July' and it would have been a full Wilson Bros side too.

[John]

Except Lookin' At Tomorrow.

And yeah, Side Two is great. In fact, it's more-or-less all I listen to when I throw on Surf's Up.

[Alex]

Switch around Lookin' at Tomorrow and Long Promised Road and then it would be perfect. Also throw 4th of July onto CATP instead of SU and have it segue into Cuddle Up.

[shelter]

Except Lookin' At Tomorrow.

I love that song. Definately one of the most underrated BB songs.

[KokoMoses]

No disrespect to Brian, but I've never heard a BW lead on the first movement of "Surf's Up" that I liked near as much as Carl's. There's something extra in CW's vocal nuances that "makes" that movement for me.




               

That's what happens when you're the greatest singer of all-time

God bless Carl

[MBE]

I don't like Tree too much but the rest is great.

[Magic Transistor Radio]

If 2 or 3 of Dennis gems replaced 'Take a Load off Your Feet', and 'Student Demo' then this would be the best album the Beach Boys ever did since PS!

1. Don't Go Near the Water
2. Long Promised Road
3. Sound of Free
4. Disney Girls
5. Fourth of July
6. Feel Flows
7. Lookin at Tommorow
8. A Day in the Life of a Tree
9. Til I Die
10. Surfs Up

[KokoMoses]

If 2 or 3 of Dennis gems replaced 'Take a Load off Your Feet', and 'Student Demo' then this would be the best album the Beach Boys ever did since PS!

1. Don't Go Near the Water
2. Long Promised Road
3. Sound of Free
4. Disney Girls
5. Fourth of July
6. Feel Flows
7. Lookin at Tommorow
8. A Day in the Life of a Tree
9. Til I Die
10. Surfs Up

Yow! that's a hell of a track-listing there!

I know I'm pretty much an all-around Mike apologist, but I have to admit to always skipping past Student Demo. It's just how loud his freakin voice is mixed that gets me. You have Disney Girls, just a perfect song/recording/just GORGEOUS, then suddenly you have this wailing guitar (pretty good actually, whoever is playing) and then this guy just spitting into your ear about "Berkeley free speech"!!!! I have no problem at all with the lyrics/sentiment and think the song kinda rocks, but it's just those first few seconds which send me hurtling across the room to tear the needle from the record eveytime

[Roger Ryan]

If we're talking preferred SURF'S UP line-ups, here's mine:

1. Surf's Up
2. Sound of Free
3. Long Promised Road
4. Disney Girls
5. Fourth of July
6. Feel Flows
7. Lookin at Tomorrow
8. A Day in the Life of a Tree (with a Brian lead vocal)
9. Til I Die
10. Wouldn't It Be Nice To Live Again

[John]

My perfect Surf's Up would actually be LANDLOCKED, because in a perfect world Surf's Up would be on Smile...

1. Don't Go Near The Water
2. Long Promised Road
3. Disney Girls (1957)
4. Student Demonstration Time
5. 4th of July
6. Lookin' At Tomorrow (A Welfare Song)

1. Telephone Backgrounds On A Clear Day (intro into)
2. Feel Flows
3. A Day In The Life Of A Tree (Brian or Dennis singing; or maybe even Al)
4. Til I Die
5. Wouldn't It Be Nice To Live Again


I'm not that big into DGNTW or Student Demo, but we need some Mike stuff to be realistic enough.

[Smilin Ed H]

Why take anything off?  Just add Fourth of July and WIBNTLA

[Yorick]

Looking at Tomorrow is the most shitty Beach Boys song on the Surf's Up LP, up there with Take A Load Off Your Feet (Pete)

[Mahalo]

Looking at Tomorrow is the most merdaty Beach Boys song on the Surf's Up LP, up there with Take A Load Off Your Feet (Pete)

Couldn't disagree more. I LOVE those two.

I would do a complete recall of every Surf's Up LP and CD and remove SDT. Then we can all pretend that SDT never ever existed. That song sucks worse than almost anything I can think of. I like the Macarena better than SDT.

...."I do 'em when I'm down in the tub, with avocado cream they'll take a rub.."   

[Glenn Greenberg]

I really dig Take A Load Off Your Feet.

I despise SDT and I couldn't care less about Lookin' At Tomorrow. 

I'd replace them with a couple of Dennis songs -- and one of them would most definitely be San Miguel.

[Mahalo]

I really dig Take A Load Off Your Feet.

I despise SDT and I couldn't care less about Lookin' At Tomorrow. 

I'd replace them with a couple of Dennis songs -- and one of them would most definitely be San Miguel.

Lookin' At Tomorrow fits the general mood of the album, IMO. I really like that tune.

San Miguel is incredible...would've been a killer opening track...although the opening lyric sounds like, "Started off the day with a drug...", instead of "drive", to my big ears.

[Glenn Greenberg]

the opening lyric sounds like, "Started off the day with a drug...", instead of "drive", to my big ears.

"Started off the day with a drug..." probably would have been the truth, considering Dennis wrote the song!   


But actually, the opening lyric is "Started off the day with a THOUGHT..."

[John]

Looking at Tomorrow is the most merdaty Beach Boys song on the Surf's Up LP, up there with Take A Load Off Your Feet (Pete)

Lookin' At Tomorrow is great, but Take A Load Off is, indeed, awful.