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Title: Interesting home made mixtape: 1s 2s As Bs Post by: WWDWD? on March 27, 2011, 06:56:43 PM I was bored and made a playlist of beach boys tracks that reached number 1 or 2 on the charts somewhere in the world. I also included their b-sides. Completely basing this on the discography info on wikipedia, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beach_Boys_discography#Singles) so it may not be 100% accurate but it is an interesting listen. Gets really crap towards the end there haha.
1s 2s As Bs 1 Surfin' Safari 2 409 3 I Get Around 4 Don't Worry Baby 5 Help Me, Rhonda 6 Kiss Me, Baby 7 Barbara Ann 8 Girl Don't Tell Me 9 Sloop John B 10 You're So Good to Me 11 Wouldn't It Be Nice 12 God Only Knows 13 Good Vibrations 14 Let's Go Away for Awhile 15 Do It Again 16 Wake the World 17 Cottonfields 18 The Nearest Faraway Place 19 Getcha Back 20 Male Ego 21 Wipe Out (with The Fat Boys) 22 Kokomo Edit: removed 'Tutti Frutti' because it isn't a crappy beach boys cover like I assumed. Title: Re: Interesting home made mixtape: 1s 2s As Bs Post by: TheLazenby on March 27, 2011, 08:02:27 PM I get that it was the b-side of Kokomo, but it's pointless to end the album with a non Beach Boys track!
Title: Re: Interesting home made mixtape: 1s 2s As Bs Post by: Don_Zabu on March 27, 2011, 08:05:38 PM Suppose The Beach Boys had covered Tutti Frutti; who would've sung it?
My vote's for Al Jardine. Title: Re: Interesting home made mixtape: 1s 2s As Bs Post by: BJL on March 27, 2011, 08:58:48 PM This mix would get way more interesting if you included a wider range of countries (though I get how this would require more work than just the wikipedia page). For example, (using a broader-based wikipedia search), Then I Kissed Her was #2 in South Africa, Sweden, and the Netherlands, (b-side Mountain of Love.) Surfin USA and when I Grow Up to Be a Man, were #1 in Canada, California Girls was no. 2 in Rhodesia and Canada. Tears in the Morning was #1 in South Africa wasn't it? Amusement Parks USA only made #3 in Japan, but it does make one wonder what exactly a list of Beach Boys hits in Japan would look like. Also, didn't Surfin Down the Swannee River make #1 in Sweden?...not that that nec. counts.
Has anyone ever made a beach boys discog. that listed chart positions for a larger group of countries? Title: Re: Interesting home made mixtape: 1s 2s As Bs Post by: WWDWD? on March 28, 2011, 03:00:57 AM Haha I just assumed the Beach Boys did a crappy cover of Tutti Frutti that I hadn't heard (just like I haven't heard Under the Boardwalk). ::)
Like I said, I was just going by what wikipedia had to offer. A more comprehensive listing would probably prove to be a more interesting read. But as it stands it offers a lot of stuff that most greatest hits" releases do but also includes occasionally overlooked tracks like "The Nearest Faraway Place". I've removed Tutti Frutti from the original post. Title: Re: Interesting home made mixtape: 1s 2s As Bs Post by: WWDWD? on March 28, 2011, 03:03:39 AM If they had covered Tutti Frutti however, I can imagine a Brian Wilson farty synth romp with him on smokey, shouty lead. A sorta Ding Dang / Shortenin' Bread vibe.
Title: Re: Interesting home made mixtape: 1s 2s As Bs Post by: Andrew G. Doe on March 28, 2011, 04:00:47 AM I was bored and made a playlist of beach boys tracks that reached number 1 or 2 on the charts somewhere in the world. I also included their b-sides. Completely basing this on the discography info on wikipedia, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beach_Boys_discography#Singles) so it may not be 100% accurate... Should be. ;) Title: Re: Interesting home made mixtape: 1s 2s As Bs Post by: smile-holland on March 28, 2011, 06:48:48 AM Tears in the Morning was #1 in South Africa wasn't it? Nope. And this particular 45 is terribly hard to find in RSA. It did go to #6 in the Netherlands though. In South Africa California Girls, Barbara Ann and Cottonfields were a #1 hit. Title: Re: Interesting home made mixtape: 1s 2s As Bs Post by: WWDWD? on March 28, 2011, 07:18:03 AM I was bored and made a playlist of beach boys tracks that reached number 1 or 2 on the charts somewhere in the world. I also included their b-sides. Completely basing this on the discography info on wikipedia, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beach_Boys_discography#Singles) so it may not be 100% accurate... Should be. ;) Sorry. Should've said "may not be 100% complete" as they only show the results for five different charts. Is there a resource for global chart positions of beach boys singles and/or albums? |