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Wal-mart has audio clips of the first 30 seconds of each track. Much of this stuff hasn't been heard in the previously available clips:

//www.walmart.com/ip/20863400?ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=20863400&sourceid=1500000000000003260400&veh=cse

Can definitely tell Think About The Days & Pacific Coast Highway go together.

I wasn't gonna listen, but I caved and played the snippet of Summer's Gone, and wow. What an intro.

Ok....I caved some more. Is it just me or does the opening of Shelter sound wierd (forced drum roll)? I really love the rest of that sample though - very strong song.

Agreed, and FTTBA seems to have like 1,000,000 changes... SWEET!

Some more observations:

From There To Back Again clicked with me. I hadn't been knocked out by the iTunes sample - but the first 30 seconds just floored me. Had to play it several times.
The opening to Pacific made me think of SMiLE. Loved it.
Bill and Sue makes me cringe! :)
Strange World's opening sounds different than I thought it would - very 'Imagination', too 'Imagination'. I guess I'll get used to it (or not). However, when the Pet Soundsy-tympani beats come in, that's perfection.
Isn't It Time is GREAT! Instantly catchy!
The openings to Daybreak and Beaches In Mind are fantastic.

Looking forward to getting this in my hands!

Wow, the clips are great. Let me see....I'm now totally psyched to hear "Isn't It Time", "The Private Life of Bill and Sue", "Shelter", "Strange World", "From There to Back Again", "Pacific Coast Highway" and "Summer's Gone" in full. I really have to say that from what I've heard, I'm gonna have to say this is probably going to be the best Beach Boys album since L.A. (Light Album). Maybe not one of the absolute best albums, but definitely a "good" album and a very welcome addition that adds to their catalog. One can't honestly say that recent albums by The Who or the Rolling Stones did anything at all except remind fans that the used to be great. Whereas, it honestly sounds like there are a few new Beach Boys classics on this thing, those being "Isn't It Time", "From There to Back Again" and "Summer's Gone".

Isn't It Time reminds me of an updated Kokomo. I could see it doing REALLY WELL as a single if it was promoted through the right channels. Fingers crossed.

I wouldn't say it sounds anything like Kokomo, but I agree that it could be a semi-hit.

I think i'd like Daybreak SO MUCH MORE if I hadn't heard the same recording a few months ago... :/

I will NOT listen to any of this until I actually buy the cd. *chanting over and over again like a mantra*

Is it June 5th yet?!?  :ahh  :ahh  :ahh

I've managed to resist this batch of samples, I've heard all the others. I felt so awful after I read how Justin and a few others were waiting to hear the whole thing in full, I felt so un-pure :lol I figure this is a small way to redeem myself.

i've listened to all the Spring Vacation clips since people hear it on the radio.  Nothing else though! (well ok, 20 seconds of shelter bah!)

haha nicely done! You get a couple points back!  ;)

Even though I'm super stoked for the new album....surprisingly it's been getting easier to resist the samples now.  Even these new ones from Walmart!  Hopefully my will power can hold out for another week! 

Isn't It Time verses sounds very cool
Bill And Sue intro sounds like a ringtone
Shelter intro is.. kinda weird, definitely not what i expected, but this song sounds interesting, a mix of different genre from the band : chorus kinda reminds me of early Beach Boys stuff a la Don't Worry Baby, but the rest seems to be more into Pet Sounds.
Daybreak is very catchy and the intro has a very dreamy vibe, nice!
Beaches In Mind sounds like a joke, bad old Beach Boys stuff they've been doing for the last 20 years or so.
Strange World is indeed quite Imagination-like.
From There To Back Again sounds fascinating, of all the samles we've heard there seems to be a different section, sounds like an well written song.
Pacific Coast Highway might definitely be one of my fav of this album, beautiful intro (won't spoil it for you!), and the rest sounds amazing, classic Brian.
and as for Summer's Gone... wow. just wow. this is what the Beach Boys should be doing more often.

The melody's taken from Darlin'.

the melody is taken from thinkin bout you baby

the melody is taken from -insert any Beach Boys classic song here-.

Since the BBs overdubbed some vocals onto the recording I guess you probably haven't heard the same recording unless you got a chance to listen to the album

Ha! The first time I heard it I thought of Hushabye. I'm not saying the melodies are the same, just that the chorus of Shelter was reminiscent of
Hushabye.

I really don't think they did.

Just the first phrase, really.

It's easily audible on the Walmart snippet. Al is all over the intro.

You know what's cool? We kind of have a partial leak with these. If you combine all of the samples, some of the songs come pretty close to complete. At least half of the album if not 3/4. Just something really awesome I realized.

I realized this, too. I've listened to a handful of albums early this way, by people combining clips. I'm all for listening to clips, leaks etc., but listening to a pieced together version of the album isn't especially an especially satisfying first experience of it ^_^

"That's Why God Made the Radio", "Think About the Days" and "Spring Vacation" (as heard on a Dutch radio) and the merged snippets of Amazon and iTunes added up to 22 min 20 s.

If you add those new 30 s samples for the songs we haven't heard in full, and these snippets are things we hadn't heard before, you have to add 9 times 30 s = 270 s = 4 min 30 s.

So technically we've heard 26 min 50 s of a 38 min 53 s album, or 69%. More if you count the Mike-only version of "Daybreak"...


 8o ­­   ;D

not the best way to hear an album lol

gonna be honest, the "Summer's Gone" intro makes me cry when the piano comes in.


It also does strange things... lower o.O

lol

When I first heard Shelter I felt the melody was somewhat reminiscent of some part of All This is That.

well since shelter sounds like darlin, all this is that, and hushabye, i guess its safe to say shelter sounds like shelter

am loving it all, except PLOBAS is not happening for me.  Are there any albums where we love 100% of the songs?

Abbey Road?  hate maxwell's silver hammer and won't listen to "Oh darlin" though I danced to it in 8th grade.

In short, I do not expect total, "Dark side of the moon" bliss, but I am 90% there. Hope the private lives grows on me. Nothing yet. The rest is divinely inspired.

you crazy!

I'm limiting the amount that I listen to the "pieced together" album. None of the songs are really "fresh" in my mind. I want at least some surprise when I hear the album in full. I don't want to get used to the pieced together version at all. I don't want the real album to sound weird. That's bad lol.

it's good to know that they rerecorded at least some of Daybreak, but they got rid of Christian's part in the intro which sounds really Carl-esque..

Actually Shelter sounds to me most like Save The Last Dance For Me...