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Whole day today I've listening to 5 tracks, over and over again, while preparing a technical training on a new accounting software at work. Very exciting stuff :hat

Here's my list - no particular order:

• Honkin' down the highway
• Matchpoint of our love
• Wouldn't it be nice
• Let's go away for a while
• Airplane

Sounds like a weird playlist, I know. Think I'm going crazy. But seemed like a cool topic to share with the people in this Board, only people that would understand this kind of obsessions.

What would be your list? Remember, you got listen to it over and over and over and over again, while being productive to society  ;)

Well it would probably include [if my recent habits are anything to go by...]

- It's Over Now (Alternate Mix)
- Sherry She Needs Me
- Slip On Through (w/Original Gold Star Track) - [Made by Zack Wolfe]
- It's Tryin' To Say
- The Little Girl I Once Knew

- Drip Drop
- Shortnin' Bread (original A/C mix)
- Ding Dang
- Cherry Cherry Coupe
- Can't Wait Too Long (any version)

Completely serious about the first 3; they just have a kick ass vibe to them - a real rolling motion that makes you want to put the songs on repeat.

These are songs that I'd never tire of hearing.

Yeah, I confess. I did that recently, too. But with only three songs:

- Amusement Parks U.S.A.
- Roller Skating Child
- Winter Symphony

They are so Brian. :police:

I've been listening to a lot of my favorite Mike leads lately

Aren't You Glad
Airplane
Meant For You
All I Wanna Do
Big Sur

Be My Baby
Be My Baby
Be My Baby
Be My Baby
Be My Baby

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No problem, when that popped up on my Soundcloud feed I was blown away!

This Whole World
Little Bird
Break Away (MiC version--love that weird Brian start---Breeeeaaaak)
Sherry She Needs Me
Where is She?

On a side night my wife, who turned me on to The Beach Boys, is so turned off now by them due to my obsession that she constantly makes fun of This Whole World, a song I never tire of…Are you playing that stupid, Mmmbooopdiiiitiiitt?

Yes, Airplane is one of Mike's best vocals  :)

Sheriff! I was debating between 'Airplane' and 'Amusement Parks USA'. Its such an amazing song! I actually have it in my gym playlist, next to some crazy drum and bass. Why? Not sure. Think I'm crazy.

- Mona

- Meant for you (Friends)
- Breakaway (MiC)
- This whole world
- She knows me so well

Bonus Track: Big Sur (Holland)

LOL

Most recently I guess it would be

Let Us go On This Way
Meant for you
Surfs up
Lady Lynda
Let's go away for awhile

1 California Girls
2 Girls on the Beach
3 Fun Fun Fun (Made in California Set
4 I Get Around
5 Sound of Free ( Forever) Tie

1.God Only Knows (a cliche, yes, but true...)
2.Lady/Fallin' In Love
3.Feel Flows
4.All I Wanna Do
5.In My Room

(Wouldn't It Be Nice To) Live Again. That recording is quite possibly the best thing The Beach Boys ever recorded in their entire career(yes, including the stuff we haven't even heard yet). Have you ever heard a song that was so awesome, that the idea of listening to any other song after that just doesn't seem to make sense? I can listen to that one song, and not listen to anything else for the rest of the day or night. Nothing can even come close to topping it.

So hard to keep it in five. The list could go on and on...

Break Away
Ding Dang
Kiss Me Baby
Wake the World
It's OK

Agreed. One of the two greatest Beach Boys songs of all-time! (along with Surf's Up).
Anyone who disagrees must be crazy!

1. Cabinessence
2. Celebrate The News
3. Till I Die
4. River Song
5. Marcella (In Concert) 1973

The BB tracks I have listened to the most times in a row are (in chronological order):

Surfin' USA
Surf Jam
I Get Around (Live 1964 - really live, booted, not the fake live album track)
Dance, Dance, Dance
Help Me, Rhonda

I agree. Mike nailed that one.

The Man With All the Toys
The Man With All the Toys
The Man With All the Toys
The Man With All the Toys
The Man With All the Toys

Have you noticed how short it is?

or in another mood...

(Wouldn't It Be Nice To) Live Again
Lady
Cuddle Up
Trader
Busy Doin Nothing

Ok guys, with all due respect, 'Wouldn't it be nice (to live again)' is a cool song and one of Dennis' finest, but not sure is the greatest thing ever produced by the band. I mean, everyone is entitled to a different opinion and, obviously, different preferences. But I'm not sure is fair to make that statement.

But anyways this is a board and we all can agree on disagreeing :) so cool this is your pick! My forever fav is 'Wouldn't it be nice', Brian's gem on youth innocence, with 'Matchpoint' coming in second, by little ;)

Recently I've been totally obsessed with disc 6 of MIC..  and especially these tracks..

California Feelin' demo
Sherry She Needs Me

I think it's one of their best as well. There's just something about it.

On a side note, how was this song not a single for the MiC boxset? They should've released a collector's edition 45 single with WIBNTLA for Side 1 and California Feelin' for side 2. Then release a digital single on iTunes, amazon, google play, etc. But what did we get instead? We got the freebie 'Goin' To The Beach'. No wonder people laugh at this band.

I think it's one of their best as well. There's just something about it.

On a side note, how was this song not a single for the MiC boxset? They should've released a collector's edition 45 single with WIBNTLA for Side 1 and California Feelin' for side 2. Then release a digital single on iTunes, amazon, google play, etc. But what did we get instead? We got the freebie 'Goin' To The Beach'. No wonder people laugh at this band.
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Perhaps the rumors about MiC being priced rather high because of the outrageous royalty charge demanded by Mike are true. If they are true a WIBNTLA single would be prohibitively expensive. I dunno, just a theory. I personally don't believe this particular Mike-as-devil-incarnate theory (others, well…)

Agreed. Goin' To The Beach is a B-side at best. But I think the reason why WIBNTLA wasn't released as a single is because it was the most anticipated song off the MIC box set. Had they released WIBNTLA as a single, not nearly as many people would have gotten the MIC box set. So that is understandable

I don't really buy that argument. If you were going to buy the set for just one song, you could've easily downloaded it off iTunes for $1.29 on the day of release. I think making it a single would've drawn a lot of interest to the set.

Another side note, WIBNTLA is arguably one the greatest songs The Beach Boys ever recorded, and it wasn't even marketed by the record company or the band...Because it's The Beach Boys, it doesn't surprise me in the least, but it's still friggin' sad.

I don't think WIBNTLA is finished. I don't think it would have been released "as is" on Surf's Up without additional work.

If there are Brianista's, are there also Dennisista's?

And I thought it was just me... I absolutely freakin' LOVE The Man With All The Toys. The fact that it's so short and sweet; that funky little guitar riff; the opening and mid-song harmony break - seriously, side one of Xmas Album contains some of the most over-looked and under-rated of Brian's early songs.

At present, I could alternate between the BBs "All This Is That" and The Eagles "Waiting in the weeds" all week, let alone all day  8)

I listen to these songs alot when I'm obsessed.

A Day in the Life of a Tree
He Come Down
My Solution (Instrumental)
I Wanna Pick You Up
It's Just a Matter of Time (live version)

(Wouldn't it be Nice) to Live Again
All I Wanna Do
Time to Get Alone
Let the Wind Blow (stereo mix, of course)
Feel Flows

What a somber collection!  But these are the songs that haunt me, even when I'm not around my stereo.  When I'm at work, when I'm out shopping, or sometimes just before I fall asleep at night, any one of these songs might be playing over and over in my head.

Where are those available?  ???