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Does anybody have any ideas of funny names for compilations? Mine is 'B.O.B.B. Album' (Best Of Beach Boys Album). A mockery of M.I.U. and L.A.

Best of the Cocaine Sessions...................All Their Greatest Hits from 1983

Can they even get more cheesy?

Fun In The Sun
Classics Selected by Mike Love
Sunshine Dream (Oh wait that's a real one)  ::)

I don't have any new, funny ones, but I always thought Ten Years Of Harmony was the worst - for a group who was approaching its 20th Anniversary at the time. And, yes, I know what the title of the comp actually meant...

...and forgetting the fact that the previous 10 years (or ensuing 10 years, for that matter) were ANYTHING but harmonious.

Sun, Fun, Surf, Sand, and Sea.

48 Years of Disharmony

 :lol sort of a Sonic Youth, or The Swans album compilation, methinks...

Some ideas for stickers that they could put on future "greatest hits" compilations:

"You'd better buy this one too, or we'll just assume that people don't care for The Beach Boys anymore and put that 'Smile' box set that we're about to release on an indefinate hold."

"Includes the song that PAUL McCARTNEY said is his favorite."

"For the last time, this doesn't include 'Surf City' and 'Beach Baby' because they're not Beach Boys songs, dummy."

"Yeah, this is like the 10th compilation that we called 'Good Vibrations' - so f**king what?"

"Classic super group, featuring members of Celebration, The Survivors, Kenny & The Cadets and the Endless Summer Band!"

with a nod to Talling Heads, "More Songs About Water and Food"  with a sticker "featuring unreleased Hamburger sessions PLUS a stereo reremix of "Vegetables" and a new "Dennis Wilson vocal up" version of HELP is on the Way!

Okay, I decided to move from compilations to regular studio albums.

Brian Wilson Presents SHORTENIN' BREAD

Transcendental Mediation

Transcendental Medication

Smiley-er Smile (just features a bass guitar and whispering)

The Best of The Wrecking Crew, featuring The Beach Boys >:D

Mike wrote 'em

winner

Frowny Frown

We Love To Say Da Da (except for Mike): The Best Of The SMiLE Sessions

Heroes and Mike

Can I change this to:
48 Years of Love & Disharmony

Mike's Love Stains.

"Top Down"

BB's greatest Car songs
 :-D

Mike's Loves and Hates 'Best and worst beach boys songs'  ;D

I actually wrote those songs - The Best Of Mike Love :-D

Brian Wilson presents MOUNT VERNON & FAIRWAY live. (If that has been done live, I'm very sorry, though I highly doubt it has)

Shut Up, Volume 3 / All Winter Long / The Beach Boys Right Now! /  Sounds Of Sand Fleas / Daddy Took The T-Bird Away (For Good) / Ten Years Of Misery / Summer In Extremely Low Record Sales /

If I weren't certain the Zappa estate would find issue with it, We're Only In It For The Money seems apt.

I remember finding a best of cd about 10 years ago called 'Surfs Up'. But that song was not even on it! Just the same old songs that you normaly get. I was very upset because I couldn't find that song anywhere at the time. It was right before the twofers were released.

Yeah, that musta sucked. Its like 'Surf's Up'.......PSYCHE! haha

The Beach Boys...and guest Starring Eugene Landy.

That comp was part of a bunch of similar budget priced discs. Usually they were 10 tracks: 2 or 3 hits and the rest deep cuts from the Capitol years. Back when I was first starting out in my fandom (pre-1990 2fers), those comps were the first places where I heard things like Girl Don't Tell Me and Your Summer Dream.

I love this one. Esp. if it refers to the infamous Iggy Pop event, where Brian scared all present with a 45 minute rendition of Shortening Bread... I expect this package to include some little plastic bags with the Bolivian Marching Powder, to make listening bearable.

Room Locked
Brian Wilson recordings from 1973-1975

Mike Love Presents "WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT LYRIC MEAN?"

with such hits as "I'm High", "I'm Fat", "I'm Full", "I'm Watchin' Johnny Carson" and "Just An Imitation"

After another Mike Love legal intervention:

The Greatest Hits Of The Young Men From The Sand Near The Sea Band

I betcha the reverse happens a lot, too. People are searching for a random Beach Boys album to buy, "Hmm... Surf's Up sounds like a good one... I don't recognize the names of these songs, but I probably know them, I mean the band only has like 10 songs..." and then they hear a very non-beachy album.

F*ck The Formula    (Songs post 1966)

Kokonut

Beach Boys 69 (Viewer discretion advised)

Surfing Maharishi
 A Mike Love/Maharishi collaboration

Knock it Off! I'm a Genius Too!
 by Murry Wilson

Going Public
 by Bruce Johnston (oops is that a real one?)

Yes it is! Looks like we're gonna have to kill ya! >:D

Actually I don't know.

That's a real one too I hope you realise! Well, minus the stuff in the brackets.

Beach Boys Live from the Lucky Strike Lanes and Lounge (boot)

I'm Bugged At My Ol' Manson- the Bellagio Sessions.

From the album sticker idea, to save printing costs, "Brian's favorite Beach Boys album!" (could be put on how many albums? The Many Moods of Mike Love (saw that somewhere actually),Do It Again (Bill Jackson lyrics),Bachman Wilson Overdrive (instead of KTSA).

I know it's a real one.

Sandbox Discoveries (a rarities compilation)

Bells of Paris (an intire album of Paris bells ringing to meditate to)

You know what would be a funny name for a Beach Boys compilation? "Howard". Just because.

This is easily the best one.

OK. 'Harvey' would be fine with me too, though.

...although, whilst perusing all comps at www.allmusic.com, I thought: it might be called 'Groundhog Day' too, for excellent reasons.

Because the Beach Boys (especially Mike) are reliving the same day over and over and over...

 :) yup, this one too, though I thought of 3,000 comps and each one being just like the one before (although it's changed a bit as we know...).