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Finally here we are. The final regular round of Beach Boys Survivor. Please remember as we vote to respect other people's opinions. Lets have fun!


As per the usual, vote off your LEAST FAVORITE track.

Tally will be on May 14th

Think About the Days
That's Why God Made the Radio
Isn't It Time
Spring Vacation
The Private Life of Bill and Sue
Shelter
Daybreak Over the Ocean
Beaches in Mind
Strange World
From There to Back Again
Pacific Coast Highway
Summer's Gone

My first vote is an easy one.

Beaches In Mind.

I'm with you, Beaches In Mind.

Daybreak Over The Ocean

Beaches in Mind

Beaches in Mind

Daybreak. Good intro, but the rest is dull and drawn out.

Daybreak over the ocean.


Beaches in mind is a fun song!

Beaches In Mind.

The Private Life Of Bill And Sue.

"Think About the Days."

Beaches in Mind

Beaches in Mind. Waaaaaaay more stale than Spring Vacation, I think.

Beaches in Mind

Beaches in mind

I have a feeling I'll be voting this way for a few rounds... "Summer's Gone."

Yes, really -- it's very pretty, but I find it too depressing to listen to.

Bill and Sue

Beaches in Mind    :)

Beaches In Mind

Bill and Sue.

Bill & Sue

Daybreak Over The Ocean

First Love had loads of truly great songs on it which Mike could have chosen for TWGMTR - alas, he chose this song instead and then made it even worse with a horrible, horrible backing track.

beaches in mind

Daybreak (Beaches next)

Summer's Gone

huhuhuhu

Beaches in mind, man it's such a time (or something like that)

Take It Away.

Bill and Sue

Beaches in Mind. Despite some good energy in the second/third chorus and I don't mind the guitar riffin'

wait a minute... no voting for the Beach Boys "Nascar" album???

  Beaches in Mind

Beaches in Mind

Shelter

Doesn't sound anything like a Beach Boys song.

Beaches in Mind

Bill and Sue

(Personally, I really like this album. Bill and Sue is the only real clunker here, and even then mostly because it goes on for too long, it'd be better if it were shorter.)

Beaches In Mind.  Talk boxes are evil incarnate.

Besides the hideous drums, it sounds a lot like late 60s BBs when they were going for a super poppy sound - Darlin', Breakaway etc.

DOTO

Beaches In Mind

Daterape err I mean Daybreak  :P Over the Ocean

Daybreak - rehashed Frankentune of 50's cornball elements with faux reggae-feel topped with a sappy acoustic-marimba-accoridion bridge to nowhere.

im not usually so critical - im just pissed tonight.  :p

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Shelter

Ooh yeah, I forgot about Shelter - it's a particularly horrible song. I still hate Daybreak more though (although not by much...) TWGMTR starts well and ends well, but the entire middle section is seriously unpleasant.

Spring Vacation

Beaches

Daybreak. I love Bill and Sue.

It's nice but the worst on the album

Eric has a point about "Shelter" not really sounding like a Beach Boys track, but it's not as bad as a couple of others that do.  Or are supposed to.

TPLoBaS

Least favourite? Beaches in Mind

Changing my vote from Spring Vacation to Bitches In Mind

The Private Life of Bill and Sue

Daybreak Over the Ocean

Finally here we are. The final regular round of Beach Boys Survivor. Please remember as we vote to respect other people's opinions. Lets have fun!


Beaches were not what 24 of us had In Mind. ciao. (http://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/images/smilies/survivor.gif)

As per the usual, vote off your LEAST FAVORITE track.

Tally will be on May 16th

Think About the Days
That's Why God Made the Radio
Isn't It Time
Spring Vacation
The Private Life of Bill and Sue
Shelter
Daybreak Over the Ocean
Strange World
From There to Back Again
Pacific Coast Highway
Summer's Gone

Round#1 - Beaches in Mind May 14

My second vote is an easy one.

The Private Life of Bill and Sue.

Daybreak

Daybreak

Think About The Days

Daybreak

Daybreak Over the Ocean

Daybreak

Bill & Sue

"Think About The Days"

Nice opener, but I never listen to it. 

Daybreak

Daybreak

Daybreak Over the Ocean

Bluebirds over the mountain.... err I mean Daybreak over the ocean  :lol

Break aday

TPLOBAS

Bill and Sue

Daybreak

 Bill & Sue

Daybreak Over The Ocean

Think About the Days

Daybreak

Think About the Days

Daybreak

The Private Life of Bill and Sue

The Private Life of Bill and Sue

The Private Life of Bill and Sue. B-Pain was right when he said Daybreak's harmonies are some of the album's best, surprised to see so many votes early on.

Private Life of Bill and Sue

Beaches in Mind, although I'm realizing now there isn't a single track I don't love...I love this one the least, so that's it.

the Mike song

Shelter

Ummmmmmm Beaches In Mind has already gone  ::)

My vote is for Shelter

sh*t Vacation, Bad Vibrations...

"Daybreak Over the Ocean"  Harmonies can't save a poorly written song.  Harmonies are on all the songs.  next...

"Shelter"

The Private Life of Bill & Sue.

Daybreak

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Buffalo bill

Daybreak.

It 's kinda lame. Plus, wasn 't one BB reworking of My Bonnie enough (after Bluebirds)?

Mike is just not a good songwriter

My vote's again for Summer's Gone.

I know it's an unpopular opinion, but it's honestly my least favorite track on the album. I don't consider it a terrible song, it just doesn't do much for me.

I love most of the album though.

Daybreak Over the Ocean

Daybreak Over the Ocean

TPLoB&S

Lyrics are a muddled mess, and although I guess it's not unprecedented in the BB catalogue-- is Brian commenting on reality TV any different than Brian gushing about a late-night show host?-- it still comes off as forced and it really doesn't feel like a Beach Boys song or sound like a Beach Boys song. It's the "Disney"-fied Brian melody and arrangement that has popped up periodically since Imagination. Blandest common denominator. Shelter is in the same boat, although that's more of an adult contemporary sound than a cartoon show theme song, as Bill & Sue resembles, in my opinion.

Finally here we are. The final regular round of Beach Boys Survivor. Please remember as we vote to respect other people's opinions. Lets have fun!


Maaaaybe litt'el darlin' 20 votes strait to the Loser's Lounge'll see ya throooo. (http://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/images/smilies/survivor.gif)

As per the usual, vote off your LEAST FAVORITE track.

Tally will be on May 18th

Think About the Days
That's Why God Made the Radio
Isn't It Time
Spring Vacation
The Private Life of Bill and Sue
Shelter
Strange World
From There to Back Again
Pacific Coast Highway
Summer's Gone

Round#1 - Beaches in Mind May 14
Round#2 - Daybreak Over the Ocean May 16

My second vote remains an easy one.

The Private Life of Bill and Sue.

Think About the Days

Think About The Days

Bill and Sue

Bill and Sue

Bill & Sue

The private parts of bill and sue...

Bill & Sue

Shelter

The Private Life of Bill and Sue

Think about the days

The Private Life of Bill and Sue

Think About the Days

Strange World

Rare for me not to like a Brian-centric BBs song, but this one just doesn't do much for me.

The private life of Bill and Sue

Strange World

Summer's Gone

Shelter - what a bore

Shelter, without a doubt. Ghastly track!

Surprised for the votes for TATD. It's one of the best on the album - one of the few tracks which could honestly have appeared on one of their '60's/'70's albums without seeming out of place. I could picture it on Friends. Unlike Shelter or Bill & Sue or even the title track...

Think About The Days.

Not because it's short, or wordless, it's just that I just don't like it much. Sounds a little to me like they're about to break into "Stairway To Heaven".

Summer's Gone

Spring Vacation.

Bill and sue

Bill & Sue.

Of all the songs still on the list, this is really the only one that 's less than excellent IMO. This album rules!

Bill and Sue

Bill and Sue

Bill n sue (invoice and writ?)

sh*t Vacation...

Surprised at it's popularity here, as soon as I got this album on Vinyl and played it loud, I was instantly and deeply embarrassed by this horrid song (and Beaches In Mind)

Think About the Days

Spring Vacation - of course

Waves of Love to win!

There's a bit more to it than Shelter and Bill & Sue methinks... though the lyrics are far more atrocious than either of those.

Bill and Sue

"sh*t Vacation"? Oh man, that's good stuff.

How about

sh*t Surrounds Me
Thoughts Of sh*t
Shittin' Safari
Waves Of sh*t
Wouldn't sh*t Be Nice?
sh*t-ler (not to be confused with Shitler)
sh*t's OK!
Carry sh*t Home
Denny's sh*t
sh*t Dance, sh*t Dance, sh*t Dance

P-Lyf of B & S

Time will show it winning Survivor. I am willing to bet on that.

nah. FTTBA will win.

but those two should just be one song anyway

How about just "sh*t, sh*t, sh*t?"

"You gotta sh*t, sh*t, sh*t!"

or

"And she'll have sh*t, sh*t, sh*t 'til her daddy takes her T-Bird away"

(Bill and Sue)

Ha ha you are right. I was thinking of FTT BA.  I really do think of them as one song.

Really? Give me the album version of It's About Time over the rest of the album any day of the week...

They covered It's About Time for TWGMTW?  Isn't It Time, surely  ;D

FTTBA will be the outright winner, IMHO!

Agreed 100%! :D

The Private Life of Bill and Sue

"Private Life of Bill and Sue" gets my hammer/vote.  Hardly needs another.  Sounds like a re-make of "South American" - which is much, much better.

I sh*t Around
sh*t sh*t sh*t
Wouldn't It Be Nice (To sh*t Again)
Please Let Me sh*t
Catch A sh*t
Do You Wanna sh*t?
Hang On To Your sh*t
Do You Like sh*t?
I Love To Say sh*t
Can't sh*t Too Long
I Went To sh*t
Time To sh*t Alone
sh*t Fields (The sh*t Song)
S.H.I.T. Is On The Way
'Til I sh*t
Come sh*t With Me
Kokomo

Summer Means New sh*t
I'd Love Just Once to sh*t
When a Man Needs a sh*t
Busy Doin' sh*t
sh*t's Up
sh*t On Sailor
Passing sh*t
Still Shittin'

Newcombe wins.  :lol
I'm sure AGD finds all this hilarious.

Who could forget these classics:
The Warmth of the sh*t
Falling in sh*t
sh*t in the Morning
Don't Go Near the sh*t
Shittin' Down the Highway

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  Best track on the album. Listened to the album twice this weekend and most of it sounded rather good, even Spring Vacation. My vote this round is Bill & Sue. A quirky Brian number that misses the mark a bit.

Oh yes. How on earth did i get confused between those two wildly different song titles? :)

Never Learn Not To sh*t
I'm Shitting Your Way
We Got sh*t
Good Shittin'
sh*t On Through
Got To Know The Shitter
I'll Bet sh*t's Nice
sh*t Prayer
Summer Of Love

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20 of us put on our steel toed boots and kicked Bill and Sue in their Private Life. (http://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/images/smilies/survivor.gif)

As per the usual, vote off your LEAST FAVORITE track.

Tally will be on May 20th

Think About the Days
That's Why God Made the Radio
Isn't It Time
Spring Vacation
Shelter
Strange World
From There to Back Again
Pacific Coast Highway
Summer's Gone

Round#1 - Beaches in Mind May 14
Round#2 - Daybreak Over the Ocean May 16
Round#3 - The Private Life of Bill and Sue

Though it's getting tough, my third vote remains an easy one.

Darlin'.. oops I mean Shelter.

I assume Bill and Sue is toast as of this round, but it's far from my least favorite here. It has a fun, snappy, laid-back sound, and I like the unusually jaded, unusually ironic 'la-la-la' background vocals in the chorus.  

Plus, this is The Beach Boys singing a song musing about why people enjoy celebrity drama. That's just funny in itself.

Whoops, my comment came a bit late, LOL.

Round 4, Strange World again for me.

Spring Vacation, which has grown on me enormously since the album's release.

After this I'll find it hard to decide which track to vote for next. The album tracks are in tiers from here on so have to judge between Radio, Time and Shelter. Not a lot between them.

Shelter

Spring Vacation

Shelter. It's a bit... empty. :/

Sprang Vaca

ANd Hey what up with this Thread - its going to sh*t.  :p

Solo track - He Couldn't Get His Poor Old Body to sh*t.

Shelter

Think About The Days

National lampoons Spring Vacation

Think About the Days

Spring Vacation

Summer's Gone

Shelter

It plumbs the depths of Hell, to put it mildly.

Summer's Gone

I feel embarrassed cracking up over these  ;D

VOTE for
Secret sect of Bill and Sue

GAIIIS U BE KILLING ME! ;D

Shelter (Shitter)

That one is gone. Pick again.  ;D

Spring Vacation

Think About the Days

This is hard, I LOVE all these songs... But I guess I'll have to go for Isn't It Time.

Spring Vacation I guess.

Think About The Days

  Shelter

Spring Vacation.

A little sad to see Bill and Sue go, although it wouldn't have lasted much longer in any case.  I guess it is a little lightweight, but I can't get enough of those chorus vocals and the sax during the little bridge/refrain.

Think About the Days

Aw, seeing TATD going this early would be a shame. It's a lovely little a cappella piece... short, but it's got a lot more soul than some of the other stuff here.

Think About the Days

blah

Yeah, one of the bigger eye-openers for me during these Survivor rounds is the surprise that many folks aren't keen on "Think About The Days." I had always thought there was a pretty solid consensus that this is a highlight. Not so, I guess.

shelter

Strange World

Shelter...

Spring Vacation

I really like both Shelter and Spring Vacation.

My vote: Think About The Days again.

"Shelter"  There's something about it that makes me think of Henry Gross' "Shannon" - maybe Jeff's bit.  I do like it.

Spring Vacation

Shelter

Shelter

Spring Vacation

sh*t Vacation  :lol :lol :lol

What an ok song

I like these

I Shat on my old man.... (not a suggestion for a song title, I actually DID do this..)  :lol

Finally here we are. The final regular round of Beach Boys Survivor. Please remember as we vote to respect other people's opinions. Lets have fun!


No Shelter is strong enough to survive the onslaught of votes. (13) (http://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/images/smilies/survivor.gif)

As per the usual, vote off your LEAST FAVORITE track.

Tally will be on May 22nd

Think About the Days
That's Why God Made the Radio
Isn't It Time
Spring Vacation
Strange World
From There to Back Again
Pacific Coast Highway
Summer's Gone

Round#1 - Beaches in Mind May 14
Round#2 - Daybreak Over the Ocean May 16
Round#3 - The Private Life of Bill and Sue May 18
Round#4 - Shelter May 20

Though it's getting tough, my fourth vote remains an easy one.

Spring Vacation.

Spring Vacation

Isn't it time.


The "Isn't it time we get ready and then,  isn't it time we go steady again"  line just kills it for me.

The title track.

Think About the Days

Think About the Days

My thoughts entirely.

Spring Vacation

Spring Vacation -- although I think it's a great song, and it's noteworthy as being the only song on the album with a discernible Bruce vocal (to my ears at least).

Summers Gone

Strange World

Spring vacation

Can't believe it made it through last round

Not my choice this time around, but it does nothing for me; it's like a throwaway number

Spring vacation

Think About The Days

Think About the Days

Spring Vacation

Isn't It Time

Booo to Shelter going down the Helter-Skelter.


Think About The Days

Spring Vacation

Think About The Days.

Think About the Shitty Days

Spring Vacation

"Spring Vacation"  My notes from our listening party last Saturday:  pretty good, but not finals good - and that's where we're going.  Love the organ.

   Spring Vacation

Spring Vacation.

I love Shelter, great tune, awesome Mike vocals in chorus with great response backgrounds, shame about the nasty drum sound...owes little to Darlin IMO.

Strange World

Spring Vacation

Think about the days.. the harmonies are beautiful but it's not as good as the other on the list..

"Spring Vacation," please.

No surprises to my vote - Spring Vacation.

Also, I love Think About The Days, and I'm spinning out about all the votes for it. I think it's among the best Beach Boys album openers!

Strange World

Isn't It Time is about the only song on the album I actually like. Very catchy number.

Think About The Days gets my vote.

Just guessing, but I think the HDCD thing is at Mark Linett's request/influence. For example, the reissues produced and co-ordinated by Mark (ie, the Capitol era twofers) and BWPS/PSS/TSS are HDCD.  The reissues produced and co-ordinated by Cheryl Pawelski and Paul Atkinson  (Reprise/Caribou stuff) are not (this decision might have been up to Andrew Sandoval and Dan Hersh, who did the digital remastering).

Back to TWGMTR, the main technical influence on the scene seems to have been Joe T  :P, so possibly his decision - it was mastered by Bob Ludwig (who mastered BWPS for HDCD), so perhaps Joe decided HDCD unnecessary or he forgot to tick box on the order form.  I repeat, just guessin'.

Umm, Strange World.

Isn't It Time.

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Spring Vacation

spring vaca I - SHUN -YA

Strange world

The title track.

And jeez, I'm surprised to see anyone voting for "Isn't It Time" this early. It sounds fresh, kind of modern (in only good ways) and a little spontaneous in a way that nothing else on the album does and nothing else the band have done in decades does. Despite the nostalgic lyrics, it's probably the only thing on the album that feels like a good, newer band could have done it rather than a reunited band who are pushing 70 and are co-writing their album with other songwriters. Not sure if I stated that as well as I could, but hopefully you get what I mean. Might be my third or fourth favorite from the album.

Anyway, yeah, I vote for the song "That's Why God Made The Radio" which, while I like it, is the exact opposite of what I just described, maybe more so than anything else on the album. That combined with Jeff doubling the entire lead (why???) and a few really iffy lines take it down this far, for me. Again, I do like it, but not as much as most of the other stuff here.

Well put - in particular re Isn't It Time.

Isn't It Time

megaweak track. in concert it was lame and awkward as well.

We know, it wasn't a Smile track, so it can't possibly be good. Let's vote all of the tracks down.

Seriously? For me, it's about the seventh best thing on the album.

Strange World


Isn't It Time is either my favorite on the album, or damn close to it. I love the vocals. The song sounds intimate and sweet, with instrumentals a lot less heavy-handed than on some of the other tracks.

Not my favorite track either, but it is far from "megaweak". It's a song that works well for both Brian's & Mike's voices and range. It has a pretty catchy chorus with nice vocals from both Al & Bruce.

I don't think it's megaweak, but it's far from my favourite

Isn't It Time was fun in concert but it's just not a great song in my opinion. it's annoyingly repetitive and by the end, it's just enough already.

the lyric rewrite and re-recording did nothing to improve the song itself. (i'm looking at you Michael Edward)


the title track is a hell of a song. extremely well-written and extremely BRIAN regardless of what some have chosen to believe.

What you just described can also be said of Help Me Rhonda and number of other songs. Rock is repetitive. The reason that I like it is because of the singing. Everybody does a really nice job with each of their parts, even Jeff. ;)

Think About the Days

Think About the Days

I really like Isn't It Time. And if any song on the album could have been a hit single (with the right marketing and a bit of luck) it's probably this one. The only reason why I voted for it is because I love those other songs even more.

The single version they did release was, unfortunately, a step-down from the album-version...

Finally here we are. The final regular round of Beach Boys Survivor. Please remember as we vote to respect other people's opinions. Lets have fun!


No Shelter is strong enough to survive the onslaught of votes. (13) (http://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/images/smilies/survivor.gif)

As per the usual, vote off your LEAST FAVORITE track.

Tally will be on May 24th

Think About the Days
That's Why God Made the Radio
Isn't It Time
Strange World
From There to Back Again
Pacific Coast Highway
Summer's Gone

Round#1 - Beaches in Mind May 14
Round#2 - Daybreak Over the Ocean May 16
Round#3 - The Private Life of Bill and Sue May 18
Round#4 - Shelter May 20
Round#5 - Spring Vacation May 22

This round is were it gets tough, my fifth vote has to be...
Think About The Days.  :'(

Think About The Days

Again my vote is for Summer's Gone. I don't think it's a bad song,  I just like the other songs more. Not a popular opinion, apparently. Who knows, maybe in a few years I'll hear something in Summer's Gone that will suddenly make me enjoy it more. It happens all the time to me. Example: only 2 weeks ago I started to really like Crack At Your Love from the '85 album. I never liked that song before, and now I can't stop listening to it. But back on track...yeah, Summer's Gone.

Think About The Days

Think About The Days.

You guys seriously voted off Shelter before Spring Vacation? Really?

Think About the Days

Strange world

Strange World!

Think About the Days

Think about the days

Summer's Gone

As much as I love Think about the days, it gets my vote - due to the competition.

The title track.

All these votes for Think About The Days... Madness I tells ya! I remember when I first played the album, the opening track really blew me away and left me thinking 'Wow, have they really pulled this off??' Alas, by the triple whammy of Shelter/Daybreak/Beaches and a half ton of poorly electronically-enhanced vocals I realised the answer was 'No'. But for those gorgeous sixty or so seconds of TATD I honestly thought they had...

Strange World

IIT

Summers Gone

Isn't It Time is the weakest of the bunch

My thoughts exactly!

Vote goes to the title track.

Perhaps what strikes me about Isn't it time being a weak track is the arrangement and production (especially the single version). The ukulele and bass don't work and the harmonies don't make it for me. It was weird to hear live, especially compared to TWGMTR, which they pulled off rather well on most occasions. [I've voted earlier]

tink a boot tha daze

  Isn't It Time

 Agree that the single was inferior to the album version

Strange World.  Like the song but would love to hear this produced without the 90s Joe Thomas sound.

TATD

Doo-doo-doo doo doo doo doo Doo-doo-doo doo doo doo doo aah aah aaaaaaaaaaahh doo doo doo-doo

Realizing how good this album is at this point.  Only good material left. PCH, only because the self referential lyrics had already been done on MAD

Title track.  I like it a lot, but I think I love the others more though.

Strange World

Think About the Days, but really it's a toss up for me between anything other than the last three tracks.

Think About the Days

At this point, the choice is really easy...

Isn't It Time

Think About the Days

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Title track, please! I really cannot stand it.

Strange World

Thanks for the reply Alan.  You are on the right track.  It's the projects Mark and his gang are involved in, at least since HDCD became available.  In most cases.  He is not calling every shot in the many, many issues and re-issues since the 80's.  I have a DDD BB '85 that sounds fantastic, and of course that's not HDCD.  I just think the two tracks from this on MIC sound better on my system.  I really seem to be in the minority liking the re-do version of "Isn't it Time" - that's for sure.

Isnt it time.

Think About the Days, hands down no question

Finally here we are. The final regular round of Beach Boys Survivor. Please remember as we vote to respect other people's opinions. Lets have fun!


No more time to Think About The Days. (16) (http://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/images/smilies/survivor.gif)

As per the usual, vote off your LEAST FAVORITE track.

Tally will be on May 26th

That's Why God Made the Radio
Isn't It Time
Strange World
From There to Back Again
Pacific Coast Highway
Summer's Gone

Round#1 - Beaches in Mind May 14
Round#2 - Daybreak Over the Ocean May 16
Round#3 - The Private Life of Bill and Sue May 18
Round#4 - Shelter May 20
Round#5 - Spring Vacation May 22
Round#6 - Think About the Days May 24

This round is were it gets even tougher, my sixth vote has to be...

Isn't It Time

IIT

well, isn't it??

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Isn't It Time

Isn't It Time

 ISN'T IT TIME did not deserve to outlast Think About the Days

Pretty much, this.

Isn't It Time this song gets voted out!

Strange World.

Strange World

This. This time it's time time was called on Isn't It Time.

Strange World

Strange world

That`s Why God Made The Radio

The title track.

There's a few nice things about it (the 'when I/antenna' line), but the unpleasant moments outweigh the good stuff: the horrible drum sound just before the final chorus, the awful bit at the start of the middle-eight when the guitar goes 'dowwwwww', Jeff's ghastly singing of the word 'God', or rather 'Gaaaahhhhhh-d'.

Isn't It Time.

Title Track

I quite like this song, and I don't mind the drums and Jeff's singing. But the auto-tune is hard to take (if it really was used), and the line "Spreading the Love and Sunshine to a Whole New Generation! Whole New Generation!!!" is cheesier and more cringeworthy than any of Bruce Johnston's songs he wrote for the Beach Boys.

Isn't It Time. AGAIN.

That's Why God Made the Radio

It's a strange world if no one else wants to vote out this song HAHA

That's Why God Made the Radio.  It's a nice song but the least adventurous of the remaining tracks.

Isn't It Time.

While I like all of the remaining tracks, I am going to have to go with

Summer's Gone

the title track is actually quite adventurous in terms of composition. changes key several times throughout the song, similar to something like Girls on the Beach or This Whole World. it's classic Wilson.

Isn't It Time on the other hand just repeats the same few chords over and over and over.....

That's Why God Made The Radio

TWGMTR

Shouldn`t that be, `classic Wilson, Thomas, Peterik and Millas`?  ;)

Summer's Gone

it was established here recently that Brian basically wrote the music and those other guys contributed lyrics. it's a great song with some not-as-great lyrics. pretty classic Wilson if you ask me.

I must have missed that. The last comments I read about it were still the:

`- Brian came up with the title over dinner with Millas, Peternik, Thomas and a DJ called Steve Dahl;When asked what he could hear (in his head) Brian described a '50s beat (like "Silhouettes on the Shade") with lots of modulations.

- Millas, Peternik, Thomas and Brian got together to work on it - Brian came up with the "Tune it in our latest star" bit. Millas and Peternik took it away and cooked up the demo, which JT said is quite different from the 2012 version to which Brian added parts and changed things around

- Brian always intended for it to be used on a BB album (apparently was one planned but didn't happen around this period '97/'98)`

It`s not in the same stratosphere as This Whole World anyway... :)

Strange world..

regardless of lyrics or production, the changes are quite impressive and modulations seamless

here's the quote from Ray Lawlor:

Strange world

Strange World

I really don`t think that means that all other comments from participators should be dismissed but maybe that`s just me...

Strange World

i'm not dismissing anything. nothing you quoted negates Ray Lawlor's comments. but his comments negate the opinion that with so many co-writers, Brian's contributions were minimal

Strange World    :P

Title track

"Isn't it Time"

Summer's Gone

Strange World

the title track

Strange World

Finally here we are. The final regular round of Beach Boys Survivor. Please remember as we vote to respect other people's opinions. Lets have fun!


It's a strange world when Strange World gets voted off too soon. (14) (http://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/images/smilies/survivor.gif)

As per the usual, vote off your LEAST FAVORITE track.

Tally will be on May 28th

That's Why God Made the Radio
Isn't It Time
From There to Back Again
Pacific Coast Highway
Summer's Gone

Round#1 - Beaches in Mind May 14
Round#2 - Daybreak Over the Ocean May 16
Round#3 - The Private Life of Bill and Sue May 18
Round#4 - Shelter May 20
Round#5 - Spring Vacation May 22
Round#6 - Think About the Days May 24
Round#7 - Strange World May 26

This round is were it gets even tougher, my sixth vote has to be...

Isn't It Time

Summer's Gone

  Isn't It Time

That's Why God Made the Radio

From There to Back Again

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That's Why God Made the Radio

Pacific Coast Highway

wow this is getting harder to choose... I guess "TWGMTR"

Summer's Gone

That's Why God Made the Radio, for sure. 

Isn't It Time

That's Why God Made the Radio

I liked Strange World...

Isn't It Time. Does absolutely nothing to me.

That's Why God Made the Radio

That's Why God Made the Radio

Isn't It Time

IIT

 Isn't it time

That's Why God Made The Radio

It's really quite horrid.

Isn't It Time

Never understood the point of view that it would have been a better choice of lead single than the title track. It's much less interesting, ambitious and striking.

And yet the game is still the same.

Isn't It Time.  Great song.

Radio

My seven favourite tracks - in order
1  FTTBA
2. PCH
3. SW
4. SG
5. TATD
6. TWGMTR
7. IIT

So it has to be Isn't It Time, the blander of the bunch.

Isn't It Time

Innit time  :drunks

TWGMTR

Summer's Gone

I love "Strange World"

Radio

That's Why God Made The Radio

That's Why God Made The Radio

"That's Why God Made the Radio"--I like how inventive this song is for a single, but I think the production is way too neat (the guitar & organ just sound too cheez).

Isn't It Time

Really stunned that Strange World was voted off.

Anyway..  Isn't it time.

Isn't It Time.

TWGMTR

Finally here we are. The final regular round of Beach Boys Survivor. Please remember as we vote to respect other people's opinions. Lets have fun!


God may have made the radio but it took 18 smilers to vote it off. (http://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/images/smilies/survivor.gif)

As per the usual, vote off your LEAST FAVORITE track.

Tally will be on May 30th

Isn't It Time
From There to Back Again
Pacific Coast Highway
Summer's Gone

Round#1 - Beaches in Mind May 14
Round#2 - Daybreak Over the Ocean May 16
Round#3 - The Private Life of Bill and Sue May 18
Round#4 - Shelter May 20
Round#5 - Spring Vacation May 22
Round#6 - Think About the Days May 24
Round#7 - Strange World May 26
Round#8 - That's Why God Made the Radio May 28

This round is were it gets even tougher, my sixth vote has to be...

Isn't It Time

Isn't it time

Isn't It Time

Pacific Coast Highway

Still missing "Strange World," but how many here thought the final three would be the closer tracks from side 2?  Most right?  I'll help the cause.

Isn't It Time

Summer's Gone I suppose... Its lovely but doesn't quite move me the way I feel it should.

  Isn't It Time

Pacific Coast Highway

From There to Back Again

Isn't It Time

Summer's Gone

Summer's Gone

summers gone

innit time

Isnt it time

Isn't It Time

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Summer's Gone

Isn't It Time

Isn't it time I voted for Isn't it Time.

Isn't It Time

It Is Time

Isn't It Time

Isn't It Time

Isn't it time

Pacific Coast Highway

Summer's Gone gets my vote. Each version of the bouncy second single from this album has me singing and dancing every time.

The four tracks left are my four favorites from the album! Very hard to vote any of them off, but I'll put in a reluctant vote for Summer's Gone.

Isn't It Time

Tyme it Isnt.

PCH

Isn't It Time.

Isn't It Time

Isn't It Time

Pacific Coast Highway

PCH might be a better song than Isn't It Time. But I don't want a final round with just ballads, so I voted for PCH.  I'd like to see melancholia and positivity facing off in the final round. I'd like to see Summer's Gone vs. Isn't It TIme.

Tally in a few minutes. Good to see you back in time to vote hal.

Finally here we are. The final regular round of Beach Boys Survivor. Please remember as we vote to respect other people's opinions. Lets have fun!


Isn't It Time we voted off Isn't It Time? (23) (http://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/images/smilies/survivor.gif)

Here we go folks! The final voting round of the Beach Boys Survivor! Of the three remaining tracks, please vote for the one you think is YOUR FAVORITE, the MOST DESERVING of the slot in Super Survivor as the 35th SURVIVOR!

Tally will be on June 1st

From There to Back Again
Pacific Coast Highway
Summer's Gone

Round#1 - Beaches in Mind May 14
Round#2 - Daybreak Over the Ocean May 16
Round#3 - The Private Life of Bill and Sue May 18
Round#4 - Shelter May 20
Round#5 - Spring Vacation May 22
Round#6 - Think About the Days May 24
Round#7 - Strange World May 26
Round#8 - That's Why God Made the Radio May 28
Round#9 - Isn't It Time May 30

Pacific Coast Highway is nice... but really it's just a coda to From There To Back Again...

I love Summer's Gone. It's a great way to end the album. But I don't think it is the most interesting song.

I both Al and Brian's vocals on From There To Back Again. I love the chords. I loved how it feels like a couple different songs stuck together. I love it.

Plus it was a great book by JRR Tolkien.  :P

FTTBA FTW.

 :3d

Summer's Gone

The best album closer they ever did along with Caroline, No and Cuddle Up for me. I love it to death.

Yeah that is certainly true. Hmmmm... It would be a great way to close the playlist too... I may have to change my vote...

I'll think about it.  :o

A tough decision but I'll have to go with From There to Back Again

Tight as hell

Pacific coast

Do it, do it!  ;D (I doubt it'll win though)

From There To Back Again - There is just so much going on with this tune. This is Brian at his best. For that matter, the last 4 songs are Brian at his best.

From There to Back Again

From there to back again

From There to Back Again (again!)

Pacific Coast Highway

I think I'm gonna go with PCH.  It was the song that moved me most when I initially played the album.  The only thing that makes me reluctant is that is almost not a song, but a coda to FTTBA as pixletwin points out.  And I guess FTTBA has more to it to enjoy as you listen to it more and more.

But PCH is still so moving despite anything else.

To be honest anything will be a worthy winner at this stage.  Can't we just crown 'The Suite' as winner?  JT did say in an interview that dividing it into tracks was somewhat arbitrary anyway, right?

Summer's Gone.  If it is indeed the last song on the last Beach Boys album, they nailed it.

Summer's Gone

From There to Back Again

From There To Back Again.

When i first got the album i thought Summers Gone was my initial favorite.  However as time has gone by i have found myself liking From There to Back again the most.  What a GREAT Song.  Best BB tune in like 30+ years.

Brian is indeed back.

Agree. FTTBA.

Summer's Gone doesn't quite land the emotional punch it's going for - From There to Back Again certainly does though. :)

From There to Back Again

from there to back again

Pacific coast highway

From There to Back Again

From There to Back Again

Horrible autotune almost makes way sway towards PCH but FTTBA pips it.

Not voting because my favorite song on this album is "From There to Back Again/Pacific Coast Highway/Summer's Gone"

FTTBA

what a hell of a song.

Pacific coast highway

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From there to back again....easily the best thing they did since All This Is that 40 years before.

Summer's Gone. If this really is the last Beach Boys album, then this is the perfect ending!

Regretably, I won't go From There To Back Again - a beautiful piece but I've always been a bit 50/50 about the - babada baba ba bada broadway show bit just before the mighty Al makes with the whistlin';


I've really come to appreciate Summer's Gone - initially thought it was a good closer, and in time it's become one of my favs.

But my vote goes to PCH - blows me away today as much as when I first heard it; subtle hints of Denny (just IMHO), pretty compelling tune.

summer's gone

From There to Back Again

"From There to Back Again" is absolutely wonderful and may well be the best composition on the LP.

But "Summer's Gone" is my absolute favorite and is the best at giving me that deep, visceral experience of connection and longing that very good art engenders.

"Summer's Gone," it is.

Summer's Gone

I feel the opposite...so that's why I'm voting for "Summer's Gone". :)

(I don't mean to be morbid, but that's probably the first song I'll listen to when BW passes...)

Just re-listened to the album (for the first time in ages) and I'm now going to change my vote:

Summer's Gone (replacing From Here To Back Again, which has far more unpleasant autotune than I'd remembered)

Summer's Gone

FTTBA

Summer's Gone's emotion sounds a bit phoned in, put on for the sake of having a dramatic finale for the comeback album to appease critics. It's okay, but From There to Back Again brims with a certain type of magic that has otherwise laid dormant for a good 40 years. I can't see myself voting for anything but.

If I do die before him, maybe I'll have it arranged for a CD of some of my music to be sent to him...  :smokin

From There to Back Again

From There To Back Again

I get where you're coming from and if I hadn't read about both Brian's coming to terms with turning seventy years old (wondering to himself where the time went) and deciding to include a snippet of his last conversation with his dying brother in the lyric, I may have agreed.

But seeing as I did read all about that (and seeing as I'm willing to give Brian the benefit of the doubt that all of that is true), I have to conclude that "Summer's Gone" is absolutely heartfelt.

But I shouldn't stray too far off-topic.  I already cast my vote (and besides, no one is going to blame you for voting FTtBA). :)

Which lyric was inspired by his last conversation with Carl? That's something I hadn't heard before.

Unless I'm remembering it incorrectly, I believe one of the articles published around the time of TWGMTR's release mentioned that the lyric "It’s time to go/I’m thinking maybe I’ll just stay" was born of one of their final exchanges.

I wish I could link you to a source, but I can't recall exactly where we heard it.  Anyway, the gist was, there was a conversation which acknowledged that Carl's time was short, with Brian coming to terms with being the last Wilson brother left and finding the strength to carry on.

Edit:  I did some digging.  Jason Fine's "The Fragile Beach Boys Reunion" article.  Rolling Stone June 21, 2012 issue, pg. 57.  Charlie Sheen cover.

"The final segment of the suite, "Summer's Gone," started from a conversation Wilson had with his brother Carl shortly before he died.  (Wilson's mother had passed away two months earlier, and Brian was dealing with the fact that he might end up the last surviving member of the Wilson family.)

According to Thomas, Carl had planned to record a song for Imagination.  But when Brian visited, Carl told him "You know, Brian, I'm not going to be able to make it."  Brian's response was unusual.  "He told me his last words to Carl were 'I think I'm going to stay for a while.'"  says Thomas.  "I mean, what a weird and emotional thing to say: 'I know you've got to go, but I'm gonna stay for a while.'"

Edit 2:  Looks as though even while the cover states "The Fragile Beach Boys Reunion," the article is actually called "The Beach Boys' Last Wave."

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-beach-boys-last-wave-20120621

Apologies for any confusion.

Thanks G42. I'll have to locate that issue. :)

Think nothing of it. Happy to help. :)

Yeah, although I doubt it will make much of a difference, sentiment is prompting me to change my vote to SG.

I had already voted for Summer's Gone, but didn't know the story behind it with Carl. Incredibly sad and helps make the song all the more powerful

Whew . Possibly the most perfect final three in the entire Survivor series.

Having gone for FTT&BA throughout, I'm suddenly remembering hearing the album for the first time.

Summer's Gone. And with it, the finest band ever to grace rock and roll (until the next time!).

  Pacific Coast Highway. A linking song that also stands alone despite its brevity. Still the tune from TWGMTR that has the heaviest emotional impact, for me anyway.

Me too.  Nice way to put it Moon Dawg.  Thanks for the link Generation42.  Now I will always be reminded of Carl more when I listen.  They are all beautiful, but my vote for the one I like best is:

Tally within the hour.

Summers gone

From There To Back Again.

Finally here we are. The final regular round of Beach Boys Survivor. Please remember as we vote to respect other people's opinions. Lets have fun!


Pacific Coast Highway has closed with only 8 smilers traversing upon it.  (http://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/images/smilies/survivor.gif)

Summer won't be Gone for a few months yet, but here in Survivor the sun has set and autumn is on it's way. (14)

Overwhelmingly, the winner with 26 votes....

From There to Back Again

Round#1 - Beaches in Mind May 14
Round#2 - Daybreak Over the Ocean May 16
Round#3 - The Private Life of Bill and Sue May 18
Round#4 - Shelter May 20
Round#5 - Spring Vacation May 22
Round#6 - Think About the Days May 24
Round#7 - Strange World May 26
Round#8 - That's Why God Made the Radio May 28
Round#9 - Isn't It Time May 30
Round#10 - Pacific Coast Highway June1
Round#10 - Summer's Gone June 1

Stay tuned sometime in the next few hours for the beginning of FOUR ROUNDS of...

SMILEY-SMILE DOT NET BEACH BOYS SUPER SURVIVOR!!!

cool now let's do all the solo albums... (including First Love and Country Love) just for the heck of it...

We'll get there, but we have Super Survivor and Ultimate Survivor to hit first.

As always, I'd've hoped for Surf's Up (1971) but as it lost out in that round I'd be happy with There and Back, God Only Knows, ATiT, Cali Girls, Heroes… this band cut a decent track or two in their time…!

Don't forget, we'll also be adding a Wildcard in the mix... Good Vibrations.  ;D

what happened to the latest rounds of Super Survivor?

It's in the Polls section now