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Title: The Definitive Smiley Smile Message Board's Song & Album Rankings - 2022 Results
Post by: Doobidoo on August 24, 2018, 05:37:21 AM
Hi everybody! 2022's results are here:
(Rank-difference in parenthesis)
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Smiley Smile Message Board's Top 10 Songs:
1. Surf's Up - 283 Points (-)
2. God Only Knows - 221 Points (-)
3. Good Vibrations - 204 Points (-)
4. 'Til I Die - 197 Points (-)
5. Wouldn't It Be Nice - 189 Points (-)
6. This Whole World - 133 Points (-)
7. Cabin Essence - 110 Points (-)
8. I Just Wasn't Made For These Times - 105 Points (-)
9. Please Let Me Wonder - 100 Points (-)
10. All I Wanna Do - 98 Points (-)
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Smiley Smile Message Board's Top 10 Albums:
1. Pet Sounds - 497 Points (-)
2. Sunflower - 334 Points (-)
3. The SMiLE Sessions - 333 Points (-)
4. The Beach Boys Today! - 275 Points (-)
5. Wild Honey - 236 Points (-)
6. Friends - 211 Points (-)
7. Surf's Up - 210 Points (-)
8. The Beach Boys Love You - 177 Points (-)
9. Smiley Smile - 147 Points (-)
10. Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) - 129 Points (-)
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In this spreadsheet, you're able to have a complete view of how the points were given, earlier rankings, and how the work proceeded:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yqIdZhZRxf8kZZO2F48iE1jIRzkoAK5Ainqvn2aD2OM/edit?usp=sharing


You're still able to add or edit your lists 'til next years results (2024) on:
http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,26075.0.html (Albums)
http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,26041.0.html (Songs)

Feel free to discuss and comment!


Title: Re: The Definite Smiley Smile Message Board's Song & Album Rankings - Results
Post by: jiggy22 on August 24, 2018, 11:31:10 AM
Mad props to the one person who had “Drip Drop (Teardrops on My Bed)” in their top 10!

Very pleased to see “Surf’s Up” take the #1 spot, that song deserves all the praise and more 8)


Title: Re: The Definite Smiley Smile Message Board's Song & Album Rankings - Results
Post by: Bicyclerider on August 25, 2018, 12:37:59 PM
The surprise for me is All I Wanna Do making the top ten - a deep cut well known to Beach Boy fanatics but not usuallly ranked up with the likes of God Only Knows and Good Vibrations.  This Whole World is not unexpected.

I’m surprised there hasn’t been more responses to the poll.  How many members does the board have?  This should be something everyone, even just lurkers and readers who usually don’t post, could participate in.


Title: Re: The Definite Smiley Smile Message Board's Song & Album Rankings - Results
Post by: Zargo on September 08, 2018, 09:56:33 PM
The surprise for me is All I Wanna Do making the top ten - a deep cut well known to Beach Boy fanatics but not usuallly ranked up with the likes of God Only Knows and Good Vibrations.  This Whole World is not unexpected.

I’m surprised there hasn’t been more responses to the poll.  How many members does the board have?  This should be something everyone, even just lurkers and readers who usually don’t post, could participate in.

It would be better if it was restricted to album tracks. As much as I'd hate to deny members their more esotoric choices, I think a narrower focus would lead to clearer results. Not that the top ten here looks bad, I realise I'm in the small minority of people that don't enjoy Surf's Up much until the coda.


Title: Re: The Definite Smiley Smile Message Board's Song & Album Rankings - Results
Post by: MyDrKnowsItKeepsMeCalm on September 09, 2018, 08:01:51 AM
That's a great top ten list, encompassing so much of what I love about them. If I were told I could only hear ten songs from the band ever again, it's not precisely the list I might choose but I'd be very, very happy with it.

At the same time, it's wild just how far removed it is from the list you'd get if you asked most casual fans for a top ten list of their favorite Beach Boys songs. Only God Only Knows, Good Vibrations and Wouldn't It Be Nice would make both lists. The list here is heavily loaded with '66-'71 material which is virtually unknown to most people, and iconic songs like Surfer Girl and California Girls didn't make the cut. Not a new insight but it is a uniquely fascinating tension with this group.



Title: Re: The Definite Smiley Smile Message Board's Song & Album Rankings - Results
Post by: krabklaw on September 09, 2018, 09:55:39 AM
I'm surprised Warmth of the Sun isn't on that list but the list is heavily weighted to post-Pet Sounds years (compared to popular opinion), what much of the Beach Boys hard core would consider the cool years.


Title: Re: The Definite Smiley Smile Message Board's Song & Album Rankings - Results
Post by: RangeRoverA1 on September 09, 2018, 04:46:06 PM
Disagree with PLMW, AIWD, TID, TWW, IJWMFTT isn't big PS fave. CE shouldn't be just 8th place. But, given these precise 10 songs, I'd place it like this - CE, SU, GOK, GV, WIBN, IJWMFTT, TWW, TID, PLMW, AIWD.

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Smiley Smile Message Board's Top 10 Albums - This will be released 15/9
Nice to see smb. write date like that, it isn't super-weird 9/15. As if the day will be 9th Fiftenber.


Title: Re: The Definite Smiley Smile Message Board's Song & Album Rankings - Results
Post by: marcella27 on September 10, 2018, 06:46:26 PM
[quote author=Bicyclerider link=topic=26093.msg640169#msg640169 date=1535225879

I’m surprised there hasn’t been more responses to the poll.  How many members does the board have?  This should be something everyone, even just lurkers and readers who usually don’t post, could participate in.
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In my case, the only reason I didn’t reply to this one was that I honestly couldn’t pick a top ten.  A top twenty, sure, but top ten was too hard.  Too many great songs. 

On a more pedantic note, could we please change the title of this and the other threads to definitive, not definite?  It hurts my eyes every time I see it. 


Title: Re: The Definite Smiley Smile Message Board's Song & Album Rankings - Results
Post by: Wata on September 11, 2018, 12:54:46 AM
On a more pedantic note, could we please change the title of this and the other threads to definitive, not definite?  It hurts my eyes every time I see it. 
Thanks for correction. I changed the title of the album one, which I made.


Title: Re: The Definite Smiley Smile Message Board's Song & Album Rankings - Results
Post by: MsBecca on September 15, 2018, 01:05:19 PM
Disagree with PLMW, AIWD, TID, TWW, IJWMFTT isn't big PS fave. CE shouldn't be just 8th place. But, given these precise 10 songs, I'd place it like this - CE, SU, GOK, GV, WIBN, IJWMFTT, TWW, TID, PLMW, AIWD.



OMG all those acronyms lol


Title: Re: The Definite Smiley Smile Message Board's Song & Album Rankings - Results
Post by: B.E. on September 15, 2018, 02:30:58 PM
Disagree with PLMW, AIWD, TID, TWW, IJWMFTT isn't big PS fave. CE shouldn't be just 8th place. But, given these precise 10 songs, I'd place it like this - CE, SU, GOK, GV, WIBN, IJWMFTT, TWW, TID, PLMW, AIWD.
OMG all those acronyms lol
The funny thing is 99/100 we all know exactly what they stand for!  :)


Title: Re: The Definitive Smiley Smile Message Board's Song & Album Rankings - Results
Post by: ♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇 on September 15, 2018, 02:43:41 PM
^ very true.


Title: Re: The Definitive Smiley Smile Message Board's Song & Album Rankings - Results
Post by: Doobidoo on September 16, 2018, 07:02:01 AM
The Album Results are here!


Title: Re: The Definite Smiley Smile Message Board's Song & Album Rankings - Results
Post by: Doobidoo on September 16, 2018, 02:35:08 PM

Quote
Smiley Smile Message Board's Top 10 Albums - This will be released 15/9
Nice to see smb. write date like that, it isn't super-weird 9/15. As if the day will be 9th Fiftenber.
Hey, everybody who's here must not be American! Isn't that how most countries write it?

Some thoughts:
It was sad to see that Funky Pretty and My Diane only got to recieve 1 point. Especially considering My Diane, thinking about how people tend to praise it
In the same thing that MyDrKnowsItKeepsMeCalm spoke about: It's worth mentioning that Kokomo didn't recieve a single point  :lol


Title: Re: The Definitive Smiley Smile Message Board's Song & Album Rankings - Results
Post by: Fall Breaks on September 17, 2018, 02:32:08 PM
The Album Results are here!
Someone recognizing their list, i.e. did someone rank them in the exact same order as what turned up as the total top 10?


Title: Re: The Definite Smiley Smile Message Board's Song & Album Rankings - Results
Post by: Doobidoo on September 18, 2018, 12:30:23 AM
Wrong post


Title: Re: The Definitive Smiley Smile Message Board's Song & Album Rankings - Results
Post by: Bicyclerider on September 19, 2018, 06:55:22 AM
Hard to argue with that top ten album list - I would have had 20/20 in there somewhere though.


Title: Re: The Definitive Smiley Smile Message Board's Song & Album Rankings - Results
Post by: Don Malcolm on September 19, 2018, 12:42:13 PM
Someone should go back and look at the earlier, far more extensively voted-in album/song polls done back before the "Great Schism" here just to see how this compares to that. I'm facing too many deadlines on current projects, so I won't get to it for awhile, but if someone else is interested in doing that, I think it would make for a worthwhile comparison...


Title: Re: The Definitive Smiley Smile Message Board's Song & Album Rankings - Results
Post by: ♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇 on September 20, 2018, 09:42:13 AM
I agree Don


Title: Re: The Definitive Smiley Smile Message Board's Song & Album Rankings - Results
Post by: michel neurophile on September 21, 2018, 01:26:42 PM
No vote for "Surfin' Safari", "15 Big Ones", "Still Cruisin', "Summer In Paradise" and "Stars And Stripes" !

Michel.


Title: Re: The Definitive Smiley Smile Message Board's Song & Album Rankings - Results
Post by: Magic Transistor Radio on October 10, 2018, 06:35:22 PM
My biggest surprise is that Holland did not make top 10 albums. And no Dennis songs could crack the top 10? I guess Brian is just that much better than anyone else.


Title: Re: The Definitive Smiley Smile Message Board's Song & Album Rankings - Results
Post by: Wata on October 10, 2018, 09:11:26 PM
And I'm surprised to see All This Is That and Feel Flows above Forever.


Title: Re: The Definitive Smiley Smile Message Board's Song & Album Rankings - Results
Post by: ♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇 on December 27, 2018, 11:23:54 AM
My biggest surprise is that Holland did not make top 10 albums. And no Dennis songs could crack the top 10? I guess Brian is just that much better than anyone else.

I would’ve thought so too. Should’ve been #10. Surprised that SDASN made it


Title: Re: The Definitive Smiley Smile Message Board's Song & Album Rankings - Results
Post by: Magic Transistor Radio on February 12, 2019, 07:11:19 AM
The surprise for me is All I Wanna Do making the top ten - a deep cut well known to Beach Boy fanatics but not usuallly ranked up with the likes of God Only Knows and Good Vibrations.  This Whole World is not unexpected.

I’m surprised there hasn’t been more responses to the poll.  How many members does the board have?  This should be something everyone, even just lurkers and readers who usually don’t post, could participate in.

It would be better if it was restricted to album tracks. As much as I'd hate to deny members their more esotoric choices, I think a narrower focus would lead to clearer results. Not that the top ten here looks bad, I realise I'm in the small minority of people that don't enjoy Surf's Up much until the coda.

I'm confused. What songs listed are not album tracks? Every song listed was on an album! Do you mean singles? That would be boring. Might as well go to a casual fans board.


Title: Re: The Definitive Smiley Smile Message Board's Song & Album Rankings - Results
Post by: Doobidoo on September 22, 2019, 01:28:09 PM
The new results of 2019 are here!

Holland got close to grab Summer Days 10th place this year (Only 1 point away!).
File Attached shows you what difference the new people did in points (not including how earlier posters edit their list)


Title: Re: The Definitive Smiley Smile Message Board's Song & Album Rankings - Results
Post by: Rentatris on November 26, 2019, 03:37:57 PM
Logged on for the first time in aaaages.

 Thanks for all the nerdy stats and presentation (with handy hyperlinks)

As said earlier, it wouldn’t be my top 10 but if those were my desert island bb’s the I’d be stoked!

My album changes would be...

 1. Pet Sounds - 467 Points (-)
2. The SMiLE Sessions - 317 Points (-) 2. Brian Wilson presents SMiLE
3. Sunflower - 311 Points (-) 10. Thats why god made the radio
5. The Beach Boys Today! - 248 Points (-)
4. Wild Honey - 213 Points (+1)
8. Friends - 205 Points (-1)
9. Surf's Up - 202 Points (-)
3. The Beach Boys Love You - 160 Points (-)
9. Smiley Smile - 144 Points (-) 7. That lucky old Sun
6. Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) - 118 Points (-)


Title: Re: The Definitive Smiley Smile Message Board's Song & Album Rankings - Results
Post by: Doobidoo on October 08, 2020, 07:42:06 AM
2020 RECALCULATIONS ARE DONE! (A bit late  :-\)

Even though new list contributions were far fewer this year, the differences were much bigger this year! I'm surprised that All I Wanna do fell so much

Logged on for the first time in aaaages.

 Thanks for all the nerdy stats and presentation (with handy hyperlinks)

As said earlier, it wouldn’t be my top 10 but if those were my desert island bb’s the I’d be stoked!

My album changes would be...

 1. Pet Sounds - 467 Points (-)
2. The SMiLE Sessions - 317 Points (-) 2. Brian Wilson presents SMiLE
3. Sunflower - 311 Points (-) 10. Thats why god made the radio
5. The Beach Boys Today! - 248 Points (-)
4. Wild Honey - 213 Points (+1)
8. Friends - 205 Points (-1)
9. Surf's Up - 202 Points (-)
3. The Beach Boys Love You - 160 Points (-)
9. Smiley Smile - 144 Points (-) 7. That lucky old Sun
6. Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) - 118 Points (-)

Hey, don't forget to put your list on the ranking process threads! They're still up  :)


Title: Re: The Definitive Smiley Smile Message Board's Song & Album Rankings - 2020 Results
Post by: Doobidoo on September 15, 2021, 08:41:48 AM
2021 RECALCULATIONS ARE DONE

User "waketheworld" and I was the only one's to add/edit their lists this year.
This made some small differences in the songs' Top 10, where 'Til I Die claimed the 4th place (which Wouldn't It Be Nice once had).

Feel still free to add/edit your own top 10 in the album and song calculation-threads! They're linked in the first post in this thread, and is pinned by the "poll" site here in SS.
(Kokomo STILL hasn't one single point!)


Title: Re: The Definitive Smiley Smile Message Board's Song & Album Rankings - 2021 Results
Post by: Doobidoo on September 06, 2022, 06:34:15 AM
No new entries or edits - therefore there's no new recalculation. Next recalculation will be in Autumn 2024