Title: Do you associate Cabin Essence & Surf's Up more with Smile or 20/20 & Surf's Up? Post by: thr33 on August 29, 2021, 09:09:01 PM Perhaps not the most interesting question, but I was thinking about this the other day.
Maybe it comes down to when somebody became a fan? Just curious about what comes to mind first (with the caveat that 'Smile' wasn't a released album). Title: Re: Do you associate Cabin Essence & Surf's Up more with Smile or 20/20 & Surf's Up? Post by: juggler on August 29, 2021, 10:38:58 PM Cabin - Absolutely associate it with Smile. I first heard the song as part of the Smile sampler on Disc 2 of the '93 box set. When I later obtained the Friends/20/20 CD, Cab seems very out of place on that album.
Surf's Up - I associate the '71 album version with the album particularly because Carl's lead on the first section just seems post-Smile in a way that his Cabin lead doesn't. It's very much the same Carl voice that you hear on Long Promised Road & Feel Flows, so it seems of a piece with the album. I associate other SU versions with Smile. Title: Re: Do you associate Cabin Essence & Surf's Up more with Smile or 20/20 & Surf's Up? Post by: Wrightfan on August 30, 2021, 06:04:36 AM Considering SMiLE is what made me become a hardcore fan, they're both songs of that era to me.
Title: Re: Do you associate Cabin Essence & Surf's Up more with Smile or 20/20 & Surf's Up? Post by: Robbie Mac on August 30, 2021, 06:26:18 AM I associate them with SMiLE.
Title: Re: Do you associate Cabin Essence & Surf's Up more with Smile or 20/20 & Surf's Up? Post by: thetojo on September 05, 2021, 03:57:24 AM Considering SMiLE is what made me become a hardcore fan, they're both songs of that era to me. +1 Title: Re: Do you associate Cabin Essence & Surf's Up more with Smile or 20/20 & Surf's Up? Post by: pixletwin on September 07, 2021, 02:19:51 PM Considering SMiLE is what made me become a hardcore fan, they're both songs of that era to me. Saaaaaame. Title: Re: Do you associate Cabin Essence & Surf's Up more with Smile or 20/20 & Surf's Up? Post by: hongkongcrowe on September 09, 2021, 06:16:16 AM Great question. I'm dating myself here, but I remember getting the Wild Honey - 20/20 2 LP set in the late 70s, the album cover was a sand cover with a painting of a girl in a bikini on it. The second side of 20/20 closed with Our Prayer and Cabinessence and stood out from the rest of tunes to my middle-school ears. Both compositions really stood out from the rest of the album. It would be years later that I learned the whole SMiLE story.
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