Weld - Neil Young & Crazy Horse
The Name of this Band is Talking Heads - Talking Heads
Space Ritual - Hawkwind
Time Fades Away - Neil Young
Made Available - This Heat (John Peel sessions, so idk if it really counts)

and it doesn't seem like anyone else here's that into "Gettin' Hungry".

You mean to say you're dependent on others' opinions? Or is it an odd phrasing?

Phrased it weird, oops. What I mean is that I don't dig it, and I noticed a lot of others don't either.

5/5. A little bit too saccharine at times, but I can't fault any album with "Forever" on it too much.

Replace "Forever" with "All I Wanna Do" (my road-to-Hawthorne moment) and I couldn't agree more. :=) Same score for me too.

That one's probably my 2nd favourite!

Been posting here a bit, haven't made a thread here yet. Lurked here a bit when I recently went through a phase of getting really obsessed with Smile, and I missed posting on message boards, so here I am.

I'm 22 and I'm from around Edmonton, Canada (don't live in the city, but spend most of my free time there). The Beatles had always been one of my favourite bands since I started getting really serious about music (so, when I was like 12), and I decided to look for similar stuff at one point, and I ended up finding and falling in love with Pet Sounds when I was in high school. For a while I mostly just stuck with that, Sunflower, and I dug The Smile Sessions but wasn't too into it. It's only been within the last couple months that I realized just how incredible Smile is (it very well might be my favourite "album") and how great their whole run from '65-'71 is.

Bossa-nova is a style, and the only song on the record in that style is Busy Doin' Nothing...

but it is a perfect relaxed summer afternoon record

True. Even when it doesn't sound super Brazilian, the chord progressions on it are really unique and don't really seem to pop up much in their other work ("Passing By" and the verse on "Friends" stick out for me).

Macca and Geezer Butler are the first two that come to mind.

McCartney II

"Big White Cloud" by John Cale

Seems odd on the surface, but Yeezy's one of the few mainstream artists around who's willing to experiment, and Macca experiments more than you'd think. Yeah, he's the sappy Beatle, but he was also the first Beatle to get into Stockhausen and, well, have you heard McCartney II? 

As a fan of both, I'm looking forward to it.

Berlin era + Station to Station

Mac DeMarco's Salad Days and Future Islands' Singles are my two favourite albums of the year. New St. Vincent was cool too.

The origin of the song was simply yet comprehensively described thusly: "Why isn't there a song about Johnny Carson ?"

According to some dude called... Will Brison, wasn't it ?

I can see this happening, but I can't help but hear autobiographical elements in the lyrics, espeically the lines "When guests are boring he fills up the slack, the network makes him break his back". Seems like a metaphor for Brian being promoted as the brains of the band and the pressure on him to create "genius" songs consistently to me.

1. Good Vibrations
2. Heroes & Villains (top 2 are too obvious)
3. Little Pad (heh)
4. Wind Chimes (I like this just as much, if not more, than the Smile version)
5. She's Goin' Bald (the "sha na na" part is simultaneously one of the funniest and creepiest things ever)
6. With Me Tonight
7. Fall Breaks and Back to Winter (a bit too repetitive, but I like it)
8. Wonderful (I like this version, but isn't anywhere near as great as the Smile version)
9. Whistle In
10. Vegetables (I've never really cared for this song, no matter which version)
11. Gettin' Hungry

1. Don't Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)
2. God Only Knows
3. Wouldn't It Be Nice
4. I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
5. That's Not Me
6. You Still Believe in Me
7. Caroline, No
8. I'm Waiting for the Day
9. I Know There's An Answer
10. Pet Sounds (am I the only one who likes this best of the two instrumentals?)
11. Sloop John B
12. Here Today
13. Let's Go Away for Awhile

5/5. A little bit too saccharine at times, but I can't fault any album with "Forever" on it too much.

4/5. "The Night Was So Young" and "I'll Bet He's Nice" are two of my favourite BB songs. I actually think "Johnny Carson" is underrated. I think of that song as being about Brian and the pressure on him from labels and the other members of the band. If you keep that in mind, it makes more sense. A lot of it's really cheesy, but that's something I find endearing about The Beach Boys.

5/5. Best non-Pet Sounds/Smile album, even if it is all over the place. The rest is good enough I'm almost willing to forgive Mike Love for "Student Demonstration Time". Almost.

4/5, would be a 5/5 if it didn't have H&V and GV (both songs are great, don't get me wrong, but they're just really out of place imo), and it doesn't seem like anyone else here's that into "Gettin' Hungry". The rest is great though, even if it takes a while to grow on you. I think I might actually like the version of "Wind Chimes" on Smiley better than the Smile version.

5/5 obviously. Most lyrically relatable album ever maybe.

4/5. Not really that into the last couple songs. I like that this is the only Beach Boys album (that I've heard anyways) that sounds super bossa nova-y. Super chill.

No Wire? 

if ya mention Wire ya gotta mention the MINUTEMEN!

you know what's up

I only just got into them within the last year or so, despite being a Beatles/Beach Boys/Stones etc. fan for 10+ years (I'm 22). Village Green has quickly become one of my favourite albums.

No Wire? 

I love The Doldrums. It sounds like David Bowie, Scott Walker, Barry Gibb, and Brian Wilson (for "Among Dreams" anyways) made a really cool collaborative album, then accidentally left the masters in the sun for like a week. The other Paw Tracks stuff is neat but not as special as that record. Before Today's cool. Mature Themes is baaad ("Only In My Dreams" aside).

Individual tracks.