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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: What \
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on: June 29, 2012, 01:18:31 AM
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Add "Cottonfields," "Rock and Roll Music" and "Come and Go With Me." They may be covers, but they're hit singles.
My thought process was to try and actively avoid covers since I wanted to present the band's history as best I could on two discs. The lack of more than 160 minutes to play around with means the covers needed to be avoided at all costs. Then I Kissed Her is at least from their prime period and was a sizable hit outside of the United States while Barbara Ann clearly needs to be on here regardless. Bluebirds and I Can Hear Music are pretty much unknown to the general public in their original versions, so they can be on here as well. Basically, the first cover you mentioned has been done better by some other artists, noticeably CCR, and the latter two are just god-awful covers from their later period. As you can see, I went out of my way to avoid spending much time on the post-Holland period as there's just too many classics that would be left off in favor of later, dated hits like Getcha Back. Thinking more about it, the best Beach Boys two-disc compilation would probably end at Holland and be called "The First Ten Years" since it covers everything they recorded from 1962-1972 (with Holland being released only a week into 1973). That would free up a lot of extra space between the two discs and kind of represents their last hurrah before they became a popular oldies act (15 Big Ones), put their hands on a Brian solo album (Love You) and then put out records that are mostly pointless to the general public ever since. The only exception, of course, is the new one. However, since it just came out, it's not like tracks from it would really need to be on a compilation like this. A two disc set that ended at Holland would get universal acclaim (including a "10" from Pitchfork) and would get a lot of the younger, hipper crowd into the band without pushing the cheesier latter-day stuff onto them. That would be cool, but I think there are definitely 2 discs worth of gems spanning 76-2012. So 2 2-disc sets. Or just a box set. It could be called: Good Vibrations: 50 years of the Beach Boys.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Downer Wife/Girlfriend Hubby/Boyfriend Comments
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on: June 27, 2012, 10:44:25 PM
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Girlfriend hates them. the other night I was singing my son to sleep and she came in and said "Don't you know any songs besides the Beach Boys?" She mocks Jeffrey Foskett whenever she hears them; one time I played BWPS on a trip and she didn't talk to me at all after that, finally she told me it was because I had played 'The Beach Boys'. She laughs contemptuously whenever she hears Our Prayer. However, she actually owns a Phil Collins CD and not just any Phil Collins CD but Testify.
She is a fantastic woman otherwise, though.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Pitchfork pans tour, album
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on: June 26, 2012, 08:41:01 AM
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Giving TLOS and the relative quality of the covers albums, I think maybe some people had too low of expectations for the new album. If it wasn't for those last three tracks, I don't think many people would be calling it a miracle - maybe just a competent album.
Well, yeah, but the album DOES have those last three tracks.
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