Thank You Girl
I Call Your Name

My choices are Take a Load off Your Feet and Lookin' at Tomorrow.

Wasn't Take a Load off Your Feet removed?

Oh，I forgot to change that. Thanks for reminding me of it.

Today's song is Catch a Wave.

Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFwLp2iM73Q

Your ratings for Surfer Girl:
1...0 vote
2...0 vote
3...0 vote
4...3 votes
5...6 votes

Shite, I missed "Punchline". I would have given it 4. I see Nola BB Fan gave it 2, not 1. Perhaps you can add my 4 at the same time, Polly.

Done. Thanks for letting me know!!

Today's song is Surfer Girl.

Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfQeM3ut-2I

◎Surfer Girl(1963)
1. Surfer Girl
2. Catch a Wave
3. The Surfer Moon
4. South Bay Surfer
5. The Rocking Surfer
6. Little Deuce Coupe
7. In My Room
8. Hawaii
9. Surfers Rule
10. Our Car Club
11. Your Summer Dream
12. Boogie Woodie

[Non-Album Tracks]
Back Home[1963 Ver.]

Your ratings for Punchline:
1...1 vote
2...1 vote
3...0 vote
4...1 vote
5...0 vote

Today's song is Punchline.

Your ratings for The Baker Man:
1...2 votes
2...1 vote
3...0 vote
4...0 vote
5...0 vote

[your LEAST and SECOND LEAST favorite songs]

[The result of the fourth round]

27 votes spread around 11 songs.

H.E.L.P. is on the Way got 8 votes, and Tears in the Morning, Take A Load off Your Feet and Back Home got three votes. These four song is removed.


Here's the third round. Vote for your LEAST and SECOND LEAST favorite songs below.  

My choices are　At My Window and Lookin' at Tomorrow.

Tally is on May 17.
 
Break Away
Celebrate the News
Soulful Old Man Sunshine
Cotton Fields [Single Ver.]
Slip On Through
This Whole World
Add Some Music To Your Day
Got to Know the Woman
Deirdre
It's About Time
All I Wanna Do
Forever
Our Sweet Love
At My Window
Cool, Cool Water
Loop De Loop
Susie Cincinnati
San Miguel
I Just Got My Pay
Good Time
Big Sur
Lady
Lookin' At Tomorrow
Til' I Die
Where is She

Round #1 When Girls Get Together May 8
Round #2 Games Two Can Play May 10
Round #2 Seasons in the Sun May 10
Round #2 Carnival May 10
Round #3 H.E.L.P. is on the Way  May 14
Round #3 Tears in the Morning  May 14
Round #3 Back Home May 14
Round #3 Take a Load off Your Feet  May 14

Notice: Please be sure to make it clear what you are voting for when you vote!!

A little off-topic, but does anyone have a link for Mony Mony on Youtube? I've never heard the song before.

Marsey: Slow Down
London: I'm Down

Today's song is The Baker Man.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V__hkWGMfk

Your ratings for the entire Surfin' USA album:
1...0 vote
2...0 vote
3...0 vote
4...2 votes
5...1 vote

[The Fourteenth Discussion]

The Fourteenth Discussion
Theme: All Things 'Airplane'
Main Question: Who do you guess Brian wrote this song for?

Airplane is one of the greatest track with nice Mike's lead vocal and Brian's childish, yet fine lyrics. The production is very appropriate for the theme of the song: sounds like floating in the air, you know. The coda is cheerful and a nice bridge to the next oldies-style song.

For writing this post, I re-read the lyrics again and found those lines interesting:

The woman sitting next to me tells me 'bout her guy
And I tell her all about you and I

Who is the woman telling Brian about her guy? Yeah, maybe we'll never know. Plus, who is 'you'? Must be Marilyn, but could be an another woman. I'm wondering

Now, you can discuss anything about Airplane. Looking forward to seeing your interesting opinion on the song.

Video: https://youtu.be/vdgqwSoWbbw

I can't really see this kind of compilation happening. Brian's had only one really lasting song as a solo artist, Love and Mercy. It's the only song from his solo career he continues to perform night after night.

I think that's why a compilation would be a good idea.  It would put his solo career into a cohesive context for the first time and therefore more accessible to the casual Beach Boys fan and giving some of his more obscure material a second life of sorts.

Agreed. Speaking of compilations, I think one including other BBs' solo recordings would be good for people who are interested in their solo career, but don't feel the need to collect many numbers of solo albums.

I've just tried to make one:
1. Love And Mercy
2. Melt Away
3. Let It Shine
4. It's Not Easy Being Me
5. This Song Wants to Sleep with You
6. Slightly American Music
7. Your Imagination
8. Lay Down Barden
9. Soul Searchin'
10. Gettin' In Over My Head
11. Saturday Morning in the City
12. What I Really Want for Christmas
13. That Lucky Old Sun/Morning Beat
14. Live Let Live
15. Midnight's Another Day
16. Southern California
17. The Like in I Love You
18. Nothing But Love
19. Sail Away
20. One Kind of Love

Including two unreleased songs, but no SI, Orange Crate Art, Disney Album and IJWMFTT. Too much Andy Paley, though.

[Seasons in the Sun]

Seasons in the Sun and H.E.L.P. is on the Way get my vote.

I definitely do like Seasons in the Sun, it's just that it already has a home on Merry Christmas with the Beach Boys.

Seasons in the Sun is no longer on the poll. It was vote off on the last round. Please vote for an another song, otherwise you'll lose one of your votes this time.

Today we have a discussion on the entire 'Surfin' USA' album.

Your ratings for Finders Keepers:
1...3 votes
2...0 vote
3...1 vote
4...2 votes
5...1 vote

[Let's Go Tripping]

Today's song is Let's Go Tripping.

Well, the two Dick Dale covers were obvious choices to fill out the album. But taken all together, the "sea of instrumentals" is very effective, like a soundtrack for surfing.

I'm in a good mood----5.  

Um... you need to add a 5 to the score, W.

Edited. Thanks for letting me know!

Today's song is Finders Keepers.
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O1r5yPDHag

Your ratings for Let's Go Trippin':
1...0 vote
2...2 votes
3...0 vote
4...1 vote
5...1 vote

[Rock And Roll Music]

I eventually came to the conclusion that Brian was actually right, 15BO really should have been a cover album. 
Although I kind of assume that the only reason he got to do whatever the %*$& he wanted on Love You was because he agreed to play ball with 15 Big Ones.

I will throw this challenge out to the other nerds out there: resequence 15BO as a 12-15 song cover album.  You can even retrieve crap like Battle Hymn Of The Republic if you want.  There is a good list here of all the contenders, and you can use May 1976 as a cutoff for making it onto the album.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unreleased_songs_recorded_by_the_Beach_Boys

Agreed. Release covers album first, and after half a year or so of blank, release next album of original materials- in Love You style. That would have worked both artistically and commercially more, considering oldies stuff was a big thing at that time and Brian's arrangement was not good enough to deal with Love You-y songs like That Same Song or Back Home (with the exception of Had to Phone Ya) at the recording of 15 Big Ones.

Speaking for alternate covers album, I actually have made an alternate 15 Big Ones album of mainly covers, entitled Rock And Roll Music.

1. Rock And Roll Music (2013 MiC mix)
2. Come Go with Me (I should've gone with the 'earlier version', but I went with MIU version here)
3. Shake, Rattle and Roll
4. A Casual Look
5. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' (2013 MiC mix)
6. Sherry She Needs Me (2013 MiC mix)

7. Shortenin' Bread (Early version intended to be included on Adult/Child)
8. On Broadway
9. Peggy Sue　(Same as MIU mix)
10. Talk to Me
11. In the Still of the Night
12. Just Once in My Life

Look, isn't it a pretty cool album?
You know, Sherry She Needs Me was written by Brian, but having been in the vaults for more than ten years, it must have been something like a cover more than a original brand-new song.
Sea Cruise would be a good inclusion, just replace the song you like the least with Sea Cruise. On the playlist, it's 'Doo-Wop Music' more than Rock and Roll Music.