1.  Surf's Up
2.  'Til I Die
3.  I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
4.  In the Back of My Mind
5.  Heroes and Villains
6.  A Day in the Life of a Tree
7.  Wouldn't It Be Nice
8.  God Only Knows
9.  Good Vibrations
10.  Cabinessence

Really tough to just choose 10.

1.  Pet Sounds
2.  The Smile Sessions
3.  Surf's Up
4.  The Beach Boys Today!
5.  Love You
6.  Holland
7.  Wild Honey
8.  Sunflower
9.  Friends
10.  Summer Days (and Summer Nights!!)

Picking the last few was tough.

Surf's Up has always been one of my favourite Beach Boys albums, probably in my top 3.  But I've heard there was some controversy within the band with regards to what tracks appeared on the final product.

In particular the excellent Dennis Wilson tracks, Fourth of July and Wouldn't it Be Nice (to Live Again) are missing.  I personally would have also liked to have heard the 4/4 version of Big Sur on there while getting rid of Student Demonstration Time.

Why were Dennis' songs left off the album?  Did it have to do with how many of his songs were on the previous 3 records?

There is only one recording of I Sleep Alone on YouTube and it's of a live performance Brian did in front of the National Academy Of Song Writers on January 8th, 1989.  But I vividly remember there being another recording of this song which got taken down for some reason that was clearly a studio recording.

Does anyone know where that is?  Does it still exist anywhere?

i asked for someone to tab out the sliding guitar intro for trombone dixie a long time ago, but the whole thing stumps me on how you even get a sound like that

it's a 12-string? off the top of my head, i can hear it on let him run wild, TD, that's not me, and california girls's intro.

are there any other songs in general with guitars like that? how do you replicate it?

I love the 12 string intro on Trombone Dixie.  I tried out replicating on my electric twelve string, and I came up with something like this on the top 3 strings

2-2--4-6-----------------------
2-4--6-7-6-2--6-2-7-9-6-2-4
-----------6-3--6-3-8-9-6-3-4

It's not perfect, so I'd appreciate if anyone can make any improvements.  I know there's a tab up for The Little Girl I Once Knew on surfermoon.com and that intro has a similar feel to Trombone Dixie so I figured playing on just 2 strings (4 I guess in the case of a 12 string) would get a similar sound.

Yeah, I like the sad stuff.

No problem, SB.

And welcome to the board. :=)

Thanks, JK!

Also can't narrow to just 5...  And this is in no particular order.

The Night Was So Young
Please Let Me Wonder
She Knows Me Too Well
I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
Caroline, No
Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)
'Til I Die
A Day In the Life of a Tree
I'd Love Just Once to See You
All I Wanna Do

Yeah, I like the sad stuff.