I'll Bet He's Nice.

15 Big Ones might be one of the weaker Beach Boys albums, but the five songs that we've got left are actually all pretty good... But anyway, I choose for:

Back Home
Just Once in My Life (I like it, but the original version is better)

This appeared on Marktplaats, a Dutch equivalent of eBay, yesterday:

http://www.marktplaats.nl/a/cd-s-en-dvd-s/cd-s-pop/m791044593-cd-r-van-master-tape-rehearsal-beach-boys-i-ve-got-love.html?c=8c285449651fa109c354bbabe740c1b&previousPage=lr

Translation:

No, the title isn't wrong. I know that on the Holland lp by The Beach Boys there was going to be a song called We Got Love, but that it wasn't included. I learned this from YouTube, I don't know anything about The Beach Boys.
An old acquaintance of mine used to be a technician and passed away a few years ago. His wife gave me a few 25 cm tapes. One of those said BEACH BOYS HOLLAND LP REHEARSALS. At first I thought it was nonsense, but when I asked his wife she told me that he actually worked as a technician on the recording of this lp in the 70s. On this tape, which I transferred to cd-recordable, are three song attempts. I don't know any titles, I'm not a Beach Boys fan, but on the first song they're clearly and repeatedly singing I've Got Love and not We've Got Love. The tape excists of 38 minutes of tuning and adjusting instruments and the first song is I've Got Love, which starts at around 12 minutes. The tape also ends with that song, but this time it lasts for about ten minutes. There are some other song attempts between those, but I don't know what they're called. This recording is obviously very unique. Serious bidding only, please. This is truely something for the fanatical Beach Boys fan.

Anyone ever heard anything about this?

Someone once said that less than 10% of Beach Boys songs about surfing. I was thinking maybe they took songs from one compliation. If so which one?

I'm pretty sure it's even less than that. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that 'Still Surfin'' from 'Summer in Paradise' is the only new song on a Beach Boys studio album after 'Surfer Girl' that's specifically about surfing. So that's one song on their last 25 albums and in the past 50 years of their career.

Roller Skating Child
Honkin' Down the Highway

Palisades Park
Susie Cincinnati

My favorite on this album is Big Sur, but of the tracks that are left, I guess I'll go for:

The Trader

Funky Pretty.

Susie Cincinnati
Palisades Park (mostly because the original's so much better)

Roller Skating Child
Airplane

Susie Cincinatti.

Not a good song and as a six year old B-side it really didn't belong on this album.

Well it is the "oldies" album.

Yes, but 'Susie Cincinatti' was officially released six years before it appeared on the album. From the top of my head I can't think of any studio album (Still Cruisin' excluded, but that's more or less a compilation) that has a song that was on a single so many years before.

Airplane.

Funky Pretty. Easily the weakest song of the ones that are left.

Susie Cincinatti.

Not a good song and as a six year old B-side it really didn't belong on this album.

Airplane.

Susie Cincinnati

Seriously? Big Sur is already out? That's hands down my favorite song on the album. 

I vote for Funky Pretty.

Imagine if he had the praise for writing those songs from the beginning...his ego would have gotten huge!

Not sure about that. I think that Mike just got a bit frustrated because he never really got the credit that he probably deserved. So he stood up for himself, which is fine, but at some point he just started overcompensating. I guess the same thing must have happened to Carole Kaye.

Didn't Brian once say that the list of surfing spots in the song "Surfin' USA" were given to him by Jimmy Bowles, the brother of Brian's girlfriend Judy?

This has been discussed several times on this board already, but I really don't think that Jimmy Bowles can be considered a co-writer of Surfin' USA. He had no creative input whatsoever. He provided factual information. If someone would want to write a song about, say, European capitals and I'd tell him that he could mention Paris, London, Madrid, Vienna, Amsterdam and Rome, that wouldn't make me a co-writer either, would it?

Airplane.

Funky Pretty.

Susie Cincinnati.

Susie Cincinnati.

I love almost everything that The Beach Boys recorded in the late 60s and early 70s, but this one is so boring and uninspired that it's actually one of the worst songs on one of their weakest albums.

And besides, it's just lame to put a 6 year old B-side on a new studio album.

Airplane.

Mount Vernon.