8.1 out of 10 in Pitchfork:
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-beach-boys-1967-sunshine-tomorrow/

I'd like to throw in a good word for The Capitol Years, which was my Beach Boys gateway drug when I bought the Australian release in 1988. Almost certainly the most-played recorded music purchase I've ever made.

My thoughts on Here Comes the Night. I don't hate it, but maybe as a single only. It takes up space where 3 more songs could have been added. I thought about this though. What if they released a disco album called Wild Honey Disco. It wouldn't be the entire Wild Honey album but a few that could be turned are

1. Wild Honey
2. Aren't You Glad
3. How She Boogalooed It
4. Here Comes the Night

Make  'em all 11 minutes long and Bob's your uncle.

Under the leadership/direction of Bruce/Guercio/CBS, the band was going for an adult contemporary sound that stood well clear of Mike's trademark cheesy nostalgia. The (younger) Wilsons were a better bet for material that fit the commercial strategy, as it was they who represented the band's "progressive" tendency - which by 1979 meant yacht rock and coked-out funk ballads.
Now I think of it, I'd suggest that BBs albums in this period alternated between "nostalgic" (15 Big Ones, MIU Album, KTSA) and "contemporary" (Love You, LA, BB 85), partly because the band was switching between strategies in response to successive commercial failures. It's the latter albums that are more rewarding for those of us who are primarily fans of the Wilsons.

My wishes for the Beach Boys in 2017:

1. Pack it in.
2. Bonus-packed reissues of everything up to 1979 (beyond which I'm not really interested, not counting solo Brian).

Is there a way to "deregister" from the board?

I suggest following these simple steps:

1. Be less of a loser.
2. Quit whining about literally nothing at all.
3. Grow up.

Composite result after 20 votes:

River Song (93.7 points, 15 votes)
Little Bird (81.3, 16)
Forever (79.5, 13)
Wouldn't It Be Nice To Live Again (63.8, 11)
Slip On Through (48.1, 11)
Only With You (40.1, 7)
It's About Time (39.7, 7)
Celebrate the News (35.7, 8 )
Baby Blue (34.2, 6)
Cuddle Up (28.5, 6)

Bubbling under: Steamboat, Lady, Thoughts of You.

The actually relevant part from the Daily Caller report, reporting a statement by university spokesperson Jay Blanton:

"Professor Ryan traveled in 2015 to China with other faculty. These faculty members complained — and had deep concerns — about his conduct. Two universities that partner with UK — Shanghai and Jilin — also have complained about Professor Ryan. Our Title IX office investigated the complaints at length, interviewed Professor Ryan as part of the investigation, and the faculty who accompanied him. The faculty were unanimous in their complaints and their concerns, in which a preponderance of evidence concluded that he engaged in ‘inappropriate touching’ and ‘language of a sexual nature.’ And that’s from the un-redacted portions of the letter. The letter has redactions as part of our responsibility to protect the privacy and confidentiality of the victim.”

On Monday morning, Blanton told TheDC, the University of Kentucky “offered to release all the records in this case, if Professor Ryan would agree to waive any privacy rights or concerns. He declined.”

Of course, it's not exactly a breaking news story that the kind of people who have put Donald Trump in the White House (see above) will believe literally anything at all.

I'm a bit of a sucker for this sort of thing, so I've worked out an aggregated top ten. Each list has 55 points, which are allocated ten to one in descending order if the list is numbered, but divided equally if it's not (if you didn't number your list but meant it to be ordered, say so and I'll revise the result). As you can see, there's seems to be a big three that stand apart from the rest, with nothing to separate them from each other.

River Song (58.7 points, 11 votes)
Forever (58.5, 10)
Little Bird (58.3, 12)
Slip on Through (48.1, 9)
Only With You (40.1, 7)
It's About Time (39.7, 7)
Wouldn't it Be Nice To Live Again (28.8, 7)
Baby Blue (25.2, 5)
Lady (23.3, 4)
Time (22.5, 4)

I'll do an update if we get a few more new entries.

All good lists but no love for San Miguel?? 

I realised I'd overlooked San Miguel shortly after posting. Consider You and I bumped from my list to make way for it.

1. Lady
2. Celebrate the News
3. Be With Me
4. Little Bird
5. River Song
6. Carry Me Home
7. Steamboat
8. Cuddle Up
9. Forever
10. You And I

Just heard a musak version of "Disney Girls" at a banquet hall in Mason Ohio where I will be for a charity event tonight.

But there's already a muzak version of Disney Girls on Surf's Up.

Thanks for your reply. I'd go with "Cook claims Australia for Britain", if it will fit.

Nicely done indeed, although the historical pedant in me shifts uncomfortably in my chair at "British discovery of Australia - 1770".

Did Chachi Arcola suffer some sort of Beach Boys 'curse'? Sometime around '63, he snuck off to Chicago to see a show (maybe Aug 11/63 Auditorium Theatre??) and his car broke down, forcing him to spend a night in a hotel with Joanie.

Then sometime around '65 I think, he was invited by the band to open some shows for them. Unfortunately he was diagnosed with diabetes, and had to cancel.

Now he's out spruiking for Trump. Make of that what you will.

Also don't forget the uncredited lift from When I Grow Up (To Be a Man) in Winds of Change. Maybe Brian wouldn't need to keep schlepping around the touring circuit at the age of 74 if he hadn't been stiffed out of millions in MIU Album royalties.

Paycheques are one thing.  But you don't pile 'merde' on your own hard fought for legacy.

In fairness, Bruce sucks too.

What's the standing record for anyone getting along with Mike?

Well, Carl and Mike is interesting. But they were often in different factions in the band.

True - but who would ever have thought there would be D. Wilson/M. Love credits, if factionalism was the deciding factor?

What other permutations of BB songwriting collaboration don't exist? Pretty sure there was never a C. Wilson/M. Love, for instance - All This Is That (Wilson/Love/Jardine) being the closest I can think of. For that matter, I can't think of a B. Wilson/D. Wilson off the top of my head either.

Yeah, it's like interviewing Beethoven and concentrating on his deafness.

INTERVIEWER: So Ludwig, the whole deafness thing must be really tough for you. How do you deal with that?
BEETHOVEN: ...

I wouldn't mind getting the Harry Nilsson soundtrack for Popeye.

Hey, I own that! Played it all of once. Love Harry to death, but don't kid yourself that he wrote a single passable song after All I Think About Is You (although Robert Christgau gave Popeye a good review, for some reason).

I've never cared for it, which is unfortunate because I recognise that Brian's virtuosity is fully on display here. Like others though, I've just never been able to get past its resemblance to Surfer Girl.

"There are more fuzzy-minded one-worlders, pasty-faced peace creeps, and bleeding-heart bed wetters in America now than there ever were in 1954. The redskis have infiltrated the all-important exercise-video industry, not to mention movies and TV.  Academia, too, is a veritable compost heap of Bolshie brainmulch.  Beardo the Weirdo may have been laughed out of real life during the 1970s, but he found a home in our nation’s colleges, where he whiles away the wait for the next Woodstock Nation by pestering undergraduates with collectivist twaddle when they should be thinking about better car stereos." - P.J. O'Rourke.

The evil of things like "cultural appropriation", like "microagreessions", "intersectionality" and "safe spaces" are concepts propagated by fascists.

No, they're concepts propagated by Marxists. I don't think it will do to co-opt fascism as an all-purpose insult. I'd say the same to those who apply the term to Donald Trump, who I'm quite capable of disliking without lumping him in an inappropriate category.

In any case, the brand of sociological criticism on display in this article is not entirely to my tastes, but I don't think posters here need be quite so defensive about it. The author stresses that Pet Sounds itself is not racist, and that his concern is with the white-rock-album-as-cultural-touchstone, a notion external to the album itself.