My friend studies at music university in Bristol. He recently had a guest speaker who was something to do with promotion at one of the major record labels (I forget exactly what he did).

I had mentioned to my friend a couple of years back that Noel always seems to crawl out of the woodwork and start relentlessly and rather pathetically slagging people off just as his album is about to drop. Not just any people though, it always seems to be the really big stars (remember the beef he had with Ed Sheeran when good old Ed sold about about 30 nights at Wembley or something ridiculous).

Anyway, my friend went to this talk, and he told me afterwards that there was actually something too this. The guy doing the talk told them that Noel has a list of names given to him by his promoter whenever he has a new album coming out. These names are the top 10 biggest artists at that time. He puts the list on his fridge, and ticks them off every time he slags them off on Twitter or whatever.

Sounds almost too bizarre to not be true. Insecure and pathetic. We can take comfort in the fact that despite having an incredible amount of great gossip and potential juicy dirty details Brian could use as a means of selling his records, he has never stopped that low in 50 years, and I’m sure he never will, because he has class. Even when he was 20 stone, trying to give cocaine to his kids, he still had more class than Noel ever has or will have.

But anyway, just thought that was an interesting point to share with you all!

Hey Guys!

Been wracking my brain trying to sequence this playlist I've created.  Taking TSS, Wild Honey and the "new" tracks from Smiley:

Our Prayer
Gee/Heroes And Villains
Do You Like Worms
Great Shape
Barnyard
Sunshine
Cabinessence
Wonderful
Look/Child Is Father Of The Man/Surf's Up
Workshop/Vegetables
Holidays/Windchimes
Fire
Love to SAy dada
Good Vibrations
You're Welcome
She's Goin Bald
Little Pad
With Me Tonight
Gettin Hungry
Whistle In
Wild Honey
Aren't You Glad
I was Made to love her
Country Air
A thing or two
Darlin
Id' Love Just Once To See You
Here Comes The Night
Let THE wind Blow
How She Boogalooed It
Cant Wait too Long
Lonely Days

Was thinking of starting with
Our Prayer
Good Vibrations
Wild Honey

and ending with Look/Child/SUrf's Up

Any help at all would be appreciated!

So recently I've really been getting into the whole "Brian's Back" period of the late 70's and I'm really digging it. Now obviously there is a lot of stuff the guys recorded that never made it onto vinyl but I am led to believe that there were a few albums that the boys put together that were rejected by the label. I've been trying to add these albums into my beach boys timeline and have already done so with Adult/Child and Dennis' Bambu (I know this one wasn't really "rejected"). 

My biggest question I suppose is... what is "The New Album"? Was it an actual album that was presented to the label for release, or is it just a bootleg put together of various songs from that period? How was the album sequenced? Was it put together after 15BO or Love You?

I know a little more about the Christmas album, but I also wondered if there was a track list for that one aswell?

If anyone could enlighten me about this crazy, underrated period in the BB's history it would be much appreciated!