Maybe it's just me, but I hear hints of Lonely Days in I'm Confessin'. I wonder if it's an evolution of the same song.

Looks like there's no backing track for Busy Doin' Nothin'. That's the one thing I want to hear from these sessions more than anything.

I think the live version of Funky Pretty is a lot funkier than the studio version.

That repetitive percussion sound that plays throughout the entire song is kind of grating, but other than that it sounds great.

The response vocal in the chorus is a bit too quiet in my opinion, but otherwise it sounds great. Can't wait to hear the rest of the album.

I'm still hoping for an official release of all the finished (or almost finished) Paley session tracks, but for now I'll take Some Sweet Day.

Many Love You fans criticize Rollerskating Child for its lyrics, so I think if Hey Little Tomboy appeared on the album it would have gotten the same treatment.

I do think it was the last great Beach Boys album. Every album since Love You hasn't had enough great-to-good songs for me to consider them even just good albums, let alone great.

I'm really excited for this. I hope we get a similar Friends/2020 set next year.

I like Love You more than any Beach Boys album since Friends, but I still think it squanders its potential. There's a lot of good songs on it, but I can't help but think that it would have sounded much better without the over reliance on Moogs. I'm just imagining songs like Let Us Go On This Way with a real rocking feel to it, or I'll Bet He's Nice with a more beautiful instrumentation. It's pretty sad when an album's demos sound better than the finished product. Despite all that though, Brian's songwriting still shines through and leads to Love You being an enjoyable listen.

The production of Brian's songs has gotten better, but I enjoy his 80s/90s material (first solo album and Paley sessions to be specific) more. I still like his more recent stuff, but I can't say that I love any of it except for What Love Can Do.

Basically all of the original songs on Adult/Child. There's a decent amount of good-to-great songs on there, but they're nearly ruined by Brian's lyrics. And I usually like Brian's lyrics.

The American Spring version of Forever is better than the Beach Boys version.

The part in Let Him Run Wild that goes "Guess you know I waited for you girl" is sublime.

1) Celebrate the News
2) River Song
3) Forever
4) (Wouldn't It Be Nice To) Live Again
5) Pacific Ocean Blues
6) Little Bird
7) Steamboat
End of the Show
9) Holy Man
10) You and I

I love that they wrote "excitations" on it.

If you believe the theory that Vegetables was originally a part of The Elements, then perhaps the other sections that were never recorded would have had words to them as well.

I'd say that The Elements and Love to Say Dada would have likely been the only instrumentals. I don't believe that I Wanna Be Around/Workshop would have been on the finished album.

But "Dada" has the "wa-wa-ho-wa" vocals...and it really sounds bare and unfinished, i.e. lacking a main melody that I have to assume vocals would provide (unless Brian intended to overdub a clarinet or guitar part or something, seems doubtful). Surely "I Wanna Be Around" would have had a lead vocal too; it too lacks its main melody (unlike "The Old Master Painter").

Fire has vocals too but it's still considered an instrumental. I think that Dada would have had more wordless vocals, but no actual lyrics.

"Fire" has vocals? Aren't the vocals on the track on the Smile Sessions from "Fall Breaks and Back to Winter"?

Yeah but since Fall Breaks sounds very similar to Fire, I'm assuming that those vocals were originally intended for Fire.

If you believe the theory that Vegetables was originally a part of The Elements, then perhaps the other sections that were never recorded would have had words to them as well.

I'd say that The Elements and Love to Say Dada would have likely been the only instrumentals. I don't believe that I Wanna Be Around/Workshop would have been on the finished album.

But "Dada" has the "wa-wa-ho-wa" vocals...and it really sounds bare and unfinished, i.e. lacking a main melody that I have to assume vocals would provide (unless Brian intended to overdub a clarinet or guitar part or something, seems doubtful). Surely "I Wanna Be Around" would have had a lead vocal too; it too lacks its main melody (unlike "The Old Master Painter").

Fire has vocals too but it's still considered an instrumental. I think that Dada would have had more wordless vocals, but no actual lyrics.

If you believe the theory that Vegetables was originally a part of The Elements, then perhaps the other sections that were never recorded would have had words to them as well.

I'd say that The Elements and Love to Say Dada would have likely been the only instrumentals. I don't believe that I Wanna Be Around/Workshop would have been on the finished album.

It's not a demo, but here's the piano track for Darlin': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLnCk8OK1sU

It's Trying To Say always makes me laugh. The way it suddenly transitions to a song about baseball is so random.

Wind Chimes (Version 2 Tag) from The Smile Sessions box set is magical.

I have a theory that the Cantina section wasn't just a replacement for I'm in Great Shape but was actually a rewriting of it, similar to how Cool, Cool Water was a rewriting of Love To Say Da Da. I layered the Great Shape vocals over the Cantina backing track and it's almost a perfect fit.

Keep being positive, The_Beach. To finish career with "Summer's gone"? They can do better than that. Imo if they started with fun ("Surfin") they should end with fun. It just seems cliched to end with sentimental song.

Well, Surfin' was their first single and Isn't It Time was their last single so they did start and end with fun.

I'd switch the positions of the instrumentals Let's Go Away for Awhile and Pet Sounds. Pet Sounds is a pretty upbeat song and it sounds so out of place in between IJWMFTT and Caroline, whereas LGAFA fits there much better.