Beach Boys Survivor #21 Winner: TIL I DIE

[pixletwin]

My biggest beef with the 1971 version of SU is the darn organ. It obscures the beauty of the original 1967 session musician's playing. That and Carl's singing doesn't  quite carry the emotional drive of the song to where it needed to be.

IMO of course. 

[slippingonthrough]

Til I Die. Sorry Surf's Up you've already won before. Brian's vocal on on the 1st movement of Surf's Up is better than Carl's.

[Phoenix]

Surf's Up

All great songs and while I put the title track (with Brian's lead) on Smile, add additional songs to this album, and call it Landlocked, the directions couldn't be simpler:  VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE TRACK!!!

I don't know why everyone has to make these things complicated.  Just answer the question(s) honestly. 

[Gabo]

My biggest beef with the 1971 version of SU is the darn organ. It obscures the beauty of the original 1967 session musician's playing. That and Carl's singing doesn't  quite carry the emotional drive of the song to where it needed to be.

IMO of course. 

I think it fills it out a little. Adds a bit of sheen.

The track would feel even more out of place without it. It feels sonically like an extension of Feel Flows, LPR, and Til I Die because of that organ sound.

[pixletwin]

True. The organ kind of adopts it into the familial sound texture of the other songs. But taken out of that context, to my ears, it muddies the production.

[The Shift]

Surf's Up

All great songs and while I put the title track (with Brian's lead) on Smile, add additional songs to this album, and call it Landlocked, the directions couldn't be simpler:  VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE TRACK!!!

I don't know why everyone has to make these things complicated.  Just answer the question(s) honestly. 

You're right. These people who're voting for their second favourite track because Surf's Up won an earlier vote need to ask themselves what they'll do at the next election - vote Republican because your favourite Democrats won last time? It's so fair it's almost admirable!

[Niko]

Love them both, but Til I Die is so powerful and poignant. It says so much with so little. I've listened to it, along with God Only Knows, more than any other song.

[Cabinessenceking]

Surf's Up

A lament for Tree

[Disney Boy (1985)]

Feel Flows

It does things to me...

[pixletwin]

Most people who have voted for TID and mentioned surfs up have done so stating that they prefer Brian's vocals to carls. How exactly does that make Surfs Up their true favorite track?

[pixletwin]

WELCOME TO THE END OF ROUND #21 of BEACH BOYS SURVIVOR!!!!

Surf's Up is the seventeenth studio album by American rock band the Beach Boys, released on August 30, 1971 on Brother Records and Reprise. The album was released to more public anticipation than the Beach Boys had previously had for several years. The album's title is taken from the song of the same title written by Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks for the abandoned studio album, Smile.

Welcome back to the a new round of BEACH BOYS SURVIVOR. Remember to be respectful of others opinions. Please don't spam the thread with too much opinionating (a little is ok  ).... and without further ado...

2 Smilers had to Feel the Flow against the much stronger currents.  

16 Smilers heard the children's song as the finest.

...and the winner of Round #21 of Beach Boys Survivor is...

with 33 votes...

Til I Die
Til I Die

Round#1 - Student Demonstration Time February 13
Round#2 - Take a Load Off Your Feet February 17
Round#3 - Don't Go Near the Water February 19
Round#4 - Lookin' at Tomorrow (A Welfare Song) February 21
Round#5 - Disney Girls (1957) February 23
Round#6 - A Day in the Life of a Tree February 25
Round#7 - Long Promised Road February 27
Round#8 - Feel Flows March 1
Round#8 - Surf's Up March 1

Join us next week when we begin rounds 23,24, and 25!!!!

Thank you all for playing!!!!

 

[bluesno1fann]

I suppose the right song won. But if WIBNTLA made it to Surf's Up, I would have voted for that to win.


I might as well say it now. This was the single hardest Survivor round so far. All the previous rounds were a piece of cake compared to this. Anyone else agree?

[Alan Smith]

Yea!

My favourite song won, for once.  

Although I fear there will be blood on the axe tonight, down yonder Yorkshire dales - stop for no bearded hitchhikers should you be down that way after dark

[The Shift]

Yea!

My favourite song one, for once. 

Although I fear there will be blood on the axe tonight, down yonder Yorkshire dales - stop for no bearded hitchhikers should you be down that way after dark

Aye.

Stick to the roads lads, stay off the moors…

[The Shift]

Almost right…

"Boys, keep off the moors, stick to the roads"

[clinikillz]

Not surprised to see 'Til I Die win. The title of "best track on [insert album title here]" becomes rather interchangeable when songs as great as Surf's Up, Feel Flows and 'Til I Die are competing.

[zachrwolfe]

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[bluesno1fann]

I suppose the right song won. But if WIBNTLA made it to Surf's Up, I would have voted for that to win.


I might as well say it now. This was the single hardest Survivor round so far. All the previous rounds were a piece of cake compared to this. Anyone else agree?

I think choosing between This Whole World, Forever and All I Wanna Do will be much harder. (Which will almost certainly be the final Sunflower songs based on current trends)

Not for me. Forever easily gets my vote. Though if a miracle happens and All I Wanna Do gets voted off instead of Slip On Through, I'll vote for Slip On Through instead!