If they do another album...

[FatherOfTheMan Sr101]

What would they have to do to follow up "Summer's Gone"!?!?! That song was perfect where it was!

[drbeachboy]

"Summer Come Back"?

[hypehat]

Autumn's Here?

[Ziggy Stardust]

December Vacation

[drbeachboy]

"Fall Breaks and Back to Winter"? oops, been there, done that.

[rab2591]

Just let Brian do a rock 'n roll album. No pressure, just a talented group of musicians following the lead of the worlds greatest songwriter.

[Cabinessenceking]

Just let Brian do a rock 'n roll album. No pressure, just a talented group of musicians following the lead of the worlds greatest songwriter.

+1

[Paul J B]

Just let Brian do a rock 'n roll album. No pressure, just a talented group of musicians following the lead of the worlds greatest songwriter.

Yes please, the R&R album. The suite will be hard to beat though. It may not have been a full albums worth but those last 3 or even 4 tracks are the home run we've waited eons for.

By the way rab2591, I assume you are a fan of 2001. Did you ever notice that Smile is a lot like 2001? It's hard to put into words but if I had to pick a film most like Smile it would be 2001. They both seem simple but are anything but, they both make total sense and then you can't describe it. The more you hear (Smile) or see (2001) the more you want to hear or see it again. They are both a vast Journey and they both leave you amazed and wondering.

[Ziggy Stardust]

Just let Brian do a rock 'n roll album. No pressure, just a talented group of musicians following the lead of the worlds greatest songwriter.

Yes please, the R&R album. The suite will be hard to beat though. It may not have been a full albums worth but those last 3 or even 4 tracks are the home run we've waited eons for.

That's why the R&R album would be great, no pressure trying to top the Life Suite or making another one as good, just a cool and fun rock album with the guys! then prehaps later try to release the rest of the Life Suite on another record and put on it some other stuff from the sessions of TWGMTR and Waves Of Love (please!)

[onkster]

A cool cover of XTC's "Harvest Festival"...I'd pay for that!

[bossaroo]

we know there's a good deal more to the Life Suite... they gotta release it.

[Autotune]

I'd buy a turd, I think.

But an unpretentious, upbeat album, even if full of cover version, can do it for me.

[Sheriff John Stone]

I think the key to the potential follow up album is choosing the right collaborator for Brian.

Joe Thomas had some very valuable assets - songs! - and the production chops (arguably) to help pull off TWGMTR.

[Magic Transistor Radio]

Nursery Home USA!  But seriously, I trust the Beach boys and Brian Wilson to do quality work these days. I trust they're judgement if they choose to do another album. If it were up to me, and going on the lines of Brian's 'rock and roll' album, I would like something in the vain of Love You or Shortnen Bread.

[mabewa]

Nursery Home USA!  But seriously, I trust the Beach boys and Brian Wilson to do quality work these days. I trust they're judgement if they choose to do another album. If it were up to me, and going on the lines of Brian's 'rock and roll' album, I would like something in the vain of Love You or Shortnen Bread.

Love You pt. II sounds fine to me, as does a return to some Spectorian style stuff like the first side of Today, or some of the more upbeat stuff on Summer Days, or even some of the really early Chuck Berry style stuff.  I just hope that "rocking out" doesn't mean A).  Boppy pop-rock as in "Beaches in Mind" (not a bad song, but it's not exactly interesting from a musical point of view) or (much worse) B).  Some of the hideous tracks with loud guitar that they did in the 80's and 90's. 

I also hope that they can ditch "we gotta get back to the beach" stuff--hopefully they got that out of their systems with Beaches in Mind and Spring Vacation (though with Mike Love's track record over the past 30 years, I won't hold my breath).  Songs about love, mercy, sunshine, dancing, sailing California, or Brian's strange obsessions are fine. though--it's just that we already get the point that they still love beaches and summer.  If Mike is going to write the lyrics, fine--just hope that Brian makes him spend some time on them and come up with some new themes already. 

[send me a picture and i'll tell you]

Is that a Winter Symphony to God in your Teenage Pocket, or are you Happy to See Me?

Nursery Home USA!

A home full of babies?

[Doo Dah]

[Ziggy Stardust]

What would they have to do to follow up "Summer's Gone"!?!?! That song was perfect where it was!

I wish they would make a record with 2-3 (surf-rock) instrumentals because it'd be good to hear David's guitar skills which, I'm sure, are great.  

Totally agree, i really expected some of those (or at least songs with guitar solos) on TWGMTR.

[Magic Transistor Radio]

Is that a Winter Symphony to God in your Teenage Pocket, or are you Happy to See Me?

Nursery Home USA!

A home full of babies?

Oops! I meant Nursing Home USA!! 

[musicismylife101]

Is that a Winter Symphony to God in your Teenage Pocket, or are you Happy to See Me?

Nursery Home USA!

A home full of babies?

Oops! I meant Nursing Home USA!! 

If everybody had a wheelchair
Across the USA
Then everybody'd be a rollin'
Like Californi-a
You'd seen 'em wearing their IVs
Sensible shoes too
A thin receding gray hairline
Nursing Home USA

(Had to do it guys  )

[Runaways]

double album.  the mythical rock n roll album, then disc 2 is the finished summer's gone suite 

[Summertime Blooz]

What would they have to do to follow up "Summer's Gone"!?!?! That song was perfect where it was!

Food for thought.

[adamghost]

Less autotune and more treble.

[doinnothin]

Do a lot of people have a problem with the album not having enough treble? To me it seems on the high side, acceptable, but pushing it. I'm very surprised to hear that complaint. (no offense)

[EgoHanger1966]

Do a lot of people have a problem with the album not having enough treble? To me it seems on the high side, acceptable, but pushing it. I'm very surprised to hear that complaint. (no offense)

I don't hear a lack of treble at all. However, It suffers from a lack of air and dynamics.
It sounds better than That Lucky Old Sun, but not by much.
Although, in both of these albums, the music far outweighs the sound issues - they don't bother me too much.