In light of MIC...Your updated custom album tracklists

[coco1997]

One of the many reasons I looked forward to MIC was to finally insert some long lost gems into my compendium of alternate universe Beach Boys albums. Having now heard the set, I've played around with some of the unreleased material on MIC and worked it into some assorted BB albums in an attempt to solidify and improve them. The MIC additions are in bold:

Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) (1965)

01. The Girl From New York City
02. Amusement Parks U.S.A.
03. You're So Good To Me
04. Then I Kissed Her
05. Salt Lake City
06. Girl Don't Tell Me
07. The Little Girl I Once Knew
08. California Girls
09. Let Him Run Wild
10. Sherry, She Needs Me
11. Summer Means New Love
12. I'm Bugged At My Old Man
13. And Your Dreams Come True

Friends (1968)

01. Meant For You (Alternate version)
02. Friends
03. Wake the World
04. Be Here In the Mornin'
05. When A Man Needs A Woman
06. I Went To Sleep
07. Passing By
08. Anna Lee, The Healer
09. Little Bird
10. Be Still
11. Busy Doin' Nothin'
12. Diamond Head
13. Transcendental Meditation

Sunflower (1970)

01. Slip On Through
02. This Whole World
03. Add Some Music To Your Day
04. Deirdre
05. Where Is She?
06. Soulful Old Man Sunshine
07. It's About Time
08. Break Away
09. Tears In The Morning
10. All I Wanna Do
11. Forever
12. Our Sweet Love
13. At My Window

Landlocked (1971)

01. Don't Go Near the Water
02. Long Promised Road
03. Take A Load Off Your Feet
04. Sound of Free (Mono Single Version)
05. Disney Girls (1957)
06. Student Demonstration Time
07. Feel Flows
08. Fallin' In Love (Lady)
09. Lookin' At Tomorrow (A Welfare Song)
10. A Day In the Life of A Tree
11. 4th of July
12. Til' I Die
13. (Wouldn't It Be Nice) To Live Again

Group Therapy (1975)

01. Good Timin'
02. It's OK (Alternate Mix)
03. Had To Phone Ya
04. Barnyard Blues
05. That Same Song
06. Everyone's In Love With You
07. River Song
08. Loop de Loop
09. Susie Cincinnati (2012 Mix)
10. I Wanna Pick You Up
11. Back Home
12. Pacific Ocean Blues
13. I Write The Songs

Pick Ya Up At 8 (1976)

01. Rock 'N Roll Music (2012 Mix w/ Extra Verse)
02. A Casual Look
03. Mony Mony
04. Blueberry Hill
05. Sea Cruise
06. Michael, Row The Boat Shore
07. Come and Go With Me
08. Runnin' Bear
09. Palisades Park
10. Talk To Me
11. In The Still of The Night
12. Just Once In My Life

M.I.U. Album (1978)

01. She's Got Rhythm
02. Wontcha Come Out Tonight
03. A Sweet Sunday Kind of Love
04. Pitter Patter
05. Winter Symphony
06. My Love Lives On
07. Lady Lynda
08. San Miguel
09. Almost Summer
10. My Diane
11. Our Team
12. Sad, Sad Summer

L.A. Light Album (1979)

01. Rainbows
02. 10,000 Years
03. Skatetown U.S.A.
04. Lookin' Down the Coast
05. Angel Come Home
06. Brian's Back (Alternate Mix)
07. California Feelin'
08. Love Surrounds Me
09. Sumahama
10. Country Pie
11. Baby Blue
12. Brand New Old Friends

Keepin' The Summer Alive (1980)

01. Keepin' The Summer Alive
02. Goin' On
03. Heaven
04. Goin' To The Beach
05. Oh, Darlin'
06. Stevie
07. It's A Beautiful Day (Single Edit, 2012 Mix)
08. Don't Fight The Sea
09. Santa Ana Winds
10. When Girls Get Together
11. All Alone
12. Endless Harmony

Brian Wilson - Imagination (1998)

01. Your Imagination
02. Soul Searchin'
03. Everything I Need
04. Where Has Love Been?
05. You're Still A Mystery
06. This Song Wants To Sleep With You Tonight
07. Dream Angel
08. Cry
09. Lay Down Burden
10. Sunshine
11. Happy Days

I'm looking forward to see what others come up with!

[Ted]

Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) (1965)
10. Sherry, She Needs Me

You cannot be serious.

[coco1997]

You cannot be serious.

You have to imagine Brian's 1965 voice. Despite his ragged-sounding '76 vocals, it's a great song.

[Nicko1234]

You cannot be serious.

You have to imagine Brian's 1965 voice. Despite his ragged-sounding '76 vocals, it's a great song.

You must have some imagination.

[Mike's Beard]

It's one of Brian's worst ever vocals and that's saying something.

[Tilt Araiza]

I haven't rejigged the albums as such, but on my megaplaylist (299 songs) I've got the long version of Meant For You after Transcendental Meditation as a reprise and I Believe In Miracles before the Smiley Vegetables as a kind of Bizarro Our Prayer (H&V is in the Smile section of the playlist).

[Sheriff John Stone]

This "(Wouldn't It Be Nice To) Live Again" has me half nuts. I don't know what to make of it, why it never saw the light of day, where it belongs, what it means in 2013. I'm cutting the grass singing it, I'm driving around singing it, I'm watching YouTube videos of it. I put it on my personal Surf's Up album, which I've now changed for the third time in three days! As of today, this is what I'm using:

Surf's Up

01 Feel Flows
02 Lady
03 Sound Of Free
04 Long Promised Road
05 Disney Girls
06 Student Demonstration Time *

07 Don't Go Near The Water
08 Lookin' At Tomorrow
09 A Day In The Life Of A Tree
10 Til I Die
11 (Wouldn't It Be Nice To) Live Again
12 Surf's Up

* I'm willing to sacrifice "Student Demonstration Time" because I really like "Disney Girls" as the closer of Side A, with that whistling fade...

[Ram4]

I'm going to make a BB playlist in iTunes from the beginning to end with everything in order, but I might put some songs in different places to make some of these albums more enjoyable.

[Wrightfan]

Is Barnyard Blues Surf's Up era? AGD's site says yes but some posts here seem to indicate it's 1972 or later.

[EgoHanger1966]

Is Barnyard Blues Surf's Up era? AGD's site says yes but some posts here seem to indicate it's 1972 or later.

Recorded "circa 1974".

[Curtis Leon]

Is Barnyard Blues Surf's Up era? AGD's site says yes but some posts here seem to indicate it's 1972 or later.

His session dates suggest Oct. 1974 - which would certainly fit with Dennis' vocal quality. It's possible that he recorded a basic track during 1971 and returned to it with vocals three years later, or it's a simple case of confusion.

[Wrightfan]

Is Barnyard Blues Surf's Up era? AGD's site says yes but some posts here seem to indicate it's 1972 or later.

Recorded "circa 1974".

Thanks for the clarification guys.

[DMBeard_13]

http://www.examiner.com/article/the-beach-boys-are-made-for-california

[bgas]

http://www.examiner.com/article/the-beach-boys-are-made-for-california

Dave:  Four threads, the same response. This is sort of like Spamming the board, isn't it?  Your article doesn't even address the topic of some of these threads.
( Maybe I should add this following each of your postings?)

[coco1997]

This "(Wouldn't It Be Nice To) Live Again" has me half nuts. I don't know what to make of it, why it never saw the light of day, where it belongs, what it means in 2013. I'm cutting the grass singing it, I'm driving around singing it, I'm watching YouTube videos of it. I put it on my personal Surf's Up album, which I've now changed for the third time in three days!

Agreed, Sheriff. The decision to place WIBNTLA at the very end wasn't as obvious as I assumed it would be. "Til I Die" is a great way to end the album, but WIBNTLA seems to work best as a closer and I just couldn't find another spot in the tracklist where it worked.

[Christoph]

Coco, I dig the albums you compiled there. The alternate mix of "It's ok" doesn't impress me that much though, I prefer the album version.

Man, that surf's up album really got me thinking. I liked the idea of opening with Feel flows, although I'd choose Sound of free as an opener. I'd probably get rid of SDT in favor of 4th of july or/and Fallin in love.

My main doubt is: Leave Surf's up on the album (as a closer, obviously), or just leave it to Smile, where it belongs, and end with WIBNTLA....

So for the moment it would be:

1) Sound of free
2) Don't go near the water
3) 4th of july
4) Feel flows
5) Take a load off your feet
6) Disney girls

7) Long promised road
Falling in love / Lady
9) Looking at tomorrow
10) A day in the life of a tree
11) Til I die
12) Wouldn't it be nice to live again

Maybe call the album "Sounds of free" since the title track is gone now.

[coco1997]

Coco, I dig the albums you compiled there. The alternate mix of "It's ok" doesn't impress me that much though, I prefer the album version.

Hmm...I'll have to listen to the new mix with greater attention. I do like the little synth intro that isn't on the "15 Big Ones" version, though.

[Micha]

Coco: What is "Sad, sad summer"?

And IMHO "Brian's Back" should seriously have been voted off the set by somebody, despite the photo in the book showing Brian's back with the words "BRIAN'S BACK" on it.

[Christoph]

"Brian's back" is another one of those mediocre / bad songs I like to listen to because of Carl's singing. That guy could really save a tune.

[coco1997]

"Brian's back" is another one of those mediocre / bad songs I like to listen to because of Carl's singing. That guy could really save a tune.

Truth.

Coco: What is "Sad, sad summer"?

"Sad, Sad Summer" was a song written by Mike for the "Almost Summer" soundtrack.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ62IpNq5VE

[petzounds29]

 I like your light album but how about replacing skatetown usa with goin south or schol girl I think  either of those would be a better fit

[coco1997]

I like your light album but how about replacing skatetown usa with goin south or schol girl I think  either of those would be a better fit

What's "School Girl"?

[Christoph]

"School girl" is a track from Dennis' Bambu album

[Curtis Leon]

I like your light album but how about replacing skatetown usa with goin south or schol girl I think  either of those would be a better fit

What's "School Girl"?

One of Dennis' unreleased tracks from Bambu.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPzIFzORTdM

[coco1997]

One of Dennis' unreleased tracks from Bambu.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPzIFzORTdM

Was it ever considered as a BB track?