Underappreciated songs that have never made it to a released compilation

[Eric Aniversario]

What are some songs that you feel fall into this category? It was cool to see It's About Time get its due recognition on MIC. Here are some others that I feel need some recognition by being included on some type of compilation:

Keepin the Summer Alive
Still Cruisin (although some may argue that the album itself is a compilation)
All I Wanna Do
From There To Back Again
I Do Love You
Full Sail
Wake the World
Under the boardwalk
Match point of our Love
Winds of Change

[bluesno1fann]

I don't know where to start lol. There are simply too many underrated and under-appreciated BB's songs that don't really make it onto compilations.

[bluesno1fann]

Okay, I'll give it a try.
And this is for normal compilations, not Box Sets or Rarities collections.

Match Point Of Our Love.
My Diane.
Love Surrounds Me.
You Need A Mess Of Help To Stand Alone.
Here Comes The Night (Wild Honey version).
Slip On Through.
Lonely Sea.
In The Back Of My Mind.
Mona.
Maybe I Don't Know.
She Believes In Love Again.
Rock And Roll To The Rescue (I know, it was on Made In U.S.A. but that's out of print I think, and it's the only place you can hear it).
Still Cruisin'.
Make It Big.
I Do Love You.
Let's Go Away For A While.
Little Bird.
Be Still.
Be With Me.
Never Learn Not To Love.
It's About Time.
Cuddle Up.
Only With You.
Leaving This Town.
Just Once In My Life.
Airplane.
Good Time.
I'll Bet He's Nice.
Keepin' The Summer Alive.





That's all I can think of for now. In other words: etc.

[Eric Aniversario]

I don't know where to start lol. There are simply too many underrated and under-appreciated BB's songs that don't really make it onto compilations.

I appreciate just about every beach boys song, but I don't believe they are all compilation-worthy. I think if you look at the following compilations:

Good vibrations: 30 years of the Beach Boys
Made in California
Absolute best vol 1&2
Endless summer
Spirit of America
Sunshine dream
Sounds of summer
The warmth of the Sun
Summer love songs
Made in USA
The platinum connection
50 big ones
Greatest hits vol 1: 20 good vibrations
Greatest hits vol 2: 20 more good vibrations
Greatest hits vol 3: the best of the brother years
Hawthorne CA
Endless harmony
Ultimate Christmas
Pet Sounds sessions
The smile sessions
Instrumentals (Japan)
10 years of harmony
Classics
Perfect harmony

...that about half the released catalog is on there somewhere.


That leaves just a moderate chunk of the catalog...And it amazes me some songs that aren't on any of those compilations (like those i listed above). I did just remember though that Full Sail was on that Carl Wilson compilation a while back. Eerie...Full sail just started playing on my computer as I was writing this sentence. And there are 3000+ tracks on my current playlist.

[alf wiedersehen]

Have either "Good Time" or "I Went to Sleep" been on compilations?

Those two would be my vote.

[Eric Aniversario]

Have either "Good Time" or "I Went to Sleep" been on compilations?

Those two would be my vote.

They are both on MIC.

[Disney Boy (1985)]

That Cuddle Up, Where I Belong and All I Wanna Do didn't make it either GV or MIC I find amazing... This band genuinely seems to have no sense of judgement when it comes to the quality (or lack thereof) of their respective material.

[Phoenix]

All I Wanna Do
Somewhere Near Japan
Here She Comes
Slip On Through
Leavin' This Town
We Got Love
Beach Boys Medley
Here Comes The Night (single edit)
Keepin' The Summer Alive 
California Callin' 
Chasin' The Sky
Spring Vacation
From There To Back Again

[Lowbacca]

"Lonely Sea" all the way.

[phirnis]

A Day in the Life of a Tree

[bringahorseinhere?]

Okay, I'll give it a try.
And this is for normal compilations, not Box Sets or Rarities collections.

Match Point Of Our Love.
My Diane.
Love Surrounds Me.
You Need A Mess Of Help To Stand Alone.
Here Comes The Night (Wild Honey version).
Slip On Through.
Lonely Sea.
In The Back Of My Mind.
Mona.
Maybe I Don't Know.
She Believes In Love Again.
Rock And Roll To The Rescue (I know, it was on Made In U.S.A. but that's out of print I think, and it's the only place you can hear it).
Still Cruisin'.
Make It Big.
I Do Love You.
Let's Go Away For A While.
Little Bird.
Be Still.
Be With Me.
Never Learn Not To Love.
It's About Time.
Cuddle Up.
Only With You.
Leaving This Town.
Just Once In My Life.
Airplane.
Good Time.
I'll Bet He's Nice.
Keepin' The Summer Alive.





That's all I can think of for now. In other words: etc.

YES....... great thread!
 
and just quickly: here are mine.....


soulful old man sunshine
surfer moon
im bugged at my ol man (great humour)
busy doin nothing
wake the world
spirit of America (great vox from Bri)
girls on the beach
santa's beard
christmas day (yes! a great BB album to me)
she knows me too well
let him run wild
aren't you glad
nearest faraway place
all this is that
steamboat
only with you
everyone's in love with you
back home
I wanna pick you up
she's got rhythm
my diane (actually I really dig the whole MIU)
good timin
santa ana winds
where I belong
make it big
somewhere near japn
slow summer dancing
lahaina aloha
strange world

[Disney Boy (1985)]

Christmas Album is constantly overlooked, even on career over-views like GV and MIU. Christmas Day aside, Brian's originals are all great and their harmonies on the traditional songs are stunning.

[Nicko1234]

I agree with those mentioning All I Wanna Do.

The single mixes of Cuddle Up and Somewhere Near Japan are also criminally unavailable. It was daft for them to not have been included on MiC.

[TimeToGetAlone]

All I Wanna Do I think has to fall under this category as it's a highly-regarded song on a highly regarded album that has never appeared on anything else.  I notice how many lists exclude boxsets, but when you consider that All I Wanna Do also has never appeared on those, it's the epitome of underappreciated by any compilation makers.

[beatnickle]

 I'd Love Just Once to See You

[G.C]

A Day in the Life of a Tree

I'd Love Just Once to See You

[RockNSoul]

Anna Lee, the Healer

[Mikie]

"Lonely Sea" all the way.

Lonely Sea was included on MIC.  As it should have been.

[zachrwolfe]

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[Sheriff John Stone]

Christmas Album is constantly overlooked, even on career over-views like GV and MIU. Christmas Day aside, Brian's originals are all great and their harmonies on the traditional songs are stunning.

I agree. I've also found it underrated because of Brian's voice/lead vocals. In some ways, Brian's vocals on "Blue Christmas", "White Christmas", "We Three Kings", and even "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" are arguably - arguably - the purest, clearest, maybe pristine vocals Brian ever did. I love Brian's vocal work on Pet Sounds and SMiLE, but there is a slightly younger, innocent quality on the Christmas Album that is appealing.

[Rocky Raccoon]

Maybe I Don't Know which I think should have been the single instead of Getcha Back.

[bluesno1fann]

Maybe I Don't Know which I think should have been the single instead of Getcha Back.

Or better yet, a single instead of It's Gettin' Late.

[Rocky Raccoon]

Maybe I Don't Know which I think should have been the single instead of Getcha Back.

Or better yet, a single instead of It's Gettin' Late.

I like It's Gettin' Late.  If the '85 album wasn't that great as a whole, it was a fine album for Carl.

[bluesno1fann]

Maybe I Don't Know which I think should have been the single instead of Getcha Back.

Or better yet, a single instead of It's Gettin' Late.

I like It's Gettin' Late.  If the '85 album wasn't that great as a whole, it was a fine album for Carl.

It is a great album. Thanks to Carl. But Getcha Back was a perfect single, why Kokomo was a far bigger hit I will never understand.
It's Gettin' Late is a great song, but in my opinion not quite as good as Maybe I Don't Know.

[shangaijoeBB]

Alone on Christmas Day.