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« Reply #25 on: November 10, 2014, 04:11:06 PM »

The second sides ("B" or "2") of the UK GHs have the best overall groupings, though there are some weak(er) links there:

Side B
Do You Wanna Dance?*
Help Me, Rhonda [US2]
California Girls [US2]
Barbara Ann [US2]
You're So Good to Me

Sloop John B*
God Only Knows [US3]

Side B
The Girl from New York City* (arguable, though--love it when the BBs rock out)
Girl Don't Tell Me [US3]
The Little Girl I Once Knew [US3]
Mountain of Love*
Here Today*
Wouldn't It Be Nice*
Good Vibrations [US3]

Side 2
Darlin'
Please Let Me Wonder [US2]
Let Him Run Wild [US2]
Country Air*
I Know There's an Answer*
Friends*
Heroes and Villains

You could make a great single disk out of these, though you'd still be missing some seminal tunes.

I'd run it chronologically:

a--Rhonda/Please Let Me Wonder/Girl From NYC/California Girls/Let Him Run Wild/Girl Don't Tell Me/The Little Girl I Once Knew
b--Wouldn't It Be Nice/Sloop John B./God Only Knows/I Know There's An Answer/Here Today/Good Vibrations/Heroes and Villains

A little Pet Sounds-heavy with the deep cuts, but can you argue the quality? It would be good to get the Wild Honey songs on (which could be done with a CD, of course) plus "Friends" and "Do It Again", but I think you'd have to ditch the chrono approach.

Side 3 of UK GH Vol 3 is really a nice sequence, even if it doesn't strictly make sense as a GH package. Was for a long time my "last side of the night."

Seeing Girl From NYC on there made me smile.  It doesn't get enough love.  To me it is one of their all time early classics. 
That Barbara Ann though, what a drag.  First couple of times hearing it, okay, but after that - enough!  One of their all time early groaners IMO.
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« Reply #26 on: November 11, 2014, 01:37:03 AM »

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« Reply #27 on: November 11, 2014, 08:20:37 AM »

I recall a European compilation... two double sets... I think 62/66 66/69?  Or something like that?  They had interesting track lineups.  Does anyone remember these?  I saw them in record stores in the late 1970s.
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« Reply #28 on: November 11, 2014, 03:00:55 PM »

Pretty sure those were French, and dated 1962-65 & 1966-69... released 1978-ish.

These ?



Track lists:

1962-65
A1    Surfin' Safari    
A2    Little Girl (Miss America)    
A3    409    
A4    Summertime Blues    
A5    Misirlou    
A6    Shut Down    
A7    Finders Keepers
   
B1    Catch A Wave    
B2    Little Deuce Coupe    
B3    Your Summer Coupe    
B4    Car Crazy Cutie    
B5    Cherry Cherry Coupe    
B6    Spirit Of America    
B7    A Young Man Is Gone    

C1    Fun Fun Fun    
C2    Don't Worry Baby    
C3    Why Do Fools Fall In Love    
C4    Louie Louie    
C5    I Get Around    
C6    All Summer Long    
C7    Don't Back Down    

D1    Do You Wanna Dance    
D2    Help Me Rhonda    
D3    She Knows Me Too Well    
D4    Amusement Park U.S.A.    
D5    Salt Lake City    
D6    Girl Don't Tell Me    
D7    Barbara Ann

66-69:
A1    Pet Sounds    
A2    Wouldn't It Be Nice    
A3    I'm Waiting For The Day    
A4    I Know There's An Answer    
A5    Here Today    
A6    Sloop John B.    
A7    Caroline No    

B1    Good Vibrations    
B2    Vegetables
B3    She's Going Bald    
B4    Wind Chimes    
B5    Getting Hungry
B6    Fall Breaks Back To Winter    
B7    Whistle In    

C1    Wild Honey    
C2    Aren't You Glad
C3    I Was Made To Love Her
C4    Country Air    
C5    Here Comes The Night
C6    Let The Wind Blow    
C7    How She Boogalooed It

D1    Friends    
D2    Wake The World    
D3    Be Here In The Morning    
D4    When A Man Needs A Woman    
D5    Little Bird    
D6    Transcendental Meditation    
D7    I Can Hear Music

Interesting selections but still some startling omissions.
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« Reply #29 on: November 12, 2014, 01:36:22 AM »



Interesting selections but still some startling omissions.

Yeah, like
Surfin' U.S.A.
Surfer Girl
A whole side of Wild Honey but no Darlin'
Do It Again
The Little Girl I Once Knew
Please Let Me Wonder
The Warmth of the Sun
A whole side of Smiley Smile but no Heroes and Villains

This really does read like someone got to make their own personal selection with no consideration given to what had been a hit. Either that, or all of the above songs flopped in France.
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« Reply #30 on: November 12, 2014, 02:11:15 AM »

A certain ditty lauding the local maidens is also conspicuous by its absence.
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« Reply #31 on: November 12, 2014, 05:43:39 AM »

But the presence of the interesting rarity "Your Summer Coupe" makes up for it.
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« Reply #32 on: November 12, 2014, 07:02:00 AM »

I was readiing the sleeve notes of the third UK one today, written by Dave Travis.  One paragraph says: 'During the months that followed [the realease of Heroes and Villains] came an intriguing sequence of singles, which enjoyed fluctuating chart success although all made the Top Thirty:  'Smiley Smile', the psychaedelic-influenced 'Wild Honey', the more succesful 'Darling' and the slow-waltz tempo 'Friends.'

So what's this single 'Smiley Smile' then?
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« Reply #33 on: November 12, 2014, 07:39:09 AM »

<<Pretty sure those were French, and dated 1962-65 & 1966-69... released 1978-ish.
These ?>>

Yes!  Those are the ones. Fascinating, bizarre track lists.  Those cover shots bring back lots of memories.  Thanks!
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« Reply #34 on: November 12, 2014, 07:46:40 AM »


Yes!  Those are the ones. Fascinating, bizarre track lists.  Those cover shots bring back lots of memories.  Thanks!

They should...they're just repurposed Surfin' Safari & 20/20 covers.
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« Reply #35 on: November 12, 2014, 01:20:39 PM »

<<Pretty sure those were French, and dated 1962-65 & 1966-69... released 1978-ish.
These ?>>

Yes!  Those are the ones. Fascinating, bizarre track lists.  Those cover shots bring back lots of memories.  Thanks!

Available in regular and coloured (clear for 62-65, blue for 66-69) vinyl.
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« Reply #36 on: November 13, 2014, 02:35:14 AM »

<<Pretty sure those were French, and dated 1962-65 & 1966-69... released 1978-ish.
These ?>>

Yes!  Those are the ones. Fascinating, bizarre track lists.  Those cover shots bring back lots of memories.  Thanks!

Available in regular and coloured (clear for 62-65, blue for 66-69) vinyl.

Yes, that was the time (late 70s) when colored vinyl was all the rage. I know I'm being lazy by not doing a search (it's very late here...best excuse I've got!!), but is there a thread that discusses all the BB's colored vinyl product?

Leave it to the French to have the strangest "deep cut" BB compilations ever!!
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« Reply #37 on: November 13, 2014, 10:57:15 AM »

Leave it to the French to have the strangest "deep cut" BB compilations ever!!

Not. Even. Close.

Behold...



... and no, it's not a retitled Stack O' Tracks: released in Japan, 1965.
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« Reply #38 on: November 13, 2014, 11:47:35 AM »

Leave it to the French to have the strangest "deep cut" BB compilations ever!!

Not. Even. Close.

Behold...



... and no, it's not a retitled Stack O' Tracks: released in Japan, 1965.

For sale now on Ebay for only $599 !! 
Here's the track list as shown on the back of the CD version( $45 on Ebay) : 

     
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« Reply #39 on: November 14, 2014, 09:26:28 AM »

Strange, yes...more in the realm of outrageous misrepresentation...but it makes a lot more "sense" content-wise than those French 2-fers.

I'm presuming the CD version of this added cuts 15-20 since they were clearly post-'65.

I'm not running out to drop any $$ on either version, mind you, but I kinda like the idea of it...just ridiculous enough to be appealing!!  3D

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« Reply #40 on: November 14, 2014, 12:45:35 PM »

"After The Game" is neither post-65 nor Beach Boys !
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