"Sunflower" as a 2-LP

[TheLazenby]

I've been thinking recently.... given the overload of material (three scrapped track-lists and a couple other circulating leftovers to boot), what if "Sunflower" was expanded from a measly 12 tracks to a mighty 31? 

I've started putting this together for myself - the track order is essentially arranged in chronological order according to when the track was completed - and so far it's not too shabby. :-)

SIDE ONE
01) The Lord's Prayer  [mono with one channel delayed, since the uncirculated Sunflower-era mix was Duophonic]
02) San Miguel
03) Got To Know The Woman
04) Celebrate The News
05) Loop De Loop
06) Forever
07) All I Wanna Do
08) Deirdre

SIDE TWO
01) Break Away
02) I'm Going Your Way (California Slide)
03) Cotton Fields  [45 version]
04) Slip On Through
05) Walkin'
06) Games Two Can Play
07) When Girls Get Together
08) Soulful Old Man Sunshine

SIDE THREE
01) At My Window
02) This Whole World
03) Where Is She?
04) I Just Got My Pay
05) Good Time
06) Carnival
07) Our Sweet Love
08) Fallin' In Love (Lady)

SIDE FOUR
01) Tears In The Morning
02) Back Home
03) Take A Load Off Your Feet
04) Add Some Music To Your Day
05) Susie Cincinnati
06) It's About Time
07) Cool, Cool Water

Now THAT, to me, is a powerhouse Beach Boys album.

[phirnis]

Makes you realize how good they were at the time, lots of top-notch material.

I've never been a big fan of double albums and I think part of what made the BB great was their talent for 'keeping it short' even at a time when bands would release stuff like Tales from Topographic Oceans (which is an album I actually really like, just the absolute opposite of the much more elegant stuff by the BB). I just wish they would have released one or even two more full albums in the early 70s.

[Cabinessenceking]

Basically an album with everything single song from the period? Should we include Brian's "I dont wanna sing it" as an intro to Walkin?

Loop de Loop followed by Forever? Even disco HCTN followed by Baby Blue cannot match that in terms of sheer bizarrity 

[TheLazenby]

LOL, yep - I did leave Brian's comment (as well as the later "f***, I can't sing this bitch!")... why not?