Combining albums as a Two-fer.

[Coda Hall]

Let's play a game. The rules are simple, you are allowed to take 2 albums from 1961-2012, and choose which two albums work together well, creating a two-fer. Give your reasons why these two albums flow together well. Remember, it's more fun if you choose 2 albums from 2 different BB periods!

[job]

LA/TWGMTR

[KDS]

Surfer Girl / All Summer Long

My favorite of the surf / car albums.  That would be a killer 2-fer. 

[drbeachboy]

Wild Honey / Carl and the Passions "So Tough"

[coco1997]

Can we use BW solo albums?

[Steve Latshaw]

By and large, I think the twofers were handled correctly.

Love You / Wild Honey - both sparse, stripped down - might be an interesting combo

I'd like to see a STILL CRUISIN/SUMMER IN PARADISE twofer, with the addition of California Dreamin', Lady Liberty, California Girls (live 1986), Runaway (live 82), Happy Endings, Problem Child, Crocodile Rock and all of the various mixes of Rock & Roll to the Rescue included on the original 1986 cassingle.

[Coda Hall]

Can we use BW solo albums?

I don't see why not. To make it better, you are allowed to use ALL BB solo albums.

[Larry Franz]

The Beach Boys Today! and Pet Sounds. Released more than a year apart but both high quality and one often considered a prequel to the other.

Love You / Wild Honey - both sparse, stripped down - might be an interesting combo

I tried to think of something to go with Love You. Maybe Friends? Different feeling but both a bit out of the ordinary.

[JK]

Surfer Girl and Surf's Up!, in my opinion the first and last moments of true greatness. 

[Jukka]

Smiley Smile / Love You. The package would also contain a magical sugar cube and a couple of spliffs.

[KDS]

By and large, I think the twofers were handled correctly.

Love You / Wild Honey - both sparse, stripped down - might be an interesting combo

I'd like to see a STILL CRUISIN/SUMMER IN PARADISE twofer, with the addition of California Dreamin', Lady Liberty, California Girls (live 1986), Runaway (live 82), Happy Endings, Problem Child, Crocodile Rock and all of the various mixes of Rock & Roll to the Rescue included on the original 1986 cassingle.

I almost said Still Cruisin and Summer in Paradise.  That way, we'd at least have remastered versions of the whole catalog. 

Is Problem Child even available on CD?  I know it didn't crack the GV or MIC sets. 

[WWDWD?]

Surfer Girl / All Summer Long

My favorite of the surf / car albums.  That would be a killer 2-fer. 

I have this twofer in the shape of a double cassette. It's a good one.

[Emdeeh]

Sunflower / Surf's Up -- I generally listen to these two as a double album.

[RollPlymouthRock]

I wonder how different The Beach Boys legacy would be if they'd been allowed to release just 1 album a year which is still far more productive than any group you see today. They'd receive great deal more critical acclaim I think, in my opinion more people would have them up alongside The Beatles and The Rolling Stones on the strength of these individual albums. Assuming a double album of 20 tracks this is what they would look like.

Beach Boys '63

1. Surfin' Safari
2. Surfin'
3. 409
4. Surfin' USA
5. Farmer's Daughter
6. Lonely Sea
7. Shut Down
8. Lana
9. Back Home
10. Surf City
11. Surfer Girl
12. Catch A Wave
13. The Surfer Moon
14. Little Deuce Coupe
15. In My Room
16. Hawaii
17. Your Summer Dream
18. Be True To Your School
19. Thank Him
20. Spirit of America

Beach Boys '64

1. Fun, Fun, Fun
2. Don't Worry Baby
3. In the Parkin' Lot
4. The Warmth of the Sun
5. Why Do Fools Fall In Love
6.  Keep an Eye on Summer
7. Dead Man's Curve
8. I Do
9. I Get Around
10. All Summer Long
11. Hushabye
12. Little Honda
13. We'll Run Away
14. Wendy
15. Do You Remember
16. Girls on the Beach
17. Drive In
18. Don't Back Down
19. Merry Christmas Baby (Different lyrics)
20. Christmas Day (Different lyrics)

Beach Boys '65

1. Do You Wanna Dance
2. Good to My Baby
3. Don't Hurt My Little Sister
4. When I Grow Up To Be a Man
5. Help Me Rhonda (Single Version)
6. Dance, Dance, Dance
7. Then I Kissed Her
9. Girl Don't Tell Me
10. California Girls
11.Let Him Run Wild
12. You're So Good to Me
13. The Little Girl I Once Knew
14. Please Let Me Wonder
15. I'm So Young
16. Kiss Me Baby
17. She Knows Me Too Well
18. Sandy She Needs Me
19. Guess I'm Dumb
20. In the Back of My Mind

Beach Boys '66

1. Wouldn't It Be Nice
2. You Still Believe In Me
3. That's Not Me
4. Don't Talk Put Your Head on My Shoulder
5. I'm Waiting For the Day
6. Sloop John B
7. Good Vibrations
8. God Only Knows
9. I Know There's an Answer
10. Here Today
11. I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
12. Caroline No
13. Our Prayer/Heroes and Villains
14. Roll Plymouth Rock
15. Cabinessence
16. The Elements
17. Wonderful
18. Look (Song For Children)
19. Child Is the Father of The Man
20. Surf's Up

[Nothgual]

It seems to me that the only album that could possibly go with Love You is another copy of Love You. If the rules are to be stretched to allow unreleased albums, Adult Child could work with it too.

[Nothgual]

I wonder how different The Beach Boys legacy if they'd been allowed to release just 1 album a year which is still far more productive than any group you see today. They'd receive great deal more of critical acclaim in my opinion more people would have up alongside The Beatles and The Rolling Stones on the strength of these individual albums. Assuming a double album of 20 tracks this is what they would like.

Beach Boys '63

1. Surfin' Safari
2. Surfin'
3. 409
4.  Surfin' USA
5.  Farmer's Daughter
6. Lonely Sea
7. Shut Down
8. Lana
9. Back Home
10. Surf City
11. Surfer Girl
12. Catch A Wave
13. The Surfer Moon
14. Little Deuce Coupe
15. In My Room
16. Hawaii
17. Your Summer Dream
18. Be True To Your School
19. Thank Him
20. Spirit of America

Beach Boys '64

1. Fun, Fun, Fun
2. Don't Worry Baby
3. In the Parkin' Lot
4. The Warmth of the Sun
5. Why Do Fools Fall In Love
6.  Keep an Eye on Summer
7. Dead Man's Curve
8. I Do
9. I Get Around
10. All Summer Long
11. Hushabye
12. Little Honda
13. We'll Run Away
14. Wendy
15. Do You Remember
16. Girls on the Beach
17. Drive In
18. Don't Back Down
19. Merry Christmas Baby (Different lyrics)
20. Christmas Day (Different lyrics)

Beach Boys '65

1. Do You Wanna Dance
2. Good to My Baby
3. Don't Hurt My Little Sister
4. When I Grow Up To Be a Man
5. Help Me Rhonda (Single Version)
6. Dance, Dance, Dance
7. Then I Kissed Her
9. Girl Don't Tell Me
10. California Girls
11.Let Him Run Wild
12. You're So Good to Me
13. The Little Girl I Once Knew
14. Please Let Me Wonder
15. I'm So Young
16. Kiss Me Baby
17. She Knows Me Too Well
18. Sandy She Needs Me
19. Guess I'm Dumb
20. In the Back of My Mind

Beach Boys '66

1. Wouldn't It Be Nice
2. You Still Believe In Me
3. That's Not Me
4. Don't Talk Put Your Head on My Shoulder
5. I'm Waiting For the Day
6. Sloop John B
7. Good Vibrations
8. God Only Knows
9. I Know There's an Answer
10. Here Today
11. Caroline No
12. Our Prayer
13. Heroes and Villains
14. Roll Plymouth Rock
15. Cabinessence
16. The Elements
17. Wonderful
18. Look (Song For Children)
19. Child Is the Father of The Man
20. Surf's Up

I really like a lot of the inclusions you made in Beach Boys 64 (especially the Christmas songs and I Do). The Beach Boys 66 would be kind of all over the place with the Pet Sounds stuff leading to the Smile stuff.

[Smilin Ed H]

I think half of LA and half of TWGMTR would make an excellent single album. Of course, if you combined the other halves...

[Ovi]

Smiley Smile / Love You. The package would also contain a magical sugar cube and a couple of spliffs.

I like this.