Matt P
Smiley Smile Associate
Offline
Gender:
Posts: 49
|
|
« on: April 24, 2015, 05:01:49 AM » |
|
I've knocked up a Best of Brian Wilson collection for my own listening pleasure. So not to get too bogged down, I stuck to the following criteria: Tracks from the solo album era, so no tracks pre-88. BW original(ish) tracks only, no Beach Boys re-visits; so nothing from Brian's Pet Sounds and SMiLE albums and nothing from the Disney or Gershwin albums. Collection to display BW lead vocals; so no leads from Al, Zooey, Nate, CW or Elton! This is what I came up with:
1. This Beautiful Day 2. Love and Mercy (NPP bonus version) 3. Your Imagination 4. Live Let Live / That Lucky Old Sun (reprise) 5. Gettin in Over My Head 6. Don't Worry 7. Melt Away (IJWMFTT version) 8. She Says That She Needs Me 9. Orange Crate Art 10. Meet Me in My Dreams Tonight 11. Midnight’s Another Day 12. One Kind of Love 13. Lay Down Burden 14. Southern California 15. What I Really Want for Christmas 16. The First Time (live) 17. This Isn't Love (live) 18. The Last Song
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
KDS
Guest
|
|
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2015, 05:28:21 AM » |
|
That looks like a nice collection.
I'd probably add South American from Imagination, and probably Goin Home and Forever She'll Be My Surfer Girl from TLOS is there was room.
It would be nice for a Best of Brian solo to be released for people just dipping their toes in the water on Brian's solo career.
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
The Shift
Smiley Smile Associate
Online
Gender:
Posts: 7427
Biding time
|
|
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2015, 05:58:29 AM » |
|
What Love Can Do This Song Wants to Sleep With You Joy To The World (cover) Wanderlust (cover)
I'd also stipulate that Midnight be the demo version…
For my own Best Of… I'd allow covers - some of his best rocking tracks were on the Disney album -- and backing vocals - Hand on my Shoulder, Falling Apart, Delirious Love … and Crabby Patty is bloody marvellous!
|
|
|
Logged
|
“We live in divisive times.”
|
|
|
The Shift
Smiley Smile Associate
Online
Gender:
Posts: 7427
Biding time
|
|
« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2015, 06:10:31 AM » |
|
… not forgetting Rodney on the ROQ!
|
|
|
Logged
|
“We live in divisive times.”
|
|
|
KDS
Guest
|
|
« Reply #4 on: April 24, 2015, 06:35:29 AM » |
|
I was really hoping Wanderlust and the All Star God Only Knows would wind up on a deluxe version of NPP.
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Magic Transistor Radio
Smiley Smile Associate
Offline
Gender:
Posts: 2974
Bill Cooper Mystery Babylon
|
|
« Reply #5 on: April 24, 2015, 07:01:07 AM » |
|
Chain Reaction of Love Rio Grande
|
|
|
Logged
|
"Over the years, I've been accused of not supporting our new music from this era (67-73) and just wanting to play our hits. That's complete b.s......I was also, as the front man, the one promoting these songs onstage and have the scars to show for it." Mike Love autobiography (pg 242-243)
|
|
|
MaryUSA
Smiley Smile Associate
Offline
Posts: 129
|
|
« Reply #6 on: April 24, 2015, 07:03:17 AM » |
|
Hi all,
All of the posters have made excellent choices!!!
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Mike's Beard
Smiley Smile Associate
Offline
Posts: 4265
Check your privilege. Love & Mercy guys!
|
|
« Reply #7 on: April 24, 2015, 10:42:28 AM » |
|
You can actually make a good collection highlighting the more wackier/experimental side of Brian's solo work (with a few ballads thrown in for good measure).
1/ This Beautiful Day 2/ Night Time 3/ Runaway Dancer 4/ Chainreaction of Love 5/ She Says That She Needs Me 6/ In My Moondreams 7/ Been Too Long 8/ Orange Crate Art 9/ Too Much Sugar 10/ Cry 11/ Water Bulids Up 12/ Rio Grande 13/ Lay Down Burden 14/ Happy Days 15/ Love and Mercy 16/ Midnights' Another Day
17/ Smart Girls (hidden bonus track)
|
|
|
Logged
|
I'd rather be forced to sleep with Caitlyn Jenner then ever have to listen to NPP again.
|
|
|
barto
Smiley Smile Associate
Offline
Posts: 91
|
|
« Reply #8 on: April 24, 2015, 11:35:38 AM » |
|
1. This Beautiful Day 2. Melt Away 3. Somewhere Quiet 4. Summertime 5. Our Special Love 6. Can't Wait Too Long 7. Don't Worry 8. Love and Mercy 9. Sail Away 10. There's So Many 11. Whatever Happened 12. One Kind of Love 13. Last Song
|
|
« Last Edit: April 24, 2015, 11:36:57 AM by d@rnomite »
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Bubba Ho-Tep
Guest
|
|
« Reply #9 on: April 24, 2015, 12:46:03 PM » |
|
20 Greatest Hits
1. Love & Mercy 2. Melt Away 3. Rio Grande 4. The Spirit of Rock and Roll 5. This Song Wants to Sleep With You Tonight 6. Orange Crate Art 7. Your Imagination 8. South American 9. Lay Down Burden 10. Happy Days 11. The First Time 12. City Blues 13. Getting In Over My Head 14. Good Kind of Love 15. Forever You’ll Be My Surfer Girl 16. Midnight's Another Day 17. Someone to Watch Over Me 18. The Right Time 19. One Kind of Love 20. Sail Away
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
wantsomecorn
Smiley Smile Associate
Offline
Posts: 580
|
|
« Reply #10 on: April 24, 2015, 01:00:52 PM » |
|
Brian Wilson: My Life
Disc 1: From There
Let's Go to Heaven in My Car Love and Mercy (BW88) Being With The One You Love There's So Many Night Time Goodnight Irene Country Feelin' Rio Grande The Spirit of Rock & Roll (Bob Dylan version) This Could Be The Night This Song Wants to Sleep With You Tonight Melt Away (IJWMFTT version) Your Imagination Lay Down Burden This Isn't Love (Live) A Friend Like You Believe in Yourself Heroes and Villains (SMiLE version) Ms. O'Leary's Cow Good Vibrations (SMiLE version)
Disc 2: To Back Again
Live Let Die (Arctic Tale version) Good Kind of Love (with Carole King) Message Man What Love Can Do Midnight's Another Day / Lucky Old Sun (Reprise) Goin' Home Southern California Rhapsody in Blue (Intro/Conclusion Combined) The Like I Love in You I Loves You, Porgy When You Wish Upon a Star Runaway Dancer (with Sebu) On The Island (with She & Him) The Right Time This Beautiful Day Pacific Coast Highway (Live) Summer's Gone (Live) The Last Song One Kind of Love Love and Mercy (Walkin' Down the Path of Life version)
|
|
|
Logged
|
On our way through this "backstage" maze, Bruce joined up with the group and said hello, singing "It Never Rains in Southern California" and joking with some of the older ladies. I'm not sure if they knew he was a Beach Boy or simply an enthusiastic elderly gay gentleman.
|
|
|
The Shift
Smiley Smile Associate
Online
Gender:
Posts: 7427
Biding time
|
|
« Reply #11 on: April 24, 2015, 01:23:36 PM » |
|
Brian Wilson: My Life
Disc 1: From There
Let's Go to Heaven in My Car Love and Mercy (BW88) Being With The One You Love There's So Many Night Time Goodnight Irene Country Feelin' Rio Grande The Spirit of Rock & Roll (Bob Dylan version) This Could Be The Night This Song Wants to Sleep With You Tonight Melt Away (IJWMFTT version) Your Imagination Lay Down Burden This Isn't Love (Live) A Friend Like You Believe in Yourself Heroes and Villains (SMiLE version) Ms. O'Leary's Cow Good Vibrations (SMiLE version)
Disc 2: To Back Again
Live Let Die (Arctic Tale version) Good Kind of Love (with Carole King) Message Man What Love Can Do Midnight's Another Day / Lucky Old Sun (Reprise) Goin' Home Southern California Rhapsody in Blue (Intro/Conclusion Combined) The Like I Love in You I Loves You, Porgy When You Wish Upon a Star Runaway Dancer (with Sebu) On The Island (with She & Him) The Right Time This Beautiful Day Pacific Coast Highway (Live) Summer's Gone (Live) The Last Song One Kind of Love Love and Mercy (Walkin' Down the Path of Life version)
Very glad you've included the TWGMTR songs even though I've yet to hear the live versions. My most recent BW comp included those simply on the basis that they're recent, they're mostly Brian, and they're sheer genius.
|
|
|
Logged
|
“We live in divisive times.”
|
|
|
wantsomecorn
Smiley Smile Associate
Offline
Posts: 580
|
|
« Reply #12 on: April 24, 2015, 01:35:36 PM » |
|
Brian Wilson: My Life
Disc 1: From There
Let's Go to Heaven in My Car Love and Mercy (BW88) Being With The One You Love There's So Many Night Time Goodnight Irene Country Feelin' Rio Grande The Spirit of Rock & Roll (Bob Dylan version) This Could Be The Night This Song Wants to Sleep With You Tonight Melt Away (IJWMFTT version) Your Imagination Lay Down Burden This Isn't Love (Live) A Friend Like You Believe in Yourself Heroes and Villains (SMiLE version) Ms. O'Leary's Cow Good Vibrations (SMiLE version)
Disc 2: To Back Again
Live Let Die (Arctic Tale version) Good Kind of Love (with Carole King) Message Man What Love Can Do Midnight's Another Day / Lucky Old Sun (Reprise) Goin' Home Southern California Rhapsody in Blue (Intro/Conclusion Combined) The Like I Love in You I Loves You, Porgy When You Wish Upon a Star Runaway Dancer (with Sebu) On The Island (with She & Him) The Right Time This Beautiful Day Pacific Coast Highway (Live) Summer's Gone (Live) The Last Song One Kind of Love Love and Mercy (Walkin' Down the Path of Life version)
Very glad you've included the TWGMTR songs even though I've yet to hear the live versions. My most recent BW comp included those simply on the basis that they're recent, they're mostly Brian, and they're sheer genius. That was my thinking. I really wanted to do some sort of Life Suite on there (though not as long as many others have done) so I snuck them in under the Soundstage versions. If George Harrison could do it for his Dark Horse compilation, why can't I?
|
|
|
Logged
|
On our way through this "backstage" maze, Bruce joined up with the group and said hello, singing "It Never Rains in Southern California" and joking with some of the older ladies. I'm not sure if they knew he was a Beach Boy or simply an enthusiastic elderly gay gentleman.
|
|
|
job
Smiley Smile Associate
Offline
Gender:
Posts: 431
|
|
« Reply #13 on: April 24, 2015, 02:06:46 PM » |
|
1. This Beautiful Day 2. Runaway Dancer 3. What Ever Happened 4. On The Island 5. Half Moon Bay 6. Our Special Love 7. The Right Time 8. Guess You Had To Be There 9. Don t Worry 10. Somewhere Quiet 11. I m Feeling Sad 12. Tell Me Why 13. Sail Away 14. One Kind Of Love 15. Saturday Night 16. The Last Song 17. Love & Mercy 18. Melt Away 19. Let It Shine 20. Imagination 21. South American 22. Lay Down Burden
period.
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
TonyW
Smiley Smile Associate
Offline
Posts: 609
|
|
« Reply #14 on: April 24, 2015, 02:45:45 PM » |
|
To me the LP and CD formats are redundant. This is straight off my i-pod: Title: LOVE MERCY REDEMPTION 1. This Song Wants To Sleep With You Tonight 2. I'm Feeling Sad 3. Cry 4. Heaven 5. On The Island 6. Soul Searchin' (Original Beach Boys version) 7. Wanderlust 8. Lay Down Burden 9. City Blues 10. I Got Plenty o' Nuttin' 11. I Guess You Had To Be There 12. Your Imagination 13. Sail Away 14. Kiss The Girl 15. Runaway Dancer 16. This Could Be The Night 17. Everything I Need (Brian & Foskett version) 18. Saturday Night 19. Sweets For My Sweet 20. Melt Away 21. Pacific Coast Highway 22. Midnights Another Day (Demo) 23. She Says That She Needs Me 24. Walking Down the Path Of Life/Love and Mercy 25. Southern California 26. Summers Gone Bonus Tracks: 27. Wild Honey (Live) 28. Hold On Dear Brother (Live)
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
barto
Smiley Smile Associate
Offline
Posts: 91
|
|
« Reply #15 on: April 24, 2015, 05:00:56 PM » |
|
1. This Beautiful Day 2. Runaway Dancer 3. What Ever Happened 4. On The Island 5. Half Moon Bay 6. Our Special Love 7. The Right Time 8. Guess You Had To Be There 9. Don t Worry 10. Somewhere Quiet 11. I m Feeling Sad 12. Tell Me Why 13. Sail Away 14. One Kind Of Love 15. Saturday Night 16. The Last Song 17. Love & Mercy 18. Melt Away 19. Let It Shine 20. Imagination 21. South American 22. Lay Down Burden
period.
So you didn't like his new album at all, huh?
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Andrew G. Doe
Smiley Smile Associate
Offline
Gender:
Posts: 17767
The triumph of The Hickey Script !
|
|
« Reply #16 on: April 24, 2015, 10:30:54 PM » |
|
Chain Reaction of Love Rio Grande
That would be the token previously unreleased track to make us all buy the damn thing ?
|
|
|
Logged
|
The four sweetest words in my vocabulary: "This poster is ignored".
|
|
|
KDS
Guest
|
|
« Reply #17 on: April 26, 2015, 02:03:59 PM » |
|
I'd like to see an anthology similar to the one that Robert Plant released about ten years ago. The first disc was the best of his solo career, and the second disc was unreleased bits, and odds & ends.
Between cuts on tribute albums, soundtracks, unreleased material, and some interesting live tracks (ie. Warmth of the Sun w/ Eric Clapton), I'm sure it could be done.
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Rentatris
Smiley Smile Associate
Offline
Gender:
Posts: 241
|
|
« Reply #18 on: March 03, 2016, 05:13:52 AM » |
|
I like 20 tracks as a greatest hits, it just kinda feels right. This is my BW compilation off my 7 disc collection ( http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,15911.msg544916.html#msg544916 ) If anyone does follow that link then feel free to answer the question posed 1. Concert Tonight (short version) 2. This Beautiful Day 3. Love and Mercy (IJWMFTT) 4. Midnight's Another Day 5. That Lucky Old Sun 6. This Songs Gonna Sleep with you 7. Forever She'll be my Surfer Girl 8. Your Imagination 9. Orange Crate Art 10. Lay Down Burden 11. It's not easy bein' me 12. The Right Time 13. Saturday Morning in the City 14. He couldn't get his poor old body to move 15. Water Builds Up 16. Slightly American Music 17. I'm Broke 18. Too Much Sugar 19. Smart Girls 20. Rio Grande
|
|
|
Logged
|
Pet Sounds, SMiLE, Love You, Adult/Child
|
|
|
Smilin Ed H
Guest
|
|
« Reply #19 on: March 03, 2016, 05:25:19 AM » |
|
At the moment, it would have to include Love and Mercy Baby Let Your Hair Grow Long Melt Away Rio Grande Cry Lay Down Burden Orange Crate Art Wings of a Dove Don't Let Her Know... Happy Days Midnight's Another Day This Song's Gonna Sleep with You City Blues What Love Can Do What I Really Want for Christmas
More later. The difference in production styles would make it a real bastard to listen to, though...
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
KDS
Guest
|
|
« Reply #20 on: March 03, 2016, 05:40:14 AM » |
|
More later. The difference in production styles would make it a real bastard to listen to, though...
Such is the problem with many compilations from legacy artists. On the Beach Boys Sounds of Summer compilation, the transition from Wouldn't It Be Nice to Getcha Back is quite jarring.
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Sheriff John Stone
Smiley Smile Associate
Offline
Posts: 5309
|
|
« Reply #21 on: March 03, 2016, 06:04:02 AM » |
|
Brian Wilson - The Solo Years
01 Love And Mercy 02 Let It Shine 03 Melt Away 04 Your Imagination 05 South American 06 Lay Down Burden 07 Gettin' In Over My Head 08 A Friend Like You 09 Don't Let Her Know She's An Angel 10 What I Really Want For Christmas 11 Midnight's Another Day 12 Goin' Home 13 Southern California 14 What Love Can Do 15 They Can't take That Away From Me 16 Someone To Watch Over Me 17 Heigh-Ho / Whistle While You Work 18 When You Wish Upon A Star 19 Tell Me Why 20 Sail Away 21 One Kind Of Love 22 The Spirit Of Rock And Roll
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Smilin Ed H
Guest
|
|
« Reply #22 on: March 03, 2016, 09:23:54 AM » |
|
More later. The difference in production styles would make it a real bastard to listen to, though...
Such is the problem with many compilations from legacy artists. On the Beach Boys Sounds of Summer compilation, the transition from Wouldn't It Be Nice to Getcha Back is quite jarring. Getcha Back dioesn't belong in the same room as WIBN
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
CenturyDeprived
Smiley Smile Associate
Offline
Posts: 5749
|
|
« Reply #23 on: March 03, 2016, 09:29:10 AM » |
|
More later. The difference in production styles would make it a real bastard to listen to, though...
Such is the problem with many compilations from legacy artists. On the Beach Boys Sounds of Summer compilation, the transition from Wouldn't It Be Nice to Getcha Back is quite jarring. Getcha Back dioesn't belong in the same room as WIBN That's like Rockin' The Man in the Boat following the song Surf's Up. Shudder.
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
SMiLE Brian
Smiley Smile Associate
Offline
Gender:
Posts: 8432
|
|
« Reply #24 on: March 03, 2016, 09:32:50 AM » |
|
Woah!
|
|
|
Logged
|
And production aside, I’d so much rather hear a 14 year old David Marks shred some guitar on Chug-a-lug than hear a 51 year old Mike Love sing about bangin some chick in a swimming pool.-rab2591
|
|
|
|