You have 10 Albums…..

[Rentatris]

Ok, let's play a game, if you wish.

 You can choose 10 Beach Boy related Albums for the REST OF YOUR EXISTENCE - outside of these you will never hear anything else related to the boys.

 The Paramaters

 No Box Sets
 No Live Concerts
 No Compilations
 No sprawling boots
 Unreleased albums allowed
 Collaborations and Solos included


 To give you an idea here's my 10 to start us off

Pet Sounds
SMiLE (disc 1 of the sessions) Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE
Wild Honey
Love You
Adult/Child
That Lucky Old Sun
Summer Days (And Summer Nights)
Slightly American Music
Sweet Insanity
I Guess I wasn't made for these times (A cheeky one, not strictly a compilation as all tracks were re-recorded a fresh)

Choose wisely - anything that doesn't make your cut you will never hear again…..
 

[Andrew G. Doe]

Your #2 choice is part of a box set, thus by your own rules ineligible... and no POB ?

[Nicko1234]

Surfer Girl
All Summer Long
Today
Pet Sounds
Smile
Friends
20/20
Sunflower
Surf`s Up
Holland

[Please delete my account]

Your #2 choice is part of a box set, thus by your own rules ineligible... and no POB ?

It was also part of a 2CD version.
 Pacific Ocean Blue wouldn't even be in my top twenty. It's great if you like that kind of music but it's not for me.

[Please delete my account]

Surfer Girl
All Summer Long
Today
Pet Sounds
Smile
Friends
20/20
Sunflower
Surf`s Up
Holland

Probably this, but swapping the last two for Summer Days and Wild Honey.

[Rentatris]

Your #2 choice is part of a box set, thus by your own rules ineligible... and no POB ?

 I can accept that and would happily swap it for BWPS as for POS I considered it but it hasn't made enough of an impact on me (yet) to be deemed essential to me.

[Rentatris]

Also, Andrew, I genuinely would be really interested to hear your list…. 

[Jukka]

1. Surfin' Safari
2. Little Deuce Coupe
3. All Summer Long
4. Pet Sounds
5. Smiley Smile
6. Wild Honey
7. 20/20
8. Sunflower
9. Surf's Up
10. Love You

...that was surprisingly easy. Maybe I'd swap Sunflower or Surf's Up for POB, but who knows.

[Andrew G. Doe]

Also, Andrew, I genuinely would be really interested to hear your list….  

Pet Sounds
Sunflower
All Summer Long
Today !
Pacific Ocean Blue
That Lucky Old Sun
Holland
Love You
Summer Days...
Smile Sessions (2CD version)

[bluesno1fann]

Pet Sounds
SMiLE
Wild Honey
20/20
Sunflower
Surf's Up
CATP
Holland
Pacific Ocean Blue
L.A. Light Album

[JK]

No game----this is serious stuff requiring serious thought. A provisional list:

Surfin' USA
Little Deuce Coupe
Today!
Pet Sounds
Smiley Smile
Wild Honey
20/20
Sunflower
Surf's Up
That's Why God Made The Radio

[Peadar 'Big Dinner' O'Driscoll]

All Summer Long
Today
Pet Sounds
SMiLE
Wild Honey
Friends
Sunflower
Surfs Up
Love You
POB

[branaa09]

Summer Days and Summer Nights !!!
Pet Sounds
Smiley Smile
Surfer Girl
Smile (2 CD)
Pacific Ocean Blue
Today!
All Summer Long
Friends
Imagination

[Camus]

Pet Sounds
Wild Honey
Friends
Sunflower
Pacific Ocean Blue
Brian Wilson
The unreleased collection of songs most commonly referred to as Landlocked
Love You
Summer Days (And Summer Nights)
Smile

[rab2591]

Pet Sounds
Brian Wilson Presents Smile
Friends
Today!
Stack-O-Tracks
Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)
Love You
Shut Down Volume II (pretty much only for Don't Worry Baby)
All Summer Long
No Pier Pressure

I would possibly swap Stack-O-Tracks for Little Deuce Coupe.

[Fire Wind]

Pet Sounds
Smiley Smile
Smile (1 disc version).
Friends
Summer Days
Today
All Summer Long
Sunflower
Surfer Girl
Love You

[job]

Surfin' USA
Pet Sounds
Holland
CATP
Love You
LA
SIP
TWGMTR
POB
NPP

[Menace Wilson]

FRIENDS
Smile (whichever incarnation counts)
Smiley Smile
Wild Honey
Today
Love You
Pet Sounds
Sunflower
Surfs Up
20/20

[Mike's Beard]

1- Holland
2- Surf's Up
3- Sunflower
4- Today!
5- Pet Sounds
6- 20/20
7- Surfin' USA
8- Carl & The Passions
9- Brian Wilson '88
10- Surfin' Round the World

[dcowboys107]

In ascending chronological order:

I assume that we get to have the mono and stereo versions where applicable 

I also show my work:

1. Surfin' USA (Classic. The filler is actually pretty enjoyable even though sometimes I skip songs if I'm listening digitally.)

2. Surfer Girl (Classic of course. No explanation needed.)

3. Little Deuce Coupe (Love the album but luckily Surfer Girl already has some of my favorites like "Our Car Club" and the few obvious others. Am missing out on "409" though .)

4. Shut Down Vol.2 (I love just about all the tunes on this album. "Keep an Eye's" bridge is so haunting (?). It's difficult, in a good way, to adequately describe that feeling in Brian's voice. "This Car of Mine" is one of my favorite Dennis vocals. "Louie Louie" is not too bad of a tune and the the "Shut Down" instrumental is pretty enjoyable IMO.)

5. Today   (I love Side A's rockers and Side B is ethereal. I could (and have) sit and listen to "Please Let Me Wonder's backing vocals over and over again.)

6. Summer Days  ("Help Me, Rhonda" is my "Be My Baby." I think it's a perfect pop song and deservedly was a number 1.)

7. Pet Sounds ("You Still Believe in Me", stereo version, still sends chills down my spine.)

8. Smiley Smile (I like the homespun lo-finess of this album. I get "GV" and I get "With Me Tonight." I love the tripiness and fullness organs bring to pop/rock and the whole chill aspect of this album serves to complement this.)

9. Wild Honey (Perfect album for late fall, early winter. Love sitting by the record player blasting my duophonic copy with a good beer surrounded with good people or if I'm alone jamming along on the piano.)

10. Friends (From this point onwards it gets really tough. I love the cheesy/homespun side A with the cheesy organ lines like "When a Man..." and I love how Brian ends "Wake the World" with his trademark falsetto with "When you're calling MEE.  I'm not a huge fan of side B when listening to individual cuts but I do think all the tracks work as a whole.)

11. Sunflower (I LOVE this album for the obvious killer tracks but I guess I could live without it even though it isn't spring time without having listened to it on vinyl at least a handful of times. )

12. Surf's Up (Definitely going to miss "Feel Flows," "Tree," and the final two cuts.  It was between this and Carl but what the heck.)

13. Carl and the Passions (I know this is a love it or leave it album but I like how it's not a complete work like Holland with the South Africans and the Boys trying to figure it out. I love the spiritual music, "Marcella" is such a good song and I love the fade out with Brian's new voice in the left channel singing away at "Heeeey Marcella."  Dennis's two songs are absolutely gorgeous.  "Make it Good" to me is like the meaning of life and love all in the span of like two minutes.  I love hearing that song while walking on a cold dark night at the top of a hill where I can see the lights of the city miles away and having that song envelope me while I close my eyes and feel the cold air on my face and in my nose.)

14. Holland (Going to miss "Funky Pretty" and especially it's fade out. I love this album though. Hard one to let go of.)

[Smilin Ed H]

No order...

Surf's Up
Holland
Pet Sounds
Today
Friends
POB
Smile 1 CD
Wild Honey
Sunflower
20/20

[37!ws]

No order...

Pet Sounds, of course
Smile (the complete version, of course, from 2004)
Sunflower
Holland
The Beach Boys Love You
Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin (am I allowed to fix the EQ on the opening track?)
Pacific Ocean Blue (although, TBH, I can only imagine myself listening to "River Song" and "Time" -- the rest of the album sounds dated to me, TBH)
Friends (especially if I can get a completely remastered version of it)
Brian Wilson (mainly for "Rio Grande")
Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)

[buddhahat]

Your #2 choice is part of a box set, thus by your own rules ineligible... and no POB ?

If we're listening on vinyl then surely the Smile 2011 lP is fair game. Therefore my list as follows:

Smile 2011 LP
Pet sounds
Wild Honey
Friends
Sunflower
Surf's Up
Love You
Today
Pacific Ocean Blue 3lp set
Summer Days Summer Nights

[Lee Marshall]

These are listed in no specific order...other than what I have to have from Brian and then in order of release...and then the 'others' category...of which there is but 1 choice for me.

Brian Wilson Presents Smile
No Pier Pressure
Little Deuce Coupe
Pet Sounds
Friends
20/20
Sunflower
Surf's Up
Holland
Pacific Ocean Blue
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Just bubbling under but not quite making it...

Brian Wilson
All Summer Long
Summer Days and Summer Nights
Wild Honey
Carl and the Passions So 'F'n' Tough

Thank goodness we don't have to list the 10 we absolutely don't want or need.  [but I could ]

[Terry]

1. Friends
2. Today!
3. Wild Honey
4. Pet Sounds
5. Sunflower
6. Surfer Girl
7. Surf's Up
8. Holland
9. Love You
10. POB