Alternate/personalized tracklists?

[Catbirdman]

I decided to do my own 1969-70 "What If" compilation that I call Add Some Music.  I'm sure many of you have done something similar. 

Yep, I did one with that exact title about 10 years ago. My tracklist was as follows:

01 Breakaway
02 Celebrate The News
03 San Miguel
04 Cotton Fields (45 version)
05 Games Two Can Play
06 I Just Got My Pay
07 Good Time
08 Susie Cincinnati
09 Loop De Loop
10 Over The Waves
11 When Girls Get Together
12 Lady
13 Sound Of Free
14 seasons In The Sun
15 Soulful Old Man Sunshine
16 Big Sur (original version)
17 HELP Is On The Way
18 My Solution
19 Fourth Of July
20 Barbara

[buddhahat]

Here's my alternate 20/20:

A1 Do It Again
A2 Medley: Old Folks At Home/Man River
A3 I Went To Sleep
A4 Time To Get Alone
A5 Sail Plane Song
A6 Never Learn Not To Love

B1 Breakaway
B2 Walk On By
B3 Can't Wait Too Long
B4 A Time To Live In Dreams
B5 We're Together Again
B6 Celebrate The News
B7 Old Man River (Reprise)

[Micha]

Alternate Summer Days:

1. The Girl From New York City
2. You're So Good To Me
3. Amusement Parks USA
4. Girl Don't Tell Me
5. I'm Bugged At My Old Man
6. California Girls

1. Then I Kissed Her
2. Salt Lake City
3. Let Him Run Wild
4. Summer Means New Love
5. Help Me, Rhonda
6. And Your Dream Comes True

[phirnis]

Here's my alternate 20/20:

A1 Do It Again
A2 Medley: Old Folks At Home/Man River
A3 I Went To Sleep
A4 Time To Get Alone
A5 Sail Plane Song
A6 Never Learn Not To Love

B1 Breakaway
B2 Walk On By
B3 Can't Wait Too Long
B4 A Time To Live In Dreams
B5 We're Together Again
B6 Celebrate The News
B7 Old Man River (Reprise)

I like that, looks like quite a cohesive (and fairly Brian-centered) album. But why leave off "Be With Me"? That's such a killer song, if mostly in terms of Dennis' vocal performance and the overall atmosphere (which is so genuinely dark and eerie it's hard to believe this came out so shortly after the light and good-natured Friends album...).

[buddhahat]

Here's my alternate 20/20:

A1 Do It Again
A2 Medley: Old Folks At Home/Man River
A3 I Went To Sleep
A4 Time To Get Alone
A5 Sail Plane Song
A6 Never Learn Not To Love

B1 Breakaway
B2 Walk On By
B3 Can't Wait Too Long
B4 A Time To Live In Dreams
B5 We're Together Again
B6 Celebrate The News
B7 Old Man River (Reprise)

I like that, looks like quite a cohesive (and fairly Brian-centered) album. But why leave off "Be With Me"? That's such a killer song, if mostly in terms of Dennis' vocal performance and the overall atmosphere (which is so genuinely dark and eerie it's hard to believe this came out so shortly after the light and good-natured Friends album...).

Good question, as Be With Me was the one I was in two minds about. The only reason it was absent was that I'm not massively keen on it, although it could easily be swapped out with Never learn Not To Love.

[punkinhead]

great thread!
I'm liking what I'm seeing,
I'll try to submit one soon as I love these types of threads.
BTW, on a MIU mix that was on the 1st page, I saw a song called Thank You Baby...What's the word on that?
I've never heard of that...let alone from that era.

BTW, while I'm at it, I was gonna put Skatetown USA on a mix for LA, but I couldn't remember if it was recorded during that era or KTSA?

[Ovi]

I've got a home-made 21-songs album called 'The Beach Boys' Lost Album' mostly formed with songs that were bonuses on the twofers. There's also 'The Little Girl I Once Knew', 'Trombone Dixie' etc. Mostly songs that didn't make any album at their time of recording :

01.The Lord's Prayer (this works great as an opener-just like 'Our Prayer' and 'Think About The Days')
02.I Do
03.All Dressed Up For School
04.Graduation Day
05.The Little Girl I Once Knew
06.Trombone Dixie
07.Lonely Days
08.Old Folks at Home/Ol' Man River
09.Sail Plane Song
10.San Miguel
11.Loop-de-Loop (Flip Flop Flyin' In An Airplane)
12.Games Two Can Play
13.We're Together Again
14.Soulful Old Man Sunshine (incredible song)
15.I Just Got My Pay
16.H.E.L.P. Is On The Way
17.4th Of July (another brilliant tune)
18.Our Team
19.Sea Cruise
20.Winter Symphony (love this one a lot, too)
21.It's A Beautiful Day

[Moon Dawg]

  KEEPIN' THE SUMMER ALIVE

 1) Keepin' the Summer Alive
 2) Don't Fight the Sea
 3) Santa Ana Winds
 4) Daybreak (Over the Ocean)
 5) California Feeling

 6) Goin' On
 7) Stevie
  Love Remember Me
 9) Endless Harmony
10)Still I Dream Of It

 Far more the product of individuals than a band but better song for song. The inclusion of "Love Remember Me" cripples BAMBU after the loss of "Baby Blue" and "Love Surrounds Me" on L.A.

[EgoHanger1966]

  KEEPIN' THE SUMMER ALIVE

 1) Keepin' the Summer Alive
 2) Don't Fight the Sea
 3) Santa Ana Winds
 4) Daybreak (Over the Ocean)
 5) California Feeling

 6) Goin' On
 7) Stevie
  Love Remember Me
 9) Endless Harmony
10)Still I Dream Of It

 Far more the product of individuals than a band but better song for song. The inclusion of "Love Remember Me" cripples BAMBU after the loss of "Baby Blue" and "Love Surrounds Me" on L.A.

Stevie wasn't recorded until after KTSA was released. Great song, though!

[Disney Boy (1985)]

No need to really tamper with any pre-'76 albums as far as i'm concerned; LA however has always seemed like an album that had the potential to be really fantastic, rather than just plain good, as it ultimately was.
My thoughts on it are this... After the sales/quality disaster of MIU it seems Carl and Dennis were, quite rightly, being allowed to rule the roost, and to me it's a real shame that they didn't draw more from Bambu. So i'd include more songs from that album, plus some of the top quality tracks the band recorded around this time which were likewise inexplicably left to gather dust in the vaults, and i'd lose HCNT (because, and i don't care what it's defenders say, it's an embaressment) and i'd use the far superior Adult/Child version of Shortenin' Bread (yeah, production-wise that farty synth doesn't fit, but then neither does the screeching guitar on the released version, so hey ho...). Anyway, here is my dream LA. Sequence it yourselves and listen, it works brilliantly:

SIDE ONE
1. Good Timin'
2. It's Not Too Late (the delicate fade of this track segues perfectly into the quiet chiming opening of Full Sail)
3. Full Sail
4. Angel Come Home
5. California Feelin' (the solo Dennis vocal at the start of Love Surrounds Me works as a great contrast following the full group harmony ending of California Feelin')
6. Love Surrounds Me
7. Lady Lynda

SIDE TWO
8. Santa Ana Winds (the lovely LA version of course, which has none of the dated tacky-sounding production as heard on the KTSA version)
9. Lookin' Down The Coast
10. Sumahama
11. Baby Blue
12. Goin' South
13. Shortenin' Bread (Adult/Child version)

[Moon Dawg]

  KEEPIN' THE SUMMER ALIVE

 1) Keepin' the Summer Alive
 2) Don't Fight the Sea
 3) Santa Ana Winds
 4) Daybreak (Over the Ocean)
 5) California Feeling

 6) Goin' On
 7) Stevie
  Love Remember Me
 9) Endless Harmony
10)Still I Dream Of It

 Far more the product of individuals than a band but better song for song. The inclusion of "Love Remember Me" cripples BAMBU after the loss of "Baby Blue" and "Love Surrounds Me" on L.A.

Stevie wasn't recorded until after KTSA was released. Great song, though!

 Right, the alternate LP might have been ready by late summer 1980.

[EgoHanger1966]

  KEEPIN' THE SUMMER ALIVE

 1) Keepin' the Summer Alive
 2) Don't Fight the Sea
 3) Santa Ana Winds
 4) Daybreak (Over the Ocean)
 5) California Feeling

 6) Goin' On
 7) Stevie
  Love Remember Me
 9) Endless Harmony
10)Still I Dream Of It

 Far more the product of individuals than a band but better song for song. The inclusion of "Love Remember Me" cripples BAMBU after the loss of "Baby Blue" and "Love Surrounds Me" on L.A.

Stevie wasn't recorded until after KTSA was released. Great song, though!

 Right, the alternate LP might have been ready by late summer 1980.

According to AGD's site, Stevie was recorded in Jan. '81.

[runnersdialzero]

8. Santa Ana Winds (the lovely LA version of course, which has none of the dated tacky-sounding production as heard on the KTSA version)

"...
...
...
...
ON MY PORCH (BACKED BY FARTING HARMONICA)
THINKIN' ABOUT TEH TORCH
I'VE BIN CARRYIN FUR YOU SO LAWHAWHAWHAWHWAHNGGG!!!!!"

...

"Hi this is Al Jardine. Back in 1961, I used to hit old people with folding chairs. Suddenly I moved to Santa Ana, California. It made a rock star out of me at last.

FIYUR WEEIND. OH DESSERT WIND. I'VE BIN CARRYIN FORJ3qijeg4wrughrwi9ghwe0ihweh0gwe8g08ehwg"

[Moon Dawg]

  KEEPIN' THE SUMMER ALIVE

 1) Keepin' the Summer Alive
 2) Don't Fight the Sea
 3) Santa Ana Winds
 4) Daybreak (Over the Ocean)
 5) California Feeling

 6) Goin' On
 7) Stevie
  Love Remember Me
 9) Endless Harmony
10)Still I Dream Of It

 Far more the product of individuals than a band but better song for song. The inclusion of "Love Remember Me" cripples BAMBU after the loss of "Baby Blue" and "Love Surrounds Me" on L.A.

Stevie wasn't recorded until after KTSA was released. Great song, though!

 Right, the alternate LP might have been ready by late summer 1980.

According to AGD's site, Stevie was recorded in Jan. '81.

 That would complicate matters. In any event, a better LP than KTSA might have been assembled in 1980.

[Jim V.]

BTW, on a MIU mix that was on the 1st page, I saw a song called Thank You Baby...What's the word on that?
I've never heard of that...let alone from that era.

Hey, I know this is a super old post, but anyways, "Thank You Baby" is a song by Bruce "teabagger" Johnston, from his album Going Public.

[Moon Dawg]

 Take the best tracks from LOVE YOU, PACIFIC OCEAN BLUE, GOING PUBLIC and BLONDIE CHAPLIN (all 1977 releases) and what do you get? A real mess.  

 I have tried to combine parts of LOVE YOU and POB along with other material  for a "BEACH BOYS '77" type of record...but it never quite works. "What's Wrong" and "Honkin' Down the Highway" aren't bad as a one-two or two-one punch. The melancholy of "Moonshine" dovetails with "The Night Was So Young". To me anyway.  

[Phoenix]

Holland - Deluxe Edition

Trader ("Hi" indeed!)
Sail On Sailor
Only With You
California
Funky Pretty
We Got Love

Steamboat
Hard Times
Big Sur (original version)
It's A New Day
Leaving This Town
Fairy Tale Music (custom mix)

[Christoph]

Alternate Pet Sounds: (no Sloop / Instrumentals):


✓   Wouldn't it be nice   
✓   You still believe in me   
✓   Don't talk (put your head on my shoulder)
✓   In the back of my mind
✓   I'm waiting for the day
✓   Let him run wild
✓   That's not me   
✓   God only knows   
✓   I know there's an answer   
✓   Here today      
✓   I just wasn't made for these times   
✓   Caroline, no

[EgoHanger1966]

Alternate Pet Sounds: (no Sloop / Instrumentals):


✓   Wouldn't it be nice   
✓   You still believe in me   
✓   Don't talk (put your head on my shoulder)
✓   In the back of my mind
✓   I'm waiting for the day
✓   Let him run wild
✓   That's not me   
✓   God only knows   
✓   I know there's an answer   
✓   Here today      
✓   I just wasn't made for these times   
✓   Caroline, no

I've never actually burned this, but here's mine.

Side One:Wouldn't It Be Nice/You Still Believe In Me/That's Not Me/Don't Talk/I'm Waiting For The Day/Sloop John B

Side Two:God Only Knows/The Little Girl I Once Knew/Here Today/I Just Wasn't Made For These Times/I Know There's An Answer/Caroline, No

[OneEar/OneEye]

SURFIN’ SAFARI -  Surfin’ Safari, Farmer’s Daughter, Lana, County Fair, Little Girl (You’re My Miss America), 409

Surfin’ , Cindy Oh Cindy, Moon Dawg, Lonely Sea, Land Ahoy, Noble Surfer



SURFIN’ USA - Surfin’ USA, Surfers Rule, Catch A Wave, The Surfer Moon, Miserlou, South Bay Surfer

Surfer Girl, Stoked, Hawaii, Your Summer Dream, Finders Keepers, Surf City



SPIRIT OF AMERICA - Spirit of America, Ballad of Ole Betsy, Car Crazy Cutie, Cherry, Cherry Coupe, Little Deuce Coupe, Boogie Woodie

Shut Down, No-Go Showboat, Good Humor Man (aka The Rocking Surfer), A Young Man Is Gone, Shut Down, pt.2
Custom Machine



KEEP AN EYE ON SUMMER - Be True To Your School, All Dressed Up For School, In The Parkin’ Lot, This Car of Mine
Pom Pom Playgirl, In My Room

Fun, Fun, Fun, Why Do Fools Fall In Love, Drive In, Keep An Eye On Summer, I Do, Graduation Day



ALL SUMMER LONG - I Get Around, Hushabye, Little Honda, Carl’s Big Chance, We’ll Runaway, Don’t Worry Baby

Wendy, The Warmth of The Sun, Do You Remember?, Girls On The Beach, Don’t Back Down, All Summer Long

[Youre Under Arrest]

Here's my 15 Big Ones/ Love You mash. It's called "Brian's Back...And He's Pissed"

1. It's OK
2. Roller Skating Child
3. Mona
4. Had To Phone Ya (end is cut at 1:40 just after Marilyn says "Hey, Brian!")
5. I'll Bet He's Nice
6. Good Time

7. That Same Song (Gospel Choir version)
8. Susie Cincinnati
9. The Night Was So Young
10. Ding Dang (Oh yeah, you know you love it)
11. Airplane
12. Love Is A Woman (obligatory)

I like to cut most of the songs so they don't have fade outs, makes for a much easier flow. It was hard to add in enough 15BO tracks which were actually decent. But I enjoy this tracklisting better than listening to the two separately.

[Disney Boy (1985)]

8. Santa Ana Winds (the lovely LA version of course, which has none of the dated tacky-sounding production as heard on the KTSA version)

"...
...
...
...
ON MY PORCH (BACKED BY FARTING HARMONICA)
THINKIN' ABOUT TEH TORCH
I'VE BIN CARRYIN FUR YOU SO LAWHAWHAWHAWHWAHNGGG!!!!!"

...

"Hi this is Al Jardine. Back in 1961, I used to hit old people with folding chairs. Suddenly I moved to Santa Ana, California. It made a rock star out of me at last.

FIYUR WEEIND. OH DESSERT WIND. I'VE BIN CARRYIN FORJ3qijeg4wrughrwi9ghwe0ihweh0gwe8g08ehwg"

I've literally no idea at all what you're on about or getting at, but this nevertheless did make me laugh, so thanks.

[Quzi]

8. Santa Ana Winds (the lovely LA version of course, which has none of the dated tacky-sounding production as heard on the KTSA version)

"...
...
...
...
ON MY PORCH (BACKED BY FARTING HARMONICA)
THINKIN' ABOUT TEH TORCH
I'VE BIN CARRYIN FUR YOU SO LAWHAWHAWHAWHWAHNGGG!!!!!"

...

"Hi this is Al Jardine. Back in 1961, I used to hit old people with folding chairs. Suddenly I moved to Santa Ana, California. It made a rock star out of me at last.

FIYUR WEEIND. OH DESSERT WIND. I'VE BIN CARRYIN FORJ3qijeg4wrughrwi9ghwe0ihweh0gwe8g08ehwg"

I've literally no idea at all what you're on about or getting at, but this nevertheless did make me laugh, so thanks.

Seriously? Al's problem with using folding chairs as weapons in '61 is extremely well documented.

[donald]

BTW, on a MIU mix that was on the 1st page, I saw a song called Thank You Baby...What's the word on that?
I've never heard of that...let alone from that era.

Hey, I know this is a super old post, but anyways, "Thank You Baby" is a song by Bruce "teabagger" Johnston, from his album Going Public.

TEABAGGER JOHNSTON.....   !!!!!!!!!!

[beacharg]

TWGMTR in my usual playlist:

The 'upbeat' side...

01 Do It Again (2012 version)
02 That's Why God Made The Radio
03 Isn't It Time
04 Spring Vacation
05 Waves of Love (this version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUy9TqulQoU )
06 Soul Searchin' (MiC)

The 'deep' side...

07 Think About The Days
08 You're Still a Mystery (MiC)
09 Strange World
10 From There To Back Again
11 Pacific Coast Highway
12 Summer's Gone