The Beach Boys

[median dome]

Still sounding his best at his sickest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMMiyaPeUA4

[haughty sleet]

Smiley smile is what got me into beach boys, love you is a great album too

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I wonder if Brian remembers the weird late 1970s stuff he wrote

Like the love you adult/child albums

[tidal axle]

I get around

[haughty sleet]

Whats everyones fav beach boys album

[haughty sleet]

So after listening to smile sessions numerous times, I think it’s not really as happy as the album title suggests

I feel like it has a feeling of uneasyness throughout the recordings, but like a weird sense of comfort too if that makes sense?

Really some charming parts when Brian uses his lyrics to create his own world but like songs like fire, heroes and villains, surfs up, wind chimes, wonderful. These are all pretty serious mostly sad or unsettling songs

And then you get like weird goofy but comforting songs

Like vegetables

Do you like worms

But that’s what makes it a masterpiece imo

[haughty sleet]

But yeahhh

I’m so excited tbh

I wish they had more goodies in the box set

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I have every Beach Boys twofer CD by the way

[haughty sleet]

Do you buy any boots?

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I'll send a picture

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No, I only buy official releases (for now) and CDs/DVDs

[haughty sleet]

My beach boys cds

I only have vinyl for the other albums

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I'll convert it to a different file type if you don't want to click on the one I just sent

[haughty sleet]

Damn you do have it all

I saw it it’s all good

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I might also pick up Still Cruisin' soon

[haughty sleet]

I skipped most of their surf albums tbh

Except uhhhh

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A record store in the city I frequently go to has a second-hand copy no one else seems interested in buying

[haughty sleet]

I have surfer girl on vinyl

That’s like the only early beach boys

[haughty sleet]

Is that Carl and the passions?

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I also have the 2-disc version of Pacific Ocean Blue which I sadly don't have a picture of

[haughty sleet]

I only have that on record

And bambuu

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Oh, no, I was referring to Still Cruisin'

[haughty sleet]

Ohhh I forgot those were different

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Still Cruisin' and Summer In Paradise have deliberately been taken out of print after their original releases but CD copies aren't too hard to buy these days

It's the vinyl pressings that go for insane prices

At least for Summer In Paradise

[haughty sleet]

Why?

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I'm pretty sure Still Cruisin' actually sold well at the time and there were a lot more vinyl pressed for that album

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Because the Beach Boys themselves think they're really bad

[haughty sleet]

Ohhh

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They literally disowned them

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I thought they thought the same about love you mostly Mike love

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Another completist goal of mine is to eventually obtain a copy of Stars and Stripes Vol 1 but I literally do not care enough for that one

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Love You is at least a cult-classic and has a large amount of fans

[haughty sleet]

True

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Never heard

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Summer In Paradise was so bad that even Mike Love never mentioned it in his autobiography except for the title track

[haughty sleet]

LOL

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Summer In Paradise was a terrible Beach Boys album, Stars and Stripes was a terrible album but barely a Beach Boys album

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Stars and Stripes was just the Beach Boys singing backing vocals on country artists singing Beach Boys covers

[haughty sleet]

Ohhh interesting

Probably better than stack o tracks

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There were plans to make a second volume but Carl died before it could happen

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I listened to a couple of tracks that were decent but I'm not American so I have no interest in country music

[haughty sleet]

Dudes literally raging on reddit

On how disappointed they are

About hey little tom boy

Not being on adult child

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The title perfectly describes the mentality of these people

Adult children

[haughty sleet]

Ohhhh I like country idk if the beach boys would be good at it tho

[haughty sleet]

For real

I said better than buying a boot for 400

They were like

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The main problem was for me at least with that album was that the Beach Boys' only contributions were backing vocals

[haughty sleet]

Wasn’t there a countryesque Brian Wilson album

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And Carl (who has usually always made the right decisions in the band's history) for some reason refused to participate in an album of original songs they were recording at that time in favour of Stars And Stripes because???

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Yeah, they announced that they were going to officially release that album about a year or two ago

Brian produced and contributed heavily to a country album by Fred Vail (If I remember correctly)

[haughty sleet]

Interesting

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I'm not sure what happened with that yet

[haughty sleet]

Same here I’m interested in it

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It will definitely be an interesting listen, but if it ever comes out though

Anyways it was really nice talking to you today but I gotta go to work now

[haughty sleet]

Very true I wonder if it’s complete

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Like wise take care!

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You too!

[haughty sleet]

Thank youu

[fringe mantle]

I've listened to only Pet Sounds

It's cool but not my type of music

Probably gonna listen to Surfer Girl today

[haughty sleet]

Can I give my opinion

[fringe mantle]

Ofc

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Id listen to sunflower

If it’s your first time trying to get into them

[fringe mantle]

Alright

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@uncut lantern do you agree

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Yeah, I agree, Sunflower is a great starting point

[haughty sleet]

Fr

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Spinning this

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I love Friends!

Such a wholesome album!

[haughty sleet]

Fr !

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Wild Honey is also awesome!

[haughty sleet]

Overlooked imo

Probably my fav from their lo fi era

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I really love the way the Beach Boys reinvented themselves from that album onwards with each album evolving further and further, arriving at Holland

Then 15 Big Ones released

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Same

[haughty sleet]

You can tell Brian didn’t want to be in 15 big ones

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Then you have the exact opposite of that with its paired album, Love You

[haughty sleet]

Exactly

Then like even with adult/child

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Also, a bit off-topic but didn't Al Jardine originally mention M.I.U. album being included in some capacity on the box set when he first teased it last year?

But it makes a lot more sense why they ended up excluding it anyways because of how unrelated it was to the "Brian's Back" era

[haughty sleet]

Im not sure tbh

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Here's hoping the MIU/Light Album/KTSA box set comes out soon

[haughty sleet]

Im surprised Al even put adult child out

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Yeah, but I guess the Beach Boys archivists had to step in to make sure all the fans are happy

Also, I believe Al is a lot more chill with releasing this kind of stuff now so I doubt he actually minds

And if they actually listened to Mike's opinions, nothing would ever be released

[haughty sleet]

Good points for real

[fringe mantle]

God this is the worst case of Beatles syndrome I've ever seen with Surfer Girl

I see why they changed their sound

[haughty sleet]

That was before beatle mania

[fringe mantle]

Ik, I just mean a revolutionary band being SO influential that it makes their music seem generic

[haughty sleet]

They got sick of it tooo

The beach boys

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https://youtu.be/2dqnTTEK13k

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This is so glorious

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Fr

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https://youtu.be/pNHWGsJ0quI?si=1W6Ueg5xF6luJXyb this too

https://youtu.be/vgKXy8NiCZc?si=gKMKVWZqJWQx9-tU

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Cool, nice to hear a version without the weird intro

[haughty sleet]

I wonder why all this stuff is leaking

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More awesome stuff for us to hear though

[hot umbra]

I'm picking up good posts in this thread

tbh i havent listened to too much by them but i would have to rank the ones i have

[junior kindle]

I only know their really popular songs

[hot umbra]

1: Pet Sounds (10/10)
2: Smiley Smile (10/10)
3: Wild Honey (9/10)
4: Friends (idk 8-9/10)
I don't know: Smile Sessions first disc (kind of felt underwhelming on the first listen but im listening to it tomorrow to change my opinions)

[hot umbra]

pet sounds is cool i think

the lo-fi trilogy is also pretty wild

smiley smile is demented and lo-fi besides the 2 hits, heroes and villains and good vibrations

[junior kindle]

That’s a long album

[hot umbra]

wild honey is vaguely psychedelic r&b and it has a stevie wonder cover so its automatically good

[hot umbra]

by beach boys standards, yes

its only 38 minutes long, though

by swans or the clash standards thats short

[junior kindle]

Wait what

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friends is poppier and more meditative but has some great songs like busy doing nothing and little bird

[junior kindle]

Oh this is the 50th anniversary one

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caroline no is the last song

after that its deluxe stuff

[junior kindle]

Ah I see

[hot umbra]

smile sessions is fucking weird in general

[junior kindle]

I’ve only heard like good vibrations and surfin USA

nvm I’ve heard all summer long

[hot umbra]

tip: i get around sucks

that + the early surf albums turned me off of them until like a week ago

[junior kindle]

It’s very repetitive but I like hearing people singing in harmony so I can’t complain too much

[median dome]

Good Vibrations changed the way I listen and process music

[hot umbra]

smile sessions does that but more

like 50 minutes of songs built in the same way as GV

[median dome]

Oh yeah, once I listened to GV I dived right into the smile sessions

Two years later, here I am with a large beach boys collection in records, including the smile sessions

Parks' Song Cycle I also listened too, and enjoy that

[median dome]

my go-to vision of smile that was created, it's a good compromise in an LP length
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTt6fO1viY0

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is the latest album thats why god made the radio good

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no

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i only listened to the title track and it was ok

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their last good album is apparently holland but i havent heard it yet

[gusty otter]

i like the album pet sounds and surfin usa tho

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https://rateyourmusic.com/list/alpha_betagamma/beach-boys-albums-that-ive-heard-ranked/ this i how i would rank everything that i've heard

[hot umbra]

i hate surfin usa

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why

[hot umbra]

dumb surfer shit

that isnt even instrumental like most surf during that time

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oh

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beach boys today is decent, pet sounds is where you should start

[gusty otter]

i listened to pet sounds

its really good

[hot umbra]

beach boys today is like pet sounds but a bit more pop-oriented

[gusty otter]

i thought they only had 1 modern studio album

[hot umbra]

smile sessions (first 19 tracks) is uhh... probably more advanced than any music ever made? not better per se, but more advanced

[hot umbra]

they do

[gusty otter]

oh

is smile sessions like a b side rarities compilation

[hot umbra]

but in general dont listen to anything after holland

[hot umbra]

no

[gusty otter]

oh

[hot umbra]

its an attempt to reconstruct https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smile_(The_Beach_Boys_album)

[gusty otter]

ohhh

[hot umbra]

good vibrations is also their best song

[junior kindle]

That’s true

[hot umbra]

although there's only really 3-5 songs on the smile sessions that work on their own

for the most part it's meant to be experienced in full

[median dome]

ngl I find TWGMTR alright

it's the best since Love You

And Smile, oh man.

You could write a whole music course on just the development of that. Would it have surpassed Sgt. Pepper in terms of cultural influence and music direction? The world may never know.

Good Vibrations, I consider to be their best single. Followed with Surf's Up, then God Only Knows (b-side)

Speaking on their other music, here's a fun fact. There's a BB song that was partly written (but not credited) to Charles Manson

[hot umbra]

id say it would

despite sgt pepper being the only coherent and consistent beatles album smile is probably the most advanced album ever made

[median dome]

It had a lot going for it

The circumstances leading to its collapse will always be a music tragedy

[hot umbra]

at least it was released in some form later

(smile sessions is my 5th favorite album of all time)

[median dome]

I do feel that back in '67 he should've envisioned it as a double LP

[hot umbra]

he couldnt even make it one

[median dome]

Mhm, but I feel a little bit could've been eased if he had thought of that

Considering what all he wanted to do

While Parks wasn't involved with The Elements, that would've been an interesting suite

Smile I consider one of my favorite listens, but I try not to call it an album

Brian Wilson Presents Smile is also a good listen, but the 66-71 recordings are better imo

[hot umbra]

breaking news: hours after recording the song water, a building with no large water source started flooding

[median dome]

Earth would just be another devastating earthquake

[hot umbra]

what's air?

[median dome]

Hmmm

If it was midwest I'd say tornados

Just some real gusty winds ig

[hot umbra]

brian wilson is the avatar

[median dome]

Lmao

I'll be sure to shout that at him next week when I see him /s

[hot umbra]

do it

[median dome]

One of the more underrated songs from the Sunflower era. Recorded in 1969 and released in 1981.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHWUJl4zLAo

Also this B-side single from 1969 as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnRikUqWPPA

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sounds of summer mixes are widely hated so https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl1xzaQmu6M

[median dome]

Thanks, was in a scramble when I shared them

[hot umbra]

apparently people are saying half of the surfin safari new mix is audio artifacts but i dont hear it

[median dome]

I'd have to listen to it a lot to notice, some noticed the digital artifacts on feel flows too

Was disappointed in my record copy for not sounding very clean in some areas

Listening to it now I don't hear much

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i only notice very very shitty mixing like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pe14e1aJvo where is the bass on this

[undone warren]

lars muted jason

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kqTcLwUYj8

ik this is beach boys but here

[median dome]

Who spilled metallica in my beach boys

[hot umbra]

me

[median dome]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/399789152234766336/999377998459453501/yp8ium9zky361.png.webp

[median dome]

The gang's somewhat here

[median dome]

Al had a bit of a slip up and jumped verses in Sloop John B lol

[hot umbra]

isnt brian wilson in like no shape to perform at all

[median dome]

He sang a few songs, but he's mostly just staring in one direction or at band members

Uses a walker from hip surgery

I think the show I saw last year was better. And he actually played the piano

But he is 80, and with what he's dealt with its understandable

[hot umbra]

oh that sounds uhhh

[median dome]

Not as emotive as he would've been 10 years prior

I got what I expected, and it was close to 100*F when they started

[hot umbra]

yeah

[median dome]

Now to see Love's Beach Boys sometime

This was from last November, found this show to be a lot better

Front row seat