Okay... probably time for me to really dig into The Beach Boys

Does this have the album but without all the background party noises?

 

Three discs of Party! sessions without party noise plus the album with party noise in stereo.

 

So since the OP is selling a Good Vibrations box in the classifieds do I take it we failed to gain a convert?

 

Listening to the Good Vibrations box set and just heard Sail On Sailor. That's a song I haven't heard in a really long time and one I always liked. Had no idea that was The Beach Boys. Really digging the Holland stuff

 

No you did. I just rip a lot of stuff and then sell so that I can buy more. In this case actually I've decided to keep it which is why I've not bumped it.

 

I have just listened to "Love You" for the first time,and I think it's brilliant.Along with Holland,it is definitely my favorite post Pet Sounds/Smile Beach Boys album.I had to have the album explained to me in a BBC documentary I saw on YouTube.You need to view the record not as a Beach Boys record,but as both a Brian Wilson solo record,and in the context of what Brian was going through at the time.As it was explained to me in this film,this record should be seen as a blueprint for a lot of the indie and outsider rock records of the 80s and 90s.When viewed in this context,it is without a doubt The Beach Boys last great musical achievement.

And I can definitely imagine Johnathan Richman singing "Solar System" and "Ding Dang".

Much too weird and ideosynchratic to be a commercial hit,but brilliant all the same.

Not a record for a Beach Boys newbie,though.

 

Good post!.. Yes,definitely one of their best....they play all the instruments ..a first since most of Wild Honey,I think...btw..Check out Alex Chilton doing Solar System on YouTube...

 

Stay away from 20/20 as your introduction to the beach boys, my Lord, there is much better work out there to listen to. At least sunflower is a little better, no Charles Manson on it.

 

Love You, brilliant? I don't understand the fascination with this album and I'm a huge Brian fan, huge! Can someone please explain what I'm not getting?

 

I have been listening to Smile Sessions from 2011 2lp set. Amazing sound, and "Surfs UP" blew me away (mono) version. I luv Pet Sounds but I think this is better>IMO

sean

 

Some days Sunflower is my favorite BBs album.

 

Agreed, but I love 20/20 too, uneven though it may be.

 

No Nearest Faraway Place on Sunflower.

 

These 2 songs define the Beach Boys (at least to me @ 16 in 1966):