Discuss & Rate Beach Boys Songs Day by Day

This has always come off like two different parts of other songs cobbled together to make it sound like one. Both parts are good but I prefer the last part with Carl and wonder if that was the ending of something else. Brian's singing pulls down the opening part a bit. 4/5

 

Lines. The Carl tag raises this just above the excruciating category, for me. May have fit more on Loves You than Adult/Child.

2/5

 

Yep. Another slice of the life of Brian. I've always like this one and thought it could replace several songs on MIU and improve it. Considerably. 4

Interesting how this version brings out the Bacharach touch:

 

I dig this - he made the tag a chorus, as I suggested, and put in a great instrumental break. It works even better this way.

 

"lines" - I'll take a slice of that. What's there is wonderful. Carl helping out again with a great tag, just as he did a few months earlier with the "Airplane" tag. 5/5, 9/10.

 

Collated ratings for Smiley Smile

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   • Heroes and Villains [Smiley Smile Version] 4.8
   • Vegetables 4.8
   • Fall Breaks and Back to Winter 4.2222
   • She's Going Bald 3.75
   • Little Pad 4.5
   • Good Vibrations [Single Version] 4.8571
   • With Me Tonight 3.625
   • Wind Chimes [Smiley Smile Version]3.875
   • Gettin' Hungry 4.25
   • Wonderful [Smiley Smile Version] 4.4
   • Whistle In 3.8333

Rating for Smiley Smile as an album: 3.4
Average rating by song: 4.2648

Not many people voted for the album as a whole, which probably accounts for the discrepancy.

 

1. Wild Honey 4.7143
2. Aren't You Glad 4.875
3. I Was Made To Love Her 4
4. Country Air 5
5. A Thing Or Two 4.1
6. Darlin' 5
7. I'd Love Just Once To See You 4.8
8. Here Comes the Night 4.8
9. Let the Wind Blow 4.9091
10. How She Boogalooed It 3.3
11. Mama Says 3.3846

Wild Honey as a whole: 4.7
Wild Honey average song: 4.4439

Bonus tracks

• The Letter 3
• With a Little Help From My Friends 3.25
• Game of love 2.625
• Can't Wait Too Long/Been Way Too Long 4.5556

 

Collated ratings for Friends

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   • Meant For You 4.8889
   • Friends 5
   • Wake the World 4.8182
   • Be Here In the Morning 5
   • When A Man Loves a Woman 4.625
   • Passing By 4.4545
   • Anna Lee, the Healer 4.2222
   • Little Bird 4.8333
   • Be Still 3.7
   • Busy Doin' Nothin' 4.8571
   • Diamond Head 4.5556
   • Transcendental Meditation 3.8

Friends as a whole: 4.8182
Frends average song rating:4.5629

Bonus tracks:

• New Song (Transcendental Meditation) 3.3333
• My Little Red Book 2.
• Be Here Im the Morning Darlin' 4.1667
• Our New Home 3.6
• New Song (Spanish Guitar/Indian Wisdom) 3

 

Lines - another of those Brian songs I just end up singing around the place! 4/5.

Shortenin Bread - not sure, probably 3/5. Isn't there another version as well, there is a faster backing track circulating.

 

There is a fast one from circa 1980/1981.

 

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Today's song is On Broadway:

 

Our ratings for 20/20

• Do It Again 4.8333

• I Can Hear Music 5

• Bluebirds Over the Mountain 3.33

• Be With Me 4.2

• All I Want To Do 3.125

• The Nearest Faraway Place 3.4545

• Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song) 4

• I Went To Sleep 4.5714

• Time To Get Alone 5

• Never Learn Not to Love 4.44444

20/20 as a whole: (discounting the SMiLE trakcks: 4.7778)
Average song rating 4.1962

Bonus tracks

• Walk On By 3.75
• All I Wanna Do [early version track] 3.5
• We're Together Again 4.1429
• Sail Plane Song 3.5
• Ol' Man River [a capella] 4
• Old Folks At Home/Ol' Man River 4.5
• Walkin' 2.8889
• Well You Know I Know 3.4
• Love Affair 2.1667
• Peaches 2.125
• The Gong 1.8
• A Time To Live In Dreams 4
• Mona Kani 3
• Break Away 4.7778
• Celebrate The News 3.875
• Cotton Fields [Single Version] 4

 

I think that "On Broadway" is a fantastic track, particularly the backing track. Al does a competent job, though he does sound a bit strained.

I've never understood why some people abhor this track so much, I think the production is great and it fits very nicely on my 15 Big Ones compilation! Having said, that if the theme of Adult/Child is transformation, the song certainly does fit here lyrically. 5/5

 

There's nothing radical about the cover of On Broadway but I like Al's vocals and musically it fits nicely on (my) Adult/Child (playlist).

4/5

 

Collated Ratings for Sunflower

1. Slip On Through 4.625
2. This Whole World 4.9091
3. Add Some Music 4.1818
4. Got to Know the Woman 3.1818
5. Deirdre 4.2
6. It's About Time 3.8889
7. Tears In the Mornin' 2.8571
8. All I Wanna Do 4.7143
9. Forever 4.3333
10. Our Sweet Love 4.7143
11. At My Window 3.9
12. Cool Cool Water 4.8333

Sunflower as album: 4.6667
Average song: 4.1949

Bonus tracks

• Soulful Old Man Sunshine: 4
• Back Home [1970 version] 3.3333
• Games Two Can Play 4
• Loop De Loop 3.2398
• San Miguel 4.8462
• H.E.L.P. Is On The Way 3
• I Just Got My Pay 3
• Fallin' In Love (lady) 4.8
• Where Is She 3.5556
• Over The Waves 2
• California Slide (I'm Goin' Your Way) 4

 

On Broadway is my top favorite cover by BBs in the late 70's. It has a great vibe, and Al's lead vocal is sublime. 5/5

 

Backing track is overly repetitive - would work better if it started out a little more minimalist and then built up to the wall of sound as the song progressed, it would give the song dynamics and variation it very much needs. Perhaps a Mark and Alan remix could really improve it. Al’s vocal isn’t bad but there’s something about the enunciation at times that bothers me - he could sing this better. And again, not much variation in the delivery. He sounds bored. And the backing vocals - they don’t even sound like The Beach Boys! This had promise - and it would have been better than several covers on 15 Big Ones - but as it stands I can only give this a 2/5.

 

Broadway - Good enough but certainly not some sort of 5 star masterwork IMO. 3

 

I like On Broadway - 3, maybe 4. I would have preferred it on a 15BO covers album, though.

 

OB, I can generally take it or leave it which is about the same way I felt about the original. Al does a good job of singing the song and I like the sax treatment quite a bit but would I listen to it again?? Can't pick this one apart so I'll go 4/5.

 

"On Broadway" is a favorite Al vocal, for me. Not my favorite version, that's the one by Liv Taylor, but good enough for a 4/5, 8/10.

 

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Today's song is It's Trying To Say [a.k.a. Baseball]:

 

Collated ratings for Surf's Up

1. Don't Go Near the Water 4.2727
2. Long Promised Road 4.7134
3. Take a Load Off Your Feet 3.4545
4. Disney Girls 4.8182
5. Student Demonstration Time 2.8182
6. Feel Flows 4.8
7. Lookin' At Tomorrow 4.0833
8. A Day in the Life of a Tree 4.5714
9. 'Til I Die 4.9333
10. Surf's Up [1971 version] 5

Surf' Up album: 4.6667
Average song rating: 4.3465

Bonus tracks

• 4th of July 4.5714
• Wouldn't It Be Nice To Live Again? 4.6667
• Sound of Free 4.6
• Barbara 4.25
• My Solution 2.8333
• Big Sur [Original Version]4.1429