Finally listening to music in the car again

[Spoilt Victorian Child]

Actually "Wendy" was on there. "Girls on the Beach" was an oversight though.

I like 20/20 a lot more than I remember. I think I had it confused with Friends.

[Spoilt Victorian Child]

I think we've covered "Disney Girls" adequately but I like "Tears in the Morning" almost as much.

[Spoilt Victorian Child]

Wild Honey: seemed mostly indifferent
-- "Darlin'": "Huh. Okay." (On being informed it was the single.)
-- "Here Comes the Night": "I can't hear what he's saying so I'm just going to pretend this is Charlie's 'Nightman' song."

Friends: did not like
-- "Be Here in the Mornin'": "Is the whole album like this?"

At this point she asked to skip ahead to Sunflower, but I wanted her to hear "Never Learn Not to Love" first for obvious reasons.

-- "Never Learn Not to Love": "That wasn't a bad song really. Some of the lyrics were kind of weird."

Then we were on the highway, so I asked her to switch to Sunflower. Instead she managed to put it on shuffle.

-- "Transcendental Meditation": "What the shit is this? ... I hate Mike Love so much. ... Is this my punishment for not knowing how to work your phone?" (A: "Yes.")

-- "The Nearest Faraway Place": "Yeah if you'd put this on an Air album you would totally have fooled me."

-- "Celebrate the News": "Why would you rip off 'Glass Onion'?"

-- "Be with Me": liked, I think

[Merciel]

Fuckin' fuck Mike Love he is THE WORST.

[Spoilt Victorian Child]

Sunflower: liked a lot
-- "Slip on Through": liked
-- "This Whole World": (Me: "This is one of my favorite songs of theirs. I feel like it's where he was supposed to go after Pet Sounds.") "Yeah this is a really good song."
-- "Add Some Music to Your Day": "This is probably a better song than I could write, but... Jesus, this is going on forever."
-- "Deirdre": (Me: "This was the first of three songs written by Bruce Johnston. I like them all a lot.") "You enjoy listening to this?" ("...it is sort of characteristically saccharine.") "You like saccharine... oh, right, the girl group."
-- "It's About Time": "That was almost something I would listen to myself." (A compliment, I think.)
-- "Tears in the Morning": laughed at "hope you love the baby I'm never gonna see"
-- "All I Wanna Do": (Me: "This is Brian again, as you might have guessed.") "Yeah." (Liked.)

Surf's Up: liked
-- "Take a Load Off Your Feet": "This song sucks."
-- "Disney Girls": every time we would start a new album she would ask if this was the one with "Disney Girls" on it. I don't think she actually said anything about it.
-- "Student Demonstration Time": "Jesus Christ. ... You just know he thought this was going to be a really important song."
-- "Lookin' at Tomorrow": "I like this one."
-- "A Day in the Life of a Tree": "Is this about... a tree? ... I'm trying to ignore the lyrics."
-- "'Til I Die": liked
-- "Surf's Up": "That was a really good song."

[Spoilt Victorian Child]

And because I'm an idiot I forgot to show her the album cover:

[Spoilt Victorian Child]

I like to think Al Jardine saw that cover and thought, "Shit, I'm an idiot."

[sevenarts]

You should play her Van Dyke Parks' Song Cycle at some point. Makes a nice follow up to Surf's Up.

[IRZ]

Fun fact: Mike Love is Kevin Love's uncle.

[mites]

all I wanna do is the best


svc how do you feel about the byrds?

[Spoilt Victorian Child]

I love the Byrds.

[Spoilt Victorian Child]

Hm I guess I didn't post that I was planning to do the Byrds after Badfinger.

[mites]

yea I was listening to notorious byrds brothers today and realized it is maybe my favorite album from the 60s. well other than that stupid song that influenced newt gingrich's space theories

[Spoilt Victorian Child]

Seriously though how do you give an album that cover and put on it a novelty song called "Take a Load Off Your Feet."

[universe]

Yeah, the cover of Surf's Up... god.

"Surfs up mmm hhmm mmm hmmm" -- it's like the band reading its own obituary

[Jeremy]

Transcendental Meditation is one of the funniest things that ever happened. Charles Manson writing a song for the Beach Boys and it not even being one of their more insane songs is also up there.

[Jeremy]

The Beach Boys have been doing Cotton Fields at every show on their current tour.

[delgriffith]

Well I'm gonna go listen to This Whole World all night on repeat.

[Jeremy]

When I was coming back from New York on the bus I had a freeware mixing program going with two copies of All I Wanna Do playing at 66% speed like a second apart from each other and I just left them looping for like two hours.

[Spoilt Victorian Child]

That actually sounds amazing.

[Snatch]

Seriously though how do you give an album that cover and put on it a novelty song called "Take a Load Off Your Feet."

Because Jardine and Mike Love are cocksucking assholes, more or less.

Honestly though you could have an album that was just "Surf's Up" and 9 Pomplamoose songs and it would still be worthy of that cover.

[pierrot]

I mean they literally covered "Why Do Fools Fall in Love."

(I love that song.)

i had no idea this existed but tbh the original is light years beyond

[CudNylon]

When I was coming back from New York on the bus I had a freeware mixing program going with two copies of All I Wanna Do playing at 66% speed like a second apart from each other and I just left them looping for like two hours.

was tempted to make this a lot slower and include repeats so it'd go on forever but decided to dial it back to something more accessible.
http://soundcloud.com/chilijah/all-i-wanna-do-slowed

[fox]

nightfool

[Spoilt Victorian Child]

I mean they literally covered "Why Do Fools Fall in Love."

(I love that song.)

i had no idea this existed but tbh the original is light years beyond

Yeah of course. They did a better job than I would have expected though.

[Spoilt Victorian Child]

Seriously though how do you give an album that cover and put on it a novelty song called "Take a Load Off Your Feet."

Because Jardine and Mike Love are cocksucking assholes, more or less.

Honestly though you could have an album that was just "Surf's Up" and 9 Pomplamoose songs and it would still be worthy of that cover.

Here is the Dennis Wilson song they took off to make room for "Take a Load Off Your Feet":



Might have been a better fit, I don't know!

[Spoilt Victorian Child]

It reminds me of "What's Going Ahn" a bit.

[mites]

I'm gonna use this moment to say how much I adore SVC and Merciel. It is a completely unreasonable amount of adoration. 1luv my babies.

[Spoilt Victorian Child]

I mean I wouldn't say it's that unreasonable.

[Spoilt Victorian Child]

On to Badfinger.

Magic Christian Music: "inoffensive"
-- "Come and Get It": "I guess a song written by Paul McCartney isn't the worst gift you could give a band." (Me: "It is a very Paul McCartney kind of gift though.")
-- "Give It a Try": "All of these songs are so depressing now that you've told me their story."
-- "Maybe Tomorrow": liked

No Dice:
-- "I Don't Mind": "This is a pretty Beatles-y song." (Me: "Wait for the next one.")
-- "Love Me Do": "This just sounds like a gimmick song...like, on top of the name."
-- "Without You": "Yeah, I've heard this one a bunch. ... God, these poor guys."
-- "Blodwyn": "'Take this spoon'?"