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Post by carllove on Mar 12, 2022 15:35:41 GMT
I was thinking I really, really ought to do my taxes today ... and then Sheriff John Stone creates a nearly perfect distraction. Which will win out!?
Frankly I'm terrified to begin a Top 100. I'm afraid I'd end up fiddling around for a month only to decide I can't do it. And that idea of some objective best versus favorite, I know for sure that as hard as the latter is to decide, the former is twice as hard just to decide the criteria for. If it's popularity, suddenly "Surfin USA" is a Top 10, and I don't hear it that way; yet if I try to think about some sort of artistic achievement, then that almost ends up as subjective as just saying "favorite."
I'll think about it. For the taxes' sake.
That’s what accountant’s are for! You have over a month left to do them anyway! 😈
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 12, 2022 15:38:38 GMT
I was thinking I really, really ought to do my taxes today ... and then Sheriff John Stone creates a nearly perfect distraction. Which will win out!?
Frankly I'm terrified to begin a Top 100. I'm afraid I'd end up fiddling around for a month only to decide I can't do it. And that idea of some objective best versus favorite, I know for sure that as hard as the latter is to decide, the former is twice as hard just to decide the criteria for. If it's popularity, suddenly "Surfin USA" is a Top 10, and I don't hear it that way; yet if I try to think about some sort of artistic achievement, then that almost ends up as subjective as just saying "favorite."
I'll think about it. For the taxes' sake.
That’s what accountant’s are for! You have over a month left to do them anyway! 😈 They're so simple, though--I've got a pretty straightforward life here--that it's really not worth paying someone to do. Honestly I think I finished last year's in an hour. It's just my laziness. And with the deadline, it's my conscience fighting against my laziness! I'm usually early (actually REALLY early) in everything, so the idea of being last-minute kills me. But yet I don't want to do it. Hence the stupid little conundrum in my head!
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Mar 12, 2022 16:01:33 GMT
Ok Sheriff - Just as I’m getting ready to clean out my back bedroom (Also known as the Hoarder room where Amazon boxes go to die), you post your top 100 list and now all I can think about is my top 100 Beach Boys songs. I must remain strong …. It can hook you, then the fun begins!
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Post by carllove on Mar 12, 2022 16:23:47 GMT
Ok Sheriff - Just as I’m getting ready to clean out my back bedroom (Also known as the Hoarder room where Amazon boxes go to die), you post your top 100 list and now all I can think about is my top 100 Beach Boys songs. I must remain strong …. It can hook you, then the fun begins! I have to clean that room today! My daughter is moving back to Kansas for nursing school and she is already having me take pictures of the room, so she can plan her study space and my husband is going to be gone for about 8 hours so I can crank The Beach Boys tunes without him bitching. My kitchen was sparkling after last time he was gone for several hours. It just isn’t the same listening with headphones on. I want those glorious harmonies to fill the space around me. It will give me a chance to relisten to some of the albums I haven’t heard for awhile so I don’t leave anything out. My approach will be just go with what I like. Also, there will be some Dennis stuff from Feel Flows, because I can’t imagine a list without them. It’s kind of cheating - but it’s my list - so I can do whatever I dang well please. 😇
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Post by kds on Mar 12, 2022 17:27:01 GMT
Impressive. Very impressive. My hat's off to you for attempting a Top 100 list. Hell, my top ten changes by the day. I keep seeing those "Greatest" or "Best Of" lists posted on the internet for different artists and different types of music - and disagreeing with most of them - so I thought I would attempt one of my own. I started this Beach Boys' one a while ago, however, I kept tinkering with it...excessively. So, I figured I better just finally post it. That would be me. If I attempted a Top 100, it would be like Brian putting GV together.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2022 23:44:50 GMT
The list is extremely cool and accurate and I'm sorry that I didn't look at it closely enough to see the songs from Radio. Just recklessness on my part so thanks all of you for being forgiving for my wasting everybody's time. And let me therefore add that the list really shows you the variety of beautiful things that the beach boy produced in all sorts of different modes.
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Post by B.E. on Mar 13, 2022 1:08:22 GMT
I'm down to about the top 175 and the cuts are already starting to get difficult. You'd think there'd be plenty of room in the top 100, but there's not!
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Post by carllove on Mar 13, 2022 2:00:50 GMT
I'm down to about the top 175 and the cuts are already starting to get difficult. You'd think there'd be plenty of room in the top 100, but there's not! Yeah - I started working on mine once I wore out from cleaning today and it’s really hard. The top is easier than the bottom. Then I think I have it and I start looking through Feel Flows and realize there are songs on there I like better and now I have decisions to make.
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 13, 2022 12:37:55 GMT
I think I'm going to give it a try today, at least initially. (Though I'm already going through possible "systems" to work from, which seems like a nice way to take the fun out of the project...) Wish me luck!
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Post by carllove on Mar 13, 2022 14:00:31 GMT
01 God Only Knows 02 This Whole World 03 Don't Talk (Put Your Head of My Shoulder) 04 Break Away 05 Before 06 Medley: All of My Love/Ecology 07 All I Wanna Do 08 Wake the World 09 Darlin' 10 Here Today
11 Don't Worry Baby 12 I Just Wasn't Made for These Times 13 Lonely Sea 14 You're So Good To Me 15 I Was Made To Love Her (with Tag - Rarities Version) 16. Wouldn't It Be Nice 17. That's Not Me 18. Little Bird 19. Cabin Essence 20. I Can Hear Music
21 Long Promised Road 22 Time To Get Alone 23 All Summer Long 24 Surf's Up 25 Be Here In The Morning 26 Hang Onto Your Ego 27 In My Room 28 Sound of Free 29 Good Vibrations 30 Wonderful (GV Box Version)
31 Heroes and Villains 32 Forever 33 Disney Girls (1957) 34 Celebrate The News 35 Feel Flows 36 Wind Chimes (GV Box Version) 37 The Nearest Faraway Place 38 The Warmth Of The Sun 39 Please Let Me Wonder 40 'Til I Die
41 Cuddle Up 42 Girl Don't Tell Me 43 I Get Around 44 Shut Down 45 Catch A Wave 46 Surfer Girl 47 The Trader 48 Awake 49 Caroline No 50 I'm Waiting For The Day
51 Pet Sounds 52 All This Is That 53 Never Learn Not To Love 54 Where Is She 55 Let The Wind Blow 56 Friends 57 Sail On Sailor 58 Busy Doin' Nothin' 59 Be True To Your School 60 Lady
61 Deirdre 62 Goin' On 63 Getcha Back 64 Hawaii 65 Surfin' USA 66 Little Saint Nick 67 Chug A Lug 68 You Still Believe In Me 69 Please Let Me Wonder 70 I'm Waiting For The Day
71 Tears In The Morning 72 Roll Plymouth Rock 73 Cool Cool Water 74 Barbara 75 Surfin' Safari 76 Don't Go Near The Water 77 Sloop John B. 78 Little Deuce Coupe 79 409 80 California Dreamin'
81 Be Still 82 Good Timin' 83 Kokomo 84 Big Sur 85 Moon Dawg 86 Angel Come Home 87 Misrlou 88 Oh Darlin' 89 She Knows Me Too Well 90 Do It Again
91 Vegetables (GV Box Version) 92 California Girls 93 Custom Machine 94 A Day In The Life of A Tree 95 When I Grow Up To Be A Man 96 Help Me Rhonda 97 Fun, Fun, Fun 98 Wild Honey 99 Do You Wanna Dance 100 When A Man Needs A Woman
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 13, 2022 16:03:16 GMT
Here is my stab at a list. I really went with "favorite" over any kind of "objectively greatest." But frankly it's not the kind of thing I can even do in terms of strict rankings, even with respect to my favorites. It's more tiers than strictly in order, which I note because a lot of these could be 10, 20, 30 spots different if I did them again. There are also a couple dozen others I could have used. But anyway...
1 Wouldn’t It Be Nice 2 Surf’s Up 3 I Get Around 4 Don’t Worry Baby 5 Surfer Girl 6 In My Room 7 Sloop John B 8 God Only Knows 9 Wonderful (GV Smile version) 10 The Warmth of the Sun
11 This Whole World 12 Time to Get Alone 13 Breakaway 14 From There to Back Again 15 Cabinessence 16 Heroes and Villains 17 Mona 18 Please Let Me Wonder 19 I’ll Bet He’s Nice 20 You Need a Mess of Help
21 Wendy 22 Good Vibrations 23 Our Prayer/Gee 24 I’m Waiting For the Day 25 Here Today 26 The Night Was So Young 27 Fun Fun Fun 28 Hushabye 29 California Girls
30 Kiss Me Baby
31 Long Promised Road 32 I Know There’s An Answer 33 Aren’t You Glad 34 Wind Chimes (GV Smile) 35 Still I Dream of It 36 Wake the World 37 Busy Doin Nothin 38 Trader 39 Help Me Rhonda
40 Back Home
41 A Day in the Life of a Tree 42 Girl From NYC 43 I Went to Sleep 44 When a Man Needs a Woman 45 All Summer Long 46 Good to My Baby 47 Little Bird 48 Isn’t It Time 49 I’d Love Just Once to See You
50 Let the Wind Blow
51 Don’t Hurt My Little Sister 52 It’s OK 53 Caroline No 54 It's Over Now 55 Angel Come Home 56 Don’t Go Near the Water 57 Livin With a Heartache 58 Soulful Old Man Sunshine
59 Big Sur
60 Darlin
61 All This is That 62 Meant For You 63 Good Time 64 Don’t Back Down 65 The Surfer Moon 66 Little Honda 67 Don’t Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder) 68 California 69 Little Deuce Coupe
70 Do It Again
71 I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times 72 It’s Trying to Say (Baseball) 73 Cottonfields 74 When I Grow Up to Be a Man 75 Vegetables 76 You’re So Good to Me 77 Til I Die 78 Shelter 79 Dance Dance Dance
80 Johnny Carson
81 Feel Flows 82 Just Once in My Life 83 Hold On Dear Brother 84 Hawaii 85 She Knows Me Too Well 86 Disney Girls 87 Lines 88 Roller Skating Child 89 Catch a Wave
90 Solar System
91 Susie Cincinnati 92 Life is for the Living 93 Take a Load Off Your Feet 94 Had to Phone Ya 95 Lady Lynda 96 Rock n Roll Music 97 Sweet Sunday Kind of Love 98 Steamboat 99 Only With You 100 Our Sweet Love
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Mar 13, 2022 16:05:16 GMT
I'm enjoying your list, carllove! Thank you for posting it. Obviously, you put a lot of weight on favorites. I thought I would highlight some of the choices that got my attention:
- Before and All Of My Love/Ecology - #5 and #6 - Good Vibrations - #29 - The Nearest Faraway Place - #37 Yes!
- Awake - #48 - Lady - #60 (solo song?) - Chug A Lug, Moon Dawg, Miserlou - #67, #85, #87 - California Girls - #92 - Help Me, Rhonda - #96 - Fun, Fun, Fun - #97 - not a fan of Holland?
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Mar 13, 2022 16:23:03 GMT
OK, Kapitan...Very interesting list. A few real surprises. These caught me off guard:
- Wonderful - #9 - I knew you liked Mona, but #17? - California Girls - #29 - a lot of Adult Child there... - Isn't It Time - #48 - higher than most Sunflower songs? - Don't Hurt My Little Sister - good one - Livin' With A Heartache - #57
- The Surfer Moon - #65 - Johnny Carson - #80 - I so wanted to include it on mine (but chickened out) - Just Once In My Life - #82 - Solar System - #90 - Sweet Sunday Kind Of Love - #97 - I like it, I didn't know you did - Take A Load Off Your Feet - just including it disqualifies you!
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Post by B.E. on Mar 13, 2022 17:05:27 GMT
I'm loving this! But I don't want to jump into the discussion and comparisons until I finish my list. I'm stuck at around 115 and then I need to rank 'em (which I've told myself I would NOT overthink).
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 13, 2022 17:06:53 GMT
OK, Kapitan...Very interesting list. A few real surprises. These caught me off guard:
- Wonderful - #9 - I knew you liked Mona, but #17? - California Girls - #29 - a lot of Adult Child there... - Isn't It Time - #48 - higher than most Sunflower songs? - Don't Hurt My Little Sister - good one - Livin' With A Heartache - #57
- The Surfer Moon - #65 - Johnny Carson - #80 - I so wanted to include it on mine (but chickened out) - Just Once In My Life - #82 - Solar System - #90 - Sweet Sunday Kind Of Love - #97 - I like it, I didn't know you did - Take A Load Off Your Feet - just including it disqualifies you! A few comments on your comments. "Mona" - as simple as it is, as almost ridiculous as it is, YEP. The longer I go on living, the more I love it. "Cal Girls" - guessing you think I rated it low? It's higher than I'd have ever rated it in my life before now, if that helps. "Isn't It Time" absolutely above most Sunflower songs, which to me is an album of 6s and 7s mostly. Most overrated BBs album by fans.
Adult Child - YEP. Love (most of) it. "Little Sister" I've long said Side One deserves as much or more praise than Side Two "Feet" - don't blame me for being the only person with good taste
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