Your Beach Boys Albums That Never Were

Thanks to jk for making me aware the 'make your own albums' thread I was searching for was on another forum (!) and to longtime lurker for putting up an alternate / imaginary album listing in one of the SOS threads to get the ball rolling.

I've been tinkering on Spotify trying to create a playlist for an 'extra' album with the abundance of tracks from the Sunflower era.

I don't have access to all my old twofers etc but most of what I used for this album years ago is on Spotify in some form.



The Fading Rock Group Revival

Side 1

Old Man River (Intro)
Soulful Old Man Sunshine - MIC box set version
San Miguel
I Just Got My Pay
Susie Cincinnati
Two Can Play
Cotton Fields - Feel Flows 2020 mix

Side 2

Break Away
Celebrate The News
HELP Is On The Way
Good Time
Loop De Loop
We're Together Again
Old Man River (Outro) 

Run Time - 37 mins 31 sec

Old Man River Intro is the vocal section and outro is Old Folks At Home / Old Man River. This would ideally be from the twofer (I think?) but had to use the 1968 20/20 sessions alt version.  I prefer the version without Mike's guide vocal of the 'I get weary' part.

If I was playing tactically and trying to get another album or two out of the period I might split some of these tracks up for other albums but I made it as an album I'd love to hear rather than try to spread out my favourites and make multiple albums from the time.

I love this period of the band and while there are plenty of more weighty / emotional tracks I could have used, mainly from Dennis, I really love the upbeat and light hearted feel of this selection.

Can't wait to see what other playlists / alternate / shoulda woulda coulda albums, from all periods of the group's career, other members have come up with. 

Because it's that time of the year, here's my version of the 1977 Christmas Album:

Merry Christmas from The Beach Boys - The 1977 Christmas Album

Side 1:

Christmas Time Is Here Again
Alone On Christmas Day
Bells Of Christmas
Child Of Winter
Winter Symphony

Side 2:

I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
Kona Christmas
Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree
Santa's On His Way
Christmas Medley
Morning Christmas
Time: 29 Minutes

(This is honestly the only listenable configuration of this proposed album to me. Had to leave off Go And Get That Girl, Michael Row The Boat Ashore, Seasons In The Sun, and Santa's Got An Airplane for not being "Christmas-y" enough.)

The album art I made is a mash-up between MIU cover design and the 1977 Bowie/Crosby picture sleeve art for maximum period authenticity. Versions with and without hats... I couldn't decide. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Thanks!!

I've posted this here before but I made a playlist melding together the best songs off of two subpar subsequent albums while throwing in a bonus track from that era. The result? To form a "not bad" yacht rock little album I call "Keepin' The Light Album Alive". You can check it out with the link below.


music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTW0vj0JZx5oE0ZwbtL43aKXRYhi7YOxN&feature=share

Oh wow, lol - what is that photo from?

I listen to 15BO, M.I.U., and KTSA in substantially re-worked form, pulling out most of the covers and swapping in other tracks extant at the time each album was released -- thus leaving an album's worth of songs not originated by any Beach Boy. The resultant hypothetical "album" would include the tracks listed below and could have been released in 1981. Never made a graphic mock-up of cover art, but always thought "Other Records" would be precious, with a 45rpm spindle adapter obscuring the "Br" in the Brother Records logo. It's an okay listen if the mood is right.

Come Go With Me
Blueberry Hill
Sea Cruise
In the Still of the Night
A Casual Look
Chapel of Love
Talk to Me (Medley)
Peggy Sue
You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling
Winds of Change
All Alone
School Day (Ring! Ring! Goes the Bell)
Da Doo Ron Ron
Why Don't They Let Us Fall In Love