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Post by Autotune on Nov 21, 2020 8:27:01 GMT -5
A nice song, albeit one minute too long. 6/10
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Post by John Manning on Nov 21, 2020 8:31:27 GMT -5
A nice song, albeit one minute too long. 6/10 Agree - this song would have benefited from being just a tad shorter. Still, decent enough. A 7 from Ingleton!
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Post by filledeplage on Nov 21, 2020 9:04:04 GMT -5
Kinda like that smooth 78 version. Would have been nice on LA. Would have been great to extract Carl's vocals into the 2012 version. It is very nice.
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Post by E on Nov 21, 2020 11:34:40 GMT -5
Just been listening to the album again and I've upped my mark to five. The weaker songs on this are far better than I remembered.
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Post by Al S on Nov 21, 2020 15:50:24 GMT -5
Today we discuss and rate Daybreak Over The Ocean, contributed by Mike, and the only song on the album attributed to a sole writer (Mike). Those of us who'd been lurking around slightly more dubious locales of the web, were likely familiar with this track from a collection of unreleased booted Mike recordings floating around under Unleash The Love (not the later official release with Mike showing his falconry skills) or Mike Love not War titles, depending on where you got your shit from. Those of us who've been lurking around BB fandom even longer will recall the original version, as recorded in 1978 for Mike's unreleased First Love project (at 30.44 in the video below, and yes, that is Carl on bvs).
Thanks AGD! (Phew! I thought AGD was gonna nab me for spelling Hayleigh’s name wrong.)
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Post by Al S on Nov 21, 2020 15:51:48 GMT -5
A nice song, albeit one minute too long. 6/10 Agree - this song would have benefited from being just a tad shorter. Still, decent enough. A 7 from Ingleton! LOL, apparently they cut down the length of the guitar solo!
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Post by Will/P.P. on Nov 21, 2020 16:15:36 GMT -5
A no love rating for any version, though I do like about half of the First Love album.
2/10 - so you know who's handing out a 2. Yes, even weaker than the Bill and Sue
story.
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Post by Al S on Nov 21, 2020 17:32:45 GMT -5
Just been listening to the album again and I've upped my mark to five. The weaker songs on this are far better than I remembered. Yeah, I’m sitting in a cafe munching on a Ruben, singing “...daybreak over the ocean” - ie, even the okay ones get into your head.
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Post by kds on Nov 21, 2020 22:34:45 GMT -5
7
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Post by Al S on Nov 22, 2020 20:08:20 GMT -5
Daybreak gets the lowest mark so far with a LOVE!!! rating of only 53% across 17 voters. 2 - 2 votes 3 - 1 vote 5 - 5 votes
6 - 2 votes 7 - 4 votes 8 - 1 vote 9 - 2 votes
I think we all can agree, it's time to move onto the next song.
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Post by Al S on Nov 22, 2020 20:29:04 GMT -5
Today we discuss and rate Beaches In Mind, written by Brian, Mike and Joe.
It could just be me, but I recall a fair few people rather hating on this one way back when, while the band, in their usual out of touch with the world state, seemed to be really excited about it.
It's a little clunky, and the production of the track seems a little thin, but overall, some good energetic and catchy block harmonies, with the chorus incredibly bolstered by a really on fire Brian vocal.
Perhaps it's the now fairly tired Mike predicatable lyrics about getting back together to do it again and have funfunfun in the sun forever that are the real turn-off, or that it's okay-ness is exposed when compared to all but Daybreak.
7.
Here's someone's home-brewed toob if you can't access the above:
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Post by Autotune on Nov 22, 2020 20:41:05 GMT -5
The reunited Beach Boys singing about getting up early in the morning and heading for the beach... What a gritty rocker, full of harmonies and trebly guitar it could have been! Instead, we got a sparse, seemingly-underrealised, clunky tune, led by a Foskett who is inexorably losing the grace he achieved with Shelter (a grace which, after the bridge to Isn’t It Time, seemed unreachable).
(By now, it seems that the unison singing on this album, rather than an artistic choice, is a residual of the Foskett-led demos.)
All things considered, Beaches in Mind aged better than one would have expected. Maybe because of all the great memories attached to the reunion. Maybe because of the lighting in a bottle status a BB reunion has eight years later.
5/10
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Post by kds on Nov 22, 2020 23:18:14 GMT -5
8. Never understood the hate
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Post by AGD on Nov 23, 2020 1:37:12 GMT -5
The single 24-karat clunker of the whole album. 2, and that's being generous.
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Post by E on Nov 23, 2020 2:05:38 GMT -5
Sounds a little under-nourished. 4
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Post by Will/P.P. on Nov 23, 2020 2:32:47 GMT -5
Doesn't exactly conjure up those days they headed down to the beach photo shots in the early '60s.
They used to sound more interested. A 4/10 for the weak effort.
Note: No 4 box, I ticked the second 3 on the list.
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Post by Al S on Nov 23, 2020 2:54:31 GMT -5
Note: No 4 box, I ticked the second 3 on the list. Ah, fudge! Ok, good one Will, yep the second 3 is four.
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Post by Fall Breaks on Nov 23, 2020 2:54:37 GMT -5
Yes, a second three from me as well.
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Post by John Manning on Nov 23, 2020 4:10:57 GMT -5
Maybe the weakest track here, and that harking back to days long past is wearisome and no longer endearing – they’d just done it so much better anyway with the respectable rework of DIA.
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Post by jk on Nov 23, 2020 5:04:02 GMT -5
Like KDS, I've never understood the hate for "BIM". Admittedly it's not the strongest song on TWGMTR but it fits the album's autumnal mood perfectly.
Eight.
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Post by drbeachboy (Dirk) on Nov 23, 2020 8:34:50 GMT -5
I am giving Beaches In Mind a 7. It is far from my favorite song, but every time I listen to it, that damn refrain, like an ear worm, gets stuck in my head.
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Post by Matt H on Nov 23, 2020 10:42:22 GMT -5
I am giving Beaches In Mind a 7. It is far from my favorite song, but every time I listen to it, that damn refrain, like an ear worm, gets stuck in my head. I gave it a 6 for the same reason. When it comes on I never skip it, but I also never seek it out.
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Post by #JusticeForDonGoldberg on Nov 23, 2020 17:05:39 GMT -5
Beaches In Mind: It’s OK I guess, I gave it a six. The guitar is cool, and the hook is actually extremely catchy, but Mike’s lead, Plus the extremely thin “ in my opinion” Harmony vocals take it down a notch. Also, we already have SV on this album, I don’t think we needed a second one.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2020 17:16:27 GMT -5
Beaches in Mind is not quite 'Think About the Days'...or even TWGMTR. This is some more mundane stuff. It's fine...but nothing fans weren't used to from late 80s/90s material. With some synths and Carl this could have been on SIP. I'll go 4/10.
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Post by Al S on Nov 23, 2020 21:39:00 GMT -5
Beaches scrapes a LOVE!!! rating of 56%, I thought it was hell-bound for the s-bend.
2 - 1 vote 3 - 1 vote 2nd 3 aka 4 - 3 votes 5 - 2 votes
6 - 5 votes 7 - 2 votes 8 - 2 votes
It's a Strange World, innit?
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