I'm amazed I didn't have a copy of
Wild Honey back when I had all my "records" (LPs)... I had most of the early albums up to
Pet Sounds one of my top fave albums and I particularly loved
Summer Days (And Summer Nights) and
All Summer Long... (Though, I was buying
BEACH BOYS albums in the era when they were deleting tracks...!!
) I also bought used. Their later releases generally were not as interesting for me, though I did like
Sunflower (I think) and that other one... I wasn't crazy for
20/20 ("
Do It Again") I had
Holland and
Surf's Up...yeh, that's the one. I knew the whole
Smile fiasco story, and found
Smiley Smile a lame follow up for the awesome
Pet Sounds... I knew it was a replacement... but now that I'm finally really listening to
Smiley Smile, there's a lot on here that I could love, but every song has these strange tempo changes and discordant uses of silence and softness, off-tune harmonizing, and genuinely annoying lyrics, production is often amateurish... Yet, I keep listening to it... there's so much here and such potential, and so much rubbish...
I'm really intrigued by the supposed fact of a 2011 release of the original
Smile tapes, no new recording, all
BEACH BOYS singing... all in the wake of
Pet Sounds...
I stopped typing to go look at what LPs I saved:
BEACH BOYS TODAY! All Summer Long Surfer Girl Summer Days (And Summer Nights) - one of those weird double repackagings renamed
California Girls and paired with
All Summer Long Best of the BEACH BOYS Vol.1 and
Vol. 2 -
Vol. 2 is the first
BEACH BOYS LP I ever bought (used) and I still have it!
I bought this used CD to finally get a copy of
Wild Honey (I love it, which I 'spected I would.) I love them late discoveries.
