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Top 4 must have albums by your fave bands from the past
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Hi Joe, great selection of songs, and thanks for the album list! Had a look at their discography and their output was quite extensive spanning 4 decades from the early 60s to the late 90s, and many compilation albums well into the new millenia. They are one of my fave bands. I find their music is so wonderfully down to earth, to the bones, simple raw emotional feel to it. Tired of Waiting, You Really Got Me, A Well Respected Man, Till The End of The Day, Set Me Free, Dedicated Follower of Fashion, Lola, Sunny Afternoon etc…Like their superb melodic guitar sounds.
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Hi Jacki I like the great guitar sounds and sweet melody of Glass Tiger songs you mentioned previously. It’s so special you got to meet them too! Thanks for posting the list of albums.
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Hey Jung,
Glad you enjoyed them. They are a special band. Celluloid Heroes is a big one for me.
Joe
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for me Jung,
Sticky Fingers
Exile On Main Street
Goats Head Soup
Its only Rock and Roll
But I have to throw in Rod Stewart and The Faces
Ohh La La
Nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse
Smiler
Every Picture tells a Story
These albums to me are classic and the songs still stand the time , I do lean towards the Late 6o’s and Early 70’S
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Awesome Bill. We’re compiling a great list of albums here highlighting some of the best albums to get. Thanks!
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Hello Jung, My top 4 Beach Boys albums are;
Today
Summer Days and Summer Nights
Sunflower
All Summer Long
No Pet Sounds or Smile may shock a few but wat the heck!
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Graham, I can’t blame you for not including Pet Sounds as the 4 you listed are incredible albums too. From Sunflower, I love this song.
It sums up what music is for me.
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Me too! I love the sentiment and how they pass around the lead vocal. Also, This whole World and Forever are excellent also.
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Graham, Forever is really beautiful, and The Whole World is nice too. Thanks for pointing those ones out. The song Deirdri is nice too.  Come to think of it, they’ve done a lot of songs with different girl names like Wendy, Deirdri, Caroline No, Barbara Ann, and many others.
Have you heard this one?
It’s kind of catchy! Couldn’t find a Lisa song yet. Maybe I’ll suggest it to Brian Wilson on his Twitter site. 🙂
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Their biggest would be Help Me Rhonda
And boy can they sing. That’s what made the Beatles and Beach Boys so special, they could all sing amazingly well. You can learn to play instruments, but to be able to sing amazingly is a special talent that a lucky few have.  Brian and Carl Wilson had awesome vocals, Mike Love had a distinct lead vocal voice that fit so many songs well, and Al Jardine didn’t do lead vocals on many songs, but the ones he did like here he hit them out of the ball park. He also did When I Kissed Her, and it’s his vocals that make that song. Even Dennis Wilson with his raspy voice did some good songs later in the 70s as a solo singer.
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Syndicated humor columnist Dave Barry once wrote that he could never decipher the first line of Help Me Rhonda, and that the best he could come up with was “Well, since she put me down, I’ve got owls pukin’ in my bed.”
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Hi David, I think the frustration, pain, and passion from a relationship gone sour can often fuel the most passionate songs. John Lennon and Paul McCartney certainly created some biggies as a result of that too.
With Help Me Rhonda, it’s Brian pleading with a new flame Rhonda to help him get the other woman out of his heart.
Help Me Rhonda
Well, since she put me down I’ve been out doin’ in my head
I come in late at night and in the mornin’ I just lay in bed[Pre-Chorus]
Well, Rhonda you look so fine (Look so fine)
And I know it wouldn’t take much time
For you to help me, Rhonda
Help me get her out of my heart[Chorus]
Help me, Rhonda, help, help me, Rhonda
Help me, Rhonda, help, help me, Rhonda
Help me, Rhonda, help, help me, Rhonda
Help me, Rhonda, help, help me, Rhonda
Help me, Rhonda, help, help me, Rhonda
Help me, Rhonda, help, help me, Rhonda
Help me, Rhonda, yeah, get her out of my heart[Verse 1]
She was gonna be my wife and I was gonna be her man
But she let another guy come between us
And it shattered our plan[Pre-Chorus]
Well, Rhonda, you caught my eye (Caught my eye)
And I can give you lots of reasons why
You gotta help me, Rhonda
Help me get her out of my heart[Chorus]
Help me, Rhonda, help, help me Rhonda
Help me, Rhonda, help, help me Rhonda
Help me, Rhonda, help, help me Rhonda
Help me, Rhonda, help, help me Rhonda
Help me, Rhonda, help, help me Rhonda
Help me, Rhonda, help, help me Rhonda
Help me Rhonda, yeah, get her out of my heart -
Hello again Jung! Mona is a good track from what many critics label “The Wilsons album” as it mainly features the Brothers alone on most tracks. Did you notice Brian’s lyrical tip of the hat to Phil Spector?
There is a track on that album called “I’ll bet he’s nice” that features all three brothers and it contains a breath taking middle eight by Carl.
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Hi Graham, wow you have a good ear!  I never noticed that until I listened very closely. “I know you’re gonna love Phil Spector”.  I’ll Bet He’s Nice is great! I like Honkin Down the Highway, Love Is A Woman, and Airplane has that easy going floating in the sky feel. I should listen to that whole album again.
I have that album, Love You, in vinyl with a slew of other Beach Boys albums. I have most of their albums they did in vinyl from Pet Sounds, Smile and later from the late 60s and all through the 70s including a couple early 60s albums too like Shut Down. They are all packed up in boxes buried deep inside of storage at my parents old place that I got to retrieve one of these days. I remember when I first played Smile, and when Vege-Tables and Wind Chimes came on, my brother remarking what the heck are you listening to! Some of the music Brian got into in Smile were like nothing I heard before, ahead of it’s time.
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Hi Jung, I first came across the Beach Boys around 1975ish,while watching TV commercial was aired for 20 Golden Greats by the Beach Boys. I think it was possibly a Capitol UK version of Endless Summer, I was blown away! I’d never heard anything like it before, at the time Glam Rock was almost at an end and progressive music was quite big here. Bands such as Yes, Genesis, Emerson Lake and Palmer and Pink Floyd et al were dominating album sales along with the likes of Elton John, Wings, ELO and 10cc. Anyway, soon after I bought 15 Big Ones shortly followed by Love You. It was then that I discovered that they were basically a family band and I was intrigued! Over the following years I got my hands on everything they recorded and released and years later started buying books to learn more about them. Their inner turmoils are legendary as is Brian’s genius, the fact that they turned out such great music over such a long period is staggering, I think! Personally, I think that the Light Album in 1979 was their last major contribution. I don’t like the digital recordings of the 80s onward. Incidentally, there is another artist I follow on Youtube called Kayla Williams from Alberta, Canada I think. She has done loads of Beach Boys covers as well as covers by other artists and some of her own original material. Obviously she’s not a patch on the Mona Lisa Twins but then again, who is?
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