Wednesday, September 9, 2020

The Lawn Boys Recycle Their Clippings Dept.

Hawthorne's finest - The Lawn Boys!
The Lawn Boys was rejected as a name in favor of The Beach Boys. The rest is history. Nothing they (or anybody) ever recorded now qualifies as rare, but here's a couple of officially-released comps that you don't see too frequently.

They will only appeal to sad, delusional old men still clinging to their summer dream of a sunkissed Californian heyday they never shared. Elderly and pathetic individuals who yearn for the days when there were two girls for every boy. Desperate, lonely old fools who get weepy when they hear The Warmth Of The Sun or When I Grow Up (To Be A Man). Me, mainly.

I'm going through a bit of a Beach Boys binge at the moment. It happens every few years. But they're always there, in the back of my mind. Surf's up if you want it to be!

Thank you, Brian.
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27 comments:

  1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIISeptember 9, 2020 at 6:45 AM

    To qualify for this rich compost, simply name a Beach Boys song you hate to admit you love.

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  2. mculticeSeptember 9, 2020 at 7:09 AM

    Rock And Roll Music. Oh, wait, I just flat out hate that one. Love about everything else!

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  3. Mickey BitskoSeptember 9, 2020 at 8:08 AM

    "Do It Again" from 1968.

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  4. OGSeptember 9, 2020 at 8:43 AM

    veg-et-ables

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  5. bumppaSeptember 9, 2020 at 9:56 AM

    The entire album "Summer in Paradise" is the shittiest sit that ever shit. No redeeming value whatsoever.

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    1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIISeptember 9, 2020 at 12:59 PM

      Yes, but I want to know which album/song you feel stupid for liking. I really do enjoy 15 Big Ones, not ironically, but genuinely. And I know it's not that great.

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  6. FiveGunsWestSeptember 9, 2020 at 1:44 PM

    Hey Little Girl I think is the title. Being an army brat you were always saying bye to people. It was always a fantasy you'd see them later in life and be doing better than they were. This is the song with "I met you last summer when I came to stay with my Gran"...such tripe but a lotta protein. It's a cute song, straight Beatles' rip off, I hate liking it for the old fantasy and the fact I don't want to run into anyone from back then.

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    1. nemoSeptember 10, 2020 at 3:52 AM

      'Girl Don't Tell Me' on Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!!'

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  7. pmacSeptember 9, 2020 at 4:53 PM

    Help Me Rhonda. Its so damn trite, but its catchy, and always has me singing along.

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  8. Farquhar Throckmorton IIISeptember 9, 2020 at 7:01 PM

    There's a swell SURPRISE BONUS DISC included in this download that adds both to its cultural tog rating and resale value! Don't hesitate! Click the link today!

    https://workupload.com/file/VSAn5kTBPqz

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  9. Jim H.September 9, 2020 at 8:46 PM

    "Somewhere Near Japan", which was on some hideous 80s/90s comp with other crap like the Fat Boys, but that song is kinda jangly 12 stringy, despite every 80s recording slickness piled on it!

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    1. One Buck GuySeptember 9, 2020 at 10:50 PM

      Oh, hey, great choice, I second that.

      If only for Carl's counter vocals to the usual Mike Love crap. He might've stopped giving a shit a long time before this recording, but he could still get that angelic sound, even if it's besmirched by synths.

      I own the "hideous 80s/90s comp", on vinyl to boot. That was "Still Cruisin'", quickly thrown on the market in 1989 when Capitol needed product to capitalize on the success of "Kokomo". It was essentially all odds and ends, but even then they couldn't even bother to find ten semi rare or unreleased "new" songs so they attached three classics from "recent film hits". One of these was from "The Big Chill". Which came out in 1982.

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  10. One Buck GuySeptember 9, 2020 at 11:01 PM

    Oh, I got another one. Then again, choosing a Beach Boys song that you're embarassed of liking is like shooting fish in a barrel.

    How about "Sumahama" from 1979's L.A.?

    It's musically and lyrically chock full of clichés (even including a section sung in japanese) which is no surprise given that Mike Love is the author. And yet there's something I like about it. Maybe his gentle vocals. It might be the best Mike Love composition out there, discounting of course all the fake co-author credits he got on Brian Wilson classics. Now that might not be saying much, but still...

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  11. Mr. ESeptember 9, 2020 at 11:42 PM

    "Kokomo" is pretty bad, but I challenge anybody not to find themselves humming along with the chorus.

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  12. pontyboySeptember 10, 2020 at 12:27 AM

    Cottonfields by the Beach Share-Croppin' Boys

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    1. One Buck GuySeptember 10, 2020 at 5:05 AM

      But only the European single version complete with pedal steel!

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  13. too niteSeptember 10, 2020 at 12:29 AM

    Cottonfields, so trite - stick it on an endless loop!

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  14. Peanuts MolloySeptember 10, 2020 at 4:16 AM

    Despite the schmaltz and the wet n weedy vocal I'm a big fan of "Disney Girls (1957)" chiefly because of the brackets, the lovely tune and that fact that Bruce turns Disney into a three syllable word. Admirable.

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  15. MrDaveSeptember 10, 2020 at 5:22 AM

    "Shortenin' Bread"? Love it and hate it (mostly hate it but I still love it!)

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  16. Bell-eyeSeptember 10, 2020 at 5:56 AM

    "The night was so young" from "Love You"

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  17. Farquhar Throckmorton IIISeptember 10, 2020 at 6:44 AM

    More than with any other group, you have to mute your hipness alert. Most of their massive catalog is unconcerned with cool, and all the better for it.

    I love Kokomo. Co-written by John Phillips, Mike Love (at his least repulsive), Scott McKenzie and Terry Melcher, it's a beautiful piece of C-Pop, and sounded fantastic on the radio.

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  18. JohnSeptember 10, 2020 at 11:11 AM

    I nominate Hey Little Tomboy from the execrable MIU Album...

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  19. Rev.LouCiferSeptember 11, 2020 at 2:39 AM

    Vegetables.
    theyare not all good

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  20. UncleBSeptember 12, 2020 at 7:08 AM

    Wasn't there an early alternate by Elvis entitled "Too Mulch"...?

    O.K., haters, here whee go...

    Beach Boys song you hate to admit you love...???

    "Here Comes The Night" 12-in. disco mix 45-Repulsions Per Minute edition.

    Beach Disco Boys Dept.

    Wait. Love hate...

    Nope. Ironic, maybe, like the P2P peeps of daze of olde (Napstir, Mk. I) who'd have Sinatra disco dreck on tap to share ("All or Nothing at All," "Night & Day"...)

    That's the ticket. The next custom Farq set on tap from the mighty 4-or-5 Rekkids imprint oughta be:

    "We Discoed Too!"

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    1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIISeptember 12, 2020 at 7:21 AM

      The disco version of Here Comes The Night is fantastic. Produced by Curt Becher, it's an intricately arranged and superbly produced track that develops through its playing time, the only constant being the beat. Real dynamics, real musicians (Wah Wah Watson is in there), and incredible stacked harmonies. Forget that we're not supposed to like disco, and it's one of the most audacious (and successful) remake/remodels ever recorded. And a hit.

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    2. UncleBSeptember 13, 2020 at 10:20 AM

      So sweet is Validation . . . . And then there's the part about when it be comin round the Bluebirdie Mountain from no less than the Head o' Foamation!

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  21. UncleBSeptember 12, 2020 at 7:11 AM

    I forgot to add "Bonus Track" for the tangentially challenged:

    "Muskrat Love" by The Cap'n (R.I.P.) & Tennille.

    No, wait, that one's just a plain hate.

    [Disco--- er, or Disclaimer Dept.: NO disrespect for the late Mr. Dragon intended]

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