Worst Beach Boys Song on 20/20 - Part 9 in an Ongoing Series

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For an odds-and-ends collection delivered to get out of their Capitol contract this is a surprisingly strong batch of tunes - some Smile leftovers, the Manson song, Carl's first really solid productions. love the vibe of this album in general. Bluebirds seems like the most worthless track (I don't really think of *screaming guitar solos* when I think of bluebirds...)

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Bluebirds Over the Mountain	7
Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song)	5
All I Want to Do	4
Do It Again	1
The Nearest Faraway Place	1
I Can Hear Music	1
Be with Me	0
I Went to Sleep	0
Time to Get Alone	0
Never Learn Not to Love	0
Our Prayer	0
Cabinessence	0

― High in Openness (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 18 May 2009 15:54 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, Bluebirds it is.

― fit and working again, Monday, 18 May 2009 16:19 (seventeen years ago)

for once the obligatory Mike Love "rocker" song is actually pretty good

― High in Openness (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 18 May 2009 16:20 (seventeen years ago)

Because it's a Dennis song?

― fit and working again, Monday, 18 May 2009 16:26 (seventeen years ago)

I feel this is a big drop in quality after Friends, the lack of consistency setting the pattern for many of their subsequent releases.

― fit and working again, Monday, 18 May 2009 16:27 (seventeen years ago)

lolz yr right - didn't see Dennis' credit on All I Want to Do there

― High in Openness (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 18 May 2009 16:31 (seventeen years ago)

bluebirds

― velko, Monday, 18 May 2009 16:35 (seventeen years ago)

Voted "I Can Hear Music". IMO the singles are all weak here. "Our Prayer" and "Cabinessence" are awesome though.

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 18 May 2009 19:02 (seventeen years ago)

Whaa? "I Can Hear Music" is classic for the melodic turn around "The sound of the city baby/Seems to disappear" alone.

― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 18 May 2009 19:30 (seventeen years ago)

yeah wtf Geir "I Can Hear Music" is beautiful - there's no rapping, it has a melody, has a middle 8 etc

― High in Openness (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 18 May 2009 19:36 (seventeen years ago)

No-o-o-o---!!!! - the first lines of I can Hear Music is one of may favourite BB moments. It's Bluebirds, i guess, though i actually like all of this record a lot.

― sonofstan, Monday, 18 May 2009 21:01 (seventeen years ago)

The worst that can be said about 20/20 is that it's kind of odds and ends. But they're good odds and ends and the Capitol two-fer has really interesting bonus tracks as well.

― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 18 May 2009 21:21 (seventeen years ago)

Wait, I'm not really a fan of "Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song)," so that's gotta be my choice.

― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 18 May 2009 21:29 (seventeen years ago)

I like all of this album but I suppose "Bluebirds Over the Mountain" is the worst thing on it

― Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 09:09 (seventeen years ago)

"Do it Again" is not weak, dammit!

― Mark G, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 09:15 (seventeen years ago)

Did you ever hear John Lennon's sarky cover of "Cottonfields" ?

(search the kenny everett interview, around the time of starting the White album)

― Mark G, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 09:16 (seventeen years ago)

cotton fields

― iatee, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 09:18 (seventeen years ago)

All I Want To Do (not to be confused with All I Wanna Do).

― dog latin, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 10:37 (seventeen years ago)

Strongly disagree with you on that one

― Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 10:41 (seventeen years ago)

Nah, he's right.

― harveyw, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 11:28 (seventeen years ago)

Every song is perfect except for the horrid dreary Dennis sludge of All I Want To Do (cf Sunflower/Got To Know The Woman)

― harveyw, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 11:31 (seventeen years ago)

Love this record but All I Want To Do is crap. All I Wanna Do, on the other hand, is sublime.

― ColinO, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 16:29 (seventeen years ago)

Whaaa? That song fucking SMOKES. Plus, it ends with the recording of Dennis shagging the groupie...

― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 20 May 2009 03:37 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Saturday, 23 May 2009 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

cotton fields

― tylerw, Sunday, 24 May 2009 02:41 (seventeen years ago)

it's kinda crazy that they thought 'cotton fields' was gonna be the next 'sloop john b'

the fact that it was a big hit in europe only emphasizes how bad it is

― iatee, Sunday, 24 May 2009 03:20 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Sunday, 24 May 2009 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

I kind of love Bluebirds :(

― wilter, Monday, 25 May 2009 00:02 (seventeen years ago)

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