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The Smiths
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La Bella Vista
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Rising Above Bedlam
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Horn Of Plenty
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Kid A
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Black Sea
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Rossz csillag alatt született
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Prophecy of the Black Widow
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Movement
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ISAM
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Crush
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From The Grave
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So, farewell then Borders bookshops
(The UK ones anyway)
You were never very good.
Phil worked there for a while
He says that you treated staff
With little respect
And paid crap.
He also worked at Virgin Megastores
Maybe there is a pattern.

I would often visit
The Branch on Oxford Street
To spend a penny when out shopping.
No longer.

You had a café
And when I was on the dole
I would go down and buy a large cup
Of Coffee
(Or an ice tea)
And read one of your books
That I would never buy.
Then the café became a Starbucks
And I stopped going.

I do not think I will miss you
And I think that other bookshops
Will be cheering you departure.
I am happy that you are having a sale though.
I picked up;
Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark
Scott Walker - Scott 4
These New Puritans - Beat Pyramid
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
The Beach Boys - Smiley Smile & Wild Honey
Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs
Red Snapper - Making Bones
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It occurred to me I haven't done one of these lists in a few months and I have a couple days to kill before my only final, so what the heck. I grew up on Garth Brooks and the Beach Boys, which explains my taste in music. Since I already covered Garth and Summer break starts for me on Thursday, it seems appropriate to cover my other all-time favorite now. When compiling this list, I also included solo releases by Brian Wilson and tried to avoid mentioning what a douchebag Mike Love is. Oops, just blew that one.

The Beach Boys were formed in 1961 in Southern California by musical genius Brian Wilson, along with his brothers, Dennis and Carl, cousin Mike Love and their friend Al Jardine. During their time together, the boys had 36 Top 40 hits (the most of any American rock group), including four number ones. They were America's answer to the Beatles, and according to Billboard, they are the best-selling American band of all-time.

25. Surfin' Usa
Surfin' USA - 1963

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Heroes And Villains (The Americana Mix)

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So I made a SMiLE mix. Based around the H&V sections of which there are many and varied, this quickly expanded to contain a wide variety of Smile - era stuff, and came to be known as The 'Americana' Mix.

First, a tracklisting (of sorts)

1. Prayer (Session)

2. Our Prayer (20-20 version)

3. Soul Made Beautiful (GV. Box, H&V sections)

4. Gee (GV. Box, H&V sections)

5. Heroes And Villains (Stereo single mix from Hawthorne, CA)
*Edited slightly to remove My Children Were Raised, replaced with Dum-Dum-Dum.... Then carries on as normal, to fade into...*

6. Barnyard (Demo) * I know SMiLE mix protocol is to do fancy trickery to sync this to the instrumental track, but i happen to like Brian shouting at Van Dyke to make chicken noises :D*

7. The Cantina (With tiny session excerpt/no 'dance' at the end, from Heroes & Vibrations boot)

YOU'RE UNDER ARREST!

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