History Music / Sunflower

* ThePowerOfRock: "Add Some Music to Your Day".

--> ''Little did I know the joy I was to find''

''Sunflower'' is the sixteenth studio album by Music/TheBeachBoys. Released in 1970, it did relatively well in Europe, but performed disastrously in the US, peaking at #151 on the charts. It has since been VindicatedByHistory though, and rightfully so; it's generally considered to be one of their strongest albums, and a showcase of the growing songwriting talents of the individual Beach Boys without major involvement from Music/BrianWilson. It spawned the hits and fan favorites "Add Some Music to Your Day" and "Forever".

* HeavyMeta: "Add Some Music to Your Day"

''Sunflower'' is the sixteenth studio album by Music/TheBeachBoys. Released in 1970, it did relatively well in Europe, but performed disastrously in the US, peaking at #151 on the charts. It has since been VindicatedByHistory though, and rightfully so. It's generally considered to be one of their strongest albums, and a showcase of the growing songwriting talents of the individual Beach Boys without major involvement from Music/BrianWilson. It spawned the hits and fan favorites "Add Some Music to Your Day" and "Forever".

* MundaneMadeAwesome: "Cool, Cool Water", which is literally about the delight of drinking water.

* CoverVersion: "Cottonfields" is a cover of a Music/{{Leadbelly}} song. Also, its a remake of "Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song)" from their ''Music/TwentyTwenty'' album.

* RegionalBonus: The rerecorded single version of "Cottonfields" was added as the first track on the original UK and European versions. "Got To Know The Woman" and "Deirdre" were swapped too.

* Al Jardine - lead vocals, guitar

* Carl Wilson - lead vocals, guitar

* Bruce Johnston - lead vocals, bass, piano, celesta
* Mike Love - lead vocals, percussion

''Sunflower'' is the sixteenth studio album by Music/TheBeachBoys. Released in 1970, it did relatively well in Europe, but performed disastrously in the US, peaking at #151 on the charts. It has since been VindicatedByHistory though, and rightfully so. Its generally considered to be one of their strongest albums, and a showcase of the growing songwriting talents of the individual Beach Boys without major involvement from Music/BrianWilson. It spawned the hits and fan favorites "Add Some Music to Your Day" and "Forever".

! '''''Tropes in the Morning''''':

* ExecutiveMeddling: Sunflower was the group's first album for Reprise, who were very meticulous about what they wanted. The group's first three attempts at a tracklisting were rejected by the label, who felt that there wasn't enough strong single material and not enough BrianWilson compositions. There was a reason for this - the group was concurrently working on a final Capitol album to get out of their contract, and thus had saved a number of good songs for it. This record wasn't completed, so to create the fourth and final tracklisting, the best songs were moved onto Sunflower, replacing the ones the label disliked. The group had so much leftover material that they actually were going to release a follow up of outtakes called "Landlocked", though this evolved into "Surf's Up" instead with only a couple of tracks ("Take A Load Off Your Feet" and "Til I Die") kept - several others were reworked for future releases. This situation is also the reason why "Break Away"/"Celebrate The News" and the "Add Some Music To Your Day" B-side "Susie Cincinnati" were non-album, they were intended to be included on the cancelled Capitol and original Sunflower tracklistings at the time they were released on single.

* ShoutOut: A sample of the opening a capella chord of "Deirdre" was later used for the Cave of the Past theme in ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}''; this same sample would later be reused for the track "Amalgam" in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', which incidentally released just three months after the 20th's anniversary of ''[=EarthBound=]'''s American release.
** Also, "Forever" was made famous to the general public through ''Series/FullHouse''. It would subsequently be remade by The Beach Boys on their 1993 album ''Summer in Paradise'', sung by John Stamos.

* ShoutOut: "Deirdre" was later sampled for the 1995 UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem game ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}''.
** Also, "Forever" was made famous to the general public through ''Series/FullHouse''. It would subsequently be remade by The Beach Boys on their 1993 album ''Summer in Paradise'', sung by John Stamos.