Line #69 Music/Sunflower


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sunflower_2984.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350: ''The world could come together as one, if everybody under the sun would add some music to his day...''.]]
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4	''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 abilities 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".
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6	!! Tracklist: [[note]] The European version adds "Cottonfields" as the first track, and moves "Got to Know the Woman" and "Deirdre" around) [[/note]]
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8	[[AC: Side One]]
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10	# "Slip On Through" (2:17)
11	# "This Whole World" (1:56)
12	# "Add Some Music to Your Day" (3:34)
13	# "Got to Know the Woman" (2:41)
14	# "Deirdre" (3:27)
15	# "It's About Time" (2:55)
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17	[[AC: Side Two]]
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19	# "Tears in the Morning" (4:07)
20	# "All I Wanna Do" (2:34)
21	# "Forever" (2:40)
22	# "Our Sweet Love" (2:38)
23	# "At My Window" (2:30)
24	# "Cool, Cool Water" (5:03)
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26	!!Principal Members:
27	* Music/AlJardine - lead vocals, guitar
28	* Music/BruceJohnston - lead vocals, bass, piano, celesta
29	* Music/MikeLove - lead vocals, percussion
30	* Music/BrianWilson - lead vocals, piano, rocksichord, bass, organ
31	* Music/CarlWilson - lead vocals, guitar
32	* Music/DennisWilson - lead vocals, drums, tambourine
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34	!! ''It's only tropes and what you're tropin' for'':
35	* BreakupSong:
36	** "Deirdre"
37	--> ''What could I say''
38	--> ''That you ran away''
39	--> ''Don't you think it's time that you stayed right near me?''
40	** "Tears in the Morning"
41	--> ''Well you know I lit a candle''
42	--> ''It's in my heart now where it glows''
43	--> ''Day and night feel my light it's gonna stand till''
44	--> ''My heart believes in what you chose''
45	* 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.
46	* FaceOnTheCover: A group shot of the band with some children.
47	* FieryRedhead: "Deirdre"
48	--> ''Always had our love, Deirdre''
49	--> ''I love your red hair''
50	* GratuitousFrench: "At My Window"
51	--> ''Le moineau est venu''
52	--> ''Se poser à ma fenêtre'' [[note]] Translation: "The sparrow has come and sat himself at my window." [[/note]]
53	* HeavyMeta: "Add Some Music to Your Day":
54	--> ''The sunday mornin' gospel goes good with the soul''
55	--> ''There's blues, folk, and country, and rock like a rollin' stone''
56	--> ''The world could come together as one''
57	--> ''If everybody under the sun''
58	--> ''Add some music to your day''
59	* HeelRealization: "It's About Time"
60	--> ''I used to be a famous artist''
61	--> ''Proud as I could be''
62	--> ''Struggling to express myself''
63	--> ''For the whole world to see''
64	--> ''I used to blow my mind sky high''
65	--> ''Searching for the lost elation''
66	--> ''LittleDidIKnow the joy I was to find''
67	--> ''In knowing I am only me''
68	* HymnToMusic: "Add Some Music To Your Day" celebrates a bunch of different genres and contexts in which music is heard.
69	* LyricalColdOpen: "Deirdre" opens with the band harmonizing the title lyric just before the instruments kick in.
70	* MundaneMadeAwesome: "Cool, Cool Water" is literally about the delight of drinking water.
71	--> ''When I'm just too hot to move''
72	--> ''Cool cool water is such a groove''
73	--> ''In a shady spot when I'm layin' down''
74	--> ''Only thing movin' are the ants on the ground''
75	--> ''When I'm thirsty and I reach for a glass''
76	--> ''Cool water tastes like such a gas''
77	* NewSoundAlbum: Particularly "Got to Know the Woman" and "It's About Time".
78	** Not to mention the country rock "Cottonfields" from the European version of the album.
79	* OneWomanSong: "Deirdre"
80	* OneWordTitle: "Deirdre", "Forever"
81	* {{Pacifism}}: "It's About Time"
82	--> ''It's about time we get together''
83	--> ''To be out front and love one another''
84	--> ''Brothers sisters everybody''
85	--> ''We better start to help each other now''
86	--> ''We need it now''
87	--> ''When we're sharin' our love brother''
88	--> ''That's when we know we can shape another world''
89	* VocalTagTeam: Every then-member of The Beach Boys got at least one lead vocal on this album.

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