It's About Time: Beach Boys Poll Results

Surprised to see see people saying Trader drifts off, I've always loved that second half of it. Holland is a mixed bag for me but I've always thought Trader, Leaving This Town and Sail On Sailor are some of the very best songs they did, hopefully they will all place.

I was actually disappointed you didn't vote, nti! I was looking at older threads and I remembered you were a pretty big fan.

gonna post 3 more in a bit.

#63

You're So Good To Me - Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)
70 points, 3 votes, 1 #1 vote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjvHKDcp_P8

I don't think I had that one on my ballot but yeah it is great. like their version of stripped down garage rock. vocals on the chorus are killer

wow, didn't know boettcher was involved on here comes the night

effin' blasting here comes the night disco edit right now

#62

Aren't You Glad - Wild Honey
74 points, 3 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyi_TBBBYK4

one of the things I ended up removing from my ballot, I think. I'm glad it got some support. I've always thought it should be the first song on the album.

amazing song, prob my favorite on wild honey? just classic beach boys chord changes, perfect vocals. impossible to argue with

This was my #4. I am a huge Wild Honey fan and this is the standout song.

tell me tell me you know what I mean

beep badeep badeep

yes!!

man...

#61

That's Not Me - Pet Sounds
75 points, 3 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHCEppiiXL8

must. stop . listening . to . 'aren't you glad . .

love the percussion in this one

Great Mike vocal on "That's Not Me."

two great mike vocals in a row, actually

yes yes and yes! that crystalline mike love sound. i don't care how adolescent the lyrics might come across; this song is devastating on so many levels

the organ, the percussion, the background vocal harmonies. it's situated in-between a bunch of emotionally resonant songs such that it feels almost lightweight by contrast, but man

aren't you glad was my #8, love that song

forgot about you're so good to me, wouldn't have voted for it but solid tune

guitar figure reprised on 'the night was so young', if i'm not mistaken

background vox in that's not me are positively unreal. seriously wonder if those guys ever sounded so sublime before or since then

like, cannot listen to 1:40 to 1:50 or so w/o getting total chills

only one of the bottom 10 i'm not familiar with is california saga but that sounds pretty good and i like/love the other 9, picked 2/10 so far

i feel really lucky, b/c i "discovered" pet sounds when i was 19, and listened to it every night for a month, it was like a ritual, i just soaked it up...i don't think i had ever been so blown away by a record before that. just listening to what they sounded like when they all sang together, it was so affecting. you hear the stories about brian wilson supposedly praying to make a beautiful record or whatever. i dunno, but whatever mojo he had going on at that time was obv. extremely effective

gonna do one more tonight

#60

Wind Chimes - Smiley Smile / Smile
76 points, 4 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crcq3G18JLc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2VkxzhWbxI

2004 version vastly superior imo but the part where the drums come in at about 2:00 bugs me to no end, a tasteless addition to the song

surprised that didn't finish a bit higher, that's the one song i kicked myself for not including after i submitted my ballot

if i walked into a church and heard ppl singing like the vocals on that's not me, i'd so quickly be like 'where do i sign up?'

2004 version vastly superior imo but the part where the drums come in at about 2:00 bugs me to no end, a tasteless addition to the song

yeah, get what you mean, that fill is so naff

i can't listen to the 2004 Smile because of the vocals

eh, i like the rockin' part of windchimes.

weirdly, the first version i heard was by baby lemonade. does anyone remember that band?
http://powerpopcriminals.blogspot.com/2010/10/baby-lemonade-wonderful-ep-1993-baby.html

Sure, saw them when they were Arthur Lee's backing band once.

baby lemonade is the wondermints of arthur lee
xp

Great Mike vocal on "That's Not Me."
--timellison

yes! i dunno if i've ever thought about it quite that way, but i'm thinking you are totally otm

^cosign this, and also this

like, cannot listen to 1:40 to 1:50 or so w/o getting total chills

― dell (del), Saturday, 13 August 2011

There's also another version of "Wind Chimes" on the box set (which is my favorite), and there's an instrumental bootleg too.

Here's the version that's on the box set:
youtu.be/sRFE-24ucxc?t=2m20s

ha i put you're so good to me at #1

I voted for it too... not #1 though. Poll results lookin' good so far!

#59

http://www.sergent.com.au/beachboys/addsomemusic.jpg
Add Some Music To Your Day - Sunflower
78 points, 4 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBkA4-U4MPk

see, sunflower has never quite lived up to its promise for me. bit of a mystery, b/c i have an enormous soft spot for "sunshine pop" in all of its forms, and this record, with Deirdre, etc., occupies that territory more than anything else in their catalog . but i don't know. whenever i listen to this record it just runs right past me without ever satisfactorily settling in. that being said, i love the way they run through ridiculous vocal acrobatics in this song that you just know they more or less tossed off, but would take hours upon hours of studio time for other acts to replicate

Poll results lookin' good so far!

yeah, new u.s. citizens or just ppl in general should be presented with a comp containing these results. already completely devastating, and we're not even a dozen songs in. i remember telling an ex-gf that i LOVED the beach boys, and of course she was like "oh, Aruba, Jamaica, ooh i want to take her..." can be really tough to overcome people's ingrained prejudices regarding certain artists. but have a feeling whatever songs end up here would go a long way towards dispelling all those preconceptions

#58

Cool, Cool Water - Sunflower
79 points, 4 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niktpOfb79w

Weekend results! Cool! For some reason I thought you were going to do the next batch on Monday.

decided to do about 10 a day for a week

this song. oh man.