It's About Time: Beach Boys Poll Results

One thing about this poll: every time one of the canon/greatest hits songs that I didn't vote for places, I feel guilty and pretentious.

didn't vote for anything earlier than girl don't tell me, lots of these early ones are obv great but between being oldies radio fodder (ie played out) and not ~speaking~ to me like the 66-72 period they didn't make the cut

xp lol

#37

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfr2q4yzGh1qa488po1_500.jpg

Guess I'm Dumb (Glen Campbell) - Single
125 points, 5 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_Yj9oHikgY

Is Barbara Ann the first one so far to have had a #1 vote?

I didn't vote for Little Bird but it's a solid, strange little tune. Love the "guess I'll go mow the lawn" bit. song strings together a whole bunch of little, simple riffs in an engaging way.

yeah, i didn't remember it being made up of all those different little parts, with little in the way of repetition. love that chord change around 1:36, too!

Guess I'm Dumb is epic

You're So Good To Me did

Kiss Me Baby did too but that was a mistake reveal

xp

if the beach boys had recorded this song, as was apparently the initial plan, who would best for the lead vocal? I can't figure it out.

oh crud, i forgot to vote for guess i'm dumb. should been included on pet sounds imo... as good as anything on there

would guess brian would do the vocal best.

never heard this before. What's the story?

who would best for the lead vocal? I can't figure it out.

Brian for sure! it has a bit of an "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times" vibe.

http://naiveharmonies.com/2010/02/stacks-glen-campbell-guess-im-dumb/ x[

xp

yeah I guess brian makes the most sense

Did anyone vote for My World Fell Down by Sagittarius, or would that have been too much of a stretch?

guess i'm dumb is pretty sweet (tho i don't think it and solo material should really be in this poll w/e)

i could see mike love almost pulling that off using his "sensitive" voice from a few years later, but not at the time of the glen recording

nobody voted for it, woulda been a stretchhh xp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIeC8WU3tbg

this got two votes tho

I didn't vote for any of the later solo work, but I included Guess I'm Dumb as it feels like part of the Today->Smile peak era despite the different vocalist - and it's really strong.

man, guess i'm dumb is tooo good. i could have thrown that in my number one spot without much hesitation.

37 Guess I’m Dumb 125
38 Surfin' Safari 123
39 Little Bird 122
40 Barbara Ann 116
41 Little Deuce Coupe 116
42 All Summer Long 114
43 Sail On Sailor 111
44 Wendy 111
45 Wonderful 105
46 Little Pad 104
47 Forever 103
48 Time to Get Alone 103
49 Celebrate the News 99
50 Long Promised Road 96
51 The Little Girl I Once Knew 93
52 You Still Believe In Me 93
53 I Can Hear Music 92
54 Then I Kissed Her 92
55 Wild Honey 90
56 Please Let Me Wonder 88
57 Country Air 84
58 Cool, Cool Water 79
59 Add Some Music To Your Day 78
60 Wind Chimes 76
61 That's Not Me 75
62 Aren't You Glad 74
63 You're So Good To Me 70
64 California Saga - Big Sur 66
65 Let’s Go Away For Awhile 65
66 Our Prayer 64
67 River Song 62
68 The Trader 61
69 Here Comes The Night 60

I would have no second thoughts giving someone that tracklist

nobody voted for it, woulda been a stretchhh xp
this got two votes tho

Interesting. That and the Campbell song are both pretty cool. I've never heard either. It's kind of funny how Brian Wilson in the producer's chair makes something seem more "Beach Boys" than a Gary Usher / Terry Melcher / Bruce Johnston / Glenn Campbell (and probably Wrecking Crew) collaboration.

I'm trying to decide which is less convincing: Glen Campbell's lip-syncing or that guy strumming but not bothering to fret his guitar....

Surfin' Safari and Little Deuce Coupe both TOO LOW

Loved that Glen Campbell video, esp the dancers doing variations on The Swim. They looked like they'd rehearsed about 10 minutes.

Surfin' Safari and Little Deuce Coupe both TOO LOW

― confidence mane (crüt), Tuesday, August 16, 2011 3:32 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

srsly

i voted for mostly oldies and even i didn't vote for barbara-ann.

Hi,

Did anyone vote for "You're Welcome" ?

Didn't vote for it, but always kinda liked it. So simple, yet so trancelike, like it was a reading of a 450-year-old hymnal.

It's songs like these that make me miss B sides.

["Celebrate The News" is] one of those tracks w/ relatively few votes but they all put it high. only one more song made the list w/ 4 votes, anyone want to guess?

"Shortnin' Bread" (great track btw)

it was "Little Bird"

yup

yup

#36

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7a/The_Beach_Boys_-_Fun,_Fun,_Fun.PNG

Fun, Fun, Fun - Shut Down V2
132 points, 5 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgS_Wf5i38k

told myself I would not be that guy, but TOO LOW! My #3.

tbh it just makes me think of present day mike love

Present day Mike Love makes me think of Can we be shown weirdos + Mike Love?, and that makes me SMiLE

Anyone know why there's two mixes of this song? Easiest way to tell them apart is the quick fade at the end of the album version. The link here has the long fadeout so it's the 45rpm mix. Don't think it's just a mono/stereo thing.

I think it might be a mono/stereo thing, actually. Mono appears to have a longer outro.

I haven't heard the mono album mix so that may be, though I've also read that the single mix was designed to sound better on circa-1960 car radios.

Actually this is IMO one of Mike Love's best lyrics. Apparently a completely true and accurate account of a girl he knew who asked to borrow her dad's car to go to the library but really had other things in mind. And it really was a Ford Thunderbird. Think of how different the song's meter would have had to been if her dad drove, say, a Studebaker Hawk...

The mono album mix and single mix appear to be the same thing according to Spotify.

"Shortnin' Bread" (great track btw)

agree!

In some downtime, what's the best track on MIU? I'd take Peggy Sue.

"Come Go With Me", at least of the MIU songs I know.

re: mono vs. stereo - I would want to check a vintage vinyl copy to know for sure though - there's been alot of remastering and retouching over the years, and small differences often go unnoticed by the record companies. For instance, several of the songs on the "Classics selected by Brian Wilson" comp sound very different than the same songs on the regular CDs. That disc sounded way off to my ears, as if it has been reprocessed with more reverberation or something.

Don't remember much about that album except "Matchpoint of Our Love" being more "Matchpoint of Our LOLz". "Sweet Sunday Kinda Love" is quite nice perhaps? Expunged the album from my memory tbh.

#35

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Beach_Boys_-_Friends_(single).jpg

Friends - Friends
137 poits, 7 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyxTMfh81K4

Didn't vote for it but it's a good one

did that img not work, I can't tell I'm on a phone