It's About Time: Beach Boys Poll Results

haha yeah it's totally something a 5 year old would do

always the odd man out, i guess.

guess i figured it was mainly brian because of the solo piano demo on the good vibrations box.

I could be totally wrong! (my memory may be based entirely on that Stamos TV movie lol) haven't heard the demo

huh wiki says it was all Brian, which seems... odd

change the article imo

"Co-written by john stamos, mike love and chuck berry, "Surfin' USA" was recorded by The Beach Boys released as a single on March 4, 1963 and it also appeared on the 1963 album of the same name."

What's the rarest track yall voted for? I had the Four Freshmen cover of "Their Hearts Were Full of Spring" which got packaged next to 'Can't Wait Too Long' on a Smiley Smile/Wild Honey reissue

I had the Four Freshmen cover of "Their Hearts Were Full of Spring"

this was in my top 5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ojc5wq-GAQ

^^^Dennis presumably off being drunk somewhere

but the part where they break down their individual harmony lines in that song o_0

I wanted an excuse to post that song too

how about the alternate lyrics?

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

yeah I like the original lyrics better

James Dean was lame.

haha yeah, not the most inspired cover of all time. The singing is great however.

#29

I Know There's An Answer / Hang On To Your Ego - Pet Sounds
153 points, 8 votes (2 for Hang On To Your Ego)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVIlp5_w4f8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ5J2GkhiBo

Def one of my faves from PS. Although I think I Know There's An Answer is a better lyric.

yeah me too esp in the context of the album

On HOTYE/IKTAA, there's a little flourish at the end of each chorus line - "I know there's an answer/Ba Ba Ba Ba/I know now but I have to find it by myself" - which appears on nearly every version of the song except the ones on the finished album. A shame really, as it makes the song.

this, like many tracks on Pet Sounds now that I think about it, is one that only really works for me in the context of the album. The backing track beats you over the head with its Brian Wilson-ness and borders on chintzy, but after 9 tracks it's easy not to notice.

it kind of feels like an intermission to me

#28

Do It Again - 20/20
173 points, 9 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHpjILzv1P4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd9S5KA9lbE

By far their best drums.

oh crap there's gotta be single art for that one. I'm on a phone (lol work) could someone post it?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/55/Beach_Boys_-_Do_It_Again_%28single%29.JPG

damn you
http://www.chartstats.com/images/artwork/3035.jpg

Air used those drums for "Remember" off their first album.

Their first flirtation with becoming an oldies band. Rekindled but didn't quite recapture their '62-'64 sound.

Do It Again, I'm not a big fan of though - sounds like the Boys submitting to their status as an "oldies" band - and this was what? 1969? Only four years after Pet Sounds? Proof that premature nostalgia was rife even in the sixties.

xpost

An oldies band with totally futuristics robotic drums!

It's as if Blur's 13 had songs all about recapturing the days of Parklife and how everything was better in 1995.

that's the received wisdom about the song and also what it was sorta meant to do. but I think it's actually got a radically different sound from their endless summer stuff. xp

Three years after Pet Sounds, probably equivalent to about 10 years today

I mean there's the drum sound obv, but also the vocal harmony is loud, crashing...almost menacing? it's not something they did pre-smile

yeah, 1966 to 1969 ... a whole lot happened, culturally/socially/musically. i think there may have been a general feeling of nostalgia amidst the craziness.

Kinda funny DL we both posted almost the same thing at same time

Yeah those drums are pretty amazing. How did they get that sound?

very tight echo chamber I can imagine.

Yeah

Hard to do with tape delay mind you

But I suppose they had top-of-the-range stuff at their disposal

tylerw -there may be some truth in this. I guess 1969 is often seen as some watershed moment in pop culture history where innocence and idealism gave way to a more pessimistic '70s.

It's short tape delay with a lot feedback.

Not on my ballot bit def a classic. I always felt like a lot of this was Brian's joke on the band -- pitting the delay-fed drums and wood shop sound fx from Smile on the tag against the shameless nostalgia of the lyric. Great tune for sure.

but anyway, as a context-free song, "do it again" is great. wish they'd play this on the radio as opposed to the other more well-worn hits.

they do!

this is prob a top 5 most heard on radio beach boys song. ime.

really? i've never heard it on the radio.

I never hear this one on the local oldies station! (Canned nationwide feed.)

tbh, the oldies station out here only plays "surfin usa" and maybe "i get around" -- they don't seem to be heavy on the beach boys.

or i'm just not listening at the right times, who knows. i don't listen to the radio all that much anymore.