It's About Time: Beach Boys Poll Results

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.

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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.

I totally think of this as like 'song I'd hear in the supermarket'

Because it got to number one in the UK.

I had forgotten about this track and am regretting not voting for it. If you ignore the lyrics there's nothing "oldies" about it. Those lyrics an uncanny telegraphy of what they would end up becoming though.

In the U.S. it's a nonentity on the radio.

rather, in my experience it has been a nonentity on the radio.

it's not uncanny it's mike love's masterplan

you could probably do a poll of beach boys tunes with the "hey, remember when" vibe ... though thinking about it, do it again would win hands down. unless of course, "still cruisin'" shows up at the #1 spot on this thread. fingers crossed!

All those "early" BeachBoys classics, "I get around" excepted, did not break the top 20 over here.

Until "Barbara Ann" and the Pet Sounds singles, onwards...

I am from California and maybe our oldies stations are more sophisticated when it comes to the beach boys. or maybe my local station just liked the song.

"Summer in Paradise", baby!

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

i'm from southern california deep in the heart of beach boys country USA, and i missed hearing do it again until i bought the good vibrations box set.

I also grew up listening to K-Earth (thanks Dad) and never heard "Do It Again".

yeah, k-earth one oh onnnnnne.

I'm in the UK and I don't think I heard that track until I started buying all the albums in the 90s. Mind you, I never listen to tin-pot local radio.

i can still remember my dad being annoyed when k-earth started playing more 60s stuff. like the byrds' mr. tambourine man, he'd say "this isn't an oldie!" that was probably the moment when he realized he was old.

#27

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Beach_Boys_-_When_I_Grow_Up_(to_be_a_man).jpg

She Knows Me Too Well - Today!
178 points 7 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA7-05fXS_Q

Far too low, but I didn't vote, so it's my own fault. If I'm pressed I'll often say it's my favourite.

yeah, this is a fave. the ballads on this record!

fantastic song.

xp to tyler - great story. Kind of how I felt when they started recasting classic rock stations into "the best of the 70s, 80s, 90s and today" and played Nirvana and Soundgarden alongside Boston and the Allman Brothers.