It's About Time: Beach Boys Poll Results

As much as I hate Love You, there may be no better single moment in the Beach Boys catalog than the intro to "Let Us Go on This Way" - honk, synth, HEY!

it's really the synths and weird drums that make Love You for me...? as Wild Honey predates some 70s rock tropes, so Love You sort of predicts the synth-heavy 80s. I can't think of any other act of their vintage that was going balls-deep into synths like this album does, it's really rather striking.

well, the lyrics add a special something too

make me go *brrrr* LOL

Wow, Help Me Rhonda didn't even make top 20!!??

had to make room for "Mona"

which I am listening to right now and loving. disco disco discoteque mama I know yr gonna love Phil Spector

I ended up keeping both this and California Girls off my ballot despite their near perfection as pop singles. Hard to point to anything WRONG with Rhonda but it has been played to death and feels a bit repetitive and lyrically simple compared to the other tracks from Today.

I figured California Girls was a shoo-in anyway so yeah I didn't bother. it's perfect though.

I got behind on this thread & am now catching up. I was the #1 vote for "I'm Waiting For The Day"; one of the perfectest songs I know. Also I voted for "Barbara Ann" because it's fun to sing.

enjoying the book Heroes & Villains so far btw; didn't realize that Dennis had knocked up Mike Love's daughter, with whom he'd moved in with when she was 15...endless summer!

I don't really need to hear California Girls ever again, but I can never get tired of Help Me Rhonda. I love the 12 string riff and the bom-bom-bom line that leads into the chorus. And the almost "in media res" quality of the opening line.

in fact, without putting much thought into it, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Rhonda is the Beach Boys' greatest guitar riff. It belongs up there with the Daytripper riff and others like that.

enjoying the book Heroes & Villains so far btw; didn't realize that Dennis had knocked up Mike Love's daughter, with whom he'd moved in with when she was 15...endless summer!

I know riiiite? so many great anecdotes in that book. Like the time Mike Love was on an all-apple-juice diet and wouldn't go anywhere without his jug of apple juice, becoming increasingly combative and paranoid

lol

as though there's anything wrong with knocking up your cousin's 15 year old illegitimate daughter.

have you guys ever seen the old "beach boys: an american band" documentary? among other odd bits, every time bw is interviewed in it, he is lying in bed

tbf she was 17 when he knocked up iirc

Mike Love has a child named Christian. true story. (I've met Mike Love's daughter btw, apparently her brother quite resents his name)

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Help Me Rhonda is perfection

everybody on this thread has to look at this RIGHT NOW

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lq14oclwKZ1qjhphb.jpg

lol, which one of you is doing this comic

did you get any notable anecdotes from his daughter that you can share here?

this is what she was working on

have you guys ever seen the old "beach boys: an american band" documentary? among other odd bits, every time bw is interviewed in it, he is lying in bed

omg this thing. I remember it coming off as a weird Beach Boys infomercial. I kept waiting for Love to turn to the camera and invite the viewer to call now for their new greatest hits compilation.

this was Hayleigh his eldest (acknowledged) daughter

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I saw that doc on TV when I was a kid. That and the Summer Dreams movie shaped my whole perspective on the Beach Boys at a young age.

What are the assorted Wilson children up to nowadays? I made the mistake of googling for Gage Wilson at work after reading Dennis' wiki and clicking on a link to pictures of a porn star of the same name.

well that wouldn't be that surprising, would it?

Carnie's famous for being fat that's all I got.

Is this it for today?

speaking of carnie, i kind of like this version!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0DWT-VO5pQ

"This kid is eating my lunch!"

Thank you for the comic link!

Is this it for today?

sorry was away, but yeah. 10 tomorrow, 10 friday.

my mom taught music to one of mike love's daughters. I dunno which one. I don't think it was for long.

so I'm listening to carl wilson's solo album on youtube for the first time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFtx6TkCBcA

I like this song!

20

Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder) - Pet Sounds
213 points, 9 votes, One #1 vote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcFDaDZbc3Y

Bollocks, I'm going to miss today's instalment of the poll

Listen... listen... listen... *enter most beautiful string arrangement in pop*

Whoever said no other band could have such fantastic songs place so low on a poll is OTM. I didn't vote for Don't Talk, but it still blows so much music out the water.

one of the greatest song titles of all time

I wished these vocals had been used in the released song - they are astounding....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIETb-6n1M8#t=59s

there will be 5 pet sounds songs in the top 20. too much?

maybe there aren't? who knows

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http://brianwilsonmusic.tk/xsearch.php?t=R-1526134-1264121582.jpeg

Girl Don't Tell Me - Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)
214 points, 10 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ztc_lAb5Ws

That line "Your hair's getting long and your shorts mmm they sure feel real fine" - is that actually what he's seeing? It took me years to parse.

"they sure fit you fine"

Yay!!!

Love the double tracking here, and love its placement on the record - the transition to "Help Me Rhonda" is perfect. I can't help but think of this track every time I play "Oh, Inverted World".

No backing vocals here.

Such an awkward song - the melody is all over the place and the tempo has its shoe-laces tied together - but somehow it works.