It's About Time: Beach Boys Poll Results

awesome.
so many cool beach boys TV clips! mike love especially great there. best mike love stage? maybe.

okay that seems a bit um... high. I mean it's a good song and all but it's definitely under-produced.

xp

^crazy

Why I didn't vote for Breakaway I just don't know. Fantastic non-album single - superbly bittersweet lyrics too.

yeah breakaway is just great part after great part, packed with wonderful moments.

Yes, very strange it placed so high since it's not on any albums and came out during the Boys' first lag period (always saw 20/20 and later Carl & The Passions as points where the Beach Boys seemed to be admitting to themselves they were at an end of an era).

def in my top 5 most listened to bb songs.

al jardine!

I used to like this one more than I do now. Not the best mix in the world.

Breakaway was in my top 5 iirc. It's so breezy, bittersweet, such a spacious sound... one of their most lush songs imho

I'm never not in the mood to hear this song

the excessively dry production on most of it detracts from the overall song imho

Feel the vibrations
In all the sensations
or gtfo

two deep-ish cuts (non-singles, non-pet sounds) in a row ahead

let's hear some guesses

let the wind blow?

Til I Die?

Feel Flows

i wanna pick you up

Vegetables?

Gettin Hungry?

I'm Bugged at my old Man!

(btw this thread should've been called I'm Bugged at My Poll, Man)

#17

Feel Flows - Surf's Up
224 points, 11 votes

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

skip called it!

love this song, synths on it are bonkers

also reportedly ALL Carl...?

in a way, Surf's Up is a throwback in the way that the Feel Flows-Til I Die-Surf's Up trio of songs is SO much better than anything else on the album. This track was used in the Almost Famous ending credits. Total jam.

i think feel flows was what I hoped carl's solo album would be like.

long promised road and a day in the life of a tree are up there xp

i think feel flows was what I hoped carl's solo album would be like.

I know right? instead it's like his attempt to completely get away from everything he did with the Beach Boys.

#16

Let The Wind Blow - Wild Honey
225 points, 9 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IslzZ5MqZkM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrjMXrf6C7Y

I like the song but I'm pretty surprised it made #16. lotta wild honey love round here.

deep cut parade.

I was about to slag this one but the 3/4 meter and up and down vocals put me in a bit of a trance.

As does the whole album, to be honest.

ha, called it! my #2, so beautifully simple & spooky.

I love "Let The Wind Blow", also my #2.

there is a really good post on one of the other threads about the lyrics in this song and how fantastic the delivery is at the bridge, let me see if I can find it

I think Girl Don't Tell Me might be my favorite Beach Boys track. Although I didn't vote for it as #1.

Those last few are nice and all but.. pretty gosh dang underwhelming.

agreed!

We could use a big crowd-pleasing single. Dance Dance Dance?

Has "When I Grow Up (To Be A Man)" come up yet? Another I forgot to vote for.

#15

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cd/Beach_Boys_-_Darlin%27.jpg

Darlin' - Wild Honey
241 points, 10 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6xoJeq-rto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ1WlesVxgc

oddly Mike Love has kept this in their live repertoire

in mike love's head this and Kokomo are the only things the beach boys released after pet sounds

good song tho. Carl really shines.

there's your big crowd pleasing single

I was about to predict this but thought if those other Wild Honey tracks got so high that it would be top 10. "Darlin" must have seemed like a step backward at the time but you have to think it has held up better than most of the hippy dippy shit it was surrounded by.

in the culture, not the album.

that's the only crowd pleasing single left, from hereon it's just love you and miu tracks

"Break Away" got a vote from me.... yeah the production is a bit dryer than it could have been, but even as it is it's great - it's a testament to the usual richness of BW's producing that a song with such elaborate backing vocals, brass instruments, etc. could seem "underproduced".... maybe in comparison to the '65-'66 period Beach Boys but not late-'60s pop music in general.

BTW this song was a major hit in the UK and many other countries, but bombed in the US.

"Girl Don't Tell Me" didn't get my vote but it's a great song. It's neat how you could hear the Beach Boys both influencing and being influenced by the Beatles on numerous songs by both bands.

Wow, Wild Honey popular with this crowd.... "Darlin'" is probably the catchiest song from this set, although I also love the Stevie Wonder cover and "I'd Love Just Once To See You" (dark horse for a top-15 placing here!)