Worst Beach Boys Song on Holland - Part 5 in an Ongoing Series

Picking just 19 Beach Boys favorites is one of the hardest things I ever had to do. If you asked me tomorrow I would probably want to include "Kiss Me, Baby", "Salt Lake City", "Girl Don't Tell Me", "The Little Girl I Once Knew", "At My Window" and, from Holland, "Funky Pretty" & "Mount Vernon and Fairway". Blondie Chaplin's vocal on the fadeout to "Funky Pretty" is sensational. But here's my list as of today... Brian Wilson's 19 favorites on February 11, 2002.

from the linear notes of the "Classics Selected by Brian Wilson" comp, which is pretty great and would make a fun poll, but was also my introduction to Holland and The Flame, so thanks Brian

was cool to see Wilson/Chaplin/Jardine touring for a minute, which was totally not the Beach Boys but Love/Johnston was ffs

Making it softly
Like the evening sea, trying to be
Making it go
Creating it gently
Like a morning breeze, a life of ease
Eyes that see
Beyond tomorrow, through to the time without hours
Passing the Eden of Flowers
Reason to live

Need to do a deep dive

Has ilm done a track by track of the B Boys or is Tom Petty more worthy

Tom Petty wrote the liner notes to the reissue of Holland, maybe that will convince them. He hates "Mount Vernon & Fairway".

Weird I was listening to this tonight…Who voted for ‘Leavin This Town’???

Best bit of "The Trader":

Ears to hear...
(two extra beats not in the previous verses)
Beyond the showers...

Bear song ever

BEST

(two extra beats not in the previous verses)

No, just one extra beat! A perfect bar of 5/4 out of nowhere.

an old roommate of mine was really nuts about “trader”

Man, this album is just so good

And truly, The Trader has to be one of the band's most underrated songs