The Worst Beach Boys Song Ever

I'm So Young is amazing!

Cassius Love does break the album up a bit, but it brings the LOLs. Mickey Mouse with a sore throat.

haha so sad I missed this thread. For that ILM compilation series I claimed the Beach Boys and was planning on doing a best-of and worst-of but never got around to it. Bonus track: Mike Love, "Almost Summer."

You can email me through ILX mail if you really want to hear Stars & Stripes. It's a depressing listen - the Beach Boys reduced to backup singers for second-rate country hacks. One wonders what Volume 2 would have sounded like.

Tempted, but...

Shit no who am I kidding, I won't listen to it.

i sort of like willie nelson singing the warmth of the sun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_68IhghlCFc
but i like willie nelson singing almost anything. could do w/o the beach men on this one tbh.

with Dennis dead and Brian AWOL you can just assume nothing worthwhile was produced. I guess there's Carl but he had long since ceased being a serious creative force (is Carl even on that Stars and Stripes thing?)

wtf is Brian doing there

xp

making willie uncomfortable?

"Shut Down Vol. 2" has got to be one of the most uneven albums ever made....

I've read that their lifeless cover of "Louie Louie" sounds that way because it was recorded before they heard the now-definitive Kingsmen version, which was just starting its run up the charts when SDV2 was recorded. "Louie" was previously a minor hit, especially in California, by a group called the Wailers (no relation to Bob Marley's backup band) and Paul Revere and the Raiders, and their versions, like the Beach Boys', more closely mimic the 1957 Richard Berry original recording.

obviously I take back the second-rate country hacks comment for Willie Nelson. But look at the rest of the soloists:

Lorrie Morgan
James House
Junior Brown
Doug Supernaw
Sawyer Brown
Toby Keith
Ricky Van Shelton
T. Graham Brown
Collin Raye
Kathy Troccoli
Timothy B. Schmit

for fuck's sake, couldn't they have done better than that??

god only knows

what the answer to this is! teehee

I only recognize like 2 of those names

One could easily argue that "Heroes and Villains" doesn't "belong" on Smiley Smile any more than "Good Vibrations". It certainly doesn't sound anything like the rest of the album (except perhaps "GV") and at least part of it was recorded before Smile was abandoned.

the Good Vibrations votes are just challops

sad that deirdre and mount vernon are on this list

This song should've been nominated at least:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EeSuuCwaQ4

we didn't got past 1980 for a reason

Junior Brown's good.

Wtf was that video?

we really ought to have a "worst unreleased Beach Boys song ever" thread. it just doesn't seem fair that a song as excruciating as this was never even eligible for inclusion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puALrwbQ7DE

thanks skip, downloading now.