It's About Time: Beach Boys Poll Results

great lyrics on this

LOVE Little Deuce Coupe. I've always gotten a kick out of how the song starts "I'm not bragging babe" and then he goes into this laundry list of reasons why his car kicks ass. It's like the prologue to "Don't Worry Baby". Mike's lead sounds as amateurish as "Luau" but the backing vocals and track have taken a huge leap forward.

is Don't Back Down going to make it?

invented the concept album y/n

definitely N

as for Little Deuce Coupe, I didn't vote for it but it's classic nature is pretty indisputable. Mike Love at his best

Can't believe All Summer Long wasn't top 20 at least.

dunno there's still a ton of major songs coming up

#40 (tie)

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Barbara Ann - Beach Boys' Party!
116 points, 5 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_9hm5ibXOw

I have never liked this song. Perhaps marred by 4th grade me having to witness some students singing "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb bomb Iran" to this tune as part of a school "talent show"

you went to school with john mccain?

more like John McCain has the mental capacities of an elementary school student from the early 80s

the dumbest of the Beach Boys' hits on their dumbest album.

yeah, i could go without ever hearing this again.
great b-side, tho!

back in the days when people sang and played guitars to amuse themselves it may have been just the ticket though.

Spotify playlist updated with the list so far: http://open.spotify.com/user/sp10000/playlist/36kXCKE1TDnsvQHiUCtfPt

Songs like Barbara Ann are why I ignored the Beach Boys for the better part of my life.

i think party! can be a good time but i don't love it. i imagine actually partying with the band at the time might've been fun. at least partying with dennis anyway.

ooh and thanks for the spotify playlist. i just got on there. i know, i'm behind. i just wasn't made for these times.

great b-side, tho!

yeah Girl Don't Tell Me is superior in almost every way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy3IkXrgv3I&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfDZn1crMU8

lol at all the barbara ann hate, who voted for it

yeah show yourselves! talk about "slight"!

#39

Little Bird - Friends
122 points, 4 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BLyXRPl1aE

I did not vote for Barbara Ann, but I'll take a shot at defending it. I was just listening to Friends and I thought I would pause it for a minute to listen to Barbara Ann. It's one of those songs that I feel like I pretty much never need to hear again for the rest of my life. But when I started listening to it, you know what, fuck it, this song is a classic. If you can set aside all of the mccain-etc baggage for a moment and actually listen to it, the song is undeniably great. It's a bit pitchy, but it adds to the silly "party" vibe.

At the very least it's hard not to have some kind of reaction to it, even if your reaction is hate and disgust. Which is a pretty sharp contrast to the first 8 songs I just finished listening on Friends which just kind of drifted by in a mellow wash of meh.

that mellow wash of meh kicked barbara ann's ass by 6 points

haha, xpost. case in point.

yeah show yourselves!...

i voted for it!

I didn't vote for Little Bird but it's a solid, strange little tune. Love the "guess I'll go mow the lawn" bit. song strings together a whole bunch of little, simple riffs in an engaging way.

I believe it uses a melody from child is father of the man

that's at the tag, I think...?

oh yeah, I didn't notice that. maybe that's what bugs me about it.

my favorite part of Little Bird is the "there's fruit so me and it tastes so good" line. The cello at in the bridge is very Smile-esque (is that the part from Child is the Father?) and the song rocks harder than it first appears (turning it up helps). If I had to pick a song from Friends that would have been it.

the whole backing track at about 1:25 sounds like it may have been recycled or at least just replayed from Child is the Father. The bass line, wah wah muted trumpet, etc.

#38

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c9/Surfin%27SafariCover.jpg

Surfin' Safari - Surfin' Safari
123 points, 5 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS7SUFz36lg

oh shit forgot to note, barbara ann had one #1 vote

Hard to believe this is the same group that released "Surfin" only a few months previously. Plus, great album cover.

oh shit forgot to note, barbara ann had one #1 vote
--iatee

oh shit forgot to note, barbara ann had one #1 vote

wtf

One thing about this poll: every time one of the canon/greatest hits songs that I didn't vote for places, I feel guilty and pretentious.

didn't vote for anything earlier than girl don't tell me, lots of these early ones are obv great but between being oldies radio fodder (ie played out) and not ~speaking~ to me like the 66-72 period they didn't make the cut

xp lol

#37

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Guess I'm Dumb (Glen Campbell) - Single
125 points, 5 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_Yj9oHikgY

Is Barbara Ann the first one so far to have had a #1 vote?

I didn't vote for Little Bird but it's a solid, strange little tune. Love the "guess I'll go mow the lawn" bit. song strings together a whole bunch of little, simple riffs in an engaging way.

yeah, i didn't remember it being made up of all those different little parts, with little in the way of repetition. love that chord change around 1:36, too!

Guess I'm Dumb is epic

You're So Good To Me did

Kiss Me Baby did too but that was a mistake reveal

xp

if the beach boys had recorded this song, as was apparently the initial plan, who would best for the lead vocal? I can't figure it out.

oh crud, i forgot to vote for guess i'm dumb. should been included on pet sounds imo... as good as anything on there

would guess brian would do the vocal best.

never heard this before. What's the story?