It's About Time: Beach Boys Poll Results

Surfin' Safari and Little Deuce Coupe both TOO LOW

― confidence mane (crüt), Tuesday, August 16, 2011 3:32 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

srsly

i voted for mostly oldies and even i didn't vote for barbara-ann.

Hi,

Did anyone vote for "You're Welcome" ?

Didn't vote for it, but always kinda liked it. So simple, yet so trancelike, like it was a reading of a 450-year-old hymnal.

It's songs like these that make me miss B sides.

["Celebrate The News" is] one of those tracks w/ relatively few votes but they all put it high. only one more song made the list w/ 4 votes, anyone want to guess?

"Shortnin' Bread" (great track btw)

it was "Little Bird"

yup

yup

#36

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7a/The_Beach_Boys_-_Fun,_Fun,_Fun.PNG

Fun, Fun, Fun - Shut Down V2
132 points, 5 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgS_Wf5i38k

told myself I would not be that guy, but TOO LOW! My #3.

tbh it just makes me think of present day mike love

Present day Mike Love makes me think of Can we be shown weirdos + Mike Love?, and that makes me SMiLE

Anyone know why there's two mixes of this song? Easiest way to tell them apart is the quick fade at the end of the album version. The link here has the long fadeout so it's the 45rpm mix. Don't think it's just a mono/stereo thing.

I think it might be a mono/stereo thing, actually. Mono appears to have a longer outro.

I haven't heard the mono album mix so that may be, though I've also read that the single mix was designed to sound better on circa-1960 car radios.

Actually this is IMO one of Mike Love's best lyrics. Apparently a completely true and accurate account of a girl he knew who asked to borrow her dad's car to go to the library but really had other things in mind. And it really was a Ford Thunderbird. Think of how different the song's meter would have had to been if her dad drove, say, a Studebaker Hawk...

The mono album mix and single mix appear to be the same thing according to Spotify.

"Shortnin' Bread" (great track btw)

agree!

In some downtime, what's the best track on MIU? I'd take Peggy Sue.

"Come Go With Me", at least of the MIU songs I know.

re: mono vs. stereo - I would want to check a vintage vinyl copy to know for sure though - there's been alot of remastering and retouching over the years, and small differences often go unnoticed by the record companies. For instance, several of the songs on the "Classics selected by Brian Wilson" comp sound very different than the same songs on the regular CDs. That disc sounded way off to my ears, as if it has been reprocessed with more reverberation or something.

Don't remember much about that album except "Matchpoint of Our Love" being more "Matchpoint of Our LOLz". "Sweet Sunday Kinda Love" is quite nice perhaps? Expunged the album from my memory tbh.

#35

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Beach_Boys_-_Friends_(single).jpg

Friends - Friends
137 poits, 7 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyxTMfh81K4

Didn't vote for it but it's a good one

did that img not work, I can't tell I'm on a phone

re: Fun Fun Fun. According to the Beach Boys album archive the album and single versions are indeed different:
http://www.surfermoon.com/tracks/files/f/fun_fun_fun.shtml
http://www.surfermoon.com/tracks/files/f/fun_fun_fun2.shtml

iatee, it won't steal any thunder if I go ahead and start Led Zeppelin balloting, will it?

fit and working, they could be talking about the stereo LP version though. the mono album version should be the same as the mono single.

This track has a creepy edge to it. Kind of like the album cover.

xp yeah, i see what you're saying

wmc I thought that's how it worked, one votes while the last one posts the results

ok, just wanted to check. the fewer hard and fast rules, the higher the enthusiasm level, I think.

this got two votes tho

almost voted for that American Spring track myself. definitely the standout track on the album, a really interesting piece of work.

I think it might be a mono/stereo thing, actually. Mono appears to have a longer outro.

the coda is the best thing about this song!

#34

I'm Waiting For the Day - Pet Sounds
140 points, 6 votes, 1 #1 vote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QsdMKybsJg&feature

YOU DIDN'T THINK!

Great song

and the Pet Sounds parade begins!

I wonder if any of the songs from Pet Sounds might not make it? Maybe the title track?

that's probably the only one.

Perhaps "I Know There's an Answer" and "You Still Believe in Me" could slip through the cracks.

"waiting for the day" = really great, though it didn't make my ballot. starts out a little bit ho-hum, but it goes so many different places in the space of three minutes. good example of the pocket symphony thing wilson was shooting for at this time.

33

Kiss Me, Baby - Today!
141 points, 5 votes, 1 #1 vote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoJ-yulhF8o

4 real this time

re: Today's cover photo - why are they hanging out by the pool in sweaters

since we already saw that one:

#32

Can't Wait Too Long - Rarity/Outtake
144 points, 5 votes, 1 #1 vote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHXGvDP8iLI

my #1

yeah this one was way up there for me as well, remember being totally knocked out the first time I heard it. Oddly, structurally it reminds me of that other legendary outtake "You Know My Name, Look Up the Number", with the different permutations on a single theme being strung together. Of course, the effect here is entirely different - less comical, alternately exuberant and meditative, and of course with better vocals

Damn, forgot how good that one was.

it's not hard to see how Brian felt overwhelmed by the prospect of stringing all these musical ideas together into a cohesive 40-minute LP during the Smile process. This one track has about 15 of them, and it's a mess, but an enjoyable mess.

Fun Fun Fun should have been top 10!

the weird thing is, by all accounts Can't Wait Too Long was written/constructed AFTER Smile had already crashed and burned