It's About Time: Beach Boys Poll Results

20/20 is a pretty funny name for a record that unfocused.

^^My last post - Remove "Bluebirds Over the Mountain," "The Nearest Faraway Place," and "All I Want to Do" from Side 1 in the process.

We're running out of songs. I'm having a hard time coming to terms with the fact that Beach Boys Love You has zero representation.

xposts to Native - A lot of people slag off Sloop John B, but you're right - Pet Sounds would feel like a real drag without it. Much as I love the second side of Today! it's bloody staid and austere, and that's not what the Beach Boys are about. Also I love the little "ah-yeah-yeah" bits after "I wanna go home".

#8

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California Girls - Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)
396 points, 18 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F57P9C4SAW4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a49McFOFp0

love love love the first pic

Shame about Love You - but it's really not a single-song album, more a big fried statement of craziness. None of the songs would really work without each other. It really is like receiving a series of macaroni pictures by a man who lost his mind long ago.

love you suffered from vote splitting

Check out the vocals, if you can, on the acappella California Girls - mind blowing! The baritone "Girls, Girls! Girls, Girls!" on the coda is inaudible in the finished version.

No DLR?

"California Girls" shoulda been top 5, but I get why it's not. It is overexposed...

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

there are like 20 songs that should be top 5

love you suffered from vote splitting

I honestly went for what I thought was the consensus pick in the hopes that it would place (ie the Night Was So Young) :( Curious what other Love You voters went for?

Check out the vocals, if you can, on the acappella California Girls - mind blowing!

where is this...? not on iatee's rarities comp

yeah, " CA girls" is overexposed but still fucking great. the end of this song! is that johnston singing the "wish they all could be" echo part at the end? crazy it was his first recording with the band.

there will be no surprises in the top 7 I believe. there are exactly 5 essential songs left in the BB discography (and 2 big fan favorites)

Shame about Love You - but it's really not a single-song album, more a big fried statement of craziness.

That may be true, but with 70 songs, we could have gotten a couple in. Honkin' Down The Highway fer sure.

All my Love You votes were evicted eventually, but I would have liked to have voted for The Night Was So Young, Johnny Carson and Let's Put Our Hearts Together.

being that it's pretty obv they're not gonna make it, I can be a little spoilery, here's the love you vote breakdown

Love You I Wanna Pick You Up 21
Love You Mona 33
Love You The Night Was So Young 36
Love You Honkin' Down The Highway 26
Love You Roller Skating Child 21
Love You Let Us Go On This Way 18
Love You I'd Love Just Once To See You 12
Love You Mona 33
Love You The Night Was So Young 36
Love You Johnny Carson 14

As a Love You fan, I voted for Honkin' Down The Highway, Roller Skating Child & Let Us Go On This Way. Mona just missed.

Check out the vocals, if you can, on the acappella California Girls - mind blowing!

where is this...? not on iatee's rarities comp

― that mellow wash of meh (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 19 August 2011 17:23 (1 minute ago) Bookm

On a CD-R my friend made me unfortunately. I have no idea where it originated. Possibly a boxset?

uh that's total points on the side not individual votes, sorry, I was looking at that wondering why the night was so young didn't place

here ya go shakey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKxukL9rKTk

21 Love You I Wanna Pick You Up
12 Love You Mona
20 Love You The Night Was So Young
26 Love You Honkin' Down The Highway
21 Love You Roller Skating Child
18 Love You Let Us Go On This Way
12 Love You I'd Love Just Once To See You
21 Love You Mona
16 Love You The Night Was So Young
14 Love You Johnny Carson

yeah, " CA girls" is overexposed but still fucking great. the end of this song! is that johnston singing the "wish they all could be" echo part at the end? crazy it was his first recording with the band.

― tylerw, Friday, 19 August 2011 17:24 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

Incredible how long for and how much Johnston contributed to the band and yet he was doomed never to be counted as a proper member my most fans :-(

FWIW, the "stereo remix" on the Spotify playlist is actually mono. There is a new stereo remix on the Classics selected by BW compilation for people into that sort of thing.

Somebody else voted for Mona! Cool. I get a little misty-eyed when Dennis croaks "I know you're gonna love Phil Spector" (Brian's words, of course).

that was me actually

alright I figured out the albums NO THANKS TO ANYONE HERE

ROFLing on putting the Katy Perry vid in the middle there, or was that an accident?

Despite overexposure, I voted for CA Girls (#13); it ain't right to leave something this amazing off. One of a kind song. I'm amazed this didn't top the charts but Help Me Rhonda did.

NO votes for Solar System?

there's a vote for solar system in the 'too late to be included in the posted results' file

Incredible how long for and how much Johnston contributed to the band and yet he was doomed never to be counted as a proper member my most fans :-(

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stamos shreds the waves too

#7

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I Get Around - All Summer Long
468 points, 20 votes, 2 #1 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN7Xs9WVNBU

Best pop single ever

between the two tracks, I mean.

yeah that's a doozy.

FWIW, the "stereo remix" (of CA Girl) on the Spotify playlist is actually mono. There is a new stereo remix on the Classics selected by BW compilation for people into that sort of thing.

"California Girls" b/w "Let Him Run Wild" also contender for Best Pop Single Ever (although I'd probably go with I Get Around, because it's more pop)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YifXjLbveE
this is great

i voted for Solar System in a ballot that got sent late. best song on Love You, imo. so i guess i shouldn't be surprised if my #1 pick doesn't place (Don't Worry Baby)

dennis' enthusiastic clapping makes that tv clip wonderful

yeah I was weirdly surprised that don't worry baby didn't place

that's the next song isn't it

Don't Worry Baby will be number one

There's all sorts of cool weird stuff going on in this song. I could listen to the first ten seconds of this on loop; the full-choir entrance is incredible. Mike's tags are funand keep the storyline moving, the key change works perfectly, the chorus is uber catchy yet extremely complicated underneath the simple melody, the instrumental choices and handclaps are great, the bridge is unexpected and effective. Amazing track.

"I Get Around" is amazing. My impressions of it were really shaped by first having read some novel my mom had finished with (I want to say it was called "Lost Boys"?) wherein "I Get Around" is, for some reason, the song that completely inflames this small American town: devil music! Rife with sex! While that seems goofy (considering all the other songs that seem like they could have earned that label), looking at it through that lens really brings out how exciting the recording really is, how much swirling action and youth is packed into two minutes fifteen seconds. Only thing that sort of bugs me (aside from driving up and down the same old strip) is the rinky-dink organ fill - always seems like it should have been a hot little guitar lick but maybe that's just me.

ahha found it http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EHiOS7KyL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg

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

Another of Brian's one-of-a-kind song structures.... Two bass notes, an a cappella section that's neither chorus nor verse, the main chorus with Brian singing a counterpoint falsetto against a completely different pair of lower vocals singing completely different lyrics, the indescribable verse ("I'm gettin' bugged drivin' up and down the same ol' strip..." that also hints at impending tiredom of the teenage dreams of his earlier songs) set against choppy guitar notes and handclaps, key changes, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc I'm only halfway through the song.......

outro to 'when I grow up to be a man' is so great