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My opinion of the best Beach Boys songs

posted 9 years ago by cooliobrando
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[–] TxMike 9 years ago

After I saw this movie I found some of their music on CD at my local public library, one of them is "Beach Boys classics selected by Brian Wilson." It only has 20 songs but all of the top songs on your list are on it also. Now I am able to listen to their music any time I want!

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[–] cooliobrando 9 years ago

Nice! Do you have a favorite?

[–] TxMike 9 years ago

"In My Room", for two reasons ... I now understanding where it came from in Brian's life, and a few years ago when I was singing with a Barbershop group we did that song in 4-part Barbershop harmony and it really is a great song to sing.

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Take a risk, Take a chance, Make a change. Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway

[–] cooliobrando 9 years ago

Excellent choice and good reasons!

[–] rick-220 9 years ago

What do you think about...

'Till I Die
Friends
I went to Sleep
Add some Music to your Day
Forever
Feel Flows
All this is That
Funky Pretty
Trader
Sail on Sailor
Solar System
Baby Blue
Time to get Alone
Slip on Through

?

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[–] cooliobrando 9 years ago

Sail On Sailor, Friends, and Forever are on my list. I have mixed feelings on Solar System; it's a bit too weird. The others I'm sure I've heard before but they haven't stuck with me.

[–] jslavik 8 years ago

No little deuce coup? Sloop John b? Classic!

[–] ween-3 8 years ago

Any list of the top 50 Beach Boys tunes that doesn't make room for "Feel Flows", "Heroes and Villains", "Sail on Sailor" aind "Marcella" is just wrong, by definition. But thanks for playing.

[–] brendanchenowith 8 years ago

I love every track on Pet Sounds and the Smile Sessions. I also love Til I Die, Do It Again, This Whole World.

In My Room hits a little too close to home, so I cringe when I hear that. Good Vibrations, California Girls, I Get Around, Help Me Rhonda are some other good ones.

Unlike the Beatles, I'm not sure of their strengths as an album band, but they were a hell of a singles band.

Funny, I'm always drawing parallels between the two bands, and I just thought of another. "Surfin" and "Love me Do" - not the most staggering of debut singles...they're all right and enjoyable enough, but even retroactively, I'm not sure I hear "IT" about what they'd both become later. They're head-scratchers, that's for sure.

However, "Surfin USA" and "Please Please Me" really pushed them both out of the gate. WHAT a rebound shot for them both.

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