Favorite Beach Boys tune? (Part 1: 1962-1964)

[NightTrain]

Feel free to write in any early Beach Boys song that I couldn't fit into the poll!

[Dr Fate]

1. "Kiss Me Baby", "Dont Worry baby"- all of them, really...

...my very favorite recording artists ever, next to Elvis.

All of their eras are great... I even like "Pacific Ocean Blue" the Dennis Wilson solo record...

[ForrestGump]

2. Chose "I Get Around" but

it was tough to decide between that and "Don't Worry, Baby." And I love "Surfin' USA" and "Surfer Girl," too (and, for that matter, most of the others).

[DemExpat]

3. "Don't worry baby"....swoon......

:loveya:

DemEx

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

4. Not my favorite era

but Pet Sounds 66 is one of my all time favorite Lp's. There is barely a week that goes by that it isn't on my disc player..once Brian got his own layered sound going...that's when I really got into them..GOD ONLY KNOWS is one of the best love songs ever written.

Also Holland and Surf's UP are often on my player....but all the Glen Campell riffs in the tunes above make them worthwhile.

I'd have to say out of those up top Fun Fun Fun would be my favorite for the storytelling aspect of it..it defines an era.

[tridim]

5. Yep God Only Knows is going to be my vote

in part II. It's one of about 5 songs in history that gives me chills every time I hear it. Love the Beach Boys.

[NightTrain]

8. I, on the other hand...

...long have held the opinion that the Beach Boys did their very best stuff between '62 and '65. Sorry, folks, but PET SOUNDS just doesn't do it for me!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

11. Blasphemy!

They did their most pop stuff during those years but the textured sounds on Holland and the earnest yearning on Surf's Up are some of Brian's finest moments (even though he was too fucked up for most of Holland)


But I am a big fan of post Beach Boys Brian as well. Love and Mercy sounds angelic.

[Capn Sunshine]

14. Let's not forget "Pet Sounds" inspired Lennon and McCartney

But further, "SURFS UP" is epochal in it's magnificence, an homage to all that is surf hippie counter culture and So Cal

[NightTrain]

16. Must be why I dislike it

PET SOUNDS inspired SGT. PEPPER, another album I don't particularly care for.

As for "Surf's Up" being "an homage to all that is surf hippie counter culture and So Cal," that explains why I never liked that song, either.

Hippie counterculture: blech!!!

[InkAddict]

6. I saw them on the DC Mall once along with

the other half million other 4th of July celebrants. What an AWESOME experience it was to share with my family. People from everywhere packed shoulder to shoulder, the Mall a sea of humanity and music. It's one of my favorite memories of how whole and well my country used to be in spite of the problems. I still believed there was the chance of freedom and justice. My honey served at the Pentagon and barracked at Ft. Meade; we went there on our honeymoon and took the kids to visit the wall and the internment of the VietNam Unknown, now known.

What a difference when I last visited to attend the march this past January, but I fear I won't ever be going back to that locked-down town. The music had been replaced with scourging tire tracks from gun trucks on the mall and controlling barricades. My mind's eye went back to that day, and I cried!

;(

[short bus president]

7. "Surfer Girl"

was and is such a great tune - I dunno how anyone can vote against that one. But the poll is missing a lot of quality early stuff.

Will there be a "mid-career" poll later? 'Cause I've gotta put my $.02 in now for "Good Vibrations." Hands down the best thing ever done with a theramin. And if you wanna go late career, I hope I'm not the only one with a soft spot for that slightly radio-overplayed "Kokomo" tune...

[villager]

9. "In My Room?" and...

..."All Summer Long?" Or were they post-'64?

[NightTrain]

10. Nope. Both '63

n/t

[radiclib]

12. All Summer Long was '64

:)

[priller]

17. Agreed on "In My Room"

Got a recent CD Brian Wilson produced and that song sounds glorious.

[Capn Sunshine]

13. Ba Ba Ba Ba bab-ra Ann

The FIRST Beach Boys hit; before they had the name "Beach Boys"
They were "The Pendletons " I think back then.

They used to do it a capella in their shows in the late sixties.

[carpetbagger]

15. "Warmth of the Sun"

That one went beyond the others, both by the music and the lyrics.

It was about JFK.

[FloridaJudy]

18. Fun, Fun, Fun

'Til Daddy takes the T-Bird away!

How could you have over-looked this classic? That was the kind of girl I *wanted* to be in the sixties. Alas, all my family owned was a Chevy Biscayne, and I was too young for a driver's liscense.