I'm So Young..

[Ron]

I like to sing along with Mike's part, but not use the words.  So more like

"Now Doooooo, boooo, baa booom.... ba boom baa...."

[ohthosegirls]

So basically like Murry?? lol

[Newguy562]

So basically like Murry?? lol

[Chris Brown]

The only gripe I have with "Don't Hurt My Little Sister" is the "why don't you love her like her big brother?" line.  It's meant to sound innocent and protective, but for some reason just sounds dirty and wrong to me.  Other than that, great track.

"I'm So Young" is such a killer track, Brian's vocal just kills me.  I'm partial to the Today! version, but the alternate has its charm.

[Summertime Blooz]

Y'know, if we're going to start criticizing Beach Boys songs because of their lyrics, we should all just roll up our pants legs and wade in. Is that really what Beach Boys fans dig about them- the lyrics?

[Iron Horse-Apples]

To me, lyrics are the least important part of a song. Often, I can have heard a song many times before the lyrics even register.

[Quzi]

I often catch myself singing this is my particularly foul brand of falsetto in the wee hours of the early morning, much to my brother's dismay!

[Disney Boy (1985)]

How on earth can anyone not like 'Don't Hurt...'? It's such a great song - another example of Brian squeezing oodles of musical invention into such a short space of time. And the fact that Brian's feelings towards Marilyn's sisters was so, ahem, troubled - well that just gives the song that extra little edge... Love it!

[Chris Brown]

To me, lyrics are the least important part of a song. Often, I can have heard a song many times before the lyrics even register.

I'm generally the same way - competent or good lyrics don't often register with me, but bad ones can stick out like a sore thumb.  Of course, a bad line here or there isn't nearly enough to ruin a song in most cases, "Summer of Love" being a notable exception.

[Matt Bielewicz]

I have to add a dissenting voice here (which just proves that not everyone can agree on everything... or indeed, sometimes, on *anything*).

I like 'I'm So Young', but it's my least favourite song on Side 2 of Today (excluding 'Bull Session...' which I never count as part of the record anyway...). The singing is great, and most of the track is OK... but the rhythm section seems to drag terribly in a couple of spots. The tambourine hits are well off (both before and after the beat in all sorts of places... and not in a good, 'swung' way). The drumming is iffy too — on the bridge ("I'm, I'm I'm so young...") from about a minute in to 1:20, and the fill before the short vocal interlude at 1:24 is well shaky. The drumming on the tag is really sloppy, too. Sure, sometimes a rhythmically 'loose' performance can be part of the charm of a track, but it seems really distractingly wobbly for me here.

Similarly, though In The Back Of My Mind is an absolutely masterful, masterful track (one of BW's finest IMHO)... Dennis's rushed vocal on the bridge has always bugged the hell out of me. They really should have rewritten that with fewer syllables in it. I have a mix I made myself with no vocals on the bridge which I prefer... but that's prolly just me.

I love Today... but it's not without faults. But then again... what music is?

MattB