Greatest Beach Boys Songs Survey - Winner Revealed and Album Rankings!

[Freddie French-Pounce]

I voted most of SIP quite highly... am I normal? 

[KokoNO]

Yes, Mike Love, there's nothing mentally wrong with you.

[KokoNO]

Final thread bump as we go into the last weekend of voting. We've had over 40 respondents, and from the looks of the results, should be mostly tie-free when compiling the Top 100 thanks to the scoring system I intend on using.

[Andrew G. Doe]

Final thread bump as we go into the last weekend of voting. We've had over 40 respondents, and from the looks of the results, should be mostly tie-free when compiling the Top 100 thanks to the scoring system I intend on using.

Surely there can only be one fair scoring system, i.e. total votes. Anything else will be unfairly skewed.

[KokoNO]

There's no curve or anything weird. Just a points system. It will do its job for what we're trying to accomplish which is to find the 100 most loved Beach Boys songs and is weighted towards that goal.

[Aegir]

obviously we should not hold this poll in any way to be representative of anything.

[drbeachboy]

I didn't look through the whole thread, but How She Boogalooed It is listed twice.

[KokoNO]

obviously we should not hold this poll in any way to be representative of anything.

I think you'll be surprised at how it turns out and also find the results to be satisfactory. There's nothing weird about the way I'm adding things up as obviously someone saying a song is a classic deserves more points than someone saying a song is decent.  Just taking a cursory glance at the songs getting the most great/classic votes, it's definitely an interesting mix although mostly the ones you would expect from hardcore fans. What's more interesting is how well some songs in particular have done and I imagine there will be some interesting surprises near the top of the list.


In the future, it would be fun to do an annual list including only the Top 150 or so scorers from this version. Nothing below that would be likely to break the Top 100, anyway, so having less options would probably give us more voters since I imagine clicking that poll had to have scared some people away. That said, we have had almost 50 respondents which says a lot given that this a band that passed its peak about 40 years ago and that the survey takes quite some time to complete. I'm pretty happy with the turnout.

I didn't look through the whole thread, but How She Boogalooed It is listed twice.

Yep, it was brought up. Doesn't really cause much of a problem except wastes five seconds of everybody's time. Well, ten now that they've had to read our posts about it.

[drbeachboy]

Wasn't sure how you were doing the count. I didn't want it getting double scores. S-O-C-K, sock it to me.

[Andrew G. Doe]

There's no curve or anything weird. Just a points system. It will do its job for what we're trying to accomplish which is to find the 100 most loved Beach Boys songs and is weighted towards that goal.

Fair point - it was so long ago I voted that I forgot there were levels of wonderfulness. 

[Mikie]

What's a kokono?  And what a weird avatar.

[orange22]

What's a kokono?  And what a weird avatar.

A "kokono" is the song "Kokomo," with "no" replacing the syllable "mo," which makes more sense if you use the correct capitalization as in the username, i.e. KokoNO.

The avatar is the cover of the Kokomo single, with a "prohibited" type symbol (a red circle with a diagonal line through it) superimposed on the cover.

Taken in concert, I believe that the above 2 pieces of information are meant to imply that the user is suggesting that he/she has a certain degree of disdain for the song Kokomo. The tongue-in-cheek aspect of the statement (as demonstrated, perhaps subtly, by the emphasis of the "NO" in "KokoNO," along with the (assumed to be done on purpose) sloppily drawn "prohibited" sign on the Kokomo cover) implies that the user's dislike of the song is not very substantial, and the comment is meant more as a joke than a suggestion of literally banning the song in any meaningful and/or legal way.

I hope this response adequately addresses your question(s) and concern(s), implied or otherwise.

[KokoNO]

What's a kokono?  And what a weird avatar.

along with the (assumed to be done on purpose) sloppily drawn "prohibited" sign on the Kokomo cover) implies that the user's dislike of the song is not very substantial, and the comment is meant more as a joke than a suggestion of literally banning the song in any meaningful and/or legal way.

Damn. That was good, real good.

[KokoNO]

Thanks to everyone that participated. We had 59 respondents. I plan on tallying everything up by tomorrow, followed by sorting everything. The songs that didn't make the Top 100 will be revealed all at once and then we'll probably do a ten day countdown for the list. Basically, you should know which 100 songs made the list by Thursday and the bottom ten (#100-91) by Friday.

[Eric Aniversario]

Thanks for doing this!  I eagerly await the results.  Part of me was hoping that you'd reveal it all at once, but the countdown thing is cool (I love countdowns) and the suspense will make it more fun!   Would you be willing to reveal #101-365 (or whatever the high number was) in order?  Or is that too much work?

PS Did the 59 respondents all have different IP addresses?

[KokoNO]

Well, SurveyMonkey won't let people use the same IP addresses as you can only complete the survey once. That said, you can sometimes find cheaters that are clearly using similar IPs.....however, given the length of the survey, it would be very hard to find any obvious patterns and I just really doubt anyone would want to fill out something like this more than once.

I will rank the other songs by their scores....I won't number them though except for, maybe, #101-150.

[KokoNO]

I have decided against revealing the songs that didn't make the Top 100 before we begin the countdown. I'd rather have everyone be surprised (although we all know that, say, "Crocodile Rock" won't make the list). I mean, if I were told what was on the Top 100 in advance, I probably wouldn't care much about how they're ranked.

On the plus side, it will also be less work in the near future to get into the Top 100 countdown, so that means earlier results for everyone. Probably tomorrow night at the latest.

[KokoNO]

Just wanted to get this started.....will be back in a few hours with more information/results.


100. Here Comes The Night


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjz_P3ey2Oc


Album: Wild Honey
Year: 1967

Score: 467

[KokoNO]

Alright, so the scoring of the survey went down as such....

Don't Care For This Song Or Know It - 0
It's Decent - 1 Point
It's Good - 5 Points
It's Great - 10 Points
It's A Classic - 20 Points

As you can see, it's weighted towards the songs people love the most since that was the entire point of this project. Bearing that in mind, realize that the songs with low scores aren't necessarily the most hated tracks, simply the ones with the least amount of major supporters.



The Lowest Scoring Song:

Judy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6zRu4BoWNI


The track scored 39 points.




99. Celebrate The News


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5sSULyviSE

Year: 1969
B-Side of 'Break Away'

Score: 472






98. Only With You


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJFd_i2gOdk


Year: 1973
Album: Holland

Score: 475







97. It's About Time


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKuh1BmGKFY

Year: 1970
Album: Sunflower

Score: 482




96. Our Sweet Love


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15vRuRg_LTo


Year: 1970
Album: Sunflower

Score: 483

[Eric Aniversario]

Cool! This is exciting!  May I suggest maybe starting a new thread, or posting the countdown on the first page (with the points and pics) rather than at the end?  Just a suggestion, thanks for doing the survey and the tallying, etc.

[KokoNO]

From now on, the first post in the thread will also house the list. Enjoy.

[KokoNO]

95. Look (Song For Children)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU4CsQXzN1o

Year: 1967
Album: Smile

Score: 492




94. Country Air


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJqvgyUnb7Q


Year: 1967
Album: Wild Honey

Score: 494




93. Hang On To Your Ego


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ5J2GkhiBo


Year: 1966
Album: Pet Sounds (Unreleased Original Version of "I Know There's An Answer")

Score: 495




92. Good To My Baby


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-H4yycSvi4


Year: 1965
Album: Today!

Score: 503




91. Still I Dream Of It


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DfaFcq3U5Q

Year: 1976
Unfinished Demo

Score: 504

[Eric Aniversario]

From now on, the first post in the thread will also house the list. Enjoy.

Thanks!

[MBE]

Funny I like Judy. I think I gave it at least a three.

[KokoNO]

A note on ties (since we had a few). They were broken by the total amount of highly supportive votes (votes in the good, great and classic categories). So, for example "Funky Pretty" had 47 people support it in such a manner, compared to 42 for "Still I Dream Of It"

Two songs further in the list still ended up tied after one tiebreaker, so the next tiebreaker ended up being the amount of votes in the "classic" slot.




90. Funky Pretty


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zi01S9i0wc


Year: 1973
Album: Holland

Score: 504 (47)





89. Little Honda


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m1rrMB3JdA

Year: 1964
Album: All Summer Long

Score: 506




88. Shut Down


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pYU0p6WZhU

Year: 1963
Album: Surfin' USA

Score: 510




87. Wake The World


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp3AH0odeAA

Year: 1968
Album: Friends

Score: 516



86. Cuddle Up


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeuEBRnsKso

Year: 1972
Album: Carl and the Passions - "So Tough"

Score: 520




85. A Day In The Life Of A Tree


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VeHmh2B5nY

Year: 1971
Album: Surf's Up

Score: 530 (43)




84. Girl Don't Tell Me


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5muKLxCvUw

Year: 1964
Album: Summer Days (And Summer Nights!)

Score: 530 (48)



83. I Went To Sleep


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acyPC4aww2c

Year: 1969
Album: 20/20

Score: 531




82. You're So Good To Me


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkI6RBxj_qo

Year: 1965
Album: Summer Days (And Summer Nights!)

Score: 533




81. California Saga (On My Way to Sunny Californ-i-a)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No2YsRK3bw0

Year: 1973
Album: Holland

Score: 542