Cool Beach Boys Songs

[BananaLouie]

Maybe I'm running out of good thread topics but what do you think are some "cool" Beach Boys songs, by cool I mean hip, relevant, perhaps trendy and contemporary sounding, I for one think Dennis's 3 rockers from Sunflower, I'm Going Your Way and Sound Of Free are all really stellar and cool sounding songs that should've been more heavily promoted when The Beach Boys were just starting to become hip again to the counter culture. Feel free to discuss.  

[Mahalo]

The entire Friends album. Mona. You Need A Mess of Help to Stand Alone. Marcella. All This is That...

[GuyOnTheBeach]

All I Want To Do
For a late 60's hard rock track that has aged remarkably well and still sounds pretty rad.

[BananaLouie]

All I Want To Do
For a late 60's hard rock track that has aged remarkably well and still sounds pretty rad.

Yes! For sure, Another cool Dennis rocker, he was good at this! It's too bad The Beach Boys didn't re-invent themselves in a way that would have Dennis as the cool, sexy frontman and main songwriter.

[oldsurferdude]

Feel Flows (FF), Steamboat, All This Is That (ATIT).

[BananaLouie]

When Blondie and Ricky joined the BB's, they gave the band a certain punch and helped make them really polished live performers. They contributed some really cool sounding songs as well like Here She Comes and Leaving This Town.

[drbeachboy]

Also, Sail On Sailor. Songs don't get much cooler than that. Great lead vocal, background vocals, and great jazz guitar work.

[rab2591]

The entire Friends album. Mona. You Need A Mess of Help to Stand Alone. Marcella. All This is That...

Agree entirely.

[SMiLE Brian]

The Brian glory songs of 1962-1967.

[Alex]

'92 Surfin' Remake
Still Surfin'
One Summer Night
John Stamos' Forever
Summer of Love
Smart Girls
Thank You (Brian)
California Calling
Skatetown USA/California Beach
Wipe Out
Kokomo
Happy Endings
Rock and Roll to the Rescue
Summer in Paradise
Problem Child
Here Comes the Night Disco
 

[TopCat]

Barbara Ann leaves me cold.

[Zach95]

The Trader, Leaving This Town, Steamboat, California Saga, heck, the entire Holland album.

Also, Don't Go Near the Water, Til I Die, Feel Flows, Cool Cool Water.

[Summertime Blooz]

Pet Sounds
The Back Of My Mind
All I Wanna Do

[RONDEMON]

'92 Surfin' Remake
Still Surfin'
One Summer Night
John Stamos' Forever
Summer of Love
Smart Girls
Thank You (Brian)
California Calling
Skatetown USA/California Beach
Wipe Out
Kokomo
Happy Endings
Rock and Roll to the Rescue
Summer in Paradise
Problem Child
Here Comes the Night Disco
 

YEP!!!! Well said. I'd classify these as "BB songs to make love to" as well.
SMAAAAAAAAAAART GIRLLLS

[Cabinessenceking]

'92 Surfin' Remake
Still Surfin'
One Summer Night
John Stamos' Forever
Summer of Love
Smart Girls
Thank You (Brian)
California Calling
Skatetown USA/California Beach
Wipe Out
Kokomo
Happy Endings
Rock and Roll to the Rescue
Summer in Paradise
Problem Child
Here Comes the Night Disco
 

forgot Croc Rock ^^

[MarcellaHasDirtyFeet]

Feel Flows, Long Promised Road, Never Learn Not to Love, Steamboat, Marcella, Just Once in My Life, Let Us Go On This Way, Livin' With a Heartache, It's Getting Late, Passing Friend, all of BW88

My God, sometimes I feel like the Boys have destroyed my taste in music. Then I put on Walking the Line and I don't care anymore

[lee]

All I Wanna Do and Lady (Fallin' In Love)

[oldsurferdude]

All I Want To Do
For a late 60's hard rock track that has aged remarkably well and still sounds pretty rad.

Yes! For sure, Another cool Dennis rocker, he was good at this! It's too bad The Beach Boys didn't re-invent themselves in a way that would have Dennis as the cool, sexy frontman and main songwriter.

Yes! and go figure, goofy, cornball, odd looking Myke out front and the ever so cool Dennis buried behind the drums. Put Luhv back in the shadows or somewhere down the line and Denny up front where he should have been-could have been a real game changer for Dennis and the group for sure, but noooooooooo.

[Phoenix]

This thread just might inspire me to make a CD like this for friends.

Here She Comes
It's About Time
Surf's Up
Forever
Long Promised Road
Feel Flows
Hard Times
The Trader
California Dreaming
All This Is That
Darlin' *
Marcella *

* from In Concert

[Runaways]

darlin is not cool at all in my opinion. neither is california dreaming (whaaat?). i assume we mean cool as in cool to now yes?  the banjo break in mess up help is a cool moment.

a day in the life of a tree (if mgmt sings it then it's hard to ignore)
surf's up
all i wanna do (animal collective take from it)
feel flows
friends album
i'd love just once want to see you
much smile stuff

[Phoenix]

darlin is not cool at all in my opinion. neither is california dreaming (whaaat?). i assume we mean cool as in cool to now yes?  the banjo break in mess up help is a cool moment.

Too true.  In fact, I had CD on my list list I was making it but when I listened to it to check, it didn't stand up.  Cool for 1985 doesn't mean it holds up.  I meant to remove it before I moved on but missed it.  Darlin' isn't nearly as cool as the others on the list and probably should have been left off to but I always liked the one-two punch of it and Marcella from the live album. 

[Craig Boyd]

All I Wanna Do from Sunflower is the coolest song they ever did. I'm not even sure how that song came about but there's nothing from that time that approaches it sonically IMO. It was about 30 years ahead of its time!

[Zack]

Any song that doesn't contain the word "kids," "groovy," or "cool" or "outtasight."   And Salt Lake City.  

[hypehat]

Darlin' is well cool.

However, I'd say Holland. Fits in perfectly with lots of early 70's Asylum type country rock, like Neil Young or Judee Sill or something.

[lee]

I dig the Live in London version of Darlin' but I've never liked the album version. I feel the same way with Marcella as well. The In Concert version is great but the album version is very lacking.