Top 5 Favorite Songs

[Pet Sounder]

5.  At My Window
4.  We're Together Again
3.  Here Today (backing track)
2.  The Little Girl I Once Knew
1.  I Know There's An Answer (backing track - specifically, the tag)

[RangeRoverA1]

5.  At My Window
2.  The Little Girl I Once Knew
1.  I Know There's An Answer (backing track - specifically, the tag)

Well now this is cat's meow!

[GoogaMooga]

Not something I'd given much thought, other than Don't Worry Baby ALWAYS being number one.

1. Don't Worry Baby
2. Surf's Up
3. This Whole World
4. California Girls
5. Here Today

[shelter]

1. God Only Knows
2. Surf's Up
3. Time To Get Alone
4. This Whole World
5. Wouldn't It Be Nice

[mtaber]

There is little doubt that there are no greater recordings in the history of mankind than the following...
   Sail On, Sailor
   You Need A Mess of Help to Stand Alone (I'm serious)
   Wouldn't It Be Nice
   Little Bird
   This Whole World

That is all...
   

[mtaber]

Though there are times when I think the version of "Don't ya Just Know It" by Jan Berry and Brian beats them all!

[mtaber]

And "Love Is A Woman" (Brian's live version on Saturday Night Live) occasionally is in my head from the moment I arise...

[mtaber]

"A Day in the Life of a Tree" actually is my favorite song.  Ever...

[mtaber]

But "Good Vibrations" is better than anything on my prior 35 lists.

As others have said, it's tough to pick only 5...

[SMiLE Brian]

Pick them mtaber!

[The LEGENDARY OSD]

"Sumahama"
"Everyone's In Love With You"
"Pisces Brother"
"All I Wanna Do"
"Wrinkles"

         

[JK]

"Sumahama"
"Everyone's In Love With You"
"Pisces Brother"
"All I Wanna Do"
"Wrinkles"

        

Clearly you're taking the piss again, OSD, but "All I Wanna Do"?? That's one of the best tracks ever!

Please reconsider.  

[Tord]

The Warmth of the Sun
I Get Around
California Girls
God Only Knows
Heroes and Villains

[lostbeachboy]

I'm on a Getcha Back kick right now.

[Kid Presentable]

Cool, Cool Water (yes that is my favorite BB song)
Heroes and Villains
Cabinessence
I'll Bet He's Nice
Your Summer Dream

But like many who have already posted, these rotate in and out with a handful of other songs.  I had a hard time eliminating Surf's Up, When I Grow Up, and All This Is That from the list.

[thorgil]

Today it is:

1) 'Til I Die
2) Time to Get Alone
3) Wind Chimes (Smiley)
4) H & V (Smile)
5) Lonely Sea

[BBs Footage Saga]

1.Goin On
2.Tears in The Morning
3.Soulful Old Man Sunshine
4.All this is that
5.Big Sur (Sunflower)

[Crow]

Surf's Up
Til I Die
Good Vibrations
A young man is gone (live one from '66)
Wouldn't it be nice?

[Doobidoo]

There is little doubt that there are no greater recordings in the history of mankind than the following...
   Sail On, Sailor
   You Need A Mess of Help to Stand Alone (I'm serious)
   Wouldn't It Be Nice
   Little Bird
   This Whole World

That is all...
   

There is no reason to be ashamed about YNAMOHTSA! The "She don't know" parts are so unlike beach boys, in a positive way! 

[jiggy22]

There is little doubt that there are no greater recordings in the history of mankind than the following...
   Sail On, Sailor
   You Need A Mess of Help to Stand Alone (I'm serious)
   Wouldn't It Be Nice
   Little Bird
   This Whole World

That is all...
   

There is no reason to be ashamed about YNAMOHTSA! The "She don't know" parts are so unlike beach boys, in a positive way! 

Especially Carl's "cookie monster" lead vocal! One of the most "un-Beach Boys" Beach Boys tracks, but certainly one of the biggest highlights of the CatP album!

[Don Malcolm]

Nice list, Marty!

It took half-a-dozen listens back in '72, but "Mess of Help"--as it's impossible for anyone to "don't know it" who's braved my many posts here about it--has been in my Top Five ever since. Other great tracks come and go from that list, but it always remains.

(Still want to hear the full "Beatrice" lyrics before I kick the bucket, however...)

[JK]

(Still want to hear the full "Beatrice" lyrics before I kick the bucket, however...)

Found these lyrics said to be from "BFB" posted by someone called [deleted]: "she's got some wholes [sic] in her stockings/she do a whole lot of rocking". Would these be the only known lyrics, if that's what they are? And where would [deleted] have found them? Most curious.

Source: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:WD-G7JGhnZ8J:https://www.reddit.com/r/thebeachboys/comments/4tbvfh/15_mischievous_ones/+&cd=13&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

[Ovi]

Girls on the Beach
Cuddle Up
Don't Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)
Good Vibrations
All I Wanna Do

[Decarlo]

God Only Knows,Let the Wind Blow[In concert],Forever,California Saga[just did the PCH for a couple of weeks],and Spring vacation...

[Don Malcolm]

(Still want to hear the full "Beatrice" lyrics before I kick the bucket, however...)

Found these lyrics said to be from "BFB" posted by someone called [deleted]: "she's got some wholes [sic] in her stockings/she do a whole lot of rocking". Would these be the only known lyrics, if that's what they are? And where would [deleted] have found them? Most curious.

Source: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:WD-G7JGhnZ8J:https://www.reddit.com/r/thebeachboys/comments/4tbvfh/15_mischievous_ones/+&cd=13&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

David Leaf first reported a snippet of "Beatrice" lyrics in The Beach Boys and the California Myth that go a bit beyond that couplet, and which probably explain why Jack Reiley was quick to amend them:

She got a hole in her stockin'
She do a whole lotta rockin'
She do the shake down at Bumbles
She do the Chicano rumble
(presumably: Ba ba ba ba--ba ba ba ba ba <Belief I cried/Ain't no shuck'n'jive>
[It's] Beatrice from Baltimore <I need a mess of help to stand alone>)

The mind does boggle as to where Tandyn and Brian might have taken it from there...