Antidote to great songs yer don't like: cheese yer do like

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

I gotta admit that......
I somehow like Strangs Things Happen (the longer US-version) and Lahaina Aloha.....
merely because of respectively Al’s and Carls leadvoc’s, but still I like them.......


now if that ain’t cheesy...

Jardine's vocals on Strange Things are nothing short of fantastic. They actually made me think of him in a differnt way as a vocalist.

Glad I'm not the only one who feels that way.  I actually think it would've made a good single.

My favorite cheese? How about this...
I like ALL of the albums up until Still Cruisin, and I even like much of SIP.

[SloopJohnB]

(...)

I like ALL of the albums up until Still Cruisin, and I even like much of SIP.

Thank God I'm not alone!   

[punkinhead]

please don't tell me time to get alone is considered cheese....that was still a time era when BW could write great material....not only great vocals/lyrics...but a fantastic production...

[Black Tiger]

-Smart Girls
-Battle Hymn of the Republic

[Mahalo]

Battle Hymm RULES!!!!

[melissalynn]

Wow...Battle Hymn...
maybe I should give it another shot...this time with a more open mind when I listen to it 

[adamghost]

Keepin' The Summer Alive all the way baby!  I love that song.  And it is so fodaing stupid.

Here Comes The Night -- crass, blatant pandering, beautifully executed vocally and to an edgy track (think of "Go Get That Girl" or "She's Got Rhythm" or the Celebration album to imagine how Beach Boys disco could have been sooo much worse).  I love it...one of my all time fave BBs tracks.

Recently had M.I.U. on and was shocked to find out how much of it held up for me as an adult (I first absorbed it at about 14).  Some of the stupidest lyrics ever committed to record, but Pitter Patter, Matchpoint and Winds of Change -- I enjoyed them all.  My Diane too, but that ain't cheese.

Summer In Paradise is a toxic waste dump of a record, but the Surfin' remake is a lot of fun...it works precisely because it's such a bad idea.  It actually comes out the other side of bad into being a hoot.

Them there's my votes!

[Mahalo]

Wow...Battle Hymn...
maybe I should give it another shot...this time with a more open mind when I listen to it 

......I never said *their* BHOTR rules.....I just love the song....but their version is alright....it sounds 30 million times better when drunk. "Glory, Glory Hallelujah..."!!!

[Andrew G. Doe]

fav slice of cheese: Some of Your Love

Ah yes...

"Sum-sum-summer yer lurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrve"

Pure gorgonzola.

[the captain]

Sorry to exhume this old thread, but reading the opposite one (great songs you, er, "yer" don't like) and reading all the recent stuff about my disliked KTSA and despised '85, I pulled out my twofer. And I forgot something.

I like Livin' With a Heartache. It's cheese. The production has plenty of vintage cheese (Is that effect-laden electric guitar and electric pianos in unison on 2 and 4 in the verses?) Carl sounds pretty drunk.

But I kind of like it anyway.

[Wilsonista]

Sorry to exhume this old thread, but reading the opposite one (great songs you, er, "yer" don't like) and reading all the recent stuff about my disliked KTSA and despised '85, I pulled out my twofer. And I forgot something.

I like Livin' With a Heartache. It's cheese. The production has plenty of vintage cheese (Is that effect-laden electric guitar and electric pianos in unison on 2 and 4 in the verses?) Carl sounds pretty drunk.

That's cuz he probably was. 

[MBE]

Carl was pretty cleaned up by 1979. Steve Desper says it's his favorite Beach Boys recording he did.

[Eric Aniversario]

I'm going to admit something pretty gaspworthy:

I like "Summer Of Love". 

Not because it's a great piece of music...it's an absolute embarassment and should not have been on that Baywatch episode.  But because it's so cheesy it's actually pretty enjoyable and puts a smile on my face almost every time I hear it.

[pixletwin]

I got to agree Eric. Summer of Love is so bad its almost good.  All those references to old BB songs makes it pretty entertaining. Besides, its a lot better than Brian's rap song Smart Girls... but I have to admit, I like the Smart Girls song as well. 

[Eric Aniversario]

I got to agree Eric. Summer of Love is so bad its almost good.  All those references to old BB songs makes it pretty entertaining. Besides, its a lot better than Brian's rap song Smart Girls... but I have to admit, I like the Smart Girls song as well. 

Smart Girls...that's where I draw the line.  I think I've managed to listen to that all the way through just once.  For whatever reason, I find almost all of Sweet Insanity pretty unlistenable.

[pixletwin]

Well I guess we all have different standards and lines we will never cross. 


pixletwin sings: smart girls. I like the smart girls. (nuh nuh nuh) with a high IQ.

[Eric Aniversario]

Well I guess we all have different standards and lines we will never cross. 


pixletwin sings: smart girls. I like the smart girls. (nuh nuh nuh) with a high IQ.

"Wouldn't it be nice if PhD's were stroking me with hypotheses..."

The biggest crime of all time against a Pet Sounds song.

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

Agree with all of yours except School Days...the shoddy production (mainly the lazily repetitive backups) ruin the song for me.

I LOVE Sunshine, though. Brian's singing in his upper range throughout, which was a rarity for that time period.

[runnersdialzero]

I started to make a list with explanations, but then the list got out of control.

[Ziggy Stardust]

There sure is a lot of crazy posts on that board!

The other day i saw someone saying that The Beach Boys version of The Times They Are a-Changin' was better than the original one by Bob Dylan, and now i'm reading that their version of School Days is better than the original by Chuck Berry, holy moly!!!!!

[Phoenix]

Really cheesey stuff that I really like (quite a lot)

Kokomo
Come Go With Me
Crocodile Rock
California Dreamin
Runaway
Vegetables
Summer In Paradise (live version)
Somewhere Near Japan
Remember (Walking in the Sand)
Under the Boardwalk
Getcha Back
California Calling
Keepin' the Summer Alive
Some Of Your Love
Goin' On
It's OK
Good Timin'
I'll Bet He's Nice
Rock and Roll Music
That Same Song
Palisades Park
Disney Girls (1957)
Student Demonstration Time
and the entire Party! album

[Ovi]

She Believes In Love Again.

[Amanda Hart]

I'm with everyone on the KTSA songs. The title track, Sunshine, Some of Your Love; these songs are so cheesy and stupid, but they are so damn hooky. Lots of fun to sing-along to.

[Ziggy Stardust]

(nvm)

[Nicole]

Kokomo, Some of Your Love, Endless Harmony, Barbara Ann (is that cheesy?), Still Cruisin'...there are very fews songs I really don't like. And this isn't cheesy so much as it is completely bizarre, but I really like My Solution.