Great BB songs yer don't like...?

[thomasogg]

"you Americans"?

Please, don't tar any population with one brush for the whole lot. Would it work for your country?

Probably, yeh. Especially if u were saying, 'why are you all so witty, charming and outrageously attractive? With big cocks.'

[thomasogg]

Probably, ye. Especially if u were saying 'why are you all so witty, charming, and attractive? With big cocks.'

[SloopJohnB]

"And vulgar." 

[smile-holland]

...unless he refers to a rooster (mail chicken)....le coq....but that would probably be insulting for the French amongst us... (or not, Sloop JB?  )

I think we should keep this discussion to where it started with: great BB-songs you don't like.

[shelter]

With big cocks.'

What? Everyone? Even the women? Ew...

[shelter]

Good lord... Good Vibrations? Really?

I suggest a warning for everyone who mentions GV here and a permanent ban in case anyone would dare to say God Only Knows... 

[Mahalo]

God Only Knows....I mean, give me a break. If I have to hear this song one more time I'm going to throw up. Pure Sap. The lyrics are boring, my dog could've came up with the melody, and the french horn is WAAAYYYY too high in the mix. The tag is nothing but a ridiculous children's round. The ba ba baaaa-  ba ba ba baaaa part in the middle should be reason enough to hate this song. Again, this shouldn't even be included because the title of the thread is "Great BB songs...". Obviously this song falls well short of "greatness". just kidding, I love this song.

[southbay]

OK, I'll play.   I will keep it to the "classics", as I think the subject was intended.

1) California Girls.  Used to like it, I mean it's a great song.  It just hasn't worn well over time for me.

2) Let Him Run Wild. Sorry, but like Brian I just hate the vocal on this one.

[Reggie Dunbar]

Here Comes The Night - Bruce's Disco version.  Suitable for skeet or discus practice.
Decades later, the question remains: "Why Bruce, Why ?" ( see "Pipeline" on "Going
Public" for the answer: Disco sells.) I never heard the Smiley version the same again.

When I Grow Up to Be A Man - Pubescent schlock at it's pinnacle of misery. And I refer
to the audience rather than the performer's lamentations and wide - eyed wonder.

I'll Bet He's Nice - A landfill of musical refuse captured on magnetic tape, should have
never been unleashed on a gullible and starving fan base.

Honorable Mention: So many, the aforementioned have stuck in my craw lately.

[No. Fourteen]

I'll Bet He's Nice - A landfill of musical refuse captured on magnetic tape, should have
never been unleashed on a gullible and starving fan base.

Wow!  Just curious.....anything else on LOVE YOU that causes you such revulsion?

[matt-zeus]

I know its solo, but everyone goes on about 'Lay down burden', I think its boring and bland.

[Fun Is In]

From Love You, I understand that the CIA use "Love is a Woman" and "Airplane" to get confessions out of prisoners.

OTOH, to me "I'll Bet He's Nice", while a bit cheesey, does feature singing that conveys more of the emotion described in the lyrics than much of what has come to us from Brian-land since 1974.

[El Goodo]

Sorry to say it but the worst GREAT BB song for me is Good Vibrations. I feel like its too short and doesn't take advantage of some really cool things. That being said, a re-edit of Good Vibrations to make it more structurally similar to the BWPS version pushes it out of my worst category.

OH FFS the worst..............

[punkinhead]

lay down burden on the live at the roxy album is so much better than the Imagination album cut....speaking of that album, i think the Keep and Eye on Summer sounds like a Nashville sounds outtake...but i doubt it is...i think more people would like the song had it been on a different album rather than SD vol. 2...it sounds dated on there...

[Awesoman]

Ok, as BB fans and fanatics all, does anyone else have a BB song - a well-loved, obviously great, highly-regarded BB song - that they don't like, and more to the point that they dare admit a disliking too on this site? With me it'd have to be 'Breakaway'. I know it's a good tune, but except for the brief 'found out it was in my head' interlude in the middle, it just really does nothing for me - i just don't get it! The verses are ok, the chorus leaves me cold, and then it just sort of fades out, very anti-climatic. I much prefer it's B-side - now THAT is a fade!!
I'm not posting this link so everyone can get into a big slanging match ('You don't like Breakaway? You sub-BB fan! What a LOSER!' etc). It'd just be interesting to see what BB songs people actually don't like, away from obvious crap like 'Student Demo Time', and why it is they don't like 'em! Who knows, maybe theirs even a fan somewhere who doesn't rate 'Good Vibrations' or 'God Only Knows'...? 

Excluding some of the truly horrible songs the Beach Boys have recorded, I can't say that there is any good/great song by the group that I don't like.  I would say that there are a number of songs (mostly the bigger hits) that I've heard enough in my life that I tend to skip them when they shuffle on my iPod. 

[PongHit]

     Another one the bugs me (but I don't think it's 'great') is "Drive In."  Lyrics just seem SO goofy to me -- & I wonder why Brian & band have been performing it lately??  I don't dig it!  (I like the alternate version of 'St. Nick' more...)

[donald]

My number one least favorite, hands down.....Barbara Ann.  The concert album, as a concept, was actually pretty good.  But Barbara Ann, out of context, as a hit 45, that won't foda go away, that casual  fans seem to love, that even gets played at BW concerts, sends me running for the skip button.

Other non favorites

Love is a Woman
A Day in the Life of a Tree
Hey Little Tomboy
I Was Made to Love Her
T.M song
Good Time
Pitter Patter

I like, or can tolerate most of the old material, but  Louie Louie is a bit hard to take.

[bossaroo]

a little late, but here's my top 10 in no real order:

"Forever"
a good song overall, but the line "If every word I said could make you laugh I'd talk forever" is pretty bad.  So bad, it's funny... I mean who would want to talk FOREVER??? and what girl would want to laugh FOREVER?!?! Pure Dennis though.

"Add Some Music"
I'm really not crazy about some of the lyrics on this one either... just so unpoetic.
"Your doctor knows it keeps you calm"?!? Come on...

"Be True To Your School"
I think it's pretty obvious that this one makes a lot of us cringe, no matter how catchy.

"Do It Again"
I actually like this song a lot (esp the intro), but it makes me kind of sad.  It's the first really obvious rehash, and a desperate attempt at regaining past glory and sticking with "the formula"...

"I Can Hear Music"
I never have liked this cover tune.

"Do You Wanna Dance"
another cover, right?  doesn't do much for me.  "Dance Dance Dance" on the other hand kicks ASS!!!

"She Knows Me Too Well"
This is a great song indeed, but I much prefer the other tunes from side 2 of 'Today': "Please Let Me Wonder", "In the Back of My Mind", and "Kiss Me Baby"

"California Saga"
I like the song "California", but "Big Sur" and "Beaks" are totally unlistenable for me.

"Cool Cool Water"
could have been such a great song, but the released version is just so... "watered" down.  Same with "Loop de Loop"...

"Help Me Ronda"
Ronda not Rhonda.  I love the song, but the original production is so inferior and just BAD.  The harmonica, the volume swells... just terrible.  And you still hear the album version on the radio and various compilations.  It's embarassing.

[Shady]

Some BB song i just can't stand, in no order

Be True To Your School
Surfin' Safari
Rock And Roll Music ( i know it's a cover, but is it not one of the worst lead vocals ever)
Add Some Music To Your Day
Lookin' At Tomorrow (A Welfare Song)
A Day In The Life Of A Tree (why is this so liked, it's freakin boring, and i hate the vocals)

[pixletwin]

You guys who dislike A Day in the Life of a Tree are killing me... 

[Eric Aniversario]

Everyone used to RAVE about "Cry" off of the Imagination album...but I never, ever even remotely liked that song.

If I never heard "Be True To Your School" live again, I probably wouldn't miss it.

[the captain]

Everyone used to RAVE about "Cry" off of the Imagination album...but I never, ever even remotely liked that song.

I feel the same about it as I do about Lay Down Burden (or several others on that album). If it were re-recorded with the current band--and the production sensibilities from the Christmas album, for example (or an earlier production style, such as from the mid-70s to early-70s), I think I'd like it a lot more.

[Aegir]

I love Cry. The fadeout is great. I don't see everyone's problem with the production style on Imagination.

[thomasogg]

Maybe something to do with it all being so cringingly-'80s and so badly dated - come on, you don't hear that?

[Sheriff John Stone]

I don't see everyone's problem with the production style on Imagination.

Agree. Of all the solo albums, maybe even including BWPS, Brian sounds most presentable vocally, somewhat relaxed, and less "shouty". I always felt that it wasn't the production of Imagination that was lacking, but the material.

I'm not as critical of Joe Thomas as most. While there are some things to criticize about Stars And Stripes, the production wasn't one of them. If you just focus on the Beach Boys' vocal contributions on the album, I feel it's one of their strongest album - harmony speaking - post 1966. It's even more evident on the documentary.