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Forget Mike's released and unreleased solo albums... Forget Battle Hymn Of The Republic... Forget TM Song and Everyone's In Love With You... There's something worse.

I bought a bunch of BB & BW promo CDs at a record fair today, and one of them was a promo single for a Spanish 'Beach Boys Medley' straight from hell. It's a dance mix much like those Jive Bunny and Stars On 45 things, and it's got a Spanish voice-over shouting "Beach Boys! Beach Boys!" throughout the song. It's beyond awful. Anyone ever heard this thing and know why on earth it was ever made?

I think Mike singing "Imagine" has scarred me for life.  ::)

"Hey Little Tomboy," hands down.

When did Mike sing "Imagine"?  The sheer thought made me shudder when I read that...

They did it for some time in concert. You'll find a clip on youtube from '83.

Worst huh. Well I think Summer Of Love is up there.

Sumahama...Want to get a terrorist to confess?  Make a tape loop of this song and play it to death!

Here Comes The Night Disco is really bad too. Espcally the long version. If Baby Blue replaced Sumahama on side one and they scapped the rest of  side 2 LA Light would have been their best in years.

Lay Down Burden

:o NO WAY! That's one of Brian's best solo-songs.

So much of SIP or MIU to choose from, but Eveyone's in Love with You does it for me.

"Here She Comes", nothing to do with the BBs and boring.

A Day in The Life of a Tree - Skipped every time

"South bay surfers" is probably the worst song of any Beach Boys-stuff to me. I hate "Kona cost" too...

This is one of my favorites!  Okay so Jack Riely isn't a singer, but after awhile you hear past the voice and hear the "tree"-like quality in it.  Brian deliberately picked Jack to sing it because he "sounded like a tree".  And that tag is gorgeous, one of Brian's best.  Different strokes I suppose.

"Wonderful" from Smiley Smile.  What an abortion of a beautiful song. 

"Summer Of Love"

[sits back, folds arms, smiles slightly...]

Still Cruisin (the song) is pretty awful. Not so much the song, but the production is just...I dunno...for lack of a better word, "plastic". It just sounds brittle. I also hated "In the Back of My Mind" , but many seem to love it. "Oh Darlin" sucks too, but I actually like the early version with Brian's lead.

My choice though would have to be "Endless Harmony". Bruce's vocals are pretty sickening, esp. that WTF-type of falsetto. Also, there is a weird sound to the vocals, like the tape was slipping.

I actually kind of like that song. She's Got Rhythm is much worst then that on the MIU album, not to mention the cover songs.

I think this is one of Mike's few good songs.

I don't think HCtN was a good fit on the LA Light Album, but I don't mind the song. In fact, I think it would've been cool to do a disco remix of the Wild Honey album. Call it Wild Honey Disco! Ok, maybe I wouldn't be too sad if they didn't do it, but it would've been better then the "let's try to sound like we are 14 year old surfers again" music. Like "Its OK", "Still Cruisin", and "Summer In Paradise"

This is one of my favorites!!

My lest favorite would have to be "That Same Song" along with most of 15 Big Ones.

A fun thread would be making a list of the most notorious Beach Boys songs ever, and seeing if anybody likes them.

My picks off the top of my head (but these all wouldn't go on that list):
Sunshine
Hey Little Tomboy
TM Song (from 15 Big Ones)
Summer Of Love
Do You Remember Walking In The Sand
Passing Friend
Oh! Darling

I personally loathe Crack At Your Love, too.

It is one of Mike's few good songs. So?

Hmmm - "Viggie" ? "Wrinkles" ?? In fact, the ENTIRE "Country Love" album ??? "Battle Hymn Of The Republic" ... just possibly any of those, but if I were to have to pick a number of 'officially released' tracks then I would probably go for "Solar System" "Johnny Carson" "Passing Friend" "I Do Love You" "She's Got Rhythm" or ... just maybe ... "All I Want To Do" (which would have sounded SO much better if Dennis had taken the lead) ...

Off the top of my head
Barbara ann
Bluebirds over the mountain
student demonstration time
california saga
blueberry hill
here comes the night (disco)
sumahama
full sail
goin south
Some of your love
Santa ana winds (I like the song, not just Als spoken intro - dire!)
Oh Darling
Endless Harmony
Maybe I don't know
She believes in love again
Still cruisin
make it big
All of summer in paradise

I actually quite enjoy the MIU album, finding it a more engaging listen than the vastly overrated LA album.

man, time to throw on LA and KTSA :hat

matt-zeus...glad to see I'm not the only one who feels that way. ALthough...

I HATE Winds of Change. I almost expect Al to start singing about Miss Piggy and how it's not easy being green. :lol:

I like LA Light, but Full Sail and Going South are ass-tastic. Also, I hate the version of Shortening Bread used; there was a much better one done on the Adult Child boot.

Are you kidding..That song is amazing...


I hope you don't mean...Sunflower 'all i wanna do', that has to be one of the greatest songs of all time.

I think he means "All I Want to DO", the song off 20/20.

youre crazy, Full Sail is awesome.

Carl's vocals are nice in it, but the song is SO boring and the production too MOR.

Goin' South I think is the worst.

Worst BB 'related' song- Ricky Martin "California Girls"
Worst BB song-(unreleased) "My Solution"
Worst BB song-(released)...I'd have to go with that "Tomboy" tripe...

I totally agree about Ricky Martin's "California Girls", that was painful to watch. 

I really dig "My Solution" though, even though it usually gets a bad rap.  Yeah it's weird, but the humor seems very "Brian" to me.  Kinda like Smile-era humor in the context of a Halloween song.  Some neat chords in there too. 

DEFINITELY NOT ! I love everything about "Sunflower" ... it's the raucous Mike Love vocal on 20/20's "All I Want To Do" I'm referring to ...

That is one of the best Beach Boys songs in the history of the world. My only wish is that Brian had sang lead, but anyway.

Yea I wish he'd sang that lead also, but apparently he didn't feel his voice was as "tree-like" as he wanted.  But you're right, its an incredible song no matter who sings it!

I agree with this, but "Louie Louie" ain't far behind. Or Brian's solo "Silent Night".

Silent Night dit dit, holy night dit dit, all is calm dit dit, all is bright dit dit. Ouch dit dit!

I have a problem with a lot of Smiley Smile. Special mention though for "F B A B T W" "She's Going Bald" and the first section of "Little Pad" (who got into Brians stash?)

If we are going to expand on the BB related heres my 2 cents. I'm ok with Brian redoing his songs....live...once. ie Roxy but to cover BB work on each new album, its not for me.

Mike, Bruce and Dave re-recording their own songs for Nascar. The Pits-Stop!

Al live in Vegas singing BB songs. Who cares!

Billy, Jeff, Adrian and anyone else who feels they need to use the BB style on their solo work.

What's all this hub-bub about Full Sail and Goin' South?  They're gggrrrrreeeaaaattttt!!!!!!!!   GGRRREEEEEAAATTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!
You want bad?  Day in the Life of a Tree??  Good grief, how bad can it get? Maybe as bad as all that TM junk and the rest of the pseudo-hippy psychobabble. Funky Pretty? Sorry. Give me LA, MIU anyday.  I never quite got some of Carl's and Dennis's stuff.  It's not bad, but just doesn't grab me like most of it - I'm thinking Long Promised Road, Feel Flows, Trader, Steamboat, for example. Nothing wrong with it I guess but I have no interest in hearing it. Not my style.  Anyway, 90% of the BB/BW work is terrific, so why are we dwelling on the stuff we DON'T like?

I can take Full Sail on there, but two sluggish Carl songs on one album are enough.  I've put Goin' South on a BB Christmas CD I've Made.

Funny how different our tastes are, ain't it?  I guess some people don't like that early 70s 'progressive' stuff at all. 

That's a Dennis Wilson song, and it rocks! Especially if you've read Desper's story on Dennis' special overdub. :lol

I would *LOVE* to hear a version of A Day in the Life of a Tree with Brian OR Carl on the lead....mmm!

DW's 'overdubbing'  ::) doth not a good track maketh - and despite the potential of this one (with uncredited contributions by Steve Kalinich) it's the naff lead vocal that does it for me. Mike was GREAT in the early days with the upbeat leads, but he CANNOT supply the rock'n'roll this deserves ...

I have to confess that I somehow tend to like most BB songs that even the least rigorous listeners might find totally atrocious.

That said, talking about the group's sixties output I think that Bluebirds Over The Mountains really is beyond lame. It's nowhere near the standards set by their previous recordings. Just plain pointless.
Some of M.I.U. might be downright embarrassing, but most of it still sounds enjoyable to these ears. I even like She Believes In Love Again and Slow Summer Dancin', which might be some of the schmaltziest songs ever written, by anyone.

Can't stand some of the songs on Keepin' The Summer Alive.

Didn't Brian once contribute at least some background vocals for Tree on stage in the early seventies?

Great, great song.

....For that very reason. We all agree that the vast majority of their catalog is high quality. It's interesting to see peoples opinions of what the 'clunkers' are. Interesting responses so far.. some things I never would have picked as weak material...

"Funny how different our tastes are, ain't it?"   Yep.

"I guess some people don't like that early 70s 'progressive' stuff at all." I like some of it but not all.  A lot of it's great. i startd with the Boys in '62 at age 12 and followed the whole saga all the way through.  I wonder how many who are more attuned to the later music missed the "golden era", so to speak, and so don't have the same  grounding, for lack of a better word. In other words, if you started in the '70's and heard Sunflower, Surf's Up, Holland, etc. you may not have ever really heard much of the hits except on a passing radio or frat party.  Or if you didnt pick upr them until the 80's or 90's, and that's not unusual, your whole musical perspective is going to be different already than someone who grew up much earlier in a different time, different place, with the fun in the sun music.  It's an interesting question to ponder, beyond just simple musical tastes.

....For that very reason.  Sure.  No problem. I always like a good discussion on this.  My only issue is couching it in negative terms, like "the worst BB related song".   Who needs that?  Likes and dislikes, preferences, comparing thoughts on songs, all fine.  I think the negative context can just start an unneccesary bandwagon effect , as in who can bash this or that the most.

Say, how about that Al Jardine, anyway? (Always been an Al fan)

If it weren't for the brash, machine-like drumming, "Summer in Paradise" would actually be a fine album. Re-record the drums and there are some pretty solid songs on there.

The worst BB-related song ever, and proof that even Brian can write a clunker, has got to be "He Couldn't Get His Poor Old Body to Move". It sounds like a children's song! Children's songs are fine, but not what I expect when I buy a Brian Wilson single.

...and anything to do with Kokomo!

I'm not a Mike Love-basher, but I listened to "Summer in Paradise" again last night, and I must admit "Summer of Love" is dreadful, just as bad as Brian's "He Couldn't Get His Poor Old Body to Move".

Kokomo is quite awful...

The original song, Christmas version or this?

http://www.bdpr.com/kkback.html

Did the Club come to anything?

my least favorites by
Brian-That Same Song
Dennis-Angel Come Home
Carl-his up beat solo stuff
Mike-Still Cruisin
Al-Island Girl

album-15 Big Ones

Oh my goodness. Did you read that press release? How obnoxious.

Sounds more like "Da Doo Ron Ron" to me.  8)

The worst song?

- Crocodile Rock -   ;D

I like that song. Especially the version from the It's OK TV special with the choir.

Lay Down Burden is one of the best songs Brian has written since the mid 70s...

I'd rather listen to "Lazy Lizie". LDB sounds to me like the most boring and unimaginative adult-contemporary dittie ever.

Lay Down Burden?                    .........really now??

Don't let the sound of the song influence your thinking too much...yea, the production is unimaginative adult-contemporary drivel for sure, but the song underneath is wonderful.  The awful Joe Thomas production doesn't do it justice at all.  I'm also of the mind that its one of Brian's best originals since the '70's. 

Folks, this is a light-hearted thread, no need to get stressed over anything. I DID buy Imagination, what's the difference if I like it?  :)

Oh, this is easy.  "I'm In Great Shape / I Wanna Be Around / Workshop".  Utterly pointless, and the only scar on an otherwise flawless album.

When I burnt BWPS for somebody, I even cut that out.  Movement III started right at "I wanna be around my vegetables..."

In terms of songwriting, Imagination might well be BW's best solo record (as long as Smile doesn't count, that is). I could do without Sunshine, Happy Days and Dream Angel, but otherwise I really love it. If Where Has Love Been would have been written and recorded for inclusion on a Beach Boys seventies record, it'd be a huge favorite of many fans. Lay Down Burden is beautifully touching as well, though I prefer the rather intimate sounding Roxy recording.

I have seen this song hammered in a number of places, but I really like it. I like Brian's lead vocal (one of the few); I think the melody is good, and the production is OK too. To me , it sounds like what a Beach Boys' record would've sounded like in the late 90's. The harmonies are very Beach Boy-ish. Did I read somewhere that Brian didn't write most of the song?. I still think it's underrated...

It's not that bad - I don't find myself skipping it when I listen to Imagination (instead of Sunshine, which is close to unlistenable). Yet still, there's something wrong about it - can't quite put my finger on it. You're right about the harmonies though.

That said, on the other hand I totally enjoy South American. Ah well... :-)

You know, I agree with you. I wish, if he'd wanted an "old song"; he'd have used "Ol' Man River" a la Hawthorne instead, then ran the Water chant into it, and headed up the Elements with Blue Hawaii. Workshop should've just been the coda to Fire, ending the suite.

Whatever the worst song is, [Summer Of Love?] it sure isn't "A Day In The Life Of A Tree" - one of my favourite 70s tunes. Love the lyrics, the harmonium and organ and especially the vocals at the end.

Hands down.

from what i've heard, my vote top 10 are....

Pitter Patter, Surfin '92, Skatetown USA,Croc rock, blueberry Hill
(except bri's backing track), passing friend, maybe i don't know, summer of love,
goin south, school girl (lame 80's rock aor from Dennis)

... and "Skatetown USA" & "School Girl" were released when, exactly ?  8)

How can you not like Goin' South?  Sweet.

It hurdles right over boring and rockets straight into the Land of Narcotic. Carl's vocals are pleasant enough, but the song itself, the arrangement, the production...it's like washing down a bottle of Ambien with Nyquil.

OOPSIE!!! ???

lovin that list, not feeling some of the last few tracks (problem child), but still solid nonetheless.

I may dislike the song "Kokomo" the most because I think it is really annoying and distressingly is also the Beach Boys' biggest hit ever.  There are worse songs certainly, but "Kokomo" probably produces the most unpleasant feelings for me.  "Surfin' USA" also bothers me because it is a big hit but basically a rip off of another song.  Makes me wish Brian woulda kept "Surf City" for himself and given Jan and Dean 'surfin' usa' instead.  I mean, 'surf city' went number 1, it would have worked out fine!  Absolute worst would probably be disco 'here comes the night', 'wipe out', 'santa's goin to kokomo', "Melekalikimaka" or the "Summer in Paradise" album.  Also some of the covers of Beach Boys music have completely ruined the songs.  The only BW song I dislike is "Smart Girls", but even that one isn't completely worthless because it is just SO oddball and the chorus is even kind of weird/catchy.  Some of his songs from the very early career and late period of Beach Boys are extremely dull though.

first songs that come into my mind would be California calling and Passing Friend. course i never listened to any of the albums after that 1985 one

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Good picks dude. Another one I LOVE is "Everybody Wants to Live Just Once".

 Way off topic, true, but I had to mention it.

...cigarette goes Pfftt, now back on topic!! sorry guys

Old subject I know but ignoring the released part I have to say the Adrian Baker sessions with Mike in the early 80's is really the worst thing I ever heard a Beach Boy do, except maybe Goin Public. For the group I still say Summer Of Love or Happy Endings or Problem Child. For Brian solo the song Brian and Smart Girls.

The Sweet Insanity is the nadir of Beach Boy-ness, IMO. Still Cruisin' looks like a work of genius in comparison. I nominate: Do You Have Any Regrets? as the single worst BB-related song ever. I'd rather hear Mike Love weakly sneer some fifties song.

Sweet Insanity would have killed Brian's solo career dead in my view. It's his Summer In Paradise. Getiin In Over My Head, Orange Crate Art, and Imagination aren't great but new to SI they are really solid. Only thing I like better on SI then a re-recording was Make A Wish because of the theremin.

I don't think it's THAT bad -- there's nothing as good as the SI version of "Don't Let Her Know She's An Angel" or "Do You Have Any Regrets" on SIP -- but oh God, I had forgotten about "Brian."  That song is just horrible, a million times worse than "Smart Girls" which at least has spirit and humor.  Didn't some Sire exec tell Brian and Landy it was "painful to listen to?"  One rare example of a music industry executive getting it exactly right.

Good God, now I'm mad somebody made me remember this song.  *shudder*  It's so, SO bad.  And naming a song after yourself?  WTF?

Does Everyone's In Love With You count? :) Not as bad as naming albums after yourself. [cough, cough, Country Love, First Love, Looking Back with Love, Unleash the Love etc...etc...etc...]

Back on topic, the album version of Rock n Roll Music is my least favourite BB song. Strangely, the single mix, which isn't vastly different, is miles better.

Well I always thought those lyrics (and title) were the work of Landy... I mean just look at the lyrics, they talk about how his family doesn't care about him but now he's doing real well... hmm, sounds like Landy to me. Obviously the production on Sweet Insanity is atrocious as are all the lyrics, but I always thought some of the songs were pretty catchy... I mean Do You Have Any Regrets, Brian, Someone To Love and even Smart Girls all have some catchy moments (not saying that makes it good just that the songs had potential if it didn't have all those bad elements)... but yeah, it is by far the worst stuff in Brian's solo career.

I'd have to say that Summer Of Love is by far the worst Beach Boys song in my opinion as for anything Beach Boys related I would probably have to agree with MBE in saying the Baker/Love stuff is pretty bad, partly cause I really can't stand Adrian Baker.

The 90ies Baker/Love sessions are even worse. Most horrible thing I've ever heard. Salute to Nascar isn't far behind.

'Problem Child' is crap in every way!  And everything they did in the late 80's.  'Happy Endings' is equally horrible!

I'm so sorry lol.

Worse song from each...

Brian- South America
Dennis- He's a Bum
Carl- Hold Me
Mike- Still Cruisin
Al- Island Girl
Bruce- I Write the Songs

Unfortunately, several popped into my head...many were mentioned but  "Match Point of Our Love" sticks out as at least one of the worst.

:| holy hades. Really? Of everything out there under the Beach Boys name, "A Day in the Life of a Tree"?

Although I do wish a take with Brian doing the lead was around somewhere, and I think Dennis could have done great for the "real thing". Ah well, I still really like this song - it took a damn long while for it to hit me, though.


Bah. I love the Smiley Smile version. Not as much as the original, but it's still a good song, even in this setting.

It's interesting, on the Classics Selected By Brian Wilson CD, he chose the Smiley Smile version of "Wonderful" over the SMiLE version, which was officially released on the boxed set - if he did indeed SELECT the track.

I was thinking about that recently, too. Wouldn't be surprised if he selected "Wonderful" but whoever was putting the collection together just used the more common Smiley Smile version. I really doubt Brian prefers this version.

That wouldn't be the first time an incorrect track ended up being released. :police:

I have a soft spot for "Problem Child" because of the video where Bruce Johnston gets pummeled in various ways and looks genuinely irritated.  Btw, ever notice that even though the guy hardly ever plays bass, when he syncs a part for a video or TV show, he always nails it?  Interesting.

"Happy Endings" is so bad and the video makes you wonder if it wasn't a drug induced dream.  Carl's vocal is truly a low point, over-emoting worthy of "American Idol."  Carl, Carl... *sigh*

On the subject of "Brian" vs. FIRST LOVE, COUNTRY LOVE, I LOVE BARBECUE, etc., I would argue that naming an album title after your name may be cheesy but it isn't inappropriate...after all, an album title is supposed to help identify the artist and/or material within.

But naming a song after yourself just strikes me as the height of arrogance/cluelessness.  I would never write a song called "Adam"...I mean, that's like referring to yourself as "we."

"Happy Endings" always perplexed me. For many years, The Beach Boys credited Little Richard as an influence, along with Chuck Berry and The Four Freshmen. One would assume that the influential Little Richard songs would've been "Good Golly Miss Molly", "Lucille", and "Tutti Frutti". So, when the opportunity finally came for The Beach Boys to team up with Little Richard on a great rocker, they (or somebody) chose a ballad! Only in the world of the Beach Boys.... ???

Only Jerry Lee Lewis can get away with naming songs after himself.

Actually, there are few artists who haven't named albums after themselves!!

While I really don't mind both Island Girl and Still Cruisin', I have to agree on Carl's song. When I first heard it in that short CW solo segment of An American Band, it really made me cringe. But what's not to like about He's A Bum?

Bo Diddley too

Day in the Life of a Tree has an faster-tempo bastard offspring, "Wednesday Week" by the Undertones.  I only wish that it hadn't stopped there. "Day in the Life of a Lamppost" "Day in the Life of a Draincover" or "Day in the Life of a Sun Lounger" - which could have been a steamy Mike Love vocal.

Seriously, I'm often amazed how resilient trees like Brian actually are.

Hold Me?  The whole of Youngblood is worse than that!    ;D

Noooooo! Youngblood is a good album.

I don't like the lyrics and Dennis' voice is at an all time low. Although, I must say that if Mike Love had written and sang that, it would be one of his better songs!

Well, maybe. . I think I have both of his albums on vynal but don't have a record player, so I haven't listened to it but once maybe and I don't remember. Hold Me, just stuck out to me. The same with I Write the Songs by Bruce. I am sure there are worse songs, but that is the first thing that came to mind.

It's been a while since I've listened to either of those records, but I remember "Hurry Love" as being a real yawner.  I thought YOUNGBLOOD was a more interesting record than CARL WILSON, which was short and sounded like it was recorded in a hurry all at one go -- everything sounded fairly samey and sterile.  I

 remember liking "The Right Lane" a lot, and "Whatcha Gonna Do About Me" had that cool part that reprised the KTSA riff.  On YOUNGBLOOD I thought "What You Do To Me" was ace and "Of The Times" was a pretty good power ballad.  Everything else kinda went by me.  So that's my two cents.

Some of the stuff on the Wilson-Beckley-Lamm record is really good, though.  I wish they hadn't gone for that semi-AOR late '80s production sound, but the songs are pretty strong.

True!

I always thought Passing Friend was the worst offender!

If we're talking BB85, I actually find the Stevie Wonder song to be much worse than Passing Friend.

Some assorted thoughts...A few that I really couldn't stand are "Passing Friend," "I Do Love You," "Chasin the Sky (just very bland to me)," Crack at Your Love," "Wipe Out," "Happy Endings (possibly my least favorite of the 80s)," "Still Cruisin (just always grated on me, I know some like it)," "Island Girl (surely Mr. Jardine's worst set of lyrics)," from SIP "Island Fever," "Still Surfin'," "Remember (Walkin' in the Sand," "Under the Boardwalk" is really lame and "Forever" has a horrible production (the album's production is weak overall, but this one is particularly offensive) undercutting the decent vocals.

From the solo bits, I gave Carl's two LPs a listen a little while ago with a help from a friend and nothing really stood out aside from "The Right Lane," "The Grammy," "Heaven" and "What You Do to Me," the rest was a boring affair with only Carl's vocals to lift them. On LBWL, the title track has a decent melody and I like the remake of "On and On and On," but THATS IT. Brian's lowest points include "Brian (Thank You)," "Hotter," "Country Feelin," Imagination's "Sunshine" (couldn't STAND that one at all), "Dream Angel," "The Waltz (possibly the worst track BW ever cut since 1980)," the remakes of "Make a Wish," "Rainbow Eyes" and "Don't Let Her Know" sabotage perfectly decent songs.

A few notes overall:
"Lady Liberty" stinks but it IS the "Lady Lynda" melody, thus 50% a good song. But MAN do those lyrics smell something fierce!
"Happy Endings" just always made me sick to my stomach, as did "Wipe Out" (I confess I never have made it all the way through "Wipe Out")
From the 85 album, I like "Maybe I Don't Know" for what it is, but I could see why some would hate it. Personally, I think it's Carl's attempt at AOR, completely and utterly. And most of the backgrounds sound like he did them himself. And I always thought "She Believes in Love Again" was one of Bruce's better cuts, perfect for his style.
I almost put "I'm So Lonely" on my list, but it's that middle bit in falsetto ("I wish...) that saves the tune. Otherwise, it's crap. And I can't really see how anyone can hate "It's Just a Matter of Time," it has a great atmosphere although Mike's vocals are so-so.
I'm in the minority on this, but I thought about 45% of Sweet Insanity was something special. Songs like "Someone to Love," "Water Builds Up," "Rainbow Eyes," and especially "Don't Let Her Know" (that second version) are cool to me. The rest varies from decent to horrible, but to me it kicks LBWL, GIOMH, Carl's two albums and Country Love; those are closer to the worst BB solo title to me. But hey I'm kooky. I really liked "South American," really and truly; and I thought "Smart Girls" was hilarious. I mean WHO could take that seriously.

speaking of Lady Liberty, on the ol mp3 player today, i listened to Happy Birthday America (yeah it was on shuffle)...was that written by the beach boys at all? Very 80s tune....


also, I actually liked Chasin the sky, sounded good for a soundtrack, wasn't it on a movie?
And I do Love You, I 'kind' of like it...i guess i have something for sentimental stevie wonder tunes

Happy Birthday America was written by Gary Griffin.


Wow, I really like most of those songs. Especially South America.

If I had to pick the dozen worst albums
Going Public
Country Love
Disco Celebration
Looking Back With Love
Rock and Roll City
Beach Boys 85
Still Cruisin'
Sweet Insanity
Summer In Paradice
Orange Crate Art (sorry but I cannot stand this one for many reasons namely the strained vocals, the MOR production and melodies, and the self conscious lyrics)
Stars and Stripes
Nascar

From these ten, The group albums  have one or two good ones a piece. The solo ones maybe one or two period

I don't love the 76-80 group albums but they are far far better then anything above. Carl's solo aren't great either but again I defer to the list above. I'm not big on Imagination and half of GIOMH is bad but yet once again I defer to the list above.

It's a shame 'Happy Endings' wasn't a sequel to 'Marcella'. Would have made for a more interesting listen.

I do have a soft spot for Happy Endings and Problem Child, even if they are awful.

Personally, I'd be much happier taking a rusty metal hmmer with serrated edges and smashing my genitalia to a bloody pulp than ever having to listen to Sumahama again.

... I just realised that actually being able to spell Sumahama makes me physically ill ...

I can't bear Youngblood - the AOR production, the turgid power ballads the trivial songs...  However, there's a lot of worse stuff - Santa's Goin' to Kokomo, the ML/Adrian Baker stuff, some stuff off LBWL or GIOMH or SIP...

I'd say Bugged at My Old Man, Take a Load Off Your Feet and Student Demonstration Time in a 3-way tie. 

I have no doubt that there's plenty of stuff from the late 70s forward that is worse in a strict comparison.  But in '65 and '71, when the above songs came out, the band was capable of so much more--in fact, they had much better songs in the can--yet chose to pollute the Summer Days and Surf's Up albums with utter tripe. 

haha, Happy Endings from Marcella  :o , i like that 

I Love most of the Sweet Insanity tunes...

can't stand SDT

Diamond Head is over rated, imo

Can't stand Bluebirds over the Mountain

diamond head is just a relaxer

Of the Beach Boys "bad" songs I really like SDT. It rocks and I like the way the vocal is recorded. The words aren't great but they were of the times.

And just now I'm catching up on this thread and the last post is what I wanted to write about. Of course you are correct about the era from which SDT evolved but the song was quite instrumental in getting The Beach Boys back on the radio and I do mean FM radio. I was living in Cleveland in the Summer of 1971 and listening to one of the top FM stations in the country, WMMS, when this song came on. I was stunned and amazed! Was this my group? Sure sounds like them. Soon I had Surf's Up in my hands and by the time I got back to school in Saint Louis in September, KSHE, the best station UNDER Saint Louis, well they were playing alot of Beach Boys. So in summary, I believe SDT helped re-launch the Beach Boys career. And that's an easy statement to make from a 2009 perspective.

I think SDT should have been a promo single before the release of Surfs Up, then we wouldnt need SDT on the album  ;)

Wow, I had no idea anyone ever liked that song.  Hard to understand, but I know that was a different time.

I still like Student Demonstration Time, and think it would be a great song to perform in concert, even now.

I understand that many of you don't feel that way, which is perfectly ok, but I do have a hard time considering that 'the very worst Beach Boys related song ever released'.

Like I said I really dig it. Dennis and Carl cook.

Speaking of Mike Love, I just found a rare 45 he recorded as a single in late 70s with Celebration. Unfortunately it didn't get released, but I can post the lyrics without getting in any trouble:

(spoken in "beaks of eagles" voice)

it was the summer of mike love back in '67, when the whole world came together and had some fun, fun, fun, 'till Brian released "Heroes and Villains" and then realized what he had done, done. the acid suddenly turned brown and everybody lost their egos and went crazy. i had to put some love back in their hearts...

(sum, sum, sum) summer of looove
(sum, sum, sum) summer of looove
(sum, sum, sum) summer of looove


everyone was singin the lyrics to good vibrations, a magical elation
but then heroes and villains happened without my participation
for some strange reason brian wilson cut out all of my leads vocals
funny, it seems van dyke parks put brian in a creative chokehold


(sum, sum, sum) summer of looove
(sum, sum, sum) summer of looove
(sum, sum, sum) summer of looove


i was feelin' mad but then i met the maharishi and started meditatin'
things were lookin' kinda bad 'till me and brian started collaboratin'
we made wild honey and we went straight back to the top of the charts
i had to tell brian we can't cut without bass, it's the sound of our hearts

(bridge - soft singing)
sometimes in life your cousin goes musically astray
so you gotta sit him down at the piano and lead the way
just give him some simple chords and some fun lyrics
he'll add crazy bass chords and stuff when he hears it


(sum, sum, sum) summer of looove
(sum, sum, sum) summer of looove
(sum, sum, sum) summer of looove

This thread is about the worst Beach Boys songs. You have, however, posted lyrics to the best song ever written in the history of mankind. YOU GOT IT WRONG, CHARLIE.

Problem Child, Happy Endings, Crocodile Rock, Wipe Out, Rock and Roll to the Rescue, Summer of Love, are all pretty bad. When I've got more time I'll come up with a list of duds spanning the BBs entire career.

My dad heard SDT for the first time this past year and loves it. I think it's actually his favorite BB song now, oddly enough. Or at least in his top 10. I don't mind it, I think it rocks out.

The production, the arrangement, the performance, even the idea of updating "Riot In Cell Block #9" to reflect civil unrest in '70/'71 is very, very cool...unfortunately, Mike's misguided lyrics derail the whole song. He seems intent on blaming the protesters for their own misfortune in the most unsympathetic manner possible ("four students earned a new degree...the bachelor of bullets" - yikes!). Clearly he's trying to model the song on the Beatles' "Revolution", but his lack of perspective stinks the whole thing up. Hell, even the Dead Kennedys ("Riot") managed to address this kind of social upheaval in a far less condesending manner.

It's still not the worst Beach Boys-related song, however. "Make It Big" might get my vote.

I don't know if I feel he was talking down to anyone, or not sympathising. I think it was simply a scare tactic to get his message about the inherent dangers of a Kent State situation. All in all it's just a product of its time. It's dated  but I ultimately like the song because of the musical and vocal performances.

Ahh, Make it Big, I refer to that as the last great Carl vocals

I like R&RttR quite a bit. Love the Percadella mix especially. But the the videoclip is... ehm ... well, I've seen better ones...

I'd go one step further even and confess that Rock'n'Rol To The Rescue has to be one of my favorite BB songs from the eighties. Brian's voice is in full Ozzy mode already, yet to these ears his vocal contribution is still among his very best leads from that decade. It's a goofy song for sure but a great one at that.

SDT is Mike's Pet Sounds... not saying much, but...

And I'm Bugged At My Old Man is a classic, especially the version from the TV Special - when Brian starts coughing in the middle of a line and his brothers crack up, that is priceless...

SDT is definitely a product of its time.  First time I heard it (on AM radio before the LP hit the stores) I flipped to hear the band ROCK...

I never cared for SDT or that disco version of Here Comes The Night...

For backing vocals I definitely hear him on the finished track.  He does all those "doodoo doo doo"s on the coda.  Unless you mean lead vocals?

I can vouch for SDT helping the Beach Boys get back on FM radio.  College radio too.  I'm dating myself here, but I first  heard it on WNEW-FM and then the local college station DJs were playing it too.  Like some of the other recent posters, I am a tepid defender of it.  I love the sound of the track and Mike's bullhorn vocal, but agree the words are at best a cop-out news report.  They should have just kept the original words and fuzzed it up like they did, I bet they would have still gotten the airplay because the sound of that track was so unique. 

I still posit the theory that 10cc (or at least Eric Stewart) heard Desper's plugged-in-the-sound-board fuzz-boxes and based their whole "Rubber Bullets" guitar sound on SDT.

That said, according to the SF/SU CD booklet, Brian STILL dislikes this track.

One of Mike's few good songs???

What about:

Good Vibrations
Fun Fun Fun
Warmth Of The Sun
I'm Waiting For The Day
She Knows Me Too Well
California Girls
Big Sur
All I wanna Do
Cool Cool Water
Do it Again

....... to name a few "decent"with Mike lyrics/input

Face it: Brian seems to get sole possessory credit by fans for any and every song he co-wrote with someone else. Who will argue that the lyrics are not roughly half of a song. Royalty-wise/Legally it's that way (mostly).... No one wants to take credit away from Bernie Taupin, so why Mike?

I'll vehemently argue that lyrics aren't necessarily "roughly half" of a song: it's all dependent on the song in question and the particular mindset of the listener. For some lyric-leaning artists, lyrics may be far more than half a song. (Lou Reed keeps using the same three chords ... it isn't those that make him a genius.) And I have friends who hate the Beach Boys, and the reason isn't that they deny the great melodies or harmonies: they can't stand the lyrics.

Nothing is ever so easy as fifty-fifty.

Absolutely right on! (with Lou especially) And I didn't mean to simplify things. I just happen to think Mike wrote some pretty damm great lyrics in the 60s!!! So did Gary Usher, Roger Christian, Tony Asher, Van Dyke Parks, and Brian. In fact, I think the lyrics to the early Beach Boys ARE just as important as the music. They gave the musical innovation a wonderful bed of imagery and culture shifting sensibility, however naive and nerdy at times it might have been, to co-exist in. Thus making the music more touching and groundbreaking than it would have been all on it's own.

Peter Ames Carlin touches on a lot of this in his book.

Oh, and my vote for worst Beach Boys song: a tie of everything done after KTSA (which, while pretty bad itself, is Pet Sounds compared to what came after).

Problem Child gets my vote!

It's not even a catchy song in any way and it's embarassing to watch that video where Carl actually looks like he thinks it's cool. I'd expect as much from Mike, but not him.

I can defend even Summer in Paradise as listenable for having catchy songs Beach Boys harmonies, no matter how bad the production is, but Problem Child is just vomit inducing in the worst way.

From the period of 1961-1980, it's hard for me to single out a "worst" song ever, because I BASICALLY like everything they did. Everything. Oh, some more than others, obviously, but I felt that I "got" what the guys were trying to say in all of their albums. And I could enjoy them.

But, something happened to The Beach Boys records when Dennis died and Brian re-joined Landy in 1982. I had to "work" at liking the songs, finding it harder to listen to albums in completion, not feeling the music. I don't like cliches, but the heart and soul appeared to go out of the music. Whatever it was that Brian put into his music, that special something that only a Beach Boys' fan could know, was fleeting fast.  I didn't get that Beach Boys' feeling that I was used to, and that feeling WAS still present as late as Keeping The Summer Alive.

I guess production is partly to blame. Starting with Bruce Johnston in the late 70's and continuing to 1992, I don't think they made good choices for producers. Anyway, my choice a few pages/months ago remains the same, "Summer Of Love". It has no redeeming qualities.

agreed...

I can single out Problem Child as being the worst thing they ever did, but keep in mind, I pretty much like EVERYTHING ELSE they did.

For my money The Beach Boys 1963-1980 was/is the greatest run by any "rock" band of all-time!

I guess I would narrow it down to 61-74 in the studio and 61-75 on stage as times where I basically enjoy everything. There were some really good songs and good shows through 1980 but I feel the consistancy wasn't there the last half of the seventies. Still with the exception of Somewhere Near Japan, Soul Searchin, Still A Mystery and maybe Getcha Back nothing they dd past 1980 comes close to to the old standard.

I would narrow it down just a little more from Surfer Girl through to Holland. Not saying Surfin' Safari/Surfin' USA don't have their moments, but Surfer Girl (to me anyway) is the first good album.

Luther, I'm shocked? :o What about Wipe Out? I thought that was your favourite? ;)

The first album is so-so but I think Surfin USA is a fantastic record. It's one of their best pure rock and roll albums.

Yeah I'm just not the biggest fan of it... While I still like all of the songs, I just think a lot of that record doesn't really stand out to me, but that's just me. I mean I love the title track, Farmer's Daughter, Shut Down & Lonely Sea, but the rest of it I don't really listen to all that often. I guess I'm just not the biggest of a lot of those surf instrumentals, sure I don't mind them, just don't listen to them all that often.

For this moment it's a toss up between:

The Beach Boys Medley (ne'er in the whole history of music hath anyone dared to foul up a string of classic songs this way. Burning alive at the stake should be reinstuted).

Smart Girls (with samples). Makes you long for dumb blondes.

Spot on. The late 70s albums are rotten in parts, but the vibe is still intact. After Love You and the scrapping of Adult-Child Dennis was the force that kept them even partly relevant, and in this way POB is a very distilled "essence of Beach Boys."  You can't "hear the sea" in the 80s stuff, in either Brian's work (some of which I like) or the Beach Boys band (which I don't). I think it's because of songwriting and production, plus the effect of Dennis' absence on group decisions. Whilst I think BW '88 would have been a very decent album with the right production, the BB songs from '82 onwards were  beyond rescue - take away the 80s synths and they would be simply dull MOR, rather than terrible. Anyway, I go for Still Cruisin' - music for discount supermarkets in 1986.

My all-time favorite Beach Boys song is "Goin On"...... Where the hell does that put me?

Number 2 would be "Getcha Back"... No Joke!!!

Number 3 would be Cool Cool Water!

Good stuff, in my opinion!

Actually, you know what, I forgot about that. I do love Wipe Out. I take that one back. It is easily my favorite post KTSA BBs song. Not even close.

Ah come on, they made somany good songs after KTSA.

How can anybody not like 'it's getting late'

Well, at least a couple. How about these five:

1. "Rock And Roll To The Rescue"
2. "Getcha Back"
3. "Where I Belong"
4. "Somewhere Near Japan"
5. "Lahaina Aloha"

I very strongly stand behind my statement. It's not me intentionally being difficult (not that I ever would...). I am being honest. Wipeout. By far.

I've only read about a third of the thread, but i'm guessing that no one's brought up what must be the true abomination of Beach Boys-related recordings - "Disco Symphony" by Rocky Pamplin from his 1979 LP THE ROCK, 6:33 of the most tepid watered-down disco ever committed to wax.  It literally slumps out of the gate and tapers off from there.  The song was written by Mike Love and Ron Altbach (and also recorded by Celebration and released - barely released is more like it - on the DISCO CELEBRATION LP) and the LP, which is almost exlusively tepid, watered down disco, was executive produced by Rocky and Stan Love.

Frightening stuff indeed.

Jeff
Toluca Lake, CA

I don't.

Post-KTSA, I like Where I Belong, Getcha Back is okay, Somewhere Near Japan and Island Girl. And Wipe Out is okay.

I can understand your quips about 'Getcha Back'. It is perhaps the best example of a band trying too hard and much too self-consciously to re-create its own spontaneity of days gone by. Where 'It's OK' is a masterful success, 'Getcha Back' is a failure.

For me it's a toss up between Sumahama, Summer of Love, and When Girl's Get Together. And Wipe Out. Some of Your Love is pretty bad too. Tears In The Morning also sucks.

Mike Love's vocal ruined Getcha Back.

Tears?!

Awwwwww, c'mon! A great song is a great song! Who cares if they're "trying to hard" or whatever? Getcha Back is a prime example of (one side of) what makes the Beach Boys great: catchy melodies: great harmonies: relatable lyrics (ok, I'm evil) and THOSE VOICES!!!! Sure, the 80s production sucks, but hey, it was THE 80S!!!!

And can't we please just leave Mike Love alone???? If he really sucked ass as bad as everyone acts like, wouldn't the Beach Boys suck ass too????

Post-KTSA, I like "Rock 'n' Roll To The Rescue," and all of Carl's songs on THE BEACH BOYS (the ones he wrote, not sang).  I like the Stevie Wonder cover. 

That's what I like.  Then there's separate categories for what doesn't bug me, and what bugs me.

I love Brian on Rock N Roll To The Rescue!

He sounds like he's having fun, and when Brian sounds like he's having fun, it's great!

Talking about the production of "Getcha Back", I'm certainly glad it didn't end up sounding more like an E Street Band track as Mike originally intended. Love the singing here, even Mike's almost unbearably nasal lead vocal, which still had so much of the original Beach Boys vibe to it. Foskett's (?) falsetto part/Brian impersonation ain't too shabby either.

Mike's vocal is one of the main reasons "Getcha Back" was a semi-hit.

As much as "Brian Wilson is the Beach Boys", it is Mike's familiar nasal tone (and I say that affectionately) that was, and is, so attractive to music fans. Yeah, certain fans on this and other boards are sick of Mike and his voice, but, to many music fans, MIKE'S VOICE IS THE BEACH BOYS! 

Sheriff, i usually agree with you...but really....i think the beach boys voice is the beach boys as a group...

now the beach boy everyone recognizes on tv is Mike Love

You know I'm a compilation nut.....but, try making a compilation of The Beach Boys greatest hits (meaning sellers), and see how many of those feature a lead vocal by Mike Love. It's overwhelming. I'm not saying he was the best, just the most familiar, or the most recognizable.

Not to open up a can of worms, but, Mike Love might've been the only Beach Boy to carry on with the group as it exists today, as The Beach Boys. And, the main reason for that is his familiar lead (and bass) vocals.

Getcha Back did have Brian doing the falsetto. It sounds like it was run through a lot of machines but it's still Brian.

I like Mike Love, great singer.  But about halfway through Getcha Back, his vocal just becomes terrible.

Well, I don't want to derail the thread but I have to tell this story...

I run a wellness center and we bring in a lady to teach belly dancing classes once a week.  Well a couple of weeks ago I was training a client and from the belly dancing class I hear blasting from the speaker none other than Wipeout.  I couldn't believe what I was hearing (or seeing for that matter  :o).  So now I've been paying attention and that is the last song they dance to every week.  I want to ask the instructor about it, but no one here really knows about my BB obsession plus I am her boss and don't want her to think I am coming down on her or something.  It is just the strangest thing

it really kinda comes down to, in the beginning Mike and Brian came up with a very very winning formula where Mike would do his nasal leads and then Brian would come in with his falsetto and the guys who fill in the middle with their harmonies. Mike would also supply lovely bass vocals when Brian would take his leads, yada, yada!....

This never really deviated. Even on Dennis' songs, there's usually Mike there in the background reminding you (in a good way) that this is The Beach Boys you're listening to (It's About Time is a great example) ... So, yeah, Mike's voice is just a integral to what the Beach Boys are, what their sound is, as it Brian, Carl, Al, Bruce, or Dennis. In fact, more so, simply in the face of all massive number of songs he sang lead on... It can't be disputed! I still insist, if you hate Mike and his talents, you hate The Beach Boys!

Smile/Pet Sounds is only a portion of the whole meal!!!!!

I know you're probably right, but I've always had a hard time buying this.  Heavily processed or not, its just too perfect a 22 year old Brian vocal to be believeable for me. 

Foskett was (and still can be) a dead ringer for young Brian, so it makes more sense that its him singing that. 

There's just some songs and some parts that Mike's voice is not appropriate for.  Darlin is a great song, but no Mike Love whereas Do It Again is Mike Love at his best.  I wonder how big a hit Getcha Back might have been if after the initial lyrics, Al sang the rest of the lead.  Mike's voice hasn't held up the quite the same as Al, who can still go full throttle, that was also true in the mid-1980's.

I honestly don't think Al in the lead would have helped the song at all.  Annoying as his voice can be at times, Mike's voice is very distinctive.  His nasal delivery and Brian's falsetto are the vocal trademarks of the Beach Boys, at least in the eyes of the general music-listening public.  I think those elements are what made "Getcha Back" a modest hit...Mike's voice, along with the pseudo-Brian falsetto, bring a familiarity to it that people latch on to.

See, I don't think the falsetto on "Getcha Back" sounds like young Brian--I think it sounds like an older, cleaned-up Brian, which is why I've never questioned it being Brian.

Well, at least we can all agree that the "I remember" parts are most certainly Brian!

Keep in mind, Brian has immense musical talents and a truely supernatural falsetto. How old was he in 85? 43? If he was in good shape and not smoking entire trees daily, I have no trouble believeing he could pull off that part. We all agree it's his falsetto on She's Got Rhythm, and that was an overweight, bearded, nicotine embalmed, Brian!

Ditto.

On the BB 25th anniversery special in Hawaii (at least the copy the used to be on Youtube); Foskett clearly does the falsetto on "Getcha Back" during a medley with the Everly Brothers and it sounds completely different from the album version which it rightly should because Brian did it on the album.

I never even considered it (Getcha Back's falsetto) to be anybody but Brian, until someone on this (?) board suggested it. Sounds like him to me....

Your point is right on, but Brian in 1977 was about as good as he ever was at least weight wise. Also during the making of MIU he had moments of great lucidity as seen in the unreleased Our Team doc.

I have no problems with Mike Love singing lead on "Getcha Back"
but to be honest, was that the best effort he could do?  His voice is right for the song, but its a lousy job of singing it.

To be honest, I think Fosketts voice is better than the falsetto on Getcha back. I vote Brian.

His son Christian sings it a lot better then he did. Sounds a little like a young Dennis

Which begs the question: is Christian his son? Or....?

Haha very good point!

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You stole my point before I could make it! Christian nails this one. This is one of the only (if any) original vocal parts that Mike does not sing today (though I can suggest a few others to give up), so thats gotta say something about his performance on Getcha Back tp give it up.

When I sat right in front of Mike last October, I noticed no problem with him carrying GB in fine manner.

Dave, are you saying that Mike sang lead on Getcha Back in October 2008? Was Christian there?

Correct. His son was not there and Mike sang a very good lead. I was NOT surprised. I've seen him do it many times before.

the song "friends"..."lady lynda"..those are horrible smh.  and also "catch a wave"

"Friends" is horrible? Yer on drugs, son.


No. No no no no no no no no no.

bro wat is one thing nice about that song?

I'm going to guess your copy of "Friends" was acquired from a YouTube video where someone posted Celebration's "Gettin' Hungry" or something and acidentally labelled it as "Friends".

Problem Child might be the worst song ever from anyone

lmfaoooo..the "friends" i heard was from the friends album.

The disco "Here Comes the Night".  Upon purchasing LA I was so distraught that I scratched the vinyl so the needle would skip through the song. 

The biggest problem with the song is that it is a generic disco arrangement (Think "Fly, Robin Fly" or the soundtrack to any CHiPs episode - simply awful) with Beach Boy vocals layered on top of it.

"Miss You" might be a disco song but it is a Stones song through and through. 

I can't comment on the post 1985 work because I wasn't interested in albums that had no Carl Wilson material.  So pre 1985 I would add the following:

"Love is Woman"
"Let's Put Our Hearts Together"
"I Wanna Pick You Up"
All the Originals on MIU except for "My Diane"
"When girls Get Together"

After "It's OK" any Mike Love song written form the viewpoint of a teenager that attempts to recreate the pre "Pet Sounds' vibe is bad ("Kona Coast", "California Calling", etc.).  Mike's commercial sense is/was firmly rooted in 1964 and as George Harrison said (when commenting on a Beatles reunion) - "you can't reheat soufflé.

Easily the worst: FOREVER on Summer In Paradise. Awful from top to bottom.

Doin' some late night laundry and read through this entire thread...here's my 2 cents:

Unreleased: "Brian" from SI
Released: "Crocodile Rock" or "Passing Friend"

This is the second time this thread has been necroed.  :o

Also, I don't know how somebody could consider Friends to be the "worst" Beach Boys song of all time but like Belles of Paris. I love Friends, it's a great song, and I won't hear otherwise!

Yeah, that is true 'men with white coats' material right there..


I can't  say anything off Sweet Insanity, which is absolutely insulting to human beings, cos it was never released. Gonna go for 'Hey Little Tomboy' instead.

Indeed. Soul-less, rambling, and no BBs connection at all. I think they nicked it from the internet.

I can see why people might find "Hey Little Tomboy" a little problematic, but is it a song worse than "Problem Child", "Crocodile Rock", "Happy Endings" or "Santa's Going to Kokomo"? Personally I don't think so at all.

I do love me my Love You. Strangely enough, I can single out tracks that I really don't like: Love Is A Woman, Airplane, Ding Dang... perhaps I only like half of the set really. And still it's an ace album.

i guess i'm the only one who kinda digs love is a woman

I actually like it a lot as long as we're talking about the studio version only.

Call me crazy, but I actually really like Santa's Goin To Kokomo!  It's a cool little song, and I think an added bonus is it came out the week before my first trip to Maui, and it was stuck in my head for much of that time!  Good memories!

You guys are jerks! That song's awesome!

bro belles of paris is awesome.. and the song "friends" sounds corny in a creepy way...yikez!

Bro,Bro,Bro,Bro,Bro.....Friends is awesome. :lol

I enjoy the video though.  Bruce really takes a beating...

I like Problem Child, too. what's wrong with me?

My vote would have to go to "Summer Of Love."  A lot of that, I must admit, comes from the video, which simply intensifies and magnifies the song's magical mix of loathesomeness, incompetence and general confusion of ideas -- you can't even tell who's in the band.  It's almost into MST3K so bad it's good territory.  Almost.

for me it's "He come down" because ANY song that equates the Maharishi to Jesus is going to be lame,,,lol..and it's just plain boring,the disco version of "hear comes the night" is pretty bad too,"winds of change" and most of SIP except for carls vocals . both versions of "sunshine" and the earl leaf/big daddy session stuff (etc) that were tagged to the end of the early albums..most of the early instrumentals from the first three albums are boring to me..i don't mind BB85 just think that the production is horrible,carls first album was pretty bad except for "heaven" . and too be honest with you most of their cover tunes are bad I would rather they JUST do original songs and not do "oldies"..and of course the award forr the worst is an unreleased ditty called "be true to your bud"  :o :o and all of "country love"..

I think that's why I like it so much ;D


:angry

That and 'Santa's Goin' To Kokomo'....ugh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6U2ubpBd28
I just found the youtube video..it IS pretty bad..never heard it before today..lol

Completely agree with BillA on the following!

"Love Is A Woman"
"Let's Put Our Hearts Together"
"When Girls Get Together"

And let me add:

"Everyone's In Love With You"
"Johnny Carson"
"Solar System"
"Battle Hymm Of The Republic" (I know, they didn't write it, it's unreleased, and it should remain that way!)

Embarrassing.  Almost as much as the alternate "Hey Little Tomboy".

While playing 15 Big Ones, Love You, and MIU in the car stereo loudly, I'd roll up the windows so family, friends, neighbors, pedestrians, police officers, and animals couldn't hear what I was listening to.

Never understood why Mike takes full credit for this song, all he wrote was the hook.

No love for Teeter Totter Love?   Anyone?  Anyone?   Bueller?

Not evident that Jasper could even hear the backing track which is why the whole thing sounds so Wild Man Fischer.

I'm afraid if this keeps going EVERY song from Love You is going to make the list  :'(

I don't think so, because there's some good songs on Love You.

It's hard to pick a bad Beach Boys song actually. Just about anything they've done, if in the right (or wrong) mood, can be pleasing to listen to just to hear those guys sing together. Sometimes I hate Beach Boys 8, for example, with a passion, other times I just get lulled into a narcotic haze just by the sound of their voices.

Even Summer Of Love, as much as I hate it, I tend to play it over and over again!!!!!

as long as "the night was so young" doesnt make it den it's ok :)

I will challenge everyone who has dissed 'Let's Put Our Hearts Together' in this thread to the only contest suitable for the hardcore Beach Boys fan - a steak eating contest at dawn. Bring your own bathrobes, cocaine and moog. Beard optional, bro.

"Let's Put Our Hearts Together" is atrocious. It shouldn't have been on a Beach Boys album. Serious. It's a real embarrassment.

And I'll take my prime rib (end cut) medium-well please.....

I actually really dig Brian's vocal on LPOHT!!!!

I admit to liking this song, too, even if the vocals are a shame. Compositionally, I think the song if just fine, actually.

The song is dethpicable!

All of them are good. Bro.

Hey bro. U sound like 1 of those funky dudes in da Occupy group in Oakland.

Bro, I'm up for this event even though i like that song and the whole love you album. ;D

dawn, bro? Don't you mean 3:17pm

I wonder if Brian has ever uttered the word "Bro" in his life!

Totally agree on the song and choice of main course. ;D

Dipped in Au Jus sauce and then mild horse radish!  It's da best, bro!

Actually, yes he has...referring to Dennis, interview late 70s where he sounds, umm....'wired'. Was on YouTube once but has been pulled. :(

And I prefer my prime rib cooked medium, thank you!

My wife's least favorites are Cuckoo Clock, County Fair, and studio version I'm Bugged at My Old Man.

Currently, for me...



BB:
Don't Hurt my Little Sister, Endless Harmony, The Night Was So Young (cool song, but I *hate* Carl's vocal on it)

Solo: All of Going Public.

Was he wearing a backward baseball cap and "Bud Light" tank top when he said it??

I actually rather dislike Johnny Carson because everyone sounds drunk!

How can you possibly not like the Night was so Young?! I'm serious. The chords are awesome (especially at the end!), the sentiment is awesome, and Brian's heart is thrown right out there in the ring for everyone to kick around!. One of my top ten Beach Boys faves.

Not only "Night Was So Young", but how can you dislike Endless Harmony? Do you like "Ten Years of Harmony"??  Bruce's best shot, bro!

Oh, I like the song. However, I despise Carl's vocal on it (and said as much in my original post ;)  )
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Something about EH has always bugged me. The actual sound of the song really grates for some reason I don't really know. I'm also not the biggest fan of Bruce's work after his 1st stint with the band ended.

Anyone naming anything released before 1980 is on drugs.

Yeah, Carl's vocals around this time are really bad, pilled out weirdness.

I absolutely love "Let's Put Our Hearts Together". A somewhat awkward performance from Brian and the backing track sounds strangely robotic but somehow it fits the song quite nicely. Great background vocals from Mike (?) too.

Everyones In Love with you is terrible. Along with loop de loop flip flop fly awayayay.

Count me in as a big fan of that one as well! For me, the fact that it doesn't even remotely sound like the BB is a big part of the fun here, even though I have to say it somehow manages to flow nicely with "Mess of Help" and "He Come Down", which is amazing if you think about it.

How about 'Lana' for an early dud - sounds like they were all busting
to spilt and head down to the hamburger stand

There are some terrible songs written before the 1980s. However, nothing before then is worse than the worst of after it.

*smashes bottle on the ground* WASSUP KID

I love that song. But Carl's vocals are strangely slurred, and he seems to be lagging a bit. Always thought it is an unfinished demo. The harmony singing is gorgeous, though.

definately one of their best songs :)..the guitar riff on it is amazing.

Yes. Simple is best.

santas going to kokomo

Wow, 11 pages and no mention of the most abysmal Beach Boys related song in existence, I of course refer to Speed Turtle. Closely followed by the woeful Won't Somebody Dance With Me?.

So far as I'm concerned, Problem Child is one of what I like to call the "phone book songs."  They're songs that prove the adage, "Carl Wilson could sing a page out of the phone book and it would sound amazing." Although I might rather here Carl sing the phone book, it really doesn't matter how dreadful the song is, I listen anyway, just to hear that voice.  There are a good number of songs that fall into that category for me in the 80s. It's Gettin Late is my favorite of said category. 

As for the topic at hand: Summer of Love really is horrifying.  The fact that it was a single, and has a horrific video to boot, really adds to the train-wreck quality of the thing.  And it somehow manages to be almost as creepy as "Hey Little Tomboy," with none of the melodic engagement (then again, the very catchiness of Hey Little Tomboy amplifies its disturbing-ness quiet a bit...)

I did mention it the first time I posted in this thread...didn't want to repeat myself. Whoa no, I didn't.

;)

I quite like the song as performed on Saturday Night Live where Brian sings the entire thing.

Summer of Love..Love Is A Woman..Belles Of Paris..Winds Of Change..In The Still of The Night..Student Demonstration Time..Got To Know The Woman..TM Song..Transcendental Meditation Time..Here Comes The Night{Long Version Only}LDC{Party lp}..Bugged at my old man..South Bay Surfer..Lana..Chug A Lug
Chapel Of Love..Louie Louie....Just of the top of my head..IMHO

I adore the orange ones. Winds Of Change is hugely underrated, I guess because of the syrupy arrangement. Composition-wise it's a beauty. The Spectorian In The Still Of The Night is wonderful, and somehow I dig Dennis' husky vocals too. And Chapel Of Love is as corny as it is great, the synths are 'lagging', deliberately so. All great stuff.

Personally I can't stand Carl Wilson's voice as soon as it's obvious he doesn't mean what he's singing. His trademark style may still be impressive but I think he wasn't very good at hiding his occasional lack of interest (which probably speaks for him as a person).

That said, "It's Gettin' Late" is one of my 80s-era favorites too, one of BB85's very few genuine high points. It's an interesting song.

Agree on It's Getting Late. And I like Passing Friend too.

"male ego" lol

Never heard that one - it's not on the LP.

Yeah i like It"s Gettin Late also..In 85 I saw BB do..Getcha Back..Gettin Late..She Believes In Love..Calif Calling...Crack At Your Love in concert..Colors how i hear the record..The live versions were very good..Same thing with R+R Rescue + Calif Dreamin + large portion of SIP..Live versions were very good.. So i go easy on the lp"s they come from.. In many cases the live versions were as good or better than lp..Surfin 92 re recording was much better than record..

Probably my favorite song that came out of the BB85 sessions. Might be the closest the group ever got to the trademark Love You sound after 1977.

"Male Ego" totally could've been on Love You. Wouldn't shock me if we found out it was written in those days. Definitely my favorite of that era. Not saying a lot, but still - I really like it. Carl's chorus backup vocal must get stuck in my head literally every couple of days.

There are fifty reasons why Speed Turtle is better than Teeter Totter Love...hmmm, actually, I can only think of 2!  :lol

Not released, but I've recently found Mike Love's "Oh Those Girls". One of those songs that are so awful that I'm literally laughing. Loudly. I love Mike's voice, but 90% of the hilarity is his voice - he sounds like a hair metal singer!

I suppose there's something to say for something like that, something you can get some kind of enjoyment out of, than something that's just offensively bad or something. But oh God, I just can't believe how bad this is!

why belles of paris? :/

Gonna throw my hat into the ring and say 'Santa's Got An Airplane' is a bloody disgrace and Al deserves a kick in the nads for it.

"Barbara-fucking-Ann".

There, I win.  ;D

I will never understand why that song is a "classic", its a sloppy cover for a stop-gap album.

(http://www.beachboys.com/surfsiders.jpg)

Forgot about that gem.... :lol

 ;D I adore it. It is so inept, so naïve, so utterly utterly out there... in fact it's pointless to criticize it for its faults, as if the guys could have done any better... you just have to love it, period.

I'm not a huge fan of "Passing Friend," but "It's Getting Late" and "Male Ego" are very good tunes. "Male Ego" harkens back to "Love You," with its slightly detuned organ patches...

I haven't read thru all 12 pages of this but...has anybody mentioned the "WipeOut" 'duet' with The Fat Boys? Urgggggh.

Worthy contender:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RryIroTqs-k

and (rock with the croc.....yeah sure, w/e mike...):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B_okZ4kgLg&feature=related

Paul McCartney had this snapper too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0auCDOERZyE

Carl's vocal on "The Night Was So Young" is weird. The first time I heard it (the 93 box set) I thought it was Brian except for "Why She has to Hi-ii-ide. She's passing it by. She won't even try." Then I thought Brian took over on "to make this love go where it should." (and the equivalent on the later verses).

Those parts I mentioned were the only ones to me that sounded like Carl. Since Carl said he went back and "worked my ass off" to finish "Love You," I'm surprised he didn't take another crack at it.

I wonder how many times the cleaned-up Carl of the '80s and '90s wished he could do it again.

his vocals on "the night wa sso young" are amazingly beautiful :)

I think you can make a pretty big argument for Barbara Ann, since it was such a big hit but it's out of key the whole time.  If you've ever heard the original, though, it's even worse, amazingly. 

Once you're doing Cover songs, hell the doors are wide open, so it makes it even worse that they'd cover such a crappy song and do such a crappy job of it. 

I know they did a lot of other bad songs, but none of them were actually as popular as this one.  I've never liked it.  Even as a kid I hated it. 

I actually liked it.  the wall of Brian is strong on that one. 

As crappy as the Boys version Barbara Ann is, it seems like a work of towering genius next to the original which is as limp and insipid as it gets.

Newguy, you are now truly one of us.........

I have long suspected that Brian cut a very good guide vocal for that track, and Carl was following it. For all that Carl had a very distinctive voice himself, he could also be something of a vocal chameleon -- if he copied someone else's phrasing, he ended up sounding like that other person (just listen to the 85 album, where he sounds ridiculously like both Stevie Wonder and Boy George). I suspect that 'chameleon' quality probably came from him singing in the middle of a harmony stack for so long -- when you're singing those parts, you want to sound as close to the people around you as you can, not stand out a mile.

Personally, I love that vocal, but then I think that Love You has some of Brian's best vocals on it, so Carl sounding like Brian then doesn't seem a bad thing to me.

 :)
 :)

As far as worst BB-related song, "Summer of Love." Mike sounds downright creepy. And the "video" was no great shakes either. Brian wearing a leather jacket on the beach?!? LMAO!

And although it's BW solo, "Smart Girls" is up there, too. Brian trying to rap? Uh, Brian...please don't rap. You're not Ice Cube (yeah, I imagine Landy was probably behind that whole debacle, but still...It was a shame, b/c I like most of the other songs on Sweet Insanity, apart from the synth-oriented production).

Other bad moments for me:

Sweet Sunday Kinda Love (just bland and not that interesting)
Oh Darlin' (puts me to sleep everytime I hear it)
School Days (Al sounds OK, but the "wooo-oooh! Wooo-OOOH! Wooo-oooh! Wooo-OOOH" noises are grating)
When Girls Get Together (the rhythm is terrible, and the musical arrangement is just a mess)
California Callin' (sounds more like a California tourism commercial than an actual song)

F'fn creepy!  It makes me sad that Brian was actively involved with this hunk of garbage.  Mike just sounds creepy...like some old dude leering at young girls.  This song deserved to remain in the unreleased bin.

Other clunkers...
"Livin' With a Heartache" straight-up BLOWS!  I can imagine Kenny Rogers singing this circa 1979/80 in a light blue leisure suit!
"Oh Darlin'" is an insanely wimpy sounding song.  Brian's original at least has some soul to it.  Production is syrupy goo (thanks, Bruce).  The chorus is awful "...it's like a missing piece of puzzle has appeared..."
"Sumahama" sounds like something you'd hear just before the nitrous knocked you out and you woke up missing your wisdom teeth.
"Winds of Change" is awful.  When did Barry Manilow join the Beach Boys?
"Somewhere Near Japan" is incredible terrible.
"Student Demonstration Time" is putrid!  Mike sounds so behind-the-times...and to think they bumped something like 4th of July and Wouldn't It Be Nice To Live Again makes me ill.

I agree with ya on Livin with a Heartache, Winds of Change, and Student Demonstration Time...though each has great vocals like any other BB song, these are downright snoozers.

"The Grammy" is  lame

Agreed

Forgot to add "Daddys Little Girl" :o

'hey little tomboy' is a classic jam.

i agree, always enjoyed the tune.


Now Hey There Momma, there's a bad song!

I'm not questioning it's catchiness...just the creepy aspect to Love's vocals...he sounds like he's leering at some young high school girl.  I think Brian's original intentions were very innocent...and that comes across in his verse...but again, hearing Mike sing: "I'm gonna teach you to ki-i-is, it's gonna feel like thi-i-s" is creepy!  As I may have mentioned before...the "banter" at the end of the Adult/Child version is even creepier!  Glad that bit was cut before final release.

Again, it's a catchy song...and I've always liked it...but it just opens the door to some humor at the expense of Mr. Michael E. Love!  ;)

My! What a wide ranging list of "worst" songs!
Seems the Beachboys have had as many really BAD songs as they've had GOOD songs!

While I have to agree much of Still Crusin, SIP and KTSA are weak or uninspired, and that about half of the solo LP cuts are weak or bad, I have to say I find some mid 70's stuff the worst.

Every Ones in Love With You
I Want to Pick You Up
Love is a Woman
Tomboy

I will not let these songs play through if another person is present :o

they had more weak songs then good songs but the songs that were good were unbelievably good :) ..some of their strongest songs wipe out most of the music to come out of the 20th and 21st century...easily

Whenever I hear "Everyone's In Love With You" I picture that scene from that awful Beach Boys TV Movie where Milton Love comes to visit Mike and he's surrounded by flowers and on his all juice diet and just out of his mind on TM crap.  That scene always cracks me up!

A lot of the oldies on "15 Big Ones" are bad.  Except, of course, for "Just Once In My Life" which is awesome.  I particularily cannot stand "Blueberry Hill" nor do I really like "Rock 'n Roll Music" because I find the "rock, rock, rockin' and rollin'" backing vocals to be extremely annoying and Mike just isn't rockin' in general!

I'll mention it again because I hate it so much...but "Livin' With a Heartache" is really terrible.  It sounds like a song that Kenny Rogers or Alabama would have recorded circa 1980.  Come on, Carl...you couldn't find anyone better to write with than Randy "Stinkin'" Bachman?  Honestly?

You have tread carefully post "Holland" because there are way too embarassing moments...but there are also some really glorious moments...you just have to look for them.  Every post "Holland" LP has several "diamonds in the rough" where they knock it out of the park...but the consistency is gone.  Honestly, TWGMTR is probably the most consistent LP they have put out since 1972!

I dunno, man. I think Everyone's In Love With You is one of the highlights on 15 Big Ones. It's plaintative, and maybe a little dull. There isn't one cover song I actually like on 15 BO. The problem I have with them is that they simply aren't as good as the originals, or at least bring anything interesting into the picture. The Righteous Brothers' Just Once in My Life is a very powerful, emotional, gut-wrenching record, and the Beach Boys record just lays there, with it's plodding synth and drunk sounding Carl and Brian vocals. I think that sort of production lends itself to Brian's quirky originals on Love You, and his other compositions on 15 BO, but not when you're covering oldies.

Livin' With A Heartache is OK. Certainly not the worst on KTSA (I'm looking at you, School Days).

This thread isn't titled "The dulllest Beach Boys related 'song' ever released", so I'm wondering why I'm seeing things like "Oh Darlin'" being mentioned here. Not the best thing they recorded by any stretch of the imagination, but the worst??? Heck no.

I would probably go with Student Demonstration Time if I had to pick a worst. Or maybe something from SIP. Smart Girls is way too unintentionally funny to have that honor!  :)

I really don't get all the Student Demonstration Time hatred. It seems like people hate it so much because in their reality Mike Love has no right to have ever attempted such a thing or to try and sing about something topical. Really? Well, he's in the Beach Boys are you aren't. It's a rockin track and his lead sounds cool and it was a stroke of pure sequencing genius to have it come on the heels of Disney Girls. And at least Mike had a sort of twisted point he was trying to make rather than just straightforward reportage ala Neil Young's Ohio (yes, an awesome song)! I happen to find smug, self satisfied, earnest, "cred worthy" hippie crap like Joni Mitchell's/CSN's "Woodstock" more offensive than a bald square Mike Love attempting to be cool. Funny thing is, for all he gets slammed for being "behind the times" and trying to be cool, he's actually telling the listener to STAY THE F! AWAY from a protest!!!!

If a fan wasn't around when Student DT was released, then they haven't a clue how relevant the song was. Upon it's release in the Summer of '71, it broke through on FM radio. That alone was a major feat. The song was an instant "like" in many parts of the country. The Surf's Up album would not have been such smash without it.

I Love Student Demonstration Time, I Don't see how people could hate it? I think it's one of there harder rocking songs and that's what I Love about it

Don't have much love for Student Demonstration Time.  I'm iffy enough on the original, and Mike's nasally vocals and a fairly pedestrian bluesly performance don't help.  Realistically it's not the worst they ever did (a comparable song like Rock and Roll Music is worse), but on an album with such majestic highs I always find myself skipping it.  If I want the Beach Boys on a heavier rock song I'd rather go with something like It's About Time.

You're spot-on. Never ever had an ear trouble with SDT. Yeah, re-written lyrics aren't high-class for sure but for cripes sake we're talking about the band which is famous for their mellowness! Methinks Student DemoTime was good enough attempt at rock genre. No higher than Marcella but close second. How'er to each their own.      

Okay now, to me the worst BB song is Roller Skating Child. Why? I think no need for explanation.

really? i actually always loved the melody...the subject is a bit strange(to say the least) but the vocals are awesome as well...one of the highlights of love you...

I'd imagine if one is basing the song on (presumably) the creepy lyrics, you might as well just focus on Hey Little Tomboy.  That is, unless you have a problem with the actual performance.  I'd argue Roller Skating Child is more enjoyable musically.

Wow, it's like a Student Demonstration Time supporters group in here. I will add my voice to those that don't despise, and possibly even enjoy the song. I've never voiced this opinion since (besides the fact that I don't post that often!), it seems (or it did before) that there was a unanimous dislike of it. In many cases it was an intense dislike, which I could never understand. For me it's a noticeably better song than All I Want to Do (the 20/20 track).

Can't Stop Thinking About American Girls. Mikes singing is really out of tune! Don't know if it was released though.

I don't know about that orange. That is most surely an apples and oranges comparison.

The problem with Living with a Heartache is that its like a million years long.

apples and orangessssssss (syd barrett voice)  :p

I like "Living with a heartache" and "Student Demonstration Time".

To me the worst BB song ever is...

you might guess...

... "The Private Life Of Bill And Sue" (cringes).

The 45 of it is good as it is cut by a minute. It honestly is a better record for it.

Spriiiing Vacaaaation, Good Vibraaaation, E-Z money!

This has become one of my favorite songs off TWGMTR. Oddly enough, because I really disliked it at first and I didn't expect it to grow on me at all. Right now, however, it feels pretty similar to "That Same Song" or "He Come Down", both of which I love despite their cheesiness. In terms of both music AND lyrics I can picture BW having a blast listening back to the finished recording. After all this is the very same guy who wrote "The Spirit of Rock'n'Roll".

Spring Vacation gets a bad rap.  What would a Beach Boys LP be without some fun in the sun.  Also, I like how the lyrics invoke the past and getting back together for one more blast.  It's almost like the anthem for their reunion...as cheesy as that may sound.

This might be somewhat "broad" in relation to the question, but I'm going to answer with the songs on the Stars and Stripes album. Maybe some of the individual songs are ok but I felt that there was no need for that album whatsoever so I have not listened to it since it first came out (and even then only sparingly). So, I feel those are the worst song(s) ever released.

I think some of the covers turned out to be pretty neat, especially "Warmth of the Sun" featuring Willie Nelson.

Mayn. What's wrong with going out roller skating with a girl?

"Roller Skating Child" is an awesome simplistic rocker with funky lyrics.  :banana And it's just so damn wilson.

"We'll make sweet lovin' when the sun goes down. And even do more when your mama's not around." That's some poetry right there.

Yeah, but this:


^_^

Still, I'll grant you that I don't understand what he means by "more". What "more" is there to do with a romantic interest after dark, meaning beyond makin' teh sweet love? Is he alluding to butt sex? I don't know.

:lol

I think "more" means an increase in quantity (and time), not the advancement to another technical level.

Not to mention the fact that the "mama" is apparently around when the teenage couple is makin' "sweet love".

"Funky lyrics", that's what I said.  :smokin

Wow, I don't know how I never thought of that. I too have long wondered what "more" meant and just assumed things were going to get freakier.

I'm also sad that this song is being discussed in this thread. =/ I mean, Brian's beast howling of the last line sounding like he's across the room from the mic as his introduction on the album is enough to make it awesome.

ETA: I realize now why I never considered "more" as meaning more of the same. If they meant it in that way, wouldn't the phrasing be "We'll make sweet loving when the sun goes down, we'll do IT even more when your mama's not around" The absence of the "it" definitely makes it sound like the activity is going to change.

It's far from the worst song on that album, let alone the catalog.

It's not fun. It's certainly not sun. It's such a hollow, facile statement and it's just not fun to listen to. It certainly doesn't move me to anything but foul language and cursing.

That opening bit is a lot more offensive than the lyrics... that godawful guitar! It sounds like background music on the Weather Channel.


"... and now your local forecast, accurate and dependable... from The Weather Channel..."

I would not consider it a favorite, but Spring Vacation is one of the songs I listen to most off of the album. It's classic Beach Boys in a kinda cringey, kinda SMH way. The lyrics are so literal and honest and endearingly out of touch with the plight of the everyday man (Easy money, ain't life funny? 8% unemployed might not think so) The lyrics literally sound like Brian just started talking about the upcoming tour and they were all like "Ok, good enough, go with it." Also: the song is perfect for car duets.

I do think the title should be different. I recommend "Yeah, We're The Beach Boys. Suck it, Everyone Else."

 :lol I found it really cringeworthy when it first leaked on that foreign radio station (that seems like such a long time ago, it's only been a couple months!), but I think I've kinda gotten used to it. The thing that put me off for a good while was the drum pattern and groove, that style hasn't been heard since the 90s (and for good reason). It's kind of funny how you can sense they were trying to go current with the backing track and they could only get as far as the 90s! Ha. Anyway, the lyrics are pretty bad too, but not as bad as Bill and Sue, and probably on par with Beaches In Mind.

I love Spring Vacation, Beaches In Mind and The Private Life Of Bill And Sue.

The only song I really can't stand from TWGMTR is Beaches In Mind. Now that's a shallow track.  It sounds thin, the lyrics mean next to nothing, and the rhythm and drum pattern and awful guitar licks just really turn me off.

"Beaches In Mind" should've been drastically reworked into "Bitchez In Mind" and been a direct sequel to "Gettin' Hungry" (or "Male Ego").

Lyrics?  ;)

The very worst Beach Boys related song ever released ?

My personal Number One: Kokomo, followed by Sumahama and Summer Of Love

Kokomo?  Yeah, it's high on the cheese factor...but I love Carl's high part at the end of the chorus.  Man, I miss that voice.  Production is a little dated and the video flat out stinks.  Sumahama is a stinker, however.

If Kokomo wasn't a hit, I'm sure not many people would be citing it as the worst BB related song ever released.

That's exactly right.  I love the video, however, when Mike breaks it down on the sax!  Man, that is funny!

Wrinkles is a good candidate, but musically I've heard worse.
Though with Wrinkles, the first time I listened to it, I thought it was all right. With each listen after, it got worse and worse for me.

Anyway, it's gotta be Summer of Love, hands down! :bow
With Sumahama as the follow-up, of course.

Summer Of Love is atrocious.  When Girls Get Together is pretty interminable as well.

I confess I have yet to hear Wrinkles.

At least Summer Of Love is catchy as hell!

Problem Child might be the worst thing recorded by anyone ever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCSJ3DRhs7g

Good Luck, you're going to need it!  >:D


I actually find it to be the other way around  :lol

I think you need to go on a "Love vacation" ;) ;)

Granted, the "Naa na na na na" from Problem Child is fucking annoying, and it keeps repeating throughout the whole song!
But I'd still take Problem Child over Summer Of Love anyday.
Besides, I love Carl's singing on Problem Child!

And at least Problem Child doesn't have this:
"We'll be California Dreamin' Baywatchin' every day, Just off the Malibu Surfin' USA"

Agreed :)
I like "Problem Child" as a guilty pleasure. When the harmonies kick in on "first we'll be married, with kids after awhile", it sounds (however briefly) like classic BB harmonies there.
They should re-release it with the "Naa na na na na" removed, a la the Party "sound effects" overdub removal.

The only part of "Summer of Love" that I find barely tolerable is the choruses ("Girls are always ready for a Summer of Love...")... and not until Adamghost pointed out that it's the recycled "Child Of Winter" riff did it make sense why I kinda (just a little bit) like that part of the song.

I'll be one of the few (or maybe a growing number?) of people who like a decent smattering of songs from "Summer in Paradise" (album). I think there's a halfway decent EP's worth of material there if you eliminate about 65% of the rest. I really like the "Still Cruisin'" album, and the better tracks from SIP are like a "Still Cruisin'", Part Deux.

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Summer of Love.. In The Still Of The Night... Blueberry Hill..  Love Is A Woman.. Johnny Carson... Wrinkles.. Santa's Goin To Kokomo...  When Girls Get Together.. Silent Nite.. Problem Child.. Belles of Paris...  TM Song..  Make It Good...  Winds of Change.. A Day In The Life of A Tree...  Louie Louie..  South Bay Surfer.. Anna Lee The Healer.. Transendental Meditation...  Passing Friend..  Bill + Sue.. Smart Girls.. Im Begging you please.. Cocaine sessions.. Little Deuce Coupe w// James House...  Barbie w/Brian Wilson ..Luau.. Jumpin Jack Flash.. Santa's Got An Airplane.. Country Love LP.. Mike + Dean junk.. Imagine.. My Solution ..  Bluebirds tick tock version.. A Friend Like You.. The Waltz.. You Touched Me.... Lady Liberty.. I know you asked for a couple but I was on a roll.. These songs on this list  make me ILL.. :rock.. None of these IMHO ever should have seen the light of day... :lol

The chorus also cribs a bit of "Some Of Your Love" as well....

+1, it could easily have gotten a bit of AM rotation back in the day.

And any song with a lyric as dubious as - "He came once Christmas, in a basket" is ok by me  :p

I'm sure it's already had a mention in this rather old thread, but, and I say this as a major Al fan, nothing in the catalogue is as shameful as "Lady Liberty", if only for it's pillaging of the original number.

I'm going to have to disagree with Love Is A Woman, Johnny Carson, Problem Child (Guilty Pleasure), Make It Good, A Day In The Life Of A Tree, Passing Friend and Jumpin' Jack Flash.  :P  :)


Lady Liberty isn't too bad. Lady Lynda is great, Lady Liberty isn't good. But there are far worse BB's songs

Have you ever seen the SNL live version of  Love Is A Woman..?? Oh My Im lost for words.. >:D

Wrinkles has never been released.

Another reason why I didn't say it was the worst  :-D

Which ones in your opinion are worse than Lady Liberty?

Carl saves Lady Liberty from being a total train wreck.

It isn't a candidate though.

The whole of the SIP album and 15 Big Ones, for one.
A majority of KTSA, Still Cruisin, MIU, Beach Boys Party, and LDC.
There are many other worse songs, but that's all I'll name

My Solution? Are you nuts??

Also, Stevie and Oh Lord both originated from the Cocaine Sessions and they're both good. As is Anna Lee, Johnny Carson and, especially, A Day In The Life Of A Tree.

Mind you, I can't stand It's Over Now so hey... (Oh, and I also quite like Battle Hymn) :)

Personally I think Summer of Love and Lady Liberty are the two biggest BB offenders. Summer of Love probably the worst as it's been far more widely heard and therefore more reputation-destroying.

As often noted, this is also pretty horrendous: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfmH2wHTQZ8

I don't know which I hate more: the actual song itself, Mike's buttock-clenchingly embarrassing introduction or when he does the prayer gesture at the end. 

Make It Good
TM Song
Let's Put Our Hearts Together
SOLAR SYSTEM*
Love Is a Woman
Why Won't Someone Dance With Me
Winds of Change
When Girls Get Together
Passing Friend
Maybe I Don't Know
I Do Love You
Crocodile Rock
Problem Child
Under The Boardwalk
Stamosised Forever
Spring Vacation
Bill & Sue
Beaches In Mind

Now that would make a god awful compilation cd.

*Special emphasis for worst Beach Boys song ever.

Are you freaking kidding me?!

pleasebejokingpleasebejokingpleasebejokingpleasebejoking

I've never understood the love of the song either.
What do you like about it?

Ok, firstly the humour - they sound like they're having a great time!

Secondly, I like the melody.

Thirdly, and most of all, the inventiveness and the sound effects and so on. Bootleg quality aside, it sounds fantastic! I particularly like the instrumental break towards the end.

But even if you don't like all of this, I don't get how it can't be judged one of their worst ever songs. I still think it deserves to be admired artistically, whereas Summer of Love etc. - they are just utterly creatively bankrupt.

cheesy video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btb8cS6CIRo

bloody aweful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RryIroTqs-k
(when Dean fucks up the sled asshole Mike tosses snowballs and laughs. Luckily some very helpful and very TV-perfect people were close by to aid him.)

nadir of music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6U2ubpBd28

No joke, I hate it, but that's 90% down to Gary Moore's horrible, horrible guitar shredding. In all honestly I thought you'd be more upset that I singled out the Dennis Wilson shitefest that is Make It Good.

Wrinkles is a classic and it is soon to be released on a compilation along with Old Shep, Jeff Carson's Real Life, Gary Allen's Tough Little Boys and several others. The comp is up for pre-release on Amazon and is titled, 'Dead Good Dead Dog Songs'. Catchy title.

With Make It Good, your feelings are understandable. Though the music is incredible, the lyrics are rubbish.
Personally, I don't mind it, and once again, there are worse BB's songs.

I was just shocked that you would put Maybe I Don't Know on that list. I find Gary Moore's guitar playing to be tolerable, but there's just something about that song...
IMO it's the best song off the 85 album.

Oh man, so many here I forgot about...I looked at Cabinessence's links above, saw what they were, and ran the other way.

"Battle Hymn" -- man, forgot about that one.  Though listening to Mike tapdance his way around the vocal, and Carl and Al getting progressively more bored playing as the track wears on, is hilarious.

"Passing Friend" -- oh yeah, I HATE that song.  In fact, I'd almost say it's the worst ever in the sense that some of the other tracks mentioned are so terrible they have entertainment value for that reason alone (see above), but "Passing Friend" is just boring as hell.

How about "Happy Endings"?  Not only is the song treacly and terrible -- "Disney Girls" with all of the heart and intelligence removed -- but the video, as I've often said, is like a fever dream you get after gorging on Taco Bell right before falling asleep.  Even Carl sucks on it -- he oversings.  How often does THAT happen?

I was walking around with "Summer of Love" stuck in my head yesterday (thanks guys) and occurred to me that the absolute nadir of the song is the leering "GUUURRRLLLLS are always ready" counterpoint in the chorus.  It's so gross and transgressive, especially after "doin' it to you would be so very cool" (not doin' it WITH you, mind...TO you).  

At least that's my recollection of what it does.  I can't bring myself to go back to the video and watch to make sure.  Speaking of the video, what is UP with it?  You can't even tell who's in the band half the time.  It's so confusing.  Everyone wearing the ugliest lifeguard outfits ever.

Let me throw "H.E.L.P. Is On The Way" into the ring.  Yes, it's daft in that Brian navel-gazing way and it has that SUNFLOWER/SURF'S UP era downhome post-hippie charm, but it's about the least melodically engaging song they ever recorded and contains the deathless couplet "doughy lumps/stomach pumps/enemas too."  Forgot that one didn't ya?  Skid marks are only poetic if Roger Christian is writing about a drag race.

Skid Marks?   hey , that would have been a good name for a hot rod group,back in the day!

Or for a group of old geezers now.

Worst ever to me is Mike's Imagine cover or maybe B-Pain's rap song.

you forget to put smiley ;) ;D

Nobody warned me there was a you tube  link up there to Santa's goin to Kokomo .. Ah man my dinner is ruined now.. But IMHO Mike's lead vocals on JB Rock and HYAMLC were pretty good in fact what ruins the songs is the cheesy cheapo recordings.. The tracks are cheesy + light weight.. Heck there isn't even a guitar part on JB Rock.. Just keyboards + machines.. On both songs pretty much.. With a much better presentation + real instruments would have been good stuff..

I'd forgot about Happy Endings. What a bad song.

Most of CATP and Holland and Carl's LA contributions are all less catchy than HELP. I can't defend the "enema" line, though.

I love the group vocal breakdown part on H.E.L.P ("H-E-L-P: Heeeeeeeelp") .... Let's remember that it's nothing but an unused commercial ditty for The Radiant Radish! Right?

Guuuuuuuuurls are always ready for stomach pumps and enemas too!

ROTFLMAO

It's definitely gotta be "Smart Girls", hands down. That song is the embodiment of every rock fan's stereotype of what they think rap music is but actually isn't. Quite rightly, it's a complete and total embarrassment.

7 letters: TPLOBAS.

That's the worst, no further discussion. :o

Catchy and melodically engaging are not necessarily the same thing.  "Angel Come Home" or (for that matter) "Here She Comes" are less catchy than "H.E.L.P." but they're a hell of a lot more interesting and unpredictable.  H.E.L.P. follows an obvious 1-4-5 pattern with a rote melody pattern.  The descending cadence is OK, but it's also where the enemas come in.

"I Just Called To Say I Love You" is catchy.  It's not, however, melodically engaging.

... except that it remains resolutely unreleased.

Can we all agree that "Smart Girls" is THE song that would never see official release by the powers-that-be, even if hell froze over?  I think we'd see "Teardrops On My Bed" get official release before "Smart Girls".

I thought it was released as a promotional track to radio stations at some point to build hype for Sweet Insanity or something along those lines? But even if that is the case, I suppose it's not exactly an official, wide release.

"Battle Hymn of the Republic" has them all beat.

I tried bringing Beaches In Mind into an audio editing program, just so I could drop the pitch on "beaches" and try to turn it into "bitches."  It totally did not work.  But someday.  Someday I will have the skill and the know-how to create a Beach Boys song called Bitches in Mind.  Man, its been too much time. 

(also, I totally don't hate this song...)

You are a genius..... :lol :lol :lol

I LOVE H.E.L.P.

Oh, and I like Battle Hymn also... Perhaps I more interesting thread would be 'Clearly sh*t Beach Boys that you honestly genuinely un-ironically really like'!

'Hey Little Tomboy'
'California Calling'
'Summer of Love'

 :ahh

I know people have very different definitions of what it means to be a "fan" of something, but I want to share mine:

When I'm a fan of someone (a musician, an actor) I pretty much think they sh*t gold.  Since I'm a fan of the Beach Boys, I must think that everything they sh*t out has some gold in it.  And I do.  

Back in the day they used to sh*t 90% gold, and maybe 10% sh*t.  Over the years the gold/sh*t ratio has changed, sure, but there's always gold to be found there, even if it takes some digging.

So to me there's no such thing as a Beach Boys song that sucks all the way, because if they're the Beach Boys, and they are, and if there's at least 3 or four of them involved, as there usually is, then there's must be some gold in that poop!

For example, the song It's A Beautiful Day.  It ain't great.  But Carl's "living out in LA... such a beautiful daaaaay" part is great.  So there's a kinda crappy song that has 20 seconds of greatness, but I must've listened to it 25 times.

I don't own Summer in Paradise, as it's been out of print forever, and it's kinda terrible, but I've still listened to it on Youtube dozens of times.  Why have I listened to something that's kinda terrible dozens of times?  Because it's The Beach Boys and they go ooooh and aaaaaah and how bad could that be?  And if I owned Summer in Paradise on CD I'm sure I would've listened to it 100 times... and that's THEIR WORST ALBUM!  

(which is why my mind is blown... BLOWN... when I hear some board members describe songs or entire albums as UNLISTENABLE!!!)

Anyhoo.  That's my fandom.  And sorry for all the scatological imagery.     ;D

And for the record, i LOVE When Girls Get Together, Hey Little Tomboy, Bill & Sue, and I think Smart Girls is some kind of crazy demented awesome.

I think Dellydell should be made a 5-star honoured guest for that post alone.

 :) :-D ;D

Well, I think 'Summer of Love' is only the second worst they ever did, and the other two you mention I can totally stand. Not that I ever feel like listening to them... :wink

Thanks for opening my eyes to all of these songs, I actually really like Hey Little Tomboy besides the terrible lyrics which make me laugh especially when Carl sings "Time to turn into a girl" after the first verse.
And for choice of worst song, no doubt 'summer of love' takes the top spot. It feels like a comedy song/sketch that should have appeared on SNL.

I like Battle Hymn of The Republic too. Don't understand the hate for this recording.

dellydel.. I get your drift .. As a true fanatic of BB I should find something in everything they do to be pleasing to the ear.. And I generally do find something good to say about them.. Out of the 40 songs I listed only about 10  are ones I would totally  skip completely .. The other 30 are just below the standards of BB music IMHO only.. And im surprised they got released or even recorded.. Example " My Solution" to me is a goof + throwaway..  But I sure am glad BW used the music for "Happy Days"..  Stevie is an excellent song + should  be released.. But those Cocaine sessions are humiliating to hear..  And Country Love and those 80"s Mike + Dean stuff is  :wall.. I mean ive been to a BB show a number of times when they had a hiccup or a weak show( Long Beach 81) and still had a good time..  It's only R+R and I like it.. Im forgiving to the guys cause there is more positive over the years than negative.. ;)

No way is it worse than Summer Of Love  :lol

I'm certain even Dellydel wouldn't be able to find anything redeeming about that fecal festival!

I've always considered Smart Girls a guilty pleasure song. Sure, it's not very good, but it's a pretty funny and entertaining attempt at rap by Brian.
Give me Smart Girls over Beach Boys Medley or the whole of SIP anyday!

I agree with that - and the fact is that the song actually was originally written for/intended as being part of a TV comedy universe (just not the SNL universe, but The Simpsons universe)...I wonder what the inception of "Summer of Love" as a Bart Simpson duet may have had to do with influencing how that song turned out.

Does anyone here know any history behind that?

Awesome post! I feel about the same.. My theory is the voices. Or that's my own reason why I will like some of their shittier stuff. When at least a good chunk of the BBs are doing their harmonies and if there's a nice Carl vocal on it, it really makes it for me, like on Still Cruisin'. The production might be sh*t, and the song subpar (Island Girl for example), but it can be so catchy and it's great to recognize the guys voices on a song.

Regarding H.E.L.P: I love that song.. I think Brian didn't hold back on the lyrics on that song and wrote exactly how he felt at the time. Plus it gets stuck in my head all the time. That one has actually kind of been a classic for me. I actually kind of wanted to put together a comp of songs that were just 100% Brian creations during this 1969/1970 period, or co-writes that were very much his style that he could have recorded on his own, like Sail Plane Song also.

It's crazy the different tastes and various types of songs people are picking  in this thread (Day In The Life Of A Tree?? Really?? )

And I Always Will is another bad one.

I don't understand the whole Postcard From California thang. Why did he make an album almost completely of Beach Boys rerecordings?

You mean less than half the album?

Remakes or not, it's still one of the better solo BB's albums

1. A Postcard From California
2. California Feelin' - Beach Boys remake
3. Looking Down The Coast - Beach Boys remake
4. Don't Fight The Sea - Beach Boys remake
5. Tidepool Interlude
6. Campfire Scene - Beach Boys remake
7. A California Saga - continuation of the same Beach Boys remake
8. Help Me Rhonda - Beach Boys remake
9. San Simeon
10. Drivin'
11. Honking Down The Highway - Beach Boys remake
12. California Dreamin' - Mamas and Papas/Beach Boys remake
13. And I Always Will
14. Waves Of Love - Kinda, sort of a Beach Boys remake
15. Sloop John B - Beach Boys remake

I discount 14 and 15 as they aren't part of the original album. As for Don't Fight The Sea, Looking Down The Coast and Campfire Scene, they weren't released BB's songs, so I discount them as remakes

Seconded.

Absolute nadirs, discounting mediocrities:

Lots on the debut, but especially Ten Little Indians and Chug-A-Lug.
Pre-66 album filler like Bull Sessions and Denny's Drums. "I'm Bugged At My Old Man" is also quite awful.
Transcendental Meditation
Make It Good
So much of 15 Big Ones. Even the old outtake "Susie Cincinatti" is terrible. I HATE that song. OOOO NATTY SUSIE CINCINATTI are the backing vox from hell.
I think "A Casual Look" may get the Golden Turkey, though, for its derptacular vocals from Mike. Derp derp.

Also, seriously Adult Child mostly sucks. The lyrics are on a completely different level of terrible from those on Love You (which I somehow like).

An example, the opening line of possible the album's best song, Still I Dream Of It:

"Time for supper now, day's been hard and I'm so tired I feel like eating now." Dreadful.

There are too many bad songs from 1978-2012 to choose from, but the Here Comes The Night remake, Lady Liberty, and the Surfin' remake may be the foulest.

For Brian solo, Desert Drive is particularly gnarly. Them lyrics is tuuurrible.

Some of the songs mentioned are personal favorites of mine, like TM (the Friends song) or Bill and Sue.

I really dislike Beaches in Mind, the Peggy Sue / School Day remakes, Louie Louie, Santa's Got an Airplane... That last one is pretty painful I think.

Seriously, Al is so into remaking stuff. He turned Brian's beautiful Sail Plane Song into the atrocious Loop De Loop, changed Loop De Loop into the even more atrocious Santa's Got An Airplane, changed Lady Linda into the absolutely godawful Lady Liberty, are there more examples (discounting his solo album)?

My conclusion is that Al has never had an original musical idea in his life. Not that I don't like him as a person and vocalist (I do).

Also, Beaches In Mind is TERRIBLE. Nothing production-wise could have saved that song.

Yes.

It.

Is.

Sorry, Summer Of Love only clocks in second. Close second though. :)

I can't be bothered mentally running through every BB song - what's TPLOBAS?

The Private Life of Bill And Sue

I love that line! Though it loses something written down without the music to go along. I feel that way all the time. Hunger is not divorced from sadness and weariness- they so often come together in a bundle, especially if you have a comfort-food addiction. It also sets the scene for the song. The second line is great too. The only part of that lyric I don't like is the middle eight.

And I Always Will doesn't deserve to be mentioned in this thread. It should have been completed and included on BB85.

Summer of Love and Speed Turtle are the worst.

Hehe.  Ok yeah it's pretty terrible... most of the lyrics suck, the production sucks, the era sucks, BUT... the chorus ain't half bad!   The "girls are always ready for the summer of love, goooing out looking...." I like, and I like how the second line is sung deeper than the first, creating a kind of circular, higher pitched, lower pitched... circle... of love?  Ok, there's no way I can explain this properly :)

And hell, I guess Mike Love doing his almost-rapping deep voice thing is kind of a guilty pleasure.  Did I mention I like ridiculous things?   ::)

Ok, now lets talk about how awesome Brain's "Water Builds Up" is!  I swear I wake up singing that song two days a week.

 

I'm with you guys on this. Even the worst songs have some redeeming grace, if only vocally, and even if only by one of the vocalists. For the record. my least favorite song is "When Girls Get Together", but there is some cool stuff going on musically that catches my attention and keeps me from hitting the "Next" button every time it comes on. ;)

I basically agree about Al. Great singer but he doesn't seem to have an awful lot of creative energy when it comes to writing songs on his own. I still think he did some fantastic collaborative work with Brian - Wake the World, Good Time, even Santa Ana Winds.

I feel Beaches in Mind is the kind of song that doesn't appeal to (most of) the diehards and neither is it a very good "commercial" song (unlike, say, Kokomo). Just completely pointless and it makes the group sound really old in an unpleasant way. In that regard it's probably the complete opposite of Pacifc Coast Highway.

If I had an OSD personality, I'd answer this post with a cascade of "woot"s. I won't though.

I find it unbelievable that Sumahama is barely mentioned here.

If you ignore the entire SIP album, then Sumahama is the BB's worst song, hands down :bow

In fact, Sumahama is so fucking awful that it makes the long version of the disco Here Comes The Night look like Good Vibrations or Pet Sounds!

There is one (AND ONLY ONE) Beach Boys song I can't stand.

That song was written by Brian Wilson.

It is called.

Beaches In Mind.

Thank you for reading.

I think we all can agree

BIM is bad, bad, bad.

I think The Simpsons need to have Barney Gumble do a BB cover called “Belches in Mind”.

Hmm...

Its a stupid song, but atleast the production isn't super cheesy. I like the slick sound of the album.

My vote would probably go to Mike's disco/instrumental version of California Girls.

Or how about Mike & Celebration version of "Gettin Hungry"

(I don't think it's too bad actually  :-[ )

Oh yeah, that one is really funny too  ;D

I just listened to side 1 of Still Cruisin!

My God, "In My Car" is AWFUL!!!!!

There is no such thing as an  AWFUL Beach Boys song

True, but in the spirit of the thread: it comes damn close...

Disagree. I think it kinda rocks, for what it is.

"In My Car" is too oddball to be awful to me. At least it isn't a completely generic 80s song like "Passing Friend" or "Happy Endings".

At least for nuts like us...

One time I got a new job where I had to spend a lot of time on the road. So, I decided to re-do all of my personal Beach Boys' comps and burn all new CD's for the car. I started with The Beach Boys CD 1 which contained the greatest hits, in my opinion of course. The Beach Boys CD 2 was a step down, but just barely, actually microscopic. You get the picture. The Beach Boys CD 3 was still great but not as great.

Eventually I got to The Beach Boys CD 9 which was comprised of the remaining songs, the ones which didn't make the cut on the first 8. And, you know what? It was still a good listen, very enjoyable, and still had some merit. EVERY song had something that redeemed it, even, as has been mentioned, maybe just the lead vocal. I wouldn't recommend that CD 9 to a non-BB fan, but it wasn't awful either. :police:

For some reason: STILL STILL STILL: The KTSA/BB's 85 twofer is always in heavy rotation while driving.....

I like Happy Endings.
But it's yet another example of sh*t lyrics, great music (and singing for that matter)

I just wanted to take advantage of this situation and post this again...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj5A-597o0E

Weird that Brian had a period of being a guy who actually stood up and sang while holding a microphone, stomping around the stage with a crazed look.  And sigh, the falsetto sounds pretty good.

I really do like the chorus of this song tho..