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Here's Mojo magazines Top 50 Beach Boys tracks. What'd you think?

1. SURF'S UP
2. GOOD VIBRATIONS
3. GOD ONLY KNOWS
4. CALIFORNIA GIRLS
5. TIL I DIE
6. CAROLINE, NO
7. HEROES & VILLAINS
8. DON'T TALK
9. WOULDN'T IT BE NICE
10. I GET AROUND
11. CABINESSENCE
12. FEEL FLOWS
13. I JUST WASN'T MADE...
14. YOU STILL BELIEVE IN ME
15. DON'T WORRY BABY
16. SAIL ON SAILOR
17. LET'S GO AWAY FOR AWHILE
18. SURFER GIRL
19. IN MY ROOM
20. I KNOW THERE'S AN ANSWER
21. DO YOU LIKE WORMS?
22. OUR PRAYER
23. I'M WAITING FOR THE DAY
24. PET SOUNDS
25. FUN FUN FUN
26. THE WARMTH OF THE SUN
27. SURFIN' USA
28. DISNEY GIRLS
29. DARLIN'
30. HERE TODAY
31. I CAN HEAR MUSIC
32. YOU'RE SO GOOD TO ME
33. BREAK AWAY
34. BARBARA ANN
35. ALL SUMMER LONG
36. TEARS IN THE MORNING
37. SLOOP JOHN B
38. COOL, COOL WATER
39. WHEN I GROW UP
40. CUDDLE UP
41. LONG PROMISED ROAD
42. LET HIM RUN WILD
43. LITTLE DEUCE COUPE
44. THAT'S NOT ME
45. WILD HONEY
46. DO IT AGAIN
47. VEGE-TABLES
48. HELP ME RHONDA
49. WIND CHIMES (Smiley Smile version)
50. FOREVER

Not my Top 50 (please don't ask for it) but good choices.
Surprised that "Please let me Wonder" isn't there.
And where's "Kokomo"??? Just kiddin'.
"Surf's Up" at #1 is great.

Pretty good list, except maybe for 'Barbara Ann'.

#1 and #2 are the exact same as my two top favourites.

Thanks for sharing.

Decent list from a decent magazine, but Bruce gets as many entries as Dennis! Would have included Slip on Through or Little Bird at least

Interesting to see the European perspective.

They missed Kiss me baby...and I would put Kokomo on that list :p

PLMW belongs in any top50 list. Apart from that... BA? TITM? LDC? ICHM? Don't know about those in a top50 list. Well, at least CUDDLE UP is in there, and a few other awesome album cuts.

I'm surprised that The Night Was So Young, I Bet He's Nice, Johnny Carson or Had To Phone Ya are not on the list. They all beat anything by Bruce.

Otherwise I think the list is rather well done, perhaps too heavy on PS and Smile? I wouldnt put Let Us Go Away For Awhile in the top 20, nor would many other!

That's a pretty great list and I'm glad they weren't afraid to go for the deeper cuts.  "Cuddle Up"?  "Wind Chimes (Smiley Smile version)?"  They get brownie points for those.  You compare that to a list made by a magazine based here in the US like Rolling Stone and it'd probably be completely different (and not in a good way).

Interesting list but you can almost hear the affected and self-conscious discussions when they decided they were going to put every Pet Sounds song on the list. I mean that almost has to be something decided on in advance.

The order is really strange, for my own personal tastes. It's odd to me that someone would consider Wouldn't It Be Nice only the fourth best song on Pet Sounds, and Sloop John B. the second worst (I feel that that comes as a reaction to the age-old misconception that the song wasn't supposed to be on the album).

Pretty good. If it gets peope listening to something a bit more obscure I'm stoked. Of course tehre are a handful I might take off and replace with something different. And I'd probably put in my room higher.

I could think of ten or twelve things I'd like to add, but I don't think any of these aren't great.

This is a very die-hard centered list, though. Not an accurate representation of anything at all (IMO). I mean, you have to be REALLY into the BB's to put Do You Like Worms? on a top 50 list!

Why is That's Not Me always considered to be the worst song on Pet Sounds? Because it has a significant Mike Love lead? That's Not Me is great!

PS and SMiLE account for the bulk of the top 25 alone.

I don't think that's the reason. But while I do like That's Not Me, there is seemingly less going on with it than on other tracks -- it has a fairly simple set up, instrumentally. In that sense, it seems to fit the least with the Pet Sounds aesthetic. Lyrically and vocally though it fits in perfectly.

My own thoughts:

Every single Pet Sounds track in the top 50? Yes it's their seminal album, but this shows a somewhat limited imagination doesn't it, especially as...

There's NO tracks from side two of Today! included, at all. No Please Let Me Wonder. No Kiss Me Baby. No She Knows Me Too Well. Are these list compilers even Beach Boy fans??

According to this list, the best track on Sunflower is.... Tears In The Morning. It ranks higher than Cool Cool Water and Forever (This Whole World doesn't feature at all!)

Dennis is utterly sidelined - he only just manages a single track in the top 40 (bearing in mind Bruce has two!!)

A very unusual list then, which somehow manages to be surprising but unimaginative at the same time. Still, it's still great to see such a big feature on the BB's in such a highly regarded music magazine, and on the cover too (pity Brian's face has been weirdly-photoshopped though).

Mojo asked for Beach Boys fans to let them know what song(s) they should've included but didn't. Email at: mojo@bauermedia.co.uk (keep it brief)

Good list, but it lacks personality.

Everybody send them an email and tell them Kokomo, Everyone's In Love With You and the '79 version of Here Comes The Night should not have been excluded.

Here's something like my top 25. Doesn't match up that well with Mojos...

Time To Get Alone
I Went To Sleep
Slip On Through
Let's Go Away For Awhile
Good To My Baby
I Can Hear Music
Little Bird
I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
Be With Me
I Know There's An Answer
Girl Don't Tell Me
Anna Lee
Airplane
'Til I Die
The Trader
Busy Doin' Nothing
Just Once In My Life
All I Wanna Do
Leaving This Town
Don't Talk
Funky Pretty
Little Pad
Break Away
Add Some Music
Surf's Up

Tears in the Morning but no Roller Skating Child? Oh please! :)

Definitely Tears in the Morning is the first to go in my fantasy correction of this so-called list.