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What are some BBs songs that you like more and more after repeated listens?

Please Let Me Wonder
The Little Girl I Once Knew
You Still Believe In Me
Country Air
I'd Love Just Once To See You
Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring
When A Man Needs A Woman
Celebrate The News
Cuddle Up
Angel Come Home
Endless Harmony

It took me years to really appreciate "Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)".  Same with "A Day In The Life Of A Tree" and "Steamboat".

Others that I had to "warm up" to:

"Til I Die"
"Make It Big"
"Chasing The Sky"
"Catch A Wave" (I was too used to "Sidewalk Surfin", which I heard first)
"Feel Flows"
"California Dreamin"
"Rock And Roll To The Rescue"
"Gettin Hungry"
"Almost Summer" (Celebration)
"Cry" (Imagination)
"Sweet Sunday Kinda Love"

1. Coo Coo Clock
2. Your Summer Dreams
3. In the Back of My Mind
4. Summer Means New Love
5. I Know There's an Answer
6. I'd Love Just Once to See You
7. Busy Doin Nothing
8. Never Learn Not to Love
9. Wake the World
10. Take a Load off Your Feet
11. Here She Come
12. Big Sur
13. The Night Was So Young
14. Sweet Sunday Kinda Love
15. Sumahama

Johnny Carson
I bet he's nice
Let him run wild - only after reading that this was one of Brian's more ambitious tunes did I go back and listen. Then it really grew on me.
Friends the whole album - for years this was one of the BB albums that I was fairly ambivalent towards. Then one day I was listening on headphones around the same time I was listening to BWPS and it just hit me how intricate and beautiful and complex the songs are. You could clearly hear that this was the same guy creating PS and Smile several years before.

Trader!  When I first started listening to this song, I thought it was just too long and not super interesting, and then one day it just hit me . . . and now it's in my Top 5(at least) of favorite Beach Boys songs . . .

I've liked most of The Beach Boys' music from the get-go. It hasn't had to grow on me - EXCEPT the Blondie/Rikki stuff - which has now grown on me... 

'Take A Load Off Your Feet' - When I first heard it I thought of it as a throw away, however, it is played with such a proverbial twinkle in the eye (the sound effects) that it brings a smile to my face.  This has been one of my daughters favorite songs for years (she learned the words when she was 4).

'Disney Girls' - At first impression it is a shmaltzy sugary song.  Then when you think about it that is the exact point.

'Had to Phone Ya' - One of the great disappointments in life was to be a Beach Boys fan in 1976 and buy '15 Big Ones' when it came out.  The decline in the quality of material compared to 'Holland' (only 4 years prior) was astounding.  Even more shocking where the voices of Brian and Dennis.  This song features all 5 Beach Boys singing lead.  On first listen it summed up the band - a throw away song with silly lyrics that highlighted the deteriation of the bands vocals.  After a while it just grew on me.

"Surf's Up", "He Come Down", "Everyones In Love With You" and "Don't Worry Baby" which I just like since a few months.

BTW A song that after more hearing got boring to me was "Kokomo".  ;D

Sorry for doubleposting but I hit the "Quote" button.  ::)

Some others are

Lady Lynda
Lets Put Our Hearts Together
Goin South
Chapel Of Love
Diamond Head
In The Back Of My Mind
I'm So Young
Spirit Of America
Graduation Day

Took me a while to get into Long Promised Road and Till I die.

I forgot: 'He Came to My Window'

I love when Brian whispers "Poof" and "Window".

1. She Knows Me Too Well -- it only gets more brillant with time.
2. Good Timin'
3. She's Goin' Bald
4. Big Sur
5. Only With You
6. Kiss Me Baby -- that song still knocks me dead
7. Student Demonstration Time (it took me soooo long to be able to play that whole thing through!)
8. Cindy
9. Please Let Me Wonder -- nuff' said
10. Solar System

- You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away (Beach Boys’ Party !)
- Wind Chimes (Smiley Smile)
- I Was Made To Love Her (Wild Honey)
- Don’t Go Near The Water (Surf’s Up)
- Feel Flows (Surf’s Up)
- Lookin’ At Tomorrow (A Welfare Song) (Surf’s Up)
- Talk To Me / Tallahassee Lassie (15 Big Ones)
- Palisades Park (15 Big Ones)
- Wontcha Come Out Tonight (M.I.U. Album)
- Keepin’ The Summer Alive (Keepin’ The Summer Alive)
- It’s Gettin’ Late (The Beach Boys 1985)
- Lahaina Aloha (Summer In Paradise)
- I Can Hear Music (With Kathy Troccoli) (Stars And Stripes Vol. 1)
- Caroline, No (With Timothy B. Schmit) (Stars And Stripes Vol. 1)
- Sail Plane Song (Endless Harmony Soundtrack)
- Old Man River (Vocal Section) (Hawthorne, CA)

Island Girl
The Nearest Faraway Place (it just seemed so boring at first)
nearly everything on Summer In Paradise
Bluebirds Over the Mountain (that electric guitar is just so obnoxious)
In My Car
(I Saw Santa) Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree

Funky Pretty
How She Boogalooed it
Boogie Woody
Why do fools fall in love
San Miguel
our prayer

I've always loved Funky Pretty from The Beach Boys In Concert, so the "Holland" Funky Pretty took awhile to warm up to...also most of the Still Cruisin album took me awhile to like as well.

the whole "Love You" album, looking back it seems like blasphemy now!

"Take A Load Off Your Feet"
"Love Is A Woman"
"Make It Big"

"Love Surrounds Me"
"Airplane"
"Wake the World"
"Ballad of ole' Betsy"
"That's Not Me"
"At My Window"
"California Saga"
"Lonely Sea" - only because it made me sad when I'd listen to it
"Somewhere Near Japan"
"I'll Bet He's Nice"

It's crazy, I remember this thread, but it does not seem like 9 years ago! Also, several of those songs I mentioned I would not mention if asked the same question today.

Honestly, it took me a little while to warm up to most of the songs from Pet Sounds.  Namely....

Don't Talk
I'm Waiting for the Day
Let's Go Away
Here Today
Caroline No

And, most people are going to think I'm completely crazy........

Daybreak Over the Ocean

I like this song more and more each time I listen to TWGMTR

Solar System
It's Getting Late
Strange Things Happen

Certain moments in certain songs sometimes hit me, take me by surprise even after all these years... beginning about 2:52 into CHASING THE SKY... Carl's "Just let her go" harmony part on the second verse of Angel Come Home. 

Like others above, "Don't Talk". That's the only one I can think of. It seemed so, so slowwww for many years. Now it sounds wonderful.

I was lucky to attend a performance of "Hashirigaki" in Brooklyn in 2003. When they got to "Don't Talk", the three performers sang it like a 60s girl group, speeding it way up. It seemed sacrilegious.

"Hashirigaki" didn't turn up on a search here, so I'll post something in the Media subforum. Meanwhile, here's a Guardian review from 2001:

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2001/aug/28/edinburghfestival2001.edinburghfestival

And the audio of a different performance, during which they sing "Don't Talk" the regular way at around 43:00:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_u1twRZ1kU

Getcha Back -- It took me awhile to get past the 80's-ness of it & Mike's cheeze in order to see how awesome the bgv's are. And that transition from the 1st chorus to the 2nd verse is KILLER.

The Trader

Can't Wait too Long (two-fer version)

Funky Pretty-used to dismiss it as nonsense, now it's one of my top faves with the whole ambience and layers of sound.
All This is That
Don't Go Near the Water, after hearing the backing track on Made In California.

I never cared much for "Wild Honey" when it first came out.  Now I keep playing Blondie's version from the Soundstage DVD over and over. 

Jim

<<Getcha Back -- It took me awhile to get past the 80's-ness of it & Mike's cheeze in order to see how awesome the bgv's are. And that transition from the 1st chorus to the 2nd verse is KILLER.>>

I don't understand the "Mike's cheeze" comment; lyrically, the song harkens back to some of his best 1960s lyrics with an adult perspective.  And, for me it's one of his best lead vocals, with a distinct jazz feel.  He's very off meter, intentionally, behind the beat, holding back his notes as far as he can.  That's a jazz thing... Matt Monro used to do it all the time.

I'm thinking the Mike's cheese being referred to is the over exaggerated nasal quality of his vocals on Getcha Back. 

Shoot, that is everything he sang from 15 Big Ones onward with the one exception being Love You. He sounds fantastic on Love You. Just wish it would have stayed that way, but by MIU he was back to singing overly nasal again.

I'm not hearing as much cheese as usual on "Pitter Patter". Musta been an off day for the luHvster.   :p