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What would people would recommend for a compilation of the heaviest rock numbers. I know there are some and have a list below. There are more, aren't there ? ... Not saying these are all I listen to, but most people I know prefer music a bit loud and nasty and sometimes, so do I.  Often live versions seem to be more punchy especially with the younger Wilson at the helm.

Anyway, so far ...

You Need a Mess of Help
The Trader
Feel Flows
Mrs Leary's Cow
Wild Honey
Funky Pretty
Back Home
Cabinessence
Leaving This Town

Marcella

"The Trader" and "Feel Flows" are heavy rock to you? Wow.  :P

I suggest "Student Demonstration Time" (not their best one, but it is heaviest than "Feel Flows" IMO) and "All I Want To Do" (the 20/20 cut, not "All I Wanna Do" from Sunflower). And "Marcella", obviously.

...and why not add "Shortenin' Bread" to that list  :-D

er... no-one would claim they eat bats for breakfast , not the "heaviest" but still, sort of like early AC-DC

specifically the trader from "in concert" i think its maybe a driving riff, probably because the guitar's raw sound

I've seen videos of "feel flows" live from 1977 with charles lloyd, very hard to categorize but I think its cool anyway, the middle sounds like Gong or some of the other trippy stuff around at the time.  Probably looking at the band would dispel any illusions about them being particularly underground.

One of the many "would have beens"  if they had allowed themselves to do a whole album of harder stuff....

Keepin' The Summer Alive, we can almost say the whole Knebworth show.  :hat

If you're talking about specific live versions, then I agree... I just don't find the studio versions to be that "hard"!  :)

that live version of All I want To Do is aawesome!   It's about time is a great rocker as well

where could i find "all i want to do"? is it on a box set or sthing... ?  :angel:

"Shortnin' Bread" rocks!  ;D

It's on 20/20, available at good record stores  ;D

slip on through
here she comes

Maybe I Don't Know (BB '85)

"River Song" on Dennis Wilson's - Pacific Ocean Blue (truly the heaviest Beach Boys song)

Live versions of "Marcella" or "Wild Honey" in 1972/73 is right there too.

Umm...modification...There are several things on Smile that are heavier than any other BB's material...Mrs O Learys Cow, Cabinessence, Child Is Father to the Man...some that that stuff trips real hard.

Surprised nobody has mentioned It's ABout Time...

actually, i did   ;D

speaking of which....there's an awesome mix of drums only, that's what convinced me of how much a rocker it is...was that hal blaine or denny?

Earl Palmer

Let Us Go On This Way...... :rock

Suzi Cincinatti  ???

I think I Get Around really rocks, especially during the refrain. Certainly more than songs like Funky Pretty or Feel Flows, anyway.

Two songs come to mind...

"Amusement Parks U.S.A." really gets rolling at the end, and the unreleased Brian solo song, "Concert Tonight" rocks, with Brian doing his best Ozzy impression.:police:

I was trying to forget that song ever existed. You've just set me back in my progress on that goal.

Palisades Park rocks as much as any of them.

Sorry, Luther. >:D After listening to Brian's new "Pink Floyd" song all week, I thought I'd go back to the old daze.

How about "In My Car"? That rocks a little!

Good choice

It's Ok is a good rocker. I'm Going Your Way was great. Most of the Wild Honey album, I think I was Made To Love Her, HSBITM, Here Comes The Night etc. Do You Wanna Dance, Pappa Ooh Mow Mow, Johnny B Goode, What'd I Say (really rocks). They did a lot of good hard rock.

Roller Skating Child is one of my very favourite rock songs from the guys. Some Live versions of Still Cruisin' rocks too!

Let Us Go On This Way is a heavy rocker, relatively speaking.

How 'bout "City Blues"?  Does that qualify?

Definitely; there's a lot going on in there, especially some great guitar. The whole first side rocks, actually. The Beach Boys Rock You!

Live versions of I Get Around and Hawaii, circa 1964 are pretty good, like the TAMI Show or the Lost Concert. Surfin '92 is pretty hard, but in a bad way.

sounds good! but where can I find this ?

they did all i want to do (on Live in London), but it wasn't made available until the BB Rarities album (from 83 i believe)

surprised noone mentioned 'How She Booglaooed It'

I think my Palisades Park wins this discussion because you can actually hear one of the Beach Boys (Dennis) exclaiming right in the middle of the song that "We're cookin' so hard, I can hardly stand it".  At least that's what I think he is saying. I'll take his suggestion as gospel.

Yeah, but you can actually hear Dennis cookin' hard at the end of the studio version of "All I Want To Do"...:police:

"Bluebirds over the mountain" is a pretty rockin' BB's song

Palisades park is an awesome BB's song.  Much better than the original!  The original is so fast and hyped up it can't be appreciated properly, the reworked BB's song is just rockin!  I love the drums on it. 

With the possible exception of "It's OK", I always felt "Palisades Park" was the best song on 15 Big Ones.

I realize they had to release an original song, "It's OK", as a single after "Rock And Roll Music", but I thought "Palisades" had hit single potential. If anything, it proved that Brian could still produce great songs, and add that little special "something" that only he could add...

Its Getting Late and Maybe I Don't Know (already mentioned) from The Beach Boys (85) are decent  rockers  belted out by Carl Wilson if you like that 80's sound.

Love you has some "heavy" stuff in Roller Skating Child and Lets Go On This Way.

Keepin the Summer Alive, title cut.

In Concert and some of the live material from Endless Harmony kick pretty good.

Personally, I like to alternate soft with harder on my compilations.

Do It Again is "hard rockin'" for the BB.

Thanks for all the ideas - it seems that the production is important, IMO after Carl and the Passions, the rock numbers suffered a bit.

Let Us Go On This Way, for example, great track,  could have been dealt with a number of ways... The version on "Love You" isn't too bad, the synths actually rock more than what I have to describe as the "Old Fart Boogie" style on 15 Big Ones and BB '85. So if the band had applied their then-current production techniques to the rockier tracks on Love You, I'm sure it would have turned them to cheese.

I still think some of these songs could've sounded like the Stooges if they had racked it up a notch. Did they ever play Let Us Go On This Way live? And was it recorded ?

All I Want To Do
It's About Time
I'm Going Your Way
Sound Of Free (Though that's a Dennis song, and I'm not entirely sure if it's that heavy)
You Need A Mess Of Help To Stand Alone
Marcella
Feel Flows
Student Demonstration Time
Keepin' The Summer Alive
Maybe I Don't Know
Hard Times

"Little Honda" (the originally released version) comes immediately to mind. Oddly, the alternative version rocks a lot less, thanks to the more melodic backing vocals in the chorus.

Cabinessence chorus is really heavy. Not in a rocking way, but it weighs a ton. Multiple tons. Like a huge steam engine.

:3d

I know it's never been released, but Oh Those Girls has a bit of hard guitar in it. Sorta. It's not Motorhead but it's sure not Air Supply either. btw All I Want To Do is hands down the hardest rocking Beach Boys song ever...live or studio.

Stoked
Shut Down
Misirlou
Girl from New York City
Sail on Sailor
Johnny Carson
Honkin Down the Highway
Goin On (chorus)
Slip on Through
Got to Know the Woman

The live It's About Time on the Made in California boxset is about as good as it gets for the Beach Boys as a hard rock act IMO.

wild honey live from mic.

thread over.

Celebrate The News!!!!

That last half is heavy psych-rock at it's finest  :)

  The live "Marcella" from The Beach Boys In Concert is the group's best harder rocking performance IMO. They almost sound like the Stones.

How come their hardest-rocking number ever, "Dance, Dance, Dance" isn't mentioned once in this thread? That one lays "Marcella" amongst the daisies!

The Denny rockers alone (along with Student Demonstration Time) rock a lot harder than Dance, Dance, Dance!

Just watch the TAMI show and see a great garage early punk band in action then if you like.....watch the 50 year concert DVD to hear the songs played at half that pace.

I think this thread is forgetting all of the earlier albums.

Want to hear the boys rock out? How about stuff like this..

Shut Down
The Shift
Surf Jam
Stoked
The Rocking Surfer
Surfin USA
Do you wanna dance
Little Honda
I Get Around
Custom Machine


Etc etc etc..

You and your DDD. ;D :p

OK, so it is not a Beach Boys song and I wouldn't call it rock TRACK, but does Brian Wilson ever deliver a heavier rock VOCAL than on Someone To Love?  Specifically the "I'll make all my money to spend on you honey, Yeah- Please Give me a clue..."?  I don't think so.  Not my fave era of Brian vocals, but he just goes for it there doesn't he?  I like the commitment there.  Can anyone mention a harder rocking Brian vocal?
 

Two words:

"Drip Drop".

"Girl From New York City" actually rocks decently.

"Roooooolllllleeeerrrrr Skaaaaaaaaaating Chiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilllllld....."

We Gotta Groove!!!!! :o

1966 Babarrann live really rocked

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“I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times”

An absolutely beautiful expression of isolation and not being able to relate to your surroundings.

No one can touch this song. Is it even rock? what genre is this song?

This song is an impossible composition. I hate to rate modern musicians on par with the classical as the musical environment and education of that earlier period differs so much from that of popular musicians, but damn if that song is not as moving or intricate yet direct as anything composed by the very most respected and renowned musicians of all time.

How come no one has mentioned the live "Fun fun fun" on In Concert?

It seems the description "rock" is proving troublesome! That said, I agree with the poster who forwarded "Dance, Dance, Dance" as a likely candidate. My third favourite BB track. Surely a song has to be uplifting spiritually as well as physically to really "rock hard"? I'd say "DDD" fits the bill very nicely.

Slightly OT, but Do You Wanna Dance was a solid rocker, how come it wasn't played more live?