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12. Honkey Tonk
11. Let's Go Trippin'
10. Surf Jam
9. Misirlou
8. Stoked
7. Farmer's Daughter
6. Noble Surfer
5. Finders Keepers
4. Shut Down
3. Lana
2. Surfin' USA
1. Lonely Sea

1.  Surfin' USA
2.  The Lonely Sea
3.  Shut Down
4.  Farmer's Daughter
5.  Stoked
6.  Misirilou
7.  Lana
8.  Let's Go Trippin
9.  Finders keepers
10. Noble Surfer
11.  Surf Jam
12.  Honky Tonk

Ranked from best to worst:

Shut Down
Finders Keepers
Surfin' USA
Noble Surfer
Farmer's Daughter
The Lonely Sea
Stoked
Let's Go Trippin
Misirlou
Lana
Surf Jam
Honky Tonk

1. The Lonely Sea
2. Surfin' USA
3. Shut Down
4. Farmer's Daughter
5. Lana
6. Misirlou
7. Noble Surfer
8. Finders Keepers
9. Surf Jam
10. Let's Go Trippin
11. Stoked
12. Honky Tonk

Took me years to finally appreciate this record. This one shows that the boys could rock! There's no weak one actually but songs like "Misirlou" and "Lonely Sea" drag me down a bit.

  1. Surfin' USA
  2. Shut Down
  3. Stoked
  4. Noble Surfer
  5. Finders Keepers
  6. Honky Tonk
  7. Farmer's Daughter
  8. Lana
  9. Lonely Sea
10. Surf Jam
11. Let's Go Trippin'
12. Misirlou

         
   1. The Lonely Sea
   2. Surfin' U.S.A
   3. Surf Jam
   4. Shut Down
   5. Noble Surfer
   6. Farmers Daughter
   7. Stoked
   8. Lana
   9. Finders Keepers
  10. Let's Go Trippin'
  11. Miserlou
  12. Honky Tonk

1. The Lonely Sea
2. Surfin' USA
3. Shut Down
4. Farmer's Daughter
5. Lana
6. Surf Jam
7. Stoked
8. Misirlou
9. Honky Tonk
10. Let's Go Trippin
11. Finder's Keepers
12. Noble Surfer.
Love all the first ten.

1. Shut Down
2. Surfin' USA
3. The Lonely Sea
4. Farmer's Daughter

5. Stoked
6. Let's Go Trippin'
7. Lana
8. Surf Jam
9. Honky Tonk
10. Miserlou

11. Noble Surfer
12. Finders Keepers

Heh. Didn't read this before posting mine, but looks like we have very similar tastes in early Beach Boys.

1. Lonely Sea
2. Surfin' USA
3. Farmer's Daughter
4. Lana
5. Stoked
6. Finders Keepers
7. Shut Down
8. Misirlou
9. Noble Surfer
10. Let's Go Trippin'
11. Surf Jam
12. Honky Tonk

A nice stepup from the first album, especially on a few key tracks.  The harmonies are notably fuller.  The amount of instrumentals does make it feel like a legitimate surf rock album, although Stoked is the only one that I find to be particularly gripping.  There are plenty of Beach Boys album I'd take above it, but it's a respectable crop and holds up to where their contemporaries were at the time.  Once again I bolded the ones I particularly enjoy.

Hard to rank the following 9 tracks, only a few whiskers twixt placings;

1. Surfin USA
2. Noble Surfer
3. Misirlou
4. Farmer's Daughter
5. Lonely Sea
6. Shut Down
7. Honky Tonk
8. Let's Go Trippin'
9. Stoked


The next 2 are Ok, but not as bitchin' as the above:

10. Surf Jam
11. Finders Keepers


And finally:
12. Lana - dud city, sounds like they couldn't wait to get the hell out of there.

That said, what a Fcukin' great album, in my top 5.

Surfin' USA is in everyone's top 3 so far.

1. Shut Down
2. Surfin' USA
3. The Lonely Sea
4. Farmer's Daughter
5. Stoked
6. Let's Go Trippin'
7. Finders Keepers
8. Surf Jam
9. Honky Tonk
10. Noble Surfer
11. Miserlou
12. Lana

I should say so.

1 Surfin' USA
2 Shut Down
3 The Lonely Sea

4 Farmer's Daughter
5 Let's Go Trippin
6 Stoked
7 Misirlou
8 Honky Tonk
9 Noble Surfer
10 Surf Jam

11 Lana
12 Finders Keepers

This is the album that began my life-long Beach Boys obsession, my sister bought this LP and the Freewheelin Bob Dylan LP on the same day in 1963. The sound of the guitars on the SUSA LP made me want to learn how to play and from this point (I was 5 yrs old) I bugged my parents incessantly until they finally bought me an electric guitar. Like millions of other kids I had no idea who Dick Dale was, but I really dug the Beach Boys surf instrumentals and the tough, raw sound, not to mention their image on the back cover which seemed so cool and unusual for 1963. The vocals, especially on the title track, took it all to a new place that no other band could match. To me this LP is a complete statement and in retrospect is one of the most perfect garage-band moments in rock history.

Surfin USA - An anthem, harmony meets surf/punk Chuck Berry.
Shut Down - You can smell the burning rubber
Miserlou - This one completely blew my five year old mind
Stoked - Quick mom and dad, get me a guitar before I freak out!
Let's Go Trippin - Carl and Dave sound like a 20 finger, 12 string teen-beast
Farmer's Daughter - Gorgeous melody over surf guitar riffs, the Beach Boys owned this territory
Lonely Sea - Deep and soul baring
Lana - modestly cool
Surf Jam - loose as a goose
Noble Surfer - the keyboard/celeste solo is wacky
Honky Tonk - its there
Finders Keepers - this one always felt out of place to me

I love this LP, don't ever tell me its filler, or not important. For its time it was revolutionary.

1. The Lonely Sea
1. Surfin' USA
1. Shut Down
1. Farmer's Daughter
1. Lana
1. Surf Jam
1. Stoked
1. Misirlou
1. Honky Tonk
1. Let's Go Trippin
1. Finder's Keepers
1. Noble Surfer.

1. Surfin' USA
2. Shut Down
3. The Lonely Sea
4. Farmer's Daughter
5. Stoked
6. Lana
7. Let's Go Trippin'
7. Surf Jam
7. Miserlou
10. Honky Tonk
11. Noble Surfer
12. Finders Keepers

1.   Surfin' USA
2.   Shut Down
3.   Lonely Sea
4.   Finders Keepers
5.   Misirlou
6.   Lana
7.   Let's Go Trippin'
8.   Honky Tonk
9.   Farmer's Daughter
10. Surf Jam
11. Noble Surfer
12. Stoked

It'd be awesome if people started maybe saying what they like about tracks that warrants their placement on the list or something. A whole lot of threads full of ordered lists isn't very interesting or provoking for discussions...

1. Surfin' USA
2. Farmer's Daughter
3. Misirlou
4. Stoked
5. Lonely Sea
6. Shut Down
7. Noble Surfer
8. Honky Tonk
9. Lana
10.Surf Jam
11. Let's Go Trippin'
12. Finders Keepers

1.  Surfin' USA
2.  Shut Down
3.  Farmer's Daughter
4.  Misirilou
5.  Let's Go Trippin
6.  Lonely Sea
7.  Lana
8.  Stoked
9.  Finders keepers
10. Surf Jam
11.  Honky Tonk
12.  Noble Surfer

I think that's a great idea.
I'll try to push that in the next one!

I can dig it.

1. Lonely Sea
2. Surfin USA
3. Shut Down
4. Let's Go Trippin'
5. Misirlou
6. Lana
7. Farmer's Daughter
8. Finders Keepers
9. Noble Surfer
10. Surfer Jam
11. Honky Tonk
12. Stoked

Another great garage rock album. It is a bit more diverse than Surfin Safari. Though, I don't care for the ones at the bottom of the list as much. I don't think as highly about Surfin USA (the song) as most people. I am a big fan of the surf instrumentals sprinkled in though.

1. Shut Down
2. Stoked
3. Lonely Sea
4. Misirlou
5. Noble Surfer
6. Surfin USA
7. Finder's Keepers
8. Surf Jam
9. Let's Go Trippin
10. Honky Tonk
11. Farmer's Daughter
12. Lana

Surprised "Lana" and "Finders Keepers" are ranked low by so many.

1. Shut Down
2. Surfin' USA
3. Farmer's Daughter
4. Finders Keepers
5. Lonely Sea
6. Lana
7. Noble Surfer
8. Stoked
9. Let's Go Trippin'
10. Misirlou
11. Honky Tonk
12. Surf Jam

Had a couple great bouts rotation in my car, this album. It's been a while and I forgot how exciting it sounds. You know, I really like the instrumentals while I'm listening to them, yet they're still a little forgettable to me. But the songs with vocals stuck with me since the day I heard them. A great collection of songs.

1. Surfin USA
2. Farmer's Daughter
3. Finders Keepers
4. Shut Down
5. Stoked
6. Misirlou
7. Honky Tonk
8. Lana
9. Noble Surfer
10. Surf Jam
11. Lonely Sea - The spoken word kills it for me, otherwise it would be much higher.
12. Let's Go Trippin'

#1: Lonely Sea. Probably The Beach Boys' most underrated pre-Pet Sounds song. Unique, because it combines the sound of the early surf hits with the soul of the Pet Sounds material. A few years ago I was wide awake in the middle of the night, all alone in a hotel room in Acapulco, Mexico with an amazing view over the Pacific Ocean. Right then I just had to hear this song. I took my iPod, sat down on the floor of the balcony, looked over the dark ocean and listened to this song about a dozen times. It was perfect.

Yeah that is a great song. I'm glad they did in The Girls On The Beach.

a very  moving story; thanks for it from the Professor.

  1. Surfin' USA
  2. Stoked
  3. Farmer's Daughter
  4. Lana
  5. Shut Down
  6. The Lonely Sea
  7. Surf Jam
  8. Let's Go Trippin
  9. Misirlou
10. Noble Surfer
11. Honky Tonk
12. Finder's Keepers

 And checking my iTunes play count - the song on the album I've listened to the most by far, and is in more playlists than any other on the album - Stoked.

1. The Lonely Sea
2. Surfin' USA
3. Shut Down
4. Farmer's Daughter

5. Lana
6. Stoked
7. Let's Go Trippin'
8. Noble Surfer

9. Miserlou
10. Honky Tonk
11. Surf Jam
12. Finders Keepers

Why do so many people rate Finders Keepers so low? This track doesn't often get discussed, and in my mind it has always stood out as an album highlight. I kind of assumed most people would agree, so this it surprises me.

I mean, what's not to like? It's got fun semi-bad-ass surfing lyrics with rad surfing lingo, it tells a goofy little story, it has unxpected shifts in rhythm, it kind of quotes a Four Seasons song with some nice harmonies.

So I'd be curious to know, for those of you who ranked it so low, what exactly you don't like about it.

I just think it is a weak, gimmicky song with a bad chorus. And the drum mistake near the end is inexcusable.

1.the lonely sea
2.surfin usa
3.shut down
4.farmers daughter
5.finders keepers
6.noble surfer
7.lana

the rest are tied as far as I'm concerned,not a big fan of surf instrumentals.

1.  Surfin' USA
2.  Lonely Sea
3.  Shut Down
4.  Finders Keepers
5.  Farmer's Daughter
6.  Lana
7.  Misirlou
8.  Let's Go Trippin'
9.  Noble Surfer
10.Stoked
11.Surf Jam
12.Honky Tonk

Love this album, the third BB album I bought, play it a lot, never skip a track.  Love the title song, Noble Surfer, Shut Down, and Honky Tonk was one of my early inspirations to learn guitar. I've always liked the surf instrumentals.

1. Surfin' USA - Sublime. The first stone cold amazing BBs song ever.
2. The Lonely Sea - Simply beautiful and I'm glad to see so many fans of it 'round here.
3. Shut Down - One of the band's better rockers. Awesomeness personified.
4. Farmer's Daughter - Lovely as all hell. Tremendous harmonies, really underrated stuff.
5. Finders Keepers - Quite nice! Like it. It's sorta funny.
6. Lana - Pretty good.
7. Let's Go Trippin' - Very well done cover.
8. Stoked - Original and cool.
9. Noble Surfer - More than decent. Good, in fact.
10. Miserlou - 'Nother cover, but hey, it's alright.
11. Surf Jam - Original and not too shabby.
12. Honky Tonk - Lesser than all those other surf rockers, but hey. Not bad at all.

Hmm, pretty damn good! Lotsa surf instrumentals, so it's easy to get bored, but most of them are quite good, actually.
Underrated gems like The Lonely Sea and Farmer's Daughter keep me coming back to it.

1. Surfin' USA - 317 (14)
2. Shut Down - 280 (5)
3. Lonely Sea - 262 (9)
4. Farmer's Daughter - 245
5. Stoked - 177
6. Lana - 160
7. Misirlou - 155
8. Noble Surfer - 138
9. Finders Keepers - 137
10. Let's Go Trippin' - 130
11. Surf Jam - 109
12. Honky Tonk - 84

My thoughts? I think Shut Down is overrated on this list, but much of the rest makes sense.  Interestingly, first place votes went exclusively to three songs.  The title track is once again the clear winner.

From Worst to Best:
12. Finders Keepers.
11. Lana.
10. Surf Jam.
9. Noble Surfer.
8. Shut Down.
7. Honky Tonk.
6. Stoked.
5. Let's Go Trippin'.
4. Miserlou.
3. Surfin' USA.
2. Farmer's Daughter.
1. Lonely Sea.

Enjoyable album even if half of it consists of instrumentals.

1. Lonely Sea
2. Farmer's Daughter
3. Surfin USA
4. Noble Surfer
5. Finders Keepers
6. Lana
7. Shut Down
8. Misirlou
9. Let's Go Trippin
10. Stoked
11. Surf Jam
12. Honky Tonk

1. The Lonely Sea
2. Surfin' USA
3. Stoked
4. Farmer's Daughter
5. Let's Go Trippin'
6. Noble Surfer
7. Miserlou
8. Shut Down
9. Lana
10. Surf Jam
11. Honky Tonk
12. Finders Keepers

1. The Lonely Sea (I choked up the first time I heard this)
2. Surfin' USA (I remember a game I used to play with my dad. I would lay down on my stomach on a blanket, and he would pull it around the room and pretend we would pretend was a surfer riding a big wave. He would always sing this while doing it. Such fun childhood memories come back to me when I listen to this song.)
3. Lana
4. Farmer's Daughter
5. Finders Keepers (Fun chorus, just not the best song to close the album with, why not Lonely Sea?)
6. Honky Tonk (I'm so surprised to see so many people rating this as their least favorite song, to me it's the best early instrumental they did!)
7. Noble Surfer
8. STOKED!
9. Shut Down (The drums on the stereo version sounds REALLY odd, and not in a good way. They sound overly compressed or something)
10. Let's Go Trippin'
11. Misirlou (The Boys don't hold a candle to Dick Dale's version!)
12. Surf Jam (The song is as bland as its title)

Surfin USA
Shut Down
Farmers Daughter
Lonely Sea
Finders Keepers
Surf Jam
Honky Tonk
Lana
Let's Go Trippin
Noble Surfer
Stoked
Misirlou