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This album rules. That is all.


12. Carl's Big Chance - I just can't wait to get to those Pet Sounds, and Smile instrumentals.
11. Do You Remember - Really love the Gee part. That's about the only thing.
10. Drive-In- Ugh.
9. Our Favorite Recording Sessions - Amusing.
8. Girls on the Beach - Pretty song. Sounds too close to Surfer Girl though.
7. Don't Back Down - I really love all the songs from this point forward.
6. Little Honda - Really catchy tune! Love that chorus!
5. Wendy - I can't believe this song didn't go higher on the charts.
4. Hushabye - What beautiful singing.
3. All Summer Long - Beautiful Beach Boys sound!
2. We'll Run Away - What a gem! Beautiful lyrics. I LOVE that organ.
1. I Get Around - On a completely new level of awesome. So much cool stuff going on in the track.

The best summer album ever recorded period. Our Favorite aside I love everything on here. Such a huge step forward. Had they stopped here they still would have been a favorite band. That they got even better is a bonus.
1 I Get Around
2 Hushabye
3 Little Honda
4 We'll Run Away (a overlooked gem.)
5 Wendy
6 Don't Back Down
7 All Summer Long
8 Carl's Big Chance
9 Drive-In
10 Do You Remember
11 Girls on the Beach
12 Our Favorite Recording Sessions


 

12. Our Favorite Recording Sessions
11. Do You Remember
10. Drive-In
9. Girls On the Beach
8. Carl's Big Chance
7. We'll Run Away
6. Hushabye
5. All Summer Long
4. Wendy
3. Little Honda
2. Don't Back Down
1. I Get Around

1 Little Honda - GO!
2 Hushabye - I've always loved the harmonies and Brian's vocal
3 All Summer Long - Great production, vocals, hook, etc.
4 I Get Around - #1 for a reason, love the claps too
5 Wendy
6 Drive-In - Good job from Mike.  Tapping into teen Americana without cars or surfboards.  "Atta boy, Mike.  Atta boy."
7 Don't Back Down - A nice late model surf tune
8 Do You Remember - Cool tribute tho a little too short
9 We'll Run Away
10 Carl's Big Chance - Filler but not awful
11 Girls on the Beach - Cliche
12 Our Favorite Recording Sessions - Beyond filler

1. I Get Around - classic
2. We'll Run Away - when that organ kicks in with the harmonies, it's heaven.
3. All Summer Long
4. Little Honda - especially the alternate version
5. Hushabye
6. Girls on the Beach
7. Wendy
8. Do You Remember
9. Drive In
10. Don't Back Down
11. Carl's Big Chance - I actually really like this track, but it's nothing spectacular.
12. Our Favorite Recording Sessions - Pure silliness, I much prefer Bull Sessions.

1.I Get Around
2.All Summer Long
3.Wendy
4.Little Honda
5.We'll Run Away
6.Girls on the Beach
7.Don't Back Down
8.Hushabye
9.Drive In
10.Do You Remember
11.Carl's Big Chance
12.Our Favorite Recording Sessions

1. I Get Around
2. Girls on the Beach
3. Don't Back Down
4. All Summer Long
5. Wendy
6. Little Honda
7. Drive In
8. Hushabye
9. We'll Run Away
10. Do You Remember
11. Carl's Big Chance
12. Our Favorite Recording Sessions

Here is my list:

1. I Get a Round
2. Don't Back Gown
3. When thee
4. All Some of Long
5. Well, Run Away
6. Girls on the Beech
7. Drive Inn
8. Hush a Guy
9. Late Honda
10. Do Your Member
11. Our Favorite Recording Lessons
12. Carl's Big Change

Ten of my favorite Beach Boys tracks, plus Carl's Big Chance and Our Favorite Recording Sessions (tho I like those too).

I love this album.  9 of the 12 tracks I listen to regularly.  Do You Remember is fair.  Carl's Big Chance is total filler and Our Favorite is interesting once or twice, but it's not really a track.  I was happy to hear Drive-In (as hokey as it is) done on Brian's last tour.  I never would have though I'd hear that live!

No ranking for the first 9:
I Get Around
Girls on the Beach
Don't Back Down
All Summer Long
Wendy
Little Honda
Drive In
Hushabye
We'll Run Away
10. Do You Remember
11. Carl's Big Chance
12. Our Favorite Recording Sessions

Digging out the LP cover once again for the tracks, it seems to run as follows...

1) I Get Around - the utmost classic song - the one that more people know than any other, and the first BB song I slaughtered!
2) Hushabye - Stunning
3) Wendy - Strangely dark
4) Drive-In - cheesy lyrics, but I love the stop!
5) We'll Run Away - better than I'm So Young
6) Little Honda
7) All Summer Long
8) Don't Back Down
9) Do You Remember?
10) Our favourite Recording Sessions
11) Carl's big Chance
12) Girls On the Beach - sounds too much Like Surfer Girl - and I hate surfer girl  :P

The top six are all among their best.

1. I Get Around
2. Hushabye
3. All Summer Long
4. Little Honda
5. Wendy
6. Girls on the Beach - a marked improvement on Surfer Girl
7. We'll Run Away
8. Drive In
9. Don't Back Down

10. Do You Remember
11. Carl's Big Chance
12. Our Favorite Recording Sessions

Something like this:

1.Wendy
2.All Summer Long
3.I Get Around
4.Little Honda
5.We'll Run Away
6.Hushabye
7.Don't Back Down
8.Drive In
9.Girls On the Beach
10.Do You Remember?
11.Carl's Big Chance
12.Our Favorite Recording Sessions

01.  I  Get Around
02.  We'll Run Away
03.  Wendy
04.  Girls on the Beach
05.  All Summer Long
06.  Don't Back Down
07.  Hushabye
08.  Drive In
09.  Little Honda
10.  Do You Remember
11.  Carl's Big Chance
12.  Our Favourite...

1 I Get Around
2 Wendy
3 All Summer Long
4 Hushabye
5 Little Honda
6 We'll Run Away
7 Girls on the Beach
8 Don't Back Down
9 Carl's Big Chance
10 Drive-In
11 Do You Remember
12 Our Favorite Recording Sessions

1. I Get Around
2. All Summer Long
3. Wendy
4. We'll Run Away
5. Little Honda
6. Hushabye
7. Girls on the Beach
8. Don't Back Down
9. Drive-in
10. Carl's Big Chance
11. Do You Remember
12. Our Favorite Recording Sessions

1 - I Get Around
2 - Don't Back Down
3 - Girls On The Beach
4 - Hushabye
5 - Wendy
6 - Little Honda
7 - All Summer Long
8 - We'll Run Away
9 - Drive In
10 - Do You Remember?
11 - Carl's Big Chance
12- Our Favourite Recording Sessions

 

My personal favorite of all Beach Boys albums. It is the definition of what was great about the Beach Boys when they were still a teen-trend. It touches upon an early nod to nostalgia, and is an emphatic predictor that masterful progression was coming. They were never more comfortable in their collective skin than they are on this LP.

I Get Around - Space age car punk, with jazz harmonies and touches of Spector. Incredible and so progressive for its time.
Hushabye - who cares if its a cover, it is absolute perfection and only the Beach Boys could be this good vocally.
All Summer Long - Happy, nostalgic, but moving forward.
Little Honda - Another proto-punk garage rocker, but more stripped down and simple than IGA.
Girls On The Beach - I can't buy this meme that its too similar to Surfer Girl, as similar as a Vespa is to a Ducati. The key changes, complex arrangement, Dennis on the middle bit, incredible vocal stacks...way, way beyond Surfer Girl.
We'll Run Away - Gorgeous and so, so underrated.
Wendy - A teen classic
Don't Back Down - Sounded so great on the 50th tour.
Carl's Big Chance - Nice jam, good to drive to.
Drive In - Hilarious, and radical for its time.
Do You Remember - humdiddywada

No-one who noticed my rather creative song titles? :)

1. All Summer Long
2. I Get Around
3. We'll Run Away
4. Girls on the Beach
5. Hushabye
6. Wendy
7. Little Honda
8. Don't Back Down
9. Do You Remember?
10. Drive-In
11. Carl's Big Chance
12. Our Favorite Recording Sessions

I'm really torn on what is the best track on this album, but beyond the filler track and a couple others, this is a solid piece of work and a great close to their early years with rich harmonies and an exciting production.

 :lol

1.I Get Around
2.Little Honda
3.Wendy
4. We'll Run Away
5.Hushabye
6.Drive In
7.All Summer Long
8.Don't Back Down
9.Girls on the Beach
10.Do You Remember
11.Carl's Big Chance
12.Our Favorite Recording Sessions

Don't Back Down
Wendy
All Summer Long
Hushabye
I Get Around
Little Honda
We'll Run Away
Drive-In
Girls on the Beach
Carl's Big Chance
Do You Remember?
Our Favorite Recording Sessions

I love this album, it's one of the ones that really got me into the Beach Boys. The use of ASL at the end of American Graffiti is a very haunting moment in what is one of my favorite movies. This album is great. 


All Summer Long
Hushabye
We'll Run Away
I Get Around
Our Favorite Recording Sessions
Don't Back Down-I like this track with the Recording Sessions as the lead-in.
Girls on the Beach
Drive-In- there's a great fan video of this on yt.
Wendy
Little Honda
Do You Remember?
Carl's Big Chance

This album is so great I don't even care to rank the tracks. I mostly just wanted to post my agreement, because I am so thankful to hear somebody say this. Look, if somebody doesn't like "Girls on the Beach," they don't like it. Fair enough. Although it ranks with any other of BW's most sophisticated compositions. My gripe is that it's observably not similar to "Surfer Girl." The only two similarities are the rhythm of the melody in the first 8 bars of the verse, and the time signature. It shows a crass lack of appreciation for BW's growth as a songwriter to pass this off as a "Surfer Girl" rewrite.

1. I Get Around
2. We'll Run Away
3. Hushabye
4. All Summer Long
5. Don't Back Down
6. Little Honda
7. Wendy
8. Do You Remember?
9. Girls on the Beach
10. Drive-In
11. Our Favorite Recording Sessions
12. Carl's Big Chance

A+
I Get Around
Little Honda

A
All Summer Long
Girls on the Beach

A-
Wendy
Drive-In
Don't Back Down
Hushabye
We'll Run Away

B+
Our Favorite Recording Sessions

C
Do You Remember?

C-
Carl's Big Chance

1. i get around
2.we'll run away
3.all summer long
4.girls on the beach
5.wendy
6.little honda
7.hushabye
8.drive in
9.don't back down
10.do you remember
11.Carls big chance
12.our favorite recording sessions

1.  I Get Around
2.  All Summer Long
3.  Hushabye
4.  Little Honda
5.  Don't Back Down
6.  Wendy
7.  Girls on the Beach
8.  Drive-In
9.  We'll Run Away
10.Do You Remember?
11.Carl's Big Chance
12.Our Favorite Recording Sessions

GREAT album:

1. I Get Around - Amazing. #1 hit record in the US during the summer of Beatlemania...no easy feat. A perfect classic.
2. All Summer Long - I adore this song. Wonderful.
3. The Girls On The Beach - Some of the best harmonies the band has ever done, and that's saying something. WONDERFUL.
4. Hushabye - More unbelievable harmonies. Lovely.
5. Wendy - Great, solid BW tune that I never tire of.
6. We'll Run Away - Underrated. Sad to see it down in the dregs on a lot of people's lists; I think it's really great.
7. Don't Back Down - The last great surf song (well, until 'Do It Again', I guess, but that's different). Awesome.
8. Little Honda - GO! Mike as his nasally best. Love it.
9. Drive-In - Nice enough.
10. Do You Remember - Eh, it's alright I guess.
11. Carl's Big Chance - Filler...
12. Our Favorite Recording Sessions - Slightly amusing filler, but drags the album down.

NICE. I like that LP a lot.

1. I Get Around - 307 (22)
2. All Summer Long - 250 (2)
3. Wendy - 227 (1)
4. Hushabye - 219
5. Little Honda - 214 (1)
6. We'll Run Away - 210
7. Don't Back Down - 181 (1)
8. Girls on the Beach - 166
9. Drive-In - 137
10. Do You Remember? - 85
11. Carl's Big Chance - 65
12. Our Favorite Recording Sessions - 44

My thoughts?  Another album with a significant gap between songs but also some very close matchups. No surprise that I Get Around claims top spot easily.

From Worst to Best:
12: Our Favourite Recording Sessions.
11: Carl's Big Chance.
10: Girls On The Beach.
09: Don't Back Down.
08: Little Honda.
07: Drive-In.
06: Do You Remember.
05: Hushabye.
04: Wendy.
03: I Get Around.
02: We'll Run Away.
01: All Summer Long.

Their best pre-1965 album in my opinion.

1. Wendy
2. All Summer Long
3. I Get Around
4. Don't Back Down
5. Girls On The Beach
6. Little Honda
7. We'll Run Away
8. Hushabye
9. Drive In
10. Do You Remember
11. Carl's Big Chance
12. Our Favorite Recording Sessions

1.I Get Around
2.All Summer Long
3.Wendy
4.Little Honda
5.We'll Run Away
6.Girls on the Beach
7.Don't Back Down
8.Hushabye
9.Drive In
10.Do You Remember
11.Carl's Big Chance
12.Our Favorite Recording Sessions

11. Do You Remember?
10. Drive-In
9. Carl's Big Chance
8. Don't Break Back Down
7. Little Honda
6. Hushabye
5. Wendy
4. Girls on the Beach
3. All Summer Long
2. I Get Around
1. We'll Run Away

Drive In
I Get Around
Wendy
Litttle Honda
Hushabye
Do You Remember
Girls On The Beach
Carl's Big Chance
Don't Back Down
All Summer Long
We'll Run Away
Our Favorite Recording Sessions

One of my very favorite BB album.

1. I Get Around  - an absolute favorite!
2. Hushabye - love the chorus
3. Little Honda -love the energy
4. Don't Back Down - I'm hooked
5. Wendy
6. All Summer Long - One of the song I like not much as I should
7. Girls on the Beach
8. We'll Run Away
9. Do You Remember?
10. Drive-In

11.Carl's Big Chance





12. Our Favorite Recording Sessions