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I thought of tossing all the various Brian Wilson pastiches over the years onto one handy disc... any ones you can think of?  I only know a handful:

* "Black Sheep" by Dewey Cox
* "Trigger Happy" by Weird Al Yankovic (spoofs the surf period)
* "Pancreas" by Weird Al Yankovic
* "At My Most Beautiful" by REM
* "Back In The USSR" by The Beatles
* "Shorty Blackwell" by The Monkees - Yes, it's a terrible song; but it seems to be a deliberate cross between Brian's segmented style of the time and the Beatles' "A Day In The Life."

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Of course "Pale and Precious" by the Dukes of Stratosphear (XTC)

Mr.Wilson - John Cale
Say We'll Meet Again - Lindsey Buckingham
Nomads - The High Llamas

The Surfers - Windsurfing
The First Class - Beach Baby
The Sails - Yesterday & Today (very obvious rewrite of God Only Knows)
The Boys Next Door - Mandy
Mark Eric - California Home
The Sunrays - I Live For The Sun
The Zombies - Care Of Cell 44
The Boys Next Door - Mandy
The Yellow Balloon - Yellow Balloon
Sagittarius - My World Fell Down
Ronny and the Daytonas - Little GTO
The Fantastic Baggys - Surfin' Craze
The Explorers Club - Forever
Travoltas - Waimea

Brian Wilson - Barenaked Ladies
Brian Wilson Said - Tears For Fears

Upholstery - Paul Williams

Gosh, there are so many to choose from. One disc surely wouldn't be enough!

Here are some personal favourites in no particular order:

The Thrills - Big Sur
BMX Bandits - Back in her Heart / Back in my Arms
Explorers Club - Don't Forget the Sun / If You Go / Hold Me Tight (but virtually, like others have commented, anything by them  ;D)
Ruby Suns - Maasai Mara / Trepidation Pt. II
Blake Collins - It's Summer Time
Bikeride - Carl Wilson Suite
Wondermints - Out of Mind
Tears for Fears - Brian Wilson Said
Jeffrey Foskett - Thru' my Window / Everyone's in Love with You / Nowhere
Malibooz - Bitter Water
Minus 5 - Great News around You
Splitsville - The Love Songs of B. Douglas Wilson
Florapop - You're my Baby
Tripsitter - Let Me Know You
Hal - Play the Hits
Linus of Hollywood - When I Get to California
Seth Swirsky - Summer in her Hair
Paul Steel - In a Coma / Oh No! Oh Yeah!
Strangefinger - Good Night
Simple Carnival - Monsanto House / The Girl's Upstairs / North Star
Marty Rudnick - Some Summer
Bird and the Bee - I'm a Broken Heart
The Chamber Strings - The Fool Sings without Any Song
Treefight for Sunlight - Chasing the Sun
Guster - All the Way up to Heaven
Convoy - Bah Bah Birdie
Department of Eagles - No One Does it Like You
Sparks - Over the Summer
Cherry Twister - She's Gone
Teenage Fanclub - I Need Direction
The Loose Saluta - Death Club
Pop Levi - Rude Kind of Love
Lewis Taylor - Let's Hope Nobody Finds Us
Maple Mars - The Soft Caroussel
Cut Copy - Where I'm Going
Any Version of Me  -Wasted Sun
Doves - Valley
REM - Beachball
Ocean Blue - Ticket to Wyoming
Vinyl Kings - Just Another Day
The Brother Kite - Waiting for the Time to be Right
Wilco - Summer Teeth / Outta Mind (Outta Sight)
Figurines - The Air that We Breathe
Jeff Larson - Norman
The Pearlfishers - We're Gonna Save the Summer
Rich Aucoin - Brian Wilson is Alive
Frank Ciampi - Anyway
Pugwash - It's Nice to Be Nice
Epicycle - Sunday Girl

Mike Love - Brian's Back

Wondermints - Tracy Hide (as good a Pet Sounds pastiche as is possible)

REM - At My Most Beautiful (ditto)

Spongebob Squarepants - The Best Day Ever (pure BW, I believe Andy Paley had a hand in this one)

Dinosaur Jr - Take a run at the Sun

Dave Edmunds - London's A Lonely Town

I absolutely love this one. You can listen to it here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwnyHglHa7k

Not sure he wrote it but it's a lost Beach Boys classic to my ears. The lyrics are funny too.

The original of that is by The Tradewinds, and called New York Is A Lonely Town.

Jellyfish have a few - The Ghost At Number One, Sebrina Paste & Plato, Hush, all off Spilt Milk.

Harry Nilsson - Poli High

Raspberries - Cruisin' Music

Didn't Jellyfish do some work with Brian when he was with Don Was ? I thought that was an interesting proposition but it must've fizzled out as so many things did at this time.
Also didn't some wag do a cover of Landy He Needs Me ? I guess that counts as Brian inspired.

Forgot about Jellyfish - the banjo coda of The Ghost At Number One is pure Cabinessence (with a bit of tactical theremin !)

It's a *wonderful* song, not a terrible one!

Some others no-one's mentioned:
Anything by Tripsitter, but especially Wavestrumental
The Turtles -- Surfer Dan
The Kinks -- Australia
Frank Zappa -- Let Me Take You To The Beach
Roy Wood -- Forever

Yeah, they mention working with him on some fan club flexi, I can't tell who's who, but it goes like..

Jelly: Oh yeah, and Brian Wilson came down to the studio...
Fish: Ah yeah yeah...
Jelly: That was, er, that was a lot of fun. *Nervous laughter*
Fish: Actually it wasn't a lot of fun. But it was interesting.
Jelly: We had a lot of fun. So we might be doing some writing with him.

Willips Brighton - Mouthful of Sores - (Mr. Show sketch) http://youtu.be/b1mzDR3onnI?t=1m19s

At both the Brian Wilson show I went to a few years ago and the Beach Boys show I went to last summer, the music played during intermission and before the show was (I'm pretty sure) the same compilation of songs inspired by The Beach Boys. I'm pretty sure both Yellow Balloon and The Rain, The Park, and Other Things were songs that they played, among many, many others. I wish I could get the whole list of songs they played. Ultimately, I thought it was a brilliant choice amongst the organizations of intermission music.

I thought of some more from the "influenced by" pile:

Here, There & Everywhere - Beatles
Dear Boy - McCartney

Randy newman "I love L.A."
Doobie Bothers "What a fool believes"

Lewis Taylor - Let's Hope That Nobody Finds Us

IS A MUST!

Great track, but I'd say "Down To The Valley" (alternate version) is a better contender for a BW homage. Harry musta been listenin' to some Sunflower.

I *did* have that list somewhere -- it's online -- but don't know what site it was on. Darian put the list together.
What I do have, though, is a Spotify playlist of everything that was on that list that I could find on Spotify -- http://open.spotify.com/user/stealthmunchkin/playlist/0LRMFofx7wBG3og33KRIYa .

In last year's shows, they added a few songs after Darian's playlist, though keeping that otherwise the same. I can't remember exactly, but I *think* the songs they added were A Casual Look (some doo-wop ballad of that nature anyway, maybe In The Still Of The Night or I Only Have Eyes For You), Brown-Eyed Handsome Man (though it may have been another Chuck Berry song), some famous surf instrumental (can't remember which one, maybe Walk Don't Run?), Be My Baby and The Rain, The Park And Other Things, which wasn't on Darian's playlist but was always the last song before the band came on on the three reunion shows I saw last year.

"King of Scurf" by the Bonzo Dog Band.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9czCW_hdVk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9czCW_hdVk)

Actually, also Piggy Bank Love by the Bonzos -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a__syRwjgtA

Super Furry Animals - Run-Away. Might be a bit far-fetched, but I always thought it had a bit of an early 70s Carl Wilson vibe. Does anyone else hear it?

Don't keep me waiting: Bergen White

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JsWvGtJMHA

Boy's Town- Nino Tempo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6_NDz90tFM

Both of these are wonderful, wonderful tracks in their own right, so I feel a bit funny including them in a thread that's got some more jokey, throwaway pastiches in it, but they are unquestionably BW influenced.

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Brian Wilson Is A.L.I.V.E. - Rich Aucoin

"Holiday" by Weezer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwDadBnqyVg

I was at a friend's house tonight, and he put this on because he "heard the Pet Sounds in it". It's a little bit electronic for my tastes, but I do hear what he was getting at.

Gorillaz - To Binge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMnrFiG8FRo

Non-Stop Wombling Summer Party by the Wombles.

Novelty UK band from the 1970s with the genius of Mike Batt at the helm - recorded some superb albums (which included pastiches of, among others, Bowie's Space Oddity and Rick Wakeman's Journey to the Centre of the Earth).

I'd say Brian Wilson was one of Batt's biggest influences.

 Their (failed) attempt to break into the US market included he cassette-only track Wombling USA, which I've never heard (rather rare - never even seen a copy for sale), which I understand was another Wilson influenced piece.

The Smoke (the US band with Michael Lloyd)--Cowboys & Indians and Odyssey
The Critters--Awake in a Dream
John Cale--China Sea
Flash Cadillac--whole buncha stuff on Sons of the Beaches, particularly Time Will Tell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH6TvYXzWPE

Thru Spray Colored Glasses- Dino Desi and Billy. Vocal even sounds like Brian to me!

THAT one is a pure gem.

If we're talking Beach Boys soundalikes from the 60s, you can't go wrong with the Sandy album by Ronny & the Daytonas and A Midsummer's Day Dream by Mark Eric. Both albums are incredible!

Ronny & the Daytonas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRHLbfbZP1I

Mark Eric
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeOHsAMAz2M

^ Mark Eric's album is pretty good, musically. There were quite some Beach Boys knockoffs in the 60s that sounded a lot like the real thing, but most of them wrote songs that Brian probably wouldn't even have used as album fillers. Mark Eric actually wrote songs that wouldn't have been out of place on All Summer Long or The Beach Boys Today. Too bad he has such an ugly voice. Definately not a very good singer.

He's definitely got a bit of a funny tone, but that doesn't make him a bad singer.

Reminds me of Billy Nichols, vocally...those two albums really sit as a pair for me.

Like BergenWhitesMoustance says, yeah, he has a funny tone, but a bad singer? Come on! Those harmonies on the album are really cool and full-sounding considering the fact that he overdubbed all voices.

It's funny, - when I talk with people who don't like or 'get' the Beach Boys (fools!) people will often say exactly the same about Brian's voice. And you wouldn't call him a bad singer, would you?

Depends on what the definition of a "bad singer" is.

I don't care if someone is technically a good singer, because that criterium would place Mariah Carey and Celine Dion miles above Neil Young and Bob Dylan, so it's worthless anyway, right? My definition is pretty simple. If you make a song sound better than most other singers would, you're a good singer. If you don't, you're not a good singer. And I guess that we can agree that a whole lot of singers could've made Mark Eric's songs sound a whole lot better than he did himself, right?

So you're changing the definition of bad singing to back up your assertion that Mark Eric is "Definitely a bad singer"

Cool debating skills bro ;)

Seriously though- it IS possible to define bad singing - ever heard Florence Foster Jenkins? Famed for her lack of pitch, timing and ability to sustain a note. A provably 'bad' singer.

Mark Eric is just a guy with a slightly funny tone. I'm not going to argue that there aren't better singers out there, or that I wouldn't love to hear a Harpers Bizarre or Association version of 'California Home', but he's not a 'bad' singer.

I'm not changing any definition, it's just my personal definition of something that I think is pretty subjective.

Or can you honestly say that you never ever called a band, an album, a song, a movie or a book "bad", even though purely technically speaking, it wasn't?

That's a different matter entirely. Where something can ONLY be a matter of opinion- ie the music of a band, then it's acceptable to state opinion as fact- because it goes without saying that it's an opinion.

However, when something is pretty much measurable in terms of quality, then I think an acknowledgement that ones opinion is merely that, and not a statement of fact is in order.

Hey! I think I just defined 'quibbling over pointless bullshit on the internet' ;)

Lets just leave it- you want to think he's a bad singer, that's fine by me  ;D

Technical skills are measurable. Expression, tone, feeling, character and just that undefinable something special aren't. So you can easily define what a "technically good singer" is, but certainly not what a "good singer" is.

Dang that's a nice song.
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Here's a great Brian Wilson inspired tune by Death Cab for Cutie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ59-FhJI5c&oq (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ59-FhJI5c&oq)

Skeet Surfing by Val Kilmer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaXOHCNgYrc

Bop Bop on the Beach - Jan & Dean and the Flirts, partially written by Mike Love, I believe. Famously heard in The Karate Kid (the original).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxA5r44cB68 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxA5r44cB68)

I actually sat down and listened to that Spongbob song. It's actually not bad. So much BW influence...

I couldn't tell if people were being sarcastic or not with this Spongebob song, but, to my surprise, they aren't. I can definitely hear the Brian influences. Also, Wikipedia tells me that Andy Paley produced and co-wrote the song.

I might actually listen to the song if it wasn't for the singing.

What's more, Brian had a vocal on a Spongebob song!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=dWZ1dEl3DEE&t=45 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=dWZ1dEl3DEE&t=45)

Help Me Rhonda meets She's Not the Little Girl I Once Knew and goes Top Ten!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vufLgvf19kw

I'm assuming that's the Wrecking Crew too....

Rock And Roll Lullabye by B.J.Thomas.

Andy Paley writes/produces a lot of the music for the Spongebob show.  As someone who grew up with that cartoon and also a Brian Wilson fan, I find that pretty cool.

r stevie moore "here comes summer again"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gizG5PbDaa4

I'm glad someone else noticed, Andrew! Unfortunately, I can't link to your spotify list but thanks very much!