Top 10 most hated Beach Boy tunes

[Orange Crate Art]

I don't like most of the cover songs the Beach Boys chose to do throughout their career. Barbara Ann, Long Tall Texan, I Was Made To Love Her, Rock & Roll Music, Crocodile Rock....blahhh

[urbanite]

1.   Sumahama
2.   The song that has the lyric "you've got a greenhouse effect on me" that's on SIP
3.   She's Got Rhythm
4.   Summer in Paradise
5.   Some of Your Love
6.   Solar System
7.   Let's Put Our Hearts Together

[TimeToGetAlone]

Summer of Love
Surfin'
Remember Walking in the Sand
Under the Boardwalk
Little Deuce Coupe (S&S)
Help Me Rhonda (S&S)
409 (S&S)
Long Tall Texan (S&S)
The Private Life of Bill and Sue
Beaches in Mind

[bluesno1fann]

1.   Sumahama
2.   The song that has the lyric "you've got a greenhouse effect on me" that's on SIP
3.   She's Got Rhythm
4.   Summer in Paradise
5.   Some of Your Love
6.   Solar System
7.   Let's Put Our Hearts Together

The second one isn't from SIP. It's the title track from the Still Cruisin' album.

Shame you put it there, I love that song. My second favourite off Still Cruisin'.
But at least Sumahama tops your list!

[leggo of my ego]

Agree w/ TRBB and these also really suck


I'm So Lonely I Could Sh!t
Happy Endings Together
Wild Problem Child
Crocodile Rock and Roll Over
When Unhappy Girls Come Together
Sunshine Superman Of Your Love
Slobber Some Love on Me
Cuckoo Cocoon Clock
The Ballad of Dwight F. Roosevelt

[bluesno1fann]

Honestly I don't get the hate for Cuckoo Clock. I love it, it's one of the best songs off their debut album!

[Gabo]

Susie Cincinnati and Loop De Loop are two of my least favorites

[Eric Aniversario]

I pretty much like everything they've put out...there's nothing that I "hate". As for least favorites...Crocodile rock comes to mind, as well as a lot of 15 big ones.

[Mike's Beard]

My how tastes change! I now really like She Believes in Love Again. It must have grown on me over the years.

[Joel Goldenberg]

7. TM Song: I sort of enjoy the monologue at the beginning, but starting with Al's 'It's time to meditate' pure awfulness.

I mainly can't stand the Way Al pronounces away — "ay-way"

[Joel Goldenberg]

My entries:

1. Everyone's In Love With You-overly smarmy and sweet.
2. He Come Down-too heavy handed.
3. Make it Good-tuneless
4. Shortenin' Bread from LA-hate the production
5. I'm So Lonely-bad Brian vocal
6. Crack at Your Love-silly title
7. She Believes in Love Again-Bruce should have waited to get over his cold/laryngitis
8. TM song-as mentioned above, I hate that "ay-way."
9. Little Old Lady From Pasadena from In Concert- I don't dislike the performance, but I think this was a major factor in people mixing up the BBs and Jan and Dean for the last 50 years.
10. Anything with '80s-sounding production.

[Bicyclerider]

Was "Crack at your Love" originally called "At Your Love Crack"?

All of Summer in Paradise.  For unreleased I think Battle Hymn of the Republic is probably the worst. Of the originals released -

Make It Good
California Saga Beaks of Eagles
Day in the Life of a Tree
Transcendental Meditation
Full Sail
Goin' South
Maybe I Don't Know
Problem Child
Make It Big
Rock N Roll to the Rescue

[ThyRavenAscend]

Here's what comes to mind:

Goin' South -- THE most boring BB song.
Belles of Paris -- I'd rather listen to Mike Love's self-referential lyrics.
Most all of BB85
Half of KTSA
Louie, Louie
Rocking Surfer
Daybreak Over the Ocean -- "Date-rape over the ocean..."
Shortenin' Bread -- This is part of Brian that I don't get lol.

That's at least ten, right? lol

[Mr. Wilson]

1} Love is a Woman  2} In the Still of the night  3} When Girls Get Together  4} Blueberry Hill  5} Lets put our hearts together  6} Winds Of Change  7} Student Demonstration  Time 8} Love Surrounds Me  9}  A Day In The Life Of A Tree  10} Transendental  Meditation  ... Dishonorable mention : 1) Make It Good  2) Problem Child   3) Wipe Out  4) Louie Louie  5) Long Tall Texan

[Gabo]

All I Want To Do
Amusement Parks USA
Beaches In Mind
Be Still
He Come Down
How She Boogalooed It 
Loop De Loop
Make It Good
Susie Cincinnati
Tears In The Morning


There are frankly so many BB cuts I hate...

[bluesno1fann]

All I Want To Do
Amusement Parks USA
Beaches In Mind
Be Still
He Come Down
How She Boogalooed It 
Loop De Loop
Make It Good
Susie Cincinnati
Tears In The Morning


There are frankly so many BB cuts I hate...

Agreed to an extent with Beaches In Mind, He Come Down, Loop De Loop and Susie Cincinatti. Disagree to an extent with Be Still, How She Boogalooed It, Make It Good and Tears In The Morning. Strongly disagree with All I Want To Do. 

[Gabo]

All I Want To Do
Amusement Parks USA
Beaches In Mind
Be Still
He Come Down
How She Boogalooed It 
Loop De Loop
Make It Good
Susie Cincinnati
Tears In The Morning


There are frankly so many BB cuts I hate...

Agreed to an extent with Beaches In Mind, He Come Down, Loop De Loop and Susie Cincinatti. Disagree to an extent with Be Still, How She Boogalooed It, Make It Good and Tears In The Morning. Strongly disagree with All I Want To Do. 

Why do you need to agree or disagree? Opinionz thread, man.

What kills All I Want To Do for me is the lyric "I JUST WANNA DO IT WITH YOU"...

[Gabo]

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[JK]

I object to "All I Want To Do" (mere macho posturing) but I don't hate it----or any other BB song.

On the other hand, I love "Barbara Ann"----what a joyous racket! Even at the end of 1965----a most fertile time musically----it stood head and shoulders above everything else, for me at least. I can't understand why it gets so much hate.

[chrs_mrgn]

Summer In Paradise
Beaches In Mind
Strange World
Daybreak Over The Ocean
It's O.K.
Sumahama
Crocodile Rock


I'm really trying not to mention too many from KTSA or SIP because that would make this list way too easy

[Gabo]

You can add Barbara to my list... so sappy and lame

[punkinhead]

I pretty much like everything they've put out...there's nothing that I "hate". As for least favorites...Crocodile rock comes to mind, as well as a lot of 15 big ones.

I think you and I share the same feelings on this topic, it's hard to say anything about about the lesser songs of our favorite band! Even solo stuff

[runnersdialzero]

There was a long period where, without fail, my iPod would go to mother fucking "Some Of Your Love" every time I got in the shower. Every. Time. Soaking wet, can't get out, have to suffer. Before that, I think it was kind of like, "Meh, song isn't good, but whatever," but after that, holy ballz.

[Julia]

This is far from a comprehensive list, I havent listened to any of the albums MIU through SIP even once in ten years and blocked them out of my mind except that I know I hated them. If I were to re-listen and give honest reviews, this list would be dominated by those tracks. I also didn't include any of the spoken word filler. These are just their worst songs that immediately came to mind.

1: Summer of Love (too bad to forget, it burns your soul, truly humiliating, easily the worst)
2: Problem Child
3: Here Comes the Night (Disco)
4: 10 Little Indians
5: County Fair
6: Amusement Parks USA
7: all the TM songs (get over it, Mike)
8: Student Demonstration Time
9: Take a Load Off Your Feet
10: Barbara Ann

[Julia]

I am not going to put any covers on my list. Also, I haven't owned SIP for a long time, so I don't remember them enough to include so here goes:

1. That Same Song: Sounds like a song written by an 8 year old
2. Still Cruisin: Mike's awful 80s nasal and attempting to recreate their early sound
3. California Calling: Same as SC
4. She's Got Rhythm: Very cheesey
5. This Car of Mine: Here is a song from the early days where they attempted to sound like they would in the late 70s....or something
6. Darlin: Over rated and boring
7. TM Song: I sort of enjoy the monologue at the beginning, but starting with Al's 'It's time to meditate' pure awfulness.
8. Kona Coast: Same as SC and CC
9. Little Douce Coupe: Worst hit song of the 60s IMO
10. He Come Down: The only cheese in the Chaplin/Fataar era

Good call on That Same Song, Id blocked it from my memory. But Gosh Darn how does anyone hate little deuce coupe??? I remember listening to that Greatest Hits Comp when I was 9 and the first five tracks I thought were nice enough (Safari, 409, Surfin USA, Shut Down, Surfer Girl) but man, when LDC came on it blew me away--those harmonies were just SO GOOD. I only wish it was longer. I think it's probably my favorite pre-All Summer Long song they did.