What BB Song(s) You Disliked/Hated At 1st But After A While Grew To Like/Love?

[Newguy562]

I know the die hard BB fans are going to give me a hard time for this but it's all a matter of taste.

Hated then loved:

Be True To Tour School (A song about school spirit...ehhhh)  
You're So Good To Me
Sloop John B (You guys are gonna hate me for this one. Lol)
Heroes and Villains (You guys are gonna hate me even more for this classic. Ha Ha)  
Smiley Smile Album (Still hate "She's Goin' Bald")
Wild Honey Album (Didn't hate it but didn't capture my interest.)
Never Learn Not To Love
Time To Get Alone (Absolutely hated the melody.)  
Add Some Music To Your Day (Thought the subject was corny.)
At My Window
Marcella
Steamboat (Thought it was the creepiest bb song ..I was wrong. lol)  
Funky Pretty
I'l Bet He's Nice (The Synthesizer) Yikezzzzz   Lol

[MBE]

No songs stick out but I remember Friends didn't impress me at age 12 when I first heard it. Yet every single time I played it I liked it more. Now it's a classic to my ears. Smiley has grown on me to quite a bit over the last five odd years. I suppose I like the instrumentals a lot more than I did as a kid. I can't imagine Surfin' USA or Pet Sounds without them now.

[Jay]

When I first heard "Livin' With A Heartache", I HATED it with a passion. Why would The Beach Boys record a country song in 1980? I thought of it as "Long Tall Texan" part two. But then I heard the version from the Philadelphia 1980 show, I started to really like it. Strangely enough, "Livin' With A Heartache" sounds to me like the most Beach Boys sounding song on the "Keepin' The Summer Alive" album, even though Carl is the only actual Beach Boy on the studio version. But the harmonies sound like vintage Beach Boys(at least to me).

[Newguy562]

One song i just can't get into is cotton fields.. It doesn't feel like a beach boys song at all and knowing that Al Jardine was the one behind it makes me sick to my stomach :/. the song friends is pretty awkward,boring and cheesy. lol

[shelter]

I used to dislike Smiley Smile and Wild Honey (the album). Now I love them both.

[Craig Boyd]

When I was 12 the drums at the start of Do It Again creeped me out so I always skipped it, now I adore that drum sound and the song is pretty special too!

[Freddie French-Pounce]

When I first began to listen to Pet Sounds, I didn't know any other beach boys songs, and my dad (and my friend) kept telling me to listen to Good Vibrations, 'as it's their best song ever!'

So, being me, I refused to go onto YouTube, but I went to my local record fair that Sunday, managed to find one (50p I'll have you know!) and eventually returned home to play it, expecting to be blown away. Dropped the needle, and... 'What the hell is this?' It just didn't appeal to me at all. Now, it's a completely different situation. And looking at it now, the strange thing was that I only knew Pet Sounds, so it show how it truly doesn't fit in with the album. 

Oh, and I had listened to the Purple Chick SMiLE before I heard Smiley Smile, But I knew the singles, and the other SMiLE songs were quite distant on my mind (honestly, back then, you could play me the Smiley Wind Chimes, and I might have said it was the SMiLE version). It honestly was very anti-climatic to me - Now i see how different it is, and respect it for that, but I couldn't tell that at the time, and so didn't really enjoy it.

[Cabinessenceking]

For some time ago I never realised why many BB fans liked Love You, I couldnt stand Mona, Johnny Carson, and many more. Now its my favourite post-Smile album, or maybe i prefer Smiley Smile more....

hated then liked:
You're So Good To Me
I Can Hear Music
Most of 'Friends' ( I still think they coulda made a better cut, included 'went to sleep' 'we're together again' etc....)
All I Want To Do
California Saga (Still prefer the Landlocked version of Big Sur)
Just Once In My Life
Had To Phone Ya


I still hate most of 15 Big Ones and everything post-Love You, any reason why I shouldn't?  I guess Keepin The Summer Alive is a good song.

[Zach95]

I hated Let Us Go On This Way for a few days after I heard it, then had some sort of epiphany and became obsessed with that song 

[meltedwhiskeyinmyhand]

One song i just can't get into is cotton fields.. It doesn't feel like a beach boys song at all and knowing that Al Jardine was the one behind it makes me sick to my stomach :/. the song friends is pretty awkward,boring and cheesy. lol

whats this about?

[runnersdialzero]

It doesn't feel like a beach boys song at all and knowing that Al Jardine was the one behind it makes me sick to my stomach :/.

He was also "behind" "Sloop John B". Gonna hate on that, too? What's wrong with Al?

[SMiLE Brian]

One song i just can't get into is cotton fields.. It doesn't feel like a beach boys song at all and knowing that Al Jardine was the one behind it makes me sick to my stomach :/. the song friends is pretty awkward,boring and cheesy. lol

How could you insult Al Jardine, the composer of classics like Susie Cincinatti and Loop De Loop. But seriously, Al's cottonfields was a great song that stayed close to Al's folk roots. Al needs to do a solo album of folk music because Al is great at folk music.

[Sam_BFC]

Kokomo

[Newguy562]

One song i just can't get into is cotton fields.. It doesn't feel like a beach boys song at all and knowing that Al Jardine was the one behind it makes me sick to my stomach :/. the song friends is pretty awkward,boring and cheesy. lol

whats this about?

cotton fields :/

[Newguy562]

It doesn't feel like a beach boys song at all and knowing that Al Jardine was the one behind it makes me sick to my stomach :/.

He was also "behind" "Sloop John B". Gonna hate on that, too? What's wrong with Al?

actually i realize now that slop john b is amazing and i actually grew loving to the sound of it.
al jardine style was so different then brian's and i'm sure most of us are more brian fans.

[Newguy562]

One song i just can't get into is cotton fields.. It doesn't feel like a beach boys song at all and knowing that Al Jardine was the one behind it makes me sick to my stomach :/. the song friends is pretty awkward,boring and cheesy. lol

How could you insult Al Jardine, the composer of classics like Susie Cincinatti and Loop De Loop. But seriously, Al's cottonfields was a great song that stayed close to Al's folk roots. Al needs to do a solo album of folk music because Al is great at folk music.

i'm not a huge fan of folk music..the only reason i became a bb fan was because of brian's sweet melodies and how he composed so much in 2/3/4 minute songs even dennis was a better composer than al.

[hypehat]

I'm sorry, EVEN Dennis? He's like, second only to Brian!

[myonlysunshine]

I know the die hard BB fans are going to give me a hard time for this but it's all a matter of taste.

Hated then loved:

Add Some Music To Your Day (Thought the subject was corny.)

Ditto to "Add Some Music." Never cared for the corny lyrics, plus it kinda fell into a category of music for me that was in between a slow ballad and a slightly uptempo song. But it's grown on me.

[runnersdialzero]

the only reason i became a bb fan was because of brian's sweet melodies and how he composed so much in 2/3/4 minute songs

Thus rendering the other guys totally worthless and not worth the time. Ah, I truly love this way of thinking and am glad it's so common.

[Aegir]

You guys are forgetting that Newguy is a TROLL

[Newguy562]

I'm sorry, EVEN Dennis? He's like, second only to Brian!

"you're a clubber denny"

[Newguy562]

the only reason i became a bb fan was because of brian's sweet melodies and how he composed so much in 2/3/4 minute songs

Thus rendering the other guys totally worthless and not worth the time. Ah, I truly love this way of thinking and am glad it's so common.

the other beach boys helped with the vocals and had a few gems on their own (be with me,forever) but brian wilson was the full behind them..if it wasn't for him none of us would even be beach boys fans. lol

[Newguy562]

You guys are forgetting that Newguy is a TROLL

wow  ...no trolling over here.

[letsmakeit31]

For me it has to be the album Smiley Smile.......
After listening to Pet Sounds album and some of the Classic era hits of 1962-66, In my very early days of becoming a Beach Boys fan which of course hooked me. I was very shocked and puzzled when I first heard Smiley Smile (Which was the 2nd BB Album I'd heard) I was thrown as too why it seemed to my ears a massive step backwards from Pet Sounds & Good Vibrations. For an hour or so after my first listen I almost toyed with the idea of dropping the Beach Boys from my ears. But thank God I'd took the time out to first read the Booklet within the cd case and got some background knowlege about the tracks and about the recordings of Smile. I played Smiley Smile again and listened deeper, then again, and again. And fell in love with that album and started buying as many of the twofers as I could, And the rest is history....

[Newguy562]

For me it has to be the album Smiley Smile.......
After listening to Pet Sounds album and some of the Classic era hits of 1962-66, In my very early days of becoming a Beach Boys fan which of course hooked me. I was very shocked and puzzled when I first heard Smiley Smile (Which was the 2nd BB Album I'd heard) I was thrown as too why it seemed to my ears a massive step backwards from Pet Sounds & Good Vibrations. For an hour or so after my first listen I almost toyed with the idea of dropping the Beach Boys from my ears. But thank God I'd took the time out to first read the Booklet within the cd case and got some background knowlege about the tracks and about the recordings of Smile. I played Smiley Smile again and listened deeper, then again, and again. And fell in love with that album and started buying as many of the twofers as I could, And the rest is history....

The first time i heard smiley smile i was so distraught,confused and disappointed :[ i thought it was going 2 be a strong follow up to pet sounds. that was the 2nd album i listened to from the beach boys. After that i did give up on them then i heard a song called "please let me wonder" and i checked out everything and became a fan.