Which Beach Boys "Classics" are.. 'Not to your taste?'

[Disney Boy (1985)]

Almost all of Brian's solo career while we're at it. I don't particuarly like his later songs, i don't like his barking vocals, and hearing the Wondermints singing just always makes me feel as if i'm in a pub somewhere watching a Beach Boys tribute act.

[Shady]

Really vicious thread 

Some of you guys got pretty bad taste 

[PhilSpectre]

IMO - Help Me Rhonda = Dull  (all versions I've heard). Nearly always a skipper for me

Barbara Ann = Irritating vocals

Not mad on most of the Wild Honey album either.

Would rather listen to selected Mike Love solo tracks 

[Andrew G. Doe]

"Don't Worry, Baby" & "Please Let Me Wonder" - leave me cold, both of them.

And don't get me started on "Barbara-fucking-Ann"...

[CenturyDeprived]

Little. Deuce. Coupe. This tune just leaves me kind of cold. The long extended "got" vocal always sounds really shaky and annoying to me. IMO, maybe the weakest song of theirs to be so friggin' popular.

[Paulos]

"Don't Worry, Baby" & "Please Let Me Wonder" - leave me cold, both of them.

And don't get me started on "Barbara-f***ing-Ann"...

Hmm, your book indicates otherwise, I think Andrew is trying to trick us!

[halblaineisgood]

"Don't Worry, Baby" & "Please Let Me Wonder" - leave me cold, both of them.

And don't get me started on "Barbara-f***ing-Ann"...

Hmm, your book indicates otherwise, I think Andrew is trying to trick us!

No...he can't be!! "Barbara f***ing-Ann" makes it so sincere!! 

[Freddie French-Pounce]

"Don't Worry, Baby" & "Please Let Me Wonder" - leave me cold, both of them.

And don't get me started on "Barbara-f***ing-Ann"...

Hmm, your book indicates otherwise, I think Andrew is trying to trick us!

Andrew? Trick us? Never!

[LetHimRun]

Branch out.  Listen to other opinions.

But what if those opinions are that they prefer stereo to mono?

What's wrong about preferring stereo to mono? I for one like stereo better, except for some individual tracks.

The good thing is nothing is wrong with it. I prefer mono to stereo (when both formats are available), but I will definitely listen to stereo. Mono sounds more whole and complete, a stereo mix has to be fantastic for me to prefer it over mono and usually that isn't the case.

To each his/her own!

[Letsgoawayforawhile]

Branch out.  Listen to other opinions.

But what if those opinions are that they prefer stereo to mono?

What's wrong about preferring stereo to mono? I for one like stereo better, except for some individual tracks.

Have you heard the remaster In The Back Of My Mind stereo mix?
I love it so much!

The good thing is nothing is wrong with it. I prefer mono to stereo (when both formats are available), but I will definitely listen to stereo. Mono sounds more whole and complete, a stereo mix has to be fantastic for me to prefer it over mono and usually that isn't the case.

To each his/her own!

[LetHimRun]

Branch out.  Listen to other opinions.

But what if those opinions are that they prefer stereo to mono?

What's wrong about preferring stereo to mono? I for one like stereo better, except for some individual tracks.

Have you heard the remaster In The Back Of My Mind stereo mix?
I love it so much!

The good thing is nothing is wrong with it. I prefer mono to stereo (when both formats are available), but I will definitely listen to stereo. Mono sounds more whole and complete, a stereo mix has to be fantastic for me to prefer it over mono and usually that isn't the case.

To each his/her own!

Yes I have and it is mind blowing. Makes me wish the original mono version had the single lead vocal and the extended fade.

[Letsgoawayforawhile]

Branch out.  Listen to other opinions.

But what if those opinions are that they prefer stereo to mono?

What's wrong about preferring stereo to mono? I for one like stereo better, except for some individual tracks.

Have you heard the remaster In The Back Of My Mind stereo mix?
I love it so much!

The good thing is nothing is wrong with it. I prefer mono to stereo (when both formats are available), but I will definitely listen to stereo. Mono sounds more whole and complete, a stereo mix has to be fantastic for me to prefer it over mono and usually that isn't the case.

To each his/her own!

Yes I have and it is mind blowing. Makes me wish the original mono version had the single lead vocal and the extended fade.

Yeah, it's beautiful!

[Emdeeh]

I have a pretty strong dislike for "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times," in part because I find the lyrics difficult to relate to. I'm pretty sure it's right on the money for a significant number of folks here, but it doesn't work for me. (Add obvious song title pun here....)

[Cabinessenceking]

California Girls, Marcella, Sail On Sailor, finished versions of Surf's Up (thus excluding the "demo").

do you even like the Beach Boys?

[Cabinessenceking]

more or lees all their early songs sound much better live.

I dont care for Surfer Girl or Dont Worry Baby in their studio formats, but live in the 70's onwards they had something extra in them given that they were very dated and represented a glimpse into the bands past. For example the live in Knebworth version of Surfer Girl with Dennis up-front is gorgeous because their voices have aged and 18 years stand between the original and their performance. I feel that stuff adds warmth to these songs and allows me to appreciate the pre-65 material much more.

[Myk Luhv]

I don't like "Good Timin'".

[runnersdialzero]

MODIFY

[halblaineisgood]

I have a pretty strong dislike for "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times," in part because I find the lyrics difficult to relate to. I'm pretty sure it's right on the money for a significant number of folks here, but it doesn't work for me. (Add obvious song title pun here....)

Will you explain further ?
On a hunch, I feel that you have some sort of deeper bone to pick, maybe you think they're indulgent?

[halblaineisgood]

I have a pretty strong dislike for "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times," in part because I find the lyrics difficult to relate to. I'm pretty sure it's right on the money for a significant number of folks here, but it doesn't work for me. (Add obvious song title pun here....)

Will you explain further ?
On a hunch, I feel that you have some sort of deeper bone to pick, maybe you think they're indulgent?

Brian Wilson was a melancholy pot brownie eating cry baby, huh? Invoking Weller's Law. Post an image of actor Fred Weller. Then say  "Oh, that sounds a whole lot like what the producers of an American Family thought.." Conversation over.

[Myk Luhv]

I don't understand people's love of the In Concert version of "You Still Believe in Me". Sounds to me like Al can't hit those notes, it's an off-kilter (in a way not endearing) and paltry sounding rearrangement on an album where that is otherwise not so much a problem.

[Cyncie]

Of the "classics" on my iPod, I usually skip "Be True To Your School,"  and "When I Grow Up (To Be A Man)."

[Pretty Funky]

You're So Good To Me is not so good...to me.

Thank God. I thought it was just me!

[Emdeeh]

On a hunch, I feel that you have some sort of deeper bone to pick, maybe you think they're indulgent?

That's pretty close to the mark on how I feel about IJWMFFT. Too indulgent, bordering on whining.

[runnersdialzero]

On a hunch, I feel that you have some sort of deeper bone to pick, maybe you think they're indulgent?

That's pretty close to the mark on how I feel about IJWMFFT. Too indulgent, bordering on whining.

dat track, melody, and arrangement, though. Jesus. High point of Brian's creativity, possibly.

[EgoHanger1966]

On a hunch, I feel that you have some sort of deeper bone to pick, maybe you think they're indulgent?

That's pretty close to the mark on how I feel about IJWMFFT. Too indulgent, bordering on whining.

The self-indulgence and sentiment of the lyrics are EXACTLY why it's one of my favorite songs of all time. I relate to that song so much, and I'm sure a lot of members here do to, although it's for a different reason than Asher/Wilson intended. Brian felt out of place in his time period, seemingly the man was ahead of his time - his ideas and thought processes on modular recordings alone testify to this. For myself, as long as I have been alive I have never felt quite 'with it' amongst my peers and today's society. I was obsessed with The Beatles and the 60s by the time I was 4. I've never stopped. I truly don't feel as if I was meant to be in this time period - I often feel kind of lost. It's a little messed up, and I don't let it get in the way of my life, but I feel like everyone I know is content to be living in the now, and I'm just not. So, when I really listened to the lyrics of that song for the first time, it just hit me in a totally different way than any other song had ever hit me. I felt that. Yeah, it's 'ego music'. I dig it.

Part of the genius of Pet Sounds is the way the music beautifully accompanies the lyrics - and on IJWMFTT they fit together so perfectly. It's another of many reasons why that song is such a knockout.