Which Beach Boys "Travesties" are.. 'To your taste?'

[Chris Brown]

I've always had a soft spot for "Smart Girls." 

[MBE]

Hmm this is tough because if I like I song I don't consider it to be a travesty. Student Demo Time kicks butt, Drip Drop, and Rolling Up To Heaven are great dirty fun. I like the Casious Love cut. I like Match Point and Wontcha Come Out Tonight.

[Awesoman]

Back in the day, I found myself liking Summer In Paradise quite a bit.  Then I discovered the 30th Anniversary box set. 

[TimeToGetAlone]

These don't have the best reputation, but I enjoy all these songs.  A few of them may have been out of place on their respective albums, however.

I'm Bugged At My Ol' Man
Transcendental Meditation
Take a Load Off Your Feet
Ding Dang
Match Point of Our Love
Lahaina Aloha

[Alex]

I'm Begging You Please
Lazy Lizzie
Yeaahhh
I Feel So Fine
To Sir With Love
I'll Bet He's Nice Demo
All of 15 Big Ones and Love You
Adult Child minus Hey Little Tomboy, and especially Shortening Bread
Drip Drop, of course.

Basically anything with a raspy, out of tune, coked out Brian dropping F-bombs will do me a body good. 

[Alan Smith]

Still Cruisin'

HCTN (LA - Album version)

Inexplicable...

[Kurosawa]

Spring Vacation, Here Comes the Night disco version,  Sumahama. In fact, I pretty much love L.A. And I also fall into the Beach Boys Love You/15 Big Ones group of fans.

I know some people dislike the early surf/car songs, but I love most of them, and I'm kinda partial to the car songs. I love car songs, period. I grew up around a bunch of gearheads and I love muscle cars. I don't know jack about cars myself, though.

[Moz from Oz]

Crocodile Rock. In fact a lot of the 80's. It was my age of BB discovery
 
My deepest apologies !!


 

[Myk Luhv]

I don't know if there are any travesties these guys have done that are to my liking but I'll list some seemingly conventionally maligned ones that I enjoy: "I'm Begging You Please"; "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow"; "The Girl From New York City"; "Let's Go Trippin'" (esp. Concert version); "South Bay Surfer"; "Take A Load Off Your Feet"; all of Smiley Smile and Love You; most of Carl & The Passions; "That Same Song" (esp. SNL-associated Beach Boys special version, with choir); "Chapel Of Love"; "Pallisades Park"; "Back Home"...

...I think that's it? Probably pretty mundane comparatively but there ya go!

[Ovi]

Spring Vacation
Private Life of Bill and Sue
She Believes In Love Again
Full Sail and Goin' South
Hey, Little Tomboy
He Come Down
Take A Load Off Your Feet
When a Man Needs a Woman
I Was Made To Love Her
I'm Bugged At My Old Man
Do You Remember

[Smilin Ed H]

Okay.

I quite like Tears in the Morning.  Way more than Deidre, for example.

I think Winds of Change is one of the best three tracks on MIU - especially if you have the version where Al sounds less like Kermit the Frog.

I much prefer the simplicity of Carl's first album to the airbrushed overblown AOR shite of the second.

I like the 'surf' instrumentals on the first few albums. They're part of the band's DNA.

I like First Love and don't mind Country Love, especially when compared with LBWL.

I think 15 Big Ones has a lot of charm and would'nr have minded 15 covers - though I appreciate that coming after Holland and that particular period of their career, it must have been a great disappointment.

I don't mind When Girls Get Together.  There:  I've said it.

[Domino]

Looking Back With Love.

[Cabinessenceking]

I don't know if there are any travesties these guys have done that are to my liking but I'll list some seemingly conventionally maligned ones that I enjoy: "I'm Begging You Please"; "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow"; "The Girl From New York City"; "Let's Go Trippin'" (esp. Concert version); "South Bay Surfer"; "Take A Load Off Your Feet"; all of Smiley Smile and Love You; most of Carl & The Passions; "That Same Song" (esp. SNL-associated Beach Boys special version, with choir); "Chapel Of Love"; "Pallisades Park"; "Back Home"...

...I think that's it? Probably pretty mundane comparatively but there ya go!

Imagine if something like this was put on a compilation. It would be better than most hit compilations!

[Cabinessenceking]

What do people think of 'When Girls Get Together'?

Personally I find it very rich in its texture and the lyrics do have significant meaning (though corny at times). I really hope they release a clean 1970 version. IMO the overdubs made for KTSA didn't do the song justice. Do people agree on that or differ?

[hypehat]

I think it's nuts. But good.

[SufferingFools]

Well, I'm a big fan of I'm So Lonely and It's Just a Matter of Time, which seem to get dissed a lot.  

And I also like A Thing or Two, which somehow always puts me in mind of the Beatles' "Wild Honey Pie."

[halblaineisgood]

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[Gertie J.]

spring vacation, be still, everyone's in love with you, ding dang, belles of paris, still surfin' (perhaps the only achievement of SIP), endless harmony, pretty much everything on SC.

[Phoenix]

I'm OK with "Crocodile Rock" too.   

[mathen_]

Daybreak over the Ocean. I don't really dig the melody itself and the lyrics (which seem to be taken from "Bluebirds over the Mountain" etc), but the instrumental arrangements and percussion are spectacular. I really don't think Mike was responsible for them, actually.

And I think Friends was their best post-Pet Sounds album in the sixties - and in some ways better than Surf's Up, Sunflower and Holland, but don't see people talking that much about it here.

[Paulos]

Spring Vacation

for reals?

Yes, 'for reals'. Many fans would label Spring Vacation as a travesty but I like it, it's harmless fun and is a very 'ear worm' type song.

[I. Spaceman]

I agree with all the folks saying Spring Vacation, The Private Life Of Bill And Sue and Daybreak Over The Ocean.

[Alan Smith]

What do people think of 'When Girls Get Together'?

Personally I find it very rich in its texture and the lyrics do have significant meaning (though corny at times). I really hope they release a clean 1970 version. IMO the overdubs made for KTSA didn't do the song justice. Do people agree on that or differ?

A major dud from an otherwise excellent creative period

[EgoHanger1966]

What do people think of 'When Girls Get Together'?

Personally I find it very rich in its texture and the lyrics do have significant meaning (though corny at times). I really hope they release a clean 1970 version. IMO the overdubs made for KTSA didn't do the song justice. Do people agree on that or differ?

A major dud from an otherwise excellent creative period

I really like When Girls Get Together. A nice, pleasant song. The two part Brian/Mike harmonies remind me of the closeness of the Everly Bros. Would have been a good fit on Sunflower if it was a double album. For some reason, the KTSA version has an obnoxious, out of time kick drum overdub. Bruuuuce??? Anyway, the version on Landlocked, despite being in less than great aural quality, lacks this overdub, and that's the version I like the best.

[Wah Wah Wah Ooooo]

"Student Demonstration Time" - The lyrics are admittedly awful, but that's a pretty rocking track...and the "stay away when there's a riot going on" group vocals are terrific.

"Summer In Paradise"  - I'm fond of this song, especially live versions I've heard.  In fact, aside from "Surfin'" and "Summer of Love" (the all-time low point of the BBs) I enjoy most of the SIP album, albeit only about once a year or so.

"I'm Bugged At My Old Man" - It's funny, it's a dig at Murry, and I really like the call and response type vocal, even if they were purposefully singing it goofy.