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« Reply #25 on: November 16, 2012, 10:59:16 AM »

Man I just listened to I Do for the first time in years. What an amazing song. Especially with the churchbell sounds. I can't recall the name of that instrument, but it's such an emotive instrument. I feel like there's some really popular Coldplay song that has those church-chimes in it and it's probably at least 40% of the reason that song's popular.

but anyway,

1. Heads You Win, Tails I Lose
2. Little Girl (You're My Miss America)
3. Surfin' Safari
4. Chug-a-Lug
5. 409
6. County Fair
7. Surfin'
8. Cuckoo Clock
9. Moon Dawg
10. Summertime Blues
11. The Shift
12. Ten Little Indians
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« Reply #26 on: November 16, 2012, 11:13:42 AM »

1.  Surfin' Safari
2.  409
3.  Surfin'
4.  Moon Dawg
5.  Cuckoo Clock
6.  Little Girl
7.  Heads You Win...
8.  County Fair
9.  Chug-a-Lug
10.  The Shift
11. Summertime Blues
12.  Ten Little Indians
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« Reply #27 on: November 16, 2012, 12:16:05 PM »

1. Surfin' Safari
2. Little Girl (You're My Miss America)
3. Surfin'
4. 409
5. County Fair
6. Ten Little Indians
7. Moon Dawg
8. Summertime Blues
9. Heads You Win, Tails I Lose
10. Chug-A-Lug
11. The Shift
12. Cuckoo Clock
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« Reply #28 on: November 17, 2012, 12:56:04 PM »

1. Surfin' Safari
2. County Fair
3. Ten Little Indians
4. Chug-A-Lug
5. Little Girl (You're My Miss America)
6. 409
7. Surfin'
8. Heads You Win, Tails I Lose
9. Summertime Blues
10.Cuckoo Clock
11. Moon Dawg
12. The Shift
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« Reply #29 on: November 18, 2012, 12:45:17 AM »

1. The Shift
2. The Shift
3. The Shift

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« Reply #30 on: November 18, 2012, 08:36:35 AM »

1. Surfin' Safari
2. County Fair
3. Ten Little Indians
4. Chug-A-Lug
5. Little Girl (You're My Miss America)
6. 409
7. Surfin'
8. Heads You Win, Tails I Lose
9. Summertime Blues
10.Cuckoo Clock
11. Moon Dawg
12. The Shift

How convenient for you.
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« Reply #31 on: November 18, 2012, 04:13:06 PM »

I don't really dislike any of them. Far from their best, but in the context of a debut, there is a freshness to all the songs. A nice garage rock sound. I tend to not rank covers as high. So here goes.

1. Surfin Safari
2. Chug a Lug
3. Coo Coo Clock
4. 409
5. Moon Dawg
6. The Shift
7. Heads You Win Tails I Lose
8. Little Girl
9. County Fair
10. Surfin
11. Ten Little Indians
12. Summer Time Blues






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« Reply #32 on: November 18, 2012, 09:50:59 PM »

1. County Fair
2. Surfin' Safari
3. Cuckoo Clock
4. Little Girl (You're My Miss America)
5. 409
6. Chug A Lug
7. Heads You Win...
8. Surfin'
9. The Shift
10. Ten Little Indians
11. Moon Dawg
12. Summertime Blues

Probably the album most ignored by me, next to "Party," and I'm regretting how little I've listened to it! It's a really cool, loose album.
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« Reply #33 on: November 26, 2012, 11:49:35 PM »

1. Surfin' Safari
2. 409
3. County Fair

4. Chug-A-Lug
5. Heads You Win, Tails I Lose
6. Moon Dawg
7. Little Girl (You're My Miss America)
8. Cuckoo Clock
9. The Shift
10. Surfin'
11. Summertime Blues
12. Ten Little Indians
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« Reply #34 on: March 19, 2013, 08:35:23 PM »

1.surfin safari
2.surfin'
3.summertime blues
4.409
5.county fair
6.chug a lug
7.ten little indians
8.heads you win tails I lose
9.cuckoo clock
10.little girl
11.the shift
12.moon dawg
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« Reply #35 on: March 19, 2013, 11:43:49 PM »

1.  Surfin' Safari
2.  Surfin'
3.  Little Girl (You're My Miss America)
4.  409
5.  Moon Dawg
6.  Chug-a- Lug
7.  County Fair
8.  Cuckoo Clock
9.  Heads You Win, Tails I Lose
10.The Shift
11.Summertime Blues
12.Ten Little Indians
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« Reply #36 on: April 17, 2013, 03:00:37 PM »

1. Surfin' Safari - Classic. Helluva way to kick off their Capitol era. A natural progression from 'Surfin'', and way better.
2. 409 - First car song, early Wilson/Usher gem and just plain cool.
3. Chug-a-Lug - "Brian's still glued to the radio..." I dig this song, for some reason.
4. Surfin' - Sped up? Eh. But still good.
5. County Fair - Liking this more all the time.
6. Little Girl (You're My Miss America) - Rather underrated. Nice Denny vocal.
7. The Shift - Dumb but sorta nice.
8. Cuckoo Clock - Uh...well, it's alright.
9. Heads You Win, Tails I Lose - Hmm...it's okay.
10. Ten Little Indians - Doesn't work quite so well today. If it ever did...
11. Moon Dawg - Kinda filler, but hey...
12. Summertime Blues - Not bad, but pretty clunky.

Nice garage rock start. I like coming back to it every now and then.

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« Reply #37 on: August 26, 2013, 03:52:14 AM »

From Worst to Best:
12. Ten Little Indians
11. Heads You Win (Tails I Lose)
10. Summertime Blues
9. The Shift
8. Chug-a-Lug
7. Moon Dawg
6. 409
5. Surfin'
4. Cuckoo Clock
3. County Fair
2. Surfin' Safari
1. Little Girl (You're My Miss America)
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« Reply #38 on: October 01, 2013, 10:06:19 AM »

I've been working on tallying up the lists for these threads.  It's interesting to see where the songs end up with a notable sample size.

1. Surfin' Safari - 297 (18)
2. 409 - 245
3. Surfin' - 217
4. County Fair - 207 (3)
5. Little Girl (You're Miss America) - 193 (2)
6. Chug-A-Lug - 173 (1)
7. Cuckoo Clock - 169 (1)
8. Heads You Win - Tails I Lose - 149 (1)
9. Moon Dawg - 141
10. The Shift - 122
11. Summertime Blues - 104
12. Ten Little Indians - 90 (1)

My thoughts? Cuckoo Clock and Moon Dawg are a tad underrated here, while I still can't quite figure out the love for Surfin'.  Then again, pretty much all the songs here fall under that very early garage/surf rock sound.  The title track wins handily.
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« Reply #39 on: August 12, 2014, 09:52:31 AM »

Cute album.

1. Surfin Safari (although I prefer the early demo version with different lyrics)
2. Chug A Lug (love it!)
3. Heads You Win Tails I Lose
4. Ten Little Indians
5. County Fair
6. Surfin'
7. Cuckoo Clock
8. The Shift
9. 409
10. Moon Dawg
11. Summertime Blues
12. Little Girl You're My Miss America
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« Reply #40 on: October 30, 2014, 02:41:33 PM »

1. Cuckoo Clock
2. Moon Dawg
3. Little Girl (You're My Miss America)
4. Surfin' Safari
5. Summertime Blues
6. The Shift
7. 409
8. Country Fair
9. Surfin'
10. Heads You Win, Tails I Lose
11. Chug-A-Lug
12. Ten Little Indians
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« Reply #41 on: March 27, 2016, 04:34:08 PM »

Heads I Win, Tails I Lose
Surfin Safari
409
Surfin
Little Girl (Miss America)
The Shift
Chug-a-lug
County Fair
Cuckoo Clock
Summertime Blues
Moon Dawg
Ten Little Indians
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« Reply #42 on: December 15, 2016, 01:43:26 AM »

1. Surfin Safari
2. 409
3. Summertime Blues
4. The Shift
5. Little Girl
6-12 everything else. (Surfin' ranked low because this version is sped up and sounds like twice-baked ass)
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« Reply #43 on: January 13, 2017, 08:36:27 AM »

Man...no love for Ten Little Indians?  WTF.

I thought the same thing! I'm actually shocked at how consistently it was voted worst or second to worst. I guess, I just hadn't noticed the dislike for the song elsewhere on the board. Wow. Anyway...


Here's my rankings based purely on personal taste...


1. Surfin' Safari

2. Surfin'
3. Ten Little Indians
4. Little Girl (You're My Miss America)
5. Chug-A-Jug
6. County Fair

7. 409
8. The Shift
9. Cuckoo Clock
10. Heads You Win - Tails I Lose
11. Moon Dawg
12. Summertime Blues

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