Are there certain songs you skip over when listening to a Beach Boys album?

[Lee Marshall]

Having just come down rather roughly on 'In The Back of My Mind'...it got me to thinkin'...there are perhaps specific songs you don't really care for on some of the albums released over all these years...

Back in the vinyl days it was tough to skip a song unless it was the last track on a side.  [didn't want to unnecessarily scratch the record by lifting and replacing the needle.]  With cds and newer methods of listening it became an easy thing to do.

Ya I know the musical track for ITBOMM was/is great...it's the vocal performance Brian used which throws me off.  There are others I don't care for on other albums but it's YOUR turn.  Any cringe-worthy BBs' songs you generally avoid?

[Manfred]

Cuckoo Clock, "Cassius" Love vs. "Sonny" Wilson, Denny´s drums, Our favorite recording sessions, Bull sessions with "Big Daddy", The girl from New York City, He came down, TM song, Love is a woman, She´s got rhythm, Pitter patter, The private life of Bill and Sue.

[gxios]

Only one- "Then I Kissed Her"  always hated it, cannot believe it was a 45 in the UK.

[Peadar 'Big Dinner' O'Driscoll]

Student D T

[The LEGENDARY OSD]

Most anything with ML bleating out the lead-really don't listen to the early material too much anymore unless it's Brian, Carl or Al up front.

[Micha]

Cuckoo Clock, "Cassius" Love vs. "Sonny" Wilson, Denny´s drums, Our favorite recording sessions, Bull sessions with "Big Daddy", The girl from New York City, He came down, TM song, Love is a woman, She´s got rhythm, Pitter patter, The private life of Bill and Sue.

I'm absolutely with you on the last one, but Pitter Patter? That's the only song I don't skip when I put on side 2 of MIU...

[Sheriff John Stone]

Student D T

That would be mine, too, especially during the vinyl years. It's also hard to listen to The Beach Boys 1985 all the way through. 

[sockittome]

Don't Go Near the Water
Disney Girls

[rab2591]

Got To Know A Woman, Tears In The Morning, The Nearest Faraway Place, Student Demonstration Time, the Medley from the Party album.

[Smilin Ed H]

A fair bit of the first album, but generally, up until Summer Days, only the obvious fillers. 15B0 - Everyone's In Love; MIU - 75% of it (but not Pitter Patter, which I consider one of its saving graces); LA - HCTN; KTSA -  75% of it; 85 - 75% of it; Still Cruisin' - all of the newer stuff except for SNJ; SIP - find it hard to listen to at all but quite like Strange Things Happen; Stars and Stripes - I like 2 or 3 tracks; TWGMTR - 50 - 60%

[joshferrell]

"Cassius" Love vs. "Sonny" Wilson"
"Our favorite recording sessions"
"Bull sessions with "Big Daddy"
"Denny's drum"
"SDT"
" all the surfing instrumentals on the Surfing USA album"
"winds of change"
" Carl's big chance"
"most of the cover songs from 15 big ones"
" California Calling"
"Here comes the night" (Disco)
" the cover songs on SIP"
"I'm so lonely"
"Hold on dear brother"
"leaving this town"

[Lee Marshall]

Many of the choices mad here would also be mine...but the SOME of the songs picked here...I like very much.  For example...Like Smilin' Ed...I'm a 'Pitter Patter' fan.  Anyway...carry on.

[Cam Mott]

Kokomo
I Was Made To Love Her
Mt. Vernon & Fairway
Beaks of Eagles

 

[Tord]

Here Comes the Night
Be with Me
Slip on Through
It's About Time
Feel Flows
Hold On Dear Brother
Make It Good
The Trader
Only with You
Winds of Change
Angel Come Home
Love Surrounds Me
Goin' South
It's Gettin' Late
Maybe I Don't Know
She Believes in Love Again
Passing Friend
Where I Belong
Somewhere Near Japan
Make It Big
Hot Fun in the Summertime
Surfin' (1992)
Slow Summer Dancin' (One Summer Night)
Strange Things Happen
Remember (Walking in the Sand)
Beaches in Mind
Strange World

[Ovi]

I skip a few songs on Summer in Paradise here and there...usually Hot Fun in the Summertime, Surfin', Summer of Love, Island Fever, Still Surfin', Slow Summer Dancing, Strange Things Happen, Remember (Walkin' in the Sand), Lahaina Aloha, Under the Broadwalk, Summer In Paradise and Forever.

[Michael Edward Osbourne]

I skip over...
"Cassius" Love vs. "Sonny" Wilson, Our Favorite Recording Sessions, Bull Sessions With Big Daddy, Nearest Faraway Place, Everyone's In Love With You, Here Comes The Night Disco Version, Endless Harmony (although I love the ending), everything on BB85 except Getcha Back/Crack At Your Love/California Calling/It's Just A Matter Of Time, everything on Summer In Paradise except Hot Fun In The Summertime, everything on Stars & Stripes except Willie Nelson and Timothy Schmidt.

[joshferrell]

I skip a few songs on Summer in Paradise here and there...usually Hot Fun in the Summertime, Surfin', Summer of Love, Island Fever, Still Surfin', Slow Summer Dancing, Strange Things Happen, Remember (Walkin' in the Sand), Lahaina Aloha, Under the Broadwalk, Summer In Paradise and Forever.

this one is worth a listen to without skipping IMO, but yeah I agree with the rest..

[halblaineisgood]

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[The LEGENDARY OSD]

Most anything with ML bleating out the lead-really don't listen to the early material too much anymore unless it's Brian, Carl or Al up front.

Wow? Really??? I never would have guessed! Thanks for telling us. You are full of surprises .

Yeah,ha, ha, really! No thanks needed whatsoever. But no......................................................let me thank you!!

[Sound of Free]

I have songs I skip but also a song I always skip HALF of. I love the first minute of "Had to Phone Ya" but always skip the second minute. I could take or leave Brian's tag but I just HATE the "you you you you you" part so I skip just before it gets to that part.

[Awesoman]

Having just come down rather roughly on 'In The Back of My Mind'...it got me to thinkin'...there are perhaps specific songs you don't really care for on some of the albums released over all these years...

Back in the vinyl days it was tough to skip a song unless it was the last track on a side.  [didn't want to unnecessarily scratch the record by lifting and replacing the needle.]  With cds and newer methods of listening it became an easy thing to do.

Ya I know the musical track for ITBOMM was/is great...it's the vocal performance Brian used which throws me off.  There are others I don't care for on other albums but it's YOUR turn.  Any cringe-worthy BBs' songs you generally avoid?

I find myself skipping all the songs off of the M.I.U. Album...

[kookadams]

The only BBs tracks anyone would skip over would be sonny vs cassius, bull session, bugged at my ol man, tm song, the disco take of here comes the night etc..

[Eric Aniversario]

Tears in the morning
Shelter
Strange world
Be true to your school (stars & stripes)
Cry (imagination)
It ain't necessarily so
just once in my life
My Diane
Friday night

[kookadams]

Hey eric recently Ive found myself hardly listening to any post<love you BBs...just like you I enjoy the entire output but the hit&miss of their music from the mid 70s onward is evident. Brian had gotten so active in 76/7 and then not for the next twenty yrs...