I Get Around

[Surfer]

How many of you love this Song?  This is my Opinion but this song reminds me of a heavy Metal song

[halblaineisgood]

I do. And I think it's heavy, too.

[halblaineisgood]

But not metal.

[runnersdialzero]

The chorus reminds me of the overworld theme from the first Final Fantasy game. Someone tell me why this is.

[bgas]

The chorus reminds me of the overworld theme from the first Final Fantasy game. Someone tell me why this is.

Bad Hearing?

[Lee Marshall]

When I first heard it...I thought that it was just OUTSTANDING.  A step forward for music.  The flip side was pretty other-worldly too.  These Beach Boys are leaders not followers.  This is where expectations really began to grow [for me].

When I heard the very first Led Zeppelin album I though...man!!!  THIS is new.  No one ever sounded like THIS before.  A gigantic leap for mankind.  This is something else.  Totally unique.  I LOVE it.

I Get Around. Don't Worry Baby and Good Vibrations also did THAT for me.  [albeit a few years earlier]  In THAT regard...I'd agree that I Get Around was like heavy metal.  So too is a large crowbar.

[runnersdialzero]

The chorus reminds me of the overworld theme from the first Final Fantasy game. Someone tell me why this is.

Bad Hearing?

Maybe stop hitting on me.

[Mikie]

How many of you love this Song?  This is my Opinion but this song reminds me of a heavy Metal song

You know, Surfer, you seem to start new threads without 'concluding' your previous ones and seeing closure. You ask questions and don't thank or acknowledge the responders to your questions or comments or requests for further information. You leave them hanging with one opening post with no follow-up. On your previous thread, we wanted clarification and confirmation on your new "CD' that you received for Christmas. Now you start a new thread with the premise that a classic Beach Boys hit sounds like "Heavy Metal", which is really an off-the-wall statement. You make a vague comment without backing it up with why you think that way. The previous thread had no details, just a title. No track list, dates, or anything to give us some background. We salvage your threads anyway and make something out of almost nothing. This seems to be an on-going trend. We understand your condition, but we know you're capable of contributing better posts here, especially by following up after starting them. Some people would call it trolling, but we know you're not a troll. Hope you can understand what I'm talking about and please don't take offense, OK?

P.S. The band that 'Add Some' mentioned above was the first Heavy Metal one as far as I'm concerned, starting in 1969.

[Alan Smith]

Nothin' new to add, other than I think IGA is pretty Avant-garde.  My first proper listen (in terms of actually listening) was around '83; punk, post punk, new wave, and even quirky hits like Ashes to Ashes by David Bowie were already vibrating around my pretty young head (especially my face) - yet IGA deglazed all songs I'd pedestalled, and remains a key song in my listening list.

For a guy who was yet to really get on the grass, Brian certainly came up with something out-there.  Those syncopated/staccatoey twists and turns during the VERSE - funny that years later, a session player had to suggest Brian take a staccato approach to resolve  the GOK break!

[sockittome]

I too would like to hear Surfer come back into this thread and elaborate.  Not picking on you my friend, but what about I Get Around reminds you of heavy metal?  Or are you referring to a particular heavy metal song?  You've got me curious now....

My personal opinion of I Get Around is that it is an excellent song.  Perfect for the time it was released, and a great classic today.  I think there's a lot going on in this just over two minute slice of 60s California teenage life!

[halblaineisgood]

I too would like to hear Surfer come back into this thread and elaborate.  Not picking on you my friend, but what about I Get Around reminds you of heavy metal?  

Maybe you should should say why it's not a heavy metal song.

[halblaineisgood]

If it's that important to you.

[halblaineisgood]

I am picking on you.

[The Shift]

Have you heard the track-only on the recent KAEOS download release? That emphasises just what a heavy track I Get Around really is.

And what Mikie said. Would love to read more about your thoughts, Surfer.

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

Most people here know that before I became a fan in 1995, I used to dismiss the Beach Boys as some lightweight oldies band. Well, I Get Around was the exception. I fell in love with it upon hearing it in 1989 on the Look Who's Talking soundtrack. Blew me away. Sounded very punk to my young ears.  That and When I grow up made me a bit curious, although they were a guilty pleasure as it was uncool to like anything by the BB at that time. Plus my dad hated them( he was more about the blues and 70s classic rock, the kind you hear on the radio)

[halblaineisgood]

Have you heard the track-only on the recent KAEOS download release? That emphasises just what a heavy track I Get Around really is.

KAEOS is bottom end heavy . It sort of captures the spirit of those no-highs capitol 45's.

[Fire Wind]

I find Little Honda to be the heaviest track.  That's the tune that makes me wanna shove people around like I'm listening to the Stooges or something.  We should form a moshpit at the RAH.

[Micha]

I find Little Honda to be the heaviest track.

It features a absolutely punk guitar anyway! Wish that had been mixed louder.

[Rocker]

Easily one of the best rock songs of the 60s. Mike's hook sets you on a ride that you will never forget. The music of the verses is so funky and Carl's guitar solo is exciting. The acapella breaks bring it all home. In fact the single may be one of the greatest 45s ever.

[Surfer]

I too would like to hear Surfer come back into this thread and elaborate.  Not picking on you my friend, but what about I Get Around reminds you of heavy metal?  Or are you referring to a particular heavy metal song?  You've got me curious now....

My personal opinion of I Get Around is that it is an excellent song.  Perfect for the time it was released, and a great classic today.  I think there's a lot going on in this just over two minute slice of 60s California teenage life!

This song reminds of a Heavy Metal song is because of the Guitars and those Guitars sound like Metalic in sound

[37!ws]

I hated this song since the first time I heard it as a toddler in the late '70s.

[Michael Edward Osbourne]

I Get Around and Little Honda both have that cool distorted guitar fuzz which make it sound heavy and/or punk. The intro to Little Honda is just as blistering as a Ramones song.

Blue Cheer was the first heavy metal band. They were around before Zeppelin.

[Micha]

IGA: Personally I prefer the live in Sacramento and TAMI versions. They're played a bit faster and the verse arrangement is more driving. If you could combine the isolated fuzz bass from the studio recording into those, that'd be perfect.

[Andrew G. Doe]

You know, Surfer, you seem to start new threads without 'concluding' your previous ones and seeing closure. You ask questions and don't thank or acknowledge the responders to your questions or comments or requests for further information. You leave them hanging with one opening post with no follow-up. On your previous thread, we wanted clarification and confirmation on your new "CD' that you received for Christmas. Now you start a new thread with the premise that a classic Beach Boys hit sounds like "Heavy Metal", which is really an off-the-wall statement. You make a vague comment without backing it up with why you think that way. The previous thread had no details, just a title. No track list, dates, or anything to give us some background. We salvage your threads anyway and make something out of almost nothing. This seems to be an on-going trend. We understand your condition, but we know you're capable of contributing better posts here, especially by following up after starting them. Some people would call it trolling, but we know you're not a troll. Hope you can understand what I'm talking about and please don't take offense, OK?

Mikie, Surfer's a lot like Brian in this respect. Gets easily bored, moves on. I can dig it. At least he's making positive contributions to the board. 

[Loves The Sunflower]

...and Carl's guitar solo is exciting.

I told a non-fan buddy years ago that "I Get Around" features "the greatest guitar solo ever recorded." He immediately listed a dozen or so other guitar solos that he regarded as superior. It occurred to me later that I misspoke. What I should have said is that the guitar solo in "IGA" is set up brilliantly by the preceding chorus and that it then takes the song perfectly into the key change (up a half step) of the third/final verse and choruses. Sure, the solo itself may not be amazing from a technical perspective but it helps direct the song so perfectly that the point is moot.

"IGA" seems to me to be proto-proto-punk, instrumentally, but it isn't heavy metal. That overdriven baritone guitar (a similar sound is also featured in "Fun, Fun, Fun", "Dance, Dance, Dance" and "Little Honda") that chugs along throughout the song gives it an edge that just screams early punk rock. And that electric harpsichord that's in there... it's quite prominent in the mix of the track on the 30th anniversary box set "Good Vibrations"... disc five, I think... is just played balls to the wall, too. Love it!