Rolling Stone Readers' Poll: The 10 Best Beach Boys Deep Cuts

[coco1997]

01. Your Summer Dream
02. She Knows Me Too Well
03. Here Today
04. Time To Get Alone
05. All I Wanna Do
06. Steamboat
07. I'll Bet He's Nice
08. My Diane
09. Somewhere Near Japan
10. From There To Back Again

[phirnis]

She Knows Me Too Well
Wake the World
Busy Doin' Nothin'
'Til I Die
Vegetables
Let the Wind Blow
I'll Bet He's Nice
Back Home
The Surfer Moon
Big Sur
We'll Run Away
Forever
This Whole World
A Day in the Life of a Tree
All This Is That
Time to Get Alone
Roller Skating Child
The Night Was So Young
My Diane
Aren't You Glad
Catch a Wave
Good to My Baby
Had to Phone Ya
Baby Blue
I Went to Sleep

So much great stuff...

[The Real Barnyard]

We've added many "Deep cuts" from your lists at http://beachboyslegacy.com/
Now you can take a look at all the Hits and Gems of the albums, which gives an interesting vision of their value.

[JK]

"Darlin'" got quite a bit of popularity when it was played on The Big Bang Theory, as well as it's inclusion in Sounds Of Summer, so i wouldn't consider that a "deep cut".

"Darlin'" went top 20 in the US and almost top 10 in the UK----"deep cut" my eye!

How about "The Shift"? Years ahead of its time in harmonic daring, unique even, and no one ever mentions it...

[Magic Transistor Radio]

My quick thought on Darlin as a deep cut...I have never heard it played on the radio before! Perhaps in England and other places it gets played, but I haven't heard it on the Texas oldies station. Interesting that it was higher on the charts than God Only Knows which does get regular air play!

[jiggy22]

10. My Solution
9. Little Pad
8. Sweet and Bitter
7. Do You Like Worms?
6. In the Back of My Mind
5. Wonderful
4. Guess I'm Dumb (to hell with the system, I'm counting it as a Beach Boys song dammit!) 
3. Strange Things Happen
2. Big Sur (4/4 Version)
1. (Wouldn't it Be Nice) To Live Again

Those are some pretty amazing deep cuts for you!

[JK]

My quick thought on Darlin as a deep cut...I have never heard it played on the radio before! Perhaps in England and other places it gets played, but I haven't heard it on the Texas oldies station. Interesting that it was higher on the charts than God Only Knows which does get regular air play!

I heard it on UK radio in early '68. In those days (and a while before then) I played everything (on the piano) with a left-hand pattern that was almost invariably twice the bass note followed by twice the chord. As in "Darlin'"----and I remember what a joy that was to play. In fact it played itself. Yes, it was all over the radio. Anything Beach Boys was big news in the UK, all the way into the early '70s.   

[Don Malcolm]

"Deep cut" should be narrowed down somehow...maybe it should be based on songs that rarely if ever got into the live playlist.

Songs on this RS list include some tunes that have been brought back into present-day shows, but what about the tracks that haven't had that happen? Maybe someone can take these lists and pare them down into one that uses that as the "definitional criteria"...

[donald]

You guys have touched on most of the good "deep cuts".      Point is that there are a good couple of dozen most excellent  cuts that many casual fans have not heard.    In particular, Time to Get Alone and SNJ.   These two cuts always make me want to bring them to the attention of others.   20 years apart and no where near the "peak" years of the band,   yet  stand out tracks that most would enjoy if pointed in their direction.   I'll resist the temptation to make a longer list.