The Specific Beach Boys Musical Moment That Is Kicking Your Ass Right Now

[buddhahat]

Wake the World and Old Man River.

yeah right on - have really been into old man river lately

[bgas]

San Miguel! Been listening to it on repeat a lot for the past couple days.

I hear that!  It runs thru my brain every couple of days, when I least expect it.  Don't know why, tho.

[David Kennedy]

Long time follower of this site and first post ever,couldn't resist... My musical moment right now has to be on I'm So Young. At the 10 second mark when the bass and vocals kick in immediately after  "she says I'm her only one"  I just have to play it over and over.

[hypehat]

That moment of cavernous echo just after the first chorus of the acapella 'I Just Wasn't Made For These Times'.

[desmondo]

The multiple saxes at the end of Lay Down Burden

The moment you drop off the cliff in Good Vibrations

The vocal tag on This Whole World

The moment the French Horns come in on God Only Knows

[desmondo]

The reverb in the second chorus of the instrumental track to "California Girls."

The horns in California Girls

[Mahalo]

Friends, Friends, and even more Friends...

Specifically? The bass arrangements and the organ...is there a simple slide guitar line in BHTM? Also, great bells throughout...

[CarlTheVoice]

Such a hard, but good question! Had to comment on this one! For me it has to be the harmonies on Time to Get Alone, more specifically the end of the alternative version. But saying that, there are so many moments in so many of their songs that have the same effect!

[hypehat]

The reverb in the second chorus of the instrumental track to "California Girls."

The horns in California Girls

Everything about California Girls 

[rab2591]

Hal Blaine is a F#$%ing genius for those drums in 'California Girls' - listen to the drums on the outro!! Utterly Jaw-dropping. This song is the greatest thing that has ever happened to this world.

[rab2591]

We'll Run Away

This song is just plain beautiful.

[southisland]

"i'm glad i went, now i'm that much more sure that we're ready."

chills at this moment, without fail.

the ethereal guitar chords on CIFOTM are destroying me lately too.

[rab2591]

Today I put on my really crappy ipod headphones and blasted 'California Girls' and I've never heard it sound so good. I have a decent stereo system, studio monitor headphones, but for some reason my garbage ipod headphones made this song sound like pure gold. It blew my mind it sounded so good.

I guess since Brian was following Spector's 'Wall of Sound' idea (which was meant to be heard from garbage speakers, right?) it makes sense that it would really translate well to junk headphones.

[Alex]

Currently digging MC Love`s mad rapping skills in Summer of Love...Yo, he blows Puffy, Biggie, Snoop, Dre, Eminem, Fiddy, LL Cool J, Cube, Ice T, Vanilla Ice, Hammer, and his Smart Girl-loving cuz out of the water. Fo sho!

[aerolls]

The ultra surf guitar solo on early version of Do It Again from Endless Harmony. It's missing Drums. But, even in this incarnation, this early version proves do it again is a B.B./M.L. classic.

[SloopJohnB]

The "come and do it baby" just before the outro in Do It Again. Short, simple but essential.

[aerolls]

Friends, Friends, and even more Friends...

Specifically? The bass arrangements and the organ...is there a simple slide guitar line in BHTM? Also, great bells throughout...

Do you like the acapella version on the b-side of Don't Fight The Sea? Wow, both version are on my mega B.B. playlist!

[aerolls]

The "come and do it baby" just before the outro in Do It Again. Short, simple but essential.

I love the part 2:00 in, after they sing "do it again" mike or dennis yell out this climatic owwww that's infectious. Spontaneous moments like this are what we live for in music. Legendary!

[JK]

Right now? Then it's the synth note 3:07 in on this vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG6qOTEKfVw

[SMiLE Brian]

Wonderful on the Mojo 45.

[aerolls]

Wonderful on the Mojo 45.

Wonderful is my favorite Beach Boys song of all time. Great choice. I love all Beach Boys versions of this song--i'll take em even Wonder-Bill

[theCOD]

The part about 52 seconds into Rollin' Up To Heaven where one of the guys starts doing his best Captain Beefheart impression.

[hypehat]

Does anyone else here 'Let's get together and Sue It Again' on the final line of, well, guess?

I think it's cos on the early versions, Mike sings '...and Surf Again', but obviously overdubbed '...and Do It Again' on the later take which made it on the record. The early vocal being a relic from the hasty remake after they lost the tape....

Either that, or I'm prejudiced   

To answer the question at hand, right now it's Sunny Down Snuff. Those hums..... BLISS

It warms my heart when my old thread gets revived 

[SloopJohnB]

The "come and do it baby" just before the outro in Do It Again. Short, simple but essential.

I love the part 2:00 in, after they sing "do it again" mike or dennis yell out this climatic owwww that's infectious. Spontaneous moments like this are what we live for in music. Legendary!

That's precisely the moment I was talking about - I, too, previously thought it was a spontaneous "owww", but found out it was actually "coooome and do it baby"! IT WAS ALL PLANNED OUT! 

[aerolls]

I'm loving that wailing blues guitar solo that's floating throughout Steamboat. Steamboat is one, of the many, underrated B.B. classics.