# Best Beach Boys song? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 26, 2010, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-beach-boys-song/558434 "2010-10-26T19:22:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-beach-boys-song/558434/41 "2010-10-27T18:58:57Z")
“Wouldn’t It Be Nice” has always been my favorite. “Maybe if we think and wish and hope and pray…” ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-beach-boys-song/558434/42 "2010-10-27T19:07:19Z")
[More options for the non-20 Biggest Hits types](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=583338) ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-beach-boys-song/558434/43 "2010-10-27T19:13:22Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > As the OP states, “for what should be obvious reasons.” > > It’s the only Beach Boys song that gets radio play that forces me to change the station. I’d count “Wipe Out,” too, although I can’t remember the last time I heard it on the radio, and it’s a collaboration with the Fat Boys, so I don’t consider it a Beach Boys song. “Wipe Out” was a cover–originally recorded by the Surfaris. I picked a bunch of Beach Boys tunes–many of the non-arty oldies. Because they were so much _fun._ ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-beach-boys-song/558434/44 "2010-10-27T21:06:55Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > “Wipe Out” was a cover–originally recorded by the Surfaris. Of course it’s originally by the Surfaris. But I assumed the OP was talking about this [_Wipe Out_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt0LBlH3dAc), which is not really quite a cover. ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-beach-boys-song/558434/45 "2010-10-27T21:59:10Z")
Neither list doesn’t include “I Can Hear Music” Yikes. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a Beach Boys song I didn’t like but not to have that on the list is a mistake, or I need new contacts. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-beach-boys-song/558434/46 "2010-10-27T22:12:39Z")
I’m surprised to be the first one to vote for Rock and Roll Music. I love their version as well as Chuck Berry’s and The Beatles’. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-beach-boys-song/558434/47 "2010-10-27T22:43:53Z")
> [@kevja](#): > > Neither list doesn’t include “I Can Hear Music” > > Yikes. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a Beach Boys song I didn’t like but not to have that on the list is a mistake, or I need new contacts. Aargh! Sorry, **kevja**! When I made [Part 2 of the list](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=583338) my original intent was to come up with 28 songs, added to **DCnDC** ’s list of 22 songs to make a nice clean 50. The I got carried away and decided I would do 78 songs to make it a total of a nice round 100 songs. I ended up with 82 songs- “I Can Hear Music” was on that list. But since I was 4 over the round 100 that I wanted, I nixed a few that were cover songs. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-beach-boys-song/558434/48 "2010-10-27T23:06:59Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > Aargh! Sorry, **kevja**! > > When I made [Part 2 of the list](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=583338) my original intent was to come up with 28 songs, added to **DCnDC** ’s list of 22 songs to make a nice clean 50. > > The I got carried away and decided I would do 78 songs to make it a total of a nice round 100 songs. > I ended up with 82 songs- “I Can Hear Music” was on that list. But since I was 4 over the round 100 that I wanted, I nixed a few that were cover songs. > > :smack: But you made it a “choose only one” poll. ☹ No way in hell can I choose only one of those 82 songs. ---
**Author:** ![Winnie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e480ec/32.png) [@Winnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnie)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-beach-boys-song/558434/49 "2010-10-28T01:32:26Z")
**God Only Knows** without question. Just thinking about that song sends chills up my spine. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-beach-boys-song/558434/50 "2010-10-28T11:26:41Z")
> [@Ms\_Boods](#): > > Don’t look at it that way, as pissing away a lot of ideas, but rather as taking something huge and unfinished, and narrowly honing it down – Brian deliberately edited down 90 hours’ worth of music (riffs and ideas) to create a 3:35 ‘pocket symphony’ – it’s why I find listening to the various rehearsals and practices fascinating. Thanks for that post. I checked out your apparent exaggeration to discover that it wasn’t one. Amazing stuff. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-beach-boys-song/558434.md?page=2)