# Line Up Beach Boys Fans- What Is Your Favourite Song? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 23, 2010, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-up-beach-boys-fans-what-is-your-favourite-song/526103 "2010-01-23T12:11:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-up-beach-boys-fans-what-is-your-favourite-song/526103/21 "2010-01-23T19:43:45Z")
Don’t Worry Baby. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-up-beach-boys-fans-what-is-your-favourite-song/526103/22 "2010-01-23T19:54:25Z")
Good Vibrations and God Only Knows. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-up-beach-boys-fans-what-is-your-favourite-song/526103/23 "2010-01-23T19:54:42Z")
One for the lyrics as well as the tune, Hang on to your ego, [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBVbjpZhxPw) They renamed it and rewrote a few of the words, changed the production some too. ‘I know there’s an answer’ [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVIlp5_w4f8) Considering what happened with Brian’s mental state, this is is rather poignant, ‘I just wasn’t made for these times’ [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EePIKX7ZU6E) Heroes and villains. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L284UgTLA3c) ---
**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:** [January 23, 2010, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-up-beach-boys-fans-what-is-your-favourite-song/526103/24 "2010-01-23T20:02:50Z")
God Only Knows. Or Good Vibrations. Or Sloop John B. Or… geez, this is a toughie. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-up-beach-boys-fans-what-is-your-favourite-song/526103/25 "2010-01-23T20:09:11Z")
Don’t Worry Baby. Very erotic. A close second is God Only Knows. ---
**Author:** ![akira5822](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@akira5822](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akira5822)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-up-beach-boys-fans-what-is-your-favourite-song/526103/26 "2010-01-23T20:12:10Z")
Giddy-up 409… [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKKP_cZuk54) ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-up-beach-boys-fans-what-is-your-favourite-song/526103/27 "2010-01-23T20:12:34Z")
Wouldn’t It Be Nice. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-up-beach-boys-fans-what-is-your-favourite-song/526103/28 "2010-01-23T20:16:10Z")
_I Get Around_ is great. I also like all the car songs, especially _The Little Old Lady From Pasadena._ The visual of some withered elderly woman barely peering over the steering wheel of a tire-smoking machine as she dusts all the wannabees just cracks me up. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-up-beach-boys-fans-what-is-your-favourite-song/526103/29 "2010-01-23T20:18:05Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > Just pulling one off the cuff I’d say _Sloop John B_. If I sat down and examined the entire catalog I have a feeling I’d find something else that I prefer that’s not immediately coming to me. Same. Of course, I’d have to HEAR the entire catalog, as I doubt I’d recognize more than a dozen by title. ---
**Author:** ![koufax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7ea924/32.png) [@koufax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koufax)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-up-beach-boys-fans-what-is-your-favourite-song/526103/30 "2010-01-23T20:35:26Z")
Surfin’ USA…oh wait…they stole that from Chuck Berry How about “Darlin”? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6xoJeq-rto](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6xoJeq-rto) I knew one of the “Boys” wives and she told me that this was her favorite too. ---
**Author:** ![luv2draw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@luv2draw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luv2draw)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-up-beach-boys-fans-what-is-your-favourite-song/526103/31 "2010-01-23T20:45:23Z")
Kokomo Barbara Ann. Yeah, corny but what the heck. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-up-beach-boys-fans-what-is-your-favourite-song/526103/32 "2010-01-23T21:44:25Z")
Gotta go with the tide for “God Only Knows,” with nods to “Surf’s Up,” “Good Vibrations,” “I Get Around,” “Heroes and Villains,” “Wouldn’t It Be Nice,” “Don’t Worry Baby”… ---
**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:** [January 23, 2010, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-up-beach-boys-fans-what-is-your-favourite-song/526103/33 "2010-01-23T21:45:06Z")
> [@koufax](#): > > How about “Darlin”? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6xoJeq-rto](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6xoJeq-rto) > > I knew one of the “Boys” wives and she told me that this was her favorite too. I really like that one, and several others from the underrated _Wild Honey_ album. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-up-beach-boys-fans-what-is-your-favourite-song/526103/34 "2010-01-23T21:54:27Z")
> [@Gary\_T](#): > > [Shut Down.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTyrhC9jFog) Catchy tune. harmony and background singing at its best, and excellent use of rhyme. I have to second “Shut Down.” It was the very first Beach Boys song I ever heard in 1964 at the age of 7. I was visiting with my grandmother and my uncle had the 45. I played that sucker over and over my whole visit there. I’m sorry if I wore the groove out on that record. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-up-beach-boys-fans-what-is-your-favourite-song/526103/35 "2010-01-23T22:26:37Z")
I heard “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” when I was just starting to get interested in girls, and both its melody and wistful teen romanticism totally hooked me. I have it on my iPod and love it still. ---
**Author:** ![Proudest\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/proudest_monkey/32/13257_2.png) [@Proudest\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Proudest_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-up-beach-boys-fans-what-is-your-favourite-song/526103/36 "2010-01-23T22:51:51Z")
You know it seems the more we talk about it It only makes it worse to live without it Easy answer for me: **Wouldn’t It Be Nice** Runner up: **Kokomo** \*\*God Only Knows \*\*at the end of _Love Actually_ makes me melt into a sobbing pile of goo. It’s absolutely perfect in that context. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-up-beach-boys-fans-what-is-your-favourite-song/526103/37 "2010-01-23T23:00:19Z")
One that I love that hasn’t been mentioned is _Surfer Girl_. I like Kokomo and Don’t Worry Baby a lot, too. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-up-beach-boys-fans-what-is-your-favourite-song/526103/38 "2010-01-23T23:49:09Z")
“Fun, Fun, Fun” then “Don’t Worry Baby” and “Sloop John B” ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-up-beach-boys-fans-what-is-your-favourite-song/526103/39 "2010-01-24T00:41:49Z")
Man, this far and no love for [_California Girls_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU5IODKNbNs)? _Shut down_ would be a strong second, though, with _Sloop John B_ third. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-up-beach-boys-fans-what-is-your-favourite-song/526103/40 "2010-01-24T00:51:22Z")
Has _this_ one been mentioned??? My ALL-TIME favorite (although I do like the other ones mentioned as well) [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/No2YsRK3bw0/hqdefault.jpg "Beach Boys . California Saga '' on my way to sunny Californ-I-A ''") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No2YsRK3bw0) “Get yourself in the coole clear water!”🙂 Thanks Quasi [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-up-beach-boys-fans-what-is-your-favourite-song/526103.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-up-beach-boys-fans-what-is-your-favourite-song/526103.md?page=3)