# 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:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-up-beach-boys-fans-what-is-your-favourite-song/526103/61 "2010-01-25T21:44:07Z")
> [@Greg\_Charles](#): > > I’m shocked by the love for “Kokomo”, which I thought of as a generic and forgettable pop song. Am I being whooshed? I like _Kokomo_. It’s a fine part of Papa John Phillips oeuvre. It’s an excellent Jimmy Buffet type song w/o Buffet’s annoying “insightfulness.” _Everybody knows a little place like Kokomo…_ It’s true and that bit of melody is sweet. ## The Muppets version of the song is also very fine. As for the OP’s question; Their famous cover of Sloop John B. ---
**Author:** ![footballisplayedwithyourfeet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9f8e36/32.png) [@footballisplayedwithyourfeet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/footballisplayedwithyourfeet)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-up-beach-boys-fans-what-is-your-favourite-song/526103/62 "2010-01-26T13:08:08Z")
It used to be Good Vibrations, but since it has been my ringtone since 2005 I’m getting kind of fed up with (but clearly not enough to change the damn thing) so I have to say nowadays it’s God only knows… ---
**Author:** ![tacoloco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tacoloco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tacoloco)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-up-beach-boys-fans-what-is-your-favourite-song/526103/63 "2010-01-26T13:12:10Z")
Early career: Fun, Fun, Fun Later career: God Only Knows ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-up-beach-boys-fans-what-is-your-favourite-song/526103/64 "2010-01-27T00:10:28Z")
Yay! I get to be original: **Do It Again**. I just love that song; it’s so darn…catchy. It’s nostalgic for their early work, and has a nice stream-of-consciousness lyric: Suntan bodies and waves of sunshine California girls and a beautiful coastline warmed-up weather let’s get together and do it again. crap. didn’t see #54. So much for originality. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-up-beach-boys-fans-what-is-your-favourite-song/526103/65 "2010-01-27T00:53:13Z")
_Wouldn’t It Be Nice_, as sung by Adam Sandler in _50 First Dates_. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-up-beach-boys-fans-what-is-your-favourite-song/526103/66 "2010-01-27T05:51:14Z")
So many. So hard to choose. But if I must, I’ll take _God Only Knows_ with a cappella ending from the Pet Sounds _Sessions_ album. Then there’s _Good Vibrations_, although the correct version from the _Smile_ album is nothing like the hit version. Still, _Surf’s Up_ takes the prize. ---
**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 27, 2010, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-up-beach-boys-fans-what-is-your-favourite-song/526103/67 "2010-01-27T23:40:01Z")
For hilarity ensues, there’s always the video on Youtube for “Don’t Worry Baby” that is chock full of b-movie dancing and surfing shenanigans. The song however, is crystalline perfect. Their vocals are pretty much unmatched, and given the production limitations of the time, the song still stands strong as a wonderful, catchy, awesome tune. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/3QCZ_bv9aLc/hqdefault.jpg "The Beach Boys - Don't Worry Baby") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QCZ_bv9aLc) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-up-beach-boys-fans-what-is-your-favourite-song/526103.md?page=3)