Worst Beach Boys Song on L.A. (Light Album) - Part 1 in an Ongoing Series

I imagine Geir will come along and vote for the discofied Here Comes the Night shortly...

the discofied here comes the night is awesome

I mean in a sorta perverse way

it has a certain goofy charm. they don't quite nail it but its def more fun than some of the other crap on here.

also I'm not sure if it's really worth polling *all* of their albums, cause the 80s and 90s ones will probably get the job done w/ this subject

I will sorta rep for 'Sumahama' too

also I'm not sure if it's really worth polling *all* of their albums, cause the 80s and 90s ones will probably get the job done w/ this subject

oh I'm limiting this to everything pre-80s. Nothing that does not include all the core members - Dennis, Brian, Carl, Al Jardine/David Marks, Mike, and Brian

Don't know any other tracks than "Lady Lynda" here, and I am sure there are other tracks that are worse. Haven't bothered to investigate anything from the late 70s onwards by them.

i like baby blue

The songs (bar Here Comes The Night) get progressively worse crunching into the horrible, pointless Shortnin' Bread. Lady Lynda isn't that bad, Good Timin' is actually a fave.

haven't listened to this album and probably never will, but i can't imagine anyone voting for "good timin'".

I totally dig Shortnin' Bread I must say

I think what I hate most about Lady Lynda is the quote at the beginning, which is such a pathetically transparent bid to be taken seriously

A weak album, but not as bad as the previous one. Dennis' songs here are great; Baby Blue is as good as anything he recorded. Here Come then Night and Shortening Bread are both fun. The rest are mostly bland and forgettable. Voted Sumahama, because, well, it's Mike Love singing in Japanese.

haven't listened to this album and probably never will, but i can't imagine anyone voting for "good timin'".

Some days, "Good Timin'" is among my favorite Beach Boys songs ever. Back in college, not long after I discovered the Beach Boys, I broke up with my girlfriend and made the hideous mistake of staying at school for March break -- and spent most of it just moping around alone.

But there was something so pure, so therapeutic about "Good Timin'" -- the 6/8 shuffle, the "ahhh-ah-AHHH-AHHH-AHHHHHHH!!!"'s in the background vocals of the chorus. Some days, nothing sounds more comforting to my ears.

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lol the masses have spoken

landslide

Version of "Shortenin' Bread" on Adult Child is great.

only 4 people voted for this? haha

Never heard this album, gave up after that MIU thing

I thought this one would get more attention, cause it's kind of the BB's Yacht album.

Hmm, so will there be movement forward as well as back?

Version of "Shortenin' Bread" on Adult Child is great.

Absolutely!!!! Is the version here different then?

Hmm, so will there be movement forward as well as back?

what d'you mean? I'm not planning on polling any stuff after this if that's what you're asking (on the grounds that not all core members participated, which I guess is debatable about Keepin the Summer Alive....? I don't remember. There was a discussion of this on one of the other poll threads).

but we need to have a heated argument about whether "Kokomo" sucks or is secretly genius! (secretly genius, btw)

and are you insinuating that John Stamos is not a "core member"?

defend the indefensible: "kokomo" by the beach boys

J0hn all kinds of wrong on this thread btw^^^

prefer it to all other beach boys songs

― J0hn D., Saturday, April 19, 2008 2:34 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

*ahem*

haha, oh yeah. i guess we don't need to have a heated argument about whether "Kokomo" sucks or is secretly genius. that thread was pretty good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksieNCXVH-k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax1Bd1JaUEE

Poor Dennis relegated to tapping a cymbal at the edge of the stage.

Angel Come Home, a song written by Carl and sung by Dennis, is surprisingly good on this. Pretty dope live version here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_Ka4BpLzgk

This album is really okay I'd say. Significantly better than MIU

It’s def. more professionally produced – they sort of flick at being a really good soft rock band in places. But song-for-song I’m not sure it’s actually better. I count six good songs here—Good Timin’, Angel Come Home, Love Surround Me, Here Comes the Disco, Baby Blue, and Shortenin’ Bread—and six or possibly seven on MIU, albeit produced quasi-poorly.

Sumahama is really bad.

"Angel Come Home" is like a slicker version of the late night-feeling stuff on Tusk ("Save Me A Place", "Honey Hi" etc.)

Yes, and Christine McVie (who Dennis was dating) guests on Love Surrounds Me.

Interesting because I think there are songs on Tusk (like "That's All For Everyone") that strongly remind me of Holland-era BBs

Lindsay Buckingham is more than somewhat influenced by the Beach Boys!

Revisiting this after a long time and this is very good. I'm into the Dennis songs like Love Surrounds Me.

I like Love You fine, but this sounds like a nice spritual successor to Holland in terms of tone. Certainly between than MIU and Big Ones

I kinda love the the soft, yacht-y vibes on here.
It's always been intriguing to me how tantalizingly within-reach it could have been for them to move in that direction, and maybe chart a more, I dunno, adult or mature artistic course at that stage of their career. Especially in the context of the popularity of Fleetwood Mac and the other LA studio pop at the time. But I guess that would have required them to jettison the nostalgia-trip portion of the act, which just wasn't gonna happen.