Worst Beach Boys Song on Shut Down Vol 2 - Part 18 in an Ongoing Series

You could probably have also left off Denny's Drums. Last three tracks on this are pointless filler. Voted Louie Louie.

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fact -- i've never heard this album! I actually rely on the first disc of the Good Vibrations box set for the early years ... I should probably buy those two-fers ... I mean, apparently, I've never heard "Pom Pom Play Girl"! My life now feels incomplete.

This Car of Mine sounds ridiculous coming after the sublime Warmth of the Sun.

aw I like the Louie Louie cover!

The Carl and Dennis instrumentals are the weakest easy. Pom Pom Playgirl is hilarious ("oooh, shake it!")

I know it wasn't such an overplayed song at the time but for me covering Louie Louie signals creative bankruptcy like nothing else.

there was a really good thread a long while back where Pappawheelie made a great case for Louie Louie as being a key turning point for rock 'n' roll, kinda THE song that revitalized the genre after its initial burst in the 50s, the song that held the seeds for an awful lot of what came after (garage rock, punk, British Invasion, etc.)

lolz I seemed to have removed Denny's Drums from my ipod and kept all the other songs from this album so uh, there's the winner... Sorry Dennis

I was reading the liner notes for this and all they could say about Denny's Drums was that it was 'probably' the first drum solo recorded by a vocal group.

har, a dubious distinction ... the Beach Boys are so weird in this respect, with the non-song tracks, the "showcase" tracks, etc. Part of it must've been just the incredibly fast pace they were working at (need more material!), but it also seems to say something about the weird only in the US idea of music as product ... not sure what. But it's not like the Beatles were putting out stuff like that. Not that they didn't have throwaways, but they didn't put Ringo's drum solos on records, that's for sure.

what, the Four Freshmen didn't do drum solos

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and it's not even that they really needed the filler, I think it has less to do with the bbs and more to do with the fact that LPs just weren't being looked at as an art form until a few years later.

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"Denny's Drums"

"Shut Down Vol 2" is the one where Brian and Mike are making fun of each other's vocal style, isn't it? That one is probably their funniest skit.

Cassius Love vs Clay Wilson I think it's called and yes, it's very funny and self-deprecating to the band IIRC. Love accuses Brian of singing "like Mickey Mouse with a sore throat" while Brian makes fun of Love's nasal tones. Def not the worst track, even if it is filler.

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