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17 particularly peculiar Beach Boys songs

Mark Frauenfelder at 11:18 am Mon, Nov 30, 2009

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Keith Phipps assembled a list of "17 particularly peculiar Beach Boys songs." They may be peculiar, but they're also a lot of fun to listen to.

(Via Michel Leddy, who asks "how could he have left out “I’m Bugged at My Old Man”?)

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  • MarkM

    might want to recheck the link?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dME6DR35sM
    shows a Beach Boys and Hollies cover of
    “Times they are a changing”, not
    “17 peculiar Beach Boys songs” ….

  • kenahoo

    How can we forget “She’s Going Bald”?

  • cymk

    Nice list, makes me wish I still had all the old Beach Boys records that my folks were going to throw out years ago. For the life of me I can’t remember what happened to them. Though I do prefer Dylan’s version of “The Times They Are A Changing.”

  • Anonymous

    That’s today’s AVCLUB Inventory
    “Give me some root beer!”: 17 particularly peculiar Beach Boys songs

    http://www.avclub.com/articles/give-me-some-root-beer-17-particularly-peculiar-be,35789/

  • Anonymous

    Can’t forget :

    I’m A Genius, Too! The Murry Wilson Tapes – WFMU’s Beware of the Blog

    http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/10/im_a_genius_too.html

    “Listening back to the full Help Me Ronda sessions again, I’m struck by how sane Brian sounds when compared to Murry, and how mature and patient he is for a 22 old standing up to his abusive, alcoholic father. After listening in on this session, It’s easy to see why the Beach Boys eventually purchased Murry a fake audio console for their sessions, so he could twiddle knobs to his heart’s delight without destroying anything.”

    : )

  • BrerMatt

    Can’t forget Take A Load Off Your Feet
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD2rDyNZbUo

    and Disney Girls
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWs8Ia71L-Q

  • Enormo

    Or my favorite, “Don’t Touch My Socks”