in this thread, we decide which is the worst beach boys song

[Boycott Graceland]

my vote right now is for "salt lake city":

Down in Utah
The guys and I dig a city called Salt Lake
It's got the grooviest kids
That's why we never get tired of Salt Lake
And the way the kids talk so cool
Is an out of sight thing
And the number one radio station
Makes the town really swing yeah
Salt Lake City we'll be coming soon

There's a park near the city, yeah
All the kids dig the Lagoon now
It's full of all kinds of girls
And rides and we'll be flyin' there soon now
And girl for girl
They've got the cutest of the Western states
They got the sun in the summer
And winter time the skiing is great yeah
Salt Lake City we'll be coming soon

Salt Lake City we'll be coming soon

We'll be coming soon
We'll be coming soon
We'll be coming soon


but i'm sure i can be outdone here. someone out-do me.

[smashingjj]

man they have like 40 albums with some of the worst crap ever, apparently. enough bad songs to pick from. only a handful of their albums are good

amongst those are some of the greatest albums of all time though

[redbull]

Debaser

[ravenguy2000]

yeah i was going to say aern't there like 10000 beach boys songs

[Reading Rainbow]

I personally can't stand the Beach Boys so pretty much every song of theirs is the worst.

[Boycott Graceland]

there is an album out there called "endless bummer" that documents the bands very worst moments. this is the only review i've been able to find of it:

http://www.markprindle.com/beachboys.htm#bummer

I know how you feel about bootlegs depriving the artist of his/her hard-earned coke money, and I feel for you (I think I love you) (so what am I so afraid of?), but I'd say there's a pretty good chance that none of the remaining Reach Boys have any interest in officially releasing this appalling nonsense, so do please hunt it out post-mediate. Along with song-poems, the Celebrities At Their Worst and Golden Throats serieses and other "incredibly strange" music by "outsider artists," saved by psioraisis on such compilations as Only In America, Songs In The Key Of Z, Songs In The Key Of Z Part II and another one that's called something like Only In The U.S. Part II or You Can Only Find It Here In America Part II, Endless Bummer is the fourth piece of a triad that reveals the following truth: shitty music is often five or ten times more entertaining than good music. Partly this is because it's fascinating to hear our favorite larger-than-life Hollywood celebrities act like real warts-and-things-like-warts-,-pimples-and-what-have-you human beings instead of walking Key Message documents, secondly it's because we are always bound to be intrigued by those who think differently (drugs and insane) than us and thirdly - oh, why sugar coat it like Irwin Chusid would - it's mainly because we like to laugh at the freaks behind their back. And by "we," I of course mean "you," because I truly feel that Wesley Willis is a talented Jackson Browne-like singer-songwriter.

Endless Bummer is exactly what it claims to be: the worst recorded moments of the Beach Boys' career. This *******s not just wretched music (Spanish version of "Kokomo," Brian's astoundingly awkward and poorly-edited rap song "Smart Girls"), but also public embarrassments (Carl and Dennis singing in concert while under the influence of the white man's firewater, Mike recreating the band's timeless harmonies in commercials for the Hyatt Regency and Budweiser), disgusting, hateful backstage behavior (the always assholish Mike singing a humorless Bob Dylan parody and outdoing himself in a vicious tirade against the commercial failure "Heroes and Villains") and oodles of other hilarious publicists' nightmares (Brian soliciting cocaine from a group of teenaged fans, an uncomfortable in-studio argument between Brian and his loving, caring father). You can still hear the band's incredible talent, but it's shadowed by such sad-but-human traits as jealousy, bitterness, depression, anxiety, greed and... well...drunkenness.

Thank God for the ellipse...... Thank God for it indeed.

[Halber Mensch]

lol i didnt know that existed.