I like a bit of The Beach Boys’ work as much as the next guy and own all their ’60s output, save for the Christmas album, and a couple of the ’70s albums. But these guys have always had a habit of putting some downright awful crap on their albums, be they at their peak or in the gutter. Here is a hastily assembled list of 10 Beach Boys songs taken from the albums I do have that I think are pretty damn super-lame. No long annotation here, just the list. Discuss it if you like.
There are in no way ranked as they are all equally craptastic to my ears.
“County Fair”
“Our Car Club”
“All Dressed Up for School”
“Pom Pom Play Girl”
“Amusement Parks U.S.A.”
“Salt Lake City”
“Graduation Day”
“Be True to Your School”
“Matchpoint of Our Love”
“Transcendental Meditiation”
It should be noted that the early Boys albums are littered with such dreck as “Our Favorite Recording Sessions” and “Cassius Clay vs. Sonny Liston.” Sad that even at that point they had to junk up their LPs with completely useless tracks.
