The Beach Boys are unique to me in that I don’t love any of their songs but I like about 15 of them equally. I heard them all the time growing up, including their Christmas songs which are surprisingly pretty good.
I was originally going to go with “I Get Around” as it kind of pumps me up but for the first time in my life I actually read the lyrics.
“I’m a real cool head. I’m makin’ real good bread.” What in the world.
I decided on “Good Vibrations” as musically it’s probably their most impressive arrangement. Apparently people smarter than me consider it to be groundbreaking and highly influential to rock and roll for years after.
It was a struggle to pick just one song from this band. Considered “The Wizard of Magicland,” “Life, In A Nutshell,” “Brian Wilson,” and “Enid.” I picked this one as it feels the most authentic to me. I like the live version even better.
Twelve years since this song was released? Geez. Also, I could have sworn Kim was like 18 here, tops. She was 26 in this video. Everyone looks like a kid to me now.
A powerful song about pain, Black culture, and racism that of course I completely misunderstood as a child. Complete accident that it came up on King’s holiday, but it works.
Music video cuts out the last speech by Aerlee Taree:
Headliner, I won the game of horseshoes Now you owe me a watermelon Let’s go climb trees and skip over rocks Do like they do below the border Speech’s hair Don’t it look like the roots of the tree that the ancestors were hung from But that’s okay, get it. Cause he’s down to Earth
Death By Troggles 
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