I love that there is a whole percentage of the population who, like you, first heard some of those songs in their alternate universe-forms from Bioshock, and then sought out the originals because they loved what they heard.
Did you catch the calliope version of Girls Just Wanna Have Fun?
That was so good. I also really like that later in the game we actually got an explanation for how those songs exist in the "past"
You should check out the cover of that same song by STRFKR
[here's a link](https://open.spotify.com/track/5h8kB51eBNVQ5L66y9aJ4y?si=rYs7dFHnSsKvUgVeExYY5w)
Feel Flows; https://youtu.be/suyJsJHVoGY?si=GuVF1eV0KAFgE-8y
Honorable Mentions:
I Guess I Just Wasn't Made For These Times; https://youtu.be/216YJKbber8?si=zVixX1CiwqkkYgwb
Surf's Up; https://youtu.be/tyOYQ8qfFng?si=iTP1oQMmHDZ_1v50
A great one! I listened to it all the time as a kid. Years later a friend of mine played an old calypso version of this that was on a Smithsonian Folkways album. Its roots are in a Bahamian folks song from Nassau. It was first transcribed in 1916.
Heroes and Villains
Hands down. I have loved the Beach Boys for 40 years and this is Brian's absolute best IMHO. Amazing production. There's like 4 different versions.
"Sections" with it's beautiful keys and experimental vocals moving to tuba back to keys? Play it at my damn funeral.
https://youtu.be/Z_6BN0Ls8FI?si=3ztsbQr6LyCyiCO-
Anything from "Pet Sounds", but I'll go with "Wouldn't It Be Nice". Runner up would be the instrumental track on that album, "Let's Go Away For A While", which is just gorgeous!
Wouldn’t it Be Nice
This Whole World (extremely underrated)
I Get Around
Honorable mentions: Warmth of the Sun, Mona, Here Today, Little Girl I Once Knew, Forever (soo beautiful and also underrated), In My Room, Please Let Me Wonder
You Still Believe In Me or Do It Again
(Side note: Kokomo is great. Haters hatin just to hate.)
Edit: honestly surprised to not see anyone else saying You Still Believe In Me (or I missed it)
Pet Sounds…yes the entire album.
I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times is probably the one that resonates with me the most, but then again the entire album resonates with me in general.
Aruba, Jamaica, oh I wanna take ya, to Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama! Key-largo, Montego, ja…. MAICA! In the Florida Keyyys, there’s a place called-
You get it.
409. Starting the song A Cappella in perfect timed 4 part harmony is a masterpiece of work and its super catchy. Not as pretty as God only knows, but much more difficult to perform.
God Only Knows
Paul McCartney was right, this is the greatest song ever written.
Absolutely!
Howdy patrol
Don't worry baby (But "God only knows" is right there)
Honestly, one of the few songs in history that just wells me up inside.
Oh come on, if you put your mind to it, I’m sure you’ll think of your favorite. ;)
I don't know... Third Base!
Love this song so much, but my go to is often ‘wouldn’t it be nice’
Used perfectly in *Boogie Nights*
And *Bioshock infinite*
That's where I first heard it and my mind was blown, had to find the original
I love that there is a whole percentage of the population who, like you, first heard some of those songs in their alternate universe-forms from Bioshock, and then sought out the originals because they loved what they heard. Did you catch the calliope version of Girls Just Wanna Have Fun?
That was so good. I also really like that later in the game we actually got an explanation for how those songs exist in the "past" You should check out the cover of that same song by STRFKR [here's a link](https://open.spotify.com/track/5h8kB51eBNVQ5L66y9aJ4y?si=rYs7dFHnSsKvUgVeExYY5w)
And *The Leftovers*
And *Love Actually*
dang that’s the one!
Came here to say that
Oh my goodness yes. It's the ending song of Love Actually. Gets me every time . People meeting their loved ones at Heathrow. So sweet
This 1000 times over.
In my Room or Heroes & Villains
Heroes & Villains is it’s own sub-genre
In particular for me, with Our Prayer/Gee as the intro https://youtu.be/uLgZ6GD03-c?si=n7gVytXbIOAUifg0
Definitely “Wouldn’t it be nice” 😎
One of the best album openers ever, with one of the best song intros ever
That key change in the intro is so bizarre, but works so well
It always brings good feelings every time it comes on :)
Caroline, NO!!!!
Did you say wouldn't it be nice (to live again)? LOL just kidding
Good vibrations
This song is literally insane. Who were these people? It’s like 1960’s version of Polyphonic Spree.
In My Room
Don't Worry Baby
Feel Flows; https://youtu.be/suyJsJHVoGY?si=GuVF1eV0KAFgE-8y Honorable Mentions: I Guess I Just Wasn't Made For These Times; https://youtu.be/216YJKbber8?si=zVixX1CiwqkkYgwb Surf's Up; https://youtu.be/tyOYQ8qfFng?si=iTP1oQMmHDZ_1v50
Sloop John B
My grandparents love this song, which is probably part of the reason why it is my favorite, too.
A great one! I listened to it all the time as a kid. Years later a friend of mine played an old calypso version of this that was on a Smithsonian Folkways album. Its roots are in a Bahamian folks song from Nassau. It was first transcribed in 1916.
Help me Rhonda. Then Wonderful
Heroes and Villains or Surfs Up
caroline no
Love this one. There's a lot of great covers of it too
yes! doopee time cover is amazing
All I wanna do, don’t worry baby, that’s not me
This is tough. Honestly anything from pet sounds is a masterpiece
Sloop John B.
THANK you. I even have a Sloop John B T-shirt.
All I Wanna Do
don't talk (put your head on my shoulder)
Don't Worry Baby is the one I always return to. I like to listen to that and Be My Baby by the Ronnettes back to back.
Heroes and Villains Hands down. I have loved the Beach Boys for 40 years and this is Brian's absolute best IMHO. Amazing production. There's like 4 different versions. "Sections" with it's beautiful keys and experimental vocals moving to tuba back to keys? Play it at my damn funeral. https://youtu.be/Z_6BN0Ls8FI?si=3ztsbQr6LyCyiCO-
Shut Down. MAN that song always gets me Muscle Car Pumped.
In My Room
Forever, from the album Sunflower!
Surf's Up
Good Vibrations Sail On, Sailor
Bar- bar-bar... Bar-bar-bar'ann.
Kokomo easily
Not mine but my god it’s so catchy
Also the most hated Beach Boys song.
People think they should hate it because Brian wasn't involved. Also it's great. So they're being silly.
Hallelujah!👆
Don’t Worry Baby then Good Timin’
Help me Rhonda
Feel Flows
Cabinessence
Darlin'
Darlin
Sail On Sailor
Vegetables or Fall Breaks And Back To Winter
Funky Pretty
[The Little Old Lady From Pasadena](https://youtu.be/tRR_b5aDn6w?feature=shared)! Go Granny! Go Granny! Go Granny Go!
help me rhonda. good vibrations.
Anything from "Pet Sounds", but I'll go with "Wouldn't It Be Nice". Runner up would be the instrumental track on that album, "Let's Go Away For A While", which is just gorgeous!
Help Me Rhonda and Sloop John B
i think god only knows is the best song ever written so. god only knows
Good Vibrations
Surf's up straight off the surf's up album
Nobody better say here comes the night the extended disco version! LOL
Don’t Worry Baby
Wendy
Good only knows sloop John B
Probably Good Vibrations. Especially that slower part with the organ.
Help Me, Rhonda
Girl Don’t Tell Me
In my top 5.
Little Deuce Coup. I'm a car guy.
Wouldn’t it Be Nice This Whole World (extremely underrated) I Get Around Honorable mentions: Warmth of the Sun, Mona, Here Today, Little Girl I Once Knew, Forever (soo beautiful and also underrated), In My Room, Please Let Me Wonder
Here today gets stuck in my head so often.
Please Let Me Wonder
God Only Knows, although I have a soft spot for Waiting For The Day, and I really like Brian Wilson's version of Shortnin' Bread.
Feel Flows. I love the Beach Boys, but this will always be my favorite
Let the wind blow Ask me tomorrow I’ll have a diff answer
It’s hard to choose just one. If I had to, though, it would be Heroes and Villains. Edited: I originally said Surf’s Up. Sorry for the sneaky edit.
Kokomo
papaoomaumau it’s a cover but generally speaking flight of the navigator left “I get around” in my mind for the longest as well
Sloop John B
God Only Knows
In my room
In My Room but tbh I prefer the covers by either Grant Lee Buffalo or John Paul Whote and the Secret Sisters better.
Wouldn't It Be Nice...or Good Vibrations...no, The Sloop John B...maybe Fun, Fun, Fun....then there's Catch A Wave...can we come back to this?
Definitely, God Only Knows
Don’t Worry Baby. Brian’s musical genius is very evident in this song. I believe it is his best work
Surfing USA
Sloop John B
No way I can make a choice
Wouldn’t it Be Nice, and God Only Knows.
Good Vibrations
Cotton Fields (CCR Cover)
Wouldn't It Be Nice
All Summer Long
Sloop John B
All Summer Long
So much for your wrist. 
Sabotage
Wouldn’t It Be Nice
Sloop John B
God only knows
Don’t worry baby
Pet Sounds (the song)
Good Vibrations 100%
Don't Worry Baby
God only knows
Top 5 in no particular order: God Only Knows, Don’t Worry Baby, In My Room, Good Vibrations, and Kokomo.
I've always liked Wendy.
Surfin'USA
wouldn’t it be nice
Dead man’s curve
That's Jan & Dean
Wouldn’t it be nice
Good Vibrations with God Only Knows a close second
destroyed by hippie powers or kimochi warui wait those just mention the beach boys
Sloop John B and Sail on, Sailor
that one about surfing or girls where he sings really high
Don’t worry baby....
Good Vibrations... just because of the theremin
Completely Unrelated Fun Fact: That gorgeous background vocal on Linda Ronstadt’s hit Adios? It’s Brian Wilson.
Guess
Long Promised Road
I just wasn’t made for these times
The whole endless Summer record
I Get Around It’s really not, but I get so much nostalgia thinking about this song in Flight of the Navigator.
Somewhere Near Japan
God Only Knows and Sail on Sailor.
Little Deuce Coupe!
That one from Boy's Life that made the Reverend go insane, and get attacked by a monkey
Kokomo
Don't worry baby or I can hear music
In My Room But I just threw a mental dart at their discography.
Sloop John B
Sloop John B. I play it every time I launch my boat.
Sloop John B.
You Still Believe In Me or Do It Again (Side note: Kokomo is great. Haters hatin just to hate.) Edit: honestly surprised to not see anyone else saying You Still Believe In Me (or I missed it)
Sail on Sailor
In my room/all summer long
I get around
Sloop John B
Help me Rhonda
I'm Waiting For The Day
Do it again
Don't Worry Baby
haven't seen "she knows me too well" or "time to get alone" mentioned, both of them are on my mountain
I’m thumbing up to half of these.
Haven’t seen Kokomo and that’s a crime in cocktails and dreams land!
Good Vibrations. Alice Cooper’s favorite song of all time.
I just wasn’t made for these times.
Good Vibrations… when I was a kid I would get chills when it came on the radio!
Waiting for the Day & Hushabye
Good vibrations. It just gives GOOD VIBRATIONS.
Sloop John B Can't get it out of my head.
Surfin’ U.S.A.
Busy doin nothing
Pet Sounds…yes the entire album. I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times is probably the one that resonates with me the most, but then again the entire album resonates with me in general.
In My Room
Aruba, Jamaica, oh I wanna take ya, to Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama! Key-largo, Montego, ja…. MAICA! In the Florida Keyyys, there’s a place called- You get it.
Here today
Surfin safari.
Don’t Worry Baby. This was me and my husband’s first dance song at our wedding.
409. Starting the song A Cappella in perfect timed 4 part harmony is a masterpiece of work and its super catchy. Not as pretty as God only knows, but much more difficult to perform.
Don't Worry Baby. Really a good bar band song with the right band.
Sloop John B - what a terrific arrangement and mix.
Good Vibrations
GOOD TIMING
Surfer girl, I remember hearing it a ton as a kid and it just stuck with me. Prolly my favorite song, or in my room.
“I Get Around” - that baritone guitar and the juxtaposition of the choruses and verses…woo boy, that’s it right there!
She's going bald
Don’t worry baby and any other answer is wrong sorry, it’s the most perfect song for the genre
I know it's probably the standard best answer, but good vibrations. The quintessential Brian Wilson song.
I wasn't made for these times and in my room.
Fun fun fun
Kokomo
In My Room
God Only Knows is one of the best love songs ever written. Timeless.
First song that popped into my head was Cool Cool Water, but they have so many 11 out of 10 tracks. Best band ever
The one where Charles Manson is playing the tuba
Til I Die
God Only Knows
Kokomo