Using Chart Alt-Metrics to Find the Transcendent Beach Boys Singles Using Chart Alt-Metrics to Find the Transcendent Beach Boys Singles By Bill Carroll Whether the Beach Boys created surf music and the California ethos is immaterial. They were its official spokesmen. The band was responsible for one transcendent hit (Top 1% of all records 1955-1991) and one close to that level. I Get Around was from the surf genre, and Good Vibrations was distinctly not, but was a production masterpiece. The nine highest-charting songs that broke out of the pack are all memorable; some others inexplicably did not make as strong a showing. I can’t explain the huge difference between I Get Around and Little Deuce Coupe . Without recounting the group’s history here it’s fair to say there were good times and less good times. And as with most bands, their most popular stuff came early. But there were three notable comebacks, years after their h...