My Top 1000 Songs #712: You Still Believe In Me

[I've been writing up my Top 1000 songs on a daily basis--you can see them all in descending order by hitting the All My Favorite Songs tag.] 

Does this list really need a third visit to the Beach Boys' 1966 classic Pet Sounds?

Sure, why not? Hell, if I expand the list to a Top 1500, I'll probably squeeze at least half the album in. Cuz those vocals, c'mon, that just can't be real...

Plus--the perfect Brian Wilson moment, laying down perhaps the most sublime vocal & orchestra climax ever included in a pop song, and then deciding, fuck it, let's honk a bicycle horn on top of it. 

Brian Wilson, live 2002:

Kirsty MacColl cover:

M. Ward, instrumental cover: