Rich here. You might not think of The Beach Boys as a band that would engage in lyrical list-making. But they actually recorded a few songs that were comprised of lists, such as "Busy Doing Nothing," in which the singer lists the directions to his house and all the steps he takes to call up his girlfriend on a pay phone, and "I Went to Sleep" in which the singer lists all the things he did that day before going to sleep.
Both are fairly minor songs in the Beach Boys catalog, but one of their most popular and famous songs includes a list of the girls the singer finds attractive in every part of the country before saying he wishes they could all live in California, where he lives.
(An aside: "California Girls" was a big step in Brian Wilson's musical evolution as the first 20 seconds of the song is comprised of an instrumental passage that has nothing to do with the rest of the song before seamlessly transitioning into the romping rhythm of the rest of the song. It was a perfect example of a song with two movements, the kind of thing that Brian would refer to as his "Teenage Symphonies to God.")
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