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Whats the best Beach Boys song ever written? and why is it 'God Only Knows'

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Heroes and villains is the only correct answer

Surfs Up mmmmmmmmmMHMmmmmmMHMmmmmm

a good one

That's not a Beach Boys song, more like Brian and the Formula Fuckers. I really feel like Catch A Wave should have been a single.

>not a beach boys song

What other band has such a wealth of fascinating deep cuts as 1967-1977 Beach Boys?

best opinion. Especially the version off the Smile Sessions

>LETS GO SURFING NOW

>EVERYBODY'S LEARNING HOW

>COME ON AND SAFARI WITH MEEEEE

Best

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Name a single song more ahead of its time than this.

beautiful

(come
on
a
safari
with
meeeeee)

smashing that surf button

TILL I DIE
THESE THINGS ILL BE

I literally can't decide

Holy fuck it’s like tame impala but good

It's actually Wouldn't It Be Nice.

Right album though.

>Pet Sounds musically: 10/10
>SMiLE musically: 11/10
>Pet Sounds lyrically: 10/10
>SMiLE lyrically: 5/10

Sloop John B, fight me faggot

Surf's Up

Good Vibrations

How can you say that when songs like Surf's up and Heroes and Villains exist

my second favourite, almost as good as gok

g2b Mike

agreed

lol I was just thinking WHERE THE FUCK IS BRIAN but he's right there at the front, I'm just so used to him being old and overweight and incredibly tired

Didn’t even need to click, already knew what this was gonna be.
Proof that Mike can occasionally deliver something godlike.

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The fact this wasn’t released until 40 years later is staggering. Dennis’ vocal is unbelievable here.

>you will never live in an alternate universe where the beach boys collected all their 1969-71 tracks into one massive double or tripple album

Animal Collective's Guys Eyes duh

I think it's just Pet Sounds in its entirety. Love Sloop John B tho

Big Sur too

the harmonies in the middle of that song are godlike

Like this
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this is gorgeous

i literally can't

>predicting dream pop, shoegaze, and chillwave in the 1970s

brian is GOAT

Haven’t heard this one before (the landlocked version that is). It’s fantastic.

>5/10

that's retarded. just the lyrics to surf's up and cabinessence make it a 9/10 alone

Caroline no is the best one

Here's a kind of Mike Love tribute from Mark E Smith, everybody will hate it but it's the thought that counts.
t. passing fallfag

Mike's Love Xexagon
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So we all agree that surfs up is the most underrated album right?

Sunflower is their most underrated

Feel Flows

ding dang

holy shit

I had no idea this existed. Thanks user, this is great.

Surf's Up [Brother/Reprise, 1971]

Their worst since Friends, which just goes to show that making like a great group is as bad for your music as making like a buncha mystics. Except for the sophomoric "Student Demonstration Time," the songs on the first side are all right--"Take a Load Off Your Feet" is worthy of Wild Honey and "Disney Girls (1957)" is worthy of Jack Jones's Greatest Hits--but the pop impressionism of side two drags hither and yon. The dying words of a tree are delivered in an apt, gentle croak, but the legendary title opus is an utter failure even on its own woozy terms and there are several disasters from the guest lyricists--Van Dyke Parks's wacked-out meandering is no better than Jack Rieley's. I'll trade you my copy for Surfin' Safari even up, and you'll be sorry. B-

Leonard Cohen, Steely Dan, Pink Floyd, Kate Bush

fantastic.
renders half of the American music of the '90's and '00's trivial

That's Not Me

Disney Girls is the worst song on there anyway.

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worst than Student Demonstration Time?! get out

Nice pick.

Who else thinks Don't Talk is the best song on Pet Sounds?

SDS at least has a nice, driving rhythm and isn't a whiny sob-fest about a bunch of jaded 30 year olds wishing they could be 15 again.

Do you just not like DG1957 because you were born in the 90s and can't relate to it?

Til I Die
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Without clicking on the link I know this is All I Wanna Do

If you want to go down that route, a Millenial couldn't really relate to SDS either but no. The song is silly and uber-dated, but it is a real rocker and pretty catchy at that while the other song is whiny ballad glop. I would no more enjoy it if they were singing about 2003 rather than 1957.

This.

Patricians

And it's another "album is too deep for Christgau's plebian tastes so he brushes it off as pretentious art rock" review.

God only knows and wouldn't it be nice are babbys first beach boy favorites. Most of their best songs came out between 1963-1965, but none of those LPs were as consistent t as pet sounds.

The warmth of the sun
In my room
Don't worry baby
She knows me too well
Please let me wonder
She's not the little girl I once knew
Kiss me baby
Girls on the beach
I get around
Good vibrations
Cabin essence
You still believe in me
I just wasn't made for these times

All better than god only knows.

who else

>cocaine sessions

i feel so fine and oh lord made me want to cut myself and do coke, some of the most haunting shit ive ever heard