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Also, Pet Sounds is one of those albums that is said concept albums. When Beatles is on Prog Archives, I also think Beach Boys should. But it seems these days hard to get there even prog artists (has there earlier been much more liberality in decisionmaking than now), so I don´t believe they will get there.
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I absolutely love Pet Sounds 
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I grew up on The Beach Boys from a very young age (4, 5 etc....) and loved their craft. Still have the ‘Pickwick’ vinyls of Surfer Girl (still adore Your Summer Dream) and Little Deuce Coupe (Don’t Back Down is a KILLER song). Have a few others that I don’t revisit often enough, but they are deeply embedded in my DNA, regardless of any R.I.O. or Extreme Metal phases I go through .
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Originally posted by HolyMoly HolyMoly wrote:

Check out the Bonzo Dog Band's "Mr Apollo" for further variations on this topic Smile

As for the Beach Boys, I've tried off and on to get into their music, but for the most part I just feel like it's missing something, "balls" I suppose.  (beach balls?)

I recently got the new "SMiLE" 2 disc set in an effort to dive into the deep end.  It's quite impressive, but I don't find myself going back to it very often, not yet anyway.

"Pet Sounds"  is undeniably a landmark album in terms of studio creativity, but most of the songs just don't do much for me. "Wouldn't It Be Nice" is lovely though.

The "Surf's Up" song you posted in the OP is one of the best songs I've heard by them - I'd never heard it prior to getting the SMiLE set.

I recently bought the "Endless Summer" best-of album, just because I thought it'd be nice to have those old hits, and my daughter would like it.  It's fun, but some of those songs are really a bit lightweight for my tastes.




This was my post 6 years ago. I’m happy to say that I’m a fan now. The early 70s album “Holland” is my personal favorite, and I’ve really taken a liking to Carl and Dennis’s work.
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Originally posted by HolyMoly HolyMoly wrote:

.... I’m happy to say that I’m a fan now. The early 70s album “Holland” is my personal favorite, and I’ve really taken a liking to Carl and Dennis’s work.


Holland is often overlooked... a real gem. They still had pretty serious aspirations to be a "modern" band up until the 1974 success with their best of collection Endless Summer, which spawned 15 Big Ones and laid the grounds for other "oldies" type albums in the future, and certainly their marketing and tours. Wild Honey, 20/20, Sunflower, Surf's Up, Carl and the Passions and Holland were all solid attempts at staying relevant, even if they had to do largely without Brian Wilson's genius. Carl Wilson wrote some great tracks.... The Trader from Holland has made me cry...

Pacific Ocean Blue by Dennis Wilson is a masterpiece, it's a shame he died and wasn't able to complete the Bambu album.
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I also really like the album Surf's Up!
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