The challenge on the album poll is that thereās such a timeless, all time objective great there that any other option feels like being deliberately contrary or scoring indie points.
Pet Sounds gets more than enough praise already, so although there are a couple patchy moments, Surfās Up has three of the best songs of all time in Feel Flows, Til I Die and Surfās Up. For all its genius/consistency, I donāt think PS has any individual high points that match this trio for me.
On top of that it also has other excellent non-Brian cuts on Disney Girls and Long Promised Road, a great bit of Brian surrealness in A Day In The Life of a Tree, thereās that weird murky cover making it clear that despite the album title weāre in a very different place from the early clean cut surfer boy image and the arrangements are great throughout too with all the moogs, organs and reverse vocals etc. It just all round felt like it has more of an edge and Iām happy to sacrifice some consistency and polish for that.
