The Beach Boys

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Heard this as a kid. Nonsense but what tunes they had.

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surfs up and sunflower i love 'em.

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Dennis Wilson’s sole solo album Pacific Ocean Blue is amazing, good article about it here

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So, of the post-“classic” Beach Boys albums, Sunflower is probably the most consistently good, about 5 or 6 songs on that are just awesome - check out This Whole World, All I wanna Do, Forever, Cool Cool Water, and basically the whole album tbh. Has a couple of oddities (though I really like At My Window for the weird dissonant bit near the end.

As well as that, Dennis Wilson became a really good songwriter as Brian fell apart, so there’s Pacific Ocean Blue as @kiyonemakibi says. As well as that, he wrote a whole bunch of really good latter-day BB songs.

I made a Spotify playlist of his songs a while back, but the 5 below are my favourites today:

  1. Fourth of July, and
  2. Wouldn’t it be Nice to Live again - both considered for Surf’s Up, but eventually due to not fitting into the record so well - “Wouldn’t it be nice…” is almost as good as 'Til I Die, and Dennis apparently wanted to close the album but, y’know, Surf’s Up.
  3. Little Bird, which incorporates a small section of ‘Son is Father of the Man’ from Smile, and is all the better for it.
  4. Cuddle Up - on ‘Carl and the Passions - So Tough’, and just sounds unbearably intimate, then unfolds outwards, and has the weird chord progressions that he’s really good at putting in - always reminds me a bit of Gene Clark.
  5. Forever - as good as anything The Beach Boys did post-Pet Sounds, and just a really, really nice song, basically.

Fourth of July

Wouldn’t it be nice to live again

Little bird

Cuddle up

Forever

e: I had no plans for this evening, and it was either this or listen to The War on Drugs.

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Thanks, great work!

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I think I Get Around is my favourite song by them. Absolutely love it

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oh my word:D

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I cant stop watching this

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has this been posted?

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Mike Love is a gem

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no wonder that they went out of fashion in the 80s and 90s, is it? :smiley:

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*cunt

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In many ways, he was the original Avalanches

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oh shit, SUmmer of Love was intended to be a duet with Bart Simpson!

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Mike Love, not war.

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Also the name of an EP by Aussie indie-pop merchants Smudge who I really like as did Evan Dando having borrower a few of their songs…Pet sounds is indeed well worthy of the classic status afforded to it…good vibrations is a bit of a false signpost for what is actually quite a melancholy and moving affair…Brian Wilson was still v good live at Primavera and the smiley smile gig…but hard not to feel for him with all he has been through

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Goin’ South is a good Christmas song that isn’t a Christmas song.

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Cuddle Up is one of the most beautiful songs I’ve heard

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Add Some Music to Your Day is the most pure Brian Wilson song of them all, guys. Just absolutely love it at the moment.

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he really does wholesome like nobody else. Probably has the best practical life advice conveyed through song. Eat your vegetables, drink lots of water, fall in love, be nice to your friends, add some music to your day.

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