love you is hella crazy. brian is all from the heart. He is not trying to be profound or odd or trying to calculate a masterpiece using anything other than heart.

love you is brian unfiltered, no ppl telling what to do, it’s a miracle the album happened even more at that time, it’s a personal fav of mine, but only grip is leaving off my diane, what a tremendous song but yeh all brian lyrics, even has his wife singing on it, really a solo album much like pet sounds, which is funny bc they’re both separated by 10y, already mentioned that funny pattern itt, you can follow it up with his solo album from 88

airplane is one of my fav from love you

O speaking off, did you know brians solo band member darian sahanaja did a cover of i wanna pick you up, it was like way before he joined, like 93? but to bring a new light on it and appreciation he did it in the style of pet sounds! it’s really nice @Fantasy @Elric

he released that as a single which on the other side had another cover in the same ps style, a cover of a brian unreleased song from his shelved project sweet insanity

i love those cocaine sessions, i wrote a post about it to give context behind it one time in a diff thread ima try to relocate it and repost it, ppl think post pet sounds are the dark days, but no this is the bottom for brian.. very dark

not many ppl also know that but during eugene imprisonment days he attempted to go swim in the ocean and never stop in attempt to drown before eugene security muscles brought him back, part of me think he wanted to find dennis..

cause dylan lived there for a minute

She's Goin Bald goes hard too

that'd be I Get Around

yessir only 📠 jerry gonna freak out over the section where the pitch switchs

ppl take that song for granted, it really was a revolutionary production at the time

but man bluebird sounds like an orgy at some point lol

all i want to do comes close tbh, dennis wylin for recording him f***ing that groupie and using that aaudio

its probably already been said but if they didnt axe Dennis' exquisite (Wouldnt It Be Nice) To Live Again for c*** Mikes Student Demonstration Time and kept the long version of Till I Die then Surfs Up would lowkey have been better than Pet Sounds

yeh i said the same lmao i even added 4th of july to me that’s a summon, glorious dennis song with magnificent carl voice over a smooth vibe

the rejection of til i die longer mix really puzzles me, since thy were going to please the cool hipster scene with the concept of this album and make it around surf’s up how would that mix not fit in?

i think the story goes that dennis took back his songs (both live again and 4th of july) when they refused to use live again as the closer in order to stick with the surf’s up concept, so he got pissy i think

but either way i agree, if you make some changes like that for sunflower too it’s up there

i love Tears In The Morning but this couldve found a spot if they worked in it a lil more

same with love you, change the song with his wife for my diane and boom >>>>>>

really? haha im not toooooo keen on bruces songwriting, he too classic “song for ur granny” to me

grannies got bangers

paul mccartney def nodding to this post that’s shout out to @LuJo

thoughts on the Kinks? they did for rain, satire and piano's what The Beach Boys did for sun, harmonies and surf guitar

Ray like a mirror image of Brian across the pond in many ways

thats a fascinating presentation, would love to read more from u on them

havnt listen to their albums in forever, i used to have contacts super fans of them but it never clicked, should give it another shot by now tho

i remember some bbs reference in the kinks like in the song australia

just realised that the discog on page 1 has live albums but no Stars and Stripes Vol. 1, goat move

live albums imo are essential tho some are skippables like the first one, which is mainly studio rerecorded anyway but the 1973 one is a blassic, a 70s live version of let the wind blow? yessssiiiiirr

but yeah f*** that stars n stripes s*** why is it even listed as an album in first place anyway? i mean yeh it is but it’s not original material so if stack o tracks isn’t and doesn’t count then why in the world would stars n stripes do lol

i almost considered for a second to put aside summer in paradise.. lol

added u to op btw

well first of all this is Rays Lonely Sea.. the earliest germination of his legendary ballad style (when he was 18 or so).... like you said, "foreshadowing his genius"

also yeah love that Australia reference "like they do in the usa"

wtf this is phenomenal... very intriguing left hand playing on the piano

which one is the "album" which is like half soundtrack songs or something? that's gotta be one of the most Mike Love tracklists of all time for memory

edit: Still Cruisin iirc

oh ugh yeah the story behind it is so dumb he had this concept of putting together a compilation of songs that they did for movies so that’s the studio side but then he was like well hey this movie and that movie used wouldn’t it be nice and california girls so let’s put them on there too and then new original songs ended up on it anyway so it’s a f***ing mess like anything mike love does, can’t handle the simplest concept

somewhere in japan is a beautiful song tho:

heartbreaking

this song and its video oddly enough was my first introduction to them, i was a kid and it played on tv and i think i was confused as seeing old men in the dark and the band was called beach boys lol

the “if you’re still stoned” got me

I’m actually at work rn, so I’ll catch up on the stuff you tagged me in later when I get home

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