this for @Whatsup2

what a breeze of a song

What is their most underrated album?

among the fanbase its “L.A. album” imo

gets bad rep for having a song remake that goes disco but other than that and a cheesy mike love song, there’s amazing input from both carl and dennis songwritting, here’s a fav of mine, beautiful ballad pinned by carl and sung by dennis, the wilson brothers taking over

this is definitely the one stand out that never gets credit even tho more than half the album is lovely

in popular culture wise.. mm there’s albums that are always less namedropped than pet sounds, that’s a given, but they get their fair share of love or cult following so i wouldn’t categorize it as underrated

i guess in that regard 20/20 would be a good pick, it’s more of a compilation album so it’s not very consistent or coherent listen, it’s all over the place, it showcases the band in 1969 really trying to figure a new sound to catch on within all the culture trends and switches, but at the same time for that same reason it does sound very fitting for 1969, so wild and colorful, i mean after all the beatles did the white album a year prior and it’s as if not more incoherent in terms of the flow and style, so why would it be passable for one but not the other?

love this cover on 20/20 it’s prolly up there in their most rocking recording, that guitar lead really surprised you for a beach boys cut and really captures that 1969 feel

@Fantasy @Teal_ what would be your picks? ^

Wild Honey. It's part of their Lo-Fi trilogy. It gets a lot of love now because of its influence, but it should've been that way from the get-go. If you're into Lo-Fi or Bedroom Pop make sure to check out that trilogy (Smiley Smile / Wild Honey / Friends)

mmm come to think smiley smile def is underrated too bc it always gets under the shadows of the former project

new video from my favorite youtuber!

as always there’s great stuff to take away that even i didn’t know of!

so the guy who did the carl and passions cover ended up later working for disney and did their iconic posters for aladdin and other stuff of their 90s animated s***, who would’ve thought !!!

and also the fairy tale ep (thumbnail of the video itself) that comes with holland the artwork is a draw by brian himself! had no idea

unfortunately im probably the only one on ktt who cares for this era ....

@spongebob @Sir_Swagalot one of the rare brian contribution during the early 70s.. he did this ep as a companion to the album holland (on which he like only did one full new song for it that being the AMAZING funky pretty very underrated) and it’s one of my fav thing ever, the whole concept is amazing, there’s some narrative over it but i Ike to listen to the instrumental and vocals only edit of it by now , which is what i posted above

it so stylistically unique and brian esque, those chords and harmonies, no one comes up with that.. makes you wish he would’ve tried a shot at a whole album like that, i think he was inspired by randy newman

when j mascis channeled full on his beach boys love, criminally underrated dino song that didn’t make any album

@Goo @Teal_

i really be postin on my own in my threads these days dam

you know as soon as i hear something like this i'm gonna love it

what about this? the outro brings me so much joy

at my most beautiful too, total pet sounds homage

@Noir whats your ranking?

GOAT:

Pet Sounds
Smile Sessions

Overlooked compared to the above but totally great:

Sunflower
Friends
Surf's Up
Love You
Today!

Kind of a mixed bag for me personally but worthwhile:

Smiley Smile
Wild Honey
20/20
Holland

Not quite there yet:

Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)
All Summer Long

Hot garbage:

Summer in Paradise

Have any yall seen love and mercy

Yeah it's great. It felt inspired by the music instead of just a life story, if you know what I mean. It felt like listening to the Beach Boys at times, definitely not dry at all.

summer in paradise is mike loves pet sounds

according to him...

liking that ranking, you know your s*** not big on holland?

yea day one, big fan, altho mixed bag bc i can tell when his wife tryna rewrite stuff... but love how, despite trying come off happy ending hollywood cheesy it’s shot in a very indie way see the scene when they make good vibrations (shot in the studio where it happened!)

stand out is the scene with the forks and knives where he trips out or when he gets his first lsd or whatever and don’t talk starts mf he starts leaning back, relatable, not for the same reason but relatable

love how they subtly put til i die in the movie too, scene in his bed facing his past was moving, lot of great artistic scenes like this that makes it stand out from regular biopic storytelling

luv da beach boys sampl on dis

it’s more likely d*** sale but the bbs did cover that song on their second album

vro...

dam

wasn’t sure

i just got off don’t be hard on me

y u talkn bout dik vro... im jus tryn 2 talk bout how gud da beach boys r...