How many people here actually legitimately love the Beach Boys instead of just liking them to sound wacky in comparison...

It doesn't really matter whether you personally like them or not, the Beach Boys (mostly Brian) have made their mark on music history and Pet Sounds along with Good Vibrations were massively influential for a lot of musicians that you probably do like

I’d rather kill myself than live as a person who doesn’t love Pet Sounds.

Even up through Rubber Soul I would agree with you but they started pushing major boundaries by the time of Revolver. With 4 or 5 classic albums it's kind of hard to compete in the eyes of most people when you only have 1 classic album

Im more of a Surf's Up man myself, although I delete student demonstration time

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Pet Sounds is fantastic. It was outdone by Days of Future Passed the following year, however.

Mike at his peak wrote some impressive lyrics (e.g. Warmth of the Sun) but he really never got out of Surfin Safari/Be True to Your School type shit

Pet Sounds is one of the few 10/10s produced in America along with A Love Supreme and TV&U

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This is a strange question. Is it actually difficult for you to imagine people loving Pet Sounds? It's an incredible album. And as for beatles comparisons I enjoy them too, I just don't think any one album of theirs is as good, and Brian Wilson is just as responsible for the radical changes in pop music in the 60s as the Beatles are

I also don’t like any of the Beatles’ voices, and I love the Beach Boys’ voices.

the bullion dilla mashups of this album tho.

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You’re likely more of a soiboy than I am.

Beach Boys heads know that Pet Sounds isn't their best (or even second-best). SMiLE Sessions, Surf's Up, Wild Honey, Smiley Smile, Surfin' USA, Surfer Girl, Beach Boys Today!, Friends, Sunflower, 20/20, Holland, Love You... all very good albums in their own right. The Beatles may have had a more consistent quality of output, but the Beach Boys without doubt had higher highs. God Only Knows, Surf's Up, Heroes and Villains- never found a Beatles song as good. Except maybe A Day in the Life.

more like user, No

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Give Surf's Up a listen, user

It was fucking bland

I liked their hits since before I can remember and have been in love with Pet Sounds, Smile and beyond BB since high school

my dad played beach boys all the time when i was growing up, especially sloop john b so i really love petsounds

Listened to Holland today. Pretty good

So Mono or Stereo Pet Sounds

Literally the only songs from the Beatles that might be able to compete with anything from the peak Beach Boys era are Day in the Life and In My Life

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I mean if music stopped pushing boundaries in 1966 the Beach Boys would have been the rulers of pop music but think of everything that happened in 1967 and how the Beach Boys failed to keep up following the collapse of Smile

Greatest album of all time.
Also proves that cocaine makes the best music

It’s really not, you should listen to it more.

I do like the American rock and roll sound, everything from Elvis to surf music. But I find The Beatles more relatable since I'm English

The Beach Boys at their peak are only loosely rock and roll, they have more in common with Gershwin and 50s orchestral pop than with Chuck Berry

Pet Sounds
Smile
Surf's Up
BB Christmas Album

all great

this. I have never been able to make it through any Beatles album with their gay ass baby music but Pet Sounds gets better every time I listen to it as do most of the other post Pet Sounds albums up through Holland.

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The Beatles definitely had a lot of filler even on Rubber Soul, which was purported to be a non-filler album

I'm probably just a little ignorant, I recognise that it's not rock and roll by definition but there is definitely a bluesy influence to their guitar fills and bass rhythms which I associate with rock and roll.

The Beatles were huge geniuses, but I can listen to Pet Sounds without skipping a track, while I have to skip at least one track in every Beatles album.

In Abbey Road I skip Maxwell Silver Hammer and that Ringo Octopus song. To me they sound like retarded British music, something Benny Hill would listen to with his friends.

Paul was the only Beatle who liked Maxwell Silver Hammer btw

The recording was fraught with tension between band members, as McCartney annoyed others by insisting on a perfect performance. The track was the first Lennon was invited to work on following his car accident, but he hated it and declined to do so.[37] According to engineer Geoff Emerick, Lennon said it was "more of Paul's granny music" and left the session.[38] He spent the next two weeks with Ono and did not return to the studio until the backing track for "Come Together" was laid down on 21 July.[22] Harrison was also tired of the song, adding "we had to play it over and over again until Paul liked it. It was a real drag". Starr was more sympathetic to the song. "It was granny music", he admitted, "but we needed stuff like that on our album so other people would listen to it".

Apart from all the songs that are literally Chuck Berry songs with different words?

Do you really feel that way, or are you just trying to sound cool for OP?

'Til I Die is my favorite song ever

I still have faith that Paul thought that combination of Hammer/Octopus and some heavier stuff would work fine.

That's exactly why Abbey Road is one of my favorite albums.

All of this "McCartney was a tyrant by the end of the Beatles" shit always seems dubious to me. Of course he would seem like a ball buster when the other three guys in the band don't really seem to care that much about keeping the group together. There were some guys I think who went through multiple hours of recording sessions when they were making Let It Be and they concluded that Paul probably wasn't as Satanic as he's been portrayed, he just had to step up to a dominant role because John wasn't interested anymore

I don't think people like them just to sound wacky.