Between this thread and the Bowie thread, @Ithaka could teach a master class on music

jerry truly a king

you gotta hear this one, this is prolly one of brian’s greatest masterpieces, easily top 3 he ever done:

😳😳 this made my day haha, thank you

here’s one of my fav early bbs bop to start the day in great mood despite everything that’s going on, god bless everyone itt

🤗☀️🌼 🏖
(except for beatles stans)

never saw pet sound as a concept album before but my re listen today made me wonder how the f*** did i not notice before. i love pet sounds i gotta check out other BB albums. love the gif too it’s so wonderful and cute

This is so beautiful. I really enjoyed that. Kinda reminds me of a few other songs I’ve heard, crazy how influential the BB are.

i know it’s my fav gif i had to put it somewhere near op so these two questions were basically an excuse but it’s a valid question

it wasn’t intended as such, brian said himself he didn’t intend pet sounds as concept songs nor concept lyrics but he did say he consider is a production concept, it shows and justifies it in my book

at the same time all i wanna do wasn’t intended as to be proto shoegaze or chillwave, that’s how you birth things! so in hindsight, yes pet sounds IS a concept album, not just in the traditional way that has been established and cultured later as some will say “well it’s not american idiot concept album” no bc american idiot is rock opera, that’s different, pet sounds still has a theme from start to finish sonically wise

roger waters himself said pet sounds completely changed records for him and he picked up on that to create what would become the essence of a modern concept album with the dark side of the moon, wish you were here, animals, the wall.. he even got the beach boys doing some of the harmonies on the wall actually

so yeah, pet sounds definitely inserted the seeds

i feel like im the only beach boys stan who doesnt have this as one of their top favorites in my top 10ish but p not top 5. still god level of course

@Womanpuncher69 love this fancover

sometimes i just listen to this

What y’all know about this

this is why in my book brian wilson is the only one who earns the legitimate title of genius; he first birthed surf rock as we know it, before the bb there was surf instrumentals, but that’s it, he and his family picked on that scene, added harmonies group singing picked from bands like four freshmen and with dennis wilson genius idea to make the lyrics about the surfing scene which was hot and up coming at the time, and boom they put california on the map, the bbs invented this california glorification before anyone else did

but not only that, they then, at their peak, shut it down, brian murdered what he birthed with pet sounds and smile, made two records which sounds nothing like you’ve ever heard before, listen to surf’s up, do you know any other artist that made something that sounds like this musically, before him? anyone who did it after was in homage to that, and the dude was only 20yo with a deaf ear, no classical music training orchestrating an orchestra by himself, no help from an older producer to stitch things up or do the arrangements like george martin did for the beatles, THATS why the bbs won

listen to this r.e.m song for example, isn’t this a total bb tribute in its arrangement and production?

one thing that distinguishes brian productions is that he hated hi hats so that really defines the very unique style of his touch through pet sounds and smile, and that’s why you can tell in later productions when someone is ghost producing him or doctoring his stuff as to make it more commercial appealing

@2words @Fantasy @SoHelpMeDog

i was gonna save this to present it later on and recommend to you and other hardcore bbs stans itt who wants some “pet sounds” fix

did you know he almost did an album with the bbs in the 90s? what could’ve been, i love this album and recommend it to anyone who wants to get a hold of something that sounds like pet sounds
@Yolko

holy s*** this amazing never knew Rivers can sing like that. I still have red album on repeat it’s perfect i’m too scared to march forward in their discography i’m afraid of being disappointed but i’ll save that for the weezer thread. i might also have to make a playlist for LA girls related songs so far i Weeknd Post BB and Weezer

well what is ur top then queen

oh no thats a cover a fan made that’s not rivers i just thot it was cool how he covers it in style of pet sounds

you’re gonna love the white album! the black album is kinda similar in terms of creativity of red imo, it’s what it reminds me the most of, just more modern pop, not as solid tho

you still have great stuff coming, you have a low bottom run up next, raditude and hurley arent highly regarded, but it picks up again with everything will be alright in the end and white album who are both considered classics by now, pacific daydream divides more ppl it gets hate but it’s actually like my third fav weezer album, it even has a song about the bbs in it

(there is a LOT of beach boys references to dig in from weezer end, ill make a post about it if u want hehe)

post is facts but i think the original 'instrumental' surf rock style is the definitive surf rock style and the vocal stuff is just more of an offshoot. ex when people are talking about surf rock influence i feel they are usually talking about the d*** dale type stuff especially the distinctive guitar. instrumental surf rock is the music that sounds like surfing itself. the vocal surf rock is just (also great) music that talks about surfing

i think hes the ultimate genius of music, but i would still call a bunch of others geniuses too. hes just like the einsten of this s***

since in my room is goat and hasn’t been posted itt here’s an a acapella edit of it

That’s what really stood out on what I’ve heard, just the melody and the harmony they’ve got going. It seems to simple when you’re listening to it, but then I think about every song I’ve heard that uses something similar and it’s kinda mind blowing to think about.

But that’s really interesting stuff. I didn’t realize just how much they were at the forefront of things.

This is the song that ‘Surf’s Up’ made me think of when I was listening to it.

top 3 no order = good vibrations, god only knows, wouldnt it be nice

then (no order):
dont worry baby
i get around
kiss me baby
california girls
i just wasnt made for these times
caroline no
surfs up
heroes and villains

oh yeh i just meant he took on that and made a whole new movement out of it but ur right, i would never discredit the great d*** dale

it’s insane the copycats they birthed from way back in the day as soon as they exploded, this for example (which is isn’t a real band it’s a one man studio project, the artwork is just to fake it)

what a fun song tho no?

and to this VERY day, check this out:

(lol look at the cove it even pays homage to the all summer long artwork it’s the same)

these guys are very talented actually i talked to the singer songwriter he’s really nice and so is the rest of the band (i asked them to cover rio grande as a challenge lol)

they did bunch of stuff like that, songs that redoes the style of love you, they go deep, this one for example is a ‘til i die song type beat:

but i digress

@Fantasy youll like this tho

High Llamas stay goated

beautiful song

and you would think the same if you listen to this:

and you would be right because the guys doing the harmonies on this song are none other than the beach boys themselves lol

this one tho, some proto pet sounds feels