My AOTY so far easily amazing songwriting grapes of wrath and numbers tied for my SOTY

this album is injected straight into my veins like a breath of fresh air after suffocation of pandemic for almost a year now

i was just looking for the YT video that talked about this better than i and what is made me reconsider it but i can’t find it or at least the talking point, it’s from this channel tho:
youtube.com/channel/UCSH1TnxRmOZCqI9stj8CnKg

which is my fav new yt channel it goes deep in the lore and gives great contexts culture wise and trivia infos

anyway in somewhere in one of them he puts down the map of how it was for the bbs in 1985 and that basically for once, with dennis no longer and with new wave of sounds coming in since their last studio album in 1980 they went with a hot new producer (dude who did culture club) and totally digital full on keyboards just really try to let go of everything and do a new album that would rebrand them as a current modern act, which is why the title the beach boys would be and stand for this is us the beach boys and what we do and are now and i loved that pov, going back to it despite having mike love pushing some california retro on a song - the rest feels very 1985 and didn’t try to hammer bunch of references or go retro, lyrics or musically, carl takes a key part vocally as to re establish the band and sings with such soul, there’s even a dope stevie wonder song he gave to them and in which stevie does almost all the instrumentation i believe

here’s a single from it carl co wrote and i gotta say going back to it now after the 80s revival it sounds fresh, i think the issue is lot of the fanbase approach’s the album without the context - they either see the band as this sixties surf or psychedelic phase or their hipster 70s thing, and so it follows them onto the 80s where ppl want them to not sound 80s but stick to the formula we want of them, but if you let go of this you get to just take the album for what it is and it’s nothing bad (doesn’t all this talk reminds you of weezer? haha.. it follows every great bands legacies)

but if you don’t know much of bbs lore or albums alone that is not one album i would tell you to check out just yet

every time i stop on one song to stick to it i end up going back to the whole album and losing track of which one i like better lol they’re all amazing the mixing is so crispy and tight, the arrangement is so layered i love it rivers is out modern brian wilson

also mirror image ♥️

hmmm it's fanmade so no rivers vocals right?

nah its all covers lol, dude's voice is pretty good tho

no but dude is a great singer it has some females vocals too

I think his voice works for the types of songs they make usually so idk if I would like covers as much but I will still listen eventually

give this a shot @chuckienugget

like I would imagine covers of weezer songs sounding strange to me (except for the Panic At the Disco Say It Ain't So cover)

added to playlist - hard

don’t imagine things just listen

if you overthink it you’re already setting your mind to some judgement

if u ever have the chance i rec the whole album, probably an all time favorite of mine. need new music from them so bad.

when a concept is introduced to me I can't just force my mind to go blank

Like I try not to judge something too much before I listen but it's impossible for me to not do that at all. I'll at least imagine what it will sound like a little

you shouldn’t - it isn’t that serious

it isn't

I would have mirror image in my top 5 from album but can't relate to the lyrics anymore

Numbers is so good

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😞 she was loved and admired ♥️

@worthit did you get around the new album