The Stones are actually good

I hear the Stones . And I hear the song "let it loose" . Then I read the lyrics . And I realize that the lyrics are none of what I have ever heard.

So now I'm listening to Let it Loose

Verb I swear to god

When your
Spine is cracking and your
Hands they shake

I never ever ever listen to The Beatles outside of throwing an occasional play to “Helter Skelter”. But I listen to the Stones somewhat regularly.

LV for mayor

We really couldn't be more opposite.

Our sex would be phenomenal.

i love that song so dang much

Let's listen to it

get a room

get a room

Are any of the Beach Boys albums good beside Pet Sounds?

You can skip everything before Pet Sounds, a greatest hits collection will give you everything you need there.

The only other album I think you need is Smile. Not Brian Wilson’s Smile, and not Smiley Smile, but Smile — an album that was finally released just a few years ago after decades of bootlegs, and bastardized versions of songs winding up on other albums. It’s sourced from the original recordings, and these are the sessions that drove Wilson over the edge and into cuckoo land.

Wilson’s version of Smile that was released around 2007ish, is a fine enough modern rendition of the lost album, but the production feels very flat and digital, and of course Wilson’s voice is shot, and he doesn’t have the rest of the boys backing him.

Surf’s Up is the only Beach Boys song to hold a candle to God Only Knows.

Interesting

(ty)

Disagree with trag, somewhat. You probably do only need Pet Sounds and a few other recordings if you're talking about The Beach Boys with casual music fans, BUT...

On early Beach Boys: The group released a couple of very underrated albums the year before Pet Sounds. Today! is practically a lead-in to the creativity that Brian would tap into on Pet Sounds. It's one of those deceptively sophisticated albums that lures you in with a completely candy Side A before getting much more introspective and melodically complex on Side B. "Please Let Me Wonder", "She Knows Me Too Well", and "In The Back of My Mind" are full of Brian Wilson tropes. The vocal harmonies are top notch too. Side B of that album is a total payoff after all the fun stuff on Side A. Plus, it's less than 30 minutes long. The payoff is well worth the half hour investment.

Few thoughts on post Pet Sounds Beach Boys:

I'll put Surf's Up (the album) against Pet Sounds any day of the week. What a weird and dark album and a great ending to the band's first truly creative era. Listen to Trag's Smile suggestion, absolutely, and then go on a long treasure hunt throughout all of the albums between Pet Sounds and Surf's Up. Since Brian never could muster up the energy to actually make Smile back then, songs and motifs from it are scattered all across that era. Those albums are wild and uneven, for sure, but they're also fun as hell. Especially Smiley Smile. The ride gets less and less silly as you make your way through that stretch of their discography and then by the time you get to Sunflower and Surf's Up, you won't even remember that this is the band who recorded "Fun, Fun, Fun."

And then a little later, there's Holland...A fantastic Dennis Wilson solo album...A deranged EP Brian made called "Mount Vernon and Fairway (A Fairy Tale)"...

i cant find the smile you are talking about. it's a beach boys record or brian wilson?
what is the tracklist?

awesome ty

I mean dev, just listen to these masterpieces. The 60s were dying. Brian Wilson was dying. Everything was dying. You can literally hear the moment the wave crashes and dissolves the whole era on Feel Flows. (It's at the 1:41 mark)