I’d do a Beach Boys journey, except that means one day I would have to listen to Kokomo, resulting in nearly my least favorite song getting stuck in my head for months - I won’t do it!

Stop after Beach Boys Love You (1977) and you'll be fine. The rest is horse shit.

Thoughts on the Brian Wilson Smile redux, WCT?

My hot take is that the live performance I saw was one of the more joyous musical experiences of my life, but that the record sounds like shit.

Are you talking about the re-recording or the re-constructed original?

I was at the Glenside performance and I would give my left nut for a bootleg.

Yeah the re-recording. That concert blew me away; my dad and I still talk about it all the time. But I found the recording to be fairly flat and lifeless.

I haven’t listened to the entire reconstruction yet. I’ve had a bootleg for 20 years that has served my needs just fine. It’s for both the definitive versions of Good Vibrations and Surf’s Up: the former opens right with the verse (“I wonder what she’s like)”, and I favor that over the radio single; and I’m not a big fan of the Father of the Man coda on the reconstructed Surf’s Up. My bootleg version doesn’t have that, it just fades out with the harmonies after “A children’s song…”. The Father of the Man coda feels so goofy to me after living with my bootleg version for so long.

This is the way this song should have been recorded. This is the same choir (Double Rock Baptist Choir) that's featured on Dennis Wilson's "River Song."