re: #332 ObserverArt

Maybe you are caught up in only their early and most popular surfer stuff, but to say songs and arrangements like Good Vibrations, Wouldn’t it be Nice and some others ignores what he did for music and the influences on other bands. And Pet Sounds sent reverberations all through the pop music industry.

But even early Beach Boys songs like ‘In My Room,’ ‘Don’t Worry Baby,’ ‘Surfer Girl’ and ‘Caroline No’ were extremely sophisticated for the time they came out. Miles beyond what anyone else was doing at the time.

Brian Wilson is an American visionary. There, I said it.