Anonymous
6/29/2025, 12:43:11 AM No.126857699
Pet Sounds x Smile
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Anonymous
6/29/2025, 12:45:33 AM No.126857719
>>126857699 (OP)
smile fans are really into gimmicks and quirkiness XD, they don't know anything about music and circlejerk the four OK tracks and barely talk about all the filler interludes.
pet sounds was at least finished
smile fans are really into gimmicks and quirkiness XD, they don't know anything about music and circlejerk the four OK tracks and barely talk about all the filler interludes.
pet sounds was at least finished
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Anonymous
6/29/2025, 12:51:19 AM No.126857780
The Beach Boys Today!
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 1:07:26 AM No.126857953
On an objective level it's gotta be Pet Sounds. At least it was finished. Brian was too much of a schizo to finish Smile in the 60's. 40 years of mythmaking led us to believe that Smile would've been better than Sgt Pepper. There's truly no way to tell. Even having listened to all the recordings from the original sessions, it's impossible to see how it could have been a coherent record.
Keep in mind that I think the 2004 Smile is the best thing Brian put out as a solo artist.
Keep in mind that I think the 2004 Smile is the best thing Brian put out as a solo artist.
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 1:28:20 AM No.126858152
>>126857970
The beach boys are great
The beach boys are great
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 2:51:18 AM No.126858918
>>126857699 (OP)
Smile is a lot of fun but pet sounds has a clearer purpose. Heroes and villains is my favorite beach boys song but as an album there’s just too much going on.
Smile is a lot of fun but pet sounds has a clearer purpose. Heroes and villains is my favorite beach boys song but as an album there’s just too much going on.
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 3:16:46 AM No.126859120
>>126857699 (OP)
One idea is finished and another isn't, and frankly Smile was never really going to be finished and never actually was. What's there is technically and conceptually more interesting than Pet Sounds, but it is what it is.
One idea is finished and another isn't, and frankly Smile was never really going to be finished and never actually was. What's there is technically and conceptually more interesting than Pet Sounds, but it is what it is.
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Anonymous
6/29/2025, 3:39:11 AM No.126859255
>>126859120
I will add that I think the nearly 5 min version of Heroes and Villains and Good Vibrations alone are worth whole discographies of some of the best bands, I think bests any of what the Beatles dreamt up or managed, and implies the "great American experiment" with music won - even if only in spirit. But at the same time, those two songs alone so obviously imply a peak that could never be summitted.
I will add that I think the nearly 5 min version of Heroes and Villains and Good Vibrations alone are worth whole discographies of some of the best bands, I think bests any of what the Beatles dreamt up or managed, and implies the "great American experiment" with music won - even if only in spirit. But at the same time, those two songs alone so obviously imply a peak that could never be summitted.
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 12:07:55 PM No.126862751
>>126857719
>SMiLE
>”filler interludes.”
tik tok brained, SSRI’d out retardation… here, take a sip.
hope it helps!!
>SMiLE
>”filler interludes.”
tik tok brained, SSRI’d out retardation… here, take a sip.
hope it helps!!
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Anonymous
6/29/2025, 12:09:45 PM No.126862763
>>126857699 (OP)
Which is the one that has “Surf’s Up” again?…. yeah, that one.
Which is the one that has “Surf’s Up” again?…. yeah, that one.
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 12:13:35 PM No.126862786
>>126857699 (OP)
I didn’t think Pet Sounds was that great, the only amazing song was God Only Knows. Today! was better (but much less consistent).
I didn’t think Pet Sounds was that great, the only amazing song was God Only Knows. Today! was better (but much less consistent).
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 12:23:43 PM No.126862872
Pet Sounds is more consistent in quality but Smile had better Highs
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 12:32:08 PM No.126862940
>>126862751
uh oh! quirk chungus has arrived!
uh oh! quirk chungus has arrived!
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 1:39:07 PM No.126863350
>>126857699 (OP)
Used to think Smile was miles better but the gimmick wore off a bit; it's a bit of a mess, and the mosaic-like song structures aren't ideal. Therefore, I think Pet Sounds is marginally better. Both are very nice overall but also massively overrated (just like any other "great" pop music).
Used to think Smile was miles better but the gimmick wore off a bit; it's a bit of a mess, and the mosaic-like song structures aren't ideal. Therefore, I think Pet Sounds is marginally better. Both are very nice overall but also massively overrated (just like any other "great" pop music).