Take 1! Like I said, they could REALLY sing.

Definitely, once you get to the albums for which they’ve released special editions, this becomes Best of The Bonus Tracks, but I can’t argue with the fuzz-and-tremolo Got To Get You Into My Life, for instance

Bizarrely, the real revelation might be…Real Love?

That and George Martin in 1967 could arrange the FUCK out of some scratchy cellos

Were I more talented and/or guided by hubris than I am, I would absolutely take a stab at finishing Lennon’s song. Yellow Submarine as created for John Lennon: Plastic Ono Band

Thank you very much to @andrewhickey.500songs.com, who is unknowingly guiding me on my current Beach Boys deep dive and proving that it is indeed possible to write about them without starting every sentence with “I,” in contrast to some of the other Beach Boys writing I’ve been wading through

That is a *very* specific milestone.

The issue with choosing something else is that “Tomorrow Never Knows” remains very, very good

In a lot of those cases, the situation seems weirder than it is musically because of…mismatched shirt and baseball cap choices?

It’s quite possible that I just answered my own question

with the caveat that all of their early hits feature Carl playing blues-based lead guitar through the influence of Chuck Berry

My feeling whenever I see something like that is that it makes perfect sense for Jimmy Page to want to play with The Beach Boys and a lot less sense for the Beach Boys to have Jimmy Page playing guitar

I had the same thought - haven’t had a chance to try to line them up! The performances are definitely close.

Either way, Buck’s delivery of “when you say FROG!” is wonderful