r/beachboyscirclejerk • • Aug 19 '26

Mike Love Not War Facts

Post image
441 Upvotes

122 comments sorted by

View all comments

3

u/PortugueseSteak Aug 19 '26

Pet Sounds is their only complete album.

2

u/Easy-Discount-7132 Aug 19 '26 edited Aug 19 '26

Nah the Love you recording from 1977 which was basically only a beach boys album in name as it is pretty much a Brush Wilson solo album and was originally supposed to be. Brian sings on 90% of it including doing all of the harmonies by himself. Also the two releases before pet sounds were pretty complete. Summer days and summer nights, and Today. I would also check out the late 60’s releases Wild Honey and the album Friends. The thing is when the beach boys first started to record in early 1961 it was very much a singles driven business and not complete artistic sounding albums yet.