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Welcome to Viber cuts, beats and vibes.
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We're a father to daughter music podcast that slices into some of
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the greatest albums, one cut at a time.
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With no industry ties or formal training, just a shared love of
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music, we explore albums across genres, writing favorites and
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skips while digging into what makes each one iconic.
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I bring the beats. And I bring the bars and
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together we deliver real talk and fresh takes from both sides
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of the sound. Hey everybody, I'm Riley.
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And I'm Todd and welcome to this week's version of Barbara Cuts.
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We are covering the 1966 album by The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds,
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and it is good to be back. We I think, missed a week we
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have had. Let's see if I can rattle them
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off. Wedding, moving anniversary,
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birthday all in span of two weeks.
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Yes, Aaron, the span of. So.
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My masters trying to stay on flip in.
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School closing down. But we're glad to be back.
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We're so happy and starting off with a bang with Pet Sounds.
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Pet Sounds, I mean, it's considered on pretty much any
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album list you listen to. It's usually in like the top
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five or top ten. It is.
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It is. It is what we're up there.
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It's pretty banging start. Be interesting to see what we
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think of it. So let's get into it.
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What are your least favorite 2? Well, if you've listened to Pet
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Sounds, you probably know what my least favorite 2 are are at
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least. It was kind of an easy option
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and I felt bad choosing the easy ones, but I didn't want to just
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like pick one to pick 1. So my least favourites were Pet
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Sounds and Let's Go Away for a While.
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Both pretty but both no lyrics so they're just instrumentals so
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they don't really have much as much depth for me.
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I know they have a place in the album so I'm not taking that
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out, but they just ended up not being my favorite.
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Compare 2 songs with lyrics. Yep, I agree on Pet Sounds.
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The you know, for me, like you have this harmonizing all the
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way through it and then have the penultimate song be instrumental
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kind of lost me. And I kind of thought that was
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the end of the album. And when the next one started, I
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guess Caroline No, I I thought, you know, Spotify did its thing
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and shifted to another song. But so that was a little bit
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strange. My other one was not the other
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instrumental that, that one I guess blended in with me because
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you know, I, I didn't really realize it was instrumental
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until after the fact. The other one for me was I know
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there's an answer and this one is really more about the
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placement. So coming off of song #8 there
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God only knows. And before it, you know, Sloop
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John B, God only knows. You know, Sloop John B is is one
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of their super, super popular ones.
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God only knows. A lot of people consider best,
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you know, we'll claim it the best ever pop love song.
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And then you hit. I know there's an answer.
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And the first line is I know so many people who think they can
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do it alone. Such a stark contract contrast
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to the love song that it you know that like was there in
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front of it. And so maybe if it was a
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different song order wouldn't have been there, but just that
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and and really about what the song is about, you know, I think
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it's alsd trip like it's yeah, there's some interesting things
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here, but so those are my least favorite 2.
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Next on the dockets favorite 2 Riley.
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What are your favorite 2? So one of my favorite 2 was I
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know there's an answer. I liked the song.
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I think I probably liked it for the same reasons you may not
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have. I kind of liked the funky
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placement. I I appreciated kind of a weird
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song after such a nice love song.
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It is weird. I think that's what I liked
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about it. A lot of Beach Boys can sound
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very safe to me, which we'll talk about later 'cause I know
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that's not the case. Like we can talk about that.
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But this one was one that was the most kind of out there,
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which I, I appreciated hearing from Pet Sounds.
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And I also just, I liked the instrumentals.
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I liked the big build to the big drums.
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And whenever he like has the realization it, it did a good
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job of him figuring that out. I also, I don't know if you
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watched the music video for God only knows.
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I, I happen to, and it's a music video of like young kids almost
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or like teenagers who are in love and she moves away with her
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family. And so it, it's actually like a
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pretty sad of like, I don't know what I would do without you when
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you're leaving. So following it with I know
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there's an answer made a lot of sense from watching the video
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'cause it felt like a floundering experience.
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And so I appreciated that. But I recognize it's also
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probably a strange song, especially to follow such a
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seemingly sweet and perfect. Yeah, it it did have a like it
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it it let's see it was originally called like hang on
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to your ego. So I'm I'm not sure that it was
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actually meant as a answer to that love song that it follows.
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But with the, you know, because the they had to rewrite it
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because of some some dissension and inside of there, but once,
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once once they changed it that that does kind of make sense
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there to what you're saying. I feel like it's less of like a
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for sure answer of like he's figured it out of like, who am I
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without you? I feel like it's the floundering
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process and then here today, which is not my other favorite,
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but here today is almost like a angry song of like love is here
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today and gone tomorrow. Like you never know where you
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stand with this girl. Like all of that stuff.
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And then I just wasn't made for these times.
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Like If God Only Knows feels like a sweet love song.
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And watching the video, it feels a lot more like a sweet love
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song of love lost. And then to have like a
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floundering of I know there's an answer and then here today.
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And I just wasn't made for these times.
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Like felt nice for me. But that heavily relies on
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watching the music video because if you don't watch the music
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video, which I didn't until like 2 days ago, it is pretty
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confusing timing. But my other favorite song was
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again with the drums. Love the big drums in this
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album. I have to say love a big drum
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was I'm waiting for the day. Something about this song just
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really clicked for me. The the kind of melodies of it,
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the big drums, the quiet parts and just all of it just kind of
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fit really well, especially for like the lyrics.
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It's such an upbeat kind of sounding song.
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And it is not a happy song. It's him saying like, I know
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you're in love with someone else when I'm with you, but I'm
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waiting for the day that it is me.
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And it's like literally I kissed your lips and when your face
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looked sad, it made me think about him and that you still
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loved him. So like, that's not a happy
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song, but it's like this fun little beat with the drums and
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it like the harmonizing behind it and it, I guess parts of it
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seem like that was in the past. And so he reaches the point
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where she does love him and actually loves him.
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But it's still like such a strange song to me to have both
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of those in it and to have this love song written for someone
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who loves someone else. But it's not a sad song.
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I just thought it was a really complex song that you you can
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delve a lot more into that I really liked.
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And these drums, man, I love almost a marching band, big
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drum, like it and like the flute or something in there.
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I think it's beautiful, like singing the song behind them.
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I loved the instruments on this album, on this specific song, as
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well as a lot of the album. How many instruments they used
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was really fun to hear and try to figure out, but I'm waiting
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for the day and I know there's an answer.
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One of my favorite songs. Yeah, the the the instruments is
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something that that we'll get into, but they they definitely
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used quite a quite a hefty number of of instruments on the
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album. So one of my favorite songs is.
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Sloop John B So this is a traditional folk song that's not
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an original Beach Boys song. So many people do not like that
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it's on this album, but I really liked it.
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And so it it also lyrically fits in with some of the other songs
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as well. You know it Sloop, for those
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that may not know I I did not. Sloop is a type of sailboat with
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a single mast and two sails. And this is a song about one
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called John B, but it's just a catchy little little tune.
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And and they've got a line in there that that caught me as
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funny, but yet talks, you know, shows everything that was going
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wrong. The poor cook, he caught the
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Fitz and threw away all my grits.
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Like, OK, that's pretty funny. And you know what?
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Can't argue about that. That does suck man.
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Sorry about that. Especially coming from the
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South, like we, we love our grits.
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It's, you know, especially if you fill them with cheese and
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garlic, but it's probably more of a S thing than anywhere else.
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So that was that was one of them.
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I think that one's funny too. The whole song is talking about
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wanting to go home after a song. Let's go away for a while.
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Even though it's like not their song is like a funny, even if
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the like the themes really you know, nothing to do what's kind
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of just fun song, but the lyrics right after a song called Let's
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go away for a while, being like I want to go home, man, it's
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really comedic to me. Yeah, and and and the the
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troubles of getting home. Yeah, in, in, in, in it.
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So, so my favorite song from the album is the opening track.
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Here comes the little drums. You know this is you know, you
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instantly get and that and I granted, The Beach Boys had been
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a long been around for quite some time at this, but if this
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is an introduction, you get immediately what The Beach Boys
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are all about. The harmonies, a happy little go
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lucky song that just makes you bop your head, tap your feet.
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But you also, I think, gets introduced to something else
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that they do quite a bit. Maybe is, and you already
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mentioned it, you, you've got this happy upbeat song, but the
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lyrics don't match the upbeatness, if that's a word of
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the song, because it's just a longing sadness because and and
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usually we long for our younger days.
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This is about somebody that's young longing to be older week
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so we can be married, so they can be together and not have to
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worry about anything. So wouldn't it be nice?
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So it's talking about the disadvantages of being young and
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how if they were older, everything would be OK.
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And then here you get again something they're very good at
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changing the tempo, like to something that almost sounds
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like a different song. And then bam, they're right back
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to, you know, quote UN quote normal, which I guess makes it
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for what was it? Let's let's go away for a while.
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Was the instrumental. Yeah, that I just missed when I
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was first listening through it. So so that's was my other
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favorite song. So.
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Yeah, I I wouldn't it be nice was close to being in like
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lyrics for me, but it it wasn't. So wouldn't it be nice is like
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very much one that is played as like a super fun song and
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listening to it in any sort of like transitional time of your
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life is not exactly the most like it is like a sad song.
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But I do appreciate that they, they talk about like, wouldn't
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it be nice? And then the very end, the part
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you were just playing when they changed that tempo is it's like
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saying it's almost worse to talk about it because wouldn't it be
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so nice if we had it? But let's talk about it because
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wouldn't it be nice is like such like they don't make it a
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inherently negative thing. They like complain about it.
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And then they're like, but it's fun to talk about too, Like la
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di da di da laughing in love. Yeah, and, and I, and I think
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that's the that's the neat thing about it for for a lot of people
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that can, that can so relate, you know, because we, we were
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listening to to this leading up to a wedding, you know, and and
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so you, you see the anticipation of the fulfillment of the song,
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but but yet on the flip side, you got somebody in your shoes,
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you know, whose boyfriend has, you know, moved to Chicago.
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So like, you know, it it you have, I don't want to talk about
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it, but yet I still want to talk about, you know, spending time
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with you. So it it it it is.
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Yeah, that's what I meant by transitional period in case
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anyone's fighting not. But I will also say this song
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specifically, because it's so popular, has been like slowed
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down and reverbed on like into almost a creepy song on social
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media. And so when I listen to it
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sometimes it also gives me the creeps.
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It's like that's what I hear instead, which is funny that any
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Beach Boys song is capable of being that.
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But you know it's possible this. Is This is why you stay off
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social media, kids? All right, so Next up, why, why
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is this album on our list? Why should people listen to Pet
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Sounds? So this is what I was talking
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about earlier. I read something, I don't know
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where, but it described OK, you last time I talked to you.
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Things have changed since last time I talked to you.
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I've had a change of heart. I read something and it changed
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my complete perspective on this whole album because I listened
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to it a few times and I was like, I cannot wait until I'm
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done listening to this album. I'm really tired of it.
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It's like just a little boring and I'm just tired of it.
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And I was, but I knew it was in like the top five of every
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single rating and a lot of them like one or two usually
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following what's going on, which to me felt like a masterpiece of
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an album. And I was like, what is it about
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this album that like is so highly rated?
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So I was looking up like, why is it so highly rated?
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And someone said it's a classic example of everyone's done it
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because of them. So now theirs seems boring.
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And I was like, Oh my gosh. And then I looked into it and I
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was like, we have them to thank for, like pop in general and
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like lyrically, how much they changed the grain.
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Writing songs that had emotion and longing and love and all of
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these feelings and sadness and having a story album, a concept
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album of sorts. Like they really were such big
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spearheads in that that now it feels boring.
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When at the time it was completely life changing.
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And after reading that and after thinking of it from that
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perspective, so much more respect for this album, man, So
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much more. It changed it completely for me.
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Yeah, so I think it's it's it's their 11th studio album.
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And, and at this point in time, most people that listen to music
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have heard a Beach Boys song. But if you have not you, you've
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heard snippets because we just played it by the time you get to
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this point. But if you like harmonizing,
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listen to this album. The the vocal harmonizing.
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They are great at it. I, I mean, I would put them up,
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you know, up there as one of the best to ever do that and do it
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consistently album after album after album after album.
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You know, if you're a Beatles fan, Charles and Charles is also
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a Beach Boys fan as well. And and you know and.
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Look, Three Beasts, Beatles, Bruce Springsteen and Beach
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Boys. Is that it?
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And I'm redeeming myself and it. And it may and it may make
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sense, you know, because in in looking at things like, you
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know, Brian Wilson talks about how listening to the beach,
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listening to The Beach Boys, listen to The Beatles.
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And I think it was Revolver that was least released before this
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one inspired this one. Then you've got McCartney saying
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that listening to this album brings him to tears and, and
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really inspired the the portions that he wrote of the Sergeant
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Pepper album, just them going back and forth, pushing each
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other. And then you, you say the names,
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OK, Revolver by The Beatles, Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys,
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Sergeant Pepper by The Beatles. Those are like three of the best
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albums ever and they sound different, Beatles and, and
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Beach Boys. But you you see that, you see
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them pushing each other through the music that they're
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releasing. The part that I saw that really
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said that this is one of the things that The Beach Boys did
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or Brian Wilson specifically with this album was and, and I
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like the way it was phrased was they used the studio as an
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instrument. And I'm like, OK, that that took
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a little bit to wrap my head around, but but that's a good
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way of putting it of, you know, they, they hired basically
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expert musicians to come in and and play music and you get all
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these instruments, the timpani, the flute, probably you name it,
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and they used it. And then even some other ones, I
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think I saw somewhere where they had a Coca-Cola can that was
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used in one of the songs. So that's, that's what that's
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what they meant or that's what's mean by using the studio as an
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instrument in the 60s. Whereas now it's 2026 like that,
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that like you said, that's become second nature, especially
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with technology and everything that that happens it it's easy
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to say it's from the 60s and it just doesn't sound like music
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today. But you know music.
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Music today is built on albums like this.
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Yeah. So.
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Yeah, I think that's that's important to recognize when you
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go into it too, right. Because.
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I think so. I mean, if you if you like the
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Sound of Music, then that's that's different.
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But like, I typically don't. And so listening to it without
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any knowledge of the album or the history of it, it can feel
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like, oh, they're just making super safe choices when at the
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time they were doing something that no one or like one other
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band had done before and figuring it out.
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And it was like, oh, it's not a safe choice.
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It's a safe choice now because they made it safe.
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Like they're the ones who did that.
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And it's and it's albums like this as as we go back and listen
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to them that that that calls me grief and really an explanation
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in it. You know, we we have never
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claimed to be music experts. We just love listening to music.
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I have played instruments in the past, a long time ago, can still
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read music not as good as I once could, but I I was did
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everything on the piano. So I learned classical, how to
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read music, Beethoven, Bach, all all those types of folks.
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So listening now to music is just a fan and, and, and what it
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makes you feel like or for you listening to lyrics to try and
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get that emotional connection to a song or the vibe going back to
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Kate and the Frank Ocean episode is a good way of of, of putting
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it. That's how music can become
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personal. But yet you got no idea about
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what instrument is what, what tempo is what when they do this
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and what A3468 beat mark, you know, all those things.
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I just listened to it and and it evokes some type of feeling or
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vibe, so I can appreciate the harmonies.
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They're really neat, really cool.
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But I think what makes this album great is lost on many or
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every casual listening fan because I didn't realize it
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until I researched and looked into the album.
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But like we talked about it, it it wasn't just take an
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instrument in, play it and record it.
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It was everything that they did within the studio that you have
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to really know music to understand what they did.
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But what I get out of it often times is just that Happy go
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lucky beach, you know, sounding harmonies.
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And that's really unfair to The Beach Boys.
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I'm admitting that, you know, because at the time it was
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ground, ground breaking to modern listeners.
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Now, like you said, it's it's the norm.
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And, and so we, we lose that with, with what they did and,
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and how often times you see a lot of the best albums of all
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times and all those, those ratings, you know, they're
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asking music producers, they're asking other musicians, they're
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asking people like that that really know music.
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That's why this is one of the best.
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If you ask your casual fan, I don't think this makes the list.
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Yeah, I don't. I don't either.
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I think that was definitely something lost on me the first
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few times listening to it. I think also, fairly or
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unfairly, The Beach Boys get put into a box for being like the
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epitome of American pop and like, that's kind of it.
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Or like a boy band and that's really it.
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Like all these different things. They get put into a box.
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And so people listen to Pet Sounds and they're like, oh,
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just another happy go lucky album.
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And it's like, no, like this album is like a lot of pop music
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was happy, you're lucky and that's it.
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Beach Boys and like The Beatles really shifted that and made a
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lot more pop songs that were not so happy go lucky.
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They may have sounded it, but lyrically there were a lot more
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emotions involved in it, especially from like a male's
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perspective being super emotional or like in touch with
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his emotions. Like for both of them.
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Beach compared to Abbey Road, this album has a little bit more
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of like that feeling behind it and that longing and really like
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doing a concept album. I mean, this, this album is like
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it follows a story of a girl and like love and what that looks
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like in his life and everything. So I, I think just casually
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listening to it or listening to it with the preconceived notion
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of who The Beach Boys are really does this album into service and
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separating it as, you know, an album and taking it apart and
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picking it apart. The more you attempt to pick it,
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pick it apart, the more you realize, oh, I really don't have
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anything to pick this album apart on.
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The more you look into it, the more you dive into it and give
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it a fair shot. Yeah, and it's one of those
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things of like you mentioned, a flute and a timpani.
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There's drums like go into it and really listen for all the
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different instruments. And again, you may not know what
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they are, but again, you you can start to pick up on all kinds of
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different types of instruments. And, and all of that was
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intentional and, and again, in a way that that really wasn't,
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wasn't happening in pop, pop music.
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All right, any, anything else before we get into best beats
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and bars? I don't think.
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So all right then, in that case, Riley, what would be your best
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bar from Pet Sounds? So Speaking of the girl, the
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best bar is pretty much the entire song of Caroline, no?
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This was such a close song of mine for favorites.
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I agree that Pet Sounds seem like it would be kind of the
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last song because of it just being an instrumental.
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It seems like a close off song. Caroline know is I'll die on
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this hill. The best ending song for an
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album like this. For an album of longing and love
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having a song of and from watching the music video, I just
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thought it was he saw the girl again for the first time in a
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while. Like she moved away, she was
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gone and then she came back and this is him like realizing she's
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changed. And that is the best ending to
30:36
this album. And also, I think, I don't know,
30:41
I love this song in this album and the lyrics of it, the main
30:47
lyric being it's so sad to watch a sweet thing die.
30:51
Oh, Caroline, why? Like all of these lyrics are so
30:57
sad. You're laughing and it's not a
30:59
laughing matter. It's a sad song.
31:03
But the lyric that really like stuck out to me was could I ever
31:09
find in you again things that made me love you so much Then
31:13
could we ever bring them back once they have gone?
31:15
Oh, Caroline. No.
31:17
And I I would argue that he wasn't in love with her then
31:25
this is my argument. This is what I've thought.
31:28
I think that he had this, what would I be without you?
31:31
And then had his breaking moment, had his like whole
31:35
horrified moment and then expected her to come back in her
31:38
same little image. But I think if you, if you
31:42
can't, if she changed enough for him to like completely be like
31:47
you're a different person. That's something that does
31:50
exist. But some of the things he would
31:52
mention were like can can you become the person I once knew?
31:57
I was like, I don't think that's love.
31:59
I don't think that's like this sweet love.
32:02
I think you've grown up and you've you've realized
32:03
something. It it's not.
32:05
And then I did like the kind of train like ending to it does
32:10
feel like an ending. It's very off catch it like it,
32:14
it takes you back. But I think it it it reminds me
32:18
of the image of like someone who's moved far away, getting
32:23
closer on a train and she's right there and then they keep
32:26
going past and it never stops. Like it feels like that lovely
32:31
ending of a movement just going straight on past you.
32:37
But I don't. I don't.
32:38
Know with the animals the the the ending there is is quite
32:42
odd. Yeah, but I you get what I'm
32:45
saying. Like, it brings that image of
32:46
standing on your front porch and seeing something you once loved,
32:49
like moving past you and moving on.
32:52
So it feels like such a lovely summary of it.
32:55
But just just to have like, what seems like a whole album
33:00
dedicated to love for this girl. And then the first lyrics are
33:04
where did your long hair go? How could you lose that happy
33:06
glow? It, it seems almost like
33:10
attention there. And then it goes back to care of
33:13
like who took that look away? You said you'd never changed,
33:16
but that's not true. And it starts to feel almost
33:18
like a confused love song, like he thinks he's in love, but he
33:22
doesn't really know who this person is anymore.
33:26
And I I think it's an interesting.
33:29
I agree. That such a perfect ending.
33:30
Song, yeah, for for this album, especially for somebody like you
33:35
that is listening to lyrics to to see it lyrically go through
33:41
the album. I mean, it's 100% a concept
33:43
album to start with. Like wouldn't it be nice you
33:46
starting in like the honeymoon phase to ending with like, I
33:50
don't even know who you are anymore.
33:51
Is is a like it's 100% a concept album and it follows a
33:55
structure. And so I just think having that
33:59
as its last one perfectly sums up the concept of the album.
34:04
So Caroline, now probably the saddest sounding song too, does
34:11
not sound happy either. So.
34:15
So all right, so my best beat is actually in God only knows.
34:27
And so starting off, just want to be able to hear because we
34:36
talk about or I talk about a lot of times, moments and songs that
34:42
bounce you out and go whoa, what what happened?
34:46
And and so, you know, obviously the the first lyric is odd to
34:54
say I may not always love you and a love song that that's
34:57
really good, but I'm not lyrics. And so about a minute and four
35:03
you, you hear this little poppy going and then it just switches
35:24
and then just picks right back up like it never happened.
35:30
And so those I, I again, just those, the staccato notes, just
35:43
like a brief little interlude. And, and for me, it's, it's
35:48
coming off of talking about, you know, you know, God only knows
35:54
what I'd be without you is the line right before it.
35:57
But just, you know, I may not always love you, but as long as
36:02
there are stars above you, you never need to doubt it.
36:05
I'll make so sure about it. God only knows what I'd be
36:09
without you. And then you've got this
36:12
rhythmic music that is happening.
36:16
They say that line and then it disjoints and hits that bump,
36:21
bump, bump, bump. And so to me, it's like, OK, a
36:24
small reminder like the of what in in in the songwriter's mind,
36:36
what life would be like without, you know, his, his girl going
36:41
from this nice flow that had everything pretty and together
36:45
to basically just 10 seconds of chaos and then let me get
36:52
back-to-back to normal. So that was my best little
36:58
little beat. So.
37:03
Ratings. Right.
37:07
So it's. Been it's been a bit.
37:09
Are we on ratings? Yes.
37:11
It is ratings. There we go.
37:14
Personal ratings My personal rating is the more I've listened
37:21
to it, I would say a 6 1/2 which would shock everyone if they had
37:30
heard me talking. A few weeks ago I found myself
37:34
not minding it and and there's a few songs that I could see
37:37
myself coming back to. The the only thing with it is to
37:45
really appreciate the song. I feel like I have to be in a
37:47
very particular mood of listening.
37:50
I don't, I don't know if I would 100% want it to be on like
37:54
shuffle in my playlist or just like randomly come on.
37:58
I think it's one that I, I would have to intentionally put on,
38:02
but I could see myself doing that at some point.
38:05
So that's why it gets a little bit lower.
38:08
But still, I, I did find myself really enjoying it a lot more.
38:14
The more I really gave it a chance and the more I kind of
38:17
respected it, the more I kind of respected, the more I respected
38:22
it. And with that respect, like I, I
38:27
do think whatever your opinions are, as we both said, the album
38:33
itself is objectively A10. Like with, with how much they
38:37
changed everything around, how much they completely defined a
38:41
new or they, they took a genre that already existed and added a
38:46
whole bunch of new elements to it and really set that in stone.
38:50
And I think it's an unfortunate truth, which is why I really
38:53
appreciated what the, the way that person said it is like it,
38:57
it's sometimes a, a curse to make such a good album because
39:00
eventually it might feel boring like because of, of how many
39:06
people take it and run with it because of how perfect it is of
39:09
an album. So I I think it would be unfair
39:14
to give it anything other than a 10.
39:16
Yeah, so objectively, I was a 10 as well, personal, a six.
39:21
I like. It's not my music.
39:22
I'm not going to it. Do I know Beach Boys songs?
39:27
Yes. Are they unmistakable when they
39:30
come on the radio or you hear them?
39:32
Yes. Again, all of that adds to just
39:36
how much of an impact The Beach Boys made to to musics.
39:45
But you know, personally, it's not my style and you know, here
39:53
we are. So there we go.
39:59
Sorry Charles. When I get back to work or after
40:04
Charles hears this, I will get a lecture on why I should like the
40:10
Big Boy Beach Boys. I think we did a good job
40:14
objectively. He may actually be right about
40:17
most of it. It's.
40:18
Just, well, that's. Personal preference at this
40:21
point. That's what I think, yeah, we
40:24
did a good job of objectively. I am very.
40:26
Refused, we both beach. Boys did yes And what this album
40:30
is, it's just not for me. Yes.
40:34
So Next up, Song of the Week or Song of the Well?
40:42
I have two surprise prize. I have two on a good on a good
40:46
two weeks. You expect me to only have one
40:49
for four weeks? You should be grateful I only
40:51
have two. You have two and when we were
40:54
doing it every week. So what's new?
40:56
Exactly, but the first one I think you'll welcome.
41:02
I think. Probably my favorite Pearl Jam
41:06
song honestly. Maybe a hot take not off their
41:09
best album, I'll say it. However, a gem of the album.
41:15
Holy cow, it is a good song. It is comeback by Pearl Jam.
41:19
There, I said it. I always forget to say the name
41:21
and it starts it starts slow, but still classic Eddie Vedder.
41:29
You can't quite understand him, but we're getting there.
41:31
We're getting to the point where we can understand him a little
41:33
bit, but it it's just such a slow kind of building, not what
41:41
you'd exactly expect. It sounds like it's going to
41:46
build and then it doesn't. And then as it like keeps going,
41:52
it's slow. It's slow and it just, and then
42:05
you get the Eddie Vedder growling.
42:07
Oh, beautiful. It's a good song.
42:18
It's so good and it it kind of keeps building and it gets 8
42:24
like the louder and louder just a good song.
42:29
And then it ends at kind of like this big feeling.
42:32
Just a really good song. Highly recommend listening to
42:34
Come Back by Pearl Jam Probably my favorite Pearl Jam song.
42:40
If it's not, it's. Avocado Album.
42:42
Yeah, I think by their self-titled which gets like
42:46
clowned on so hard and that's fair.
42:49
But give Come Back a chance 'cause it it gets overlooked in
42:53
my opinion. It gets overlooked because it's
42:55
off that album, but it is an incredible song.
42:59
Like it's, it's definitely my top three Pearl Jam, which is
43:03
impressive 'cause I am a Pearl Jam fan myself.
43:06
So but I've, I've, I've really just enjoyed listening to that
43:13
and I really enjoy it every time it comes on.
43:15
It's always a nice like exciting song.
43:19
My other one is pretty different, pretty different.
43:31
I made you listen to it. So it should not be a
43:34
necessarily a surprise to you. It's technically in a whole out
43:39
EP or an album by Evening Elephants, but I've been
43:44
obsessed with it lately. It's a lot more alternative.
43:49
That's when you hear what's alternative and not just pop,
43:55
which one of the best lyrics of all time I would say is I just
44:00
want that coconut ice, which I'm sure he's talking about drugs.
44:05
I'm not, but I do want a Coca-Cola.
44:07
No ice. That is my drink of choice.
44:09
But I mean, it's such a fun song.
44:13
Again, I've been talking a lot about like, summer songs.
44:16
While it's playing in the background, it can keep going.
44:19
But we've got to address this. Fountain drinks with no ice is
44:26
the proper way because they come out cold.
44:29
Cold, there's no. Need for ice?
44:31
It just waters down the deliciousness.
44:35
Thank you, Sodie Pop. Yes, I am the one who introduced
44:40
you to that. I appreciate it.
44:42
I take a bit more big of a stance if I don't want ice at
44:45
all and any drink. I don't like ice, but definitely
44:50
these fountain sodas. But I think it's just a fun,
44:55
chaotic song. It's just a really fun summer
45:01
type song. It feels like a dancing song,
45:03
one that you find yourself even if you don't like it.
45:06
It's hard to not bounce along to it.
45:11
And I, I'm gonna, I don't know. I've just, I've really enjoyed
45:18
listening to this album more the past few, the past few weeks.
45:22
They have a lot of fun lyrics. There's another one song, I
45:27
think it's Dead or Alive, that's very funky.
45:29
It has like a Mario enemy song beat at the beginning.
45:33
That might make sense to you. You, I don't know.
45:35
But there's one point where it's it's he knows that and you know
45:42
that apple tastes good. He looked me in the eyes because
45:45
he knew that I would. And you know, I want my rib
45:48
back. And then you realize he was
45:50
talking about the Garden of Eden.
45:52
He would say, you know, that apple tastes good and not a
45:57
funny situation in history, but funny lyrics to like throw in
46:03
the middle of like there's another one that's like how you
46:06
going to stand tall or how you going to put your foot down when
46:09
you're standing on your tippy toes.
46:12
That's awesome. Like funny lyrics.
46:16
It's just such a fun album. It's called like carefree Berry,
46:19
which sums up the album perfectly.
46:22
But chewing cheeks by Evening Elephants, it's just a very fun
46:26
song. I highly recommend listening to
46:28
the whole album. It's only like 18 minutes long.
46:30
I made you do it so you can attest.
46:33
It's a good album. It went by fast.
46:35
It was it was good. I enjoyed it and you know, can't
46:39
attest, sent Raleigh the a text like did they just say coke with
46:43
no ice? So so my song of the week.
46:50
I feel as if I might be contractually obligated to the
46:55
song because it would not be 1 that I would normally come
47:06
across, but do you know it? I'm waiting, yeah.
47:15
It started. I can hear it.
47:18
I'm waiting for the voice. Oh, I will say never did I no,
47:31
no hate to the Swifty Nation. Never thought Taylor Swift was
47:36
going to be featured on our podcast?
47:41
So You Are in Love by Taylor Swift from her 1989 deluxe
47:47
edition album A Song About love. Obviously by the title, but it's
47:56
from somebody looking in at a relationship and recognizing
48:03
that the two people in the relationship are in love.
48:08
And so this was the first dance song of our wedding that we went
48:13
to. So like I said, I feel like I
48:18
may be contractually obligated to, to, to play this.
48:23
So again. It's a beautiful first dance
48:26
song, especially at the rain. I was about to say it was it.
48:30
Was really pretty. Watching watching them was a
48:33
nice moment. And again, just to reminder that
48:37
when in love, you can tune out so many other things of rain,
48:41
Thunder, people watching and, you know, just to have a nice
48:47
little moment. So you are in love by Taylor
48:52
Swift, my my song of the week as a proud dad.
48:58
And we also have to come up with a good name for brother Barbara
49:04
rolls off the pot sister-in-law Barb.
49:08
Like you know, she needs a a better podcast name.
49:14
So y'all. We'll work.
49:15
On that, but congratulations. Boone and I think she actually
49:20
obligated. I didn't know if it was going to
49:22
be that song or Mama song by Vincent Boone.
49:27
No, I wouldn't. Mama Barbara still I don't think
49:31
has listened to the lyrics and. I don't think she ever should.
49:35
I think refuses to so you know. Whenever they However, whenever
49:40
they first told me I thought it was, I mistook it for A Mother's
49:45
kind of love by the five O twos which the Benson Moon song is
49:51
very good and the lyrics are very sweet and sappy.
49:54
That one, however, A Mother's Kind of Love was brutal song
49:58
that I was at first was like, you can't do that song.
50:02
Like that's awful 'cause it's so clear, like the vocals are so
50:06
clear and it's just saying like, oh, I know I always have a home
50:11
with you in A Mother's Kind of Love.
50:12
And it's like, from a son's perspective, everything brutal
50:16
song, but it ended up being a very sweet song that was more
50:21
fitting for a mother, said Dance.
50:25
When it's very sweet, beautiful, beautiful wedding.
50:29
So. So that was fun.
50:32
So that brings us to our next album Which?
50:37
Is exciting because normally I'm the one who has it.
50:40
This is this is true. And so we go back to at the very
50:43
beginning, where we've talked about our whirlwind of a few
50:47
weeks, wedding check, song of the week, birthday is next.
50:53
So I get to choose the album. That also means that we've been
51:01
doing the podcast for at least a year because this is my second
51:05
album that I've picked. First one was Pearl Jam and
51:10
basically it was already on the list.
51:12
I just moved it up. And so my next album, you know,
51:19
we we talked about this when when I came in to move and came
51:25
in for wedding, I had a lot to choose from, but I essentially
51:32
stuck with my roots. So I am doing from 1994 super
51:41
unknown all one word by Soundgarden.
51:45
It is the 4th studio album. Many consider it to be their
51:51
best. Best album.
51:53
That was really between that and Dirt by Alice In Chains.
51:58
Just sticking with the big four of grunge for me, because that's
52:02
that's the genre that I really like.
52:06
But I went I went with super unknown Soundgarden, Chris
52:10
Cornell. We've talked about him quite a
52:12
few times already. So it kind of made sense for it
52:15
to be sound Soundgarden. Also it does have spoon man on
52:22
it which holds AI was about. To say.
52:25
Dear funny story in our family which TuneIn next time to get
52:31
that story but. Did you clear it with Did you
52:36
clear with Mom and Barbara that it's not Dave Matthews Band?
52:39
No, I have not. So she'll.
52:41
She'll figure. It out with with.
52:44
Good luck, get to it. She like she likes Soundgarden
52:47
too. Yeah, she does.
52:50
So Soundgarden Super Unknown is the next album?
52:54
Good album. So let's see, Yeah, go back and
52:58
listen to Beach Boys Pet Sounds because they believe it or not,
53:07
somehow, someway, what they did in the studio in 1966 paved the
53:12
way for, you know, your Pearl Jams, Nirvana, Sound, Gardens of
53:17
the World and in the in the mid 90s to do what they did.
53:21
So and even for Swifty to do what she does.
53:27
So we got socials that are out there.
53:32
Barber cuts pod in most all the places and I got nothing else.
53:39
Me neither. Until next time, I'm Todd.
53:42
But I'm Riley. This is another episode of Fiber
53:44
Cuts.