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"Wouldn't It Be Nice" is a song by the American rock band the Beach Boys and the opening track from their 1966 album Pet Sounds. Written by Brian Wilson , Tony Asher , and Mike Love , it is distinguished for its sophisticated Wall of Sound -style arrangement and refined vocal performances, and is regarded among the band's finest songs.
"God Only Knows" is a song by the American rock band the Beach Boys from their 1966 album Pet Sounds. Written by Brian Wilson and Tony Asher, it is a baroque-style love song distinguished for its harmonic innovation and complexity, unusual instrumentation, and subversion of typical popular music conventions, both lyrically and musically.
Pet Sounds is the eleventh studio album by the American rock band the Beach Boys, released on May 16, 1966, by Capitol Records.It was initially met with a lukewarm critical response in the United States, although it peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Top LPs chart.
"Caroline, No" was written by Brian Wilson and Tony Asher, possibly within a few days of writing "Wouldn't It Be Nice". [3] Although Wilson claimed that Asher only provided the words to his music, Asher credited himself with contributing musical ideas to at least three songs on Pet Sounds, including "Caroline, No".
The Beach Boys. Al Jardine – backing vocals; Bruce Johnston – backing vocals; Mike Love – lead vocal (verses and chorus), backing vocals; Brian Wilson – lead vocal (chorus), backing vocals, Hammond B-3 organ, overdubbed bass guitar and Danelectro bass; Carl Wilson – backing vocals, lead guitar, overdubbed twelve-string lead guitar ...
Stack-o-Tracks is an instrumental album release by the Beach Boys containing backing tracks to fifteen of their songs spanning their career to that point. As it was issued during one of their lowest commercial ebbs in the U.S., Stack-o-Tracks became the first Beach Boys album to fail to reach the US or UK charts.
Brian Wilson in 1966 "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times" was written by Brian Wilson and Tony Asher for the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds album in early 1966. [1] Although Wilson claimed that Asher only provided the words to his music, Asher credited himself with contributing musical ideas to at least three songs on the album, including this one.
Dennis's two song contributions to the Beach Boys' August 1971 album Surf's Up – "4th of July" and "(Wouldn't It Be Nice to) Live Again" – were left off the record. [84] At the time, Dennis stated that he "pulled" the songs off the record because he did not feel they flowed well alongside the other tracks. [ 85 ]