op is a dream stan

On friendship

The Beach Boys in Sweaters

More women

Dolly Parton has really been hard at work

goopy of the day

counterpoint

folk horror is when the Thing Should Be Familiar, But Is Not, the Location Should Be Pleasing, But Is Not, and the Outside is Trying Very Hard To Kill You

h/t to emilyscartoons

Combined faces of top 500 professional golfers

“I gave the song ['God Only Knows‘] to Carl because I was looking for a tenderness and a sweetness which I knew Carl had in himself as well as in his voice. He brought dignity to the song and the words, through him, became not a lyric, but real words.” - Brian Wilson, Record Mirror (1966) “You can count on it every spring. Radio stations start playing our records. Mostly the old stuff. I don’t know — some of the later albums were higher quality. I think ‘Pet Sounds’ was one, but it didn’t do a lot.” - Carl Wilson, The Philadelphia Inquirer (April 12, 1981) “The idea for Pet Sounds was Brian's; it would be his favorite sounds; his pet sounds. He was fascinated by sounds and collected them. He would experiment with tapes: we'd laugh in key and try different things just to see what we could do. It's that old thing of going maybe too far to find out what you can do, and then pulling back a little bit to fit what else you're actually doing. Capitol didn't support Pet Sounds; I think they tried to talk Brian out of having it. Can you imagine that album not coming into being? It was a glorious album in our ears, but the record company gave it a real lukewarm reception. That really worried Brian; it really bothered him. He'd put his heart and soul on the line.” - Carl Wilson, Musician (September 1983) “We knew that Pet Sounds was a very special record, and to us, it was more than a record. It was a new place, it was popular music coming to a new level. And it was magnificent to hear ‘Sloop John B’ come out of the speakers with that brilliant arrangement, there was just something so thrilling about it.” - Carl Wilson, The History of Rock ’n’ Roll (1994)