busy doin' nothin'

But not for some. Drugged, bemused, prematurely middle-aged, the Beach Boys gazed out across the waves, landscaped of their adolescence, and could never quite make up their minds, whether to stick with what they knew, or whether to head up into the canyons, float on those magic cushions......

Print-ad style poster for the single Wouldn’t It Be Nice/God Only Knows (from the album Pet Sounds)

mona (deconstructed mix) || the beach boys

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Wonderful photo

Vintage print ad for Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys in Billboard Magazine (recon.)

i would lick late 70s fat brian wilson clean

“[Carl] reflects on the changing fortunes of the group with a philosophical air. What has been, has been. What is, is. What will be, will be…. Perhaps the serenity he exudes was something he didn’t have to learn. […] What were they trying to say? Carl smiles at the question. The Beach Boys have never espoused causes. Never taught anything. ‘Our intention is to comfort. To make it nice. We just wanted to say what we wanted to say.’” - article by Jeani Read, The Province (December 20, 1974)

Mike: Never mind that, just pose for the picture.

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