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Brian Wilson<\/a> seemed to be put on this Earth to make people happy every time he walked into the studio.\u00a0<\/p>\n Even though The Beach Boys were your average rock and roll outfit for the first few years of their career, Wilson could have been considered the musical equivalent of Mozart in his field whenever he put together one of his arrangements. But despite his presence elevating pretty much any song he worked on, there were bound to be tunes that didn\u2019t resonate with everybody.<\/p>\n That\u2019s simply human nature. The Beach Boys were the epitome of fun in the sun, and while there are always going to be people that are cynical on principle, it\u2019s hard not to think of the summertime whenever \u2018Surfin\u2019 USA\u2019 or \u2018California Girls<\/a>\u2019 comes on unless you are literally living your life inside of an igloo. But are there tunes that seem cheesy now? Absolutely.<\/p>\n Is a lot of that down to Mike Love\u2019s presence on the song? Possibly. You see, The Beach Boys did have a reputation of being the more preppy version of rock and roll, but even though Wilson was willing to experiment as much as he wanted to, Love definitely lived up to the stereotype of being the straight-laced asshole that everyone secretly hoped none of them actually were.<\/p>\n But no amount of Love\u2019s insistence could have prevented Wilson from thinking outside the box. Even if they had a contract to make six different versions of \u2018California Girls\u2019, Wilson\u2019s talent needed to be unleashed, and it wasn\u2019t until Pet Sounds that people knew his experiments could work. Everyone in The Wrecking Crew knew that Wilson had created a legitimate masterpiece with his new album, and if he wanted to go further, he was going to have some stiff competition to contend with.<\/p>\n The Beatles had already begun expanding their own sound, and when listening to \u2018Strawberry Fields Forever\u2019, the Fab Four had thrown down the gauntlet for what rock and roll could sound like. But whereas that song had a foreboding atmosphere, \u2018Good Vibrations\u2019 took everything profoundly strange about Pet Sounds and turned it into a bite-sized symphony of pop music, complete with theremin, cellos and those signature harmonies.<\/p>\n