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* [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]] -: The ''Smile'' sessions [http://www.billboard.com/news/beach-boys-lost-smile-album-to-see-release-1005070202.story are finally coming out!]
* [[Archive Panic]] -: ''Twenty-seven'' studio albums (nineteen if you don't count ''15 Big Ones''-onward), a massive supply of unreleased songs and outtakes, hours of studio sessions, a frankly absurd amount of ''Smile'' material (absurd given that the album was never finished), and an endless deluge of illuminating footage of concerts, interviews, promos, and other assorted segments. And people keep discovering new stuff all the time.
* [[Awesome Music]]:
** ''Pet Sounds'' and ''Smile''
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* [[Growing the Beard]] - ''The Beach Boys Today!'' marked the point when they moved from simple surf songs to something more sophisticated, a transition that would reach its fullest flower with ''Pet Sounds''.
** [http://30daysout.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/beach-boys.jpg In an alternate sense as well.]
* [[Heartwarming Moments (Sugar Wiki)|Heartwarming Moments]] - Any of their ballads, especially "Don't Worry Baby" and "God Only Knows".
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]] - [[Paul McCartney]] makes a guest appearance on the ''Smiley Smile'' song "Vegetables"... chomping on celery.
** [[The Rutles|Stig O'Hara]] joined the band for a few years in the Seventies.
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* [[Memetic Mutation]] - AH-UUM-BOP-DIDDIT, AH-UUM-BOP-DIDDIT...
** I'm a genius, too.
* [[Misattributed Song]] - You have to feel sorry for [[Jan and Dean]]. Even though they preceded the Beach Boys, they were ultimately overshadowed by them, and even worse, many of their hits are often erroneously assumed to be Beach Boys songs.
** This isn't helped by the fact that Brian Wilson co-wrote several of their songs, and even provided backing vocals for "Surf City". And the fact that the Beach Boys covered one Jan and Dean hit, "The Little Old Lady from Pasadena", on their first live album does nothing to clear up the confusion with regards to ''that'' song.
* [[Mis BlamedMisblamed]] - People blame Mike Love exclusively for the collapse of ''Smile'', when in reality the cause was much more complicated, with factors including not just Mike Love, but also Van Dyke Parks, Capitol Records, the other Beach Boys, a royalties lawsuit, and Brian Wilson's own ailing psyche.
* [[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|Moment of Awesome]] - A good 38 years after ''Smile'' was aborted, Brian Wilson finished it.
* [[Mondegreen]] - "Caroline, No" was originally called "Carol, I Know", but Brian misheard it as Caroline. [[Throw It In|They decided to go with the new title anyway]].
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** The fact that Brian Wilson once owned a health food store called The Radiant Radish.
** The fact that country music star Glen Campbell started off playing session guitar for their records, as well as briefly taking Brian's place on tour.
** The fact that [[The Beatles|Paul McCartney]] himself walked in on a ''Smile'' session and contributed the sound of him chomping on celery.
** The fact that Dennis Wilson co-wrote the song "You Are So Beautiful" at a party with Billy Preston, but never took credit for it.
* [[Rescued Fromfrom the Scrappy Heap]] - Mike Love and Al Jardine came ''so close'' to this on ''Holland''; Mike penned "Big Sur", and Al penned "The Beaks of Eagles" and "California". All three of these songs are sublimely beautiful, melancholy, and poetic, but the two never wrote anything like them since.
** Let's be fair: "The Beaks of Eagles" is an adaptation of a Robinson Jeffers poem.
* [[The Scrappy]] - Mike Love is mostly remembered for either being the primary factor in the collapse of ''Smile'', perpetuating The Beach Boys as a corny nostalgia act even to this day, or both.
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* [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny]] - In spades. When most people think of The Beach Boys, they do not think "one of the greatest and most influential bands of the last 50 years" as much as they think "oldies group".
* [[Too Cool to Live]] - Dennis.
* [[Vindicated Byby History]] - Despite having a hit single with "Sloop John B", ''Pet Sounds'' was not a big seller initially. Years later it would be recognized as one of the greatest pop albums of all time.
* [[The Woobie]] - Brian Wilson, in every possible way.
* [[WTH Costuming Department]]:
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