Who's your favorite Beach Boy that isn't a Wilson?

Either BruceJohnstonMike Love, Al Jardine, or Al Jardine

this is kinda tough tbh

WHOOPS. BRUCE JOHNSTONMIKE LOVE IS JUST A VOTE FOR MIKE OK THANKS AND SORRY.

unlovable as Mike Love is Peter Bagge is otm that the Beach Boys would not be the same without him

I might pick Blondie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7y0zOPrKEc

yeah that is a killer album, a real lost gem

Al Jardine, because he's not a cunt like Mike Love is.

JohnstonMike

I'd be hard-pressed to pick out Al's finest moment as a Beach Boy. Like, what is his biggest accomplishment, getting Brian to arrange and record a cover of "Sloop John B"?

'Lookin' At Tomorrow'?

when he sings lead on Breakaway

lol the one song from the album that doesn't have it's own wikipedia entry

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i like his lead vocal on help me rhonda

Al's highlights imo are Help me Rhonda, I Know There's an Answer, and that one part of the California Saga. But Al's contributions go unnoticed mostly because he blends with Carl and Brian so well in the stack.. i don't thing the vocals would be the same without him

Also he was a vital part of the live group, singing most of the leads on the pet sounds and smile stuff.

But still the dude is a bore.

Oh, Blondie in a heartbeat! I'm always torn because, while I love non-Blondie Beach Boys a great deal, his are among my favorite Beach Boys songs but are also generally pretty unrepresentative of the band on the whole.

I never hear anyone talking about this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDf8Ao3-a84

He's a dick but.... Mike Love. His bass provided an interesting contrast with the rest of the family vocals and he sang lead on some of their biggest songs. No Mike, no Beach Boys.

oh shit Al wrote and sings lead on Wake The World.

Mike. No contest.

No Mike, no Beach Boys.

More importantly, surely, no Mike, no Can we be shown weirdos + Mike Love?

im p sure there would be lots of really good music w/o mike love but hey thats just me.

http://40.media.tumblr.com/5af9ef6ca337b677121213a54fd2e2ef/tumblr_meqg0z9klo1r1w11uo1_500.jpg

when i saw the beach boys live i was a little amused that mike love changed the lyrics of "help me rhonda" from "she was gonna be my wife and i was gonna be her man" to "she was gonna be my woman..."

I'd be hard-pressed to pick out Al's finest moment as a Beach Boy. Like, what is his biggest accomplishment, getting Brian to arrange and record a cover of "Sloop John B"?

Loop De Loop

that lyric change is the exact type of thing mike takes tons of pride in.

fuckin with the formula

Bruce Johnston of course

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I wish the Beach Boys with Blondie and Ricky had been a justly-feted proper side project rather than just an anomalous blip in Beach Boys history that unfortunately occurred when people were paying relatively little attention to the band.