We covered the title track in the previous episode, so this time we drop the needle on the rest of Surfin’ U.S.A. Brian’s falsetto steps properly into the foreground on “Farmer’s Daughter”, “Lonely Sea” gives us an early glimpse of the more introspective Brian Wilson to come, Mike Love gets behind a saxophone, and Murry Wilson discovers lyricist Roger Christian on the radio. We also work our way through an awful lot of surf instrumentals, take an unexpected Fleetwood Mac detour, compare “Lonely Sea” to Soundgarden, and ask whether The Beach Boys actually did “Let’s Go Trippin’” better than Dick Dale. By the end, the band sound considerably more assured than they did just one album ago. Whether Surfin’ U.S.A. needed to be quite this long is another matter.
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