1. 'Early' and 'late' Beach Boys means Pre- and Post-SMiLE
2. You remember the first time you heard Pet Sounds.
3. Specifically, the opening to Track 2, You Still Believe In Me.
4. You remember the first time you heard Pacific Ocean Blue.
5. You fantasize about Pet Sounds having a happy ending
6. You still fantasize about what if SMiLE had been completed, even though it is completed and you have it
7. You consider 2004's Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE one of the greatest things you've ever heard, but you wouldn't give anyone your old copy for fear it would prevent them from getting The SMiLE Sessions, which is 100 times better
8. You consider the early 70's to be a Golden Age because of the Beach Boys
9. You obsess over the Beach Boys early-70's albums Sunflower, Surf's Up and Holland and put them above Sgt. Pepper's
10. You know Surf's Up is not about surfing.
11. They're doing work on your house and you think of Workshop from SMiLE because of all the hammering (and you smile because of the memories!)*
12. You consider Al Jardine to be a genius for The Beaks of Eagles
13. There's no question in your mind that Carl is a genious, let alone Dennis, even if Carl had never written Feel Flows
Can you think of more? *(8/29/17): I'm there right now!
Have fun and enjoy the music, whatever your music is!
David S. Annderson
P.S. You know an album is great if a reasonably intelligent man spends half his early adulthood fantasizing about it having a happy ending! (this was THE band of my early adulthood!) (and still one of THE artists of all time for me!)