The Beach Boys Artistic Range: If you love Sail on, Sailor, You'll Love the whole Holland Album!
When The Beach Boys passed from their 1966 period to their 1968-1973 period, beginning in late 1967, they began showing artistic range!
Just like The Beatles had things in the White Album that sounded like nothing from Sgt. Pepper's, from late 1967, The Beach Boys began exploring some very different sounds!
Each major album- Wild Honey, Sunflower, Holland- had its characteristic range, and if you love the song Sail on, Sailor, for instance, you'll love the whole Holland album!
In particular, if you love the rootsy sound of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, 1968-1972-era Rolling Stones, and CCR, things like that, and are not that into the Beach Boys' characteristic mid-60's sound, give the Holland album a try!
Start with the song Sail on, Sailor!
Then give the whole Holland album, which is on their Youtube page along with the rest of their albums, a try!
And then try Surf's Up, the album- it's not surf rock, it's more a semi-ironic title for a sad, somewhat rootsy album, but a sincere album, not an ironic album (the title is more subtle than that)...
Anyway, try Surf's Up, the album, and Dennis Wilson's magnificent solo album Pacific Ocean Blue!
If you love lofi indie stuff, go for Wild Honey and Friends, the great lofi albums from 1967 and 1968!
Each album in this period has its own feel, its own characteristic range!
Sunflower, Wild Honey, Friends, Surf's Up, Holland, Pacific Ocean Blue- these in particular are very coherent masterpieces exploring very different artistic visions!
Also, if you love synth-pop, so is 1977's synth-pop experiment album The Beach Boys Love You, which is very early, but is very much true synth-pop! And is so, very, very different from any of their 1967-1973 albums!
Worlds of music to explore! Try some of the albums- they are all on The Beach Boys' Youtube page save only for Dennis Wilson's solo stuff (which is so worth searching out, especially if you love Sail on, Sailor and Holland, or Sunflower!)
Anyway, just a little recommendation from me!
God loves you!
Sincerely,
David S. Annderson