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There isn\u2019t a single song in The Beach Boys\u2019 catalogue that has become a classic without Brian Wilson<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Although there are more than a few years where Wilson wasn\u2019t as active with the band as everyone would have liked, there\u2019s always been an understanding that it\u2019s a much different band whenever Mike Love is at the helm of the group. Wilson was the rock that gave them all of those soaring melodies, but even with those symphonies running through his head, he could admit that a few of his bandmates could throw in the odd masterpiece every now and again whenever they performed.<\/p>\n But, realistically, was there anyone who was going to get in the way of Wilson becoming one of the legends of rock and roll? Well, technically, that answer is yes since Love was the one always claiming ownership of different pieces of the songs that Wilson built from the ground up, but is anyone really claiming that the genius at play on \u2018Wouldn\u2019t It Be Nice\u2019 is Love\u2019s handiwork? Absolutely not. That was a classic even without lyrics on it, but the rest of Wilson\u2019s brothers were no slouches on their respective songs, either.<\/p>\n In fact, the real glue that held the band together for so long was Carl Wilson. He could write the odd tune here and there, but the true beauty of their sound was his voice. No one else could have turned \u2018God Only Knows<\/a>\u2019 into one of the greatest love songs of all time, and even though Brian could build a wall of sound on their comeback album in 2012, there was no way of replacing Carl\u2019s voice properly.<\/p>\n And let\u2019s not forget Dennis Wilson, either. His voice was definitely not as good as the rest of his brothers were doing, but the song \u2018Forever\u2019 is still one of the prettiest tunes that they have ever made. It takes a special kind of song to transcend time, but even if you were exposed to it for the first time on Full House, it\u2019s very hard for John Stamos to screw up a song that was already this gorgeous.<\/p>\n When Wilson was picking out some of the finest songs that the band ever made, though, he always came back to one of the songs that Al Jardine was singing, called \u2018California Saga\/California\u2019. This was already beginning the wilderness period, where Brian was starting to lose his way, but even when talking about the song years later, he ranked Jardine\u2019s work among the finest pieces that the band ever made.<\/p>\n