10 Songs That Are Huge Outliers On Rock Albums

10. Good Time - The Beach Boys Love You (The Beach Boys)

In 1977, rock 'n' roll legends The Beach Boys released an album called The Beach Boys Love You.

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In true Beach Boys fashion, this album is utterly mad. The juxtaposition of the band's croaky-sounding vocals with the record's themes of teenagehood created a weird contrast that polarised fans at the time and is still divisive to this very day.

The deteriorating quality of Brian Wilson et al's voices adds a certain psychedelic layer to the record, which is especially evident when you listen to the song Good Time.

Located towards the end of the first side, Good Time sounds completely different to the rest of the album because it was recorded seven years earlier.

It was released as a single by the band American Spring in 1972, but sold poorly. Not wanting to waste a song, Wilson stuck it on this album.

His vocals on Good Time are starkly different to those on something like Solar System. However, this album is so weird anyway, that this actually compliments the rest of the track list rather than detracts from it.

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