Beach Boys vs. Beatles Album Covers

[SenorPotatoHead]

Pet Sounds is strange, iconic now yes, and a nice pic of the band - particularly for goat lovers, but jeez.
They make this great album, but then feel shy about being "pretentious" and so throw the jokey cover on there?
Self effacement can be great, but Pet Sounds deserves a cover worthy of its contents.   I imagine a cover with studio shots of the band working on the album, that would have been cool and not pretentious at all.
Anyone here ever design an alternate cover for Pet Sounds - one that is totally different from the actual cover?
I like there first several albums covers, Smiley, W. Honey, even Friends (though that could have been better). 20/20 is alright, Surf's Up is cool....

[Komera]

I get the design; neon, Olympic rings, etc.. I don't get why they used the photos that were used. Again, except for Dennis' photo, the rest are terrible. I can't even imagine who approved using those photos, let alone Dean using them in the final product.

From Chapter 5:

I had admired the air brush work of a guy that was designing posters for surf films.  He had even done one poster that had type done like neon.  His name was Jim Evans.  So I hired him to convert my design work to look like neon.  He did a awesome job.  I needed to do new photos of The Beach Boys.  Brian had not taken photos with the rest of the guys in quite a while.  To keep the visual continuity, each guy was photographed individually, with the same background and the same lighting.  To keep the sharpness and the detail we shot these in the 4x5 format.  Each Beach Boy had at least 20 or more shots to choose from.  It was always important to me that the recording artist got to pick out his or her favorite photo.  It was their body of work that this picture was going on, I wanted them to be really happy with the photo.  We shot these photos at my beach volleyball partner's studio.  Dana was a big time fan.

They chose their own photos from among 20.  Makes you wonder what the other 19 looked like, eh?

[Magic Transistor Radio]

I'm surprised by the negative comments on the Love You cover! It's one of my favorites! Surf's Up, Wild Honey and Love You are my three favorites. Holland is interesting. Surfin Safari is cool. Speaking of SS, when I'm not looking at it, my brain remembers them facing the other way for some reason. Sunflower is ok, but there is a photo of them sitting in a field in a straight row I like better. One that I don't like at all, but love the music is 'So Tough'.

[drbeachboy]

I get the design; neon, Olympic rings, etc.. I don't get why they used the photos that were used. Again, except for Dennis' photo, the rest are terrible. I can't even imagine who approved using those photos, let alone Dean using them in the final product.

From Chapter 5:

I had admired the air brush work of a guy that was designing posters for surf films.  He had even done one poster that had type done like neon.  His name was Jim Evans.  So I hired him to convert my design work to look like neon.  He did a awesome job.  I needed to do new photos of The Beach Boys.  Brian had not taken photos with the rest of the guys in quite a while.  To keep the visual continuity, each guy was photographed individually, with the same background and the same lighting.  To keep the sharpness and the detail we shot these in the 4x5 format.  Each Beach Boy had at least 20 or more shots to choose from.  It was always important to me that the recording artist got to pick out his or her favorite photo.  It was their body of work that this picture was going on, I wanted them to be really happy with the photo.  We shot these photos at my beach volleyball partner's studio.  Dana was a big time fan.

They chose their own photos from among 20.  Makes you wonder what the other 19 looked like, eh?

Incredible! Thank you for posting all the info. Much appreciate it.