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Sure, we could say the many appearances on tv or photo shoots from 1967 and back, but really I'm looking for post Smile eras when they looked super hip. I know there's a lot of admiration for Brian and the guy's looks for the Pet Sounds era/Smile era, which is to be expected.
Heck, even when the guys didn't think they were hip in Hawaii (after Smile in 67) in stripped shirts, I still think they looked really hip, especially Brian on organ (lickin his lips during GOK  :lol).
I really enjoy the beach photos taken where Brian has a beard (around Wild Honey era), I wanna say Audree was there as well, I could be wrong.
Though when it came out (69), I think the 20/20 album cover pic is pretty steller....The Sunflower group photo looks like a bunch of hipsters sitting with their kids....at least half of em are (hipsters), haha.
The promo video for Don't Go Near the Water makes the bearded era look great.
Their performance of You Need a Mess of Help to Stand Alone that was floating around on Youtube is pretty fab too.

I think they all looked at their hippest in different eras.

Brian - SMiLE
Mike - Pet Sounds
Carl and Dennis - Friends
Al - SMiLE
Bruce - Friends

Brian & Dennis always seemed to look hip from 1966 onward. The rest of the band did not look hip to me until the Surf's Up era (circa 1971).

About the Friends' era you've mentioned, do you mean the album cover or a particular picture?

BTW, I can't get enough of Brian's looks during the Smile era, whether it's him with sunglasses laying around or at the piano or the shower-cap in the pool, he just had an ultimate hipster look and it's really annoying when those who think they really know hip 60s music and think John and Paul were hip, I think Brian was more possessed and encompassed by the music/psychedelic/hip scene.

Not a specific picture I guess. Just a general impression from videos and pics.

Don't blame for the the pics overload

Well, for me

Brian,

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lndk62ZFKV1qj1j5so1_500.jpg)

Any time from Today -  Friends, when he obviously took pride in his style

(http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljh3r8jpwC1qi0isro1_400.jpg)

(http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/2474036/Brian+Wilson+brian.jpg)

(http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/261481/Brian+Wilson.jpg)

Carl, and when he had the kick ass sideburns

(http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_levoyyqw1j1qc4hwjo1_500.jpg)

(http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/5287962/Carl+Wilson.jpg)

Mike

(http://www.peoples.ru/art/music/rock/mike_love/love_2.jpg)

Dennis was always stylish before POB

Al, just a normal dude

Bruce, see moustache thread

Brian's always looked hip no matter what he wears. I generally like the clothing era 1961-1967 the best for everybody in the group.

Also 1972 Brian seemed really hip too.. in a Kurt Cobain kind of way.  :lol

Hope there is a long lost Brian Wilson grunge album sitting next to adult/child in the archives... ;D

'72 through '75 for sure
at least those who were on stage

1964.

This was a pretty hip looking crew:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGYbvZ7OFX8

I think Bruce had a bit of a hip thang goin' on in the late 60's. It definitely sit well with the persona he put forward in interviews and such. The whole moustache thread can really go either way.

Carl also had something about him, but it's more his dashing suaveness than being "hip" per se (except maybe the 77-78 period).

Definitely 1964 was hip, except for Mike Love's shorts on the "all summer long" cover. My favorite year is 1965, when the clothing is transitioning from the early 1960s clothing that was an extension of 1950s wear, to clothing that is influenced by the 1960s that most people rememeber....

1971 gets my vote

http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,9221.0.html

Please tell me those are impersonators...  :-[

Never has a Beach Boy looked older than Carl in that clip.  :'(

Al's long hair down is giving me nightmares....

I think that's Bun E. Carlos standing in for Carl!

And how is it that Mike's the least offensive one in that clip?????

I guess that's what happens when you're always un-hip!  :p

ugh...Al looks terrible. At least there's no Velcro shoes involved (that we know of)

 :lol :lol :lol

Thank you, Thank you!

Jesus Christ @ Al Jardine's 'outfit'

Carl looked really cool in 71-73.
Mike looked cool for a couple of days in 72.
Dennis always looked cool up to the late 70's.
Brian's early 70's proto grunge look was cool.
Al and Bruce have never looked cool.

Too bad Bruce Johnston didn't regrow the moustache during the dreaded micro shorts era in the early eighties... :police:

I would say as a group they all looked cool from 1970-73.

Any time Mike put on the gold vest is when they looked the hippest. It upped the hip factor tenfold for everybody in the band.

That video definitely comes under the "what were they thinking ?" category !!!  :-D

videos like that reinforce my thought that neither carl, al, mike or bruce really had any style.  They would just fall in with the times. 

A serious answer would be - The In Concert photos. Dudes look ace. There are guys in Shoreditch who dress like that nowadays, so I guess it's still some kind of hip?

lol Al looks like one part Neil Young one part Crypt Keeper :hat

Mike had the coolest looks to me. Especially with his long beard and the white robe in 69.

Brian's best look was with the long hair and no beard in 72-73 Holland era.

Dennis, looks good no matter what, but I like his short bushy hair around 68.

Carl looks best with his beard and long hair, around 72-76.

Al has a cool look with the beard and pilgrim's hat in the early 70s.

Bruce, with his long hair and mollester's mustache.

Overall, the Holland era BBs were the hippest.

Nobody has mentioned Blondie or Ricky so I'll just add Blondie is one of the weirdest looking dudes I've ever seen and Ricky at the time probably gave Dennis some serious competition with the ladyeez.