I like this post a whole lot. First one in a while that's made me re-think things about The Beach Boys' history. Ambitious too.
Can't fully get behind the theory. It's just as plausible that Good Vibrations could have made him more confident in the whole modular method. Maybe it's a bit of both. I don't know.

Every single recording of theirs besides Odessey and Oracle that I've heard has been massively distorted. I'm talking almost unlistenable. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtWjYTWGu6I  - The vocals on the chorus are the biggest culprit on this song.

Am I just crazy? Is there a remastered version of their collection that doesn't have this problem?

That does sound rough!
Begin Here: The Complete Decca Mono Recordings 1964-67 has fantastic sound. An essential purchase.

Thanks Mike's Beard! Unfortunately, the cheapest copy I can find in Canada is $35. Too much for a student. I'll keep my eyes open for it to go down in price.

Every single recording of theirs besides Odessey and Oracle that I've heard has been massively distorted. I'm talking almost unlistenable. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtWjYTWGu6I  - The vocals on the chorus are the biggest culprit on this song.

Am I just crazy? Is there a remastered version of their collection that doesn't have this problem?

I wonder how different The Beach Boys legacy if they'd been allowed to release just 1 album a year which is still far more productive than any group you see today. They'd receive great deal more of critical acclaim in my opinion more people would have up alongside The Beatles and The Rolling Stones on the strength of these individual albums. Assuming a double album of 20 tracks this is what they would like.

Beach Boys '63

1. Surfin' Safari
2. Surfin'
3. 409
4.  Surfin' USA
5.  Farmer's Daughter
6. Lonely Sea
7. Shut Down
8. Lana
9. Back Home
10. Surf City
11. Surfer Girl
12. Catch A Wave
13. The Surfer Moon
14. Little Deuce Coupe
15. In My Room
16. Hawaii
17. Your Summer Dream
18. Be True To Your School
19. Thank Him
20. Spirit of America

Beach Boys '64

1. Fun, Fun, Fun
2. Don't Worry Baby
3. In the Parkin' Lot
4. The Warmth of the Sun
5. Why Do Fools Fall In Love
6.  Keep an Eye on Summer
7. Dead Man's Curve
8. I Do
9. I Get Around
10. All Summer Long
11. Hushabye
12. Little Honda
13. We'll Run Away
14. Wendy
15. Do You Remember
16. Girls on the Beach
17. Drive In
18. Don't Back Down
19. Merry Christmas Baby (Different lyrics)
20. Christmas Day (Different lyrics)

Beach Boys '65

1. Do You Wanna Dance
2. Good to My Baby
3. Don't Hurt My Little Sister
4. When I Grow Up To Be a Man
5. Help Me Rhonda (Single Version)
6. Dance, Dance, Dance
7. Then I Kissed Her
9. Girl Don't Tell Me
10. California Girls
11.Let Him Run Wild
12. You're So Good to Me
13. The Little Girl I Once Knew
14. Please Let Me Wonder
15. I'm So Young
16. Kiss Me Baby
17. She Knows Me Too Well
18. Sandy She Needs Me
19. Guess I'm Dumb
20. In the Back of My Mind

Beach Boys '66

1. Wouldn't It Be Nice
2. You Still Believe In Me
3. That's Not Me
4. Don't Talk Put Your Head on My Shoulder
5. I'm Waiting For the Day
6. Sloop John B
7. Good Vibrations
8. God Only Knows
9. I Know There's an Answer
10. Here Today
11. Caroline No
12. Our Prayer
13. Heroes and Villains
14. Roll Plymouth Rock
15. Cabinessence
16. The Elements
17. Wonderful
18. Look (Song For Children)
19. Child Is the Father of The Man
20. Surf's Up

I really like a lot of the inclusions you made in Beach Boys 64 (especially the Christmas songs and I Do). The Beach Boys 66 would be kind of all over the place with the Pet Sounds stuff leading to the Smile stuff.

It seems to me that the only album that could possibly go with Love You is another copy of Love You. If the rules are to be stretched to allow unreleased albums, Adult Child could work with it too.

That's terrible! I sure do hope you'll be able to recoup what you lost somehow.

Never mind. The quote is "space-age". That makes sense.

Nice song. Seems the video really took off on that "space bossa nova" description that someone (I can't remember who) made. Do you guys hear anything space-related in the song itself? i don't. It makes for an interesting element in the video though.

The ending of I'm Feeling Sad is brilliant. It took a lot of guts to end it where he did and it works really well.

I sincerely hope this doesn't get deleted.

Note that he answered even more food questions than he did here.

I've read quite a few AMAs in the few years I've used reddit. Never seen so many food related questions posed, nevermind answered.

As a huge fan of Nate Reuss, I must say it feels almost unreal to hear them singing together. Considering Nate's been talking about how much Brian has influenced him for the last decade or so, I'm sure the feeling is the same for him.

The songwriting on this one feels really natural and as if it was written with some abandon, which is really great. A lot of Brian's songs in his solo career have sounded like they were written very carefully, which is also a great way to write but it is nice to hear something a little looser too. It's hard for me to dislike a song when the songwriting's good.

Nice find, Rich!  Runaway Dancer is certainly an intriguing track.

I really love Brian's vocal on "The Beginning Of The End". So emotive and vulnerable. With great vocal control to boot!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjIeDHmLzsw

This stuff sounds really cool! I hear more Brian Wilson on this than Joe Thomas.

Wow this is really great news. Hopefully the Facebook fans ask him some interesting questions about No Pier Pressure.

Okay, for those who played along...

1) This was the one unaltered one...completely dry except for the reverb added.
2) This, however, was the one that had the autotune! Entire segment, too.
3). No processing done here, aside from being re-EQ'd and having a de-esser used.
4) The exact same as #3, only without the equalization....and one note was tuned using Kerovee. Did that to throw people off.
5) The one that sounds the most processed, yet no pitch correction used. As mentioned above,  I used an emulator to simulate Robert Fripp's 'Frippertronix'.

I knew it was 2! That was a really cool game, Billy! I personally think that autotune is fine as long as it's not obvious (unless of course the song calls for obvious autotune as an effect). If there is autotune on the No Pier Pressure previews (which I bet there is), its not too obvious so I'm ok with it.

Yeah I can't preview it 

Must be only in the US

I'm in Canada. But yeah I guess it's not available to preview in your country. I feel for you.

https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Brian_Wilson_No_Pier_Pressure_Deluxe?id=Bc5sies6kucu622hhojlsbkzajy

Some tentative thoughts:
1 This sounds like his best solo album to date (besides BWPS).
2 Somewhere Quiet is the remake of Summer Means New Love plus lyrics.
3 Runaway Dancer sounds really strange. Like electronic polka.

Personally, I think such squabbling adds nothing to the music and what actually matters.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/nov/21/mike-love-what-to-expect-from-his-autobiography

Friends for sure. Besides one of the b-sides (Diamond Head), Friends is an incredibly rewarding album. I always felt that Brian could have been a fantastic jazz composer and Friends is proof of this. Although I'd definitely miss T'ill I Die and ADITLOAT and All I Wanna Do.

Sorry if its frowned upon around here to revive dead posts, but this album is now on Google Play for $10.99. I'm in Canada so it might vary depending on where you are.

I love the Today! material on here. She Knows Me Too Well A Capella is godlike.

Nothing that the rest of them did came close to what Brian did in any regard. Doesn't mean the stuff the rest did was bad. Just means that what Brian did was out of this world.

That's a bizare choice. Cool Cool Water feels very eerie to me.