Mostly just listen to TSS now but every once in a while I listen to the SOT stuff.  Recently I listened to the Smile Millennium Edition.

At the Greek Theater with Jeff Beck.  5th row center.

I would love for him to do Lonely Sea, but I doubt he can anymore.

I don't mind slick, AC pop - I just don't think there's much substance on that album. Nothing to grab you.

To each his own, but I will say that "Love Surrounds Me" actually does grab me, even though (or maybe BECAUSE) the sound and structure is strikingly unusual for the boys.  There's just something about that tune that I really dig.

How's THAT for an unpopular opinion?

And thanks to all those who were so welcoming.  This seems like a great board.

i am just 16, it's a little bit hard to understand pet sounds...in my age

Wow, hard to understand?  Maybe ur living a charmed life then.  Pet Sounds & The Catcher in The Rye saved my life when I was 15.

L.A. Light is a very good album.  Remove "SB" and cut "HCTN" down to 4 minutes, and the album compares favorably with anything else I was digging of the period:  Ambrosia, Player, Christopher Cross, Boz Scaggs, etc.  Even as is, it is MILES better than the album before and the album after.  Very well done.