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The first album the band were about the carefree life in California and teenage interests such as surfing, girls and fast cars (Hot Rods). [34] For the latter, the Ford include model B, the album Little Deuce was Coupe's name, and the Ford Thunderbird , the protagonist in the Fun Fun Fun by the successor album Shut Down Vol runs 2nd Brian Wilson expressed.
In My Room was the first example of a more personal content. Later articles dealt with the other issues and were more personal and complex. To Pet Sounds, which also contains some autobiographical lyrics about love, loss of innocence, childhood and adulthood, was Brian Wilson Tony Asher supported as a copywriter. On the initially unfinished Smile album removed Wilson from topics such as love and romance. His thoughts on the American Dream and transcendence were compacted by Van Dyke Parks to surreal and associative-visual texts, in particular, those in Surf's Up! and there are Heroes & Villains. These issues also changed Wilson's music and their arrangements.
In the second half of the 1960s, the topic changed again strong. wrote In addition to her experience with the Transcendental Meditation especially Brian Wilson on everyday experiences that took place mostly in his home - this could be a jar of honey or the anticipation of impending fatherhood. Similarly, Wilson wrote about his personal problems, which manifested itself in the songs Time to Get Alone, Busy Doin 'Nothing and Til I Die.
In the early 1970s, the subjects were again more seriously. Besides the reference to problems of capitalism, war, and environmental degradation (example: Do not Go Near the Water, 1971), her love for California has been an issue. After the success of their hit compilations Mike Love sat on the nostalgia wave and tried again increased, subjects such as surfing, sun, girls and the former better times to come to the center.