“Take Good Care of Your Feet”<\/p>\n
I’m almost unsure how to even approach this song’s lyrics.\u00a0 They are simply so absurd that I can’t reasonably be upset with them or even disappointed.\u00a0 Where “Long Promised Road” seems to shoot for the stars and stumbled somewhere along the way, this song is aiming somewhere else entirely.<\/p>\n
“Long Promised Road” almost feels like you’ve been offered authentic Italian food and then being given an amateur cook’s first attempt at spaghetti; meanwhile, this song is more like being offered a vanilla Big Mac by a guy holding a Burger King bag, and before you can confusedly ask, “What?” he drops the bag, and a cat runs out of it and into an alleyway.\u00a0 The thing is, a cat is a good pet, but it surely isn’t a vanilla Big Mac, whatever that would be.\u00a0 This is a good song, but you’d be lying if you said you were expecting it based on the last two songs from the album.<\/p>\n
To fans that followed The Beach Boys through the post-Pet Sounds<\/em> sixties and into the early 70’s, this song may not be so much of a surprise.\u00a0 It is actually rather reminiscent of some of the songs from Smiley Smile, particularly songs like “She’s Goin Bald” and “Vegetables.” (both excellent songs by the way.)\u00a0 This song would fit in perfectly with those on that album, but it’s not on that album; it’s here on Surf’s Up\u00a0<\/em>which has so far failed to truly establish an identity for itself.\u00a0 It’s almost astonishing to think that just a few years ago, this very same band had put out\u00a0Pet Sounds,\u00a0<\/em>one of the greatest and earliest concept albums in all of pop music.<\/p>\n “Take Good Care of Your Feet” doesn’t fit in among the other songs of the album, but that’s hardly its fault.\u00a0 Let’s take a look at the song itself to see if it warrants almost giving its listeners whiplash for a second time now after dropping their needle on this confused record.\u00a0 Thankfully, I can say that it does manage to stand on its own two feet (pun intended) despite the album’s identity crisis and it’s own inherent oddness.\u00a0 Listening to it, I can’t help but think about Brian Wilson’s personal obsession with health during the time he worked on Smile and wonder if it influenced this song in anyway.<\/p>\n Perhaps, this is a cautionary tale from Wilson’s perspective who was not left in good shape himself by the end of the decade.\u00a0 Maybe it really is just a weird song about feet that Wilson, Al Jardine, and Gary Winfrey thought would be funny.\u00a0 Either way, I have a soft spot for it.\u00a0 The lyrics feel very earnest.\u00a0 I believe that this narrator really does rub his feet with avocado cream.\u00a0 I believe that he wants me to as well.\u00a0 For that, I admittedly do like this very weird song.<\/p>\n 7.5\/10<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Take Good Care of Your Feet” I’m almost unsure how to even approach this song’s lyrics.\u00a0 They are simply so absurd that I can’t reasonably be upset with them or even disappointed.\u00a0 Where “Long Promised Road” seems to shoot for the stars and stumbled somewhere along the way, this song is aiming somewhere else entirely. … Continue reading “Surf’s Up by The Beach Boys Lyrical Review Part II”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4934,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932\/revisions\/4934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}