Really? If you put on 'Good Vibrations' and actually *listen to it*, you'll hear -- won't you? -- that in places it approaches textural atrocity.

Musical stickler, ha. You are probably right. Meanwhile you should have been there in '66, '67, '68 etc. The youth, the energy, the slogans. It worked for me .. pleb that I am : ).

It would be myopic to analyse only one aspect imo.

Like I said, lyric-wise it was questionable when I looked at it recently (eyes-roll).