Surf’s Up

Artist: The Beach Boys

Album: The Smile Sessions (2011)

Why Its Great: Its lush, epic, and lyrically intricate – the kind of song that gets better with repeated listens.

Best Listened To: Staring up at the painted ceiling of a baroque opera house after everyone else has gone home.

Key Lyric: Hung velvet curtains overtaken me/Dim chandeliers awaken me/To a song dissolved in the dawn