@bslon: Isn’t the sound quality of the AP Surfer Girl astounding?!
Surfer Girl was the only BB album until the Friends album that Capitol Records issued in true stereo (all the others were issued in mono and duophonic (a "reprocessed" stereo simulation, and horrid sounding), and has the best sq of all the BB albums, by far. Too bad Pet Sounds wasn’t recorded as well. ;-(
Though not nearly as well recorded, Smiley Smile is an amazing piece of work. And AP’s reissue is far better than the original (I have many pressings of the original, the AP in both mono and stereo).