"Funky Pretty" | ||||
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Single by The Beach Boys | ||||
from the album Holland | ||||
A-side | "California Saga: California" | |||
Released | April 16, 1973 | |||
Recorded | 1972 | |||
Genre | R&B | |||
Length | 4:09 | |||
Label | Brother | |||
Songwriter(s) | ||||
Producer(s) | The Beach Boys | |||
The Beach Boys singles chronology | ||||
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"Funky Pretty" is a song written by Brian Wilson, Mike Love, and Jack Rieley for American rock band the Beach Boys. It was released on their 1973 album Holland, then placed as the B-side to their single "California Saga: California". Based on astrological themes, Carl Wilson explained that the song was quickly recorded in a "spontaneous flurry". Brian was an active participant in its production, a rare occurrence at the time.
Rolling Stone wrote of the song in its review of Holland:
"Funky Pretty" is more on the guttural side of R&B. A cosmic love song to an astrological lovely, it mounts its grit in a swirl of harmonic complications, again underlining Blondie Chaplin's more straightforward vocal dexterity with a defiantly baroque choral signature: Vivaldi meets the Regents on a magic synthesizer. It makes for a beautiful track, built on economical and even monotonous musical premises that delight in their unreasonably complex development.