Surf's Up

It was the second song Wilson and Parks wrote together, composed as two movements for the Beach Boys' unfinished Smile. The title is a play on words about the group shedding its image, and nothing in the song relates to surfing. The coda draws on another Smile piece, "Child Is Father of the Man". Wilson sang it at his piano for the CBS documentary Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution, which aired on 25 April 1967, where a voice-over called it "poetic, beautiful in its obscurity".

Brian and Carl Wilson completed it years later as the closing track of the 1971 album Surf's Up. Issued as a single in November 1971 with "Don't Go Near the Water" on the other side, it failed to chart. For the 2004 album Wilson, Parks, Sahanaja and Paul Mertens wrote a string arrangement for the second part, an idea Wilson said was meant for the piece all along.

Pitchfork ranked Wilson's solo piano performance at number 134 on its 2006 list of the 200 best songs of the 1960s, and the 1971 version at number 122 on the 1970s list in 2016. Mojo staff voted it the greatest Beach Boys song in 2011.