Old music: The Beach Boys – She Knows Me Too Well

Brian Wilson's music portrays a sweetheart, Mike Love's lyrics depict the boyfriend from hell. Another undersung gem from the Beach Boys She Knows Me Too Well is one of those troubling songs that the 60s throw out without anyone, at the time, seeming to notice its undertow (the prime example, where it's not even an undertow, being the Crystals' He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)). It's a portrayal of the kind of man – capable of sweetness and vileness in equal measure – who prompts the post...

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