"Aren't You Glad" is a song written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love for American rock band the Beach Boys.
In its 1968 review of the LP, Rolling Stone called it a "Lovin' Spoonful type song with the Beach Boys touch".
[4] That year, Rolling Stone editor Gene Sculatti said it "achieves a Miracles style smoothness via a Bobby Goldsboro-type song".
[5] In 1979, Byron Preiss wrote that the song "epitomized the simple energy of the album".
[7] The Beach Boys Session musicians Per Craig Slowinski; whoever played the track's drums, guitar, organ, and Chamberlin could not be determined.