"Funky Pretty" is a song by American rock band the Beach Boys from their January 1973 album Holland.
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.
[1]Asked about the song in a 2013 interview, manager Jack Rieley said: That was the test of Brian’s commitment to the idea that Bruce Johnston's not in the band, but Blondie and Ricky are.
[4]Guitarist Blondie Chaplin stated, On "Funky Pretty", Brian came down while we were trying to work out the vocals and he was doing a mix that I thought was even better than what eventually came out on the record.