As the Beach Boys entered the new decade with a more apprehensive worldview, their 1971 Surf's Up album sought to address a number of issues they shared with themes in Schulz’s work at the time - ecological concerns, self care, mental well being, love and happiness. While the trippy phasing and synthesizer elements in Feel Flows, are tailor-made for a stoner's headphones, and undoubtedly delighted more than a few hippies who stumbled upon the Surf's Up LP, the song actually portrays a man disillusioned with the power structures around him and has a spiritual awakening. A modern and progressive airy jazz rock piece that was way ahead of the majority of their contemporaries at the time.

By the late 60s PEANUTS’ appeal was universal: It was beloved by young and old, by the intelligentsia as well as the masses; While Charles Schulz had existentialist and humanist leanings worthy of Jean-Paul Sartre, his concerns were also that of the youth and especially the recently discovered ‘teenager’. Another California based artist whose concerns very much mirrored those of Schulz was Beach Boy Brian Wilson. In 1966, while the rest of the band was on tour, he wrote and completed what is critically considered to be one of the finest records ever made, Pet Sounds. The complex musical arrangements and lyrics earned Wilson the ‘genius’ tag, deconstructing what is was to be a young person in such turbulent times.

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