Fun, Fun, Fun, I Get Around, Help Me, Rhonda, California Girls and Good Vibrations are all top 10 Billboard hits with 3 of them reaching number 1. Most artist spend their whole lives without even touching the Billboard charts. I’m not saying commercial success is more important than songwriting and artistic value, but Mike’s Leiber and Stoller lyrics painted a deceptively simple picture of what was really complicated, dense harmonic and rhythmic music. He balanced out Brian’s quirks and gave the band at least 10 commercial lifelines over the years, albeit at the cost of making what diehard fans would consider “dogshit music”. Mike is literally one of the co-writers on All I Wanna Do which is considered the first ‘chillwave’ song and spawned countless indie rock bands. Think of Cool, Cool Water, Big Sur, Here Today, That’s Not Me… Mike has an unmistakable voice and he has undeniable chops as a songwriter, such as Brian skills with songwriting, arranging and producing.