The Beach Boys are an American rock band.
`` Good Vibrations '' is a song composed and produced by Brian Wilson with words by Mike Love for the American rock band the Beach Boys . The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne , California , in 1961 . Distinguished by their vocal harmonies and early surf songs , they are one of the most influential acts of the rock era . In 1966 , the Pet Sounds album and `` Good Vibrations '' single vaulted the group to the top level of rock innovators and established the band as symbols of the nascent counterculture era .