Here’s a super early music video for one of The Beach Boys’ more peculiar songs – a song with a serious and partially bleak message – that can be found on the band’s dark, 1971 album Surf’s Up.

Though they had lost most of their cache after the SMiLE fall-out in 1967, it’s still really cool that a popular band was injecting social and environmental topic into their music way before it was a hot button issue. Even more peculiar than the song itself is that the video features an additional member — Blondie Chaplin, a 17 year old South African singer/guitarist who was filling in with the band.

According to a YouTube commenter, the video was shot around a small promenade buildings adjacent to the seafront in Brighton, on May 25, 1972. But what’s one of the best comments on the YouTube page? “Don’t go near the water, when Mike Love is in it.”

(via Heavy Roc Music)