their live arrangement, as demonstrated on 1973's The Beach Boys in Concert. Recognition and legacy Writing in his 2012 book Fifty Sides of the Beach Boys, biographer Mark Dillon describes "Wouldn't It Be Nice" as perhaps the band's "most gloriously innocent song" and one of Wilson's "most adventurous" arrangements. Kent declared the harmonies to be "so complex they seemed to have more in common with a Catholic Mass than any cocktail lounge acappella doo-wop." The song was influential to the development of the power pop style. Author Michael Chabon named it as a "founding document" of the genre, citing its "sadness and yearning [...] smuggled into the melody, the harmonies, the lyrics, and even the title, which marks the broken place, the gap between the wish and the world." Writing for Cleveland, Troy L. Smith said that it was one of the Pet Sounds tracks that "established the group as the forefathers of progressive pop", characterizing it as "a Wall of Sound style single that contains some of the best harmonizing in the history of music." Furthermore, he said that the song "was the first taste of progressive pop that would be picked up by the Beatles and the likes of Supertramp, Queen and others moving forward." Among the artists that have afforded praise to "Wouldn't It Be Nice", Zooey Deschanel performed the song regularly at concerts with her band She & Him and said, "On the surface, it's a really well-crafted pop song, but then it has so many layers: production-wise, songwriting-wise, and lyrically. It's a perfect record." She added that her mind was "blown" by the vocals-only track included on The Pet Sounds Sessions box set. Singer Taylor Swift selected it as the song she would play for walking down the aisle in the event that she would ever get married. A 1977 live rendition by Alex Chilton – in which he jokingly introduces it as "a song by Charlie Manson" – was included on the posthumous release Ocean Club '77 (2015). , "Wouldn't It Be Nice" is the Beach Boys' most streamed song on Spotify and it is listed as the 965th highest rated song of all time on Acclaimed Music. In 2006, Pitchfork ranked it number seven on its list of "The 200 Best Songs of the 1960s". Contributor Joe Tangari wrote in its entry: "'Wouldn’t It Be Nice' has everything you love about the Beach