The Beach Boys - Sun, Surf, Schizophrenia, Stagnation, Stamos

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tehpope

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We don't have a beach boys thread. So let's have one. Pet Sounds is GOAT. Smile is pretty great too.

I mainly opened this thread because Disney+ is putting out a doc on the band.


The only member with a current interview is Mike Love. And fuck Mike Love. from the bottom of my heart. Forever, always, and for all times.

I know he didn't cause all the problems with the group. But he's still a gigantic douchenozzle.

For those not in the know.

Here he is doing a drunken acceptance speech at the first ever Rock and Roll hall of fame inductee ceremony. Making an ass of himself and insulting half the inductees that year.
 
I dug Beach Boys as a kid and could spot when it was that producer dude with other people
 
I used to be a Beatles purist and bought into the Beatles vs Beach Boys crap, but after listening to Pet Sounds a few times it finally clicked and now I love the Beach Boys. I read that The Beatles themselves, especially Paul McCartney, highly respected Brian and his work. Paul even gave the induction speech for Brian at the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and named God Only Knows as his favorite song. Both groups influenced each other so, if one group didn't exist, we might not have gotten Rubber Soul, Pet Sounds, and Sgt. Pepper.
 
Mike Love is hilarious in my book. His ego is so enormously disproportionate to his talent it just makes me smile. And you know what? He was in the Beach Boys, he can do whatever he wants.

Beach Boys are awesome and underrated, every album from Pet Sounds until Sunflower is great and even beyond that up to Holland are pretty good. The group was so much more than just Brian Wilson, only normie fucktards would disagree.
 
Pet Sounds is a marvel of engineering and production, and it has some good harmonies on it. However, whatever 'genius' Brian had was put to use in the service of a Beach Boys album. That means that no matter how state-of-the-art the production is, no matter how clever the songwriting and arrangements, there is an inescapable patina of corniness that just turns me off. It's an album I can admire, but its weepiness is a bit of a downer as well.

Brian Wilson was easily as mental as Phil Spector, although fortunately it did not manifest itself in violence. But it did prevent him from ever making an undeniably great album after Pet Sounds. Some of his 70s stuff is fascinating in its weirdness, but it isn't anything I'd want to be caught listening to and then have to explain. Spector probably has a better legacy of music, mile for mile.

I won't shit up the thread with complaints, but I am always compelled to note why I've always found it difficult to ever take the Beach Boys very seriously. I know a lot of people do, and I understand their reasons. But for psychotic geniuses from the 60's, I relate more to Syd Barrett, Roky Erikson, Sky Saxon, or Skip Spence.
 
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Pet Sounds is a marvel of engineering and production, and it has some good harmonies on it. However, whatever 'genius' Brian had was put to use in the service of a Beach Boys album. That means that no matter how state-of-the-art the production is, no matter how clever the songwriting and arrangements, there is an inescapable patina of corniness that just turns me off. It's an album I can admire, but its weepiness is a bit of a downer as well.

Brian Wilson was easily as mental as Phil Spector, although fortunately it did not manifest itself in violence. But it did prevent him from ever making an undeniably great album after Pet Sounds. Some of his 70s stuff is fascinating in its weirdness, but it isn't anything I'd want to be caught listening to and then have to explain. Spector probably has a better legacy of music, mile for mile.

I won't shit up the thread with complaints, but I am always compelled to note why I've always found it difficult to ever take the Beach Boys very seriously. I know a lot of people do, and I understand their reasons. But for psychotic geniuses from the 60's, I relate more to Syd Barrett, Roky Erikson, Sky Saxon, or Skip Spence.
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Have you ever listened to The Smile Sessions? Just the single disc version, no need to slug out the sessions in their entirety. I like it more than Pet Sounds, it's way more fun and idiosyncratic.

If it has been released in 1967 it wouldn't have been better than Sgt. Pepper's but it would have been one of the great 'cult' records.
 
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wouldnt it be nice if we were older, then we wouldnt have so long!

 
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