The Beach Boys.

[NMH]

Precursor to Bee Gee's maybe.

You could align The Hollies with both BGs and BBs too, but if the credit for influence lay with BBs then it would be handed back to Jan and Dean and The Everly Brothers. Influentual conduits to many artists, yes.

The BGs 1st and Idea are two outstanding sixties albums, and around the same time was The Hollies with both Evolution and Butterfly albums. These are all great records for fans of acid-ic psych from the catalytic period for this music. Terrific times that heard The Zombies 'Odessey and Oracle' and The End 'Introspection', Small Faces 'Ogdens Nut Gone Flake', Traffic 'Mr Fantasy', and the wonderful 'Idle Race'. More poppy were LPs 'The Move' and 'Matchstickable Messages From The Status Quo', and and it's impossible not to mention The Beatles 'Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'.

It's tempting to place the stalwarts of chart-topping history to the fore, and overlook some wonderful 'lower-division' bands just because they didn't get commercial success. For anyone looking for excellent (but totally obscure) records that echo The Beach Boys around that time, there's Billy Nicholls 'Would You Believe' (which features The Small Faces helping out, too) and from the US, The Family Tree 'Miss Butters'.

Just a few names dropped, but a veritable GOLDMINE of brilliant imaginative music - regardless of 'commercial status'. It's a reminder that, as always, the charts are no indication for what is good in music at any time.

 

[Icy Gull]

It's tempting to place the stalwarts of chart-topping history to the fore, and overlook some wonderful 'lower-division' bands just because they didn't get commercial success. For anyone looking for excellent (but totally obscure) records that echo The Beach Boys around that time, .

The Zombies - Odyssey and Oracle. If you like Pet Sounds and haven't heard this gem, it's worth finding and having a listen to.

One song from the album is being used as the music to the latest Magner's advert. Not bad for a song written nearly 30 years ago and still sounding fresh.

 

[NMH]

I saw the Zombies a couple of years ago, a revival of the original band (minus a couple of members, 1 of which was on his deathbed, now R.I.P.). They were excellent, and Blunstone did a few of his 'solo' tunes as well, with a mini-orchestra (quartet actually).

 

[tedebear]

The Beach Boys harmonies are incredible, tight as a ducks arse and fantastically amazing, Pet Sounds is in the pile of vinyl that stays by our turntable, the pile that regularly gets played, as opposed to the ones that go back in the collection with a "ho hum" after we've listened....

 

[CHAPPERS]

Brian Wilson killed it at glasto 2005. Proper sunny on the sunday afternoon. It was an asbolute f***ing DELIGHT.

Gonna watch it now!

 

[Jam The Man]

They created without doubt some of the finest pieces of music ever... I could easily knock off 40-50 brilliant tracks they performed...

But i'll keep it to a top ten!

1.Tears In The Morning
2.Warmth Of The Sun
3.Disney Girls '57
4.I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
5.California Girls
6.Good Vibrations
7.I Get Around
8.Sloop John B.
9.Here Today
10.Kokomo

 

[Bluejuice]

One of the most important bands of the 20th century

Very very well written and produced tracks

Like the Beatles and the Kinks before them it is almost impossible to find a duff track among their repertoire

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Brian Wilson is in the all time top 5 musical geniuses.

Mad as a hatter though.......

http://www.brianwilson.com/

 

[Biscuit]

They are brilliant! Seen Wilson twice now, superb.

 

[The Large One]

They created without doubt some of the finest pieces of music ever... I could easily knock off 40-50 brilliant tracks they performed...

But i'll keep it to a top ten!

1.Tears In The Morning
2.Warmth Of The Sun
3.Disney Girls '57
4.I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
5.California Girls
6.Good Vibrations
7.I Get Around
8.Sloop John B.
9.Here Today
10.Kokomo

1. Little Girl I Once Knew
2. Let Him Run Wild
3. Caroline, No
4. Surf's Up
5. In My Room (there's a shop opposite me called that - with the words to the song in the window)
6. Sloop John B (for a good piss-up sing-song)
7. Do It Again
8. Here Today
9. Cottonfields (great driving song)
10= Let's Go Away For A While (yeah, I know it's an instrumental played by session musicians, but it's on Pet Sounds, and it's still awesome)
10= Pet Sounds (yeah, I know it's an instrumental played by session musicians, but it's on Pet Sounds, and it's still awesome)

 

[The Large One]

You could align The Hollies with both BGs and BBs too, but if the credit for influence lay with BBs then it would be handed back to Jan and Dean and The Everly Brothers. Influentual conduits to many artists, yes.

You're forgetting Wilson's own heroes and influences, including The Four Freshmen, and other close harmony groups of the 40s and 50s.

 

[kevinbha]

'God only knows' I want played at my funeral.......not just yet I hope

 

[Tom Bombadil]

Re: Re: The Beach Boys.

What kind of question is that? The American 60's-80's band the Beach Boys? Er...oh yes what about that 60's British 4 piece the Beatles? Who cares what NSC think of the Beach Boys, with the greatest respect who here is worthy of judging Brian Wilson? Beach Boys, bloody genius more like. This thread should be closed out of sheer audacity and lack of respect for even asking the question.

(I'm worthy to judge ... and I find them guilty of being overrated. Pet sounds is a pile of overproduced MOR tosh.

 

[The Large One]

Re: Re: Re: The Beach Boys.

(I'm worthy to judge ... and I find them guilty of being overrated. Pet sounds is a pile of overproduced MOR tosh.

MOR? Hardly.

You're placing them in the same bracket as Perry Como, Shirley Bassey, Tony Bennett, The Mike Sammes Singers et al. None of whom you could really call at the vanguard of muscial advancement and studio production.

 

[Cian]

subjected to them on a regular basis by a number of my friends that like them. I don't. Can get fairly grating at times

 

[Exmouth Seagull]

1. God Only Knows
2. Break Away
3. Little Girl I Once Knew
4. Surfs Up
5. Til I Die
6. Cabinessence
7. Good Vibrations
8. Wouldnt It Be Nice
9. Heroes and Villians (7 minute bootleg Smile version)
10. Caroline No

 

[tedebear]

Re: Re: Re: The Beach Boys.

(I'm worthy to judge ... and I find them guilty of being overrated. Pet sounds is a pile of overproduced MOR tosh.

I find it sad that you can't recognize the fact that they weren't overproduced, love em or hate then - the Beach Boys had some of the most polished musical repertoire the world has ever known, before it was recorded in a studio.

Whether you like the music or not, if you can't recongize that their harmonies were stunning, then I'm not sure you do know overproduced from not.

 

[Blackadder]

Beach Boys, bloody genius more like. This thread should be closed out of sheer audacity and lack of respect for even asking the question.

crap

I can see you Two getting on!

(I like 'em BTW)