The Beach Boys

[Velvet Elvis 223]

For the people who looove The beach Boys. I've been listening to the beach boys since I was like, 10. And I love them. Favourite song:   

Cotton Fields

[TIARNZUS 4,595]

[FROGGO 2,805]

[MafiosiPrincessa 293]

I think they're pretty cool!
Obviously not everybody's taste, but I personally think they're great. 
I remember when school would release for summer break and my family would get into our RV and travel to the most beautiful lakes across the USA. The Beach Boys were frequently played on the radio stations everywhere we went. They definitely set the mood for those happy times.   
 

[Trash Magic 28,341]

I like their music! Not going to front as a fan though since I only have the very best in iTunes. Which I am pressed about God Only Knows not being on 

[evilentity 13,343]

 

HOW WAS THIS THREAD NOT STARTED BY MONICKER? 

[Hello Heaven 1,578]

I'm pretty much the same as Trash Magic, I only have their 'Very Best Of...' album but I really like their music, it's good family music that I have been listening to since I was about 6 years old and have some happy memories driving around on holidays, to our old caravan etc. which the beach boys always remind me of, an essensial album for the car in the summertime.

[@paradise 70]

Beach Boys are great to kick people out of a party when is time to end the night. Put their music on and people slowly will just go home. Works. You guys should try it.

[Sitar 22,208]

@@Monicker

[Velvet Elvis 223]

Beach Boys are great to kick people out of a party when is time to end the night. Put their music on and people slowly will just go home. Works. You guys should try it.

Did that happen at your party sweetie? I dont beleive it was their fault.   

[Monicker 3,035]

Oh you guys. 

 

I never started this thread because...i don’t know, you know when you have too much to say that you’re just better off not saying anything at all? What would i even say here, Hey, i love The Beach Boys, they’re great? How much would i say? How could i ever keep it at a reasonable length? Would anyone even care? Where would i even start? (Don’t sweat it, Erik, you’ve written this out in your head a hundred times before). What would i say about the music that, even after the wealth of different stuff that i’ve been exposed to throughout my years, has changed my life more than any other, the recordings that have taught me more about music than anything else, the subject that i’ve, seriously, probably studied more than any other? 

 

 

 

How do i convey the delicious paradox that is The Beach Boys? Not only a group with so many disparate sides, but also one of the best kept secrets in music despite simultaneously being some of the most well known music in the world. Those who know, know--usually musicians, composers, record producers, students of music. The joke is on everyone else, those who think they know and who dismissively toss them aside, unaware of what’s beneath the surface--what i and (don’t think i’m alone and crazy on this one) many, many others, believe to be the greatest, weirdest, most fascinating, confounding, innovative, idiosyncratic, diverse, contradictory, mindblowing musical group. The most incredible group of singers that have ever gathered around a microphone. The band that initially served as the vehicle for the greatest composer, arranger, and producer pop music has known--until mental illness and drugs took hold of him at the point when he was both at his artistic peak and sitting on top of the music world, forcing the group to come into their own as an actual band, who carried on, creating amazing, timeless music outside of and unconcerned with whatever was happening around them. The group who were responsible for so many firsts in the history of modern popular music for which they never get the recognition. Always a few steps ahead of their contemporaries, always inimitable, always in their own category, always following their own path. Truly befitting of the expression to march to the beat of a different drum. Not always brilliant, but irresistible in their imperfection, in their missteps, in their follies, in their head-scratching decisions, a charming and totally perplexing lack of quality control (Lana Del Rey anyone?)

 

And what could i say about that magical, one of a kind vocal blend, those dizzyingly complex and absolutely sublime harmonies that somehow always manage to sound simpler than they really are, the unmistakable chord progressions, those unconventional and adventurous arrangements, productions that changed the way records are made, true experimentation and an audaciousness that followed the sort of muse that doesn’t say no to anything? All those songs that manage to simultaneously posses a spirituality, joy, sadness, youthful innocence, and sophistication, songs and recordings that nobody else in the universe could have constructed. I reckon that the world of music would be a very different and much emptier place had Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys not passed through.

 

I don’t say all these things because i love the Beach Boys. I love the Beach Boys because of all these things.   

 

So how about i just present you with a nice Monicker playlist of 26 Beach Boys songs you must hear before you die  (assuming you’ve heard all the hits and singles, which you have, right, because i know you don’t have your head totally up your ass? RIGHT?) 

 

But first, forget whatever you may know--the striped shirts, the misleading “clean cut” family-friendly image, forget the uncoolness (don’t be fooled, The Beach Boys were, in their own way, cooler and more “out there” than anyone), forget the sensationalist stories, forget the abusive manager/father of the three Wilsons, forget the word genius, forget the mental illness, the drugs, the eccentricities, forget the mythology of the most famous unfinished/unreleased album of all time, forget the tragedies, forget the obesity and staying in bed, forget the bathrobe, forget the misinformation, the hero and villain mischaracterizations, forget the family feuding and lawsuits, forget the years of brainwash, overmedication, and malpractice, forget Phil Spector, the Charles Manson stories, and the stupid Beatles comparisons/validation.

 

All that matters is what’s there on tape. And it’s all brilliant: the early surf and car stuff that your parents listen to on the radio, the avant garde stuff the music world marvels at, the melancholic stuff that has provided refuge to so many loners over the last 50 years, the amazing, just-as-great-as-anything-from-their-heydey obscurities that history forgot once the band was swept under the rug after 1967. How many artists do you know who had a stretch of at least nine albums in a row where they take on a different style on each one?

 

But then most of the world doesn’t give a shit, and five decades on The Beach Boys continue to be reduced to just one fraction of their output, telling only a very small part of the picture. Far too many people expect little to nothing from them. The story of The Beach Boys, like most good ones, is one of tragedy and triumph. 

 

Anyway...here are 26 songs you may have never heard but i wholeheartedly think you should. 

 

 

In The Back of My Mind (1965)

The Little Girl I Once Knew (1965)

Please Let Me Wonder (1965)

And Your Dream Comes True (1965)

You Still Believe In Me (1966)

I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times (1966)

Our Prayer (1966)

Surf’s Up (1966)

Cabin Essence (1966)

(1966)

(1967)

Little Pad (1967)

Wind Chimes (1967) 

Let The Wind Blow (1967) 

Little Bird (1968)

Time To Get Alone (1969) 

All I Wanna Do (1970)

Fallin’ In Love (1970)

Cool, Cool Water (1970)

Big Sur (unreleased version) (1970)

4th of July (1971) 

A Day In The Life of a Tree (1971)

‘Til I Die (1971)

All This Is That (1972) 

Steamboat (1973)

I’ll Bet He’s Nice (1977) 

 

 

Damn, this is a great compilation if i do say so myself. 

 

 

 

 

[Sitar 22,208]

Oh you guys. 

 

I never started this thread because...i don’t know, you know when you have too much to say that you’re just better off not saying anything at all? What would i even say here, Hey, i love The Beach Boys, they’re great? How much would i say? How could i ever keep it at a reasonable length? Would anyone even care? Where would i even start? (Don’t sweat it, Erik, you’ve written this out in your head a hundred times before). What would i say about the music that, even after the wealth of different stuff that i’ve been exposed to throughout my years, has changed my life more than any other, the recordings that have taught me more about music than anything else, the subject that i’ve, seriously, probably studied more than any other? 

 

 

 

How do i convey the delicious paradox that is The Beach Boys? Not only a group with so many disparate sides, but also one of the best kept secrets in music despite simultaneously being some of the most well known music in the world. Those who know, know--usually musicians, composers, record producers, students of music. The joke is on everyone else, those who think they know and who dismissively toss them aside, unaware of what’s beneath the surface--what i and (don’t think i’m alone and crazy on this one) many, many others, believe to be the greatest, weirdest, most fascinating, confounding, innovative, idiosyncratic, diverse, contradictory, mindblowing musical group. The most incredible group of singers that have ever gathered around a microphone. The band that initially served as the vehicle for the greatest composer, arranger, and producer pop music has known--until mental illness and drugs took hold of him at the point when he was both at his artistic peak and sitting on top of the music world, forcing the group to come into their own as an actual band, who carried on, creating amazing, timeless music outside of and unconcerned with whatever was happening around them. The group who were responsible for so many firsts in the history of modern popular music for which they never get the recognition. Always a few steps ahead of their contemporaries, always inimitable, always in their own category, always following their own path. Truly befitting of the expression to march to the beat of a different drum. Not always brilliant, but irresistible in their imperfection, in their missteps, in their follies, in their head-scratching decisions, a charming and totally perplexing lack of quality control (Lana Del Rey anyone?)

 

And what could i say about that magical, one of a kind vocal blend, those dizzyingly complex and absolutely sublime harmonies that somehow always manage to sound simpler than they really are, the unmistakable chord progressions, those unconventional and adventurous arrangements, productions that changed the way records are made, true experimentation and an audaciousness that followed the sort of muse that doesn’t say no to anything? All those songs that manage to simultaneously posses a spirituality, joy, sadness, youthful innocence, and sophistication, songs and recordings that nobody else in the universe could have constructed. I reckon that the world of music would be a very different and much emptier place had Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys not passed through.

 

I don’t say all these things because i love the Beach Boys. I love the Beach Boys because of all these things.   

 

So how about i just present you with a nice Monicker playlist of 26 Beach Boys songs you must hear before you die  (assuming you’ve heard all the hits and singles, which you have, right, because i know you don’t have your head totally up your ass? RIGHT?) 

 

But first, forget whatever you may know--the striped shirts, the misleading “clean cut” family-friendly image, forget the uncoolness (don’t be fooled, The Beach Boys were, in their own way, cooler and more “out there” than anyone), forget the sensationalist stories, forget the abusive manager/father of the three Wilsons, forget the word genius, forget the mental illness, the drugs, the eccentricities, forget the mythology of the most famous unfinished/unreleased album of all time, forget the tragedies, forget the obesity and staying in bed, forget the bathrobe, forget the misinformation, the hero and villain mischaracterizations, forget the family feuding and lawsuits, forget the years of brainwash, overmedication, and malpractice, forget Phil Spector, the Charles Manson stories, and the stupid Beatles comparisons/validation.

 

All that matters is what’s there on tape. And it’s all brilliant: the early surf and car stuff that your parents listen to on the radio, the avant garde stuff the music world marvels at, the melancholic stuff that has provided refuge to so many loners over the last 50 years, the amazing, just-as-great-as-anything-from-their-heydey obscurities that history forgot once the band was swept under the rug after 1967. How many artists do you know who had a stretch of at least nine albums in a row where they take on a different style on each one?

 

But then most of the world doesn’t give a shit, and five decades on The Beach Boys continue to be reduced to just one fraction of their output, telling only a very small part of the picture. Far too many people expect little to nothing from them. The story of The Beach Boys, like most good ones, is one of tragedy and triumph. 

 

Anyway...here are 26 songs you may have never heard but i wholeheartedly think you should. 

 

 

In The Back of My Mind (1965)

The Little Girl I Once Knew (1965)

Please Let Me Wonder (1965)

And Your Dream Comes True (1965)

You Still Believe In Me (1966)

I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times (1966)

Our Prayer (1966)

Surf’s Up (1966)

Cabin Essence (1966)

(1966)

(1967)

Little Pad (1967)

Wind Chimes (1967) 

Let The Wind Blow (1967) 

Little Bird (1968)

Time To Get Alone (1969) 

All I Wanna Do (1970)

Fallin’ In Love (1970)

Cool, Cool Water (1970)

Big Sur (unreleased version) (1970)

4th of July (1971) 

A Day In The Life of a Tree (1971)

‘Til I Die (1971)

All This Is That (1972) 

Steamboat (1973)

I’ll Bet He’s Nice (1977) 

 

 

Damn, this is a great compilation if i do say so myself. 

 

 

 

 

 

I expected nothing less.

 

Let me get on your compilation right now.

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