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This is classic Beach Boys -- very typical of their early sound. (Girls, cars, Chuck Berry guitar and great vocal harmony). But the song that was the real game-changer, where Brian Wilson took things in a different direction and which also had the greatest influence on Paul McCartney is the song, "God Only Knows".
"God Only Knows" needs to be done. It's so beautiful.
Girls, surfing, and muscle cars were the foundation of most of the Beach Boys’ songs. They were the epitome of Southern California beach scene youth of the 1960’s.
Early and middle songs ,
No, that's what most people get wrong. They just served as the "jumping off point." Beginning with PET SOUNDS, through SMILE, WILD HONEY, FRIENDS, SUNFLOWER, SURF'S UP, and into the future, they had nothing to do with the SC beach scene of the 1960s.
Brian Wilson's genius as a songwriter, producer, and with arrangements helped to redefine the genre of rock & roll. His use of harmonies, along with the Beatles and the Mamas & the Papas, took the genre to the next level. Add in the jazz and classical influenced movements/transitions, and you had a creative revolution... Absolutely brilliant, world-changing stuff!
This song to me comes from an era with more of a care free life style for younger people. Then came the conscripts to the Viet Nam war. The youth of the day began to find a voice. The darker era was reflected by darker music. The heavier sounds and lyrics telling a tale of less fun and more anger and sadness. Followed closely by the drug scene and psychedelic music, then came hard rock, prog rock and metal. And so on and so on...............
There has though, always been many artists who are pop singers and pop groups, who still sing the cheerful pop songs and ballads.
Well said, music evolved in the mid to late 60s often influenced by and influencing the social and political landscape. Such an interesting time to be alive.
When Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame, David Gilmour presented Wilson with the award. David Gilmour is a big fan of Brian Wilson. Gilmour’s band (before Pink Floyd) used to play Beach Boys songs.
Fredy Mercury too...
For Americans "I Get Around" was a rallying cry. It had touches of all their influences (Four Freshmen, Chuck Berry, Dick Dale) and soared to the top of the charts when the British Invasion was decimating most American acts (and they had it coming). Brian Wilson is the rock and roll George Gershwin. The Beatles would not have tried to experiment as much if it wasn't from their labelmates, The Beach Boys. Pet Sounds changed rock music forever.
“Surf’s Up” by Brian Wilson/Van Dyke Parks (which has nothing to do with surfing)- or any of the songs written for the magnificent Pet Sounds follow up, the abandoned “SMiLE” album (“Heroes and Villains,”
“Wonderful,” “Cabinessence,”)
Brian’s most sophisticated work
and some of my favorite music
This could serve as a major “aha” moment for you Syed. I think many of us have mentioned how quickly popular music evolved in a few short years in the mid to late 60’s after the British Invasion. This is the perfect case in point. We went from this, into folk rock with Dylan, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, The Doors and into Zeppelin within about four years. Just think about that a second. It’s pretty breathtaking actually. This song …..to A Day In The Life in 3 years
Except this song is incredibly complex. Just listen to the backing instrumental track to realize how ahead Brian already was of so many things that wouldn't happen for many more years.
@@davidschecter5247 not saying the instrumentation wasn’t complex. Heck, they had The Wrecking Crew for heaven sake. But the subject matter is simple. It’s innocent. It’s pop for the radio and for teens out having fun on a summers day. Fast forward three years and what do you have? VERY VERY different.
The Beach Boys were already way ahead of the Beatles in 1962, two years before the British Invasion. Compare "Surfin' Safari" and "409" with the woeful "Love Me Do."
@@garydeforest7911 well, being a teen at that time, I didn’t fine the early Beatles “woeful”. They were pretty damn cool. I did love the Beachboys music for sure, but never thought them ahead of The Beatles. I thought them equal actually….. until 1966 or so With Rubber Soul.
@@helenespaulding7562 I didn't find them woeful at the time either. "From Me To You" was my favourite song when it came out here in June 1963 -- but my excuse is I was only 7 and I've learnt a lot since then. In molding their sound (and each song as recorded), producer George Martin played a huge part. I think you'll find meeting Bob Dylan in the summer of '65 had a lot to do with "Rubber Soul" and the Beatles' momentary switch to folk styling. Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream and Led Zeppelin were great original bands that owed almost nothing to "the British Invasion". I think you'll find on researching the whole subject that existing black superstars and women superstars too were forced into a backseat in the States on the arrival of the Beatles there in early '64, and until the discovery of emerging artists like Aretha Franklin and Otis Redding in 1967.
Pop rock for teens, early sixties. Foundational for later groups like the Beatles. Before The Beach Boys there was the Everly brothers with their in credible harmonies and rhythm guitar. “ Cathy’s Clown” is a good example of the Everly brothers, the Beatles were first promoted as “Englands Everly Brothers”.
It took me years to like the Beach Boys. Now I think they were amazing
It took me about five years to develop a taste for Jazz. Now I love it. When I first heard it though I didn't care for it. In a few years you may find your tastes evolve. One of the things I really like about this one is the energy. I like when you mention hip hop songs to listen to. The helps me expand my music appreciation. Thanks for this reaction. Surfs Up!!!!
If you’re interested in doing an album, I recommend saving Pet Sounds for later and doing “The Beach Boys Today!” It was released in 1965, a year before Pet Sounds, and has some of the stereotypical fun and upbeat BB songs, but also more serious and complex songs that were a precursor to Pet Sounds. It’s widely regarded as the #2 or #3 Beach Boys album.
The Beachboys, at least in the beginning, were all about upbeat, happy surf pop. With a great beat. It was the type of music that you turned up LOUD in your car and cruised around with your pals to. It was the Southern California sound and it made everyone want want to go to LA. It was a whole vibe. It was a much more “innocent” time and their songs…in the beginning, were about cars, surfing and girls. I don’t know as you can relate to it Syed. It was a very different time. When Southern California was still seen as this golden place by the rest of the country….and by certain Brits as well.
The genius is in the close harmonies and just the way the songs hook you. Catchy. The musicians in their songs were all top-tier studio musicians….members of The Wrecking Crew (google them Syed)
This music brings back many happy memories for those of us old enough to have been teens then, but the sound has not transferred into a different time as well as others…like The Beatles.
But for a time, Syed, in the early 60’s, The Beachboys, along with the Motown sound out of Detroit, OWNED pop AM radio. And it was GREAT driving’ music! ✌️
Great comment!
They have so many good songs!!
Love these guys....I was fortunate enough to have been born in 1959 and grew up with these and the Beatles always pllaying on the radio...Even Lennon and McCartney were in awe of Brian Wilson....both equals.
There is what I call 'flowing' music or more stacatto...I love music that flows and all credit to you for listening to another Beach Boys song.
Hot Girls, Hot cars, and of course, Surfing. They are singing about what every teenager in California was doing in their teens. Can't think of anything more fun to do with my time. These guys were, and still are America's adopted sons.
Amen. A time that is slowly fading away.
@@MichaelRCarlson oh…it’s gone. Dead and buried. IMO. I miss it……but then, I miss my youth as well 😉
Brian Wilson's genius is really on show in footage of him working when he was still very young in the studio during the Pet Sounds sessions with the session musicians known as The Wrecking Crew. You can see how his arrangements conjur up sounds that nobody else had heard before by experimenting with instrument combinations, like accordions using the triple bellowing to sound like mandolins in Wouldn't It Be Nice.
The Beach Boys are a band I listened to as a kid and teen but they never stuck with me beyond that. Fun band, I don't deny their talent and influence.
In terms of music production, Brian Wilson did incredible things with the equipment from the time, that's why Pet Sounds and Good Vibrations are regarded as his masterpiece, maybe check out Sloop John B. Remember this is 40+ years ago.
"Drums, bass, and attitude." Yeah, growing up, I was a Zep, Deep Purple, and Black Sabbath fan, but no matter what you like, you really can't ignore the genius of the Beach Boys. Like you, because of my preference, it took me some time to get into them, but once I did, man I was hooked. Keep listening. Good chance you'll eventually take the Beach Boys deep dive.
The Beach Boys were always feel-good party music. And they were popularizing surf culture, which was huge, particularly in Southern California.
I saw them in concert three times back in the 70's. They sounded as great or better live. Awesome shows!
Syed, as someone has already said, there was a cosmic shift in music through the 60s that influenced everything afterwards. There was a comment that I read after seeing the movie Yesterday. A father was talking to his son about music, and the son was basically saying what was so great about the Beatles, there are tons of groups today who kinda sound like them but better. But the father said, yes, but they only sound like that BECAUSE of the Beatles!
And as someone else has stated, it's all about context,.....the era that songs were produced. You're listening to all of these songs from the past with the ears that has experienced so much music. But put yourself in the shoes of a teen in the 60s, and you're hearing this stuff for the first time. You can't of course, but that was our experience!
One last thing,.......probably my favourite BB song, is In My Room. It's wise beyond its years, and in 2 minutes speaks to all youth about teen angst, and the shelter of our rooms!
We Oklahoma surfers love the Beach Boys!!
This is my favorite Beach Boys song. It sums up the early 60s in America. Is you've ever watched the movie American Graffiti you'll see the kids driving their hot rods up and down the strip. They're basically showing off themselves and their cars. That's what the song is about.
You should check out the track The Weight by The Band. (The Band was originally the backing band for Bob Dylan, but were talented artists in their own right who created some great and classic music.)
U opinion is so refreshing. Honest, to the point. I wasn't a huge fan back in the day but always senced something different in there music. They were faded away by groups like ZEP,DP,ACDC, even the eagles, & Fleetwood Mac. Good to hear them brought back up though a big part of America music history.
The Beachboys are America before America lost its innocence.
This is the song I instantly think of whenever somebody mentions the Beach Boys.
Edit: kinda funny that you're saying in one breath that the lyrics have that hip-hop swagger and in another that it lacks "attitude" ; sonicly, I get what you mean: it sounds soft/harmless in a 50's, PG sort of way, but the lyrics are at least PG-13 if you actually stop pay attention to them: "Look at me and my sick-ass car, I make cash money and get all the p****y, and the gangstas all know not to f*** with me."
😁😁😁👍
Translation into hip-hop lingo? 😏.
Syed - love your analyst instincts - this is right before Rock gets going- so this is just nostalgia - a moment in the Sun
Oh Man. Definitely do a Pet Sounds reaction!
Often considered the number 1 or number 2 best album of all time. So it's something you need to listen to as a whole at least once in your life. It would make for an interesting (but long) reaction.
But you're absolutely right about Bob Dylan, and his impact on lyrics.
For this "I Get Around" era of Beach Boys, they had skill at creating music. But the influence of Bob Dylan on having lyrical depth combined with the influence of Beatles "Rubber Soul", which pushed album-making into much more than a collection of songs. These influenced Brian Wilson to create Pet Sounds, musically and lyrically deep. More introspective than attitude though. It sort of transcends rock & pop into this psychedelic contemporary orchestral.
Brian Wilson pretty much single handedly established the early "west coast California " sound and changed rock and roll for everyone.. he literally wrote all these songs by himself.. every instrument, as well as the lyrics, and how each member works into the harmony.. and he was a perfectionist! It had to be the way he envisioned it.. the fact that he actually pre-envisioned these songs before ever laying down the track components is crazy to me.. although I also feel as you do, its really not my style of music... however, I can respect every aspect of this man's genius
Back in the ‘60 we drove up and down the strip we listened to fucking Patty Page then came The Beach Boys and things changed!
Beach Boys was my favorite back in the day, very California 60's vibe
Pet sounds was a great album. In particular I love the first & last tracks; the change in mood from the carefree, happy, optimistic Wouldn't It Be Nice to the elegiac, disillusioned Caroline No is so sad yet so true. Growing up is not always easy!
God Only Knows is one of the greatest songs ever written. That is the cut to try
Basically, if you think Paul McCartney was wrong when he said that God only knows maybe the greatest song of all time, the music community has lost all respect for you. Syed Rewinds: God Only knows, Help me Rhonda, don’t worry baby (super incredible harmonies), do it again, sloop John B, Barbara Ann, I can hear music, dance dance dance, all summer long, California girls: ALL SONGS you’ve gotta check out. Heck, the best Christmas song ever written is called Little St. Nick
Their first #1 hit. The Rolling Stones loved this one...
I love these guys!!
I would highly recommend listening to Pet Sounds, it is such a genuinely good album with so many layers to it. Every time I listen to it, I find something new about! It is one of my favorite albums of all time. It has a production level that is simply genius, and lyrics that defiantly fit that tonal shift from beach rock to a more cynical yet hypnotic sound that was prevalent in the late 1960s.
The Beach Boys had a rap hit duet with the hip hop act the Fat Boys called Wipeout. Very old-school rap.
This is actually pretty good when you realize it's almost 60 years old, and is just a short pop song. It very hard to find anything this early that matches it at the time.
I like this song and 409! Songs about cruising around in Cars and picking up chicks! Later my favorites are In My Room and Good Vibrations!
Good Review! 👏🏻🎸😊
You got it right. Brian Wilson started Prog Rock with I Get Around.
Try “God Only Knows” by The Beach Boys. Or anything off Pet Sounds. In 1966 it was unlike anything any bands were doing. Experimental.
Listening to the guitar here, i'm thinking it's very bright and out front, but it's also twangy. This music is pre-Jimi-Hendrix. Music went through such a sea-change when Hendrix came onto the scene. Not only the tonal production and approach to lead guitar playing, but to lyricism as well: from the shallow, materialistic (fast cars letterman's jackets, and drag-strip proving grounds) to the mystical and psychedelic. The spiritual vistas.
This really sets the stage for how revolutionary the coming decades would be. This, and the antiwar activism of the folk scene. A real convergence was about to take place.
Great comment
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If you journeyed through the late 60's and 70's, especially as a young, developing soul, you were gazing out upon a world that could be, such as had never been dreamed of before.
What a time to be in. And the music and the stories in the songs reflected it, dreamed upon it.
@@Blue-qr7qe Like the Jackson Browne song goes: “In ‘65 I was 17”. So I loved to drive around with my friends with this song playing….loudly… on the Seattle AM pop station. When Zep hit, in January of 1969, I just turned 21. Are we close in age?
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In '65 i was 15. In '69 i was 19 and "i made the road my own" as JB sites in that song. I practically lived on the Pacific Coast Highway, hitchhiking up and down between San Diego and Northern California. On the road to find out.
@@Blue-qr7qe I’m several years younger than you, but also enjoyed many hitchhikes on the Cal coast. So many good memories ! Just have to mention a free YT audiobook you might like - “California Coast Trails” by Joseph Smeaton Chase, in which he described his horseback journey of the entire Cal coast in 1911. Just finished it last week and thoroughly loved it ! His descriptions are vivid of each town and city, and especially with an eye for flora and fauna he encountered.
This is the genius and innovation of Brian Wilson. No one was switching and using key changes like this in early 1964, no one. Not even the Beatles. It also used a fuzz guitar before the Stones or Beatles did. This song was also very, very early in the rock or pop rock revolution so obviously it isn't going to be as hard as peak Stones or Led Zeppelin. In fact, this song was released a month before the Stones even released their first single Tell Me which was a tame pop ballad comparatively.
It has A good beat and it's easy to dance to. Those were the days.i was about 12.
AKA...The California Sound. Check out "Darlin' and "Wild Honey". Two of my fav Beach Boy songs.
Here's one for you! I don't think you covered it yet. In the 70's there was a mystery group named "Klattu" from Canada. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3:47_EST . The band listed no members on the album and the music sounded very much like Beatles compositions. The rumors spread across America that the Beatles had in some way reunited. We soon found out they were an actual studio based band and did play live some... They did a version of "Calling Occupants" which is a stand out song.
If you have the time or inclination listen to their “Pet Sounds “ album. It was a time when Wilson was competing with Lennon/McCartney. This was a response to Rubber Soul and the Beatles responded with Revolver and Sgt Pepper.
This is why I love your reactions . You stay open minded . Can't wait till you take on Classical Music😉
Brian Wilson was only 20 and his brother was 13 on lead guitar. Brian Wilson loved Phil specter so much that he essentially adopted parts of his music layering style. Brian Wilson then moved far, far away from beach music or surf music. Music professionals everywhere consider Brian to be a prodigy and ultimately a genius who will still be compared to Mozart and Bach, hundreds of years from now. You don’t have to like the music to acknowledge how complex and painfully detailed Brian’s music became
Growing up in Southern California in the early 60s as a surfer and skateboarder, my friends and I weren’t really into The Beach Boys. All these years later I’ve come to appreciate their happy vibe sound.
Check out “In My Room”.
I love The Beach Boys! But SOOO appreciate your honesty. Stay authentic. Tool it ain’t!
Mick Jagger was in his car when he first heard this song and he drove straight to a record store and bought it
You really need to listen to Surf's Up (the song and album) which is a more serious departure from their 'pop' hits - which were never meant to be more than light hearted fun ditties (in my opinion) that were innovative harmonically for the time and carried a little bit of influence from 'doo wop' music of the 1950's. Brian said The Four Freshmen harmonies had a big influence on him. That group would be considered quite 'square' even in the early 1960's. Brian, who is the genius and driving force behind the Beach Boys also did most of the producing. That was unique in and of it self for a rock 'n roll group of that time.
Surf's Up and Feel Flows are poetic and harmonic masterpieces. A personal favorite is the little known 'Little Bird' A B side from the Friends Album -an understated, minimalist song with a mood or 'spiritual' (Brian's word) dimension with a philosophical outlook on life.
Brian Wilson also admired (and reinterpreted for Disney with a grudging critical acclaim from Rolling Stone magazine no less) the songbook of George Gershwin (written in the 1920s) which are/were categorized as American Standards in the 20th Century but from a completely different place than anything else you would hear from 1960's rock/pop innovators. Brian was just 'a different cat'.
I'll let someone else discuss the long journey of the Smile album, stopped unfinished in 1967 and finally completed and released in 2004.
Brian's descent into mental illness waylayed one of the finest musical minds from the magnificent talents of the 1960s. That is also quite the tale - as is his eventual return to the land of the living (my phrasing - not his). His is a singular story with more than its fair share of trouble and sadness and eventual triumph - which makes his creative musical output even more inspiring.
I view Brian as a kind soul who just wanted to make people happy with his music, and create and produce the very best music he could, and ended up going through hell to get there.
The Beatles took this to a new level, BUT as hard as it is erase and imagine you don’t know any music post Beach Boys…all those who heard this sound 60 years ago was first time experience for the ears and soul. It’s like living in 1920 and seeing an iPhone. In the future an iPhone will be familiar and outdated , cool for its time but nothing to it compared to future technology
I think it was Paul McCartney who said God Only Knows, by The Beach Boys, was one of the greatest songs ever written.
You might like some of the later Beach Boys stuff ehen Brian wasn’t around as much and thry brought a couple other guys in. I’m thinking of “I Need a Mess of Help to Stand Alone”. Aldo, it seems Brian’s production is really the thing you can appreciate, so I would recommend something like “Wouldn’t it Be Nice” or “Heroes and Villains”. And check out one of the instrumental tracks like “Pet Sounds” or “Fire”.
I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1960’s - 1990, and we called it surf music or surf rock. Wouldn’t It Be Nice and God Only Knows are really good. I always liked Sloop John B. as well. Thanks for going outside your comfort zone. I enjoy listening to your takes on all this great music I had the pleasure to grow up listening to.
This music reflects on the era it was popular!! Surfin music of California, the whole idea of southern California, the popular beach party movies with Annette Funicello, the songs about cars, girls and fun!! A where washed world of innocent fun!!
OMG ... love Good Vibrations and the Beach Boys sound. I think you'll find it grows on you. Imagine driving around in your car with the top down on a nice day., music playing. 😀😀 You're probably not feeling the teenager 'Gidget' vibes. 😂😂
It’s just upbeat & happy. I understand how it’s not for everyone but I’ve always enjoyed it ❤
Check out God Only Knows from the Pet Sounds album. For a long time, at least, it was Paul McCartney's favorite I-wish-I-had-written-that-one songs. It still doesn't have the drums, bass, and middle finger that draw your attention, but the lyrics are unusual enough as a long song to keep you from saying it is "nice".
Also surf music was at first considered a different genre and youth movement from rock. But then surf rock was invented and merged the 2
Nah. Check out Dick Dale
The Beatles and the Beach Boys weren't that different early on in their careers. If you "analyze" the themes of the songs they played and sang, they usually revolved around
love, love and more love in all its forms and permutations. Of course, the Beach Boys were Americans and had an immediate knowledge of their culture, whereas the Beatles mostly
knew about America from songs and films that had made their way across the Atlantic, but both groups essentially focused on performing American music with American themes.
The main difference between the two bands was that the Beach Boys wrote more of their own material from the start, and having more singers in the band, they were also able
to sing much more complex vocal arrangements than the Beatles could.
"I Get Around" is a perfect example of this.
Now, you may not find that their music speaks to you, but it's hard to deny the sophistication of the vocal arrangement, which was and remains rare to find in such a relative piece
of bubblegum pop. And personally, I find the most interesting aspect of this song to be the switch to minor during the chorus. You wouldn't necessarily expect to hear a "sad sound"
in the middle of such a relentlessly positive and self-boasting track.......yet there it is: the bittersweet poignancy..
It could have something to do with the fact that the song was written by someone who didn't live the life the protagonist of the song claims to live?
Only Dennis Wilson (the drummer) was an actual surfer dude, so Brian Wilson essentially wrote his surf and car songs vicariously through others and had to fantasize about what
life was like for the kids who actually did those things...
Mike Love straight up rapping. He’s also uncle of NBA big man, Kevin Love.
Not sure how many folks would call this "prog" rock -- it's better known as surf-rock or surf-pop and the Boys always had the layered Du-Wop style vocals derived from the 1950's. The stuff on the later Pet Sounds record can better be called Progressive but their early stuff is just rock 'n' roll.
Listen again. I hear bass, by the great Carol Kaye*. I hear drums, buy the legendary Hal Leonard*. I hear attitude; Brian is telling us he’s a player: in addition to “makin' real good bread,” “None of the guys go steady 'cause it wouldn't be right to leave their best girl home now on a Saturday night” (because they’re on the hunt for new conquests).
*The Beach Boys were a legitimate band, but the studio recordings were confections
created by Brian Wilson with the help of the legendary Wrecking Crew playing all the instruments.
Exactly, the difference is everything
In the early sixties, the car culture was HUGE. The Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, The Ripcords were part of the High School life.
Then came the Beatles!
My favorite BB song is "This Whole World". Short tune but packs a heck of a punch.
I like the Beach Boys more than you do, but ironically you've made me appreciate this song more than I did before. Always liked it, but I didn't realise just how proggy they were even on their earliest stuff until you pointed it out.
Definitely would love to see a reaction the God Only Knows by The Beach Boys!
This music makes me want to travel back in time, let me sit in a typical American 60s burger joint where youngsters hang out , get a milk shake and abundant tasteful food from then with this music in the BG on a sunny day and admire how everything /everyone was clean well-dressed and friendly . ( I was born later of you can’t tell)😂
Attitude? I get around! Gotta find a new place where the kids are hip? I make good bread? Take my car 'cuz it's never been beat? The tough guys know us and they leave us alone? Syed, this song is all about attitude and swagger, the first wave of Baby Boomers hitting their teens and hitting their stride.
Check out Surfer Girl, and The Warmth of The Sun, by The Beach Boys.
One of the mash-ups here is Surf guitar with Doo-Wop
To get a sense of how brilliant Brian Wilson is/was, listen to the backing track. No other song ever sounded like this...
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Listen to more modern Beach Boys for a completely different take on the group: "Add Some Music to Your Day," "Surf's Up," "From There to Back Again" and many others are all brilliant compositionally, structurally, melodically, vocally, ,and instrumentally.
“The bad guys know us and they leave us alone. “. They started out taking Chuck Berry songs and writing new lyrics and harmony vocals. Chuck Berry lyrics are really great. For pure originlSurf rock try “Miserlou” by Dick Dale 1962 ? It’s an instrumental. Dick Dale was actually a surfer.
It's funny to me how today's reactors always want to put every song into some kind of genre....back then we didn't label songs into genres. We were teenagers and it was all just good ol' ROCK and ROLL!! PERIOD. Don't over analyze it. Just fun music that we enjoyed, liked to sing along with and dance to, just FEEL GOOD music. I attended their 50th anniversary concert and it was one of the BEST concerts I had ever been too. It was packed and all ages were there and EVERYONE was enjoying it immensely and Brian Wilson was there, and all the former members of the Beach Boys (except for Carl and Dennis Wilson who are deceased, and Glen Campbell who played briefly with the Beach Boys) They sounded JUST like they did back then. The harmonies were still AMAZING. I LOVE GROUPS and songs with GREAT HARMONIES and songs that make me feel good. That is why I love the Beatles, the Beach Boys and all the music from the late '50s and throughout the '60s, into the '70s and '80s. After that, music in the '90s into the present, doesn't appeal to me much except for a few songs here and there.
i'ma recommend that you listen to peter gabriel's "biko." i think you'll feel it.
First Beach Boys #1 hit.
This is a beautiful song, I adore Beach Boys, but I also certainly love your honest 21st century guy opinion. Just keep on bringing more Beach Boys songs, I want to hear your opinion, I'll watch the videos, :) .
Progressive Sunshine Pop ☀️
Good reaction! Yes, this is pure pop, and early 60's pop at that - so it's short and to the point (remember, radio in those days wouldn't play much of anything past 2 1/2 minutes, so if you had something to say, you've got to say it quickly! The Beatles early stuff was no different)
This is completely representative of the surfer rock of the day - the Beach Boys, hailing from California, capitalized on that scene 100%. BUT, and this is a big but, Brian Wilson's songwriting was genius - he could fit such a story into that short timeframe!
To further prove this, check out "Don't Worry Baby" (my personal #1 BB track), released around the same time as I Get Around, and tell me Brian didn't capture teenage angst perfectly (and, uniquely, it's the guy that's the worried one, not the girl!)
The harmonies are where the Beach Boys really shine! And much like The Beatles, drew inspiration from The Everly Brothers on those harmonies. It's a hallmark of their sound.
Other BB must listens: California Girls, God Only Knows, The Warmth Of The Sun, In My Room, Wouldn't It Be Nice.
You should listen to surfs up, absolutely their best song
Don't worry baby--one of their better songs
California band during the surfin' and muscle car years in the 60
Surf music,Southern California in the early 60's
As a kid in the 60's, it took me a while to get into the Beach Boys, mainly because they looked so goofy compared to the Beatles.... but the song Sloop John B. made me a fan, and as I started checking out their earlier stuff I found quite a few songs that are absolute gems... such as "Girl Don't Tell Me", and "When I Grow Up To Be A Man"... and their basic sound is iconic, and they have lots and lots of classic songs... they were a huge influence on the punk group the Ramones.... check out Rockaway Beach by the Ramones to see that
If you were a young boy at the time, you would imagine that this was going to be your life when you were a teenager - if you played your cards right and the stars were in your favour ... ! Yeah, ya had to be there .......
Instrumental sirf music cams before vocal surf music like the Beach Boys. Check out Dick Dale. "Misirilu" is his best known song.
My favourite Beach Boys song, apart from Good vibrations, is God only knows
Bob Dylan - It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" best Lyrics or "Bob Dylan - Pretty Saro" best dylan voice performance ever"
I get what you are saying when this type of sound does not resonate with you. Keep in mind that if music styles did not transition through the very early "pop" and onto "heavier" music, mostly due to technology improvements, you may not have had the music we had in the late 60's & 70's. Those of us who grew up in the 50's had our parents music of Crosby, Sinatra, Dean Martin etc. So to young ears first hearing this type of music was a revelation and the girls especially loved it. Good fun for the beach days.
The song "Good Vibrations" was a big departure for the Beach Boys. Most of their songs were about the Southern California surf culture. In other parts of the country at the time Southern California was often look on as a sort of youth paradise. Almost mystical. You had sunny days, girls running around in bikinis, cool cars, etc. It was part of the reasons I moved there right out of college. I like "Good Vibrations" a lot but I don't care that much for Pet Sounds. Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys was trying to outdo The Beatles on Pet Sounds and he just didn't make it.
Brian Wilson is a genius great vocal harmony, but rest of the band with exception of Carl a very average, I mean they used others to play on the records. There early music is a lot of fun and there is a place for "nice' music and fun. Interesting fact,Glen Cambell plays the guitar on this one. This music is melody, harmony lead, the drum, bass grove would come later in the 60s, what I guess you're more familiar with.