The Beach Boys Band • Page 5

Listening to the 85 S/T record and…it kinda fuckin rocks

 

an absolute shitload of stuff just leaked from someone's private collection. stuff from every era

 

Boots A Million - Google Drive

 

Thanks for the link

 

Will you guys let me know what’s worth listening to? This is a lot of stuff hahaha

 

new boxset just dropped today too, Love You and Adult/Child era

 

pretty insane hearing the Adult/Child songs on streaming finally. surreal

 

Been listening to an excellent "Sad Beach Boys" playlist lately, lol. The trajectory and lore of this band is so fascinating to read about.

 

so wild that the same band gave us Surf's Up and Ding Dang

 

Lol Hey Little Tomboy getting the boot

 

Listen to Jokermen!

 

for anyone curious about the recent leaks the songs marked Life Suite are essential listening. eight linked songs Brian was working on for the final Beach Boys album for years, only 3 of them ended up on Radio

Stained Glass Window is sublime, maybe one of his last masterpieces

 

Beach Boys Member Bruce Johnston Leaves Touring Band After 61 Years

end of an era

 

seriously considering going to see Al Jardine play later this year, tickets are kinda pricey but I doubt I'm getting another chance to catch a Beach Boy live especially after I leave the city

 

Jokermen have finally reached Smile (in Feb i’m behind) and it is definitely giving me a better appreciation for the record. As a whole I still put it about middle of the pack, but Cabinessence, Surf’s Up, Heroes and Villains, and Good Vibrations are all top Brian songs

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG3Hbn1MFO
ok yeah the live concert is better

 

the big 60! gonna have to throw it on today, of all of the greatest albums of all time this is def one of the ones that is most important to me personally as well. just breathtaking even now

 

Holland rocks

 

Hell yeah it does.

What a career Ricky Fataar has had. Beach Boy for one of their best albums. Member of The Rutles. Drumming with Bonnie Raitt for decades. That's a great journeyman career.

 

and he's on the best pop song ever, Message to My Girl by Split Enz!

yeah Holland rips, Carl's finest moment in the Boys

 

Woah woah woah Carl is responsible for the God Only Knows vocals and a lot of Surf’s Up!

 

obviously his vocals on GOK are perfect for that song, if a bit limited compared to what he could do a few years on, and his songs on Surf's Up are impressive for pretty much his first songwriting efforts (I especially love Feel Flows). but he's basically the bandleader on Holland, trying to hold together the Brian-Dennis and Mike-Al sides of the band and integrate Ricky and Blondie at the same time, and he somehow did it and turned out an incredibly cohesive album! from a creative standpoint, easily his high point imo

...also The Trader is his best vocals on record, sorry not sorry. I Can Hear Music a close second

 

I love his performance on the title track of Wild Honey.

 

another great pick, that and Darlin' he goes off on

 

That's part of the appeal of Holland and most of that era, really. They have the ambition and vocal sophistication of The Beach Boys and some muscle as a band from time on the road, but they're not at all polished as writers so you get really interesting tension out of that.