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I'm mainly starting this thread for BS9 since he mentions the Beach Boys in most other threads.

Feel free to praise them or rip them to shreds. Just keep them out of the other threads.

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pomba gira

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They're annoying. Only song I like is "California Dreaming" (that IS the Beach Boys, right?).

I have however heard a tape with one ov them being really bogue & disrespectful to their father during a recording session... it's hilarious but you can't help feeling kinda sorry for the guy.

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Head Wreck Newbie

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I got some buddies and we all drink bleach,

you know we practice what we preach,

were not a drunken bunch of frat-boys trashed on beer,

or a stoned bunch of hippies with no carees

wait

beach boys not bleach boys....

when i was younger yes.

but i havent rumaged in my vinyl collection in ages.

god thats a musical mix for you... alice cooper def leopard, extreme and slayer in the same box as beach boys....

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Look

Ok you people keep mentioning the beach and sun.

I'm going to lay it out for you like this:

From 1966 to 1969 the Beach Boys were arguably better than the Beatles and more influential. The albums "Pet Sounds" as I keep telling you people, influenced the Beatles, the Beatles who have always said that was one of their favorite albums. After that, Brian Wilson wrote "Smile" which is another album that many people consider "genius".

MANY polls have "Pet Sounds" as the greatest album ever recorded. It has nothing to do with cars, the beach or 409 spray. Those songs were about heartache and loneliness.

I suggest you ask people about Pet Sounds.

Or read this, of course Bauhaus is better than the Beach Boys, right? (rolls eyes):

http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/A62.htm

The Beach Boys

Pet Sounds

All Music Guide (USA) - Album Ratings 1-5 Stars 5 Stars

Allan Kozinn, AVGuide (USA) - The 100 Greatest Pop Albums of the Century (2000) No Order

Amazon.com (USA) - The 10 Best Albums by Decade (1999) 7

Bill Shapiro (USA) - The Top 100 Rock Compact Discs (1991) No Order

Blender (USA) - 500 CDs You Must Own Before You Die (2003) No Order

Blender (USA) - The 100 Greatest American Albums of All time (2002) 14

Dave Marsh & Kevin Stein (USA) - The 40 Best of Album Chartmakers by Year (1981) 12

Edna Gundersen, USA Today (USA) - Top 40 Albums of All Time (2003) No Order

Entertainment Weekly (USA) - The 100 Greatest CDs of All Time (1993) 18

Gary Pig Gold (Canada) - The 40 Most Influental Records of the 20th Century (1999) No Order

Gear (USA) - The 100 Greatest Albums of the Century (1999) 5

IE (USA) - 50 Great Albums, a Rock Time Capsule (1999) No Order

Infoplease.com (USA) - Must-Have Recordings (1998) No Order

Jimmy Guterman (USA) - The Best Rock and Roll Records (online version) No Order

Joe S. Harrington, Blastitude (USA) - The All-Time Top 100 Albums (2001) 84

MusicHound Rock, R&B and Country (USA) - Album Ratings 0-5 Bones (1998-99) 5 Bones

Paul Gambaccini - The World Critics Best Albums of All Time (1977) 12

Paul Gambaccini - The World Critics Best Albums of All Time (1987) 8

Paul Williams (USA) - The 20th Century's Greatest Hits (1998) 11

Pause & Play (USA) - 10 Albums of the 60's (2003) No Order

Pause & Play (USA) - Albums Inducted into a Time Capsule, One Album per Week No Order

Radio WXPN (USA) - The 100 Most Progressive Albums (1996) 4

Robert Santelli - Sixties Rock: The 25 Best Albums of the 60s (1985) 22

Rolling Stone (USA) - The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (2003) 2

Rolling Stone (USA) - The Essential 200 Rock Records (1997) No Order

Rolling Stone Album Guide, Ratings 1-5 Stars (USA, 1992) 5 Stars

Rolling Stone Album Guide, Ratings 1-5 Stars (USA, 2004) 5 Stars

Slant (USA) - The 50 Most Essential Pop Albums (2004) 5 Stars

The Recording Academy Grammy Hall of Fame Albums and Songs (USA) No Order

The Review, University of Delaware (USA) - 100 Greatest Albums of All Time (2001) 2

VH1 (USA) - The 100 Greatest Albums of R 'N' R (2001) 3

Vibe (USA) - 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century (1999) No Order

Channel 4 (UK) - 125 Nominations for the 100 Greatest Albums (2005) No Order

Elvis Costello - 500 Albums You Need (2000) No Order

Guardian (UK) - The 100 Best Albums Ever (1997) 6

Hot Press (Ireland) - The 100 Best Albums of All Time (1989) 17

John Tobler (UK) - 100 Great Albums of the Sixties (1994) No Order

Martin C. Strong (UK) - The Great Rock Discography 7th Edition, Ratings 1-10 10

Melody Maker (UK) - All Time Top 100 Albums (2000) 11

Mojo (UK) - All Back to My Place: The Stars' All-Time 10 Favourite Albums (2003) 2

Mojo (UK) - Mojo 1000, the Ultimate CD Buyers Guide (2001) No Order

Mojo (UK) - The 100 Greatest Albums Ever Made (1995) 1

Mojo (UK) - The Mojo Collection, Third Edition (2003) No Order

New Musical Express (UK) - 40 Records That Captured the Moment 1952-91 (1992) No Order

New Musical Express (UK) - All Times Top 100 Albums (1974) 3

New Musical Express (UK) - All Times Top 100 Albums (1985) 20

New Musical Express (UK) - All Times Top 100 Albums + Top 50 by Decade (1993) 1

New Musical Express (UK) - NME Rock Years, Albums of the Year 1963-99 (2000) No Order

New Musical Express (UK) - Top 100 Albums of All Time (2003) 3

Paul Morley (UK) - Words and Music, 5 x 100 Greatest Albums of All Time (2003) No Order

Paul Roland (UK) - CD Guide to Pop & Rock, Album Ratings 1-5 Stars (2001) 5 Stars

Q (UK) - The Ultimate Music Collection (2005) No Order

Q (UK) - Top 20 Albums from 1954-1969 (2004) 4

Record Collector (UK) - 10 Classic Albums from 21 Genres for the 21st Century (2000) No Order

Sounds (UK) - The 100 Best Albums of All Time (1986) 38

Stuart Maconie's Critical List on BBC Radio 2 (UK) - One Album Added Each Week No Order

The Rough Guide - Rock: 100 Essential CDs (1999) No Order

The Times (UK) - The 100 Best Albums of All Time (1993) 1

Time Out (UK) - The 100 Best Albums of All Time (1989) 11

Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (UK) - Album Ratings 1-5 Stars (2002) 5 Stars

Adresseavisen (Norway) - The 100 (+23) Best Albums of All Time (1995) 2

Aftenposten (Norway) - Top 50 Albums of All Time (1999) 5

Dagbladet (Norway) - The 25 Best Rock and Pop Albums of the Century (1999) No Order

Expressen (Sweden) - The 100 Best Records Ever (1999) 16

Helsingin Sanomat (Finland) - 50th Anniversary of Rock (2004) No Order

Panorama (Norway) - Nominated Albums to the Best Music of the Century (1999) No Order

Platekompaniet (Norway) - Top 100 Albums of All Time (2001) 11

Pop (Sweden) - The World's 100 Best Albums + 300 Complements (1994) 13

Soundi (Finland) - The 50 Best Albums of All Time + Top 10 by Decade (1995) 14

Aloha (Netherlands) - The 50 Best Albums of All Time (1999) 27

Aloha/Hitweek (Netherlands) - Top 12 Albums from 1966-1969 (1970) 12

David Kleijwegt (Netherlands) - Top 100 Albums of All Time (1999) 1

Nieuwe Revu (Netherlands) - Top 100 Albums of All Time (1994) 41

OOR (Netherlands) - The Best Albums of the 20th Century (1987) 56

Pophandboek (Netherlands) - Errit Petersma's Top 20 Albums from the 60s (1970) 3

Berlin Media (Germany) - The 100 Best Albums of All Time (1998) 2

Max Magazine (Germany) - The 50 Best Albums of All Time (1997) 10

Musik Express/Sounds (Germany) - The 100 Masterpieces (1993) 58

Rolling Stone (Germany) - The 500 Best Albums of All Time (2004) 8

Rolling Stone (Germany) - The Best Albums of 5 Decades (1997) 2

Spex (Germany) - The 100 Albums of the Century (1999) 1

Wiener (Austria) - The 100 Best Albums of the 20th Century (1999) 3

Zounds (Germany) - The Top 30 Albums of All Time + Top 10 by Decade (1992) 8

Les Inrockuptibles (France) - 50 Years of Rock'n'Roll (2004) No Order

Rock & Folk (France) - The Best Albums from 1963 to 1999 (1999) No Order

Telerama (France) - 50 LPs in the History of Rock (2004) 6

Discoplay (Spain) - The 50 Best Albums of All Time (1997) No Order

José Ramón Pardo (Spain) - The 1000 Best Pop-Rock Albums, Ratings 1-5 (1997) 4.5 Stars

Plásticos y Decibelios (Spain) - The 80 Best Albums of All Time (2000) 2

Rock de Lux (Spain) - The 200 Best Albums of All Time (2002) 3

Alternative Melbourne (Australia) - The Top 100 Rock/Pop Albums (1996) 4

The Movement (New Zealand) - Classic Albums (Two Albums Added Every Issue) No Order

CDNOW (Japan) - 100 Essential Albums (2001?) 66

List by Asian Critics - 100 Essential Albums (1998?) No Order

List by Japanese Critics - 200 Essential Albums (1998?) No Order

Yediot Ahonot (Israel) - Top 99 Albums of All Time (1999) 5

Buscadero (Italy) - The Best Albums from the 1950s to the 1980s (1990) No Order

Jam (Italy) - 100 Ideal Albums to Understand Rock Music (2000) No Order

Mauro Ronconi (Italy) - The 200 Best Albums of the 20th Century (1998) No Order

Mucchio Selvaggio (Italy) - 100 Best Albums by Decade (2002) 1-20

Pure Pop (Mexico) - The 10 (+50) Most Important Albums of All Time (2004) 1

Pure Pop (Mexico) - The Best Albums of All Time (1993) 1

Showbizz (Brazil) - 100 CDs of All Time (1999) 21

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Black Sunday9 Newbie

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You have heard "everything they did"??? that is impressive.

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no like most people on DGN, apprently she thinks all the Beach Boys did was fun n the sun songs. If that were the case I would be indifferent to them. However they changed the face of pop music when they went away from the style.

And Good Vibrations was the most technicly challenging song ever made at that time. Brian Wilson always pushed the boundries of studio techniques.

I admit they sucked since 1970 though when they became hippies and wore robes and Brian Wilson sat in his room for 2 years (which was the subject of a Barenaked Ladies song)

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From 1966 to 1969 the Beach Boys were arguably better than the Beatles and more influential.    The albums "Pet Sounds" as I keep telling you people, influenced the Beatles, the Beatles who have always said that was one of their favorite albums.    After that, Brian Wilson wrote "Smile" which is another album that many people consider "genius".

MANY polls have "Pet Sounds" as the greatest album ever recorded.  It has nothing to do with cars, the beach or 409 spray.    Those songs were about heartache and loneliness. 

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It seems this would be the only "great" album they recorded. As anyone that knows about music, when the beatles hit big in America in 64 it lit a fire under the beach boys' ass to actually record something other than bubble gum pop. The beatles influanced pet sounds.....not the other way around.

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It seems this would be the only "great" album they recorded. As anyone that knows about music, when the beatles hit big in America in 64 it lit a fire under the beach boys' ass to actually record something other than bubble gum pop. The beatles influanced pet sounds.....not the other way around.

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Paul Mccartney has said time and time again that Pet Sounds influenced Sgt Peppers....the Beatlesd were and are stll huge Beach Boys fans.

and Pet Sounds was hardly their only great album the Beach Boys Today and Smile were both excellent.

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Brian Wilson has said time and time again that to this day he sits down at his piano and plays many Beatles songs so I guess it goes both ways. But, Brian Wilson has also addmitted that after seeing The Beatles on Ed Sullivan that it changed how he thought the Beach boys should and did sound. It's been well documented that many acts felt they needed to keep up or out do The Beatles so if anything we could say the Beatles did have a possitive influance on other song writers which in turn made pop music more sophisticated and took it to new levels that the privious generation never dreamed of. It's all good but I still love the Beatles over any act of that decade.

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I've heard quite a bit of their work. My family is in love with "Pet Sounds," but I just can't get into it for some reason. I'll admit that I can apprecaite their creativity and innovativeness, but I just personally don't like them. Enough said.

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I've heard quite a bit of their work. My family is in love with "Pet Sounds," but I just can't get into it for some reason. I'll admit that I can apprecaite their creativity and innovativeness, but I just personally don't like them. Enough said.

That is much more of a smart sounding response than a simple "everything they do sucks"

Thank you Miss...

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