>always thought the Beach Boys were just surf rock
>go into their catalogue after Brian Wilson dies
>lush orchestral productions on Pet Sounds
>proto indie sounding shit on Smiley Smile
>early lofi from "All I Wanna Do" on Sunflower
what the FUCK why are they just known as boomers who play Kokomo?

Stick to the fucking formula

>>127077994
Did Mike Lover ever actually say this?
He wrote and performed this song by the way, which is easily one of the best on Holland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H7pN_ShN1Y

>>127077964 (OP)
are you new here?

>>127077964 (OP)
Mike wrote all of those

i miss this dude like you wouldn't believe

>>127078060
The man who solidified that all songwriters should be schizophrenic

>>127078228
If youre not schizo you're vulgar

>>127077964 (OP)
they got blackballed by critics for supporting some right-wing cause in late 60's and were basically written out of rock music history.

>>127077964 (OP)
>what the FUCK why are they just known as boomers who play Kokomo?
People just focus on their best song.

>>127077964 (OP)
Their music sounds like shit to me. All of it. At best it's Jacob Collier, wanking around with polyrhythm or some pretentious shit instead of cutting to deep human emotion. Fuck them.

>>127080639
WTF are you listening to they're pretentious. It's the fucking Beach Boys. lol. Not Zappa.

>>127080647
to think they're pretentious*

>>127080647
They're both accessible and pretentious. The songs are poppy enough to be listenable to your average retard but they lack any depth beyond OMG I sang falsetto 11 times in an eerie unpleasant harmony... that's technically impressive! Just soulless music. The equivalent of solving a Rubik's cube really fast.

>>127081096
You havent actually heard any beach boys music

>>127081096
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RypKTz1Kmpg please listen to this and report back

>>127077964 (OP)
>>always thought the Beach Boys were just surf rock
The Beach Boys were never surf rock, they're Baroque Pop that happened to have songs themed around surfing. Surf Rock is more like what Dick Dale was doing with way more distortion and use of double harmonic scales