Thread 127175279

>critically acclaimed as one of the most influential and greatest bands of all time
>the public only knows them as the funny surf guys
Is there a bigger disconnect not only in music but for any artform or media? It's insane to me that I can mention The Beach Boys to people and get scoffed at. It's not even a "whose that?" reaction, literally everyone in the world knows them.

>>127175279 (OP)
I remember when I first came to /mu/ I thought pet sounds was a board meme for a solid month or two for the same reason. the goofy cover art doesn't help

I wish I lived in the timeline where SMILE released

>>127175329
I just remember having a conversation with a coworker about the best bands of all time and even mentioning Beach Boys he was laughing, shit is so dumb.

>>127175346
The wrong Beach Boy died!

>>127175279 (OP)
>critically acclaimed as one of the most influential and greatest bands of all time
they really aren't

>>127175279 (OP)
>critically acclaimed as one of the most influential and greatest bands of all time

>>127178907
They are the best band that has come out of america

Hey guys, what’s upCorny! Corny!! Corny!!! Personally I’m having a great morning, listening to Pet SoundsCORNY!!!!!! CORNY CORNY CORNY!!!!!!! by my favorite band The Beach BoysCORN

>>127175279 (OP)
>public knows a band for their most popular work and not the more avant garde stuff that commercially flopped
So what’s the problem here?

>>127178747
>>127178907
Frequently in the top 20 bands of all time :)

>>127178747
>>127178907
zoomers or just retarded?

>>127180827
>being sincere is....le corn....

>>127178970
>They are the best band that has come out of america
>>127180947
>Frequently in the top 20 bands of all time :)
according to...? the reality is none of that is true. a handful of boomers say they are good so their grandchildren decades later think its true. lol the beach boys sound like baby music to me. yeah look at these broken down bums trying to get popular again teaming with the fat boys and appearing on full house with uncle jesse on drums. lol pathetic...
>no they were great before that!
no they werent

>>127183288
brian wilson was a talent so immense that it spawned a surrounding industry. bound to be some associated garbage you can point to. doesn't change the fact that he's the greatest composer of popular music ever to have lived. you shouldn't be so proud of announcing your lack of discernment

>>127175346
Brian didn't cum for 10 years and the semen went up his spine and unlocked his pineal gland and he claims to have been practising no ejaculation during Pet Sounds too. meanwhile Mike had 9 failed marriages and was a slave to

>>127175279 (OP)
She's real fine my 409

>>127175279 (OP)
The Beach Boys are great American music!

>>127183288
>Full House
That was a great performance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOZ5dEiZYCo

Honestly surprised Brian went on it

They might be old as shit, but this was a great performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNtGEKNhlC4

They're the only band to rival The Beatles imo desu senpai

>>127180827
imagine somehow getting filtered by fucking Pet Sounds

Reminder the Mike Love made The Beach Boys. He was the lead singer on pretty much every one of their biggest hits and without him they never would've amounted to anything.

>>127183979
stop

>>127175279 (OP)
>>the public only knows them as the funny surf guys

that's so stupid. people only talk about God Only Knows and Good Vibrations these days.

Imagination [Giant, 1998]
Brian Wilson's genius was never as indelible as worshippers believe. Cambered by Van Dyke Parks or stripped by Don Was, he was magical, crafting visions of eternal sunshine or crackpot solipsism or both. Yoked to adult contemporary tyro Joe Thomas, however, he's just one more pro who's proud he's no longer crazy and knows even less about the world than when he was. C

>>127184055
Accurate. Thomas just made him into generic boring 90s AC here.

>"You can't write that Brian-that's fucking with the formula, that's acid alliteration, that's too weird etc
>Mike 3 years later:

I should give Pet Sounds a re listen. I checked it out like 20 years ago and found it to be boring as fuck.

>>127184217
compared to other '66 albums like Aftermath or Fifth Dimension it sounds like it's for little kids

>>127184217
Yeah it's a great album

>>127184217
I thought it was kind of meh when I heard it in 2010-2012. So maybe it will grow on you

>>127184244
Were you expecting an album called Pet Sounds to be edgy social commentary? It's about fleeting teenage love and an adolescent's growth to adulthood.

i remember Christgau saying he never really got into PS because he was 24 when it came out and already too old to be interested in an album with such kiddie themes

>>127184244
>Aftermath
literally more juvenile writing than Pet Sounds
>LOOK AT THAT STUPID GIRLLLLL

>>127184244
Spinal Tap shit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K6wUa7yjuo&list=RD_K6wUa7yjuo&start_radio=1&ab_channel=ABKCOVEVO

>>127184409
>LOOK AT THAT STUPID GIRLLLLL
You've never interacted with women much have you?

>>127184406
>i remember Christgau saying he never really got into PS because he was 24 when it came out and already too old to be interested in an album with such kiddie themes
wait isn't this the guy who worships punk?

Where did your long hair go?
Where is the girl I used to know?
How could you lose that happy glow?
Oh, Caroline, no

Who took that look away?
I remember how you used to say
You'd never change, but that's not true
Oh, Caroline, you

>>127184174
hey now, well it's a Love thing

>>127180844
Pet Sounds didn't completely flop. It went to #10, which isn't great, especially for them, but at least it made the chart. Over the long term it became their best selling album

>>127183682
s-source..? sounds too based to be true

>>127178211
Bruce Johnston is not only MAGA but I heard a dick, you're right

>>127185320
I’m aware it did really well in England too, and I know even normie audiences liked “wouldn’t it be nice”. Still, go to a water park today and basically all you’ll hear is pre-pet sounds beach boys hits

>>127184217
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6HOHAflx1k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZrU3vhM9No
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsPHOfqrOWY

There's no way to find these songs boring

remember when Brian had a gay boyfriend?

>>127185394
So it's entirely clear if he actually was celibate for 10 year but:
“I’ve got my secret here. I don’t tell anybody my secret,” confides Brian, still sitting by his piano. “I have a secret… I’ll tell you anyway: I don’t have any sex, OK? The secret is abstaining from orgasm. An Einsteinian formula that if you abstain from having an orgasm for, say, 10 years, you create a void in your brain. In other words, if you don’t express and orgasm for 10 years, it’s a long time, right? Most people think two weeks without an orgasm’s a long time.

“And I did that, y’know? My dad told me in high school: ‘Son, now you’re gonna be going through a lot of hell as you grow up, and the one thing you should never do is you should not have orgasms and masturbate and you should not fuck with girls.’ And I tried it out. I’d been jacking off all summer, y’know? And toward the end of the summer, I’m going into my junior year in high school and my dad lays that on me. I go there and I try it out and I say: ‘What the fuck is this shit? Hey, wait a minute, man, I like not coming better than coming!’ And I kept going that way for a long, long time and finally I came to the conclusion that I’m gonna tell people my secret. But I just don’t want some chick to go: ‘Oh, that’s your secret? Well here, I’ll make you come’… Ain’t that a weird trip?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExLx18nUIes&ab_channel=Elora