martha
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Are the Beach Boys a good band or no?
No.
Are the Beach Boys a good band or no?
Not a huge fan either. That being said they could have recorded God Only Knows and retired on its merits alone.
I challenge anyone to listen to tracks 8-12 of the Smile Sessions and not be impressed by what they hear.
Surely you can pause your 24/7 loop of Twilight (Demo) for 15 minutes.Anyone?
Are you really quite sure you want me to take up this challenge?
All of this.Wow, the Beach Boys are underrated here. Pet Sounds is one of the greatest pop albums of all time. Smile annihilates pretty much any of the neo-psych music it influenced through its purity, warmth and incredible melodic dexterity. The chord progressions they came up with at their peak were out of this world.
Some amazing album cuts:
That's Not Me
I'm Waiting for the Day
I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
Cabin Essence
Wonderful
Look (Song for Children)
Child Is Father of the Man
Wake the World
Be Still
This Whole World
All I Wanna Do
Til I Die
Surf's Up
The Night Was So Young
Idk how you listen to these songs and not come away with the band being at least sporadically brilliant. If you've just heard Fun Fun Fun and its ilk, you're missing out. I challenge anyone to listen to tracks 8-12 of the Smile Sessions and not be impressed by what they hear.
Surely you can pause your 24/7 loop of Twilight (Demo) for 15 minutes.
Legit wondering if Traviud was trolling by picking those five songs.
By the way, Radiohead has a new single out.
Nah it’s not new, it was a B side from the last record.
I hope that by aiming this angry, misguided treatise in the direction of a lovely song suite about childhood and family, you felt a little closer to your estranged parents.It's a darkened day for me now, but sure, tracks 8-12 of the Smile Sessions coming right up.
Cabin Essence: what the fuck is this? Is this a song for children? Oh god there's an actual song for children coming. And now fifty seconds in it's a different song. This is a mess. And now we're back to boing boing doing doing fuck off. Holy shit this is truly awful. Ahaha it's time for the rave again. Pity it sounds like they're playing inside a cardboard box. And now it's onto a third song. How the hell am I still on the same track. How the hell is this only 2:45 through? 2 hours 45 minutes more like.
Oh my god there are four more songs to go. I wish this was "over and over".
Wonderful: This passed with little of note. Phew.
Look (Song for Children): I'm wary after that Cabin Essence clusterfuck. This sounds like somebody's b-side. I'm not sure why I'm meant to care. Drums sound a little shit.
Child Is Father of the Man: Feel like I'm still listening to the last song really. Oh wait no it's suddenly sped up. They really aren't very good at changing moods are they. It's just like multiple songs mashed together.
Surf's Up: I was hoping this would at least have some cool surf guitar or something. Nice vocal melody. Why does it just... stop around 0:48? Don't they know where the hell to go with this song? My god, how can a band this awful at songwriting have such an esteemed reputation. Like, just because you've got a halfway passable vocal melody doesn't make you some fucking genius. Hey look it's 1:38 and we can't decide what we're doing so let's just start another song. This is just the golden oldies version of prog metal bands who think that songwriting is changing time signature every 30 seconds and throwing in a mellow section after some blastbeats. Oh my god now this is just some plodding boring quiet shite. Reprise of Child Is Father of the Man, sure, whatever, I don't care any more.
Never suggest I listen to this band ever again, please and thank you.
They used them to run away from AxverI think that may be the first time I've seen those 2 with legs.