Posted on 08/31/2024 3:34:01 PM PDT by nickcarraway
They beat Marvin Gaye to the punch.
I don’t recognize the title of any of these songs.
The Beach Boys were never not cool.
Bump
Same here. The music of my youth but don’t recognize any of this.
Shortly after that release, two greatest hits compilations did just fine, “Endless Summer” and “Spirit of America”. The Beach Boys aren’t supposed to be relevant. They are supposed to be fun!
Today, everything has to be judged relative to woke. Both past and present. Woke is peak morality in their opinion. They have no idea of the degree of their moral bankruptcy.
Favorite released album?
Jimi Hendrix in the song Third Stone From the Sun had the lines:
So to you I shall put an end
And you’ll never hear surf music again ...
That sounds like a lie to me
Come on man, let’s go home.
Background:
Music journalist Peter Doggett notes the irony of the surf music reference. In 1970 Hendrix wrote music for the soundtrack for Rainbow Bridge. His music is heard during surfing scenes. Pioneer surf guitarist Dick Dale (early hit with Misirlou) believed the mention was Hendrix’s way of encouraging his recuperation when Dale was seriously ill.
—Wikipedia
Unsurprising that the song titles would be unfamiliar. Nothing from the 1971 Surf’s Up album has been played on the radio, in the grocery store or on the elevator in the last 53 years. Conversely, the hits from the 1962-68 period have been inescapable for the last half century. The title track was actually written and partially completed in the ‘60s golden age, but it sat on the shelf with most of the rest of the tracks from Brian Wilson’s legendary unfinished “Smile” album, though Brian played a solo piano rendition on a TV show that aired in 1967.
[Favorite released album?]
I avoided Pet Sounds for years because the cover turned me off. George Harrison said “I think they should pay more attention to their album sleeves.”
But like judging a book by its cover that was a mistake of mine.
What’s wrong with the cover? It’s wholesome.
RE: Nothing from the 1971 Surf’s Up album has been played on the radio, in the grocery store or on the elevator in the last 53 years.
One of the funny aspects of What’s Up,Doc? (1972) is whenever anyone steps in or out of an elevator, the Muzak speaker is always playing one of a dozen different Cole Porter classics.
John Belushi? What is that from?
He looks “dough-y”.
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