beach boys vs beatles

Beach Boys released "Pet Sounds" though, which is IMO better than any of the Beatles albums. But other than that, they only released 3-4 other really good album, while The Beatles were perfect more or less everytime around (even their underrated early works, where at least the original compositions were just as great as their later material)

Of course for me it's still Beatles >>>> Beach Boys, but I love them both.

I will look this up.

a bit, but not very much at all

pet sounds is boring.
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Monday, 6 February 2006 09:24 (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
In my humble opinion, Smiley Smile pwns Pet Sounds.
― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 01:57 (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yuh i've been listening to the beach boys a lot lately and i'd much rather listen to any of their other mid-to-late 60s albums than to Pet Sounds.

..also i would much rather listen to the beach boys than the beatles. Beach Boys schmaltzy >>>Beatles schmaltzy imo.

Beach Boys!

This is a bit like choosing between Martin Luther King and Gandhi.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 9 March 2006 08:16 (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
"This is a bit like choosing between Martin Luther King and Gandhi"
a bit, but not very much at all

― whatever (boglogger), Thursday, 9 March 2006 08:47 (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol

Actually quite a bit. We're speaking of perhaps the two musical geniuses of the 20th century, named Wilson and McCartney.

The Beatles wins because they had two more excellent songwriters besides the genius.

The Beatles had a 5 year span of 64-69, not counting their 2 first years with no original material. The Beach Boys from 62-72 or Surfin Safari thru Holland had more consistently of killer classic albums than Anyone Ever! Not just Pet Sounds but Surfer Girl, All Summer Long, Today, Summer days, Smiley Smile, Wild Honey, Sunflower, Surfs up, Holland & lastly Love you in 77. Disregard the bulk of their output post-77 but there were Still killer tunes in the 80s...BEACH BOYS #1 FOREVER. RAMONES #2

BEACH BOYS #1 FOREVER. RAMONES #2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ususRR09u8A

it is like comparing the clash vs the ramones but in this case the usa wins!

Jadams85 makes a good case.

food! did you get a malt? whatdja get me? ooo a pickle! there's onions on this! there's a kosher pickle!
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Denny, do you have any hash joints left? I know you do.

Holy shit @ this thread

This was never going to be a good idea but damn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4fb7_fm8fQ

finally, some learned discourse

Beatles vs anything finally settled.

Who'll be the last original member of either group left alive? I'm betting healthy Al Jardine.

McCartney will live till he's 200.

1972 Animal Lover Rock: "Wild Life" by Wings vs "Beaks of Eagles" by the Beach Boys.

i've always enjoyed the countless retellings of the time brian was driving down pch or sunset or mulholland and heard strawberry fields on the radio for the first time. had to pull over and cry and was screming "they did it! they did it" and he was with danny hutton or jack nance or donovan in the car or something.

Oh I hadn't heard that. That happened to me when I Heard "Yo!" yesterday.

That happens to Greil Marcus every time he turns on the car radio.

I have a suspicion that no one has ever pulled over to the side of the road to listen to an amazing song. It seems like a counterintuitive thing to do. Music is better with speed! How could Brian Wilson ever have gotten from point A to point B in the '60s with all the times he had to pull over?

i've always enjoyed the countless retellings of the time brian was driving down pch or sunset or mulholland and heard strawberry fields on the radio for the first time. had to pull over and cry and was screming "they did it! they did it" and he was with danny hutton or jack nance or donovan in the car or something.

I have a suspicion that no one has ever pulled over to the side of the road to listen to an amazing song.

It's such a cliche.

lol it even has its own section in the sff wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawberry_Fields_Forever#Reactions_from_contemporary_musicians

The Beatles had a 5 year span of 64-69, not counting their 2 first years with no original material.
This isn't correct at all. All of their UK LP's, even the two LP's they released in 1963, were mostly original songs. Covers never outnumbered or even equaled the originals on any of those LP's, and their UK singles were all originals.

The Beach Boys from 62-72 or Surfin Safari thru Holland had more consistently of killer classic albums than Anyone Ever! Not just Pet Sounds but Surfer Girl, All Summer Long, Today, Summer days, Smiley Smile, Wild Honey, Sunflower, Surfs up, Holland & lastly Love you in 77.
I think a lot of those albums are underrated, but this oversells it. Those early albums were loaded with rote originals that blatantly milked "the formula" just to fill the albums. They didn't have a truly great album until All Summer Long, and by that point they were joined by many others who were making albums just as good if not better (the Stones, Otis Redding, the Who, the Byrds, etc., etc.) Personally I don't think Surf's Up, Holland or Love You are really good albums, but they definitely have their fans. Beyond that, it's really hard to make a case for the wretched music they put out post '70s - it's actually a relief that they focused on touring rather than putting out much new material.

I have this thread bookmarked and keep shaking my head about the quote at the beginning of the last post

Man, Surf's Up is easily in their top 3 or 4 albums. Perfect if it wasn't for THAT song

Yeah, couldn't they find something newer, to replace the title track?

the best thing about The Beach Boys was their sweet Pendleton shirts

Did the Beatles ever team up with the Fat Boys? No? Case closed, I guess.

Did the Beatles ever let a tremendously coked up, vacation-wear Jimmy Page rend a hole in the fabric of space and time during a corny bar band version of "Lucille"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpL-eVpgJpY

I've never been a Beatles fan per se but they're still several orders of magnitude better than the Beach Boys, whose music I actively dislike save for 'God Only Knows' and 'Good Vibrations'. Everything else can perish in a fire.

But have u heard about a little place called Kokomo

Pom do you know “til i die”?

it talks about falling onto rocks and ones soul being killed

'Kokomo' is hilarious, ergo I don't hate it.

I agree that 'Til I Die' is one of their finer moments.

ITT: Tell The Beatles to Fuck Off

So grateful to my parents and older sister that I could grow up in a household uncontaminated by the works of Paul McCartney.

Don't have an older sister but cosign.

One of my favorite and most underrated Beach Boys songs, in a depresso 'Til I Die' vein

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO_LX-m74uw

xpost Yes, I will cosign as well. I heard a lot of 'oldies' growing up but weirdly didn't hear hardly any of the post-Help Beatles songs until I was an adult.

love it, reminds me of chris bell xp

Almost certainly my favorite Love vocal.

I never thought "All I Wanna Do" was depressing, it's very nice but basically a 1964 ballad with some weird keyboards and phasing on the vocals.

In my more provocative moments, I might be inclined to say that Blondie Chaplin's tenure is my favorite BB era

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D10_uNfCW4Y

That is an excellent song, and so much better than the two Fataar/Chaplin songs on Carl and the Passions, I'm surprised they came up with it.

I would go so far as to say that Holland contains the personal best songs of everyone in the group except Brian:

Dennis - Steamboat
Mike - Big Sur
Al - Beaks of Eagles
Carl - The Trader
Blondie/Ricky - Leaving This Town

"Beaks of Eagles" is terrible though.

I love the recitations, and Charles Lloyd's flute.

Poetry recitation and flutes, I'll pass.

'Poetry Recitation and Flutes, I'll Pass' is my favorite Mike Love song.

Poetry recitation and flutes, I'll pass.

LMAO

It's a prose recitation, really.

I love it. I love the whole "Jardine the eco-lumberjack stuff"

Big Sur is very sweet too.