Did the Beatles steal Smile...?

[TdHabib]

We really need to put a cap on these BB over Beatles threads...it's getting old, but that's just my opinion.

[rab2591]

Jeesh, if we start closing threads due to repetitious posts......well, er, that'll be the end of SmileySmile.net as we know it

Besides, there'll probably be some SMiLE announcement next week that will put this thread in the dustbin of Beach Boys fandom for the next few weeks.

[Micha]

Through their entire career, from 1963 to 1968, the Beatles actually followed the Beach Boys within a year or two, including the formation of Apple Records, which came almost exactly one year after the birth of Brother Records.

Not to mention that Mike Love wore a beard a year before the Beatles did. 

I think though that with all the praise that Pet Sounds rightfully receives, the influence of the Good Vibrations single both musically and sonically is neglected somewhat.

[absinthe_boy]

I think that Pet Sounds has been well excepted as a hip LP by the Beach Boys. But I agree that the overwhelming image is of the surf and car era. A celebration of a more innocent time.

And also a celebration of a location and lifestyle unatainable to most English people....we make do with rain and cups of tea

The allusions to sun, sand, surf, big cars and fine girls are a huge part of why the Beach Boys were successful in the UK...not just the fact that most of the surfin/cruisin era songs are bloody good rock and roll  melodies.

Diffeirent people are moved by different things. I can be emotionally moved by the Beach Boys, Beatles, Brahms, King Crimson, Duke Ellington to name a few. I wouldn't expect everybody to be moved by the same sounds. That doesn't stop somebody being a fan of the Beach Boys and the Beatles.