What's the best Beach Boys website?

[punkinhead]

Sure, some may say this site, but what I'm getting at is what's the best site to get information?
Either on updates or research?
Tie for #1 would be AGD's site, I almost forgot to mention it but I haven't checked it out in sometime as it doesn't update as much as BB.com and I often look up lyrics on Surfermoon.com....(Sorry Mr. Doe, it wasn't on purpose, I love love love your site! Hell, I have half of it printed out for my Beach Boys Files.)

I'm gonna throw Surfermoon.com/what used to be Cabinessence.com....anyone know why that changed?

And prolly #2 would be BeachBoys.com....even though some of the stuff is reviews/opinions, it's still a lot of great info with a lot of pics.


What's your favs?

[Jon Stebbins]

Sure, some may say this site, but what I'm getting at is what's the best site to get information?
Either on updates or research?


I'm gonna throw Surfermoon.com/what used to be Cabinessence.com....anyone know why that changed?

And prolly #2 would be BeachBoys.com....even though some of the stuff is reviews/opinions, it's still a lot of great info with a lot of pics.


What's your favs?

For CORRECT information on the Beach Boys nothing comes close to http://www.esquarterly.com/bellagio/index.html

Smiley Smile is the best message board

The best detailed session info is here http://www.beachboysarchives.com/

[punkinhead]

Sure, some may say this site, but what I'm getting at is what's the best site to get information?
Either on updates or research?


I'm gonna throw Surfermoon.com/what used to be Cabinessence.com....anyone know why that changed?

And prolly #2 would be BeachBoys.com....even though some of the stuff is reviews/opinions, it's still a lot of great info with a lot of pics.


What's your favs?

For CORRECT information on the Beach Boys nothing comes close to http://www.esquarterly.com/bellagio/index.html

Smiley Smile is the best message board

The best detailed session info is here http://www.beachboysarchives.com/

thanks for the links! I couldn't remember them offhand.
and I totally forgot about BBarchives....it's one of our newer sites, right?
It's the site that started out with very indepth information about the sessions for Today! and Summer Days, right?

[rab2591]

Not that this helps your search, but I will have to say this site.

Jon Stebbins ^, Ed Roach, Pet Ames Carlin, Carrie Marks, Alan Boyd, Mark Linett, Steven Desper, etc etc, frequent this place and give a lot of good insightful information.

The search feature on this site is great - I can search for exotica music or recording equipment used for Pet Sounds - and I get pages and pages of information.

And we have a system of checks and balances (AGD and other scholars are always quick to point out misinformation).

There are places that possibly have a more concise and organized information on the Beach Boys - but this place is great for digging deeper into that information.

[Andrew G. Doe]

Sure, some may say this site, but what I'm getting at is what's the best site to get information?
Either on updates or research?
Tie for #1 would be AGD's site, I almost forgot to mention it but I haven't checked it out in sometime as it doesn't update as much as BB.com...

Actually, it gets updated every time there's a release (discog/charts), every time something happens (timeline), every time Brian tours (Britour) and maybe once a week in gigs & sessions (Ian sends me constant additions, corrections and deletions)... and once in a blue moon when I have a bright idea for another page (last one was a Jan & Dean discog 1958-68)... but agreed it's pretty subtle and easily missed: all the major legwork was done back in the early 2000s.  

[punkinhead]

Sure, some may say this site, but what I'm getting at is what's the best site to get information?
Either on updates or research?
Tie for #1 would be AGD's site, I almost forgot to mention it but I haven't checked it out in sometime as it doesn't update as much as BB.com...

Actually, it gets updated every time there's a release (discog/charts), every time something happens (timeline), every time Brian tours (Britour) and maybe once a week in gigs & sessions (Ian sends me constant additions, corrections and deletions)... and once in a blue moon when I have a bright idea for another page (last one was a Jan & Dean discog 1958-68)... but agreed it's pretty subtle and easily missed: all the major legwork was done back in the early 2000s.  

again, Sorry, I didn't realize that it got updated that much!
now we know!



"and knowing is half the battle"

[Andrew G. Doe]

Don't know how many of you know about this one, but it's really good, and a pleasure to look at:

Back Through The Opera Glass

Also this one, for geeks like me, is just dandy:

Eric Anniversario's set list archive

Craig's annotated sessions site is just outstanding:

Beach Boys Archives

Used to be a great site called Los Angeles Historian, that had a ton of cool photos of BB/related sites in LA, but it's dumped all the BB content. :-(

This one's fun to browse:

Disk Tracy's BB memorabilia site

And finally, this one ain't too shabby either. Does what it says on the label:

Bellagio 10452

[Jason]

http://www.beachboyscentral.com

[Tom Martin]

Personally, I like
www.BeachBoysBand.net
for up to date information on releases & tour dates
by The Beach Boys and the touring band members.
 

[GoofyJeff]

http://www.beachboyscentral.com

+1

Or at least it would have been (still could be?) if the original plans ever came to fruition.

[SG7]

Place to laugh hysterically at the Beach Boys was a site called the many (mis) adventures of the beach boys. There is still plenty of stuff left in internet archive

http://web.archive.org/web/20040903060253/http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!00!19!F93E0A8143AC/sloopdougb/TheManymis/

[rogerlancelot]

Don't forget about this one:

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Beach_Boys

[Malc]

Don't know how many of you know about this one, but it's really good, and a pleasure to look at:

Back Through The Opera Glass

Aaawww, shucks AGD. You've made ma day 

[FUN³]

http://www.mikelovefanclub.com/

[Paulos]

I like surfermoon.com but the album and track archives are woefully incomplete, there are no entries for the following - Endless Harmony Soundtrack, Hawthorne C.A., Al Jardine Family & Friends Live In Las Vegas, Songs From Here And Back, Pacific Ocean Blue Legacy Edition & A Postcard From California and yet That Lucky Old Sun & Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin have been added, very strange.

[punkinhead]

I like surfermoon.com but the album and track archives are woefully incomplete, there are no entries for the following - Endless Harmony Soundtrack, Hawthorne C.A., Al Jardine Family & Friends Live In Las Vegas, Songs From Here And Back, Pacific Ocean Blue Legacy Edition & A Postcard From California and yet That Lucky Old Sun & Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin have been added, very strange.

I concur!

I used to love their essay section, up until they stopped updating.

[Sam_BFC]

I love the format of the Surfermoon track/album archives with the notes on each track plus the reviews of each album...but it is a shame it is incomplete.

Also, when I was first a fan I paid a lot of attention to how they rated albums and I think they were pretty accurate and fair, but then they recently gave TLOS and BWRG 10/10 and 9/10 which is perhaps a bit much when Holland is 7.5/10 for instance.

[hypehat]

Giving GIOMH an 8 out of 10 and comparing it to God Only Knows is borderline certifiable, really.

[filledeplage]

Don't know how many of you know about this one, but it's really good, and a pleasure to look at:

Back Through The Opera Glass

Aaawww, shucks AGD. You've made ma day 

Yes, Andrew, Back Through the Opera Glass is a delightful, beautifully done website!   

[punkinhead]

Another thing about my printing to make my own personal files of stuff (continued from another thread or two), a lot the stuff I printed out are dead links now



Also, I may have missed it, but did Mtvernonandfairway.de get mentioned? I think that was the site.
There was also Nearestfarawayplace.com I believe...one of the two sites had the pic/shot from the MIU cover on their opening page....I know both sites had some good lists to print out, different discographies of some sort, can't remember which was which.

[kookadams]

Don't forget about this one:

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Beach_Boys

what the f***? what is that horseshit??

[Shady]

Don't forget about this one:

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Beach_Boys

what the foder? what is that horseshit??

It's a site that mocks bands, celebrities etc

Wikipedias evil twin

[Paulos]

I like surfermoon.com but the album and track archives are woefully incomplete, there are no entries for the following - Endless Harmony Soundtrack, Hawthorne C.A., Al Jardine Family & Friends Live In Las Vegas, Songs From Here And Back, Pacific Ocean Blue Legacy Edition & A Postcard From California and yet That Lucky Old Sun & Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin have been added, very strange.

I concur!

I used to love their essay section, up until they stopped updating.

I've counted nearly 80 tracks that are missing from the archive, might do them myself & email them to whoever runs the site

[punkinhead]

I like surfermoon.com but the album and track archives are woefully incomplete, there are no entries for the following - Endless Harmony Soundtrack, Hawthorne C.A., Al Jardine Family & Friends Live In Las Vegas, Songs From Here And Back, Pacific Ocean Blue Legacy Edition & A Postcard From California and yet That Lucky Old Sun & Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin have been added, very strange.

I concur!

I used to love their essay section, up until they stopped updating.

I've counted nearly 80 tracks that are missing from the archive, might do them myself & email them to whoever runs the site

it'd also be nice if the bootleg section and writings section were updated.

[Mike's Beard]

http://www.mikelovefanclub.com/

Yes, I believe oldsurferdude is the President of that one.