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Title: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: hypehat on February 22, 2011, 09:04:01 AM Not covers, but homages, pastiches, etc. Try to include youtube/spotify links if you can :)
And anyone who posts solo songs by the boys is missing the point! For example, 1. The Raspberries - Cruisin' Music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjTkiq8HAkw 2. John Cale - The Man Who Couldn't Afford To Orgy http://open.spotify.com/track/4LlhseQoPvFR5eUTW6QZRe 3. To Arms Etc - All Showed Up http://open.spotify.com/track/2E6bRKa46L8qMa66xms57f Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: Rocker on February 22, 2011, 09:28:15 AM Red Hot Chilli Peppers "Tear"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzX5n9R0eIc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzX5n9R0eIc) Jackie Deshannon "Boat to sail" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77LfceN7ltc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77LfceN7ltc) Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: Stegibo on February 22, 2011, 09:31:36 AM Weird Al Yankovic - Pancreas
http://www.spike.com/video/weird-al-yankovic/2855125 (http://www.spike.com/video/weird-al-yankovic/2855125) Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: punkinhead on February 22, 2011, 09:36:57 AM So would Back in the USSR count?
Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: hypehat on February 22, 2011, 09:50:28 AM Definitely! I think I might have been a little vague, although the examples should give you a clue.
I'll chuck these all into a Spotify playlist when I'm done, me thinks. 8. The Trade Winds - New York's A Lonely Town http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRSe9fbzbFc&feature=related Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: punkinhead on February 22, 2011, 10:00:13 AM Definitely! I think I might have been a little vague, although the examples should give you a clue. That one is a killer! I'll chuck these all into a Spotify playlist when I'm done, me thinks. 8. The Trade Winds - New York's A Lonely Town http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRSe9fbzbFc&feature=related I love Jeff Foskett's version Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: punkinhead on February 22, 2011, 10:23:08 AM pretty much add all of the Pet Smile compilation
Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: punkinhead on February 22, 2011, 11:44:24 AM So you're asking, what's Pet Smile?
Here's Pet Smile, it's amazing and unofficial: Pet Smile: Hush (Jellyfish) I've Seen to Dream (Tony Rivers and Harmony Grass) Love Tonight (Fraternal Ordwer of All) My World Fell Down (Sagittarius) Silently (Del Shannon) Tracy Hide (the Wondermints) Beach Baby (First Class) Goodbye (the Postmarks) Dead Meat (Sean Lennon) Let's Hope Nobody Finds Us (Lewis Taylor) Carraway Stream (Gordian Knot) Guess I'm Dumb (Glen Campbell) (yes, i know this is a BW tune, but for completist sake of posting info) Don't Cry Over Me (Mark Eric) Highway Noise (June and the Exit Wounds) No Gnashing Teeth (Eric Mathews) It's a Sad World (Curt Boettcher) My Way (Chris Rainbow) Never Gonna Fall in Love Again (Eric Carmen) Let's Go to San Francisco (The Flowerpot Men) Chalkhills and Children (XTC) Sandy (Ronnie and the Daytonas) What a Groovy Day (Tony Rivers and Harmony Grass) Sebrina, Paste, and Plato (Jellyfish) Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: Dead Parrot on February 22, 2011, 12:05:19 PM Manic Street Preachers - So Why So Sad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSMklt5i614 REM - At My Most Beautiful http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdd6_0SJBWU Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: pancakerecords on February 22, 2011, 03:58:37 PM D.W. Suite - Lindsy Buckingham
Ride - Wondermints Brian Wilson Said - Tears For Fears Pale & Precious - Dukes of the Stratosphear I used to have a playlist of this stuff... Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: Myk Luhv on February 22, 2011, 09:02:02 PM Splitsville's The Complete Pet Soul apes, in part, Pet Sounds-era BBs. It's good stuff too: "Aliceanna", "Caroline Knows", "The Love Songs of B. Douglas Wilson" (can it be any more transparent?) are all great. I don't even think they're mere pastiche, I think they capture the spirit too...
Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: hypehat on February 24, 2011, 05:30:32 AM 37. The Ronettes - Walking In The Rain
It's so proto-Pet Sounds. Those bass fills, the lyrics, the harmonies... I can't believe he never covered it. 38. Fleetwood Mac - That's All For Everyone Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: RollPlymouthRock on February 24, 2011, 01:36:49 PM 39- Here, There and Everywhere- The Beatles
40- Because- The Beatles Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: Rocker on February 25, 2011, 04:09:00 AM John Fogerty's "Almost saturday night" from his second soloalbum always kinda sounded Beach Boys-ish to me. What do you think?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGR1cCIFKvg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGR1cCIFKvg) Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: punkinhead on February 25, 2011, 07:25:27 PM 37. The Ronettes - Walking In The Rain I've always appreciated and loved Spector's Walking in the Rain...but I always thought he kinda cheated by getting the cliche/over-used thunder sound effect. Phil is that guy that 'makes' the thunder effect with the Wall of Sound.It's so proto-Pet Sounds. Those bass fills, the lyrics, the harmonies... I can't believe he never covered it. 38. Fleetwood Mac - That's All For Everyone BTW: You, Baby has recently grown on me....I could see Brian having an 'o-face' when listening to that song...I don't think it gets enough credit Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: hypehat on February 26, 2011, 03:59:15 AM I don't know whether girl group tunes sound like the BB's or BW was trying to write girl group tunes.
That Fogerty track has a real 15 Big Ones 'It's Ok' kinda vibe, i love it! Another easy girl group one. 40. The Crystals - All Grown Up (....Inside, outside, USA!) How weird. I can't find the version on Back To Mono anywhere. Instead there's this pansy version. 41. Jack Nitzsche - Lower California http://open.spotify.com/track/2FATQR2Yd520jpRFtpNT4u Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: Ganz Allein on February 26, 2011, 07:46:53 AM 42. High Llamas - Giddy and Gay, from their Gideon Gaye album. Sean O'Hagan sure loves Brian-style organ sounds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWirShZ2MWo
Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: Myk Luhv on February 27, 2011, 09:17:22 AM Take a Picture by Margo Guryan fits here too, considering it's a lovely little psychedelic pop album (released 1968) that she came to record after hearing "God Only Knows" and thinking what BW was doing held far more interest to her than the jazz she was learning at the time. It's not all that often you hear jazz heads commenting positively on BW (or pop music generally), let alone eschew jazz altogether for the pop idiom!
Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: hypehat on March 01, 2011, 04:56:50 AM That's a real nice album. Her voice is cute as hell. Kind of unsympathetically played at points though - like a lot of it would have been better served without slightly tacky session dude arrangements
Sticking on topic.... 44. Harry Nilsson - Living Without You 45. Todd Rundgren - Marlene http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLgL8dg_MvA 46. Spiritualized - Don't Just Do Something Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: roll plymouth rock on March 02, 2011, 10:57:00 PM The Hondells - Hot Rod High
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vUwH4ItysE The classic P.F. Sloan song by Bruce & Terry - Summer Means Fun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi_BQHEUIRg Ha from the American Graffiti soundtrack, Flash Cadillac - She's So Fine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J3qgDhUXSQ Billy Nicholls/Small Faces/Andrew Loog Oldham's "response to Pet Sounds" - Would You Believe (bonus rare clip I never knew existed!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUn1fvAeKlk Yellow Balloon - Yellow Balloon (another rare clip!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO-8-DjwdNI Pleasure - Poor Old Organ Grinder (a Tandyn Almer classsssssssssic!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APjU5p593Qw Harry Nilsson - Down To The Valley http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkcrPuDQUPg Van Dyke Parks - Come To The Sunshine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOmA3sS34ls not on youtube unfortunately: The Full Treatment - Just Can't Wait Ronnie & The Daytonas - The Boys & The Girls Harpers Bizarre - Witchi Tai To Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: bgas on March 03, 2011, 05:20:48 PM The Hondells - Hot Rod High http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vUwH4ItysE The classic P.F. Sloan song by Bruce & Terry - Summer Means Fun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi_BQHEUIRg Ha from the American Graffiti soundtrack, Flash Cadillac - She's So Fine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J3qgDhUXSQ Billy Nicholls/Small Faces/Andrew Loog Oldham's "response to Pet Sounds" - Would You Believe (bonus rare clip I never knew existed!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUn1fvAeKlk Yellow Balloon - Yellow Balloon (another rare clip!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO-8-DjwdNI Pleasure - Poor Old Organ Grinder (a Tandyn Almer classsssssssssic!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APjU5p593Qw Harry Nilsson - Down To The Valley http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkcrPuDQUPg Van Dyke Parks - Come To The Sunshine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOmA3sS34ls not on youtube unfortunately: The Full Treatment - Just Can't Wait Ronnie & The Daytonas - The Boys & The Girls Harpers Bizarre - Witchi Tai To Didn't listen to them all, but VDP's Sunshine was good, Thanxx! Can't remember hearing that before. Maybe not the place for it, but here's the CTTS sheet music as recorded by Harper's Bizaarre, with, of course, VDP's credits. (http://i730.photobucket.com/albums/ww302/bgasnow/scan0001-1.jpg) Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: Myk Luhv on March 06, 2011, 12:32:42 PM It seems as relevant here as anywhere else on this forum, but I just now listened to the Rubinoos's cover of "Heroes and Villains" which was done a cappella and is very good!
Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: punkinhead on March 07, 2011, 11:44:11 AM Eric Carmen- Sunrise
Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: punkinhead on March 07, 2011, 07:09:42 PM Mother Dear and Pennycandy on the Brain- The Heavy Blinkers
Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: Jay on March 07, 2011, 07:26:45 PM I'm not sure I understand this. Are we naming songs that sound like The Beach Boys, or songs that would have sounded good as done by The Beach Boys? Either way, I would have to go with "Feeling Stronger Everyday" by Chicago. I think it would have sounded cool sung by Carl, with everybody singing the harmony.
Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: hypehat on March 08, 2011, 04:51:56 AM Songs that sound like The Beach Boys! Of course, what I wouldn't give to have Carl or Dennis rip through half the choices on this list.... But the band do seem to have a schtick that people copy a lot. More interested in folks ripping the 70's Beach Boys sound too, apparently the new Iron & Wine record has a lot of that.
That Full Treatment tune is one of best things in the history of recorded sound. It's on the Nuggets Los Angeles box, and as far as I can tell is a complete mystery besides the fact it was released in 1968. Like, who were The Full Treatment? A producer/session dude band? There is absolutely zero info on the internet and I don't have the box itself. Super Furry Animals - Cabin Fever http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng2kaAQ5Y_E SFA - Atomik Lust (Sounds like a Surf's Up outtake!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_oy0okJxjk and SFA again.... Walk You Home http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkngIDEk4Io (swoonworthy strings by Sean O'Hagan) All from the same record, Love Kraft, which really nails the Surf's Up half mystical/half goofy aesthetic unlike anything I've heard. Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: roll plymouth rock on March 08, 2011, 09:40:01 AM That Full Treatment tune is one of best things in the history of recorded sound. It's on the Nuggets Los Angeles box, and as far as I can tell is a complete mystery besides the fact it was released in 1968. Like, who were The Full Treatment? A producer/session dude band? There is absolutely zero info on the internet and I don't have the box itself. All from the same record, Love Kraft, which really nails the Surf's Up half mystical/half goofy aesthetic unlike anything I've heard. The Full Treatment was all the brain child of Buzz Clifford....I actually posted on his myspace how much I loved the tune in the years before that boxset and he wrote me to say that he hadn't heard it in years as he didn't have his copy of the 45 anymore and could I send him a mp3 of the song? Ha, pretty funny stuff....his solo album from 1970 "See Your Way Clear" has David Marks on guitar on it, recommended! As for the SFA I concur they are a great group. Their song "Recepticle For The Respectable" has Paul McCartney chewing carrots & celery on it ala Smile. I also interviewed Daf their drummer during the Love Kraft era and he said the one influence the band could all agree on was Beach Boys music otherwise they didn't always see eye to eye tastewise heh...their compilation mix cd they released around then featured the first commercial release of a Dennis Wilson & Rumbo track since the original 45 came out. and in the spirit of the thread...here's another beach boys soundalike: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xRmb3wtbNA Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - No Surfin' Today Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: roll plymouth rock on March 10, 2011, 04:46:31 PM Here are two surf songs by Roger McGuinn:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpEBabK5n4s The City Surfers - Beach Ball http://growingbolder.com/media/142548.htm Draggin' 'Cross The USA (this isn't the original, it would be cool if someone could post it here -- Bruce sung bgvs on the original!) Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: Rocker on March 12, 2011, 05:40:09 AM Writing the lyrics for Brian Wilson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4aXWYVfxWs&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4aXWYVfxWs&feature=related) Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: Magic City Surfer on March 12, 2011, 06:23:12 AM Weird Al Yankovic - Pancreas http://www.spike.com/video/weird-al-yankovic/2855125 (http://www.spike.com/video/weird-al-yankovic/2855125) This is actually a fantastic BW homage/pastiche. So in light of that it might fit the category of this thread, but I truly enjoy the song. "Flow, flow, flow pancreatic juice, flow flow..." Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: Magic City Surfer on March 12, 2011, 06:27:41 AM Anybody ever hear of The Explorers Club? They sound like they've done their best to pick up where BW left off in 1967. Check out "Don't Forget the Sun" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A21ypoQggUY I've been told they have a whole album on iTunes, but I haven't checked that out yet. Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: hypehat on April 23, 2011, 05:07:07 PM Time for a revive?
The Explorers Club.... eh. My favourite is either the one which sounds like 'Smile' or the one which sounds like 'You Need A Mess Of Help'. The Night And I Are Still So Young, by The Heavy Blinkers, has some sh*t-hot breaks. The Theremin! The french horns! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEaz_Z7sZuA Martin Denny - Paradise Found.... a beautiful, vibe-driven instrumental. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ictNlYF0KkI Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: Ebb and Flow on April 29, 2011, 07:13:07 PM That Bluebird Of Summer - Surf Symphony
The instrumentation is a bit cheesy, but the repeating piano riff sounds remarkably similar to a BW composition. Don't know if it's OK to post a download link here, as it's not on youtube. Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: phirnis on April 30, 2011, 07:27:21 AM I'll throw in a track by Fugu.
This has always reminded me of the Beach Boys circa 20/20: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3raFiEGIui0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3raFiEGIui0) Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: punkinhead on May 24, 2011, 09:03:41 AM Time for a revive? That Heavy Blinkers album is really really good, I've come to love it within the past year...I knew the title song and Try Telling that to My Baby (great video by the way) really well a couple years ago, I only just encountered the album about 8 months ago. The Explorers Club.... eh. My favourite is either the one which sounds like 'Smile' or the one which sounds like 'You Need A Mess Of Help'. The Night And I Are Still So Young, by The Heavy Blinkers, has some merda-hot breaks. The Theremin! The french horns! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEaz_Z7sZuA Martin Denny - Paradise Found.... a beautiful, vibe-driven instrumental. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ictNlYF0KkI I really enjoy Mother Dear and the instrumental: Veranda Celeste....sounds like a mondern Pet Sounds but less gloomy and more sunshine pop Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: hypehat on May 24, 2011, 05:54:20 PM Another Spiritualized tune - Do It All Over Again http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ckXWLwvRDU
Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: puni puni on July 01, 2011, 09:57:08 PM Tears For Fears - Brian Wilson Said
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFJ2gbNx0kg Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: hypehat on August 12, 2011, 02:12:58 PM Was trawling through Jellyfish members solo albums today - Sturmers done owt, Falkner is amazing if angry at most things, but Roger Manning is GREAT. His first solo album is giving me the sheer pop I need right now. And his voice really reminds me of Bruce Johnston!
Especially on the acapella intro to this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw7I5zE6uxc (the song itself ain't much cop) and this 6/8 gem http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51ysc4pxELw and this slice of perfect pop http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKfzH1gAhh4&feature=related Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: The Madcap on August 17, 2011, 04:59:18 PM The songs "Rock N Roll High School" and "Rockaway Beach" by The Ramones remind me of early Beach Boys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5vh0QHUA1w http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6siGKxcKol0 Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: SMiLE Brian on August 17, 2011, 05:06:37 PM The songs "Rock N Roll High School" and "Rockaway Beach" by The Ramones remind me of early Beach Boys Thought about that connection the other day when I listened to the 1964 live version of "be true to your school" from the 1993 box set, and thought it sounded almost like the ramones .http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5vh0QHUA1w http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6siGKxcKol0 Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: Myk Luhv on August 17, 2011, 07:32:54 PM Although I've never heard any of them reference them in particular, I always assumed at least some of the Ramones -- Dee Dee or Joey? -- were big Beach Boys/Brian Wilson fans. That's sort of why I figured they covered "Do You Wanna Dance?" too, along with much of Rocket To Russia being seemingly very early-BBs influenced.
Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: pancakerecords on August 23, 2011, 05:02:19 AM Although I've never heard any of them reference them in particular, I always assumed at least some of the Ramones -- Dee Dee or Joey? -- were big Beach Boys/Brian Wilson fans. That's sort of why I figured they covered "Do You Wanna Dance?" too, along with much of Rocket To Russia being seemingly very early-BBs influenced. They covered "Surf City" and "Surfin' Safari" too. Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: hypehat on February 10, 2012, 06:52:55 PM Bumping this to post this song from The Muppets. I get strong Beach Boy vibes ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZBe7_lE9lE Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: Alan Smith on February 10, 2012, 10:42:33 PM :lol :lol :lol
Awesome bump! - Here's a few rather late comers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQASn7ijbZc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQASn7ijbZc) (check out their other shi while (if) you're there)) If only BB85 had sounded like this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4c2kO5ZE38&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4c2kO5ZE38&feature=related), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EV5pNowizQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EV5pNowizQ) And I always wish old Jeff had flogged this to our boys - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVrlc84AEZM&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVrlc84AEZM&feature=related) Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: Summertime Blooz on February 11, 2012, 05:27:35 PM Louis Philippe makes some fantastic heavily Wilson-inspired Chamber Pop. Real quality- amazing to me that he's not better known. I think you can get most of his albums from itunes. Here's a few-
Every Day Goes By: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY7OtmLsSgM Delta Kiss: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKBLFMof8gs&feature=related A Paris: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYBoOE-QWw8&feature=related Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: Summertime Blooz on February 11, 2012, 05:52:27 PM Here's a couple from Tokyo genius Yasuharu Konishi and Pizzicato Five:
Work of God: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb1kRra_tEM You'll Never Get To Heaven: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEQgPF8iRoY Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: positivemusic on February 13, 2012, 11:25:38 PM Dewey Cox - "Black Sheep"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTKqDqdfEBA Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: Empire Of Love on March 26, 2012, 08:38:31 PM This is a nice little tribute to the Brian Wilson sound (perhaps with a bit of Spector as well), don't think it has been referenced yet, Josh Ritter - Love Is Making Its Way Back:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw_ncZAYRSM&feature=g-sptl&cid=inp-hs-edt-02 Edit: It sounds like a more modern, hip "Getcha' Back." Title: Re: 101 Great BB's Songs (not by The BB's) Post by: Dunderhead on March 27, 2012, 03:33:27 AM One period of music I always try to turn people onto, but always fail to get anybody to listen to, is Japanese classic pop/rock from the 70s. It takes some getting used to, but it bears a strong Brian Wilson influence. I honestly know very little about it simply because it's just never been introduced to American audiences. There was this one producer named Eiichi Ohtaki who was clearly very into The Beach Boys and branded his music style as "Niagara". That's really all I know, the albums are really fucking hard to track down, and there's virtually no information about the stuff written in English.
I'd recommend getting this album though, "A Long Vacation": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-70lTWVCto&feature=related Ohtaki produced a really superb album a few years before ALV by a band called Sugar Babe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw1015-vw7M&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL172F686847CB9B13 I find that song endlessly catchy. There's another guy Harry Hosono who was really into exotica music, and did this cool little album called Paraiso which I dig. And I think a lot of this music is linked by a shared membership in the early 70's band Happy End, which sounded more along the lines of Harrison's All Things Must Pass. Some of the stuff is worth checking out if you can find it, but it can serious luck to stumble on an LP from that period in a record store. |