Your Second Favorite Band Next to the Beachboys

[Eric Aniversario]

2nd favorite artist: Basia

2nd favorite band: The Doobie Brothers

[Sam_BFC]

It's changed so many times... The Ramones, David Bowie, Queen, Pink, Alice Cooper, Suicidal Tendencies, KMFDM, Thelonious Monk, Oingo Boingo, Extreme, Mott The Hoople/Ian Hunter, The Beatles, Sheryl Crow, among others.

Yay Extreme.  Saw their Pornograffiti tour last week.

[The Dumb Angel]

The Beach Boys as well as the bands I've listed are among my favorites. I don't really have just one all-time favorite band.

The Beatles, Big Star, The Clash, The Flaming Lips, Guided By Voices, Jellyfish, Pavement, Pixies, Sonic Youth, Talking Heads, Television, The Velvet Underground, The Who, Wilco, Yo La Tengo, The Zombies, among (many) others.

[sockittome]

I generally don't like to rank things, especially when it comes to music.  I'll usually have my all time favorite of something...and then there's everything else I like...pretty much the same.

So, without a doubt my favorite band IS the Beach Boys (surprise, surprise!).  For me, that's saying a lot, since until the late '80s my favorite was Zeppelin!  But if I really had to choose a current second favorite, I'd have to go with The Who.  I've been a pretty big Who fan for many years, and what I like best about them are the harmonies in their early songs.  I guess you could consider that somewhat of a connection with the Boys, although in a louder, grittier fashion!

[RangeRoverA1]

Phil Spector

Is Phil Spector the band, though? He's not an artist, just some producer who happened to create the so-called "Wall of Sound". Thankfully, Brian came along & surpassed his "master". Lots of inventiveness & variety, not just same sound repeating over & over from one song to next.

[Peter Reum]

The Beach Boys are my second favorite band after Little Feat.

[job]

The Boss
The Stones
The Beatles
Warren Zevon
The Clash
Jackson Browne

[Tablevega]

The Beach Boys aren't quite my all-time favourite group (although Brian has been responsible for several tracks I like almost more than anything else ever...), so that means that the following groups/individuals aren't necessarily 'second'... they're just a rotating cast of stuff I listen to a lot that I like.

eels/e (currently on HEAVY rotation... there's hardly anything I don't like! daisies of the galaxy is my overall favourite record, but he's been amazingly good throughout, really)
saint etienne (they just get better and better)
the divine comedy (with 'regeneration' the absolute highlight, but great stuff throughout)
pet shop boys (always something great in there somewhere, even if you have to pick and choose a bit lately...)
penguin café orchestra (if I wake up in the afterlife with this playing, I'll know I did OK)
paul simon (and that other guy he used to sing with... I like everything S&G did, apart from maybe baby driver, while Paul solo is less consistent, but he's still great)
orchestral manoeuvres in the dark (so they went a bit dodgy after 1983, sure... but I think everything they've done since 1989 is at least worth a listen or downright great, with the possible exception of sailing on the sodding seven seas)
1 giant leap (just... some of the best, multi-layered stuff ever... I enjoy it as a production, for its musicality, for its internationally collaborative spirit, for its thumping dance tunes, and for its wistful anthems of what it is to be human. oh, and the lyrics are pure poetry too)
new order (hardly a duff track, for me... even on the last three albums, which no-one else seems to like...)
xtc (later, post-skylarking: I'm a bit 'meh' before that, but from oranges and lemons on, I think they were incredible... nonsuch and apple venus are out of this world, right up there with my favourite music ever)
rufus wainwright
the beloved (1985-1991)
yann tiersen
the beatles (oh, just everything. they were and remain really quite good)
neil finn (in all of his various outfits, and with particular love for the weird and twisted crowded house of together alone and the offbeat but awesome first finn record, plus 'not the girl you think you are'. I'm not wild on the first CH album (that mid-80s drum sound! those horns! arrgh!), and I find temple of low men very patchy too, but great when it works)

Hmm. reviewing the above, I see there's not much out-and-out raaawk here... it seems it just doesn't do it for me, though I do like bands that have dabbled, like the Kinks (autumn almanac... yeah!) and John and Paul's guitar and drums combo, and I have the odd guilty pleasure like the stones' 'sympathy for the devil' and rainbow's 'since you been gone', weirdly. And for some reason I love jellyfish's really raucous tunes (as well as all their other stuff).

oh, and mozart and bach are great too in parts, but they did so many types of thing, it's hard to pick out favourites...

[Tablevega]

The Beach Boys aren't quite my all-time favourite group (although Brian has been responsible for several tracks I like almost more than anything else ever...), so that means that the following groups/individuals aren't necessarily 'second'... they're just a rotating cast of stuff I listen to a lot that I like.

eels/e (currently on HEAVY rotation... there's hardly anything I don't like! daisies of the galaxy is my overall favourite record, but he's been amazingly good throughout, really)
saint etienne (they just get better and better)
the divine comedy (with 'regeneration' the absolute highlight, but great stuff throughout)
pet shop boys (always something great in there somewhere, even if you have to pick and choose a bit lately...)
penguin café orchestra (if I wake up in the afterlife with this playing, I'll know I did OK)
paul simon (and that other guy he used to sing with... I like everything S&G did, apart from maybe baby driver, while Paul solo is less consistent, but he's still great)
orchestral manoeuvres in the dark (so they went a bit dodgy after 1983, sure... but I think everything they've done since 1989 is at least worth a listen or downright great, with the possible exception of sailing on the sodding seven seas)
1 giant leap (just... some of the best, multi-layered stuff ever... I enjoy it as a production, for its musicality, for its internationally collaborative spirit, for its thumping dance tunes, and for its wistful anthems of what it is to be human. oh, and the lyrics are pure poetry too)
new order (hardly a duff track, for me... even on the last three albums, which no-one else seems to like...)
xtc (later, post-skylarking: I'm a bit 'meh' before that, but from oranges and lemons on, I think they were incredible... nonsuch and apple venus are out of this world, right up there with my favourite music ever)
rufus wainwright
the beloved (1985-1991)
yann tiersen
the beatles (oh, just everything. they were and remain really quite good)
neil finn (in all of his various outfits, and with particular love for the weird and twisted crowded house of together alone and the offbeat but awesome first finn record, plus 'not the girl you think you are'. I'm not wild on the first CH album (that mid-80s drum sound! those horns! arrgh!), and I find temple of low men very patchy too, but great when it works)

Hmm. reviewing the above, I see there's not much out-and-out raaawk here... it seems it just doesn't do it for me, though I do like bands that have dabbled, like the Kinks (autumn almanac... yeah!) and John and Paul's guitar and drums combo, and I have the odd guilty pleasure like the stones' 'sympathy for the devil' and rainbow's 'since you been gone', weirdly. And for some reason I love jellyfish's really raucous tunes (as well as all their other stuff).

oh, and mozart and bach are great too in parts, but they did so many types of thing, it's hard to pick out favourites...

Sorry for blank quote above - just wanted to say, I never expected to see anyone mention the Penguin Cafe Orchestra on thhis forum.  I'm a big fan too --they''ve just been playing in my county and I was gutted I couldn't make it.  Music for heaven - you're so right.

[phirnis]

Red House Painters / Sun Kil Moon

[Orange Crate Art]

Not sure who my 2nd favorite is. Might be The Mothers Of Invention, The Damned, The Ramones or Syd Barrett era Floyd. Could be the original Alice Cooper band too. I think I have a lot of 2nd favorites. But #1 never changes. 

[GhostyTMRS]

1. The Beach Boys
2. The Beatles
3. The Monkees
4. Elvis Presley
5. The Doors
6. Queen
7. Pink Floyd
8. Frank Sinatra
9. Robyn Hitchcock
10.The Byrds

[Catbirdman]

Red House Painters / Sun Kil Moon

That's really coincidental to read this, as I've been obssessed with the album Benji this week. Possibly my favorite of this year.

As for my second favorite band...... well the Beach Boys are my second favorite.

Favorite is The La's/Lee Mavers. Kind of like Smile: they never truly finished anything to their satisfaction so they're as good as you imangine them to be.

Dylan is probably #3.

[bachelorofbullets]

The Who were always my favorite, or I might say Townshend as I think he is the greatest songwriter.

I like George Harrison stuff too.

[the captain]

After a few years and 10 pages of posts (not to mention the fact that about 2-3% of my all-time posts were made sober), I have no idea whether I've "contributed to" (term used loosely) this thread. So now's as good a time as any to post. Or repost. And I look forward to the search-function police to point out any contradictions.

The Beach Boys aren't my favorite band, they're just the most interesting band to read about and discuss. They're not not my favorite band, either. There is just no such thing. Once you hit a certain quality, it's impossible (and silly) to quibble about who's better, especially across styles or the listener's moods. So I'll say second-best is whoever comes after a top tier of greats too long to bother listing.

[Beachlad]

Dion"not Celine or Warwick"Dimucci is probably my second favorite artist followed by the Eagles, ZZTop, and the Buckinghams <just something about the Horns>

[ppk700]

My second favorite band would have to be Pearl Jam. Followed by, in no particular order: Nirvana, Arcade Fire, The Smashing Pumpkins, Alice In Chains, The Beatles, Steven Wilson, Foo Fighters, Queens Of The Stone Age, Stone Temple Pilots, Jane's Addiction, Nine Inch Nails, Best Coast, Radiohead, Sophistafunk (local band but amazing), Ozzy Osbourne, Soundgarden, The Seatbelts, lots of others I'm semi-interested in... been delving more into The Doors lately, I love "LA Woman" (the album, not just the song). I'm always trying to get into different bands and listen through their discographies at least a few times. I can and will spend the rest of my life checking out various artists/musicians.

[Menace Wilson]

Yes (Close To The Edge era) and The Beach Boys are probably about tied in my book.  After that, it's: Harry Nilsson, Todd Rundgren, The Pretty Things, Roxy Music, Eno, Bowie, Genesis, Os Mutantes, Burt Bacharach, The Who, The Millennium, The Band, and pretty much everything Motown.    

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

Beach Boys of course are my favorite, followed by the Beatles, STP, pre-Wall Floyd, Rod Stewart up to 1996, the Cardigans, Led Zeppelin, Roxy Music's first four albums (Siren was relatively weak), the Cardigans, sh*t....too many to list!

[MaxL]

Red House Painters / Sun Kil Moon

Yes, a million times. Obsessed over "Ghosts…" for a long time before moving onto the rest and each release blew me away and still does. Seeing Koz next week in London.

I know I've posted in this thread before but for comparison at the moment I'd say it's a tie: RHP/SKM, a-ha, Prefab Sprout, Tears for Fears, Neil Young.

[Hot Rod]

folk-era Chumbawamba are probably even better than The Beach Boys. These last three albums are so amazing.

then pop punk bands like Zatopeks, Masked Intruder, Travoltas, Mr T Experience, Ruth's Hat.

[JK]

2nd favorite artist: Basia

Is that the same Basia who sang with Matt Bianco? Loved playing the piano solo in "Half A Minute" with the commercial band I was in during the late '80s, early '90s... 

[kookadams]

folk-era Chumbawamba are probably even better than The Beach Boys. These last three albums are so amazing.

then pop punk bands like Zatopeks, Masked Intruder, Travoltas, Mr T Experience, Ruth's Hat.

REAL pop-punk the queers, travoltas, sonic surf city and manges/ crap: the maxies

[kookadams]

Sorry! Beach Boys are second to The Beatles for me.

Mccartney/Lennon were the greatest songwriters of all time during the Beatles years. BW had the talent to match them but other things got in the way for him.

putting the beatles at the top of the music spectrum is like putting mcdonalds on top of the burger spectrum....I mean seriously mccartney was good not great and lennon was ok but neither were NOWHERE near brian, cmon.

[NickandthePassions]

CSNY and each of their solo careers.