Screw Surfing

[FatherOfTheMan Sr101]

I have these "hipster" internet friends who don't get the Beach Boys, so I made this playlist...

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpJfYswP59L3pqoxRhIP-vGnX5BXpMaeJ&feature=mh_lolz

[pixletwin]

Excellent list.

[EgoHanger1966]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn6iajHwGF8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGTdmLhKEBk

HiPSTERS LOVE SMiLE and PeT SoUNdS.

[runnersdialzero]

A better mixtape to make for them would be Beck's "Lost Cause" over and over and over, closing with "Video Games" by Black Out Band.

[I. Spaceman]

I'd like to make a Beach Boys surfin' mix for those who only like Pet Sounds and Smile.

[Summer_Days]

I'd like to make a Beach Boys surfin' mix for those who only like Pet Sounds and Smile.

YES. And a Beatles early '60s mix for those who only like Rubber Soul/Revolver onward, but I digress (seriously, A Hard Day's Night IS their strongest album track by track).

I'm sure there are a lot of fans out there that feel embarrassed by the surf-car-summer early stuff of the Beach Boys, which is a real shame. Without 'Surfer Girl' and 'I Get Around', you can't appreciate Brian's growth toward Pet Sounds or SMiLE quite as much, if you ask me.

[I. Spaceman]

I'd like to make a Beach Boys surfin' mix for those who only like Pet Sounds and Smile.

YES. And a Beatles early '60s mix for those who only like Rubber Soul/Revolver onward, but I digress (seriously, A Hard Day's Night IS their strongest album track by track).

I'm sure there are a lot of fans out there that feel embarrassed by the surf-car-summer early stuff of the Beach Boys, which is a real shame. Without 'Surfer Girl' and 'I Get Around', you can't appreciate Brian's growth toward Pet Sounds or SMiLE quite as much, if you ask me.

Agreed on all of that.

[Sheriff John Stone]

I'd like to make a Beach Boys surfin' mix for those who only like Pet Sounds and Smile.

YES. And a Beatles early '60s mix for those who only like Rubber Soul/Revolver onward, but I digress (seriously, A Hard Day's Night IS their strongest album track by track).

Wow, it's nice to read that. I agree with you about A Hard Day's Night. I've always hesitated to say it, though, because of that Rubber Soul/Revolver AND Abbey Road crowd out there.

[EgoHanger1966]

Another vote here for HDN - my favorite Beatles album!

I don't think any album (Beatles or otherwise) can match the one-two-three punch of It Won't Be Long/All I've Gotta Do/All My Loving on With The Beatles. Early Fabs is where it's at!

[Rocker]

I wouldn't agree on the list as a whole. Those are great songs, don't get me wrong. But the early surf and car songs are not only an important (probably the most important, commercially speaking) part of their career but they are also great. You can't get any better than "I get around" for mid-60s Rock'n'Roll or "Surfin' safari"

[William Bowe]

HiPSTERS LOVE SMiLE and PeT SoUNdS.

Not all hipsters are good at their job.

[Magic Transistor Radio]

I don't have a problem with the surf/car songs. I like it all. But it makes me sick that the Beach Boys public image is stuck in a rut. The thing I like about them is their diversity. One of the most diverse bands of all time. This list is good because it shows the wide range they had as a band.

[Summer_Days]

I don't have a problem with the surf/car songs. I like it all. But it makes me sick that the Beach Boys public image is stuck in a rut. The thing I like about them is their diversity. One of the most diverse bands of all time. This list is good because it shows the wide range they had as a band.

Yeah, the whole stuck in a rut thing is a problem. For most people, the Beach Boys are strictly a surf n' car oldies band that apparently fell off the planet basically in 1967, only to emerge in 1988 as old farts with a surprise huge hit. "Oooh, 'Kokomo'! Holland...Sunflower...Friends...Wild Honey? WTF are you talkin' about? What's this Pet Sounds business? How can anything by a surf band ever rate as high as anything the Beatles ever did?"

Part of it is the fault of the Beach Boys themselves, though...

[runnersdialzero]

I don't have a problem with the surf/car songs. I like it all. But it makes me sick that the Beach Boys public image is stuck in a rut. The thing I like about them is their diversity. One of the most diverse bands of all time. This list is good because it shows the wide range they had as a band.

Yeah, the whole stuck in a rut thing is a problem. For most people, the Beach Boys are strictly a surf n' car oldies band that apparently fell off the planet basically in 1967, only to emerge in 1988 as old farts with a surprise huge hit. "Oooh, 'Kokomo'! Holland...Sunflower...Friends...Wild Honey? WTF are you talkin' about? What's this Pet Sounds business? How can anything by a surf band ever rate as high as anything the Beatles ever did?"

Part of it is the fault of the Beach Boys themselves, though...

You were correct up until the "What's this Pet Sounds business?" More like "They were terrible, then they put out a sorta good album because they were blatantly ripping off THE MOTHERFUCKING BEATLES DAWG, and then Brian went insane (lol what an idiot) and then they did 'Kokomo' and Full House later."

[I. Spaceman]

Pet Sounds is far more sanctified and safe than ya'll are making it out to be. It is #2 even in Rolling Stone's greatest albums list, and that is the safest list of all time.

[Dunderhead]

I've had a mix I've used a few times lying around somewhere, it's a chronological mix of Beach Boys songs and songs by The Rolling Stones, The Byrds, The Beatles and Love, organized by recording date. I think it helps people understand the band better when they can hear Here Today right after Under My Thumb or something like that.

[Autotune]

Screw hipsters. Why do we have to go out of our way making them hipster CDs? Do we nedd their judgement to validate our musical preferences? Are we that insecure? Do we need to prove that there is cool music in the BBs catalogue? I wouldn't move a finger for them.

[runnersdialzero]

7777 topics. No one can make a new topic. This will be our last topic.

[Reddiwhip]

I don't have a problem with the surf/car songs. I like it all. But it makes me sick that the Beach Boys public image is stuck in a rut. The thing I like about them is their diversity. One of the most diverse bands of all time. This list is good because it shows the wide range they had as a band.

Yeah, the whole stuck in a rut thing is a problem. For most people, the Beach Boys are strictly a surf n' car oldies band that apparently fell off the planet basically in 1967, only to emerge in 1988 as old farts with a surprise huge hit. "Oooh, 'Kokomo'! Holland...Sunflower...Friends...Wild Honey? WTF are you talkin' about? What's this Pet Sounds business? How can anything by a surf band ever rate as high as anything the Beatles ever did?"

Part of it is the fault of the Beach Boys themselves, though...

You were correct up until the "What's this Pet Sounds business?" More like "They were terrible, then they put out a sorta good album because they were blatantly ripping off THE MOTHERFUCKING BEATLES DAWG, and then Brian went insane (lol what an idiot) and then they did 'Kokomo' and Full House later."

To which I always tell them, what the  were they doing from 1967 to 1988?  Twenty freakin' years of grass and cocaine?  No.  They had a fat man orchestrating synthesizers thirty years before LCD Soundsystem, they were making some of the best pop-rock albums of the early 1970s, and they pioneered the return to basically produced albums long before John Wesley Harding and the Beatles Get Back Sessions.  Freakin' hipsters.

[Summer_Days]

To which I always tell them, what the  were they doing from 1967 to 1988?  Twenty freakin' years of grass and cocaine?  No.  They had a fat man orchestrating synthesizers thirty years before LCD Soundsystem, they were making some of the best pop-rock albums of the early 1970s, and they pioneered the return to basically produced albums long before John Wesley Harding and the Beatles Get Back Sessions.  Freakin' hipsters.

Well said. Adding to that, the Beach Boys were one of the few integrated bands around when Blondie and Ricky were in the group; they had a closer relationship to that groovy car salesmen of the spirit, the Maharishi, than the Beatles did; and the band often changed and adapted new sounds on their albums, pushing the envelope - no two records sounding alike. They took real chances prior the Endless Summer.

[Gertie J.]

To which I always tell them, what the  were they doing from 1967 to 1988?  Twenty freakin' years of grass and cocaine?  No.  They had a fat man orchestrating synthesizers thirty years before LCD Soundsystem, they were making some of the best pop-rock albums of the early 1970s, and they pioneered the return to basically produced albums long before John Wesley Harding and the Beatles Get Back Sessions.  Freakin' hipsters.

and the band often changed and adapted new sounds on their albums, pushing the envelope - no two records sounding alike.

How 'bout Surfin' Safari and Surfin' USA? Not forgetting Shut Down v.2 vs. Summer Days? i'll tell ya they sound fairly the same. No?

[lee]

Screw hipsters. Why do we have to go out of our way making them hipster CDs? Do we nedd their judgement to validate our musical preferences? Are we that insecure? Do we need to prove that there is cool music in the BBs catalogue? I wouldn't move a finger for them.

One of the best posts I've read on this board.

[oldsurferdude]

To which I always tell them, what the  were they doing from 1967 to 1988?  Twenty freakin' years of grass and cocaine?  No.  They had a fat man orchestrating synthesizers thirty years before LCD Soundsystem, they were making some of the best pop-rock albums of the early 1970s, and they pioneered the return to basically produced albums long before John Wesley Harding and the Beatles Get Back Sessions.  Freakin' hipsters.

Well said. Adding to that, the Beach Boys were one of the few integrated bands around when Blondie and Ricky were in the group; they had a closer relationship to that groovy car salesmen of the spirit, the Maharishi, than the Beatles did; and the band often changed and adapted new sounds on their albums, pushing the envelope - no two records sounding alike. They took real chances prior the Endless Summer.

Hanging around the used car salesman did more harm than good as seen in the disasterous maharishi/bb tour. Blondie and Ricky were a non factor with the group's popularity. They were there, sang a few songs and were gone.

[Summer_Days]

To which I always tell them, what the  were they doing from 1967 to 1988?  Twenty freakin' years of grass and cocaine?  No.  They had a fat man orchestrating synthesizers thirty years before LCD Soundsystem, they were making some of the best pop-rock albums of the early 1970s, and they pioneered the return to basically produced albums long before John Wesley Harding and the Beatles Get Back Sessions.  Freakin' hipsters.

and the band often changed and adapted new sounds on their albums, pushing the envelope - no two records sounding alike.

How 'bout Surfin' Safari and Surfin' USA? Not forgetting Shut Down v.2 vs. Summer Days? i'll tell ya they sound fairly the same. No?

I meant the late '60s - early '70s albums.

[I. Spaceman]

they pioneered the return to basically produced albums long before John Wesley Harding 

Yep, ONE MONTH is a long time.