Popular Beach Boys opinons

[Mr. Wilson]

Brian Wilson :  I'm not a genius just a hard workin guy..

[Andrew G. Doe]

The Beach Boys were better than Jan & Dean. Just.

[RangeRoverA1]

The Beach Boys were better than Jan & Dean. Just.

Correction: not "just" - a great deal better.

[Moon Dawg]

  Bruce, not Carl, should have been the mixdown producer for LOVE YOU.

[Blue2013]

The best tracks on the Still Crusin album are I Get Around, Wouldn't It Be Nice & Good Vibrations.

[Ovi]

The best tracks on the Still Crusin album are I Get Around, Wouldn't It Be Nice & Good Vibrations.

True, but I hate the fact that they were included. Very dumb move.

Edit: Also, it's California Girls, not GV.

[Blue2013]

The best tracks on the Still Crusin album are I Get Around, Wouldn't It Be Nice & Good Vibrations.

True, but I hate the fact that they were included. Very dumb move.

Edit: Also, it's California Girls, not GV.

You're right. Oops. You gave me away, Still Crusin' is clearly not my most played Beach Boys album.
Good Vibrations would be the best track on Still Crusin anyway.

[Disney Boy (1985)]

99% of everything they did between 1963 - 1973 is bloody great!!

[Disney Boy (1985)]

The Beatles career may have been neater, but the Beach Boys highs were higher and the group themselves and their story far more interesting.

[Blue2013]

The Beatles career may have been neater, but the Beach Boys highs were higher and the group themselves and their story far more interesting.

That's right, but while The Beach Boys highest highs (which is for me the albums from Party to Friends, ignoring Party) seriously rival The Beatles, their lowest lows (Keeping The Summer Alive & Summer In Paradise) are far lower.
While Pet Sounds is better than every Beatles album, Summer In Paradise is worse than every Beatles album.

[smilethebeachboysloveyou]

The Beach Boys' music from the '60s and '70s is better than their music from the '80s or '90s.

Mike Love, Roger Christian, Tony Asher, and Van Dyke Parks were better collaborators for Brian Wilson than Eugene Landy was.

Brian's vocal on the "Let Him Run Wild" was better in the 1965 version than it was on the 1998 one.

Movies and TV series that dramatize the Beach Boys' lives have not been very good.

[bluesno1fann]

The Unpopular Opinions thread is far more interesting than the Popular one 


That being said, here's one:
Dennis Wilson is the second-best in terms of talent in the BB's

[bluesno1fann]

I'm not sure if this is a popular opinion, but I'll put it in anyway:

I find both Brianistas and Kokomaoists to be equally and incredibly annoying!



No, this isn't a joke...

[alf wiedersehen]

The Unpopular Opinions thread is far more interesting than the Popular one 

Sure is.

Here's one: they were a group of sufficient singers.

[Disney Boy (1985)]

The Beatles career may have been neater, but the Beach Boys highs were higher and the group themselves and their story far more interesting.

That's right, but while The Beach Boys highest highs (which is for me the albums from Party to Friends, ignoring Party) seriously rival The Beatles, their lowest lows (Keeping The Summer Alive & Summer In Paradise) are far lower.
While Pet Sounds is better than every Beatles album, Summer In Paradise is worse than every Beatles album.

"The Beach Boys highest highs (which is for me the albums from Party to Friends, ignoring Party)"

Er, so shouldn't that just be 'the albums from Pet Sounds to Friends', or am I missing something....

[Blue2013]

Today to Friends (ignoring Party)
 I'm sure I wrote Today
 damn my fingers   
I'm an idiot

[bluesno1fann]

Today to Friends (ignoring Party)
 I'm sure I wrote Today
 damn my fingers  
I'm an idiot

what's wrong with 20/20, Sunflower, Surf's Up, Carl And The Passions: "So Tough", and Holland?

[KittyKat]

All Jardine's production of  "Cottonfields" was better than Brian's. "Airplane Song," not so much, but YMMV.

[rogerlancelot]

When Carl Wilson sang in his soft voice, he had one of the most beautiful voices ever.

"Heroes And Villains" although good was not the right choice for a follow up to "Good Vibrations" as a single.

"Solar System" has terrible lyrics but nice melody and chord changes.

The SMiLe Sessions box was probably the best boxed set (packaging, content, etc.) ever for any particular album released or not.

"Barabara Ann" sucks.

"God Only Knows" is one of the finest constructed compositions of the 20th century. Same goes for many of the other Pet Sounds tracks.

Stack-O-Tracks was a huge blunder on Capitol's part.

Sunflower was the perfect album released at the perfectly wrong time.

[Blue2013]

Today to Friends (ignoring Party)
 I'm sure I wrote Today
 damn my fingers  
I'm an idiot

what's wrong with 20/20, Sunflower, Surf's Up, Carl And The Passions: "So Tough, and Holland?

They are good too, especially Sunflower. But I feel Today to Friends was their absolute peak and was when they only could be matched by The Beatles.

If I was to rate those albums......
Today 4.5/5
Summer Days 4.5/5
Pet Sounds 5/5
Smile (does this count?) - 4.5/5
Smiley Smile 4.5/5
Wild Honey 4.5/5
Friends 4.5/5

While they continued to put out some pretty good stuff in the 70s, I don't think any of those albums are on the same level as what I consider to be their peak.

[donald]

We need a thread like this to balance out the unpopular opinions page

FYI, the poster called "shelter" already made a thread about them, there: http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,15942.0.html
Of course, you wouldn't know it as it's a creation from Summer 2013.

Range Rover is the watcher and reminder when some poor schmuck inadvertently brings up a subject more than once.  Why is that?     God help us if we must search the archives for originality or redundancy each time we feel moved to start a thread.

[Disney Boy (1985)]

When Carl Wilson sang in his soft voice, he had one of the most beautiful voices ever.

"Heroes And Villains" although good was not the right choice for a follow up to "Good Vibrations" as a single.

"Solar System" has terrible lyrics but nice melody and chord changes.

The SMiLe Sessions box was probably the best boxed set (packaging, content, etc.) ever for any particular album released or not.

"Barabara Ann" sucks.

"God Only Knows" is one of the finest constructed compositions of the 20th century. Same goes for many of the other Pet Sounds tracks.

Stack-O-Tracks was a huge blunder on Capitol's part.

Sunflower was the perfect album released at the perfectly wrong time.

"Stack-O-Tracks was a huge blunder on Capitol's part".

Explain please.

[rogerlancelot]

Per Stack-O-Tracks: Beach Boys popularity was declining when Capitol rushed this release out with packaging that reminds me of those old Sing Along With Mitch Miller albums. Perhaps the thing would have worked better in chronological order (the songs) but was there really a demand for this sort of thing in the first place? I believe it only hurt their reputation more. And (correct me please if I am wrong) isn't this when they lost the multitracks for "Do It Again"?

[RangeRoverA1]

When Carl Wilson sang in his soft voice, he had one of the most beautiful voices ever.

"Heroes And Villains" although good was not the right choice for a follow-up to "Good Vibrations" as a single.

"Barbara Ann" sucks.

Stack-o-Tracks was a huge blunder on Capitol's part.

Big "No" to these

The Smile Sessions box was probably the best boxed set (packaging, content etc.) ever for any particular album released or not.

"God Only Knows" is one of the finest constructed compositions of the 20th century. Same goes for many of the other Pet Sounds tracks.

& affirmative nod to these.

Range Rover is the watcher and reminder when some poor schmuck inadvertently brings up a subject more than once.  Why is that?     God help us if we must search the archives for originality or redundancy each time we feel moved to start a thread.

1st, it isn't only me who directs the original poster to a similar-titled thread. F.ex., I've seen Pretty Funky doing so, or The Real Beach Boy once referenced 4-5 topics simultaneously. 2ndly, I've no idea how you could interpret my reminding as a hint at others' stupidity. It's only made for good, I just try to be useful on this board, that's all.

[Micha]

"Heroes And Villains" although good was not the right choice for a follow up to "Good Vibrations" as a single.

So what would have been the right choice?

I wonder if the opinion that "Barbara Ann" sucks really is popular, even among the members of this board...