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« on: December 21, 2014, 03:53:10 PM »

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« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2014, 04:01:33 PM »

It works cos it is a whole bunch of fun. And it's the Beach Boys.

Before they moved into almost unparalleled areas of outstanding musical beauty, the BBs were a band that told the world of a land of beaches and girls and parties so it made perfect sense for them to make such an album that few else would be able to pull off.
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« Reply #2 on: December 21, 2014, 04:04:36 PM »

To me (and maybe just me), it feels - just a little bit - like a pre-drugged out, proto Smiley Smile.
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« Reply #3 on: December 21, 2014, 04:31:35 PM »

It's loose and fun in a way that rock and roll was moving away from as more progressive sounds started to kick in. It has the vibe of a mid 50s rock and roll show, to me at least. A complete lack of pretension combined with great musicians having a lot of fun is always going to be a winning formula.
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« Reply #4 on: December 21, 2014, 04:36:23 PM »

Because in the album's best songs (Devoted to You, There's No Other, Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow) you can not only hear the influence those originals had on the Beach Boys' music, but also the emotion they put into covering them. You can tell they really love those tunes.
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« Reply #5 on: December 21, 2014, 04:38:39 PM »

I like the unplugged vibe of Party! and the way the Boys' personalities come across in the banter.
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« Reply #6 on: December 21, 2014, 09:25:04 PM »

Mainly this is what makes it great:

It works cos it is a whole bunch of fun. And it's the Beach Boys.


Slightly off-topic, but interesting to me:

To me (and maybe just me), it feels - just a little bit - like a pre-drugged out, proto Smiley Smile.

To me it's the other way round: Smiley Smile was an attempt to process SMiLE's musical "feels", as Brian called them, in a looser Party-album-like mode, not in that tense, ambitious to sometimes over-ambitious Pet Sounds/GoodVibrations/SMiLE mode. (Both modes have their right and entitlement of course.)
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« Reply #7 on: December 21, 2014, 09:26:45 PM »

Also, if I remember correctly, way back then, it was something totally new and different. No one,or hardly any one, had put out an album like that!
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« Reply #8 on: December 21, 2014, 11:06:12 PM »

I could break down the Party tracks, or any (and almost  all BB songs and struggle to find a specific logical reason why I like them over other artists.  I just do.

Thus I say if Party floats your boat, then let your boat float.
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« Reply #9 on: December 22, 2014, 12:50:01 AM »

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« Reply #10 on: December 22, 2014, 05:30:49 AM »

I wouldn't consider this great, but it is fun. Is there another album like this by anyone?  Where it's not just an album of covers, but sounds like a recording of a party with a few people jamming on the guitar and singing? I can't think of one. If this had come out a year ealier, it might have been a thing briefly.  But times change so quickly in 1966, that even though it was a hit, it represented a passed era.
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