From: rlburger@nospam_wisc.edu   
      
   On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 16:35:02 GMT, Doug Cunningly    
   wrote:   
   >> Appreciating new music styles takes time to get past the superficial   
   >> sound.   Most people don't have the patience, they just stick with   
   >> music they heard in highschool and college.   
   >   
   >Personally, I think the Beach Boys were a fifties group. Their acapella   
   >songs sound like the stuff that would be on Perry Como and Andy Williams   
   >shows. Combine that with Chuck Berry's blues shuffle and some Duane Eddy   
   >and you have the Beach Boys. Not that there's anything wrong with that...   
   >   
   >And what's wrong with DooWop???????????   
      
   I like DooWop.   I actually bought the DVD's of the PBS DooWop TV   
   shows, with the aging knights out there singing their swan songs.   I   
   like any kind of music with heart.   
      
   I mention DooWop because it is so ....stylized, for lack of a better   
   word.  I mean, it is very much of a period.    DooWop influenced the   
   Beach Boys and others, but you don't hear many traces of it in today's   
   music.   In fact, the Beach Boys are kind of an anchronism too!   
      
   Dick Dale and the surf guitar sound got picked-up and adopted by young   
   kids.  Dick Dale  is cool now.    Maybe the Beach Boys will be cool   
   someday too.   Hell, "Lounge Music" was a college music fad about ten   
   years ago.  Maybe "Be True to Your School" will make a camp comeback.   
      
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