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"Alric Knebel" wrote in message
news:132b1da3hvvl28@corp.supernews.com...
> Brian Watson wrote:
>
>> "Derek A. Bill" wrote in message
>> news:160420071451440792%derekbill@allsummerlong.com...
>>
>>
>>
>>>>In short, it wasn't the sublime (and unreleased) Smile
>>>>which derailed
>>>>the BBs, it was Smile's comically inept replacement.
>>
>>
>> Personal comment here; Smiley Smile was the first Beach Boys album I
>> DIDN'T buy on its first release.
>> What I was buying looked to be like a big single rather than an album,
>> and a view of the actual disc confirmed that the run out groove was about
>> the same size as the space taken by recorded tracks.
>>
>> Now, I've never been one to buy music by the mileage of the tracks, but
>> this album looked like a rip-off of the first order and so I didn't buy
>> it.
>>
>> Subsequent heard extracts confirmed I hadn't missed much.
>>
> At this point on this two-fer, I've only really listened to Smiley Smile.
> It really is a terrible disappointment to me, with "Good Vibrations" the
> only REALLY good song. How could the thing be this bad of a miss? I
> mean, these guys were seasoned musicians at this time.
>
> What album would you guys recommend for the Beach Boys in their more
> progressive period? And what album would you recommend, period, outside
> of the GV-level creativity?
I've come round to liking Summer Days And Summer Nights (two-ferred with
Today) above any Beach Boys album other than Pet Sounds.
It has the sublime California Girls (which even "works" here in England) and
hints at what was to come on Pet Sounds.
--
Brian
"Fight like the Devil, die like a gentleman."
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