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The Beach Boys are by far my favorite band of all time, I’ve listened to them since I was a baby because that’s all my grandpa would listen to. I assume most know a lot about them, but there are probably some of u and a majority of the world thinks their just an old band that plays old beach surfing songs in the summer time, really there is so much more than that. There story is one of the most wild, interesting, sad, and amazing stories I’ve ever heard. I personally think their harmonies are better than any other band out there, and Brian Wilson is on motzart level of genius, plus they were the beatles biggest rivals and were the ones who inspired Sgt peppers lonely hearts. I know this is a Michael Jackson fan forum but I just to express how much they also mean to me and I just wanted them to have their own thread as well.
 
I never warmed much to them but I love Kokomo and I know most of their bigger hits like most human beings. I also know the Pet Sounds album and know of its notoriety but I somehow never warmed to it.
 
I love the song In My Room. It's so beautiful.
 
filmandmusic said:
I never warmed much to them but I love Kokomo and I know most of their bigger hits like most human beings. I also know the Pet Sounds album and know of its notoriety but I somehow never warmed to it.
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Rolling Stone magazine ranks Pet Sounds number 2 in 500 greatest albums of all time
 
mjchris said:
Off topic. False forum. Mods please.
Better you post this in a Beach boys forum.
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There’s The Beatles, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Jimi Hendrix, Donald Trump, 60s rock, etc. It’s common to make one thread that involves another artist, not uncommon at all. I’m allowed to do this
 
From the i newspaper (UK) earlier this year:
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The Beach Boys: 'You never know when it'll be the last time you speak to Brian'

Bruce Johnston and Mike Love recall singing a cappella with Brian Wilson, and their 'Spinal Tap' moment
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"In 1966, The Beach Boys' bassist Bruce Johnston came back to his London hotel room to find two surprise guests: John Lennon and Paul McCartney. “Kim Fowley [Johnston’s friend and record producer] was waiting for me in the lobby and said, ‘Bruce, I’ve let Lennon and McCartney into your suite because they want to hear Pet Sounds,” Johnston recalls.

Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys’ troubled mastermind, had written Pet Sounds after hearing The Beatles’ 1965 album Rubber Soul, taking it as a personal challenge to reach new creative heights. He hadn’t released the resulting opulent masterpiece yet, but it was no wonder Lennon and McCartney wanted an advance hearing: The Beatles and The Beach Boys had a musical rivalry that was pushing the boundaries of pop music.

“They were really polite,” says Johnston now. “They wore those Edwardian suits.”

He duly played them the record. “They were just kind of shell-shocked,” he says, “at the brilliance of the album and our voices and especially Brian. They listened to it twice. I found out later that ‘Here, There and Everywhere’ on the Revolver album was influenced by ‘Wouldn’t it Be Nice?’.” Paul McCartney went on to say the album’s glorious, hymnal centrepiece “God Only Knows” was the best song ever written.

ard as it is to imagine now, not everyone shared Macca’s enthusiasm. From 1961, The Beach Boys’ trademark had been good-time, braggadocious surf-car-girls-sun songs that mixed Chuck Berry-like rock’n’roll with barbershop harmonies – “I Get Around”, “Surfin’ USA”, “Fun Fun Fun” – capturing the essence of Californian youth. “The beach was a big deal,” says singer and lyricist Mike Love, cousin of the Wilsons.

“And how do you get to the beach? In a car. So Brian said, ‘we’re gonna do a song about surfing.’ There was instrumental surf music, but nobody had ever done a song about surfing. And it resonated not just with people on coastlines but all over the place.”

But Pet Sounds was a giant leap forwards: an experimental, symphonic take on loneliness and longing that used the sound of flutes, theremins, bicycle bells, Coca-Cola cans and barking dogs. “Capitol [Records] didn’t get it,” Johnston says. “It wasn’t a girls and cars summery album.” Nor did the public: the album stalled at number 10.

(The Beach Boys by the Beach Boys is out now (Genesis Publications, £50). The Beach Boys documentary is out now on Disney+)"


Book review:
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Beach Boys…New Book! (Review)

The new book The Beach Boys by The Beach Boys has arrived! This is the “bookstore version”, which is a reasonably priced ($65 list) heavy coffee-table book. It’s approximately 12×10 inches, h…
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"The normal breakdown of the vocal harmony for The Beach Boys had Brian with the clear high falsetto, and Mike with the bass vocals. Carl. Dennis, and Al filled in the middle parts of the complex harmonies. Also, not long after Brian stopped touring in 1965, Bruce Johnston took over those high falsetto vocals. Here’s Mike Love explaining their vocal blend. In their teens they would harmonize at family gatherings (you might have to click to enlarge):"


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Excerpts from a Guardian piece by Ben Beaumont-Thomas, 11/06/25

"Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys musician, songwriter and producer who created some of history’s most purely beautiful pop music, has died aged 82.

In a post shared on Instagram on Wednesday, Wilson’s family wrote: “We are heartbroken to announce that our beloved father Brian Wilson has passed away. We are at a loss for words right now. Please respect our privacy at this time as our family is grieving. We realize that we are sharing our grief with the world. Love & Mercy.”

As the leading creative force in the Beach Boys, Wilson crafted a variously carefree and melancholy sound that came to define the uncertain utopianism of mid-century California. Using ambitious studio techniques to give the band’s music a thrilling grandeur, his songs about surfing, driving, girls and the pep of youth modulated to more reflective and often psychedelic material, resulting in one of the most highly regarded catalogues of American song. The Beach Boys’ 1966 album Pet Sounds – written and produced almost entirely by Wilson – is seen not only as the group’s masterpiece, but for many is the greatest album of all time.

Wilson was born in Inglewood, southern California, in 1942. A natural musician with perfect pitch who could sing back phrases sung to him as a baby, he learned piano as he and his younger brothers Carl and Dennis fell in love with R&B, rock’n’roll, doo-wop and pop. Despite going partly deaf in one ear (possibly as a result of an attack by a local boy), he and Carl joined their cousin Mike Love to form the high school group Carl and the Passions, later bringing in Dennis and friend Al Jardine to form the Pendletones. They had been encouraged by Wilson’s father Murry, with whom Wilson had a complex relationship – he later said Murry was also physically abusive to him.

Wilson’s first song for the group, soon renamed the Beach Boys, was 1961’s Surfin’ – the first in a series of Wilson-penned hits such as Surfin’ Safari, Surfer Girl and Surfin’ USA, the latter reaching No 3 on the US charts and cementing their breakthrough.

Wilson graduated to producer, as well as songwriter, for third album Surfer Girl, and powered the group through an astonishingly high work rate, releasing 15 albums before the end of the 1960s. Wilson’s ambition meant that he strove not to be boxed in as a novelty band who sang about surfing and cars, and deepened the band’s songcraft – including on Pet Sounds, which was conceived as an overarching statement rather than a series of discrete songs, its complex arrangements featuring everything from orchestral instruments to Coca-Cola bottles.

Ronnie Wood also paid tribute on social media, writing “my world is in mourning” while Mick Fleetwood wrote that he was “greatly saddened” by the news. “Anyone with a musical bone in their body must be grateful for Brian Wilson’s genius magical touch,” he added.

In a lengthy Instagram tribute, Questlove wrote: “If there was a human being who made art out of inexpressible sadness … damn it was Brian Wilson.”

Sean Lennon posted: “Not many people influenced me as much as he did. I feel very lucky that I was able to meet him and spend some time with him. He was always very kind and generous. He was our American Mozart.”

Nancy Sinatra also shared a tribute on Instagram. “His cherished music will live forever as he travels through the universe and beyond,” she wrote. “God bless you, sweet Brian.”
 
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@zinniabooklover , do you possibly know of anywhere in the uk that I can watch The Beach Boys biopic Love And Mercy? I’ve signed up on Disney Plus -there’s currently a deal of £1:99 for 3 months- but the film isn’t on it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 👍
 
aazzaabb said:
@zinniabooklover , do you possibly know of anywhere in the uk that I can watch The Beach Boys biopic Love And Mercy? I’ve signed up on Disney Plus -there’s currently a deal of £1:99 for 3 months- but the film isn’t on it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 👍
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I don't watch tv. I don't stream stuff. I have no clue.
 
aazzaabb said:
@zinniabooklover , do you possibly know of anywhere in the uk that I can watch The Beach Boys biopic Love And Mercy? I’ve signed up on Disney Plus -there’s currently a deal of £1:99 for 3 months- but the film isn’t on it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 👍
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I saw it on TV Samsung but idk
 
jdogg7716 said:
I saw it on TV Samsung but idk
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I think I can buy it from Amazon Prime. It was probably free to watch a few days ago, but because he’s passed, it’s all about dynamic pricing then. Where there’s a demand for something, there’s money to be made. 👍
 
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