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| From | "Chuck Limmer" <climmer@cox.net> |
| Subject | Re: Sunflower A Must-Have? |
| Date | Tue, 20 May 2003 15:44:32 -0700 |
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On Tue, 20 May 2003 David Bash wrote:
>>Well, Sunflower is my favorite album of all time, and Surf's Up is #3. I'm not just talking Beach Boys albums here, I'm talking albums, period. The fact that any national magazine would list Sunflower as a "must-have" is astounding to me, and extremely laudable!<<
David:
Sadly, they didn't. The copy in Marc Weingarten's "On The Records" sidebar piece in EW specifically cites SURF'S UP as the "must-have" Beach Boys album in this list. In addition to the title, the single-sentence piece makes reference to "sublimely forlorn pop like 'Feel Flows.'" Dunno whose fault it was, but the accompanying photo is the cover of SUNFLOWER.
Think about that for a second. Can you imagine *any* magazine, let alone a major monthly devoted to entertainment and pop culture, pairing the cover art of LET IT BE with an article about ABBEY ROAD? If anyone still needed a yardstick for how far off the pop radar the Beach Boys have fallen--even for journalists who are trying to give them props--there it is.
Chuck Limmer
n.p. Del Amitri, "Always the Last to Know," HATFUL OF RAIN
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