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| From | "Andrew Hickey" <stealthmunchkin@lycos.co.uk> |
| Subject | Re: Buried Pleasures? |
| Date | Wed, 27 Aug 2003 17:44:21 +0100 |
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Stewart Mason wrote:
>> The Beach Boys Love You?
>
> I never thought of this as a punk-influenced album, and I've never
> seen any indication that the creators did either, though I've also
> never cared
> enough about this album to delve too deeply into its genesis.
I don't know that it was necessarily 'punk influenced', but it *DEFINITELY*
fits in with the music that was being made at that time to quite an
extraordinary degree... the rawness and back to basics style, the whole DIY
aesthetic of the album seems to be something that while it may not have been
influenced by the other music of the time definitely fits in with people
like Jonathan Richman or Devo or The Ramones - and a lot of punks loved the
album, notably Patti Smith.
It also manages to be very innovative even while sounding 'retro' - the use
of synth bass on the album is quite extraordinary, and the album is probably
the necessary end point of the moog experiments on every album from
Sunflower on...
> And it's hard for me to use "intelligent" and "Mike Love" in the same
sentence
> anyway.
Which is why the Beach Boys album with least Mike Love input out of their
entire career can be called intelligent ;)
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