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| From | Scotthomewood@cs.com |
| Subject | Re: New Beach Boys |
| Date | Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:08:25 -0400 (EDT) |
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For better or worse, anything Brian Wilson or the Beach Boys release is
going to be compared to their halcyon days of 66-72. Paul McCartney and The
Stones have the same problems with their later work vs. their heyday releases.
I choose not to compare sometimes. When listening to the new Beach Boys
album I let the Mike Love anger and the Brian Wilson regrets fade away. It's not
a bad record by any stretch and some parts are quite, quite good. They will
never reach Smile territory again and I don't expect them to. From what I
am hearing on the album, it's better than anyone could have ever thought they
would come up with at this point. It certainly beats my expectations of
what I thought it was going to be. I am happy to hear the harmonies again. If
this is Brian's goodbye to the band, they went out on a high, well-harmonized
note as far as I am concerned.
Scott Homewood
PS - listening to Mas Rapido albums on Parasol - are they still together?
The two albums I stumbled upon are fantastic!
In a message dated 6/10/2012 6:34:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
garymaher@juno.com writes:
> I think the new Beach Boys release is a mediocre Beach Boys record, but
> if somebody played it for me without telling me it was the Beach Boys (and
> if I somehow didn't recognize the gorgeous harmonies), I would consider it a
> really good Beach Boys-influenced pop record. That being said, I agree
> that I would much rather have a new Wondermints album at this point than a new
> Beach Boys record...
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