Classics of the 60's

[Winkle]

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[Tangled up in Blue]

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The real superstars of the 60's....The Beach Boys.Forget the Stones and The Beatles-Brian Wilson was the man.

 

[Cricko]

Harry asked me to post these , they remind him of his mid 30's......:harry:

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[BLUEBLOOD]

Sounds of Silence is a true classic of any decade :thumbsup:

 

[Rob Noxious]

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The real superstars of the 60's....The Beach Boys.Forget the Stones and The Beatles-Brian Wilson was the man.

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Pontificating about The Beatles is a risky business. So many people have an opinion about them and for those of us from a certain generation, it was impossible not to have been touched by their music in some way. I was a young child in the sixties but one of my earliest recollections is of hearing 'She Loves You' on the radio. I think I was only about three years old but the 'yeah yeah yeah' refrain grabbed my attention back in the kitchen of the house that my Dad built. I loved the joyous nature of the song even though I'm pretty sure that I could not have understood anything about the lyrics. But back then it was only the feel of the music that mattered. That house was a great place to grow up in. My oldest brother had a few Beatles records - I distinctly remember the groovy album cover of 'Revolver' back at the old house - and I also remember the sound of The Beach Boys coming from his bedroom where he had his dansette record player. My other brother was an Elvis freak and a few years later he bought the house's first stereo with money he'd got from a summer job selling ice cream on the seafront. He had a record rack full of the sideburned Elvis on pic sleeve singles from the late sixties, including the wonderful 'Suspicious Minds.' Though their taste was generally beyond reproach, my first forays into the singles market-place caused my brothers to wince and mock - particularly when I got my Mum to get me 'Sugar Sugar' by The Archies in the summer of '69. What of all this you may ask? I guess it's about what certain records can evoke. Now though I respect The Beatles and what they brought to a certain generation and beyond, I can live my life without having to listen to their music on a regular basis. But there is one song that always moves me whenever I hear it. 'In My Life' has the power to evoke so much of my childhood and what I refer to as 'that Binfield feeling' that I am in awe of its tender but telling truthfulness. It has an air of such genuine lived experience and is delivered in a simple and unfussed manner, almost under-stated. I hesitate to call any song 'perfect,' but this one has a unique charm.



Bringing this all up to date, 'In My Life' has a special resonance for me. I am fast approaching the age* that my Dad was when he died forty-two years ago. For much of the time when The Beatles were around, so was he. His fiftieth birthday was three days before my eighth one. I had a dream about him the other night then woke up with the searing pain of a deep cramp in my right calf. Once I'd stopped yowling, I worked out what it was all about. Pain on your right side relates to past male relationships, according to the rules of complementary therapies. My wife told me all about this link a little while ago - scientific proof or just a quirky coincidence? Well, I thought that after all this time, I'd have adjusted to all the issues of my past. But like an old song seeping into the consciousness once again, people and things that went before can wake you up with a jolt. And in my life, I've loved them all.

*(written a few months ago)

 

[GrumpyBlue]

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The real superstars of the 60's....The Beach Boys.Forget the Stones and The Beatles-Brian Wilson was the man.

No forget the Beach Boys - Brian Wilson was the man - non Wilson Beach Boys are/were crap :thumbdown:

 

[GrumpyBlue]

Got to put my oar in for my boys - The Shadows - Atlantis - the first 45 I bought myself

 

[Supernaut]

No forget the Beach Boys - Brian Wilson was the man - non Wilson Beach Boys are/were crap :thumbdown:

Can't agree with that - the 4 or 5 albums that followed 'Smiley Smile' had some phenomenal moments from Carl and Dennis which were easily the equal of Brian's songs. And Dennis Wilson's 'Pacific Ocean Blue' album is at least as good as anything Brian ever did.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Can't agree with that - the 4 or 5 albums that followed 'Smiley Smile' had some phenomenal moments from Carl and Dennis which were easily the equal of Brian's songs. And Dennis Wilson's 'Pacific Ocean Blue' album is at least as good as anything Brian ever did.

Far be it for me to pontificate on the Beach Boys(or anything else I would hope).But, personally, I thought that by Smiley Smile the BB's had rather lost the plot.Can't really agree about DW's Pacific Ocean Blue either.
I was lucky enough to see the first BB's first gig in London at the old Finsbury Park Odeon(sans Brian)in the mid-60's at the time when Good Vibrations was number one.Then they were magnificent.Also saw them on a couple of later tours in the 70's in London and Birmingham without Dennis and later Carl and really they weren't the same group any more.Caught Brian Wilson solo here a few years back and he was excellent, though clearly damaged goods.He couldn't both play and sing,those wonderful songs he'd written in the 60's, at the same time.
The Beach Boys (or what's left of them)were here on the Costa Brava(Cap Roig)last summer.I didn't go and have no regrets.Nostalgia's not what it used to be.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

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Pontificating about The Beatles is a risky business. So many people have an opinion about them and for those of us from a certain generation, it was impossible not to have been touched by their music in some way. I was a young child in the sixties but one of my earliest recollections is of hearing 'She Loves You' on the radio. I think I was only about three years old but the 'yeah yeah yeah' refrain grabbed my attention back in the kitchen of the house that my Dad built. I loved the joyous nature of the song even though I'm pretty sure that I could not have understood anything about the lyrics. But back then it was only the feel of the music that mattered. That house was a great place to grow up in. My oldest brother had a few Beatles records - I distinctly remember the groovy album cover of 'Revolver' back at the old house - and I also remember the sound of The Beach Boys coming from his bedroom where he had his dansette record player. My other brother was an Elvis freak and a few years later he bought the house's first stereo with money he'd got from a summer job selling ice cream on the seafront. He had a record rack full of the sideburned Elvis on pic sleeve singles from the late sixties, including the wonderful 'Suspicious Minds.' Though their taste was generally beyond reproach, my first forays into the singles market-place caused my brothers to wince and mock - particularly when I got my Mum to get me 'Sugar Sugar' by The Archies in the summer of '69. What of all this you may ask? I guess it's about what certain records can evoke. Now though I respect The Beatles and what they brought to a certain generation and beyond, I can live my life without having to listen to their music on a regular basis. But there is one song that always moves me whenever I hear it. 'In My Life' has the power to evoke so much of my childhood and what I refer to as 'that Binfield feeling' that I am in awe of its tender but telling truthfulness. It has an air of such genuine lived experience and is delivered in a simple and unfussed manner, almost under-stated. I hesitate to call any song 'perfect,' but this one has a unique charm.



Bringing this all up to date, 'In My Life' has a special resonance for me. I am fast approaching the age* that my Dad was when he died forty-two years ago. For much of the time when The Beatles were around, so was he. His fiftieth birthday was three days before my eighth one. I had a dream about him the other night then woke up with the searing pain of a deep cramp in my right calf. Once I'd stopped yowling, I worked out what it was all about. Pain on your right side relates to past male relationships, according to the rules of complementary therapies. My wife told me all about this link a little while ago - scientific proof or just a quirky coincidence? Well, I thought that after all this time, I'd have adjusted to all the issues of my past. But like an old song seeping into the consciousness once again, people and things that went before can wake you up with a jolt. And in my life, I've loved them all.

*(written a few months ago)

Ha!I seem to remember reading this on another thread a few months back too.You're recyling your greatest hits it would appear.:smiles:

 

[Supernaut]

Far be it for me to pontificate on the Beach Boys(or anything else I would hope).But, personally, I thought that by Smiley Smile the BB's had rather lost the plot.Can't really agree about DW's Pacific Ocean Blue either.

As with The Beatles, The Beach Boys are a band of several eras - each phase has its own sound and most people much prefer one to the others. Personally, I don't really care for anything the BBs did before Pet Sounds, but from Smiley Smile to Holland I completely adore them. The mid-late '70s albums have some great Dennis tracks but basically they were artistically moribund from them onwards (apart from Kokomo which is a real guilty pleasure of mine).

Horses for courses I guess but from what I can tell, people who were there from the beginning tend to favour the early years, while those under 40 (and most music journalists) far prefer the years covering Pet Sounds to Holland.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

As with The Beatles, The Beach Boys are a band of several eras - each phase has its own sound and most people much prefer one to the others. Personally, I don't really care for anything the BBs did before Pet Sounds, but from Smiley Smile to Holland I completely adore them. The mid-late '70s albums have some great Dennis tracks but basically they were artistically moribund from them onwards (apart from Kokomo which is a real guilty pleasure of mine).

Horses for courses I guess but from what I can tell, people who were there from the beginning tend to favour the early years, while those under 40 (and most music journalists) far prefer the years covering Pet Sounds to Holland.

Smiley smile was '67,wasn't it?I much preferred '66's Pet Sounds(which I'd say ranks as the best pop album ever made along with Astral Weeks).But Pets Sounds was effectively Brian Wilson's(and Van Dyke Parks' album) not a Beach Boys one.

 

[Supernaut]

Smiley smile was '67,wasn't it?I much preferred '66's Pet Sounds(which I'd say ranks as the best pop album ever made along with Astral Weeks).But Pets Sounds was effectively Brian Wilson's(and Van Dyke Parks' album) not a Beach Boys one.

Yes, '67. It's an odd one, as it's cobbled together from the bits of Smile which were considered useable (although tracks from Smile were still appearing on BB albums up to Surf's Up). Van Dyke Parks had nothing to do with Pet Sounds - Wilson co-wrote almost all of it with Tony Asher. Parks collaborated on Smile though.

I know plenty of people agree with you on Pet Sounds, and while I like it a lot I think it's overrated and ultimately inferior to Sgt Pepper and Forever Changes in the classic pop stakes. Never heard anyone call Astral Weeks a pop album before.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Yes, '67. It's an odd one, as it's cobbled together from the bits of Smile which were considered useable (although tracks from Smile were still appearing on BB albums up to Surf's Up). Van Dyke Parks had nothing to do with Pet Sounds - Wilson co-wrote almost all of it with Tony Asher. Parks collaborated on Smile though.

I know plenty of people agree with you on Pet Sounds, and while I like it a lot I think it's overrated and ultimately inferior to Sgt Pepper and Forever Changes in the classic pop stakes. Never heard anyone call Astral Weeks a pop album before.

I know there were jazz musicians on it and that's the way it sounds but I wouldn't exactly call it a Jazz album either,would you?I suppose we could both agree it's a rock album though.
btw You're quite right about Tony Asher on Pet Sounds and Van Dyke Parks on SS.Though I seem to recall reading somewhere(maybe Brian Wilson's autobiography?) that VDP was originally supposed to be co-working with him on PS too.

 

[Benfleet A1]

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[Jedi Shrimper]

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[GrumpyBlue]

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Very overrated

 

[Benfleet A1]

Very overrated

Oh I am sorry.:blush:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

A Whiter shade of pale

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By our very own Gary Brooker and Procol Harem.I hear Gary played an excellent gig with Andy Fairthweather Low at Club Riga at the end of last year.Sorry I wasn't there to see it.
This always takes me back to 1967 and SLC at Eastwood HS.

 

[GrumpyBlue]

Oh I am sorry.:blush:

So you should be :winking: