“Why the Beach Boys are the Greatest Musical Project Ever”

 Keep in mind that this post will be less of me trying to convince who’s ever reading this that “…The Beach Boys are the greatest musical project ever”. But more on the lines of drooling over, expressing my love, and the joy I have for (of what some of us agree to be) the greatest band to ever be born out of the United States of America. As a disclaimer, for basically my blog posts in general. This is all just me ranting off the top of my head, expressing my feelings, being myself. And I will input potentially truthful knowledge. But potentially as in, it’s only true to the best of my knowledge. As me being like the average person, just relying on hearsay, and literature/the internet. And lastly, with my opinions being based on my own personal biases.


Just like any great band/singular musician. The Beach Boys rely on the members being particular characters, each a unique one in the band in their own right. Which makes sense, music is more than just about the music. They’re “performers”, but that’s not really a topic I wanna focus completely on here. The album cover to their 1965 studio album The Beach Boys Today!. I always thought did a very good job of describing each of the original members unique qualities, different viewpoints on life in general. What we have here to offer on this planet, the beauty, even the negativity. All of that corresponds with the way the five members look on that album cover. And let’s not forget their age differences, family/friend relations.


Dennis Wilson, Carl Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, and the leader of the band: Brian Wilson. All offer something equally artfully unique that make The Beach Boys such a special band. Of course, they came out around the same time as other extremely famous Rock/Pop bands such as The Beatles, and The Rolling Stones. Both ironically-unironically being apart of the so-called “British Invasion” movement of British Rock/Pop bands making it big in the United States of America. Not to say both The Beatles and The Rolling Stones hadn’t both mastered the complex, beautiful art of “The Pop song format”. But the Beach Boys are a standout to me personally due to Brian Wilson taking huge pointers from the work of Phil Spector (and his Wall of Sound) and modern day traditional Pop songwriter Burt Bacharach. But it’s not all about influence.


The perfectionism incorporated by Spector with the musical skills of The Wrecking Crew who, had to nail every song in as little takes as possible (apparently due to the price of recording tape). I’m not really sure, I didn’t live back then. But there’s an intense sense of tension in the recordings of Phil Spector, with his Wall of Sound, Wagner influenced, Orchestrated Pop. These are songs that will be remembered for centuries, perhaps for thousands of years. And the “by-this-point traditional Pop” of Burt Bacharach will be encoded in the human psyche. The signs are so readily apparent it send shivers down my spine. Similarly, to the great Pop music of Harry Nilsson. Which touches on similar/the same ground as Bacharach. With Nilsson, not surprisingly having worked with Spector. Particularly on Harry Nilsson and Phil Spector’s Beach Boys clone song “This Could Be the Night”. Which Brian covered on the Nilsson tribute album in all its Monaural glory. 


Brian and the gang go for a more “intensely computerized”, more “understanding of what the brain enjoys” version of Pop music than the contemporary bands/musicians of that time, and really any in general even to this very day. Brian Wilson and his band had the awareness on their projects about what will stick, what will thrill. Phil Spector’s music was and still is Pop music perfection, but it’s all “icing”, none of the cake part of the cake itself (the bread part, whatever it’s called). Whereas Burt Bacharach is merely the opposite, no icing, all cake. Both are essential parts of a tasty, fulfilling dessert as you can see/have observed. Brian and his Beach Boys basically took both, made it what it is. A staple, essential, a go-to, something everybody loves (well…). The Beach Boys are the epitome, the peak, the greatest Pop music project to exist on this planet.


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