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<blockquote class="Quote"><div><strong class="bc-author">Rockadelic</strong> said:</div><div>Defending the Beach Boys<br />
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	Every true musical genius is a lunatic on some level.<br />
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	Brian Wilson fits that bill.<br />
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	But due to a one-in-a-million perfect storm of capitalist/Capitolist greed in combo with an evil stage father, he was plugged in to this pop hit making machine of mediocrity.</div></blockquote>
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	The music of the Beach Boys (especially the hits of the early to mid '60s that they are most famous for) is anything but mediocre.<br />
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	<blockquote class="Quote"><div><strong class="bc-author">Rockadelic</strong> said:</div><div>The early Beach Boys stuff is kiddie level pop that found a decent size audience and still thrills the Hot Rod/Surf nostalgia crowd.</div></blockquote>
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	Sorry, but it is not just the Hot Rod/Surf nostalgia crowd that loves this music. I neither drive a Hot Rod (I drive a 2008 Chevy Impala) nor do I surf (nor was I kid or teenager in the '60s), but I love the music of the Beach Boys. It is not kiddie level pop, it is master level pop that has and will continue to stand the test of time.<br />
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	<blockquote class="Quote"><div><strong class="bc-author">Rockadelic</strong> said:</div><div>I would love to hear a Brian Wilson who was broke and fameless recording Smiley Smile in his room on a 4 track.</div></blockquote>
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	Just out of curiosity, are you sure you are not talking about <em>"Smile"</em> as opposed to <em>Smiley Smile</em>? (just checkin')<br />
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	<em>Smiley Smile</em> for sure is one of the most (perhaps <em>the</em> most) truly bizarre, unsettling, musically skeletal, murky sounding and outright uncommercial records (despite the inclusion, against Brian's wishes, of 'Good Vibrations') ever released by a major label.<br />
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	For the record, the "broke and fameless" small label analogue to <em>Smiley Smile</em> would be <em>The Egg Store Ilk</em> by Richard Earl (of Swell Maps "fame.")<br />
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	<blockquote class="Quote"><div><strong class="bc-author">Rockadelic</strong> said:</div><div>What the Beach Boys were is over rated.</div></blockquote>
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	The Beach Boys are not overrated. They are the single most important American band of the second half of the 20th century. They truly are <em>America's Band.</em>

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