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<blockquote class="Quote"><div><strong class="bc-author">PelvicDust</strong> said:</div><div><blockquote class="Quote"><div><strong class="bc-author">lamprey eel</strong> said:</div><div>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></div></blockquote> <br /> Why do you hate America?</div></blockquote> <br /> I love America (as did Johnny Ramone, much to your consternation, I know.) To love The Beach Boys <em>is</em> to love America (and vice versa.)<br /> <br /> <blockquote class="Quote"><div><strong class="bc-author">PelvicDust</strong> said:</div><div>The Bitch Boys aren't fit to lick the sweat off the Ramones' leather jackets.</div></blockquote> <br /> Look, I know that the history of rock music is not your forte, even though you are, ostensibly, a fan of this form of popular music in its myriad offshoots and configurations, but to make such a statement regarding The Beach Boys vis-a-vis The Ramones is laughable in its sheer ludicrousness. The Ramones (a seminal and awesome band in their own right... at least for the time when Tommy was manning the drum stool, plus a few occasional moments of brilliance scattered here and there pell-mell across the remainder of their post-Tommy discography) <em>loved</em> the upbeat all American pop perfection that is the (pre-Pet Sounds era) music of The Beach Boys, covered their songs and modelled the architecture of their own song structures on that which The Beach Boys perfected a decade earlier. The Ramones are The Beach Boys in overdrive, minus the perfected vocal harmonies of the boys from Hawthorne, but listen to the background vocals on 'I Don't Want To Walk Around With You' for an object lesson in The Ramones' blatant Beach Boys-ophilia (take a listen to the equally awesome Dictators and their quintessential track '(I Live For) Cars And Girls' for another lesson (pay attention, Moe!) in the importance of the music and the legacy of The Beach Boys.)
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