You cannot even say, Brian Wilson was totally about Gershwin, he did not
have any real first-hand black music influence. I will say for him to make a
record like Pet Sounds in 1964, and then to follow it up with Smiley
Smile/Smile shows that he truly was a genius. Everybody is Beatles this and
Beatles that, but for my money, the Beach Boys were the better band. The
Beatles never went for broke like Brian Wilson did on Smile.
If Brian Wilson were young today and was about to make Pet Sounds again, he
would be a solo artist and would be to the 00's what RDJ was to the 90's. I
bet it would change everything in way that we could not even imagine. It is
easy to dismiss PS almost 40 years later, but when that record dropped, it
completely changed the game. It is not cool to admit it on a list like this,
but that record is still one of my all time favorites.
Take care,
Mike
np: Dimension 5 - Alien Artform (again!)
From: Ohrwurm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 313 <313@hyperreal.org>
Subject: [313] Love and Mercy
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 20:56:49 -0800
yeah... everybody needs a little Pet Sounds for to ease your techno mind...
> Am still getting over the intensity of seeing Brian Wilson live last
night.
> Was trying to figure how he would sound if he came from Detroit and
produced
> now!
... frow The London Times Sunday 13 Jan. '02 as seen on
www.brianwilson.com:
" Kraftwerk's Florian Schneider claimed that the Beach Boys were one of the
biggest influences on the German godfathers of techno (many observers
assume that the "Fahr'n, fahr'n, fahr'n" refrain of Autobahn is a jokey nod
to
the Beach Boy's Fun, Fun, Fun )."
n.p.: the QVC boot,
J.E. v.F-B. B.
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