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The Beach Boys’ sunny vocal harmonies are one of the signatures sounds of the modern era. Among rock and roll groups of the Sixties, the California quintet place second only to the Beatles in terms of their overall impact on the Top Forty. They were the Fab Four’s only serious competition on a creative level, too. Paul McCartney has allowed that the Beatles’ masterpiece, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, was their attempt to rise to the challenge of the Beach Boys’ magnum opus, Pet Sounds (which itself was inspired by the Beatles’ first self-contained album, Rubber Soul). This creative dialogue between the two biggest bands of the Sixties pushed rock and roll to its artistic apex. Recently, Paul McCartney noted that “both [Pet Sounds and Sgt. Pepper] have more than held up.
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The Beach Boys were an influential band from the early 1960's until the mid 1960s when people proceeded to ignore them. Their awkward teenage years, spent huddled next to each other to keep warm (even though it was not cold at all) , influenced most of their early records, until drug addiction and Runescape left the majority of the band in a hallucinogenic stupor most of the time. After the band settled down, they all went their seperate ways. Mike Love (not war) had thirteen phats, and Dennis Wilson had one of his phats on his head.
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An improvement in some ways, but Brian had lost control of the band, and the other Beach Boys had little of his musical sense. Brian does contribute several ingenious, moderately to very sophisticated productions (the mid-60s style A-side title track; the beautiful instrumental "Passing By"; the wonderful, bossa nova-influenced, slightly cracked "Busy Doin' Nothing"; the sound-effect laden Hawaiian instrumental "Diamond Head"), in addition to some gentle hymns a la Wild Honey ("Be Here In the Morning"). And Dennis comes up with a couple of simple, touching, and deeply sorrowful ballads ("Little Bird"; "Be Still"); his first released compositions, they point the way to his more mature work over the coming decade. But the album is weighed down by some light-weight, feel-good nonsense like "Anna Lee, The Healer" and the Eastern-melodies-meet-braying-horns fiasco "Transcendental Meditation," with bone-headedly spiritual 60s lyrics courtesy of Mike.
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With their unmistakable harmonies the Beach Boys had dozens of top 40 hits, including four No. 1 singles, and record sales in excess of 100 million. In 1988, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (along with the Beatles).
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MUSIC - Beach Boys singer Mike Love sues Brian Wilson by San Diego Daily Transcript - A lawyer for one of the founders of the Beach Boys says his suit against one of the other band members is nothing personal. Mike Love is suing his cousin Brian Wilson over the way Wilson promoted his album last year, called "Smile." Love charges that Wilson "shamelessly misappropriated" the Beach Boys trademark, as well as Love's own songs and likeness. Love's lawyer says he and Wilson have a "good relationship." He says the problem is with the way Wilson's people have promoted the album. "Smile" is an album that was started by the Beach Boys, but never completed.
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[I]n mid-1962 the Beach Boys released their major-label debut, Surfin' Safari. The title track, a more accomplished novelty single than its predecessor, hit the Top 20 and helped launch the surf rock craze just beginning to blossom around Southern California (thanks to artists like Dick Dale, Jan & Dean, the Chantays, and dozens more). A similarly themed follow-up, Surfin' U.S.A., hit the Top Ten in early 1963 before Jardine returned from school and resumed his place in the group. By that time, the Beach Boys had recorded their first two albums, a pair of 12-track collections that added a few novelty songs to the hits they were packaged around. Though Capitol policy required the group to work with a studio producer, Brian quickly took over the sessions and began expanding the group's range beyond simple surf rock.
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