Posted by The DOK on 1/30/2008, 8:31 am, in reply to "Re: Beach Boys"
66.60.229.108
Sure, but that all depends on how big the file is that you're sending. There are MB limits on file transfers via e-mail. My e-mail should be linked here.
--Previous Message--
: i find your whole evolution through disliking
: the beatles and now thinking theyre easily
: the greatest and disliking the beach boys
: hilarious - because its all too familiar (i
: saw your pre-revelation beatles pages.. the
: change was staggering). i hate to sound
: preachy or authoritative or anything but i
: was EXACTLY like that. 'the beatles are good
: but not great, Ringo is a terrible drummer
: and they're the most overrated band ever'.
: now im exactly where you are with them. i
: HATED the beach boys only a month or two
: ago. Pet Sounds' supposed greatness passed
: in one ear and out the other ear, and even
: Wouldn't It Be Nice struck me as naive and
: silly. Then the same thing happened, and
: now I am REALLY sure that, had SMiLE been an
: officially released album in 1967, The Beach
: Boys would be my 2nd favorite band of all
: time. I say 'if' not because "oh if
: Smile was released then it would have caused
: a huge impact on music and outdone Sgt
: Pepper before its conception", but
: because the SMiLE bootleg that i compiled is
: probably my 2nd most listened to album
: (after Revolver), but sadly I can't count it
: as a real Beach Boys album because it
: technically doesn't exist. However, I do
: appreciate Pet Sounds now for the astounding
: musical masterpiece it is. I even love the
: lyrics, which once sounded clunky and
: stupid. It takes skill to write simple
: lyrics that don't sound dumb.
: "Wouldn't it be nice if we were older,
: and we wouldn't have to wait so long"
: are NOT dumb on a scale of love song lyrics.
: The fact that Brian can write
: "childish" lyrics in tone and
: sound convincing of the total naivety of
: teenage love despite the fact that hes
: actually a drug-addled 24 year old is
: actually rather impressive.. to me anyway.
:
: i guess theres really no point to this thing
: because if somebody had written just this to
: me a month ago I would have written it off
: as just another foolish crowd-following Pet
: Sounds fan. Hopefully you'll discover its
: greatness too. I did, however, get into
: SMiLE much, much easier (and first. in fact
: there was a time when i loved SMiLE and
: still disliked PS). if you would like i can
: e-mail you my bootleg of it. the BW version
: REALLY isnt the same, mainly because of his
: deepened voice and the overpowering
: production on everything (ballads and all..)
:
: respond if youre interested
:
: --Previous Message--
: OK, OK... *takes deep breath*... here I go:
:
: As I've alluded to on a few pages of my
: website, I hate the Beach Boys. You may be
: saying to yourself (especially John)
: "well damn it all, Dok, you also said
: you hated the Beatles, and look where you
: are now!" Sure, OK, I admit my faults
: and I'll be happy to proclaim from the
: highest tops of the mountains that the
: Beatles are now my favorite band of all
: time, period. Is that out of the way now?
: *Ahem*, anyway...
:
: You see, this is even more reason for me TO
: hate the Beach Boys. I figured that in the
: approach I took to the Beatles that maybe...
: juuuuuuuuuuuust maybe a fresh, more mature
: approach to the Beach Boys would 180 my
: feelings, due to being a tad bit older and
: more appreciative and curious in my musical
: conquests. After all, there is the endless
: praise of Pet Sounds , which I won't deny
: being the band's finest hour. The problem
: is, and I think this is the reason why I
: hate them -- their lyrics and overall sound
: are so damn immature in their delivery
: (courtesy of Brian), and I mean that in an
: "undeveloped" sort of way. Such a
: naive approach really irritates me in all
: the right places, since it's mostly written
: from the P.O.V. of a curious teenager ( Pet
: Sounds ). I've heard Smile is a much more
: mature and glorious album (which I would
: hope so, since Brian went through the entire
: grafting and completion process in his 60s),
: but I'm just too unsure to shell out the
: cash. I didn't even pay to hear PS , nor
: will I ever.
:
: I find their melodies to be childish as
: well, along with the majority of the songs
: I've heard flat-out annoying me
: ("Little Deuce Coupe," "I Get
: Around," "409," "Help Me
: Ronda," "Wouldn't It Be
: Nice?"... and there's more !). This
: isn't really indicative of a band that I owe
: a debt of gratitude, even though they were a
: major catalyst in the Rock movement (for the
: whole entirety of a single album before
: Brian Wilson tucked tail and hid in his
: bedroom for the next decade or so, getting
: fat off of TV dinners, then watching his
: figure with a nice nose full of coke; great
: dieting regiment, I says!). I understand
: that this was one monumental mofo of an
: album, sure (where would Sgt. Pepper be
: without its genesis?), but forgive me all to
: hell if, for the sheer sake of the music and
: the music alone, I find it to be a tad bit
: more than disappointing. Especially when it
: sticks to a style like AIDS to Magic
: Johnson, and milks it into a bucket full of
: monotony for just shy of an hour. No
: thanks.
:
: I will say that "Sloop John B" and
: "God Only Knows" are good...
: *gulp* great songs... but leaving an album
: of 13 tracks with only 2 scaling on a
: positive note... well, that ship just ain't
: gonna sail for me, cap'n. Now go ahead,
: flame me into the ground, then force me into
: one of those boxes like in Superman, forever
: floating through the nether regions of space
: as my punishment. And with that, I close
: out this long-winded drivel of a rant. If
: you made it this far, I admire your
: patience.
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