As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
Apparently it matters to some people that Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys is dead.
It mattered enough that an eulogy was posted on some shit he went nuts over in the 60's and finished in thee Obama century, which was far too Hill's Day College long, but it was correct, in Smile was a first, it was like Sgt. Peppers, but what was missed is Sgt. Pepper SUCKED SHIT THROUGH A PAPER STRAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was not rock. It was some weird shit of dope heads too fucked up to realize they should not be passing Goddamn circus songs off as Rock and Roll!!!!!!!!
Brian Wilson presents SMiLE full album - YouTube
Here is the thing. Like everyone I like the Beach Boys. Like most people who know music, they hate the Beatles for their simple pop chords which intoxicate minds too much. Their songs were never well produced. I was just telling TL the other day, the best Beatles song was Come Together.
The Beatles - Come Together - YouTube
The worst was everything Paul McCarty spewed cum on. The worst was that shit John Lennon Yoko'd out after he was dead and we were forced to hear that shit on the radio to this day as tribute to that dead man.
Now here is the thing, Brian Wilson knew the Beatles were shit, yet he was fixated by little girls getting wet undies in screaming over the Beatles and his trying to be like them and beat them at the game. This Smile album I just did a quick listen to. It is the same shit as Pepper. It is what happens when people get to fucking technical with their stuff they had success with and it all just only appears to their weirdness.
Good Vibrations is Brian Wilson's masterpiece. It was better than anything the Beatles ever did. George Harrison did some good work after the Beatles, but I can name a number of artists who buried the Beatles from Rick Ocasek of The Cars to Jeff Lynne of ELO.
Brian Wilson should have looked to another harmony band in Three Dog Night to compete with as they were innovative and ended up where the Beach Boys could have gone.
Brian Love, the front man for the Boys had it right when he screamed at the nimwit who wrote the lyrics on Smile to demand an explanation what that shit meant.
So this is not much of an eulogy for Brian Wilson. He lost his way in technicalities, instead of the music. People only have so much tune in them. Look at Simon and Garfunkel or the Turtles, one really great album and the rest was mediocre. Paul Simon had one good hit in Kodachrome. It was not Groovy Thing though.
We've Got a Groovy Thing Goin' - YouTube
What Brian Wilson never understood is the Beach Boys were a star point. No one ever could recreate them, that is why they are unique. Yes Three Dog did a version, but no one could repeat them either. They were stand outs. The Beatles were just more getting off on some other band who got off on them. The Beatles like Rush Limbaugh in talk radio, just lived too long and ran rock into the ground, so all you got for almost a decade as fucking mellow 1970's shit torturing the air, until Boston and Foreigner broke the mould, and you jumped hard into the 80's sound which is where Rock died, because they lost the blues roots of what drove Rock.
I don't think Led Zep is that great of band. Stairway is their magnus which everyone failed to ever repeat, not even Brian Wilson, but in that the Boys surpassed Zep. It is the point though that the Beach Boys drove that California sound, and took it away from the dead Buddy Holly, the living Elvis, and Johnny Cash as it was being crashed by that Grand Olde Opry influence. What California did, is take that surfer guitar and drove it into rock n roll. The Turtles, Jefferson, Byrds were that guitar rock which the Beatles never could match. That is the sound which swung the pendulum to the wanky Doors organ to what started to show up in Edgar Winters in hard rock. Guns and Roses, Billy Idol, Billy Squier all road that surf. I actually judge the German bands headed by Scorpions and Rammstein as the evolutionary missing link to what the Beatles failed and what the Boys began in a mix of sweet dreams and nightmare, the Queenreich of sound.
Brian Wilson if he wanted to fiddle with edits should have stayed in the studio and done the Jeff Lynne and Todd Rundgren production. He did not have it in him to be a chameleon like David Bowie who I appreciate more and more in his best songs you had no idea it was Bowie doing them as they were so different
Brian Wilson got ate by two four letter words. He got ate by TECH in thinking people would appreciate genius when the primates only wanted 4 chords of the Beatles as they were too dense to comprehend. That is the last four letter word if RIFF, Brian Wilson deprived the world by not sitting in his garage and doing what we all do in find four notes, timed, spaced and sounding wow. That is all a song is. Anyone can do that.
The Lame Cherry will tell you what a great song is. A great song is a riff which has a change up. A spectacular song is one which adds a shift and a pause. When you hear a song and you think, "This song sucks shit", it is because it has none of those features. It is all clinical and technical. It is why you always see that 1000 yard stare in the artists who do this, because they have been there in that song, moulding it and crafting it since the first idea came, trying different sounds and finding that "Bruce" to make the joints all fit together as it takes the listener on an emotional ride that it will not let them off of until it lets them go in complete rhapsody of emotions fulfilled.
One more song Brian
One more rhyme
Feel the rhythm
Keep the time
Nuff Said
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