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The Beach Boys On CD: Smiley Smile/Wild Honey
A revised version of this essay appears in my book The Beach Boys On CD. If you like this, please consider buying it. Hardback Paperback PDF Kindle (US) Kindle (UK) Kindle (DE) All other ebook formats...
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The Beach Boys On CD: Friends/20/20
This essay appears in my book The Beach Boys On CD. If you like this, please consider buying it. Hardback Paperback PDF Kindle (US) Kindle (UK) Kindle (DE) All other ebook formats Friends/20/20 By 1968...
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Liveblogging The Smile Sessions
I’m writing this introductory material on the night of the thirtieth of October. If all goes well, I should be receiving my copy of The Smile Sessions tomorrow morning, the thirty-first. I’m going to...
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The Beach Boys On CD: Sunflower
The band’s first album for Warner Brothers, and first of the 1970s, was the first – and in some ways the only – truly collaborative Beach Boys album. Originally put together as a contractual obligation...
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The Beach Boys On CD: Surf’s Up
Shortly after the release of Sunflower, the Beach Boys hired former journalist and DJ Jack Rieley as their manager. Outside of the band members themselves, Rieley rapidly became the most important...
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The Beach Boys On CD: Carl And The Passions (So Tough)
Carl & The Passions feels very much like the work of a totally different band from the one that recorded Surf’s Up, and that’s because to a great extent it is. After Dennis Wilson damaged his hand...
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The Beach Boys On CD: Holland
Holland is, in many ways, the last gasp for the Beach Boys as an artistic group. They would produce good work again, both as a band or as individuals, but in future their work would be driven by one or...
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The Beach Boys On CD: The Beach Boys In Concert
Ask ten different Beach Boys fans their favourite period for the band as a live act, and you’ll get ten different answers. Over the years, the band’s stage show changed radically, and each period...
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The Beach Boys On CD: The Beach Boys Love You
The follow-up to 15 Big Ones may well be the most controversial album the band ever did, with fans almost evenly divided between those who love it and those who hate it. In a recent (totally...
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The Beach Boys On CD: Pacific Ocean Blue
The Beach Boys Love You marked the end of the Beach Boys as a creative force. Brian Wilson’s spurt of creativity continued for a while, producing two albums which are (as of May 2013) still unreleased...
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