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"I'm not even remotely as good as Brian Wilson, just to clear that up," Newman says. "But, it's something to strive towards... he made pop music that unfolded in interesting ways.
A lot of people don't know this. Animal Collective are considered a very strange band, but they sound like the Beach Boys and they sound like the Beach Boys because the Beach Boys were strange.
The Beach Boys had a combination of the strange and the beautiful that I think I strive for more than anything else, even though I don't want to sound like them.
But that quality that they have... like 'God Only Knows' is just the most strange and beautiful song and it's beautiful in not a very obvious way. I think that's the music that I love the most."
With the types of harmonies that the Beach Boys ended up utilizing, it's no surprise that the P*rnos often sport multiple vocal lines and push different members to the front of the stage to take the mic. Still, Newman remains in control.
(2009 Feb 20 / David Missio)more... chartattack.com
From the album Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE
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"A tireless soundscaper, this musical polymath blends electronica with a musical kleptomania." – Time Magazine
The King’s Singers serenaded a nearly full house in the Seretean Center Concert Hall with English folk songs, pop songs and music from the Renaissance and Romantic periods Wednesday night.
1965
Intro --- there's no such thing as a wrong note
British group mourned the failure to preserve a lost England
M. Ward, "Hold Time" (Merge)
Beach Boys in de polder
Ten minutes. That's the time allocated for our conversation with Brian Wilson, whose All Music Guide bio starts by proclaiming him "arguably the greatest American composer of popular music in the rock era."
(2009 Feb 4 / ChartAttack)
With the recession in full force, travel is a luxury fewer and fewer of us can consider.
Our correspondent encounters the master of smooth listening Burt Bacharach oiling himself by his Los Angeles swimming pool
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1964
In June of 1966 (similar to the warm sunny days of summer in 1929 and 2007), Brian Wilson produced the Beach Boys’ single “Good Vibrations.”
As the lead voice of archetypal girl group the Ronettes, Ronnie Spector, who will perform at the Bearsville Theater on February 14, rode her infamous producer and sometime husband Phil Spector’s celebrated “Wall of Sound” to the peak of the charts, belting out such classic hits as “Baby, I Love You,” “Walking in the Rain,” “I Can Hear Music,” and what is perhaps the most uplifting and transcendentally perfect pop single of all time, 1963’s “Be My Baby.”
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"This is my hometown," Brian Wilson said as he sat behind his keyboard. Indeed.
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