#218 The Beach Boys – Surf’s Up

Surf’s Up is one of those albums where I find it hard to decide if I like it or dislike it. The Beach Boys are back once more with their 17th album. Their popularity has fallen drastically, even with their previous album Sunflower receiving critical acclaim it died in the charts. I listened to Surf’s Up several […]

1001 Albums #61

The Beach Boys again. I am starting to see trend here. Can Pet Sounds do for The Beach Boys what Revolver did for The Beatles? I hated all The Beatles music until my last review. Can The Beach Boys turn my feelings around. Pet Sounds is one of the most highly regarded albums of all-time. We shall see. “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” is creepy. I can picture this song in the opening of a film about […]

1001 Albums #53

John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme is avant-garde jazz, free jazz, modal jazz and more jazz. It has been classified as one of the greatest albums ever recorded. Is it? Or were those critics taking drugs with The Beach Boys? I do not get it. I like some of the jazz, but some of it I […]

1001 Albums #52

The Beach Boys were known until 1965 for song about surfing, girls, and cars. The Beach Boys Today! took them in a new direction. At least that is what I have read everywhere. Is it enough to get me to like The Beach Boys? First off the group’s name is unfortunate. They did not think far enough into the future to […]