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Re: Read Heroes & Villians by Steven Gaines...

Sgt. Pepper has already been diefied as one of the touchstones of rock recording history. You can compare the Beach Boys to the Beatles if you want to--you can also compare John Grisham to William Faulkner or Hank Mobely to Charlie Parker--I don't care. But I haven't read anywhere that musicians, critics or fans ever put the Beach Boys in the same class as the Beatles. The band members outside of Brian were non-entities, and during the heyday of the group, the people who dug them, in general, weren't hip. Lots of folks who were around then didn't like the Beatles, for various reasons, and still don't. You can say the same thing about Louis Armstrong. But if you say that Wynton Marsalis is a better trumpet player than Armstrong was, or even in the same league, you'd be wrong. There's a reason the Beatles get big chapters in books on rock and the Beach Boys get paragraphs. The Beatles changed the face of popular music. The Beach Boys didn't. Pet Sounds was one album, and not even popular or particularly well-received critically at that. They did nothing else that even remotely compares to any Beatles album from Rubber Soul onward.

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