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Irrelevant & wrong anyway

Posted by J (A) on February 22, 2007 at 19:39:58

In Reply to: Thank you. They were as cool as Frank Sinatra, Tom Jones, and posted by tinear on February 22, 2007 at 18:15:50:

Since you know so much about 'falsetto-singing pussies,' let me ask you a question: Ever done it?

Takes BALLS, pal. Big ones. It also requires a more finely tuned affinity for pitch control than if one is singing in a relatively comfortable lower register.

Think about that for a second.

Next, this nonsense about being 'cool.' So what? Either you like the music, or you don't. If the Beatles pulled the chain, as you say, on that kind of music, then what the hell is all that vocal harmony stuff all the hell over Abbey Road about?

Hmmm? Back In The U.S.S.R.?

Yeah, sheer brilliance like Octopus' Garden sure reduced the BBs to dust, now didn't it.

But if you knew what the hell you were talking about, you would've dropped this. Instead you insist on taking it further? Ask John Cale about the BBs' 'cool factor.' I guess you never heard 'Mr. Wilson?' That was from 1974, or around the period you're telling us how uncool the BBs were, and all. And gee, I guess Thurston Moore is just lying through his teeth when he talks about how listening to the Beach Boys was something he did at the same time he was buying the first Stooges & MC5 records. Because they were nothing but a joke on the level of the Tokens, for Pete's sakes.

Politics had nothing to do with any of this, in spite of yr attempts to revise history.

Nothing.

Wenner swallowed the SF jive & was impressed with hippie culture, which was down on the Beach Boys. But, hey, since hippie culture was so cool and all, I guess it's a real put-down to denounce the Beach Boys instead of actually listening to the music.

That it influenced the Beatles as much as it did apparently means nothing to you, either. Hey, there's an idea: these guys wore silly outfits & came from Ozzie & Harriet world, so who cares how much impact they had on the Beatles? That doesn't matter. They were a dusty cliche, like Sinatra, that's all that matters. Hmmm?

If that's supposed to make Friends a bad record you're going to have to do better.

It's like the logic Auph is using to put forth the idea that only the acts that 'adjusted their style to the volatility of the times' survived. He, apparently, has never heard of Elvis Presley or Bob Dylan.

>The Beach Boys conservatism was only Mike Love? Gimme a break. The band went along. They played at Vet affairs and refused to participate in many larger "peace" concerts.

What the hell does that have to do with music? Were they supposed to become activists because only the cool musicians did that? Now THAT would've been phony. Carl Wilson put his money where his mouth was, and he did it when the band's decline in popularity had not yet occurred, well prior to major peace rallies & anti-war consciousness. This you call phony.

>It's a good thing they did, too.
They'd of been laughed off the stage.

I wouldn't be surprised if the crowds at 'peace' shows would've actually done that. Nothing like laughing at a band that takes on as full-time members, touring and studio, two black guys from apartheid South Africa.

>You know those guys you see around S. California with the old surf boards and the spaced out eyes? That's how relevant the BBs were.

Yeah, that's why Pet Sounds is rated as highly as it is. I sure hope you pay a comedy writer for this stuff.

>Hell, surf music was an asterisk, anyhow.

The Beach Boys were not surf music. Didn't we go through this once before?

Do you know what surf music is?

As for being 'corporate suck-ups,' it shouldn't surprise anyone that you don't know squat about the band's management, either. Good grief. I guess you'd have preferred it if Murray Wilson hadn't sold the songs for peanuts, or if huge fees weren't commanded by the guy who saved Brian Wilson's life.

Please explain how any musical artist who signs a contract with a record label is not a 'corporate suck-up,' selling their art for profit?

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