Re: The Beach Boys - Surf's Up (1971)

by Nightjar Tue Jun 16, 2020 7:28 pm

This is off teh scale brilliant.

Even Mike Love sounds great on it.

by Guest Tue Jun 16, 2020 7:28 pm

I'm half in.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Jun 16, 2020 7:28 pm

Harmonies building up.

by Nightjar Tue Jun 16, 2020 7:29 pm

Mike Love was uncomfortable with the song's dark and moribund tone.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Jun 16, 2020 7:29 pm

Last track - Surf's Up. drown

by Nightjar Tue Jun 16, 2020 7:30 pm

This is Brian as a songwriter at his best.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Jun 16, 2020 7:30 pm

Proof that a song can make no literal, emotional or metaphorical sense and still be a great song.

by Nightjar Tue Jun 16, 2020 7:30 pm

Brian and Van Dyke parks in-exelsis.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Jun 16, 2020 7:31 pm

by Nightjar Tue Jun 16, 2020 7:31 pm

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:Proof that a song can make no literal, emotional or metaphorical sense and still be a great song.

I sense that you may have had to've taken a great deal of mind-expanding drugs.

by Nightjar Tue Jun 16, 2020 7:32 pm

Almost Classical.

Baroque even.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Jun 16, 2020 7:32 pm

"A broken man too tough to cry." pet

by Nightjar Tue Jun 16, 2020 7:33 pm

The harmonic coda is heart-breaking.

by Nightjar Tue Jun 16, 2020 7:33 pm

by Nightjar Tue Jun 16, 2020 7:34 pm

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Jun 16, 2020 7:36 pm

It is over.

I felt that was a much better album than that other Beach Boys one we did. It was suitably varied and often refreshingly light on the harmonies that I can find somewhat cloying.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it. Excited

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Jun 16, 2020 7:36 pm

I shall give it 4 stars.

by Nightjar Tue Jun 16, 2020 7:39 pm

Every time I listen to it I forget how good it is.

It's quite coherent really.

The poor songs are not so embarrassing as all that.

The middling songs are quite jaunty and charming.

However, the good one aren't good at all - they're G.R.E.A.T.

50% of the songs are truly brilliant.

20% of the songs are quirky and charming with nice Moogy stuffs and echoey studio gallimaufry.

20% of the songs are a bit weedy.

10% of the songs are backside torpedo.

by Nightjar Tue Jun 16, 2020 7:42 pm

It's really startling to think that their next album would be the car-wreck that is Carl & the Passions "So Tough", which despite having a few choice tracks on it really illustrates how fragile and shambolic the band were. sad yes

by Nightjar Tue Jun 16, 2020 7:44 pm

I voted wrong. bawl

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