Re: (TV) re: Top 20 / Overrated

["Philip P. Obbard" <pobbard@yahoo.com>]

Hmmm, interesting and fair choice. I think a lot of this is critical rebound;
for years, the concensus was that PET SOUNDS was great, but the rest of the
catalog (both before and especially after) was lightweight or just clumsy. 

Once PET SOUNDS got reissued on CD in 1990, and serious critical raves started
to come in, critics seemed to compensate for years of Beach Boy-bashing by
calling things like SURF'S UP and LOVE YOU and HOLLAND "lost classics". 

While these may be lost classics for afficionados in the same way ALCHEMY is
for us, the (admittedly subjective) truth is more likely that very little the
Beach Boys/Brian Wilson did, outside of PET SOUNDS, about a dozen singles, and
parts of a few other LPs (probably TODAY, SUNFLOWER, ALL SUMMER LONG) really
hold up. Like Elvis Presley or some of the other artists mentioned on this
list, there is a LOT of filler in the Beach Boys catalog, and more than once
I've wondered if Brian Wilson only had two or three musical ideas in his life
(granted, they were very good ones). 

--Philip, who freely admits that his #1 guilty pleasure record is Brian
Wilson's 1988 solo debut

--- "Forster, Michael H." <michael.forster@unisys.com> wrote:
> Overrated:
> 
> The Beach Boys


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