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August 25, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 67

The Beach Boys, Wild Honey (1967) I have a few more Beach Boys albums to go but this was a nice find, recently. My favourite period for the band is 1967-1973 – they were out of the surfing phase and couldn’t rely on Brian at least not for brand new material all the time; so […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1967, Aren't You Glad, Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, Darlin', I Was Made To Love Her, LP, R'n'B, Record, Stevie Wonder, The Beach Boys, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 67, Vinyl, Wild Honey ·

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March 19, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Murry Wilson & Snow: The Break Away EP

Murry Wilson & Snow The Break Away EP Omnivore Recordings Murry Wilson shares the prize with Joe Jackson (father of the Jackson 5, not the super singer/songwriter) as one of the world’s worst Professional Fathers – these manager/Svengali types that invented the cliché of channeling their own rage through their sons (and daughters) and being […]
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March 11, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 153

Beach Boys, Good Vibrations (1975) You know you’re one of the tragic few – a real fan with more dollars than sense as they say when you buy a compilation like this. To be fair I bought this for $2 and it would only have ever been a bargain at half the price. The Beach […]
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November 21, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 214

The Beach Boys, Best of The Beach Boys Vol. 2 (1967) So many Beach Boys compilations. And I believe I’ve given a few away. But this was definitely one of the first Beach Boys records I owned – I have a feeling it was in fact the first. Which is probably why I’m still hanging […]
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November 20, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 15 – Murry Wilson, “The Many Moods of Murry Wilson”

Murry Wilson, The Many Moods of Murry Wilson, 1967 Murry Wilson. Not a nice guy. Bitter hack – who was sure he was “a genius too”. Murry Wilson. Pretty sure he was the manager of The Beach Boys for a lot longer than he ever was – and written up as a bad guy who […]
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October 21, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Wind Chimes

What’s the last song that made you feel like you actually stopped existing? That was the question. And there’s only one answer. That one by The Beach Boys… The one that goes, “On the warm breeze the  little bells/Tinkle like wind chimes Though it’s hard I try not to look at my wind chimes Now […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Beach Boys, Poem, Poem: Wind Chimes, Song, The Beach Boys, Wind Chimes ·

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October 21, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 231

The Beach Boys, Rock And Roll Music [Single] (1976) It’s when you don’t really care about the A-side or the B-side and you own the parent album which has both songs on it anyway (and that’s also not great) that you realise you’re in pretty deep. This is me, in real time, with my latest […]
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October 16, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Mike Love: 12 Sides of Summer

Mike Love 12 Sides of Summer BMG Rights Management (US) LLC Just what is a Mike Love? Is it the cold, prickly nasally lead singer of one of the best groups to ever make music? Is it the guy that provided many of their worst songs in the latter years? Is a Mike Love the […]
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October 13, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 236

The Beach Boys, Their Twenty Two Greatest Hits (1973) Ah, the specific – prosaic – compilation-album title. 22 hits you say? Better not be a bonus track! Better not cut off before the end either. I want to hear 22 songs by The Beach Boys and they better be their Greatest Goddamn Hits! My record […]
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October 9, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 11 – The Beach Boys, “The Beach Boys Love You”

The Beach Boys, The Beach Boys Love You, 1977 It’s funny what hearing the album far removed from its initial (release) context can do right? I love The Beach Boys and they have some dreadful albums – and I love those too. But I had never heard “Love You” until nearly 40 years after it […]
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December 11, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 351

The Beach Boys, The Beach Boys Today! (1965) It’s about here – on their eighth album (already!) – that The Beach Boys start to grow up and away from the “Surf” songs; not that there’s anything wrong with the best of the surf songs. But here we get the start of the real sophistication – […]
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June 17, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Beach Boys: The Beach Boys With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

The Beach Boys The Beach Boys With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Capitol STOP IT RIGHT NOW! YOU CUNTS! STOP IT! STOP IT!! ELVIS AND THE BIG O DIDN’T DESERVE IT EITHER, ARETHA CERTAINLY DIDN’T, PROVING DEATH ISN’T EVEN A PREREQUISITE – FUCK! NO ONE IS SAFE! NOT LEAST THE LISTENER. HERE THE MAGICAL MUSIC OF […]
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