Tag: Brian Wilson
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The Beach Boys Challenge: Part 4: Which Early Beach Boys Records Are Worth Buying?
The challenge: After a chat with a friend revealed neither of us had any Beach Boys albums outside of Pet Sounds and Surf’s Up, could I convince myself and my friend there were other gems in The Beach Boys’ back catalogue? A good local record shop is the gift that keeps on giving. That is,…
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The Beach Boys Vinyl Challenge – Part 2: Holland.
The challenge: To find lesser known moments from The Beach Boys catalogue and build up a concise collection of Beach Boys records that a) don’t cost the Earth and b) that are good enough to get regular plays on the turntable. I popped into Wow and Flutter in Hastings while taking a couple of days…
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The Beach Boys Vinyl Challenge
Can you still unearth great vinyl records without breaking the bank? Finding cheap vinyl records has become harder since Covid turned the world into online shoppers. But maybe it isn’t impossible… In this series we examine the vinyl legacy of that most Californian of bands, The Beach Boys. We were having a beer. It had…
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Brian Wilson Brings Pet Sounds To Southend
It is fifty years since Brian Wilson famously set the young Paul McCartney’s hair on end with the release of Pet Sounds. It was a remarkable, almost impossible achievement – the musical equivalent of you or me writing a maths equation that might get Professor Stephen Hawkins to up his game. A sequence of music…
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How The Rolling Stones Persuaded The Police To Play On “Let’s Spend The Night Together”
…why side two of Between The Buttons is a classic… Or, part six of a quest to discover whether it’s worth buying those early Stones albums on vinyl… (…read part one here to make more sense of what is to follow) Between the Buttons As King Minos of Crete discovered when his daughter Ariadne…
Every record tells a story 