 | Title: BEACH BOYS vs BEATLEMANIA: Rediscovering Sixties Music |
It has been described as “the happiest sound in rock music.” But this is forgetting the melancholy, the angst, the elemental power, all conveyed through the music. What is meant is their music is exuberant, the opposite of clinical, listless Abba. Classic Beach Boys music of the Sixties might be called deeply enjoyable—like rare great films you want to re-experience, reflecting every emotion, unlike the bulk of rock music and movies, which tread water safe at the shallow end. Its profundity is sensed through sheer gut feeling.
A good word for the group's treatment of music is spirited: Whatever the mood of a piece or its attached lyrics, it came from the soul and was delivered sincerely, in true spirit. Bee Gee Maurice Gibb, speaking not long before he died, might have captured it: The Beach Boys were “great at soul music—not black soul, but music from the soul, from the heart.” ...............G A DeForest
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