Been looking for an excuse to run the first song again, though I do not like the official album cover, so am using a blank one. Also, not all people like precise musicianship in rock/pop … too carefully constructed, they say.
Then, this morning, I saw Do It Again by the Beach Boys.
Mixed feelings about the BB … didn’t really like Mike Love, plus there were question marks over Brian and Dennis Wilson. Still, it was from that era and enough readers might like those two songs. Maybe. Late brek time.
Some years ago at a music festival the reconstituted Beach Boys, as the Brian Wilson Experience doing Pet Sounds, headlined one night. Personally I’m not a great BB fan, debated going to watch, but so pleased I did, it was a tremendous show. They had it spot on sound and note perfect with a non stop run through of the early car/beach/surf songs, I think it was MIke Love’s son who has inherited the high voice for the vocals, then they did Pet sounds start to finish. I have never even liked Pet Sounds, as an album I never understood it’s appeal, but it was spellbinding with the impact of a modern sound system, volume and clarity. Just goes to show that sometimes the unexpected can be a real surprise.