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Thought this deserved a spot on this board. RIP to Brian Wilson, the creative genius behind the Beach Boys. He was a brilliant songwriter and musician who had a huge influence on so many artists. Pet Sounds still stands as an absolute triumph and is one of the greatest albums of all time.

abcnews.go.com

Brian Wilson, legendary Beach Boys singer-songwriter, dies at 82

Wilson's work includes the landmark 1966 album "Pet Sounds."
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Can't say I was a huge fan of their surfing era, but damn, Pet Sounds was an incredible album.

RIP Mr. Wilson.

SoFla Steve said:
RIP Brian. Still love Pet Sounds.

We lost Sylvester "Sly Stone" Stewart on Monday.

It seems each week, I lose another piece of my youth.
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Two tormented geniuses. I associate both with summer. And wish we were able to get more great music out of both before their respective mental issues.
 
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storrsroars said:
Can't say I was a huge fan of their surfing era, but damn, Pet Sounds was an incredible album.

RIP Mr. Wilson.



Two tormented geniuses. I associate both with summer. And wish we were able to get more great music out of both before their respective mental issues.
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I think you're either a Mike Love Beach Boys fan or a Brian Wilson Beach Boys fan. I'm a fan of the latter.
 
BigErnMcCracken said:
I think you're either a Mike Love Beach Boys fan or a Brian Wilson Beach Boys fan. I'm a fan of the latter.
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I'm a fan of both. I just view Mike Love as the singer they needed to balance all the falsettos. Brian was co-writer from almost all the Mike Love tunes and probably wrote most of them.
 
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I am so had at this famous people dead or alive game.

I would have put money on him being dead for a decade.
 
Chin Diesel said:
I am so had at this famous people dead or alive game.

I would have put money on him being dead for a decade.
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Same here, I was saying to myself what the hell I thought he had passed, knowing his life was never the same after hanging with the Manson clan. Then I realized oh that's Dennis Wilson not Brian. Got the 2 Wilson boys mixed up.
 
I am more of Wilson/Jardine fan but I did get to see MIke Love and his Beach Boys at Ft. Lauderdale on July 4th, 2021. John Stamos was a special guest playing guitar. It was still pretty cool to hear Beach Boys tunes at a great location such as Ft. Lauderdale. Fun, fun fun.
 
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I don’t know. I’m with Chin. I thought he died 20 years ago. And Pet Sounds is a great album…..written 50+ years ago.

Not sure he’s a genius as much as he was a talented and troubled individual who made a really good album a long time ago. I’d be shocked if a single person in this thread listened to Pet Sounds or thought of him once in the last decade.
 
It's been many years since I've done this, but there was a stretch where on one of the first hot days of summer, I'd play a string of Beach Boy songs to kick off the summer. Then after playing all their hits, I'd feel I ODed on them and wouldn't play them till the following year.

RIP Brian Wilson.
 
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Deepster said:
I’d be shocked if a single person in this thread listened to Pet Sounds or thought of him once in the last decade.
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Just two days ago. Probably a dozen times this year.

Can I watch?

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Deepster said:
I don’t know. I’m with Chin. I thought he died 20 years ago. And Pet Sounds is a great album…..written 50+ years ago.

Not sure he’s a genius as much as he was a talented and troubled individual who made a really good album a long time ago. I’d be shocked if a single person in this thread listened to Pet Sounds or thought of him once in the last decade.
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Boooooooooooooo!
 
Embarassed to say that I never listened to Pet Sounds until yesterday. Still not a huge BB fan but I can see that Brian was a musical genius and influenced so many greats.
 
Deepster said:
I don’t know. I’m with Chin. I thought he died 20 years ago. And Pet Sounds is a great album…..written 50+ years ago.

Not sure he’s a genius as much as he was a talented and troubled individual who made a really good album a long time ago. I’d be shocked if a single person in this thread listened to Pet Sounds or thought of him once in the last decade.
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Oh Deep.
50 years ago doesnt negate his brilliance. Mozart is still a genius.
Brian Wilson is top 5 geniuses in popular music history, perhaps still #1. His harmony arrangements are classical music. He embedded complex counterpoint into timeless pop hits. He produced, arranged and wrote music that defines a certain geographic portion of this country and always will. His use of instrumentation in pop music is still untouched. The Beatles envied his abilities. He wrote insanely complex instrumental scores for orchestra in his head without having to play a note. There aren't many musicians or critics today or 50 years ago who would dispute any of this. If he's not a musical genius then no one is. (And he wrote tons of classics before Pet Sounds and after it)
 
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alexd said:
You might want to do some research on Richards' life these past 20 years.
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My brother used to service his furnace and one day Keith walked him through his gardens, very enthusiastic about his new hobby.
 
Was this the Wilson brother who was one ham sammich away from going full Momma Cass while laid up in bed?
 
Jaydumo20 said:
@chindiesel ain't exactly Robert Christgau.
50 years ago doesnt negate his brilliance. Mozart is still a genius.
Brian Wilson is top 5 geniuses in popular music history, perhaps still #1. His harmony arrangements are classical music. He embedded complex counterpoint into timeless pop hits. He produced, arranged and wrote music that defines a certain geographic portion of this country and always will. His use of instrumentation in pop music is still untouched. The Beatles envied his abilities. He wrote insanely complex instrumental scores for orchestra in his head without having to play a note. There aren't many musicians or critics today and 50 years ago who would dispute any of this. If he's not a musical genius then no one is. (And he wrote tons of classics before Pet Sounds and after it)
*listen to a song called "Our Prayer" to see just a hint of his otherworldly status.
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Preach!
Deepster said:
I don’t know. I’m with Chin. I thought he died 20 years ago. And Pet Sounds is a great album…..written 50+ years ago.

Not sure he’s a genius as much as he was a talented and troubled individual who made a really good album a long time ago. I’d be shocked if a single person in this thread listened to Pet Sounds or thought of him once in the last decade.
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And you'd be catastrophically wrong in that second assertion. He did things in the studio and with harmonization that were unparalleled for their time (and now) and pre-tech and Pro Tools and everything else that are still superior today. He wrote music that pushed the envelope and forced contemporaries to try to catch up. He's a musical genius in every facet of the word.
 
to lose Sly Stone and Brian Wilson in one week at the same age. I could make an argument that they were the two greatest musical geniuses still living. Their brilliance burned out years ago, but for a 5 yr period, they both seemed to touch the source
 
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