Driving my little deuce coup up to Cripple Creek...
Round 1 (60's Groups) - #5 Beach Boys vs #12 The Band
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Another hard matchup for me in the 1960's. Cuntry-rock and roots-rock are my 2 favorite classic rock genres. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down is some of the best history nerd lyrics in rock. Still...The Beach Boys are the greatest group of try hard, American, suburban whites of all time. I mean they sucked at playing, but boy could they sing.
'Nuff said
That's not the Beach Boys. HTH. Just like Styx without @Dennis_DeYoung is not Styx.
The only Beach Boys that matter are 1962- 66. After that they collapsed into Brian Wilson's love of milkshakes and weed.
dnc
New Fish
'Nuff said
That's not the Beach Boys. HTH. Just like Styx without @Dennis_DeYoung is not Styx.
The only Beach Boys that matter are 1962- 66. After that they collapsed into Brian Wilson's love of milkshakes and weed.
THIS is the Beach Boys to my generation.
Ergo, fuck the Beach Boys.
Whatever talent they once had has long been obscured by eternal appearances at the Puyallup Fair.
'Nuff said
That's not the Beach Boys. HTH. Just like Styx without @Dennis_DeYoung is not Styx.
The only Beach Boys that matter are 1962- 66. After that they collapsed into Brian Wilson's love of milkshakes and weed.
THIS is the Beach Boys to my generation.
Ergo, fuck the Beach Boys.
Whatever talent they once had has long been obscured by eternal appearances at the Puyallup Fair.
Can't disagree with you on the tarnishing of their reputation by Mike Love.
Dennis_DeYoung
New Fish
The band is strictly for white people.
If you made Pet Sounds you win. If you aren't smart enough to go figure out what Pet Sounds is... jump off a cliff.
If you made Pet Sounds you win. If you aren't smart enough to go figure out what Pet Sounds is... jump off a cliff.
Dennis gets it. Good Vibrations was the best produced [/i]rock single up until that point in time- i.e., Oct. 1966. Better and more advance that anything the Stones or Beatles had yet accomplished.
Dennis_DeYoung
New Fish
Touch choice again.
IMO, tilt goes to the Beach Boys. Besides, this song reminds me of Julie Christie in Shampoo.
Dennis_DeYoung
New Fish
THE BAND HAS ONE FUCKING SONG. ONE FUCKING SONG.
Jesus.
Put the Band's 2-5 songs up and let's see how this goes.
Duh. Levon Helm was the shit.
WRONG. JUST FUCKING WRONG.
Nearly every song of their first 2 records is great. Have listened to Chest Fever for Christ sake's? Garth Hudson was doing prog organ intros way before ELP and Yes. They did a kick ass version of Long Black Veil BEFORE Johnny Cash.
I miss Chest.
"The Weight" is epic, amongst the GOAT in this genre.
Debatable as too whether these are their best 2-5 songs, but I'm not getting the hate. I voted Beach Boys, but The Band is good chit to listen too when you're chilling.
