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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Apr 16, 2019 12:36:15 GMT
How do you feel about them?
"Carl's Big Chance", "Honky Tonk", "Miserlou", "Shut Down Vol. 2", "Surf Jam", "Let's Go Trippin'", "Moon Dawg", "Stoked", "Boogie Woodie", "The Rocking Surfer", "Summer Means New Love", and others? When I first heard those early Beach Boys' albums, I didn't care for those instrumentals. I didn't necessarily consider them filler, but they did sound...inferior...to the other tracks. Maybe that's because many of the other tracks were classics.
I wonder how the instrumentals were viewed by teenagers during the early/mid 1960's? Were they cool? Did the BB fans consider the instrumentals just as vital as the vocal songs like "Surfin' Safari" or "Surfin' U.S.A."? Over the years I've changed a little bit in my appreciation of them. They kinda rock and do provide a lot of energy. The Fender guitars sound great. They do have a slightly haunting vibe. It still seems like the band recorded too many of them - the Surfin' U.S.A. album has five of them, though the album did reach No. 2 on the charts - but as we know Brian and company were really churning out a lot of albums during that period, so... How many of the instrumentals were the band performing in concert at that time?
Opinions?
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 16, 2019 12:37:55 GMT
Hate ‘em.
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Post by kds on Apr 16, 2019 13:05:03 GMT
For the most part, I find the early instrumentals range from pretty OK to very blah. If I'm listening to the albums, they're OK, but I never really make a point to single them out and listen to them. To be honest, I feel that way about most of the BB instrumentals, although I do that the ones from the second half of the 60s are far better.
It's especially odd that the band would include so many instrumentals on their second album when their strength was obviously in their vocals.
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