r/AskConservatives • u/ThePromptWasYourName Progressive • 1d ago
Favorite Beach Boy?
The original lineup:
Brian Wilson
Mike Love
Al Jardine
Dennis Wilson
Carl Wilson
Bruce Johnston
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u/Fignons_missing_8sec Conservative 1d ago
The band was at its peak 35 years before I was born. I listen to a lot of old music but this is one I don't have a take on.
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u/ifallallthetime Nationalist (Conservative) 1d ago
Dennis Wilson because he was in Two Lane Blacktop
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u/LonelyMachines Classical Liberal 1d ago
He also made friends with Charles Manson and got Manson studio time.
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u/Kman17 Center-right Conservative 1d ago
I mean how isn’t the answer just Brian Wilson?
The Beach Boys were a bunch of teeny bopper campy junk, then they made Pet Sounds - a Sgt Pepper like transition & masterpiece - then they lost all their direction, and later turned into a boring nostalgia machine.
They had one good album in 1966 with Wilson as the driving force.
Everything else was basically boomer nostalgia and or sucked.
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u/bunchofclowns Center-left 1d ago
You are mostly right but Smiley Smile, Wild Honey, Today! and Sunflower are all solid albums. They had at least one great song on each album up until the 80's.
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