6.5
Avg Score
2
Opinions
#39,491
All Time
34
Tracks
“The Beach Boys have been at least three bands: crafty chroniclers of pre-freakout mid-Sixties Southern California, audacious cult oddballs and shameless nostalgia merchants. The first incarnation created pop art of the highest order from 1962 to 1969; the third still rides on the original's coattails for empty entertainment and profit. But their complex middle era — plagued by commercial failure, ”
“On his first live solo album, recorded at Hollywood’s famed Sunset Strip club, the Roxy, the great California pop composer is generous with the spotlight: He praises his ten-piece band, which re-creates classic Beach Boys instrumentals such as "Let’s Go Away for Awhile" and "Pet Sounds," and honors Phil Spector, the creator of Wilson’s "favorite […]”
