Video: California Girls by the Beach Boys

The Beach Boys are my favorite band, and all following pop composers are compared to the incomparable standard of Brian Wilson, the true pop genius The Beach Boys are my favorite band. I still can't seem to give up the idea that the Beatles were the "greatest". They never released a bad album, and were the prototype for all rock bands to follow. The Beatles were elite for a longer stretch of albums, but at his peak Brian Wilson topped them. The shining star of pop, Wilson achieved the highest levels possible in the realm of popular music. He [...]

Charlaba con una quimera cuando salió al tema la derrota mediática de los Beach Boys ante la Invasión Inglesa. Aunque hoy no podemos imaginar los sesenta sin sus armonías, y la fastuosa instrumentación ideada por Brian Wilson, las listas de popularidad no siempre fueron justas con el combo de Hawthorne, no así con grupos que presentaban "melenas" y actitudes irreverentes. Los angelicales Beach Boys Era 1964 y los de California comenzaban a despuntar artísticamente gracias a un [...]