Been listening to a lot of Beach Boys lately. It truly is the work of, well, a madman. I just finished listening to "The Warmth Of The Sun" about 5 times in a row, and I still marvel at what an impossibly beautiful song it is. I tried recording it my way once, and gave up half way through. Impossible. "Girls On The Beach", "In My Room", "Wendy", "Surfer Girl", "Good Vibrations"; all comparable in complexity and nuttiness, and in the same songwriting box. When I was a kid I hated the Beach Boys. "Tack it up, tack it up, buddy gonna shut you down"?!?!?!?!? What kind of stupid lyric is that? That's not The Beatles! "Do you love me, do you Surfer Girl"?!?!?!? Come ON!! Sap supreme! How dumb is that? Gimme more Leo Sayer!
And now I can't get enough of it. To my musician friends, especially singers and guitar players, toss on Endless Summer and sing/play along. In about a minute or two you'll figure out how hard it is. "Girls On The Beach" has a key change at every other bar, proving once and for all that Brian Wilson has always been a complete nut job.
And then I threw on Saxon's "The Eagle Has Landed," speaking of lame lyrics. Why, why, WHY do I still love this stupid worthless hack band? Nigel Glockler remains among the very best hard rock drummers ever, but the songs are so very idiotic. How many times can you use "in the night" as a lyric in one song? Whatever the number, Biff holds the record. And as Country Dick Montana said shortly before he keeled over from a massive beerhat-induced coronary on stage, don't ever write songs about being on the road when you're on the road.
Just living my fantasies at 20,000 feet. Sure wish it paid.
Oh yeah. Our president is still an idiot. Just need to throw that in now and then.
A lovely weekend to one and all.
Posted by eric at May 20, 2005 03:39 PM