What makes this album so good? We know it isn't Student Demonstration Time, but every other song is incredible. Not only is every other song incredible, but the title track is on the album and by golly... you can talk all the shit you want about the Beach Boys, but that last track is nuts. I can remember listening to that one song, and the whole album, over and over again as a I rode a night greyhound back one evening. Watching the lights scatter around and dance to the music - like a kid's movie. People might have thought the Beach Boys had peaked with Pet Sounds or just in the 60's in general, but this album proves they were still flowing with great ideas. Carl Wilson and Al Jardine have more credit, Feel Flows is an excellent song. Disney Girls (1957), led by Bruce Johnston, is a beautiful song that pokes holes in everything the Beach Boys quote on quote stand for - what an emotional track filled with vivid meaning! Point is, this isn't just a Brian album - this is the Beach Boys on a commercial downward slump if you will, but they are still the Beach Boys and downward slopes are still made up of beautiful melodies. Surf's Up is not a culmination of the Beach Boys like its name suggests, but rather a reflective daydream into the mythology and ethos of the music - and maybe even America itself - boom. Big yes.
Beach Boys - Surf's Up
What makes this album so good? We know it isn't Student Demonstration Time, but every other song is incredible. Not only is every other song incredible, but the title track is on the album and by golly... you can talk all the shit you want about the Beach Boys, but that last track is nuts. I can remember listening to that one song, and the whole album, over and over again as a I rode a night greyhound back one evening. Watching the lights scatter around and dance to the music - like a kid's movie. People might have thought the Beach Boys had peaked with Pet Sounds or just in the 60's in general, but this album proves they were still flowing with great ideas. Carl Wilson and Al Jardine have more credit, Feel Flows is an excellent song. Disney Girls (1957), led by Bruce Johnston, is a beautiful song that pokes holes in everything the Beach Boys quote on quote stand for - what an emotional track filled with vivid meaning! Point is, this isn't just a Brian album - this is the Beach Boys on a commercial downward slump if you will, but they are still the Beach Boys and downward slopes are still made up of beautiful melodies. Surf's Up is not a culmination of the Beach Boys like its name suggests, but rather a reflective daydream into the mythology and ethos of the music - and maybe even America itself - boom. Big yes.
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