{"id":973,"date":"2012-10-01T11:46:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T11:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atantalus.com\/blog\/?p=973"},"modified":"2013-03-28T09:44:45","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T09:44:45","slug":"a-song-a-year-the-beach-boys-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/a-song-a-year-the-beach-boys-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"A song a year: The Beach Boys (pt1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of other folks have chosen their favourite songs by an artist during a particular set of years. Thought I’d hop on and give it a go. No surprise that I’m doing the Beach Boys.<\/em><\/p>\n

1962: \u00a0The Lonely Sea<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

\"Rare<\/a>I\u2019ll start with Brian\u2019s first collaboration with Gary Usher.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Lonely Sea\u201d is a ridiculously early indicator of all the things that Brian would come to master.<\/p>\n

It may have been released in 1963 (on the \u201cSurfin\u2019 USA\u201d album), but this was an outtake from 1962\u2019s \u201cSurfin\u2019 Safari\u201d. So 1962 it is! This also leads one to question: Who in the name of Mike-Loves-Receding-Hairline chose that\u00a0d\u00e9but\u00a0LP line-up? I mean\u2026 Who? Out of the 12 songs on that patchiest of patchy albums, precisely 12 of them\u00a0aren’t\u00a0fit to polish the fret board of this melancholy masterpiece. Early groupe politique?<\/p>\n

The song itself is an intense, emotional and sonically interesting composition with an added touch of sincere imitation conjured up from Brian\u2019s musical upbringing.<\/p>\n