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______ Passed Away Today, RIP (13 Viewers)

oh man ...Sly ... :cry:


Brian Wilson :cry:
Rough two days.

It would be really hard to overstate the quality of their music and the influence they had on what came after.

In a lot of ways, these two guys were the same person. Both were perfectionists who couldn't stand the fact that they couldn't make the perfect record (both were wrong, because they made a lot of them). Both struggled with mental/emotional/addiction issues.

This is a big gut-punch for me.
 
Brian Wilson :cry:
On the one hand, I always thought the lyrics were a little weird (a love song that starts "I may not always love you" and then repeatedly raises the possibility of his love interest leaving him). But "God Only Knows" may be one of the most musically gorgeous songs ever written. I'd say it's a close call between that and "Bridge Over Troubled Water".

The other thing that always stuck out to me about Wilson's songwriting: It's conventional wisdom that the Beatles/Beach Boys rivalry developed as both bands evolved from teeny boppers to brilliant, complex songwriters over the course of the '60s. But "Surfer Girl", which was the first song Wilson ever wrote (give or take), is way more advanced musically than anything the Beatles were doing in the early '60s
 

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