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TBH I think Kanye is one of the most overrated of all time.

 

I think post-MBDTF Kanye is massively overrated

 

do y’all know what the word overrated means lol. who is out here saying jesus is king or ye are good albums? most of his output this decade has been rightfully panned

 

Okay post MBDTF pre Ye

 

Though the Teyana Taylor album is the best since he has done since MBDTF

 

That's valid



Donald Glover actually yeah, he's not 100% my thing but you can't deny the talent or ubiquity

 

I had no idea that Donald Glover was a different person from Danny Glover. I just thought you all were being real proper with his name lol (even though his legal name Danny not Donald)

 

Idk what I find more amusing, the thought of Danny Glover doing This is America or a five year old Donald Glover telling Mel Gibson that he's getting to old for this shit.

 

Danny Glover Debuts Rap Career as Fatherly Gambino

 

Kokomo is my favorite Beach Boys song. The fact it was for the Cocktail soundtrack and had that John Stamos cameo in the video makes it even better.

 

Is there such a thing as an unpopular opinion about the Beach Boys?

 

Maybe that Mike Love is the best Beach Boy?

 

Sunflower > Pet Sounds

 

yeah the unpopular but probably correct opinion is that 70s Beach Boys is actually better and more interesting than 60s Beach Boys

 

Beach Boys are boring as hell

 

A blasphemous statement.

 

spoken like someone who's never actually tried to listen to them beyond their corny surf songs

 

this is it. where to start that isn't corny?

 

One of the first non-single Beach Boys songs I heard was All I Wanna Do. Sounds like a dream pop song 20 years before shoegaze/dream pop was even a thing.

 

First of all I'd recommend not paying much attention to the lyrics because they're rarely anything special and are corny sometimes, which they were a 60s pop band so like obviously. Similar to the Beatles, the Beach Boys were significant less for that than for their production and the ways in which they experimented with pop music.

But basically the band's output between Today (1965) and Holland (1973) is typically considered their artistic peak, I believe. I have no idea what amount of exposure you have had to the band, but if you've never even listened to Pet Sounds (1966) then just start there; "God Only Knows" is the most famous and probably the best example of what makes them special in general: bizarre instrument choices, heavily layered "wall of sound" production, tons of harmonizing.

This was just the way I was introduced to them so I'm biased, but after that I'd recommend going straight to Surf's Up (1971), which still "feels" like the Beach Boys but is notably darker in a lot of spots, especially on songs like the title track and "Don't Go Near the Water." Even more than Pet Sounds it really helped drill into my head that there was so much more to the band than the kind of popular conception of them. What also helped was listening to Beach Boys and then immediately after, listening to Animal Collective's Merriweather Post-Pavillion and realizing that on so many songs (eg "Guys Eyes"), what I thought was bizarre, unique experimental pop was in large part just copying the Beach Boys' style lol

Beyond that, I think like I said earlier - just bounce around their stuff from the late 60s/early 70s. During that period they were just all over the place musically. Like the post above me noted, "All I Wanna Do" sounds like a dream pop song, but on that same album (Sunflower) you have songs like "Slip On Through" which sounds like it could fit on a Curtis Mayfield album. A large amount of their stuff is considered a precursor to psychedelic rock and chamber pop and even lo-fi/indie rock stuff, in a sense. Honestly the deeper down the Beach Boys rabbit hole you go, the more you realize just how fucking weird a lot of their music was even by today's standards, let alone the 60s/70s. Even with the stuff I'm not that big on, I deeply appreciate how far out there they would go without giving a single shit about alienating their mainstream fanbase lol

 

Surf rock bangs

 

Pretty much everything he mentioned + smile sessions is an experience of its own.

 

Nothing wrong with corny surf songs

 

i agree but the best of it is the instrumental shit