'Today!' was the Beach Boys' pre-'Pet Sounds' appetizer, a stunning collection of songs penned by Brian Wilson before he made his masterpiece.
will be revisiting albums that came out before the magazine was founded in July 2002 and assessing its current cultural relevance. This week, we’re putting the focus on the Beach Boys' pre-had reached new heights in their popularity. On the Fourth of July the previous year, their song “I Get Around” became their first #1 hit—and is said to have formally jump-started the years-long rivalry between them and the Beatles.
As far back as “Surfer Girl” and “In My Room,” the Beach Boys were no strangers to singing blissfully about sadness. Love’s ability to write vibrantly about California and Brian’s uncanny knack for confessionals about romance and melancholia, on paper, should have never gelled.
“Don’t Hurt My Little Sister” flaunts an opening guitar riff that the Vogues would mimic a few months later on theirTop 5 hit “You’re the One.” Brian wrote the song for the Ronettes, originally framing the melody in a way that would match that of Phil Spector’s oeuvre—but Spector would rewrite Brian’s work, change the name to “Things Are Changing ” and have one of his lesser-known acts, the Blossoms record it. Thus, the song was lost to the annals of Spector’s Wall of Sound.
The Beach Boys’ cover of “I’m So Young”—first performed by the Students and then famously by Veronica Bennett and the Ronettes —sits in blunt contrast with that of “Do You Wanna Dance?,” largely for how closely the band sticks to the song’s original script, mirroring similar melodies to the Chantels’ “I Love You So.
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