Daisy the Dog
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I gotta go with the Beach Boys! How about you?
Beatles or Beach Boys?
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Naturally
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Enjoyed Beach Boys on the radio
Purchased Beatles record
Burned Beatles record in 1966 when Lennon said Beatles more popular than Jesus
Purchased Beatles record
Burned Beatles record in 1966 when Lennon said Beatles more popular than Jesus
The nuns wanted us parochial school kids to do the same I'm sure, but they never got me to trash my Beatle records!!
PeppermintPatty
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The Beatles and I donāt care if they are more popular than Jesus. In fact, it makes me like it even more 
being the rebel that I am
being the rebel that I am
bobcat
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I guess I liked the song writing of the Beatles a bit better, but TBH, I do love good surf guitar sounds and Beach Boys harmony, so I guess it's a toss up.
Nathan
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Liked them both back in the day. They brought different "vibes" to the music experience.
hollydolly
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Beach boys and the Beatles were really my mothers' musical Era.. I was just a child when both bands were at the height of their popularity... so I grew up hearing their music, and dismissing it as 'old peoples' music....
As small children at infant school we would sing Beach boys music along with our games. Barbara Ann was a big favourite.. without even realising or knowing who sang it, just that we'd hear it on the wireless, and it was popular.. ..
It really wasn't until I was a teen and George Harrison released My sweet Lord that I started to take notice.. by then the Beatles were breaking up...
..however I really never enjoyed their music until I was well into adulthood...( the Beatles)
For me as a Brit teen and young adult, The beach boys were very Archetypal American all preppy ...not to be taken seriously... ( come to realise later in life their music was albeit in a different way just as good as the Beatles) ... whereas the Beatles were very serious Musicians ...
As small children at infant school we would sing Beach boys music along with our games. Barbara Ann was a big favourite.. without even realising or knowing who sang it, just that we'd hear it on the wireless, and it was popular.. ..
It really wasn't until I was a teen and George Harrison released My sweet Lord that I started to take notice.. by then the Beatles were breaking up...
..however I really never enjoyed their music until I was well into adulthood...( the Beatles)
For me as a Brit teen and young adult, The beach boys were very Archetypal American all preppy ...not to be taken seriously... ( come to realise later in life their music was albeit in a different way just as good as the Beatles) ... whereas the Beatles were very serious Musicians ...
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CallMeKate
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Neither for me really... I was born in '57, so "my" bands are more along the lines of Bread, Kiss, Eagles, etc. from the 70s.
hollydolly
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Ditto.... ( not kiss for me )... but yes same Era... so the 70's were my musical era tbf
Gaer
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IMO, Music went downhill when Elvis started doing movies, lost all his sincerity
and the Beatles came in. Before that, there seemed something MAGICAL about
Rock and Roll.
BTW: I had lunch ALONE with Mike Love backstage! We talked for a long time!
He and I were both deeply into TM. This was late 70's. Good guy!
and the Beatles came in. Before that, there seemed something MAGICAL about
Rock and Roll.
BTW: I had lunch ALONE with Mike Love backstage! We talked for a long time!
He and I were both deeply into TM. This was late 70's. Good guy!
Murrmurr
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My older brother was mad at me for liking the Beach Boys as much as The Beatles. I was more drawn to the "California sound."
That said, we lived on a farm with our grandparents until I was 15, and heard only 3 kinds of music; classical orchestra, bluegrass, and the occasional polka. Gramps had a fairly modest collection of old 78s that he played on record players he bought new every few years.
I vividly remember when he bought his first stereo-sound record player, and how enraptured he was when the old 78s actually did play in stereo. Tears rolled down his cheeks while he listened to his album of Mozart symphonies.
I have all his old records.
That said, we lived on a farm with our grandparents until I was 15, and heard only 3 kinds of music; classical orchestra, bluegrass, and the occasional polka. Gramps had a fairly modest collection of old 78s that he played on record players he bought new every few years.
I vividly remember when he bought his first stereo-sound record player, and how enraptured he was when the old 78s actually did play in stereo. Tears rolled down his cheeks while he listened to his album of Mozart symphonies.
I have all his old records.
Alligatorob
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Both, don't make me choose!
You're making me feel really old...
Gaer
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You missed the era of the absolute BEST music EVER! The early Rock and Roll! Nothin like it!
hollydolly
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well in truth I didn't miss it because it was still all there when I grew up... I was never a fan of Rock and roll tbh.. still am not.. especially, God help us ''the king''.. or Chuck Berry...
..all that said.. I was told that as a Baby in the crib, I would sleep through anything,..... but the second that Bill Hayley and the Comets came on the wireless I would wake immediately , stand up, hold the side of the cot and shake my booty... than quietly lie back down and go back to sleep...
...search me..I don't know why.. cuz I never liked their music growing up..
squatting dog
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Beach Boy's.
Jace
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Me, too
Lewkat
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Beach Boys for sure.
hollydolly
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In truth you can't really compare them...
For example take Sloop John B, it was a fantastic record, and still is to this day...... but it's not similar to any Beatles songs... least of all their biggest hits one of which was ''She loves you''.... take them and compare those 2, one could see that initially the Beach Boys were by far the better songwriters... ..but that changed over the years as the Beatles became more grown and experienced
For example take Sloop John B, it was a fantastic record, and still is to this day...... but it's not similar to any Beatles songs... least of all their biggest hits one of which was ''She loves you''.... take them and compare those 2, one could see that initially the Beach Boys were by far the better songwriters... ..but that changed over the years as the Beatles became more grown and experienced
Murrmurr
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If you compare the Beach Boys early hit "409" to a later hit like "Sloop John B", you definitely hear progression in their writing and performing.
Comparing the Beach Boys to The Beatles is like comparing 2 different lifestyles and asking which you like better. Like, do you prefer bonfires on a beach or dancing in a night club? Surfing or playing an air-guitar? Acoustic or electric?
Margarita or beer?
hollydolly
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yes that was the point I was trying to make..If you compare the Beach Boys early hit "409" to a later hit like "Sloop John B", you definitely hear progression in their writing and performing.
Comparing the Beach Boys to The Beatles is like comparing 2 different lifestyles and asking which you like better. Like, do you prefer bonfires on a beach or dancing in a night club? Surfing or playing an air-guitar? Acoustic or electric?
Margarita or beer?
jujube
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I couldn't make a choice. Can't picture my young years without both of them.
PeppermintPatty
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I picked the Beatles since thatās what my 2 brothers listened to. They had a small record player in their room and I used to sneak in their when they werenāt home and listen to their records.
There was also I lot of other artists using the Beatles songs including sheet music which we played so thereā was a bit more connection to it. The Beach Boys really fun music. I like them both.
There was also I lot of other artists using the Beatles songs including sheet music which we played so thereā was a bit more connection to it. The Beach Boys really fun music. I like them both.
David777
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Beach Boys or Beatles? Like both groups but was not of age when those genre's rose. Same thing with 50s style Rock N' Roll and AM Radio Pop...too young. Yes have heard all the pop tunes of that era.
From the mid 1950s through early 1960s, AM radio pop music dominated and that was the media the vast majority of people listened to. Was a freshman in a cool suburban San Diego junior high school during 1962>1963, arguably the peak of the surf music craze as surfing was massive on West Coast media then including all the Hollywood films. I was too young, too new to the culture to be one of the few young surfers. Would ride a 10-speed bike to school and on weekends, rode miles down to Mission Bay and Mission Beach where I would body surf, a dangerous activity in big waves. Was otherwise daily rolling down hilly streets on skateboards, as that surf related craze had just began and in those days there were no products as one made them.
Beatlemania in the US began in early 1964. By then I was in high school in Columbus, Ohio (my father was always moving due to career) where we would live a couple years. Compared to where I came from, I generally disliked the Midwest youth culture of that day that was mainly a muscle car world. Teens were all wearing dress slacks and trench coats that was a weird East Coast thing. So none of the casual clothing where I came from. But when Beatlemania began, Ohio teens went nuclear, though I was still too young. Music for me was just AM radio. The first music album I ever bought was The Rolling Stones Aftermath. For 1965>1966 I was back in California where I graduated from high school.
That was when the San Francisco music really exploded and the Counterculture Era began as the Viet Nam War was exploding while the British invasion of bands were invading San Francisco and LA that was a drug world. After I graduated from high school, there was no way to avoid being drafted except by taking military tests that got me into the USAF instead of being a grunt carrying an M16 dodging bullets in swamps. And that is where after leaving home my music life began during the Summer of Love. Everywhere one could hear The Doors, Light My Fire, Hendrix, and Cream. After I was HD in 1970 lived in San Francisco during its peak rock music period. So am hard core Classic Rock and not the earlier Rock N' Roll.
From the mid 1950s through early 1960s, AM radio pop music dominated and that was the media the vast majority of people listened to. Was a freshman in a cool suburban San Diego junior high school during 1962>1963, arguably the peak of the surf music craze as surfing was massive on West Coast media then including all the Hollywood films. I was too young, too new to the culture to be one of the few young surfers. Would ride a 10-speed bike to school and on weekends, rode miles down to Mission Bay and Mission Beach where I would body surf, a dangerous activity in big waves. Was otherwise daily rolling down hilly streets on skateboards, as that surf related craze had just began and in those days there were no products as one made them.
Beatlemania in the US began in early 1964. By then I was in high school in Columbus, Ohio (my father was always moving due to career) where we would live a couple years. Compared to where I came from, I generally disliked the Midwest youth culture of that day that was mainly a muscle car world. Teens were all wearing dress slacks and trench coats that was a weird East Coast thing. So none of the casual clothing where I came from. But when Beatlemania began, Ohio teens went nuclear, though I was still too young. Music for me was just AM radio. The first music album I ever bought was The Rolling Stones Aftermath. For 1965>1966 I was back in California where I graduated from high school.
That was when the San Francisco music really exploded and the Counterculture Era began as the Viet Nam War was exploding while the British invasion of bands were invading San Francisco and LA that was a drug world. After I graduated from high school, there was no way to avoid being drafted except by taking military tests that got me into the USAF instead of being a grunt carrying an M16 dodging bullets in swamps. And that is where after leaving home my music life began during the Summer of Love. Everywhere one could hear The Doors, Light My Fire, Hendrix, and Cream. After I was HD in 1970 lived in San Francisco during its peak rock music period. So am hard core Classic Rock and not the earlier Rock N' Roll.
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