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Sometimes I have to hear something's antecedents to stop being annoyed by it. I like Tori Amos, but I don't like everything about her; some of her quirks, though, became more palatable to me once I heard Kate Bush. Her early records were SO obviously the context for some of Tori's idiosyncracies that my opinion of both shifted once I made the connection. Context almost always dissipates annoyance.

So, I've never heard a Beach Boys record; this is my first, if it counts. And it's wholly an exception to what I just wrote: its similarities to, say, the Elephant 6 style just bother me more. And that lolloping piano rhythm! It won't stop!

I gather this recording is, to some extent, of recent vintage, but honestly, the most irritating aspects are things that sound familiar from the Beach Boys singles I've heard over the years. I feel grumpy.

Date: 2004-09-30 11:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] piratedan.livejournal.com
One word. Theramin.

That alone justifies the Beach Boy's existence. That, and the fact that, at the age of three, the song was "We'll have fun fun fun 'til the daddy takes the teapot awaaaayyy".

But that may be more of a personal reason.

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