Tag: Beach Boys

• Love & Mercy

  As biopics go, Love & Mercy is more interesting than most. I liked how the two arcs and time periods of Brian Wilson’s life start off on their own but then slowly merge like converging highways. Having ’90s Brian in our heads as we watch ’60s Brian slowly devolve personally and psychologically, even as he peaks…

  Dec 10, 2015

  # Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, film, Jersey Boys, movies, music, Pet Sounds, review

• The Best Albums Of 2008

  There was a lot of music released in 2008. I didn’t listen to most of it because I was too busy listening to the following albums to listen to much of anything else. I don’t expect to see any of these albums honored at the Grammys, but I still love them like my own hypothetical…

  Dec 31, 2008

  # Anathallo, Beach Boys, best of, Coldplay, lists, music, NCC Chronicle, Randy Newman, She & Him