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Los Angeles, United States (1961 – present)

The Beach Boys are a pop and rock music group formed in Hawthorne, California in 1961, who are widely considered to be one of the most influential bands in rock and pop music history. They have recorded dozens of Top 40 hits (including four US #1 singles), many best-selling albums, and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.

The original group comprised singer-musician-composer Brian Wilson, his brothers Carl Wilson and Dennis Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine. Many changes in both musical style and personnel have occurred in their sometimes-stormy career: Brian Wilson’s mental illness, drug addiction and eventual withdrawal from the group; the deaths of Dennis Wilson in 1983 and Carl Wilson in 1998; and continuing legal battles among surviving members of the group.

The Beach Boys officially broke up in 1998 shortly after Carl Wilson’s death, however Mike Love and Bruce Johnston maintain the rights to the name and continue to tour with their own band as The Beach Boys.

===History===

==Early years==

The group was formed in 1961 in Hawthorne, California under the leadership of Brian Wilson, and included his brothers Carl and Dennis, their cousin Mike Love and school friend Al Jardine.

The early inspirations of the group were the Wilsons’ musician father, Murry, and the close vocal harmonies of groups such as The Four Freshmen. The group performed initially as The Pendletones, after the Pendleton woolen shirts popular then. Although surfing motifs were very prominent in their early songs, Dennis was the sole actual surfer in the group.

1	God Only Knows full track	4,453
2	Wouldn't It Be Nice full track	4,357
3	Good Vibrations full track	3,843
4	I Get Around full track	2,762
5	Sloop John B full track	2,570
6	California Girls full track	2,211
7	Kokomo full track	1,602
8	You Still Believe in Me full track	1,583
9	Barbara Ann full track	1,520
10	That's Not Me	1,426
11	Don't Worry Baby full track	1,334
12	I'm Waiting for the Day	1,299
13	I Know There's an Answer	1,242
14	Don't Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)	1,214
15	Here Today full track	1,152

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dabbik wrote:
6 hours ago

No one got the joke I made. ;_;

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ThunderBeard wrote:
7 hours ago

The grammar police have a warrant out on dabbik.

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dabbik wrote:
9 hours ago

cptnfantastic: Do you really think I would? Plz -_-

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young_wives wrote:
10 hours ago

yet he's played them 1,063 times, somebody's lonely

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cptnfantastic wrote:
10 hours ago

Dear dabbik, please go jump into a fire.

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dabbik wrote:
yesterday afternoon

The Beach Boys fkn sucks.

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optimistic_tour wrote:
yesterday morning

we're goin down to the honda shop i'll tell you what we're gonna do

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xNeux wrote:
yesterday morning

<3

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JakeJustice wrote:
yesterday morning

oh come, Hawaii isn't bad. It's actually catchy as hell, just fun pop. A bit of a stand-out among the early Beach Boys album tracks

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TinyElvis83 wrote:
yesterday morning

haha. Mike's got moves at the end there.

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ThunderBeard wrote:
yesterday evening

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtQD0uXIfuQ&feature=related snl with brian wilson. What?

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Sessions_please wrote:
Friday evening

Check Warnakey's BB blog for that one.

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ThunderBeard wrote:
Friday evening

link to purple chick?

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TinyElvis83 wrote:
Friday evening

Hawaaaiii! Hawaaaiii! Ah, it got stuck in my head!

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Sessions_please wrote:
Friday evening

Isn't that incredible? Purple Chick-whoever you are, I bow down to you.

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sputnik57 wrote:
Friday evening

I've been listening Smile reconstructed by the Purple Chick.... amazing shit.

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Sessions_please wrote:
Friday evening

Hehe, Tiny E- have to say that's not a favorite of mine, either. Stereo or mono! Now you made me listen to WOTS :)

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Jyroflux wrote:
Friday morning

Heh. I hated the mono version of Hawaii. I thought it was a real mess. But I like the stereo version.

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TinyElvis83 wrote:
Thursday evening

I just purchased The Warmth of the Sun and heard that Hawaii song for the first time...it's pretty bad. lol. I mean, it's cute, with Brian and his falsetto, but I just couldn't get into it.

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Danee_Rose wrote:
Thursday evening

LOVE THEM

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