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Credit: Far Out \/ Brian Wilson<\/p>\n
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The Beach Boys<\/a>\u2019 debut album, Surfin\u2019 Safari, was practically a cheap holiday.<\/p>\n Brimming with sunshine, sand, and girls called Sandy, the record effectively invented the notion of \u2018California\u2019 to folks all over the suddenly shrinking world. So, it is not without irony that Brian Wilson didn\u2019t even see the album as surf rock, let alone a regional encapsulation.<\/p>\n \u201cI wasn\u2019t aware that those early songs defined California so well until much later in my career,\u201d he revealed to Uncut<\/a> in 2006. \u201cI certainly didn\u2019t set out to do it.\u201d As it turns out, the bastard wasn\u2019t even into surfing. The jargon was fed to him by Dennis, the only member of the band who ever actually waxed a board, and the inspiration came from Capitol\u2019s nod of approval.<\/p>\n The latter has tragic undertones. Throughout their youth, the Wilson brothers had been subject to the brutal management of their father, Murry Wilson. He ruled the household with an iron fist<\/a>, simultaneously encouraging the boys to practice music, but almost never affording them anything other than harsh criticism.\u00a0<\/p>\n So, when Capitol gave Brian Wilson the thumbs up for surf songs, he was more than happy to keep writing them without much forethought. \u201cI just wrote and wrote,\u201d he said. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to quit while we were ahead.\u201d That\u2019s not to say that they were mere \u2018product\u2019 or devoid of sincerity, after all, the catharsis of writing was central to the Wilson way of being.<\/p>\n However, when Wilson rattled off \u2018Lonely Sea\u2019, he knew his soul was tingling a little closer to the bone. The anthem came about thanks to his next-door neighbour, Gary Usher, who Wilson said \u201ctaught me how to really get into songwriting, to really involve myself in it. The feel of a song was always a big part of writing for me. It\u2019s more important then getting things exactly right musically.\u201d <\/p>\n The first time he felt that was on \u2018Lonely Sea\u2019, from the band\u2019s sophomore album in \u201863. From the very inception of the soulful tune, Wilson knew the song \u201cwas on a different tack\u201d. Rather than placing Wilson rolling around in the waves, it more honestly depicts him surveying the morose quality of the sea, where the soft hush against the shore prompts a more worldly reflection.<\/p>\n Further reading: From The Vault<\/p>\n \u201cIt was very mellow and soft,\u201d he said. \u201cI felt like I needed to express myself more. I always wanted to produce records myself, even then.\u201d He would continue to thunder ahead at great pace \u2013 remarkably, Pet Sounds was the band\u2019s 11th album \u2013 but all the kernel of \u2018Lonely Sea\u2019 would always linger in the back of his mind, eventually germinating into entirely organic masterpieces like \u2018God Only Knows\u2019.<\/a><\/p>\n It might have taken some time to get there, with Wilson reflecting, \u201cUp until 1966, we were just making car songs and surf songs.\u201d But when they did, he became the most revered pioneer in American music history, and few folks were surprised, because he had always been littering at least one \u2018Lonely Sea\u2019 on each album. <\/p>\n \u201cI wanted to try something new,\u201d he said of his insatiable desire to return to those soulful heights in the years that followed. \u201cI needed to create a new kind of music.\u201d Thankfully, he did just that.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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