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No, I did not go to the concert by the Beach Boys. While confessing proudly nostalgic (years ago I went to listen to what was left of Procol Harum!) Are not so masochistic as to risk the profound disappointment of those who are confronted with the remains of their idols. Not that the Beach Boys have ever been, my idols, but still record them I have heard and played plenty of them, and the respect and appreciation I have for their career are those who prefer to remain intact.
Listen to the record, that yes, I can. And I can tell that I'm not excited or not particularly unhappy. The craft is that, and do not you forget it, even if you have not practiced for a long time, the voices and their mixture are delicious, even if they are constantly at risk of self-quotation, if anything that is missing album is a decent number of songs of superior quality. The opening track, a cappella, is a kind of statement of intent, "That's why God made the radio" rentier title of a killer, but from there on you go. The average level is still high (and God forbid) but the intent autocelebrativo - connected to the fiftieth anniversary of the start of the band - is the desire to tell premium music in new and different things.
But then came the last three songs - "From there to back again", "Pacific Coast Highway" and "Summer's Gone" - a kind of mini-suites ispiratissima (the last track goes also, curiously, an authorial credit to Jon Bon Jovi) that can legitimately be the best epitaph for the career of a group that has all the reasons to stay in pop history.
I take this opportunity, and I think it's a good opportunity for them to report here the release of "FreebOObin '" of the Sunny Boys: born as a tribute band The Beach Boys, boys Turin are on their second CD of original songs (they also published a couple of songs in Italian, I really do not epochal), and while away, now, from the reference model primitive (and approaching a power-pop-punk-surf very pleasant) continue to have the sounds in their DNA the Beach Boys. Here, in "FreebOObin '" is a song - track 9, "Different circles" - which, frankly, would not disfigured in a disk of the Beach Boys and I speak not only of this last record. If you happen, so listen. I agree.
