Mentions (16)
"Brian Wilson understood something fundamental about American culture: that the most profound truths often hide in plain sight, dressed in the garb of commercial entertainment. Brian Wilson's increasingly baroque arrangements weren't mere showing off; they were efforts to capture the complexity of in"
"seeing as how Paul and Brian ended up driving each other to make their best works."
"I love CCR and Nirvana but Brian Wilson still reigns supreme."
"In terms of obligation, Brian Wilson from The Beach Boys (a significantly more troubled man than George R. R. Martin) once said that there IS an obligation for an artist to continue his craft."
"that he did not die like 45-35 years ago. It's absolutely shocking to me. Literally everytime I got confronted, in the last 10 years, with the fact that he's still alive I always reacted with genuine surprise and shock. For some reason my subconscious is 100% convinced that he was a Keith Moon-type "
"Always in the background, everyone knows theyre 'big' but don't really take them seriously as musicians (and maybe correctly aside from Brian Wilson)."
"For me it's Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, and Brian Wilson. When they're dead the era will become a pure abstraction."
"Having a Brian Wilson moment, but instead of listening to 'Be My Baby' on loop, it's 'Wichita Lineman' for me. This is the most beautiful song of all time."
"What a weird guy. The best musician of all time. But people forget how weird the other beach boys were. By far the most awkward band of all time. Probably in large part to the Wilson's psychotic dad forcing them to look into his dead eye socket after he removed his fake eye"
"Imagine going on a gruelling world tour while your barking mad mentally ill cousin is constantly shitting on you in the media while you work to pay his bills, and when you get back, he makes you lay down in an empty pool to record your vocals for 10 hours straight."
"Brian Wilson was overweight or obese for most of his life."
"For me it's Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, and Brian Wilson. When they're dead the era will become a pure abstraction."
"Having a Brian Wilson moment, but instead of listening to 'Be My Baby' on loop, it's 'Wichita Lineman' for me"
"With Brian Wilson and Sly Stone dying recently, I feel like we need to give some of these '60s/'70s music legends their flowers while they're here."
"Brian Wilson stopped touring early on, and touring is where the real money comes from. Brian Wilson's entire adult life has been financed by the money the band made from all the touring he never was well enough to participate in."
"Brian Wilson was overweight or obese for most of his life."