“Sail On, Sailor” barely grazed the lower regions of the charts in the early 1970s. Today it is a staple of classic rock radio
was largely absent and what new work he did release was greeted with bafflement. The Beach Boys were in flux, with their presiding genius, Brian Wilson, only fitfully present in the studio. In an era that felt like the atomised hangover from the party that preceded it, their stuttering career and existential confusion seemed all too representative of their generation., a masterful album and single both released in 1966.
The duo’s first contributions, on “Carl”, were symptomatic of a group now casting around for an identity. Uneven and uncertain though it is, the album features some outstanding moments, notably “You Need a Mess of Help to Stand Alone”, a deceptively complex, philosophical song masquerading as a straight rock’n’roll number, and “Cuddle Up”, on which Dennis Wilson developed his own distinctive mode, at once raw and beatific.
On “Holland”, named for the location of its recording, this last great iteration of one of the greatest of all bands found its collective voice and made an undervalued marvel. Its signature tune, “Sail On, Sailor”, sung by Mr Chaplin, barely grazed the lower regions of the charts at the time.
The rest of the album is more experimental, reflective and often wistful. The plaintive, languorous “Steamboat” prefigures what is now called “hauntology”: pop music suffused with an eerie sense of a lost past. In the “California Saga” suite Mike Love and Al Jardine poetically survey the psychogeography of their home state and recall the band’s surf-rock roots.
The eccentric, quixotic nature of the Beach Boys’ recordings between 1967 and 1973 left them ignored by audiences of the time. Now it makes them a source of fascination. An English electro-pop group, Saint Etienne, named their second studio album “So Tough”, in a direct tribute, along with their first compilation album, “You Need a Mess of Help to Stand Alone”.
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