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Why the Beach Boys Matter

Tom Smucker

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via Edelweiss "The musical, historical, and cultural argument for the centrality of the Beach...

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Onn 10" Tablet

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10.1" 2.5D touchscreen with 2GB RAM +16GB ROM. It has a 0.3 megapixel front-facing camera and a 2...

Frank Black recommended Link Wray by Link Wray in Music (curated)

Link Wray by Link Wray

2014 | Rock

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"When the Pixies were going, Joey and I got really into surf music. We would buy a lot of different tapes at truck stops. At some point we discovered Link Wray – that was pretty important. He wasn't an influence on us so much as a confirmation of what we already were: rough and loud and minimalist. With Link Wray it was like, Oh yeah, I totally get this. I am cut from the same cloth."

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Adam DeVine recommended Weezer (Blue Album) by Weezer in Music (curated)

"I was in fourth grade when it came out and it was the first type of music that I liked, that my dad thought was dogshit. Before that, I was just like, ‘AC/DC is cool, I don’t know.’ When I heard Weezer I loved it and my dad was like, ‘Uh that’s dogshit.’ I was like, ‘You’re fucking wrong, Dad.’ I cursed a lot as an elementary schooler. ‘Surf Wax America,’ ‘Buddy Holly’ all are just classics."

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Carrie Brownstein recommended track Sanaga Calypso by Pasteur Lappe in African Funk Experimentals by Pasteur Lappe in Music (curated)

African Funk Experimentals by Pasteur Lappe

2016 | World

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Sanaga Calypso by Pasteur Lappe

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"Pasteur Lappé is a guy from Cameroon who was making music in the late ’70s, and “Sanaga Calypso” was on this collection of experimental African funk music. The first time I heard this song, it reminded me so much of the Clash’s Sandinista! The Clash were obviously influenced by dub and reggae, and they paid homage to those styles very openly and respectfully, but to hear something that reminded me of a song like “Charlie Don’t Surf”—dancey, soulful, very beautiful, and kind of elegiac—it just made me smile. I literally said, “Joe Strummer for sure heard this song!” I like building a small lineage between my own listening experience and the listening experience of somebody I’ve been inspired by, and that’s what this song does for me. It puts me back in the sphere of influence. And it’s catchy."

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