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Episode 153: “Heroes and Villains” by the Beach Boys

A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs

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'Girls and the Wallflower'

As the recording continued, it became more and more obvious that the combination of these themes and variations was becoming a little too much for bryan. Many of the songs he was working on were made up of individual modules that he was planning to splice together with good vibrations. But while a lot of the album was modula, there were also several complete songs with beginnings, middles, ends and structures - even if they were in several movements. And those songs showed that if brian could just get the other stuff right, the album could be very, very special. There was heroes and villains itself, which kept changing its structure, but was still based upon the same basic melody and story

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