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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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The Beach Boys - A History of the Beach Boys

Smilin smile has been unfairly dismissed over the ears. But it's actually an album that was ahead of its time. Its based on songs. Tiv with her liberty, nevero neen onbelieeve. And while these initial records weren't very successful, all of them would go on to bigger things. Parks would be a pioneer of music video, heading up warner's music video department in the early seventies. He also continued to make massively inventive solo albums, releasing roughly one every decade,. each unique and yet all bearing the hallmarks of his idiosyncratic style. As you can imagine, he is very likely to come up again in future episodes, though we're

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