Overkill
9th September 2021
Severian speaks truth.
I guess the best I can come up with for the Beach Boys is “they’re a California band.” If you want to know why Southern California circa 1963 was the closest thing any human civilization will ever get to paradise, take a good long drink of All Summer Long, with a Pet Sounds chaser. The culture that made songs like “I Get Around” and “God Only Knows” is the best culture that was or ever could be, this side of the Reformation. I know, I know, that seems awful heavy for guys whose songs contain lots of “sha nah nah” and “de doo ron ron,” but just listen to “God Only Knows” a few times, then tell me I’m wrong. But I can’t say of Men at Work that “they’re an Australian band,” because I’ve never been there. Nonetheless, if the Aussie national anthem isn’t actually “Down Under,” then it damn well should be…
Yeah. Just … yeah.