Complete Guide to the Music of the Beach Boys (Complete Guide to their Music) by John Tobler

The Complete Guide to the Music of...

by John Tobler

Updated and redesigned editions of the classic guides to the music of the world s best known acts. Written by experts, each book examines every song in a given artist s recorded repertoire, making it an invaluable guide for collectors and fans alike.

Genres: Music

Paperback

First published March 1, 1997

About the author

John Hugen Tobler is a British rock music journalist, writer, occasional broadcaster, and record company executive.

With Pete Frame, he was one of the founders of ZigZag magazine in April 1969. The magazine focused on the "underground" music scene of the time, and featured Tobler's interviews with many of the leading rock and folk musicians of the period, both American and British. He continued to write for ZigZag until the 1980s, and for many other music magazines since then.

Reviews

[Paul Bryant · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of those many books on popular music that tell you in greater or lesser detail what you're hearing when you listen to this or that track like you didn't know and you had to be told like back in the 19th Century some white explorer would come to your village and tell you where you live because up until then you hadn't got a clue and you'd be saying to each other where are we? where are we?

[Kirk · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is another song-for-song overview. I find I agree with a lot of the judgments here. It's also one of the few books on the BBs to give due attention to SUNFLOWER, probably their second-best album after PET SOUNDS. Definitely their great undiscovered gem. If there's one complaint here, it's that whoever laid out the photographs paid little attention to the text---you'll have a pic from the 1980s slapped up a song from the 70s. Continuity, people, continuity!

[Andrew Doe]

Not so much a review, more a correction: John Robertson did not write this book. I did, with John Tobler, as it clearly says on the cover.

[Dan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I constantly refer to this little book when listening in depth to my favorite band ever. It has track-by-track info on every one of their albums and some witty opinions, too.

[Matthew Griffin]

...come about hard and join the young and often spring you gave.