My iTunes
library contains more songs by the Beach Boys than by any other artist except
Springsteen (although the ones by the Boss are considerably longer), ranging
from big hits such as “Help Me Rhonda” and “Barbara Ann” through some relative
obscurities – you probably didn’t know they recorded a version of “Cottonfields”
that made the top 5 in the UK. This one fits somewhere in the middle of the
continuum; a lot of people know it even though it wasn’t a huge hit. It’s
always had a deeper resonance for me than a song that superficially is just
about young love and drag racing.
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