The Beach Boys' Christmas Album (Mono & Stereo)

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The Beach Boys have been at least three bands: crafty chroniclers of pre-freakout mid-Sixties Southern California, audacious cult oddballs and shameless nostalgia merchants. The first incarnation created pop art of the highest order from 1962 to 1969; the third still rides on the original's coattails for empty entertainment and profit. But their complex middle era […]