What is the original name of The Beach Boys?

The famous rock band was originally trying to be a southern California style do-wop band due to the popularity of the Motown sound in the 60's. The Beach Boys are regarded as one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful bands of all time.

What do you think? Is this band really the most iconic one? Do you like their music? Please, tell us in the comments below!

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danbubalo

It doesn't matter what any of us think. What matters is how other musicians still scratch their heads trying to figure out the beautiful complexity that came out of Brian Wilson's brain.

Sharon LaFrenz

As a California girl of the '60s, I LOVE all the Beach Boys music! A couple of my high school girlfriends and I actually bumped into the Beach Boys at Newport Beach, where we were standing in line to buy chocolate-covered frozen bananas! WOW! 50 years on, the lyrics are silly, but back in '61 -- '64, they were the ones I listened to on my little transistor radio as I fell asleep each night. (I spent a lot of my babysitting money on batteries for that radio!) Those were indeed the good old days. (For white, middle class Americans, that is. The Civil Rights struggle going on in the South was far removed from my life in southern California.)

illonabird

Gary Kirkman, Till her daddy takes the T-Bird away.

Angel Palacios Zea

Good memories, surfing USA. Good Vibrations

Terry2ts

Great sixties band but I think they lost it after they released from the release of Surf's Up in 1971. Saw Brian Wilson live at Eden Sessions in 2004. Many people walked out during first set which was latest album but second set was sixties numbers which were amazing.

teresab

I much prefer the Bee Gees as their music always changed and was never boring. I like very few Beach Boys' songs, I'll turn the radio up for "I can hear music" but that's it.