Sagittarius - My World Fell Down

It's a sad thing that so many prominant bands are obviously influenced by The Beatles and Stones and so few by The Beach Boys. Specifically, very few are clearly drawing on the groundbreaking production and song construction techniques Brian Wilson developed in the mid to late 60s.*
Bear with me...

Here's a band that did draw quite a bit from Wilson, especially in this song - clearly a product of a post-"Good Vibrations" world. There's the interspliced sections of song connecting into a single work, the harmonizing, the organ. The song falls short of Wilson's brilliant use of percussion but it makes up for it with an entirely random and bizarre segment of tape splicing in the middle of the song. It's so unexpected and out-of-place that somehow, for me, it works perfectly. This may be Sagittarius's best song, and it may be a bit derivative, but it's still very good - and, because of its openness about its influence, historically interesting.





*Short list of bands that utilize Wilson-esque cut-and-paste song construction techniques:
The Beatles themselves, on Side 2 of Abbey Road;
Todd Rundgren, who once actually re-recorded "Good Vibrations" for no apparent reason;
Super Furry Animals, in certain songs (though they're influenced by Wilson in other ways too);
The Olivia Tremor Control, who took the technique to its logical and ultimate conclusion in Black Foliage.

If I included prog or thought more, I might have a longer list. But Wilson was never prog, and that was the point.