The Boys Next Door - The Boys Next Door

The Boys Next Door 

The Boys Next Door were true contemporaries of the Beach Boys; not only did they perform around the same time (1964-1967), this Indianpolis group of friends patterned their entire sound and appearance around their west coast doppelgangers. But The Boys Next Door weren’t a simple cover band, they wrote and performed their own material, which payed obvious homage (and sometimes outright theft) to the Beach Boys’ sound. In fact, listening to the first three tracks, you might be hard-pressed to distinguish between this group and Brian Wilson’s songs. But then this group does a great thing - by track four you hear them begin to develop an individual sound, which although it keeps the four-part harmonies and songwriting prowess, but begins to stretch out past the cars and girls sensibilities of their early records.

Cold 45 [The Four Wheels]
Central High/Playmate [The Four Wheels]
Mandy
One Face in the Crowd
Why Be Proud
See the Way She’s Mine
I Could See Me Dancing with You
Suddenly She Was Gone
Lorali
Begone Girl
There Is No Greater Sin
Mary, Mary
Sneaky Little Sleeper [The Four Wheels]
Ratchet [The Four Wheels]
Mandy [Demo Version]
She’d Rather Be with Me
Wastin’ My Time
Radio Spot: Casite Motor Honey [The Four Wheels]
The Wildest Christmas
Christmas Kiss
Radio Spot College Concert [The Four Wheels]
Mandy [Live]

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