[khazhoux]

WTF, it's not insulting at all.

Ben is a master writer of story-driven songs, with a very wide range and top-notch musicianship. There is definitely a similarity.

Perhaps you're not familiar with his full catalog?

[100pctremote]

Ben is eminently and deeply talented, but it's just a different aesthetic that is mostly very literal and conventional. Brian Wilson's songwriting and production technique was a one-of-a-kind imprint.

[donnachangstein]

I never said Ben wasn't talented. He's very talented. I like Ben.

That said, they are leagues apart. It's like claiming Eric Clapton is as good as a guitarist in some shitty bar band.

Perhaps you're not familiar with who Brian was and what he's done.

[cess11]

To me Wilson and Clapton are in the same league mainly due to rather unpalatable personalities, Wilson insisting on breaking the boycott of an apartheid state and Clapton throwing racist tantrums and profiting off a tragedy in his family.