yeah it does lose sorta drift off in the second half
― iatee, Friday, 12 August 2011 16:52 (twelve years ago) link
minus 'lose'
shakey, why do i feel if i sat you down in a room intervention-style, with some drugs and five of your best friends, you would recant on yr alleged no-no to fm shit?
― dell (del), Friday, 12 August 2011 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
and by "friends", i mean jerk-asses from ilm
missed op that lindsey buckingham didn't produce a BBs album around this time. sure he would've jumped at the chance. as would all of the coke dealers in los angeles.
In the 33-1/3 book on Tusk, Walter Egan talks about him and Lindsey always eating at the same deli as Brian in the mid/late-70s but never going up to him and talking to him!
― Dave Zuul (Phil D.), Friday, 12 August 2011 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
can we all move to LA in the 70s please
― iatee, Friday, 12 August 2011 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
btw lol @ Al's guitar strap breaking in the middle of that Here Comes the Night video
xxxp
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 12 August 2011 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
xxp lol that's great. didn't they work together (or try to) in the 80s? is he on the first brian solo album, can't remember. think i like the live version of trader better. but yeah, when it starts i think it's going to be awesome, but it's kind of dull in the end.
― tylerw, Friday, 12 August 2011 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
yeah you're right, tyler!
"He Couldn't Get His Poor Old Body to Move" ♦ (Lindsey Buckingham / Brian Wilson) – 2:36
― iatee, Friday, 12 August 2011 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
haaa, classic song title
― tylerw, Friday, 12 August 2011 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
wait that's a bonus track only - I guess they didn't include it
― iatee, Friday, 12 August 2011 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I could swear Lindsay's name is in the liner notes of the first released BW solo album (along with Christopher Cross and Terence Trent D'Arby, I think? lol)
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 12 August 2011 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
wish i were joking, but yeah, that's pretty much the first stop on my time machine when affordable versions roll out circa 2015
― dell (del), Friday, 12 August 2011 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
i think i've read some interview where buckingham was really disappointed with the circumstances surrounding those sessions, thanks to wilson's psychiatrist/guru dude.
― tylerw, Friday, 12 August 2011 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
that would make sense
― iatee, Friday, 12 August 2011 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
is there a thread 'rank the decades + cities you want to time machine travel to'?
LOL at that video. Brian looks horrible and their dancing is hilarious. Carl really is a trooper. I wonder what he thought after realizing he was now fronting a disco act.
― skip, Friday, 12 August 2011 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
The Trader is a bit half baked for me - like Sail on Sailor without a proper hook. Pleasant track though.
― skip, Friday, 12 August 2011 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
Carl really is a trooper. I wonder what he thought after realizing he was now fronting a disco act.
I think this was actually Carl's idea iirc...? by all accounts reception of the song was awful, fans really turned on them.
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 12 August 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
honestly it's weird that they didn't enlist Van McCoy for that track and make it a genuine hit
yeah, i feel like carl was way into it? and in retrospect he was right? i dunno, cos when yr dealing w/the beach boys all the dysfunctional family sitch invariably comes into play, and being in a band is difficult enough w/o any of that.
― dell (del), Friday, 12 August 2011 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
You're right, I'm sure he was into it, he probably dragged some of the band kicking and screaming. It still must have been weird to hear that percussion kick in after spending 15 years of being a way different band. Then again they made so many stylistic shifts in their career that maybe it was no big deal.
― skip, Friday, 12 August 2011 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, i feel like they were probably just like "wtf, let's do this. who cares." guess there are stories of them being booed at concerts when they played it?
― tylerw, Friday, 12 August 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
#68
River Song - Pacific Ocean Blue (Dennis Wilson) 62 points, 3 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4yFWBbG_ZAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJeHcHzGyZQ
― iatee, Friday, 12 August 2011 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
best Dennis song by a good margin! Love that piano intro.
― skip, Friday, 12 August 2011 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, didn't vote for any solo tracks (except for "wrinkles" natch), but this one is great.
― tylerw, Friday, 12 August 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
there's a "making-of" clip of that song floating around featuring Dennis conducting the gospel choir in the studio
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 12 August 2011 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
amazing opener to the album, but not the Dennis solo tune I voted for. happy to see something from POB place.
gonna do two more then I gotta run
5 this evening/tonight
― iatee, Friday, 12 August 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
is there a good book about the BBs in the 70s & 80s (& onward if needed)? I'm interested to learn more about the seedier side of the band. The 60s will have some of that too (Golden Penetrators & all that) but I don't want a book mostly focused on the 60s. I want the decadence in (alleged) decline.
― Euler, Friday, 12 August 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
#67
Our Prayer - 20/2064 points, 3 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swQ1h_As22Q
seediest bio ever = Heroes and Villains. starts (and ends) with Dennis' death.
xp
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 12 August 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
I voted "Our Prayer" pretty high, top 5 iirc; those harmonies are haunted
― Euler, Friday, 12 August 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
I voted for Our Prayer. no many how many times I listen to it I just cannot get my head around the vocal arrangement, it's so strange.
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 12 August 2011 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, beautiful track. still nothing i voted for so far, though!
― tylerw, Friday, 12 August 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
I probably should've voted for "Our Prayer" but didn't. I've started a couple of mixes with it.
― jaymc, Friday, 12 August 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
maybe I've listened to too much Perotin and Gesualdo but that doesn't sound so special in comparison.
― skip, Friday, 12 August 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
another great potential album opener though.
― skip, Friday, 12 August 2011 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
#66
Let’s Go Away For Awhile - Pet Sounds 65 points, 3 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwGkv7cuM1k
have you guys heard this album, it's pretty good
― iatee, Friday, 12 August 2011 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
ah, i voted for this one. never gets old.
― tylerw, Friday, 12 August 2011 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
Love the two Pet Sounds instrumentals -- though, like, "Our Prayer," their slightness made me eventually cut them from my ballot.
― jaymc, Friday, 12 August 2011 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
I voted River Song really high. I don't know that it's the best Dennis song but it's the one that I think of the most. I like how it does a lot over the course of three-and-a-half minutes or so (see also It's About Time from Sunflower).
― fit and working again, Friday, 12 August 2011 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
though, like, "Our Prayer," their slightness made me eventually cut them from my ballot.
wait, what?
― Dominique, Friday, 12 August 2011 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
oh shit I just realized that #70 on my spreadsheet is actually #69 cause the first row is empty. so uh, add 1 to all those ranks, we're doing a top 69 and the next one is #64
― iatee, Friday, 12 August 2011 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
it's still an appropriate starting place, cause #70 only got 2 votes whereas 69 on got 3+
― iatee, Friday, 12 August 2011 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
#64
California Saga: Big Sur - Holland 66 points, 3 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KASDsSaJy64http://www.filesmap.com/mp3/y8KP/the-beach-boys-big-sur-alternate-version/
― iatee, Friday, 12 August 2011 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
last 3 later I guess
eh, almost voted for our prayer and let's go away... this waa a tough poll. those are really beautiful songs that are hard to argue with
― dell (del), Friday, 12 August 2011 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
They were on my shortlist of 40 or so. I needed justifications for cutting stuff, so short instrumentals seemed like a good place to start.
― jaymc, Friday, 12 August 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
Cool with me.
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc400/c471/c47141hsv99.jpg
― jaymc, Friday, 12 August 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah the only half-decent/half memorable tracks on this are Diane from MIU (a real stinker of an album). LA is slightly better, with Good Timin', Lady Lynda, Full Sail, Angel Come Home and of course Here Comes The Night (Disco Version) being saved from the late '70s toilet.
― dog latin, Friday, 28 October 2011 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fviwc3YeG8&feature=related
― brownie, Saturday, 21 January 2012 08:15 (twelve years ago) link
anyone going to the reunion concerts this year? i'm going to plunk down 95 bucks on Saturday
:/
― brownie, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:26 (twelve years ago) link
― iatee, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:27 (twelve years ago) link
250 bucks to sit in the first 20 rows
― brownie, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:29 (twelve years ago) link
Is that at the Q?
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:30 (twelve years ago) link
blossom
― brownie, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:30 (twelve years ago) link
pavilion seats
― brownie, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:32 (twelve years ago) link
cavs will be hosting the NBA finals at the Q on that date iirc
― brownie, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:33 (twelve years ago) link
couldn't pay me to watch them at this point
― erotic war comedy pollster (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:35 (twelve years ago) link
$1250 will get you in the weirdos and Mike Love thread
― brownie, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:36 (twelve years ago) link
I would see brian wilson solo again, if it were cheap
― iatee, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:36 (twelve years ago) link
foster the people are rumored to be opening
:-0
― brownie, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:38 (twelve years ago) link
okay I would pay $95 to see mike love do 'pumped up kicks'
― iatee, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:38 (twelve years ago) link
only seems to be available by spending like $100 for a new copy or $40 used, while all the other reissues are really easy to track down. Is it because they are that awful?
this is totally inexplicable to me and must have only happened in the last few years. I bought the CD twofer for a few bucks about 5 years ago.
― erotic war comedy pollster (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:39 (twelve years ago) link
student demonstration kicks
― brownie, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:40 (twelve years ago) link
pumped up kicks would seg really well into do it again
― iatee, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:47 (twelve years ago) link
Are all the other Wilsons still dead? This seems like a lot of money for only 1/3 of the Wilsons.
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:48 (twelve years ago) link
no dennis isn't dead anymore
― iatee, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:50 (twelve years ago) link
he's the drummer in gay dad now
― erotic war comedy pollster (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:50 (twelve years ago) link
it's a ton of money but w/e. gonna grow a beard for this tbh
http://www.civilwaracademy.com/images/john-reynolds.jpg
― brownie, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:51 (twelve years ago) link
i got a designated driver which means PARTY TIME
JAMAICA KEY LARGO ETC
― brownie, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:52 (twelve years ago) link
al jardine is worth it
― brownie, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:54 (twelve years ago) link
already psyched
― brownie, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:55 (twelve years ago) link
what have i done
do the beach boys have their own tequila
― brownie, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:56 (twelve years ago) link
seeing Brian a couple years ago was enough for me.
― skip, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 01:03 (twelve years ago) link
are they playing in the uk?
― Alexandre Dumbass (dog latin), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 10:19 (twelve years ago) link
Nothing's been announced :/
― I'm not going leftfield on you... (hypehat), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 12:20 (twelve years ago) link
R.I.P. Paul Tanner
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Saturday, 9 February 2013 14:38 (eleven years ago) link
Without whom there would be no "Trombone Dixie."
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 9 February 2013 23:38 (eleven years ago) link
Or 'I Just Wasn't Made For These Times'.
― insert witticism here (hypehat), Sunday, 10 February 2013 01:52 (eleven years ago) link
SiriusXM is running Beach Boys channel through July. It's wonderfully inclusive: lots of bad solo stuff and fun oddities (three Love You tracks in the last 45 minutes!) squeezed in between the hits.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 30 June 2023 22:53 (nine months ago) link