Look ma, no pitch correction:
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 1 June 2012 13:56 (11 months ago) Permalink
Fun (fun fun) to watch these old clips and hear them pull off the harmonies:
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 1 June 2012 14:01 (11 months ago) Permalink
At my guitar lesson yesterday we were talking about what an insane chord progression you find in "California Girls," not just the descending chords in the chorus (that bring you back to the right place) but the A/B they throw in in the verse, specifically how so few (if any) pop ®acts were harmonically sophisticated enough at the time to throw in a jazzy chord like that.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 1 June 2012 14:05 (11 months ago) Permalink
xpost Til I Die isn't about aging - it's about our tininess in the eternal scheme of things. Having the word Die in a title doesn't something into a rumination on mortality. If it did, Bruce Willis's career would have been very different.
― Manfred Mann meets Man Parrish (ithappens), Friday, 1 June 2012 14:14 (11 months ago) Permalink
Aging is about our tininess in the eternal scheme of things! But yeah, I know, I get it.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 1 June 2012 14:41 (11 months ago) Permalink
the die hard movies are totally about aging, he's always getting too old for this shit
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 1 June 2012 14:42 (11 months ago) Permalink
for the new songs,
man writingwise they aren't as bad as i feared, parts are even kind of amazing
but lord, the production is so sterile, and it's not even "80s" glossy which is at least an aesthetic, but i feel like all the bad things about music production ever have coalesced now on protools and it's just a nightmare
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 1 June 2012 14:43 (11 months ago) Permalink
heard this in the supermarket today while getting milk n stuff and holy shit this is awful
― it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, 1 June 2012 15:29 (11 months ago) Permalink
stop trying to deny your mortality. we're all going to die.
― tylerw, Friday, 1 June 2012 15:32 (11 months ago) Permalink
jesus christ is there any thread that can putter along without a mention of Bruce Willis
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 1 June 2012 15:38 (11 months ago) Permalink
^^that's why god made the internet
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 1 June 2012 15:40 (11 months ago) Permalink
we're all going to die hard
― tylerw, Friday, 1 June 2012 15:43 (11 months ago) Permalink
I have no idea why people are complaining about the production. It's fairly wet sounding. Do people not like the e.q. or something?
― timellison, Friday, 1 June 2012 15:51 (11 months ago) Permalink
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 1 June 2012 15:53 (11 months ago) Permalink
lol
― tylerw, Friday, 1 June 2012 15:58 (11 months ago) Permalink
ha
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 1 June 2012 15:58 (11 months ago) Permalink
Those concert clips should be shown to any idiot who would argue that being perfectly in tune with a piano keyboard has anything to do with good group harmony singing in rock music.
― Three Word Username, Friday, 1 June 2012 16:14 (11 months ago) Permalink
Anyone looking to the music itself to check for signs of cynicism need only turn to Spring Vacation. It opens with a verse in which Mike Love claims to be "living the dream … cruisin' the town, diggin' the scene". The Beach Boys' music has often involved a suspension of disbelief – all those songs depicting a perfect, gilded California youth, written by a man whose own youth had been mired in physical and mental abuse – but this seems to push unreality to its limit. You find yourself wondering why on earth a 71-year-old would be cruisin' the town and diggin' the scene: perhaps he's plannin' on askin' them to keep the noise down so an old man can get some rest.
Haven't heard the new album net except the single and now "From There to Back Again" which I really like, but yeah, the production sounds like something Magic Garageband came up with. I'll have to listen to the "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times" soundtrack again before deciding whether using pitch correction for the new one was a good idea.
― Lee971 (Lee626), Friday, 1 June 2012 17:59 (11 months ago) Permalink
the production sounds like something Magic Garageband came up with.
I don't think so! I use Garageband all the time and this sounds more like a really nice studio with really nice microphones to me!
― timellison, Friday, 1 June 2012 18:03 (11 months ago) Permalink
Tickets for the Wembley show went on sale today, my brother got us a couple. Mixed feelings about that.
― JimD, Friday, 1 June 2012 18:16 (11 months ago) Permalink
xp I wasn't insulting GarageBand's technical prowess, which is impressive IMO, just commenting that it somehow comes across as electronically-enhanced rather than a natural live performance. Mind you the Beach Boys were on the forefront of making records that weren't intended to sound like a live performance. Double-tracking was to 1963 what Auto-Tune is to 2012.
― Lee971 (Lee626), Friday, 1 June 2012 18:23 (11 months ago) Permalink
There's definitely a little "Surf's Up" in "From There to Back Again." And did anyone else notice the scanning of the word "wonderful" at around 1:35 or so?
― timellison, Friday, 1 June 2012 18:30 (11 months ago) Permalink
gah the pitch correction just ruins this stuff.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 2 June 2012 22:12 (11 months ago) Permalink
by default i guess this is the best beach boys stuff since the mid-70s, but jeez.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 2 June 2012 22:13 (11 months ago) Permalink
or late 70s i dunno.
LA (Light Album) is better than this
― Morrissey & Clunes: The Severed Alliance (PaulTMA), Sunday, 3 June 2012 11:43 (11 months ago) Permalink
nah, only if the new one had a 12 minute disco version of "God Only Knows", or maybe a dubstep remake of "Surf's Up"
― Lee626, Sunday, 3 June 2012 14:14 (11 months ago) Permalink
or a smurf movie tie in version called "Smurf's Up"
― akm, Sunday, 3 June 2012 15:40 (11 months ago) Permalink
nah, only if the new one had a 12 minute disco version of "God Only Knows",
would listen
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Monday, 4 June 2012 01:57 (11 months ago) Permalink
Feel obligated to post this. It's not "God Only Knows" but it is Pet Sounds.
My disco remix of "Sloop John B": http://soundcloud.com/the-me/sloop-john-b-the-me-remix
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 4 June 2012 02:08 (11 months ago) Permalink
Indeed, there is crap on LA (Light Album), the disco Here Comes The Night being the overwhelmingly obvious example. It's not a great Beach Boys album, but I'd say the 5 great songs - Good Timin', Angel Come Home, Baby Blue, Sumahama and Love Surrounds Me - stands it as the best album after Love You.
Admittedly that's not saying very much, but it has a lot more going for it than all the others. The remaining mediocre tracks are at least listenable, I suppose.
― Morrissey & Clunes: The Severed Alliance (PaulTMA), Monday, 4 June 2012 02:10 (11 months ago) Permalink
best album post- Love You, of course.
― Morrissey & Clunes: The Severed Alliance (PaulTMA), Monday, 4 June 2012 02:12 (11 months ago) Permalink
http://music.aol.com/new-releases-full-cds/spinner#/4
― tylerw, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 15:27 (11 months ago) Permalink
Is this getting any radio airplay?
― Lee626, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 15:46 (11 months ago) Permalink
Kinda ok. Isn't It Time/Last 4 tracks are AMAZING. Rest ranges from 'Can We see weirdos + Mike Love?' to passable BW cruising.
― I'm not going leftfield on you... (hypehat), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 15:57 (11 months ago) Permalink
NTI, I am both really liking your remix and feeling terribly embarrassed to be listening to it out loud.
― Merdeyeux, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 16:01 (11 months ago) Permalink
private life of bill & sue sounds like Friends filtered through autotune
― tylerw, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 16:02 (11 months ago) Permalink
Beeeeeeaches in mind! Pretty bad.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 16:14 (11 months ago) Permalink
I am weirdly intrigued by this album. Is it out on vinyl?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 16:18 (11 months ago) Permalink
Isn't It Time/Last 4 tracks are AMAZING.otm. the rest i never want to hear again, but i definitely want to re-listen to these!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 16:24 (11 months ago) Permalink
the opening vocal stuff on the first song i gorgeous
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 17:43 (11 months ago) Permalink
so far this is far better than a beach boys album in 2012 has any right to be
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 17:49 (11 months ago) Permalink
isn't it time is great
one of the really unique things about the beach boys is how on pet sounds and smile they really eschewed conventional trap kit drumming and i like the arrangement on isn't it time for that reason
goddam spoke to soon - SPRING VACATION, is this a stamos number?
haha now spring vacation is just as bad as you'd expect
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 17:51 (11 months ago) Permalink
Just be glad I didn't bust out a "Here Comes the Night"-style vocoder!
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 21:19 (11 months ago) Permalink
"riiide your bicycle anywhere"
*ring ring*
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 June 2012 19:36 (11 months ago) Permalink
Contrary to what many of us assumed, "That's Why God Made the Radio" written only by Brian, Joe Thomas, Jim Peterik, and Larry Millas (the last two ex-Ides of March).
We all know what that means: In a few years, they're all gonna be sued by Mike Love claiming the "lift up my antenna" line was his.....
― Lee626, Saturday, 9 June 2012 08:01 (11 months ago) Permalink
Been playing "Isn't it Time" on repeat this weekend - so good!
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 08:53 (11 months ago) Permalink
seeing them tomorrow!
― that's why ZOG controls the radio (brownie), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 12:31 (11 months ago) Permalink
"Isn't It Time" is like an unholy combination of all the things I dislike about both 15 Big Ones and Love You.
I know everyone's dying to proclaim the last three songs Brian's autumnal masterpiece and all. But thus far, this tune feels like the best thing on the record by some length, lifted antennae be damned.
I like the melancholy intro tho.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 20:54 (11 months ago) Permalink
otm
― iatee, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 23:19 (11 months ago) Permalink