I'm really, really fond of the cover of "Just Once In My Life" that's on 15 Big Ones.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 6 May 2012 00:47 (eleven years ago) link
this is shit.
― Grimy Little Pimp (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 6 May 2012 01:07 (eleven years ago) link
in response to tim's enthusiasm, i listened to it a couple more times. while they aren't great, it's not the lyrics that are tripping me up. in fact i appreciate the creepy, angel-zombie earnestness. the harmonies are sweet and the basic melody serviceable, but the whole thing sounds lifeless to me. that's the problem. it's nostalgic, but in this freeze-dried, joyless sort of way that makes me think of an online funeral parlor more than anything else.
i did realize that if this were a beach boys pastiche by someone i'm more in the habit of forgiving (jeff lynne, say), i'd probably have at least a few nice things to say about it. wouldn't make me like the song though.
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Sunday, 6 May 2012 01:11 (eleven years ago) link
aw this is totally not even that bad
― flopson, Sunday, 6 May 2012 01:24 (eleven years ago) link
It's About Time: Beach Boys Poll Results
^^^ results here. somewhere there should be a link to the Spotify playlist, too!
BTW, unless I'm wrong, I don't think I've seen you around here much before, Pat Finn. Welcome aboard!
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 6 May 2012 01:25 (eleven years ago) link
"that makes me think of an online funeral parlor" is the new "this sounds like a museum," that is amazing
i actually found myself defending the beach boys to maria last night. oof, i totally sounded like one of those people. it wasn't pretty.
― scott seward, Saturday, May 5, 2012 12:06 PM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
don't resist it! you are one of those people!
― flopson, Sunday, 6 May 2012 01:41 (eleven years ago) link
thanks doctor casino. i started posting yesterday but i have lurked for a while. the beach boys poll looks awesome and its seems like there are a lot of convenient youtube embeds. i remember reading through the jazz poll last summer and feeling thrilled with how many great albums i discovered there. it was like taking a masters course in the history of jazz. really great.
― Pat Finn, Sunday, 6 May 2012 02:43 (eleven years ago) link
xpost They should have gotten Jeff Lynne to produce this. That would have been a good start.
Honestly, the Beach Boys are one of the few acts I wish would work with someone as theoretically radical yet oddly sympathetic as Brian Eno. It would never happen, of course, but it has more potential than, say, Paul Simon.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 6 May 2012 02:49 (eleven years ago) link
Like, think of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5RYptkzbjY
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 6 May 2012 02:50 (eleven years ago) link
Honestly, I'm surprised they've never done a late-career "unplugged" type thing, with "you're there in the room!" production. Something in the Nigel Godrich vein (a la Chaos and Creation, not so much, y'know, Radiohead or Sea Change).
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 6 May 2012 03:00 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I could get with a Beach Boys Party...Again!.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 6 May 2012 03:18 (eleven years ago) link
Still Partyian'
― Leslie Mann: Boner Machine (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 6 May 2012 03:29 (eleven years ago) link
Honestly, I'm surprised they've never done a late-career "unplugged" type thing, with "you're there in the room!" production. Something in the Nigel Godrich vein (a la /Chaos and Creation/, not so much, y'know, Radiohead or /Sea Change/).
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 6 May 2012 04:23 (eleven years ago) link
Just saw the set list from the first show on their tour - forty-two songs.
― timellison, Sunday, 6 May 2012 04:44 (eleven years ago) link
Out of their mid 60s uptempo stuff, I'd rather rep for "California Girls", "Would't It Be Nice" or "Here Today" than "Help Me Rhonda".
― The GeirBot (Geir Hongro), Sunday, 6 May 2012 09:36 (eleven years ago) link
Just saw the set list from the first show on their tour - forty-two songs
Two and a half hours, 42 songs - they're like the Ramones. Of course, the caveat, per the Rolling Stone review:
many of them medley-style
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 6 May 2012 11:44 (eleven years ago) link
Onstage, Mike Love was a low-key kind of showboat, stepping back and forth with the beat, miming the revving of a motorcycle engine on "Little Honda" and hugging his elbows when he sang "and the northern girls with the way they kiss, they keep their boyfriends warm at night" on "California Girls." Brian seemed placid and stone-faced, sitting at the bench of a large white grand piano. "Ladies and gentlemen, Brian Wilson," Al Jardine said after "This Whole World," at which point the crowd rose to their feet in reverence as he sat, blinking.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 6 May 2012 11:45 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_581oQjCwnE&feature=channel&list=UL
― scott seward, Sunday, 6 May 2012 13:05 (eleven years ago) link
/This feels like a Brian solo record arranged by Bruce Johnston./This. A very "Disney Girls" retro nostalgia thing going on.
This. A very "Disney Girls" retro nostalgia thing going on.
Even if it falls short of those lofty standards, what with the lyrics and Brian's latter day Ozzie Osbourne tenor, for a group that for all intents and purposes has nothing left to offer, it could be a lot worse. In particular, the chorus has been lodged in cerebral cortex for the last day or so.
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 6 May 2012 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
I agree, that initial track sounds surprisingly good...
― skip, Sunday, 6 May 2012 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
Single is more Beach Boys 85 than 'Goin' On' level of quality (high)
― Morrissey & Clunes: The Severed Alliance (PaulTMA), Sunday, 6 May 2012 16:06 (eleven years ago) link
I'd completely overlooked this song until last year, never mind though:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obzB_8P1fcs
I'd completely overlooked this song until last year, never mind though:
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 6 May 2012 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
Yoikes
― Morrissey & Clunes: The Severed Alliance (PaulTMA), Sunday, 6 May 2012 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
Plenty of sweet harmonies and Brian Wilson's patented unexpected chord changes; too bad about the banal lyrics and generic production which sounds like something that could be cobbled together with GarageBand given an hour or so. At least they splurged on the video production!
Well at least this is a better way to go out than Summer in Paradise or Stars and Stripes or whatever their last album was
― Lee593 (Lee626), Sunday, 6 May 2012 17:54 (eleven years ago) link
xxxp wow goin' on is great ... now i'll have to finally check out keeping the summer alive.
― fit and working again, Sunday, 6 May 2012 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
Speaking of Summer In Paradise, never knew this before: The quasi-rap number "Summer of Love" was originally intended to be a duet, albeit one with Bart Simpson.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 6 May 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
Jeeeeeeeeesus fuck:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBFsJk6PWu0
oh my god, wow, i had never seen that! Frightening on a lot of levels. Everything I've ever sort of disliked about Mike Love kind of crystallized right there.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 6 May 2012 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
Hah. Mike Love is the mack daddy.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 6 May 2012 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
You got the "daddy" part right, at least. He's like your friend's dad who, like, wore jokey mesh caps and stuff but never made any attempt to be at all friendly when you were at his house.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 6 May 2012 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
this is kind of a charming interview on fallon http://www.vulture.com/2012/05/beach-boys-took-over-fallon-last-night.html
― tylerw, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 17:02 (eleven years ago) link
i don't watch or listen to modern day beach boys unless uncle jesse and the rest of the full house cast is involved
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
the harmonies and melody lines in the chorus are really beautiful
but yeah sounds cheaply recorded and the lyrics are terrible
― l0u1s j0rdan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
the bridge is horrible
Kinda cool album cover.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61K4lQ1qzqL._SL500_AA300_.jpghaha yeah, not the direction i would've expected, but cool!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
I can't hear "I Get Around" anymore without thinking of HoverRound, how depressing is that
― frogbs, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 17:15 (eleven years ago) link
whoah that sleeve is great!
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
well except for the logo
such a cynical ploy to get people to think of their fave beach boys albumhttp://www.vinylsurrender.com/Graphics/AlbumCovers2/The%20Beach%20Boys%20-%2015%20Big%20Ones.jpg
― tylerw, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
More like four big ones and whatever Mike Love's got packing down there.
― One Way Ticket on the 1277 Express (Bill Magill), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 17:39 (eleven years ago) link
I love that 'Summer of Love' is on this thread twice now. Can I see you and raise with an ill-advised rap adventure?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz0SnpN_O00
Carl sounds amazing on that "Goin' Out' video above, I'd never heard that track before.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
smart girls! love that one. this is great too -- dylan's cameo is for the ageshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckqImMGwxKw
― tylerw, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 17:42 (eleven years ago) link
whoever played guitar on that song should've been spin's #1 guitarist of all time.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 17:45 (eleven years ago) link
― One Way Ticket on the 1277 Express (Bill Magill), Tuesday, May 8, 2012 1:39 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol XD
― flopson, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
The new album cover is kinda AnCo, the band the BBs merely warmed up music for
― Morrissey & Clunes: The Severed Alliance (PaulTMA), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, but Mike Love is a big dick.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 21:27 (eleven years ago) link
^^^
beat me to the joke i was thinking up while scrolling down
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 21:40 (eleven years ago) link