Going Public

[ghost]

I've decided to test my Will.
With Going Public.

Wish me well, friends.
I may not survive the end of the album.

[18thofMay]

Fingers crossed then hey!

[monicker]

Ghost, can you tell us a little about yourself? Go public, won't you?

[Paulos]

Good luck, it's so terrible it makes my ears cry.

[ghost]

Ghost, can you tell us a little about yourself? Go public, won't you?

Yes. I enjoy standing outside in the sunshine for the moment when it quickly turns into a shadow by a cloud. Change has no beginning or end without a reference point, you see. So everything is birthless, deathless. It's all nowness. This is some kind of miracle & mystery, but it's no big deal. Whether you know it or not - doesn't matter. So don't worry about it. All knowledge is illusory - All is a language game. When you deprogram the cycles of thought there's nothing left. There is no self. There is no real "I". It's all a mirage. Consciousness is a mirage also. The body exists, but it doesn't know that, or care if it does not exist. Effortlessly you grew largely unconscious of most of it. How?

[ghost]

Great silence descendeth - a fusion of etheric indifference into the mind space. The void into which thou dost gaze, gazeth back through you. The new solipsism - all things [for 'me'] depend on 'my' perception of them hence I give new life to all things. I am the creator & destroyer.

[Awesoman]

One whiff of Bruce's album will certainly kill that buzz you got goin'. 

[The Heartical Don]

Hehe. The GP album has exactly 5 or so seconds going for it. These are the moments where some California Boys Choir suddenly echoes through 'I Write The Songs'. The rest is, um, forgettable, and that is being kind of me in the extreme.

My advice: visit a dentist after listening.

[Andreas]

I like I Write The Songs. An even better version is a live version that I have from a beach Boys concert, probably Live At Knebworth.

Everything else is forgettable. Overall my least favorite of all the Beach Boys' solo albums.

[Magic Transistor Radio]

I think its a pretty good album myself.

http://youtu.be/LMluOju28Xc

Ooops, wrong Going Public.

But seriously, there are two songs I can stand on that album. Thank You Baby and Someone to Dance With Me.

[37!ws]

A friend once commented about "Rock'n'Roll Survivor," "It's like he's bragging about how boring he is."

[Mike's Beard]

Great silence descendeth - a fusion of etheric indifference into the mind space. The void into which thou dost gaze, gazeth back through you. The new solipsism - all things [for 'me'] depend on 'my' perception of them hence I give new life to all things. I am the creator & destroyer.

Let the above post be a warning to us all!! This is what happens to you if you listen to Going Public too much.

[Smilin Ed H]

Thank You Baby
I Write the Songs
Disney Girls

Not struck with the rest.

[Jason]

You can't really fault the quality of many of the songs on there; Rendezvous and Won't Somebody Dance With Me are the only real out and out clunkers. The problem is that many of the songs on there were done before, and usually better. The version of I Write The Songs is nice. Deirdre is great on Sunflower, but the disco version really hurts at times. Thank You Baby was great as a Bruce and Terry tune in '65, and is probably the best of the remakes. Disney Girls is one of about four different studio versions with Bruce's participation and is below the Beach Boys and Papa Doo Run Run versions in terms of quality (the version on the Symphonic Sounds disc is truly awful). Don't Be Scared was something he gave away in the mid-60s, to whom, I forget. Pipeline...well, 'nuff said. There's basically a single's worth of new material on the record.

Bruce did attempt a follow up in 1978 and put two songs on tape in Let's Visit Heaven Tonight and If There Were Time. The former is typical discofied Bruce and the latter is typical sugary sweet Bruce, but minus all of the orchestral flair.

[Magic Transistor Radio]

The album was so bad, even Bruce didn't like it.

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

The album was so bad, even Bruce didn't like it.

The funny part is that he produced it, despite Gary  Usher's credit!

[MBE]

I had it, sold it, and have no regrets. Maybe for 99 cents I would pick it up again. Maybe.