Disney Preview - Heigh-Ho/Whistle While you Work/Tracklist

[phirnis]

Brian Wilson Reimagines Johnny Cash's American Recordings.

I would actually pay good money to hear that one, or better still, a Brian Wilson album produced by Rick Rubin with the same sound style as those albums and Neil Diamond's Home Before Dark album.

I hurt myself today - dit-dit
To see if I still feel - dit-dit
I focus on the pain - bop-dit-dit
The only thing that's real - bop-dit-dit

 

[Ron]

Brian keeps saying (in several interviews) that he hates Johnny Cash's voice, so I'd bet you couldn't pay him enough money to cover Cash. 

[ghost]

Considering that Brian seems to have heard Jack Reilly on Tree and thought "THAT'S what I should sound like!" and worked hard on the cocaine & cigarettes for another decade to get there... I don't think a Johnny Cash cover would be too strange.

[Sam_BFC]

I love Jack's vocal on Tree...although I love the tag vocals more

[Shady]

Disney album is up for pre-order on Amazon now!

http://www.amazon.com/Key-Disney-Brian-Wilson/dp/B005JLN9D0/ref=sr_1_5?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1314807043&sr=1-5

[The Heartical Don]

Disney album is up for pre-order on Amazon now!

http://www.amazon.com/Key-Disney-Brian-Wilson/dp/B005JLN9D0/ref=sr_1_5?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1314807043&sr=1-5

I'd pre-order now. Tomorrow the price point will stand at some 50 bucks.

[Shady]

Disney album is up for pre-order on Amazon now!

http://www.amazon.com/Key-Disney-Brian-Wilson/dp/B005JLN9D0/ref=sr_1_5?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1314807043&sr=1-5

I'd pre-order now. Tomorrow the price point will stand at some 50 bucks.

 

[The Madcap]

I know I'm a bit late jumping on the "Brian Wilson reimagines" bandwagon, but...

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Beach Boys Reimagining "Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols"

[roll plymouth rock]

Disney album is up for pre-order on Amazon now!

http://www.amazon.com/Key-Disney-Brian-Wilson/dp/B005JLN9D0/ref=sr_1_5?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1314807043&sr=1-5

oh yeah, this album is coming out.

[rab2591]

Disney album is up for pre-order on Amazon now!

http://www.amazon.com/Key-Disney-Brian-Wilson/dp/B005JLN9D0/ref=sr_1_5?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1314807043&sr=1-5

I'd pre-order now. Tomorrow the price point will stand at some 50 bucks.

Did I miss something? Nothing's on the page and it says the release date is December 31, 2020...Damn Disney, screwing us fans around like this. This album will never come out.

[Shady]

Disney album is up for pre-order on Amazon now!

http://www.amazon.com/Key-Disney-Brian-Wilson/dp/B005JLN9D0/ref=sr_1_5?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1314807043&sr=1-5

I'd pre-order now. Tomorrow the price point will stand at some 50 bucks.

Did I miss something? Nothing's on the page and it says the release date is December 31, 2020...Damn Disney, screwing us fans around like this. This album will never come out.

 

Everything was fine earlier today, what's going on 

That's hilarious

[JohnMill]

I always wondered what The Beach Boys would do with "How Quick They Forget" the unreleased barbershop quartet number Howard Ashman wrote for "Aladdin".  I bet they would've knocked that one out of the park back when they were all in fine voices.

[Magic Transistor Radio]

Apparently you can't have a modern day Brian record without an overload of bass harmonica!

I can't get any clear answers either on whether this is at Brian's insistence or the Mertens / Foskett band attempt at recreating the classic mid60s BW sound. Not just the bass harmonica but the whole attempt at getting his old sound. Brian was progressing and evolving up until he started with his current band. Then it got stale.

Personally, I think his music has gotten better since he has had this band. TLOS is a great album! I know BWRG and this one are cover songs, but I love the production. Besides, most 70 year old men don't even approach what Brian is doing these days.

[Peter Reum]

I think Brian's music since Smile 2004 has improved immensely as well. That experience was a catharsis for him.

[The Heartical Don]

Disney album is up for pre-order on Amazon now!

http://www.amazon.com/Key-Disney-Brian-Wilson/dp/B005JLN9D0/ref=sr_1_5?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1314807043&sr=1-5

I'd pre-order now. Tomorrow the price point will stand at some 50 bucks.

Did I miss something? Nothing's on the page and it says the release date is December 31, 2020...Damn Disney, screwing us fans around like this. This album will never come out.

Phil cohen joined Amazon.com yesterday, that's what.

[groganb]

So, er, "Hi-Ho." What exactly was Brian's contribution to this little, um, oddity? Do we know?

[Wirestone]

Produced it, arranged it, sang on it.

[Ron]

Wirestone, thank you for that... now, next question.  In your vast knowledge of all things Beach Boy, wouldn't you say that's what Brian's involvement usually was? 

It's sad you have to point that out to people, I think people miss the amount of work it takes to sing well; arrange well, and produce well.  Brian did all three on this song and gets crap for it. 

[groganb]

The reason I asked is that I think it's generally agreed—maybe I'm wrong about this, and I'm sure some gentle  soul here will correct me if I am—that on his recent records probably starting with the Paley Daze, Brian's primary contribution, other than lead vocals, is the vocal arrangement. Not so much the track arrangements.
So, with the "Hi-Ho" preview having no lead vocals, and hardly any BG vocals, um, what exactly do we think he did here other than a teensy bit of vocal arranging?

[Wirestone]

Brian has contributed to the track arrangements of all his solo records with the probable exception of IJWMFTT. (And OCA, obviously.)

Imagination was largely tracked by Joe Thomas, but Brian produced some of the basic tracks and suggested some overdubs and played some keys.

GIOMH and Smile were each based on large bodies of pre-existing work, so the arrangements were largely pre-determined. However, Brian did play on and produce the studio sessions.

Brian arranged most of the demos for TLOS, which were used as the basis for all of that album's arrangements. Again, he also produced and played on the final studio sessions.

He directly arranged and produced the XMas album and the BWPS sessions.

So his involvement in instrumental arranging does change, depending on the project. But he's been reasonably involved in it for most of his solo career, particularly with the last few records.

[SurfRiderHawaii]

So, er, "Hi-Ho." What exactly was Brian's contribution to this little, um, oddity? Do we know?

Oddity? If he had done this during "Smile", it be a legendary track that we'd all have been clamoring for the last 40 years.

[FatherOfTheMan Sr101]

So, er, "Hi-Ho." What exactly was Brian's contribution to this little, um, oddity? Do we know?

Oddity? If he had done this during "Smile", it be a legendary track that we'd all have been clamoring for the last 40 years.

Probably not, the same way "Rio Grande" tries too hard to be SMiLEY

[SurfRiderHawaii]

So, er, "Hi-Ho." What exactly was Brian's contribution to this little, um, oddity? Do we know?

Oddity? If he had done this during "Smile", it be a legendary track that we'd all have been clamoring for the last 40 years.

Probably not, the same way "Rio Grande" tries too hard to be SMiLEY

Disagree.  But to each his own. I think "Rio Grande" is fantastic!

[The Heartical Don]

So, er, "Hi-Ho." What exactly was Brian's contribution to this little, um, oddity? Do we know?

Oddity? If he had done this during "Smile", it be a legendary track that we'd all have been clamoring for the last 40 years.

Probably not, the same way "Rio Grande" tries too hard to be SMiLEY

Disagree.  But to each his own. I think "Rio Grande" is fantastic!

I love, love, love the 'surf ballad' section of RG. It's so lush, wistful, contented yet longing... gorgeous stuff.

[ghost]

So, er, "Hi-Ho." What exactly was Brian's contribution to this little, um, oddity? Do we know?

Oddity? If he had done this during "Smile", it be a legendary track that we'd all have been clamoring for the last 40 years.

Smile fans have been singing "ho ho ho ho a pirate's life for me" ever since the first Smile boots began circulating.