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« Reply #25 on: September 14, 2011, 10:06:31 PM »

he-ey love and mercy to you and your friends tonight
meeelt awaaay i wont let me see you suffer whoah not me
liiiittle children are marching around, and look at little carnie with dirt on her cheek, marching along, singing their song
there's so many dreams to dream of why not dream about my true love
 being with the one you love ? ? ?
i wiiish yooou'd liiisten wheen i teell you nooow baby let your hair grow long

magical moments!
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« Reply #26 on: September 15, 2011, 01:18:00 PM »

BW88 is imo most definitely a very fine album. Songs like Melt Away, There's So Many, Night Time and Rio Grande have definitely been there for me  Cool

In fact, this whole album ranks pretty highly in my personal Beach Boys/ BW ratings.

A comforting, welcoming album.

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« Reply #27 on: September 15, 2011, 04:01:57 PM »

Brother Ghost, I'm very familiar with the silent void you mentioned some weeks ago.  Exactly and recently.  But all things must pass, and in my case I just had to wait it out.  Oh yeah-- and pick my brain raw and put it back together piece by piece, and pull out some old medication.  The parts still feel like they were reassembled slightly wrong some days.  The strangely angelic and sympathetic girlfriend who came back into my life after 17 years away doesn't hurt either.  Neither do intermittent bouts of sobriety.

In the 90's-- Tie I Die, over and over and over again, and Sweet Insanity more than I'd care to admit

Nowadays-- mostly SMiLE and Pet Sounds-- I don't really listen to much of anything else anymore, except Tori Amos.  Thousands of moldering recordings in my basement...

At one point: lots of Love You, and yes, I agree that BW88 is a freakin' masterpiece

I went through a Lucky Old Sun phase-- Midnight's Another Day like 40 times a day, for months
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« Reply #28 on: September 15, 2011, 04:19:39 PM »

I forgot about the Big Kahuna:  Bells of MadnessFantasy is Reality
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« Reply #29 on: September 15, 2011, 05:03:26 PM »

I don't ever recall writing what is attributed to me in your signature, Bill. Did I really say that?
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« Reply #30 on: September 15, 2011, 07:02:21 PM »

I don't ever recall writing what is attributed to me in your signature, Bill. Did I really say that?

Yeah, you did.  About 3-4 weeks ago maybe?  You've done 789 posts, so don't ask me to find it...
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EDIT:  Wait a minute:  I think it was in a thread where you were talking about Scriabin and synesthesia.
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« Reply #31 on: September 15, 2011, 07:34:16 PM »

Pet Sounds was incredibly therapeutic for me during my freshman year of college.  I'd fallen so madly in love with this girl, worse than anything I'd ever felt before, but she didn't feel the same way.  I was miserable every day, and the only thing that got me through it was listening to the Pet Sounds box set every night.  For the first time I just felt like Brian was speaking to me - I could finally relate to the confusing emotions that Brian must have felt, even if the circumstances were completely different.  On another level, it was actually a distraction as well, because I could listen to those tracks and vocals only mixes and forget everything else I was feeling.
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« Reply #32 on: September 15, 2011, 07:57:12 PM »

^ Though I listen to it constantly, I find Pet Sounds to be more depressing than uplifting. Well, it depends on the situation: I too fell madly in love with a girl, and then it just fell apart on me. I found Pet Sounds, and I could really really relate to it, but it never made me feel uplifted - if anything, it just made me feel worse about not being able to attain the unattainable.

Ya know - I wish I could still feel her head on my shoulder, or I wish she still believed in me, or it would've been nice had it worked out. Fortunately, with time the depression fleeted, and I got over it. Sometimes Pet Sounds can be the most uplifting album ever (when your madly in love, it's like a drug that album), but if your going through a state of depression of loss, it can be a sad, sad album to listen to - but even then it is a great album to have - as Mr. brown said, it's like Brian knows exactly what you're going through.
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Friends is an album that is really uplifting; Brian's instrumentals, Wake The World, the title song, Little Bird, Meant For You. It is my second favorite BB album. Very therapeutic and very uplifting.
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« Reply #33 on: September 18, 2011, 05:20:59 PM »

I don't ever recall writing what is attributed to me in your signature, Bill. Did I really say that?

Yeah, you did.  About 3-4 weeks ago maybe?  You've done 789 posts, so don't ask me to find it...
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EDIT:  Wait a minute:  I think it was in a thread where you were talking about Scriabin and synesthesia.

That WAS the thread, but it was Iron Horse Apples who said it.
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« Reply #34 on: September 18, 2011, 07:25:29 PM »

I knew it wasn't up to my standards.
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« Reply #35 on: September 18, 2011, 07:42:17 PM »

Pet Sounds was incredibly therapeutic for me during my freshman year of college. 

I think it's very interesting you say this. I didn't know this album for my (rather difficult) freshman year, but boy, does the album definitely have that "first time away from the comforts of home" feel too it. All the doubt, uncertainty, wonder, hope...very much the soundtrack of transition.
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« Reply #36 on: September 18, 2011, 08:05:26 PM »

Pet Sounds was incredibly therapeutic for me during my freshman year of college.  

I think it's very interesting you say this. I didn't know this album for my (rather difficult) freshman year, but boy, does the album definitely have that "first time away from the comforts of home" feel too it. All the doubt, uncertainty, wonder, hope...very much the soundtrack of transition.

Funny, before you mentioned it I'd never thought about it from that perspective, but that definitely could have been a part of the connection I felt to the album at that time.  It sounds odd, but Pet Sounds really grows up with you - all through my college years and into my early/mid 20's, my "relationship" with the album changed, and it was comforting in different ways the older I got.
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« Reply #37 on: September 18, 2011, 08:08:12 PM »

Say what you want about the production, but the songwriting on BW 88 is the best of his solo career, followed by That Lucky Old Sun. Landy forcing Brian to write a song a day, and 'accidentally' leaving behind some wine or a half joint for some of those sessions forced some of that old magic out of the man.

Landy to himself: Crap, man, I need Brian to write a kick ass solo album so I can look good... but he sure hasn't seemed inspired lately. "Here, Have a Banana (And Pray for World Peace)"? That ain't gonna sell. It's silly.

Landy takes another drag off his joint as he chills on Brian's balcony, which overlooks the sea. Brian thinks Landy is taking a business call.

Landy: Dude... what if I left him the rest of this joint? He is that guy who wrote Pet Sounds, right? Would he write some cool stuff again if I got him high? Remember when he had that wine and started writing that crazy rocking stuff? I'm going to leave him this joint by forgetting it in the ash tray.

Landy smiles and realizes what a genius he is.

Later that night, Brian writes "There's So Many".

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« Reply #38 on: September 18, 2011, 08:36:40 PM »

i think i might take a chance
on love again
oh on love again
love a gaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiinn
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« Reply #39 on: September 18, 2011, 08:39:35 PM »

on BW88 he sings songs capturing the moment of opening to love, releasing the tension of all the hurt and contracted enclosed imposed egoity. for Brian it's all about awakening to the love for spiritual freedom and emotional well being. unfortunately it doesn't work as well for me, apparently. i get it, just don't find it lastingly effective. where is the love when the basic needs aren't met? it shivers and trembles in fear. life is vicious.
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