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Quote from: BAmBU Dennis on July 13, 2014, 05:53:12 PM
If Make It Good's too long, then so is all the songs off CATP, as that's the shortest song off it!
I think all the songs on CATP
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I like the way Dennis' voice works with the strings, and I like how the ending builds and creates tension and then never resolves itself.
An interesting idea.
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Agreed. But I may disagree with you later.
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I only like All This Is That.
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Quote from: Postcard From Jardine on July 14, 2014, 04:55:53 PM
He Come Down and All This Is That are the only worthwhile songs on Carl and the Passions. And those are only ⅓ good.
thanks for sharing my opinion
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Quote from: Postcard From Jardine on July 14, 2014, 04:55:53 PM
He Come Down and All This Is That are the only worthwhile songs on Carl and the Passions. And those are only ⅓ good.
Come on - "Marcella" and "Mess of Help" are solid BW efforts!
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I dig the entire album, although MiG is probably my least favorite cut off it.
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Quote from: Moon Dawg on July 14, 2014, 05:48:00 PM
Quote from: Postcard From Jardine on July 14, 2014, 04:55:53 PM
He Come Down and All This Is That are the only worthwhile songs on Carl and the Passions. And those are only ⅓ good.
Come on - "Marcella" and "Mess of Help" are solid BW efforts!
They sure are! No doubt about it.
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The whole album's great... except for He Come Down...
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Quote from: BAmBU Dennis on July 14, 2014, 09:44:34 PM
The whole album's great... except for He Come Down...
He Come Down never f**king ends... It so slapdash. And the lyrics are cringe-worthy. Nice chorus though...
That aside, I think CATP is a good album. An interesting failure. A curate's egg. A flawed experiment. etc.
It contains a very nice Blondie & Ricky song (Hold On...) and a less successful one;
Two very good if not quite great Brian songs;
A gorgeous Dennis song (Cuddle Up is among the best things he ever did) and a unique love-it-or-hate-it poem piece;
And All This is That, which is one of Mike and Al's very finest moments.
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Quote from: BAmBU Dennis on July 14, 2014, 09:44:34 PM
The whole album's great... except for He Come Down...
You do realise you're dissing a BW co-write ?
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Isn't it now accepted that Brian was much more involved in He Come Down than once thought?
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Quote from: The Legendary AGD on July 15, 2014, 12:01:18 AM
Quote from: BAmBU Dennis on July 14, 2014, 09:44:34 PM
The whole album's great... except for He Come Down...
You do realise you're dissing a BW co-write ?
Yeah, and so was Mess of Help and Marcella. Not everything Brian did was gold...
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Quote from: BAmBU Dennis on July 15, 2014, 12:12:13 AM
Quote from: The Legendary AGD on July 15, 2014, 12:01:18 AM
Quote from: BAmBU Dennis on July 14, 2014, 09:44:34 PM
The whole album's great... except for He Come Down...
You do realise you're dissing a BW co-write ?
Yeah, and so was Mess of Help and Marcella.
Not everything Brian did was gold...
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I like "He Come Down". It's like a proto version of "That Same Song". I definitely like it more than the Ricky/Blondie stuff, which is basically "The Flame: Feat. The Beach Boys".
Mess of Help and Marcella are awesome, the rest of it leaves me cold. It's definitely the least consistent BB album.
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Quote from: The Legendary AGD on July 15, 2014, 12:01:18 AM
Quote from: BAmBU Dennis on July 14, 2014, 09:44:34 PM
The whole album's great... except for He Come Down...
You do realise you're dissing a BW co-write ?
I wouldn't care if it turned out Lennon and McCartney had a hand in it as well... It's still weak.
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Quote from: BAmBU Dennis on July 13, 2014, 08:32:04 AM
Quote from: SMiLE Brian on July 13, 2014, 08:29:40 AM
What's next, a Denny's drums thread?
Now that song was filler rubbish! I don't think Make It Good deserves to be compared to that!
I think both songs are great. Not the best, but definetely not bad or mediocre either. I love instrumentals and drum solos, so one on a BB record doesn't hurt me. I dig it.
Make It Good is amazing lead up to All This is That. It sets the tone of the last tracks in it's minimalistic way. The strings are too loud in the mix, that's for sure, but it's still a misunderstood piece. The only boring song on So Tough is He Come Down, which almost destroys the album. It's not bad, but doesn't just fit into the context of the album.
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Quote from: Mike's Beard on July 13, 2014, 02:08:34 AM
It's a rubbish song that ruins an otherwise great album. I wish they'd used WIBNTLA in it's place or better yet convinced Brian to take a crack at a full band version of Sweet Mountain.
oh man imagine that....
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Quote from: Jon Stebbins on July 13, 2014, 12:19:37 PM
Make It Good is cinematic...as so many of Dennis' recordings are. That really hit home during the making of the Real Beach Boy documentary, when we started putting things like Be With Me, Mexico, Cocktails, Holy Man etc... over scenes of L.A. sunsets, ocean waves rolling, sky foggy or blue, cityscape, So Cal imagery...his music REALLY comes to life as a soundtrack set to moving images. I think Make It Good is prime for this because it is so sweeping.
I have to agree 100%. I had the pleasure of spending 6 weeks in California in the summer of 2008, not long after the Pacific Ocean Blue deluxe package was released. Driving through southern California with songs like Mexico as being played brought another dimension to the breathtaking experience. When I hear Make it Good (which for no understood reason I prefer over Cuddle Up), I often wonder how it would be if placed well in a movie. For some reason the vision of a sad man driving away from a scenario down a lonely road has always come to mind.
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This track (and Cuddle Up) makes me really wish for a Dennis Wilson album circa 1972...
According to AGD's website, the "Poops/Hubba Hubba" really who have been something..imagine an album with all these:
It's a New Day/Wouldn't it Be Nice to Live Again/Cuddle Up/4th of July/Make It Good/Barbara
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Quote from: Starscream on July 14, 2014, 07:11:48 PM
I dig the entire album, although MiG is probably my least favorite cut off it.
I agree with this above. "Cuddle Up" on the other hand is one of my favorite cuts on it. Either way, it's an album I play more than any other BB album with "Make It Good" (an incredible track) the only song to make me half-cringe when Dennis starts to sing in the higher register.
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I kinda like it when Dennis sings in that high register. It shows a fragile side of his personality. It reminds me a little of Kenny Rogers the way it starts to crack when he hits the high notes. Come to think of it, Kenny had a good voice to cover some of Dennis' songs.
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he's so sensitive and fragile he can't even hit the notes :*( the despair of love
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Quote from: Gabo on July 15, 2014, 07:12:35 PM
he's so sensitive and fragile he can't even hit the notes :*( the despair of love
So vocal range is dependent on sensitivity or fragility? Ha!
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