Good Vibrations Success and Smile's Demise
Paul J B:
90% in the can based on that 2012 essay by Holy Bee...and I think he is close. The elements were never supposed to be what legend turned them into IMO. I'm also talking about the twelve track listing on the back of the printed sleeve. Most people now agree since the album was only ONE record that the BWPS is not as close to what was intentionally planned. Most of that track listing on the sleeve was done by December minus some vocal sessions if I recall correctly.
Also, the Mike and Parks clashing thing is always about personalities or "Mike didn't like the lyrics"...maybe so, but why is it never discussed that the album was progressing really well until Good Vibrations with Mikes lyrics became their biggest smash ever. If that wouldn't have caused friction, or caused Brian to rethink his work with Parks then what would. That's what hit me when I saw the movie. Like a light bulb. Guess it was just me.
Nothgual:
I like this post a whole lot. First one in a while that's made me re-think things about The Beach Boys' history. Ambitious too.
Can't fully get behind the theory. It's just as plausible that Good Vibrations could have made him more confident in the whole modular method. Maybe it's a bit of both. I don't know.
Micha:
I've been thinking if Brian was really that happy with some of VDP's lyrics. Is it coincidence that we basically have SMiLE era lead vocals for all of those songs that were rerecorded for Smiley Smile and no lead vocals for the song's that weren't? As if Brian was happy with those lyrics and not so much with the other ones.
Coming back to GV, it was kind of impossible to do a whole album the way he did GV, recording new versions again and again for months and then assemble a Frankenstein backing track from the best of the sessions. That way SMiLE would have been finished in about February 1972.
The Old Master Painter:
Quote from: Andrew G. Doe on December 18, 2015, 03:00:23 PM
90 % ? Think not - "The Elements" alone was 75% unrecorded... "Vega-Tables" was barely begun (the "cornucopia" early version).
Not saying that in January Brian didn't loose focus big time, but I don't think it was due to "GV" being a huge hit so much as the realisation that he couldn't do a whole album that way, i.e. modularly.
Fire - Mrs. O' Leary's Cow
Water - Various Chants and Water Sounds for 1966.
Air - Supposed instrumental attempt (as Brian hints in 1978), OR Smog Rant and Breathing skit.
Earth - Vega-Tanles Cornucopia, Earth Chants, Sleep A Lot, etc.
The Old Master Painter:
- Mark Linnet hinted "Child" lead vocals were once attempted.
- An I'm In Great Shape vocal session was held.
- Surf's Up Pt. 2 is rumored to be recorded instrumentally.
- Do You Like Worms? lead melody and lyrics were written.
- Fire instrumental was recorded. Water chant and sounds were recorded. Air instrumental was attempted (a piano instrumental as Brian suggested), and Earth was Vega-Tables in 1966.
All these points lead in favour that SMiLE corrupted due to financial and business related problems more than anything else, except maybe for band dynamics itself, which is a whole other area of disscussion.
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