Do what Brian does..

[KaylaMusic]

When I was 15 I made a list of things to do involving Brian Wilson/BB. I found it today and thought I would share.

I wanted to:

-Start a band with my brother and cousin in it. (Never going to happen)
-Smoke pot by the time I was 25 (...)
- Write a hit song by 24 ( questionable, still have some time)
-See the ocean ( nope)
-Go to California (Yes, but didn't get to a Beach...got to Disneyland though!)
-Meet Brian Wilson (Nope, but I talked to him)
-See Brian in concert (Not yet)
-Kiss Brian Wilson (LOL)
-Have a piano in a sandbox in my house (Not. Yet.)
-Move to California (Not yet...)
-Have a sailor/striped shirt like Marilyn had in a biography I saw ( sort of.)
-Do as many Beach Boys covers as possible to learn everything he did (working on that)
-Dress like Brian did in the Pet Sounds recording sessions ( Did that, went to school with glasses with no frames..don't know why I wanted to do this..)
-Hear every Beach Boy song I could find (Almost. I'm saving a couple albums so I always have something to look forward to)
-Show as many people as possible BB music (Still working on that)

So random. Don't know about some of those things, others I still want to do.
I thought it was kinda funny, did anyone else have some sort of check list or something like this?
Maybe I'm just weird! HA ha

[Phil H]

You're doing great Kayla and you're certainly not weird. Your Beach Boys covers have received some great accolades across their fans message boards and deservedly so.

Incidentally, I'm just curious to know which Beach Boys albums are you saving back on, so that you'll still have something to look forward to?

[Ron]

i'd lay off the weed, but if you do decide to do that, then you should expand your list to include things like "Get incredibly overweight, don't shower regularly, try to get children to trip on LSD with me, Lie in bed most of the day, every day, every week..." etc. 

[KaylaMusic]

i'd lay off the weed, but if you do decide to do that, then you should expand your list to include things like "Get incredibly overweight, don't shower regularly, try to get children to trip on LSD with me, Lie in bed most of the day, every day, every week..." etc. 

Ha ha I have layed in bed for a weekend before! I was just a kid with weird thoughts. I'm not going down that road! lol

[Don_Zabu]

Totally ravage that beautiful voice of yours?

[Myk Luhv]

I have yet to sit around in Holland while, depressed and self-medicating with hard cider, I listen to Sail Away obsessively... but, minus the locale, I'm about at that stage!

[Ron]

Don't worry Kayla, lying in bed for a weekend every once in a while isn't the worst thing in the world.  I think I read in a Paul McCartney biography once that when the Beatles broke up, Paul lay in bed for 3 or 4 months. 

[KaylaMusic]

You're doing great Kayla and you're certainly not weird. Your Beach Boys covers have received some great accolades across their fans message boards and deservedly so.

Incidentally, I'm just curious to know which Beach Boys albums are you saving back on, so that you'll still have something to look forward to?

I haven't listened to:

-Beach Boys (1985)
-Keepin the Summer Alive
-L.A (Light Album)
-M.I.U Album
-Today! (although I've heard a bunch of them)
-Surfer Girl
and some live albums

I'll get to them slowly but surely!

[Shady]

You're doing great Kayla and you're certainly not weird. Your Beach Boys covers have received some great accolades across their fans message boards and deservedly so.

Incidentally, I'm just curious to know which Beach Boys albums are you saving back on, so that you'll still have something to look forward to?

I haven't listened to:

-Beach Boys (1985)
-Keepin the Summer Alive
-L.A (Light Album)
-M.I.U Album
-Today! (although I've heard a bunch of them)
-Surfer Girl
and some live albums

I'll get to them slowly but surely!

Get on 85 and KTSA, Classics IMO

[TdHabib]

You're doing great Kayla and you're certainly not weird. Your Beach Boys covers have received some great accolades across their fans message boards and deservedly so.

Incidentally, I'm just curious to know which Beach Boys albums are you saving back on, so that you'll still have something to look forward to?

I haven't listened to:

-Beach Boys (1985)
-Keepin the Summer Alive
-L.A (Light Album)
-M.I.U Album
-Today! (although I've heard a bunch of them)
-Surfer Girl
and some live albums

I'll get to them slowly but surely!

I would listen to Today! soon, in my opinion it's one of their very best albums.

[Mr. Cohen]

LOL, I've done some of those things on the list for similar reasons. I smoked pot because all of these great acts in the 60s were doing it (the BBs, the Beatles, Pink Floyd, etc.), and it was worth it. I actual became a pothead for awhile. If you really love music and sounds, pot will blow your mind. Listening to music stoned is a revelatory experience the first few times you do it. I got tired of the type of people pot generally draws to you, so I quit, but that's the only reason.

I also loved Brian's sense of fashion in the 60s, but I've found that people think you're weird when you start wearing plaid pants and wacky button-up shirts. I got tired of people thinking I was an insane hippie, so I quit doing that, too.

I've also tried introducing people to the BBs music, but most people don't like it much outside of a song or two. I had a girlfriend who kind of looked down on me for liking the BBs music, because it was too soft and, apparently, 'creepy'. Apparently, in her eyes (and her sister's eyes), only a homosexual could like songs like "Cool, Cool Water". Close-minded troglodytes, I say. However, my little 9 year old brother, for what it's worth, loves the song "Friends" (actually, I find that most honest people have difficulty disliking that one). It's become our unofficial theme song, and he requests that I play it when we're in the car.

Luckily, for my sake, I've listened to the BBs so much that I've worn them out somewhat, so I no longer seem obsessive. But I'll never truly get tired of the BBs. No group or individual artist has held my attention for so long.

[Don_Zabu]

I had a girlfriend who kind of looked down on me for liking the BBs music, because it was too soft and, apparently, 'creepy'. Apparently, in her eyes (and her sister's eyes), only a homosexual could like songs like "Cool, Cool Water". Close-minded troglodytes, I say.

Please, "close-minded troglodytes" doesn't even begin to describe that one.

[Mr. Cohen]

Yeah, her idea of good music was something like Mindless Self Indulgence and Social Distortion. Now, I'm not saying that those groups don't have their place, but they are so musically simplistic compared to the BBs that it's not even funny. That's why I never get tired of the BBs. At their best, there was so much depth to their music that you can never fully grasp it in its entirety at any one moment. And despite that, it's still incredibly catchy. Unbelievable.

[Don_Zabu]

Yeah, her idea of good music was something like Mindless Self Indulgence and Social Distortion. Now, I'm not saying that those groups don't have their place, but they are so musically simplistic compared to the BBs that it's not even funny. That's why I never get tired of the BBs. At their best, there was so much depth to their music that you can never fully grasp it in its entirety at any one moment. And despite that, it's still incredibly catchy. Unbelievable.

And at their worst, they were way more fun to laugh at than Mindless Self Indulgence.

[Myk Luhv]

I can see being put off by their earlier stuff -- as my since-two-days-ago-ex-girlfriend was -- that merely sexually objectifies, or is otherwise unpleasant about, women. At the same time, however, I don't find it surprising since they were teenagers and early-20-somethings when stuff like (e.g.) "The Little Girl I Once Knew" or "She Knows Me Too Well" were put out. (And, frankly, from someone who says the best thing they liked about France was the bread, I'm not expecting much intellectual sensitivity.) Although I don't think Brian Wilson was as much of an asshole as Lennon was during the same period, he certainly deserves some recognition on that front. Personally, I think there is something to be said for a song like "She Knows Me To Well" in that it may be cathartic and shameful rather than clearly celebrating his asshole behaviour, and I think that it makes it more interesting than it could have been...

Credit where it is due, of course: Brian Wilson and co. did improve from Pet Sounds onwards in the 'not being an asshole' and 'women are sexual objects of desire' departments. Witness songs like "Let The Wind Blow" and "Friends" and "The Night Was So Young" as illustrative examples. "Hey Little Tomboy" is an awfully offensive song though, and "Love Is A Woman" is also terrible.