Preview BWRG on Amazon

[Shady]

Sounds remarkable

http://www.amazon.com/Brian-Wilson-Reimagines-Gershwin/dp/B002RWKSII

[Ed Roach]

Remarkable???  I'm blown away!!!  Alright, I'm almost from Brian's generation,
and I've always loved Gershwin, too, but this is almost too-o much!

[Wirestone]

Vocals -- Best of the solo career? I'm thinking yes.

Tracks -- Low fidelity makes it hard to hear them clearly, tho I'm not sure how I feel about the string lushness. Some neat stuff here and there. Love that there's an instrumental.

This could really remake Brian. If he wants, he can be a crooner!

[Shady]

"They Can't Take That Away from Me" sounds fantastic.

Really fun

[TdHabib]

I am blown away, simply blown away.

[Autotune]

vocally brilliant. Extraordinary.

[doc smiley]

 

Oh My... this sounds really really good!!

[rab2591]

Thank you thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!

WOW! Just blown away. Ok, after hearing the first few songs (summertime, I loves you porgy) I wasn't too impressed. Then I hear the flip side samples and was at a loss for words. I finally let out an expletive of joy after finishing listening.

'I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' sounds amazing.
'The like I love in you' - already heard on his site, is amazing.
'Someone to watch over me' sounds like it was a track intended for Pet Sounds.

I just can't wait. Thanks again for the link!

[Myk Luhv]

I... I want to... but I'm not going to! I will wait for the release or the inevitable leak!

[TdHabib]

Remarkable???  I'm blown away!!!  Alright, I'm almost from Brian's generation,
and I've always loved Gershwin, too, but this is almost too-o much!

I always wanted to ask you, Ed, if you ever heard Brian playing "Rhapsody in Blue" over and over and over again back in the 70s?

[rab2591]

I didn't catch this the first time visiting the page, but there is video of a song called "What Love Can Do" (sounds AMAZING!!!! I can't believe it!!) right below the sample listing.

Does anyone know how that will be released? Because it is not listed as being on the album.....

[Shady]

I didn't catch this the first time visiting the page, but there is video of a song called "What Love Can Do" (sounds AMAZING!!!! I can't believe it!!) right below the sample listing.

Does anyone know how that will be released? Because it is not listed as being on the album.....

This was released a while ago on a a mixed cd or something.

Amazing song you should DL the MP3

http://www.amazon.com/What-Love-Can-Various-Artists/dp/B002DKGWUW

[oldsurferdude]

Oh  my  God ! ! The brilliance of those vocals pull you you in with an incredible undertow effect-Brian's sophisticated style has returned.

[rab2591]

I didn't catch this the first time visiting the page, but there is video of a song called "What Love Can Do" (sounds AMAZING!!!! I can't believe it!!) right below the sample listing.

Does anyone know how that will be released? Because it is not listed as being on the album.....

This was released a while ago on a a mixed cd or something.

Amazing song you should DL the MP3

http://www.amazon.com/What-Love-Can-Various-Artists/dp/B002DKGWUW

Thanks! Just bought it and it sounds soooo good....I am glad Brian is back out there making beautiful music....God knows this world needs it.

[Wirestone]

What Love Can Do -- written by Brian and Burt Bacharach. Released in 2007 on a CD exclusive to Target stores called "New Music From an Old Friend." He also did a new studio version of "God Only Knows."

Last year, the CD was reissued with some new tracks, and with Brian's song now used as the title. http://www.amazon.com/What-Love-Can-Various-Artists/dp/B002DKGWUW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1280029024&sr=1-1

Both tracks co-produced with Phil Ramone and (I think I can say this without contradiction) autotuned out the wazoo. But excellent tracks nonetheless!

[Ed Roach]

I always wanted to ask you, Ed, if you ever heard Brian playing "Rhapsody in Blue" over and over and over again back in the 70s?

Yeah, many, many times.  Shortenin' Bread more often, however, as i said, I was a Gershwin fan too, so I'd ask for Rhapsody.  I had an old upright, that my Grandma brought for me when I was like 6, (back in Brooklyn), and everyone, (not only Brian & Dennis, but Lowell George, Van Dyke - can't begin to name the people, especially after I moved to Topanga, right between the Corral & Neil Young's place, The Gold Rush), absolutely fell on love with it's sound!  Brian convinced me to 'tack' it, and Dennis weaseled it out of me, on my 30th birthday, and moved it on to The Harmony...

[Wirestone]

On several more listens -- note the perfect backing vocal to TCTTAFM: "Boogedy boogedy boogedy shoop." A new classic nonsense phrase.

And the chorus to "I Got Rhythm" slays me.

So who on earth taught Brian all this jazz phrasing? Or has he been singing along to his Rosemary Clooney records?

[Chris Brown]

Everything sounds amazing...Brian's voice really suits this material, and the arrangements are so "Brian"...I can already tell this one is going to be in heavy rotation in my CD player for a long time after it's release.

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

Holy hell...Brian's singing is the best it's been since the glory days, or at least Sunflower...his phrasing is off the chain..."It Ain't Necessarily so"  makes me think of early Tom Waits, before he started sounding like Cookie Monster (I say that as a huge diehard Tom Waits fan). Absolutely brilliant.

[TheLazenby]

Do I detect "Shortnin' Bread" in "I Got Rhythm"? :-P

[Andrew G. Doe]

Permission to say... "told you so" ?  

And it sounds even better in toto, as several of the tracks segue into each other or have little link pieces. Also, you get to hear some classic BW fades.

This is the real deal.

[Paulos]

Oh my this is going to brilliant! Summertime (sounds deliciously creepy!), I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' and They Can't Take That Away From Me stand out at the moment, gutted that I have to wait until September 6th to hear this in full!

[hypehat]

I really don't want to listen til i can listen in full..... Someone leak it already! :

[Pearlfisher David]

really amazing...the LEAD vocals are stunners. he's singing like...a singer

[willy]

Cannot believe this!!!!! Hot diggetty! Holy Toledo even... this is sumptuous, bitchin' and too much to take in.

A lot of folks are going to get this album as a present from me. Just stunned.