A mix CD of Brian inspired tracks?

[AndrewHickey]

"King of Scurf" by the Bonzo Dog Band.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9czCW_hdVk

Actually, also Piggy Bank Love by the Bonzos -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a__syRwjgtA

[shelter]

Super Furry Animals - Run-Away. Might be a bit far-fetched, but I always thought it had a bit of an early 70s Carl Wilson vibe. Does anyone else hear it?

[BergenWhitesMoustache]

Don't keep me waiting: Bergen White

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JsWvGtJMHA

Boy's Town- Nino Tempo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6_NDz90tFM

Both of these are wonderful, wonderful tracks in their own right, so I feel a bit funny including them in a thread that's got some more jokey, throwaway pastiches in it, but they are unquestionably BW influenced.

[zachrwolfe]

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[mr_oleary]

Brian Wilson Is A.L.I.V.E. - Rich Aucoin

[Quzi]

"Holiday" by Weezer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwDadBnqyVg

[EgoHanger1966]

I was at a friend's house tonight, and he put this on because he "heard the Pet Sounds in it". It's a little bit electronic for my tastes, but I do hear what he was getting at.

Gorillaz - To Binge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMnrFiG8FRo

[The Shift]

Non-Stop Wombling Summer Party by the Wombles.

Novelty UK band from the 1970s with the genius of Mike Batt at the helm - recorded some superb albums (which included pastiches of, among others, Bowie's Space Oddity and Rick Wakeman's Journey to the Centre of the Earth).

I'd say Brian Wilson was one of Batt's biggest influences.

 Their (failed) attempt to break into the US market included he cassette-only track Wombling USA, which I've never heard (rather rare - never even seen a copy for sale), which I understand was another Wilson influenced piece.

[Don Malcolm]

The Smoke (the US band with Michael Lloyd)--Cowboys & Indians and Odyssey
The Critters--Awake in a Dream
John Cale--China Sea
Flash Cadillac--whole buncha stuff on Sons of the Beaches, particularly Time Will Tell

[BergenWhitesMoustache]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH6TvYXzWPE

Thru Spray Colored Glasses- Dino Desi and Billy. Vocal even sounds like Brian to me!

[kwan_dk]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH6TvYXzWPE

Thru Spray Colored Glasses- Dino Desi and Billy. Vocal even sounds like Brian to me!

THAT one is a pure gem.

If we're talking Beach Boys soundalikes from the 60s, you can't go wrong with the Sandy album by Ronny & the Daytonas and A Midsummer's Day Dream by Mark Eric. Both albums are incredible!

Ronny & the Daytonas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRHLbfbZP1I

Mark Eric
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeOHsAMAz2M

[shelter]

^ Mark Eric's album is pretty good, musically. There were quite some Beach Boys knockoffs in the 60s that sounded a lot like the real thing, but most of them wrote songs that Brian probably wouldn't even have used as album fillers. Mark Eric actually wrote songs that wouldn't have been out of place on All Summer Long or The Beach Boys Today. Too bad he has such an ugly voice. Definately not a very good singer.

[BergenWhitesMoustache]

Definately not a very good singer.

He's definitely got a bit of a funny tone, but that doesn't make him a bad singer.

Reminds me of Billy Nichols, vocally...those two albums really sit as a pair for me.

[kwan_dk]

Mark Eric actually wrote songs that wouldn't have been out of place on All Summer Long or The Beach Boys Today. Too bad he has such an ugly voice. Definately not a very good singer.

Like BergenWhitesMoustance says, yeah, he has a funny tone, but a bad singer? Come on! Those harmonies on the album are really cool and full-sounding considering the fact that he overdubbed all voices.

It's funny, - when I talk with people who don't like or 'get' the Beach Boys (fools!) people will often say exactly the same about Brian's voice. And you wouldn't call him a bad singer, would you?

[shelter]

Like BergenWhitesMoustance says, yeah, he has a funny tone, but a bad singer? Come on! Those harmonies on the album are really cool and full-sounding considering the fact that he overdubbed all voices.

It's funny, - when I talk with people who don't like or 'get' the Beach Boys (fools!) people will often say exactly the same about Brian's voice. And you wouldn't call him a bad singer, would you?

Depends on what the definition of a "bad singer" is.

I don't care if someone is technically a good singer, because that criterium would place Mariah Carey and Celine Dion miles above Neil Young and Bob Dylan, so it's worthless anyway, right? My definition is pretty simple. If you make a song sound better than most other singers would, you're a good singer. If you don't, you're not a good singer. And I guess that we can agree that a whole lot of singers could've made Mark Eric's songs sound a whole lot better than he did himself, right?

[BergenWhitesMoustache]

I don't care if someone is technically a good singer, because that criterium would place Mariah Carey and Celine Dion miles above Neil Young and Bob Dylan, so it's worthless anyway, right? My definition is pretty simple.

So you're changing the definition of bad singing to back up your assertion that Mark Eric is "Definitely a bad singer"

Cool debating skills bro

Seriously though- it IS possible to define bad singing - ever heard Florence Foster Jenkins? Famed for her lack of pitch, timing and ability to sustain a note. A provably 'bad' singer.

Mark Eric is just a guy with a slightly funny tone. I'm not going to argue that there aren't better singers out there, or that I wouldn't love to hear a Harpers Bizarre or Association version of 'California Home', but he's not a 'bad' singer.

[shelter]

So you're changing the definition of bad singing to back up your assertion that Mark Eric is "Definitely a bad singer"

I'm not changing any definition, it's just my personal definition of something that I think is pretty subjective.

[shelter]

Or can you honestly say that you never ever called a band, an album, a song, a movie or a book "bad", even though purely technically speaking, it wasn't?

[BergenWhitesMoustache]

Or can you honestly say that you never ever called a band, an album, a song, a movie or a book "bad", even though purely technically speaking, it wasn't?

That's a different matter entirely. Where something can ONLY be a matter of opinion- ie the music of a band, then it's acceptable to state opinion as fact- because it goes without saying that it's an opinion.

However, when something is pretty much measurable in terms of quality, then I think an acknowledgement that ones opinion is merely that, and not a statement of fact is in order.

Hey! I think I just defined 'quibbling over pointless bullshit on the internet'

Lets just leave it- you want to think he's a bad singer, that's fine by me 

[shelter]

However, when something is pretty much measurable in terms of quality, then I think an acknowledgement that ones opinion is merely that, and not a statement of fact is in order.

Technical skills are measurable. Expression, tone, feeling, character and just that undefinable something special aren't. So you can easily define what a "technically good singer" is, but certainly not what a "good singer" is.

[rab2591]

I was at a friend's house tonight, and he put this on because he "heard the Pet Sounds in it". It's a little bit electronic for my tastes, but I do hear what he was getting at.

Gorillaz - To Binge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMnrFiG8FRo

Dang that's a nice song.
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Here's a great Brian Wilson inspired tune by Death Cab for Cutie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ59-FhJI5c&oq

[Nicko1234]

Skeet Surfing by Val Kilmer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaXOHCNgYrc

[rab2591]

Bop Bop on the Beach - Jan & Dean and the Flirts, partially written by Mike Love, I believe. Famously heard in The Karate Kid (the original).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxA5r44cB68

[DPW12315]

Wondermints - Tracy Hide (as good a Pet Sounds pastiche as is possible)

REM - At My Most Beautiful (ditto)

Spongebob Squarepants - The Best Day Ever (pure BW, I believe Andy Paley had a hand in this one)

I actually sat down and listened to that Spongbob song. It's actually not bad. So much BW influence...

[alf wiedersehen]

Wondermints - Tracy Hide (as good a Pet Sounds pastiche as is possible)

REM - At My Most Beautiful (ditto)

Spongebob Squarepants - The Best Day Ever (pure BW, I believe Andy Paley had a hand in this one)

I actually sat down and listened to that Spongbob song. It's actually not bad. So much BW influence...

I couldn't tell if people were being sarcastic or not with this Spongebob song, but, to my surprise, they aren't. I can definitely hear the Brian influences. Also, Wikipedia tells me that Andy Paley produced and co-wrote the song.

I might actually listen to the song if it wasn't for the singing.