I've just uploaded a new video today for my own mix of Wonderful/Look/CIFOTM. As part of my Smile 2024 project I've blown away the dust and cobwebs of my 2017 video and replaced it with upgraded artwork and a newly enhanced sound mix. I hope you'll check it out and I hope you enjoy it.

Wonderful/Look/Child Is Father Of The Man:    https://youtu.be/DjiwPKOHz5o

   Springtime is officially here!  Are you pickin' up the Good Vibrations like me? What better time to watch and listen to the video for this Beach Boys classic with upgraded sound and video elements. I hope you'll check it for some Good Good Good Vibrations!
   This is continuing my project for updating all of my previously posted Smile videos. Much more to come over the next couple months.

Good vibrations:    https://youtu.be/jbjv7RXbtao

If you've never watched my earlier video, I've just uploaded an updated version of my video for 'Do You Like Worms?' on YouTube. I hope you'll check it out.

Do You Like Worms:   https://youtu.be/3ZMj87Y9Hlo

Watch the Smile playlist for the entire album here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLptIp1kEl6BWNpXyJ_mb20W4ZqJ14-Hgg

I loved his group Raspberries. Their debut is one of the very first albums I ever bought and it still smells of raspberry. The Raspberries helped create Power Pop with Big Star. RIP, Eric.

“March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.” ― English Proverb

Spring is coming! March, the windiest and most blustery of all months has just arrived, and brings with it a video for the appropriately titled Beach Boys song 'Wind Chimes'. This is new video that builds on my previous 'Wind Chimes' video and is very different from that one. This video is maybe around 80% new. I'm in a process of revisiting all my old Smile videos to see where they need to be upgraded and hope to be finished soon.This is why I have so many videos being uploaded in a relatively short amount of time. I hope you you'll check out the new video and if you do, I hope you like it.

Wind Chimes- https://youtu.be/436lbdin8hc

I just uploaded a new video for the Pet Sounds track 'Here Today'! So I made a new mix for 'Here Today' that is a combination of the classic album version and the earlier Brian Wilson vocals version on the chorus. I hope you'll check out the video I made for it on YouTube.

Here Today:    https://youtu.be/lMqrIRJ36ro

I hope you'll check out the new video I just uploaded on YouTube for the beautiful 'Keep An Eye On Summer', a nostalgic mid-century trip.It's perfect for a brisk Autumn day!

Keep An Eye On Summer
https://youtu.be/rXeXHAj7loc

For your consideration...Dae Lims' Smile.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7W_2JS12CY

Thanks for the link, Joel! There's a lot of great stuff in this version (I hesitate to use the word "mix") of Smile. If I was one to still make Smile fan edits I'd definitely be copping some of this marvelous stuff.

Can't wait for some talented fellow to give us some completed Smile tracks with this technology.

Please check out my new video for the Pet Sounds classic 'I'm Waiting For The Day'.  Hopefully this will be just the start in a series of videos for the Pet Sounds album. I hope you enjoy!

I'm Waiting For The Day-  https://youtu.be/lxBcsSJfFmU

Memorial Day weekend is coming up, so let's get the Summer season going with a new video. It's for an early favorite of mine 'The Girl From New York City' from 1965's 'Summer Days (and Summer Nights!!)'.
I hope you enjoy watching it as much as I enjoyed making it.

The Girl From New York City    https://youtu.be/NH35Bgc5Hy8

'Today!' is 58 years old...Today! Here's a new 'Today!' video for 'Kiss Me Baby'. Released on March 8, 1965 I think 'Today!' is one the Boys' very best albums. It has so many of my favorites- When I Grow Up To Be A Man, Dance, Dance, Dance, Please Let Me Wonder, Kiss Me Baby, and She Knows Me Too Well. It's Right there with 'Pet Sounds'. I hope you'll check out and enjoy the video to commemorate Today!'s birthday.

Kiss Me Baby- https://youtu.be/F7AkL0Bov7E

I've wanted to do a long post for a while but just haven't had the energy to do so.

Anyways though, has anybody pointed out that Brian is singing some kinda lyrics during "Spark in the Dark"? Maybe it was more of a song and less of a "jam" than we were lead to believe.

Interesting that the "spark in the dark" phrase came to be used in 'Funky Pretty' but I don't hear any connection musically. Maybe someone else would? But yes, it seems to me that the rhythm of the notes in 'Spark In the Dark' strongly suggest the same rhythm that could be used for the words "spark in the dark". I hear the words softly sung at about 1:29 as "Used to be the flame in your heart, now I'm just a flash in the dark". The 'Spark In The Dark' track sounds like it could have been the basis for a cool song in 1972. I saw it being suggested that at least some the of this track  later inspired the Brian Wilson/ Andy Paley song 'Chain Reaction of Love'.

One week from today, January 8, marks the 50th anniversary of the release of the 'Holland' album. To commemorate the occasion I've just uploaded a YouTube video for my favorite song from the album 'Funky Pretty'. I hope you enjoy it. Happy and Pretty Funky New Year!

Funky Pretty:    https://youtu.be/X3gEEyiWbcA

During the process of creating this video, I grew to fully appreciate the stunning production of this record in a way that I never had before. You get to listen to the song a LOT of times! The change in key on the third chorus was such a great move on Brian's part to take this record to it's peak. This record was never a favorite of mine. Thought it was kind of cringey: a guy going after a girl. But a viewer suggested that I do it, and I'm glad I did. Now I see the song differently and I'm proud of the video that I made for it and hope others think I did it justice.

I hope you'll check out my new video on YouTube for the classic tune 'The Little Girl I Once Knew'. It's a great record that doesn't get the attention it deserves.

The Little Girl I Once Knew-   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny7RSAvYvN8

And Heroes and Villains is the soundtrack for Amazon's 'The Boys' new season 3 trailer video. Guess somebody's hard at work out there working those licensing deals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-8VYKUZYiw

Here it is on YouTube:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsY4Es5p6UM    if you don't use Spotify.

Beautiful, as always!

Currently I'm only listening with my laptop speakers but is this a different mix of the song?

Thanks, Rocker! This is a slight remix. The audio is the 2012 Remaster, however I amplified some verrry hard to hear vocal lines to make them more prominent. I wanted to do that without overwhelming the original vocal mix which is so beautiful. The lines were: "I took the one most traveled by", "It made a difference to me", "Life's how the river flows", and "Why all the love in nature glows". I would say those vocal parts are probably at least three times louder.

That was so good. Please let me know what font did you use for The Beach Boys in the opening? it looks amazing!

Thank you! That font is called Bitling Moksh. Good news is that it can be downloaded and used for free. The site I got it from had a variety of related fonts in the Bitling series that were also used in this video.
https://www.dafont.com/search.php?q=bitling

There's a new YouTube video I just posted for the song 'All This Is That'. I decided on this song to commemorate the 50th anniversary of 'Carl and the Passions- So Tough' because it's my favorite song from that album. I hope you'll check out this labor of love from one Beach Boys fan to another.

All This Is That-     https://youtu.be/5SmzFkCZf8U

As a professional artist, as long as there are people that support your art financially by paying to hear your music or see your concerts, then I don't see why any artist should quit their chosen vocation and means of income unless they want to. As an amateur or hobbyist, as long as making your art gives you joy, then anything else should be irrelevant. To answer the original question, no, it's not fair or even anyone's business to call for an artist to quit making their art, but people can make their opinion heard with their wallets.

Some happy Beach Boys Holiday Music and a pizazzy video. What could be nicer to start the Holiday Season? You can see it here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wScUsZkBLA

I think this record really hits the sweet spot. I'm over the fact that Brian is never going to be a great vocalist again and I think this collaboration between Pure Brian and Jim James is very very good. It's honest, is the best word to describe it. I think the autobiographical aspect and melody of the song itself are good too and I can be critical if I think it's deserved. But this is one of the good ones.

There's a new YouTube video for 'I'm In Great Shape', my imagining of what a Smile "Barnyard Suite" might have sounded like in 1967 had it ever reached fruition. I hope you'll check it out.

I'm In Great Shape:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1JcYVl-pkU&t=4s