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Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: Pollin' The Beatles
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on: January 16, 2015, 07:19:47 PM
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This poll includes posthumous and a couple other non.essentials. it should just be Meet the beatles, hard days night, help, rubber soul, revolver, sgt pep, white album and abbey rd.
dude what Meet The Beatles is not a real Beatles album, for starters. I barely listen to the Beatles and even I know that. Also, what.
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Non Smiley Smile Stuff / The Sandbox / Re: Why the rage for name-changing?
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on: January 16, 2015, 07:14:28 PM
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Why posters have to change their "handle" is a complete mystery to me. What's wrong with runnersdialzero, to give just one example? No one stands to gain from all this, least of all the name-changer...
u wanna fight me get ready 4 fight
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Was Dennis in the Wrong Group?
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on: January 15, 2015, 07:05:42 PM
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I wonder how the Beach Boys ever made it big with so many untalented members who couldn't rock.
You are my new God and I appreciate your existence. Look at clips like the TAMI show and tell me who was getting the crowd wild. Listen to some interviews and tell me who got the most responses from the crowd. Absolutely! Shame that Dennis couldn't be coaxed or eased in with being more out front. I'm sure that people would have rather seen him than the lovester who looked more like their dad. Look, maybe some of us want to have sex with both Dennis AND Mike.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Was Dennis in the Wrong Group?
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on: January 15, 2015, 04:43:57 PM
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Should also mention that at one point or another every member of The Beach Boys (With the exception of Blondie and Ricky, who were at the right place at the right time) was in the wrong group.
What group would Al be in otherwise? No offense to him personally, but it's not like he had the songwriting chops or household name brand of the Wilson's. Mike is largely talentless and lives off the brand name; no way hed ever want to be anything but a Beach Boy. I think everybody was held back and probably largely made miserable from the late '70s on. But I think Brian and Dennis are the only two who proved that they could have made it on their own if they had really set their minds to it. Carl did make two solo albums, but from what I've heard from just about every review I've seen is that they arent very good. Again, just because you can't "make it on your own" with the musical chops of Brian "Jesus" Wilson doesn't mean you wouldn't do well as part of another group. The implication that Al and Mike are "talentless" or nearly talentless isn't appreciated. No, they didn't write and produce five thousand songs a year like Brian did in his peak, but their names are attached to some really nice songs, productions, and performances.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Was Dennis in the Wrong Group?
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on: January 15, 2015, 02:54:59 PM
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I've never held myself up as an authority on the Beach Boys; I've just worshiped the band most of my life and read everything about the BBs I could get my hands on. But it's been my opinion that Brian was absolutely the least supportive, most dismissive of Dennis' musical abilities of any of the Beach Boys (outside of Mike Love, maybe).
Jeez. I wouldn't go THAT far (as to say Brian was "most dismissive"). Also, damn, Mike co-wrote a few Dennis solo songs, songs that were seemingly never meant for Beach Boys records, thus no personal gain for Mike outside of a few literal pennies in royalties. Doesn't that mean anything to you guys?
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Smiley Smile Stuff / Smile Sessions Box Set (2011) / Re: TSS - All things Wind Chimes
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on: January 14, 2015, 10:05:16 PM
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I don't understand the "Wind Chimes" or "Good Vibrations" "doesn't fit" the Smile album theories. The lyrics are all over the place in any form of the album you could conceive of. Yeah, a few sets of songs have slight common themes, but not much, and not enough to exclude the likes frigging "Good Vibrations", which was absolutely intended for the album.
Folks're too rigid with their interpretations of Smile and its lyrics, the album title, etc. To me, there's a huge amount of freedom in those songs and sessions and lyrics, and the idea of being so strict with it just doesn't make sense. "A song entitled 'Our Prayer' belongs on an album called Dumb Angel, but not Smile!" "'Surf's Up' is waaay too dark for an album called Smile!" "There isn't even a lyric about worms in the song titled 'Do You Like Worms?' JEEZ!" To me, that sort of thinking doesn't jive with what Smile was.
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Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: 2015 New Releases
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on: January 14, 2015, 08:36:25 PM
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Brian's album Ryan Adams' monthly singles/anything else he may do Noel Gallagher's new album in early March Daniel Johns' album should he actually finish it Brand New's new album (if they actually finish it), although my interest in them has went waaaay down in the last six years since their last album THAT'S IT THUS FAR
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Was Dennis in the Wrong Group?
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on: January 14, 2015, 08:25:16 PM
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I know, the rest are nothing. The vocal blend means nothing at all. The others are all untalented hacks, huh? Even Brian knew better than that. Brian knowing how to use those voices proves my point. They are all Beach Boys albums, because those voices make all of those songs better.
Either be one of the most unbelievably brilliant musicians of all time or piss off.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Finally!!!
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on: January 14, 2015, 08:22:33 PM
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Sheesh. I'm happy that some folks' lives are so awesome that the title of this thread is worth such outrage. I was just genuinely excited. Not trying to trick anyone. Will the film be 100% flawless and free of annoying inaccuracies? Nah. But it's been gestating for yearsandyears, and I was just, and still am, excited to be able to FINALLY (ahem) see it. So so-reeee.
*giggle* folks just think it was a really vague thread title, which is mildly annoying on any message board regardless of what's being posted, that's all. Not a big issue at all, but uh, "specific is terrific," as my extremely annoying English teacher used to say.
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