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It had to be you!!

It had to be you!!

My old nemesis, we meet again.
Would you please be so kind as to go soak your head.

My old nemesis, we meet again.
Would you please be so kind as to go soak your head.

I had assumed you were banned!

I had assumed you were banned!

Just sick of all the nerds here.

i think you'll be banned before he will. you never post anything of import, just personal attacks, which need i remind you is usually grounds for bannination (assuming capable forum moderation).

"It's a man at a concert," he said. "All around him there's the audience, playing their roles, dressed up in fancy clothes, looking through opera glasses, but so far away from the drama, from life—'Back through the opera glass you see the pit and the pendulum drawn.'"

The music begins to take over. 'Columnated ruins domino.' Empires, ideas, lives, institutions—everything has to fall, tumbling like dominoes.

He begins to awaken to the music; sees the pretentiousness of everything. 'The music hall a costly bow.' Then even the music is gone, turned into a trumpeter swan, into what the music really is.

'Canvas the town and brush the backdrop.' He's off in his vision, on a trip. Reality is gone; he's creating it like a dream. 'Dove-nested towers.' Europe, a long time ago. 'The laughs come hard in Auld Lang Syne.' The poor people in the cellar taverns, trying to make themselves happy by singing.

Then there's the parties, the 'drinking, trying to forget the wars, the battles at sea. "While at port a do or die.' Ships in the harbor, battling it out. A kind of Roman empire thing.

'A choke of grief.' At his own sorrow and the emptiness of his life, because he can't even cry for the suffering in the world, for his own suffering.

And then, hope. 'Surf's up! . . . Come about hard and join the once and often spring you gave.' Go back to the kids, to the beach, to childhood.

"'I heard the word'—of God; 'Wonderful thing'—the joy of enlightenment, of seeing God. And what is it? 'A children's song!' And then there's the song itself; the song of children; the song of the universe rising and falling in wave after wave, the song of God, hiding the love from us, but always letting us find it again, like a mother singing to her children."

Did you read the second post Fishmonk made.?

Oh I was just trying to be playful in response to your very first post in this thread. You always try to make me out to be some villain who constantly invites your reprisals when you're always the one starting us off on this old song and dance. I was just trying to keep the mood light, relax, go get some fresh air, it seems like you're always prowling this board waiting to pounce on me whenever I make a post.

So lets get some good ol' SMiLE discussion going again.

I was thinking the other day that the whole thing would have probably followed Surf's Up in structure. I've heard people say that Heroes and Villains is "SMiLE in a song", perhaps that's true musically, but I think philosophically Surf's Up represents SMiLE in a song.


To me the song has two parts, of course it has two movements musically (I suppose three if you count the tag), but there are two clear sections here, the unenlightened first part and the enlightened second part. The first part is at an opera hall, listening to music, and not really "getting" it. This would be the Heroes and Villains section, the A-side, the "Americana movement". Here the listener is, moving through a record store isle, leafing through a stack of 45s, getting bits and pieces of the American musical tradition, all this he views through the lens of history, the lens of our institutions which color our perceptions and separate us from reality.
The second part is "off on [a] vision, [a] trip", recreating reality in a whole new way. This is where we would have songs like vegetables and wind chimes I think. Structurally I think SMiLE would have sort of been like a reverse Abbey Road, an A-side medley (with a hidden track at the start), and a B-side of longer songs. But that's just a few thoughts to digest, and I must stress, to appease those of you who are 18th of May, that I mean none of this as definite fact in any way, only as one man's humble interpretation being offered for discussion.

Gotcha

But seriously guys, when is this thing coming out!? Why must they torture us so, I can't even touch a Beach Boys record these days for pain of being reminded this isn't out yet.

i think you'll be banned before he will. you never post anything of import, just personal attacks, which need i remind you is usually grounds for bannination (assuming capable forum moderation).

I figured that, it's just a bloody weird thing to say. I'm sure me and The Heartical Don could go eat steaks with Brian in 1974, and Harry Nilsson and Brian Wilson could be breast inspectors in space in 2099. It's irrevelant!

I'm weird. I believe what Brian Wilson said he was doing in '66 was absolutely true.

What's weird Bill is that you've got 288 posts (and counting) which bangs on about the same thing over and over again.

Bing Crosby's reflection said:


When you know something is accurate & the truth you tend to stick with it (if you have integrity).

Ron Paul 2012

If Bernie Sanders were running that would be the choice.

I like Paul's anti-war positions and his speaking truth to power stance, but his belief that the way money works forms a natural system that compliments existence in a natural manner is demonstrably false. Still, I like that he takes them on & tell it like it is in many areas.

Can a mod change the thread title, I keep getting a mini heart attack when I see "smile sessions cancelled"

The Beach Boys appeal to the shallowest as well as the deepest.

Sorry Fishmonk not bagging you but this is the worst thread ever!!

It seems like most of these projects just don't materialize & get put on the shelf & forgotten. It's a shame . Anything that has ever seen the light of day hasn't had buildup prior to it's release. It's just shown up without any hype. Doesn't seem likely that half of their catalog of archival outtakes & video will be released in this lifetime.