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Title: TLOS is now streaming
Post by: GoofyJeff on August 21, 2008, 04:53:45 PM
Enjoy, my good buddies

http://theadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/00/99999999/BRIANWILSON/80814001


Title: Re: TLOS is now streaming
Post by: Ron on August 21, 2008, 06:20:30 PM
Thank you for the link, Kind sir.  Beautiful album. 


Title: Re: TLOS is now streaming
Post by: John on August 21, 2008, 06:57:27 PM
Thanks for the link!


Title: Re: TLOS is now streaming
Post by: Amy B. on August 22, 2008, 05:22:36 AM
Lovely!
Can't wait until my copy arrives!


Title: Re: TLOS is now streaming
Post by: phirnis on August 22, 2008, 05:46:38 AM
This sounds great!

His vocal performance sounds much more impressive to me than on BWPS and the whole thing seems like something you might want to play to non-fans as well. Kind of the opposite of GIOMH.


Title: Re: TLOS is now streaming
Post by: The Shift on August 22, 2008, 07:44:50 AM
The reprise of TLOS after Southern California reminds me somewhat of Ding Dang!


Title: Re: TLOS is now streaming
Post by: smile-holland on August 22, 2008, 08:15:24 AM
The reprise of TLOS after Southern California reminds me somewhat of Ding Dang!

Even weirder:
First thing I thought when I heard that reprise it somehow reminded me of "Rollin' Up To Heaven" (which is course the "early dirty" version of Ding Dang)


Title: Re: TLOS is now streaming
Post by: GoofyJeff on August 22, 2008, 08:35:10 AM
The reprise of TLOS after Southern California reminds me somewhat of Ding Dang!

Even weirder:
First thing I thought when I heard that reprise it somehow reminded me of "Rollin' Up To Heaven" (which is course the "early dirty" version of Ding Dang)

Kinda ironic that the name of the track is "Rollin' 'Round Heaven", no?


Title: Re: TLOS is now streaming
Post by: Aegir on August 22, 2008, 08:43:43 AM
Or maybe that's not so ironic...


Title: Re: TLOS is now streaming
Post by: smile-holland on August 22, 2008, 09:23:53 AM
Or maybe that's not so ironic...

I second that...


Title: Re: TLOS is now streaming
Post by: TonyW on August 22, 2008, 02:17:24 PM
Does anybody know the origins of the TLOS snippet at the end of Southern California? - the "sound" of it seems to fit with the Sweet Insanity era.


Title: Re: TLOS is now streaming
Post by: Eric Aniversario on August 22, 2008, 02:19:50 PM
It's a beautiful summer day outside, but I'm inside enjoying this!  I already had high expectations, but it's even better than I thought it would be!


Title: Re: TLOS is now streaming
Post by: Wirestone on August 22, 2008, 02:24:19 PM
Tony -- It's all from Brian's recent work. It's a rearrangement of the "Lucky Old Sun" song that the band sang and played at the London shows last year as a teaser in their first set. The version on the album seems to be an all-Brian recording, which accounts for the slightly off-kilter sound. I think it's awesome.


Title: Re: TLOS is now streaming
Post by: TonyW on August 22, 2008, 03:01:20 PM
Tony -- It's all from Brian's recent work. It's a rearrangement of the "Lucky Old Sun" song that the band sang and played at the London shows last year as a teaser in their first set. The version on the album seems to be an all-Brian recording, which accounts for the slightly off-kilter sound. I think it's awesome.

Thanks Claymcc, I've listened again a few times and I guess it's the "woot, woot"'s plus the multilayering of the Brian only vocals that give it that "Sweet Insanity outtake" sound.


Title: Re: TLOS is now streaming
Post by: Ron on August 22, 2008, 05:35:43 PM
I wish he would on albums put the "wall of Brian's" in just a few spots like that on the actual songs, it would KICK ASS if you know like right in the middle of "Oxygen" all of a sudden every voice is Brian's, then after 10 seconds it goes back to all the band. 


Title: Re: TLOS is now streaming
Post by: Aegir on August 22, 2008, 07:47:41 PM
Um, that's just weird.  ???


Title: Re: TLOS is now streaming
Post by: carl r on August 28, 2008, 06:28:25 AM
Does anyone mind if I just add this comment to make the link more accessible?


Title: Re: TLOS is now streaming
Post by: warnakey on August 28, 2008, 10:57:16 AM
I really like the album, i think the music is great. If only we could turn his voice back 30 years or so though.


Title: Re: TLOS is now streaming
Post by: Aegir on August 28, 2008, 12:40:16 PM
My first instinct was to say that Brian's voice was a lot worse 30 years ago than it is now, but I guess not. What is that, MIU? I really like his voice on MIU.

I still think this is an old man's album, though, no matter how much I like Scott's demo of Southern California better than the official version.


Title: Re: TLOS is now streaming
Post by: Chris Brown on August 28, 2008, 12:59:58 PM
I really like the album, i think the music is great. If only we could turn his voice back 30 years or so though.

I was thinking more like 40, although parts of the album wouldn't really work with his sweet younger voice.  I can't imagine something like "Midnight's Another Day" or "Southern California" having quite the same impact with a younger Brian. 


Title: Re: TLOS is now streaming
Post by: Amy B. on August 28, 2008, 01:02:41 PM

I was thinking more like 40, although parts of the album wouldn't really work with his sweet younger voice.  I can't imagine something like "Midnight's Another Day" or "Southern California" having quite the same impact with a younger Brian. 

Yeah, Southern California is more affecting with a world-weary voice to sing it. It's saying, "Don't sleep your way through life [like I did]." 


Title: Re: TLOS is now streaming
Post by: chris.metcalfe on August 29, 2008, 03:47:03 AM
If I said that, for the most part, it reminds me of 15 Big Ones-meets-'Brian Wilson'(88) - I wouldn't be very popular, would I?
A huge amount of effort, love, care and attention to detail has gone into the making of this album. But, and I'm a very long-standing fan, I just can't bring myself to like it.
Sometimes the hardest thing in life is just being honest.


Title: Re: TLOS is now streaming
Post by: mjw63 on August 30, 2008, 02:37:05 AM
I'm finally listening to the stream (I was trying to hold off til it comes out on Monday but have crumbled  :-D).

I'm really enjoying it. It's not 100% genius or anything (some of the lyrics are really cloying for me), but some moments have completely wowed me. I've just cried at the start of Live Let Live :-)


Title: Re: TLOS is now streaming
Post by: phirnis on August 30, 2008, 03:06:03 AM
If I said that, for the most part, it reminds me of 15 Big Ones-meets-'Brian Wilson'(88) - I wouldn't be very popular, would I?

Well, stylistically that pretty much nails it.


Title: Re: TLOS is now streaming
Post by: Ron on August 30, 2008, 05:19:41 PM
15 Big Ones, BW88, and Lucky Old Sun are all similar in that they have moments of brilliance and moments of insanity, I would definately say Lucky Old Sun is a much better album than the other two, but you get both with Brian.  He'll never make another Pet Sounds, he barely pulled it off the first time.  I've developed an appreciation for his crazier stuff, but hey that's what makes it a Brian Wilson album. 


Title: Re: TLOS is now streaming
Post by: Wirestone on August 30, 2008, 05:45:42 PM
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Well, stylistically that pretty much nails it.

No it doesn't.

Love You and BW88 don't really sound that similar to begin with.

And combined, they certainly wouldn't sound like TLOS -- in style, production or songwriting.


Title: Re: TLOS is now streaming
Post by: phirnis on August 31, 2008, 01:04:22 AM
Well, he probably couldn't have pulled off something as elaborate and well produced in both those stages of his career, but then the vocals occasionally remind me of BW88, while songs like Morning Beat and Oxygen have a certain mid-seventies quality to them, in terms of the lyrical content anyway. "It's a long, long way from January/All the way to December" - to me, that's just the same Brian as the one who created a song like Solar System.


Title: Re: TLOS is now streaming
Post by: carl r on August 31, 2008, 09:22:11 AM
The reprise "Rollin' Round Heaven" isn't that different to the reprise of Rio Grande... I think TLOS is in the same vein as BW '88 but with better production values, and I'm stuck at the moment to say whether I prefer one or the other. I'm sure both are better than anything from the interim ...