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Title: Experiments and Observations Post by: ukulelejesus on September 10, 2010, 04:08:30 PM First of all, you have to have a beard to engage in any of these activities, but not necessarily to comprehend them.
Experiment 1: Try to experience Be My Baby the way Brian does. METHOD; Smoke a lot of weed, plug right ear, listen to Be My Baby. RESULTS: I turned my head so as to have it centered on the sound as well as I could. From the start it started to make sense. the drum sound and spoons provide a perfect centering effect, like a sonic mandala, then all this lovely superfluous noise is just happening all over the place. Now imagine this, and you're as crazy and high as Brian Wilson was back in Ye Gode Olde Love Ye Days. PROPOSAL: The Brian Wilson Emulation Experiment: During the length of this experiment (Between 1-3 days) the subject would remain in one room consuming cocaine, marijuana, cigarettes, birthday cake, and ice cream. At all time either Be My Baby will be playing or TiVo'd episodes of Wheel fo Fortune, Jeopardy, etc. Title: Re: Experiments and Observations Post by: the captain on September 10, 2010, 04:10:55 PM Welcome back, nobody is a chode / nobody / thomasogg / whoever.
Title: Re: Experiments and Observations Post by: ukulelejesus on September 10, 2010, 04:15:58 PM I'm actually new here. Began my Beach Boys obsession recently when i got tired of hearing how swell Pet Sounds was but hadn't gotten around to listening to it yet.
Title: Re: Experiments and Observations Post by: Myk Luhv on September 10, 2010, 04:52:32 PM Hahahahaha
Title: Re: Experiments and Observations Post by: summerinparadise.flac on September 10, 2010, 05:10:36 PM Can we get off the summerinparadise.flac is nobody thing now?
Title: Re: Experiments and Observations Post by: Jason on September 10, 2010, 07:28:30 PM By all means, report the OP's post.
Title: Re: Experiments and Observations Post by: ukulelejesus on September 10, 2010, 07:49:20 PM Did Phil Spector ever assemble his own Smile mix? I bet he did. I bet it was better than what Brian would have done. I think he probably labelled it "WILSON SUCKS" and only had one copy, on casette tape, and it's sitting in some drawer in his house, inconspicuous, not noticed by the new residents. And he used his mind Gangster's one night to send Brian a message that he had made one and that Wilson would never hear it.
Speaking as a writer of weird fiction, the Beach Boys history provides a fascinating wealth of ideas and scenarios. Title: Re: Experiments and Observations Post by: ukulelejesus on September 10, 2010, 07:54:52 PM Pete Townsend's Lifehouse and SMiLE get into a fight. Who wins?
Title: Re: Experiments and Observations Post by: The Madcap on September 10, 2010, 08:29:07 PM Pete Townsend's Lifehouse and SMiLE get into a fight. Who wins? SMiLE. Lifehouse would have been way too pretentious for it's own good. in fact, there are parts of Who's Next that I feel are too pretentious, and Lifehouse would have been even worse in that regard.Title: Re: Experiments and Observations Post by: ukulelejesus on September 10, 2010, 08:35:36 PM But SMiLE was just an album that went awry. Lifehouse was supposed to be an album, a film, and a concert experience where everyone would have their biometric data fed into computers to have a single universal harmonious note play and cause people to vanish and ascend to a higher state of being. there would probably be a comic book prequel-tie in, and a Lifehouse Happy Meal if Townsend had his ways. The sheer scale of the failure between Lifehouse and SMiLE is a huge gulf. Brian wilson tried to do one extraordinary thing and broke it into too many pieces that he couldn't figure out how to put it all together and wasn't entirely sure what his plan was. Townsend knew exactly what he wanted to do and wasted massive amounts of time on all of it, even churning out of the the greatest Rock and Roll albums as an accidental byproduct of his decades spanning obsession with the Worst Idea Ever.
Actually there are huge similarities between The Who and The Beach Boys. Pete Townsend if Brian, Keith Moon is Dennis, John Entwhistle was Carl, and Daltrey was the Lovester. At least in terms of the sort of dynamic they worked with. no Al Jardine though. They had a resident insane genius, drunk sexed up maniac, and laid back calm guy, and douchey sellout frontman. It all fits! Title: Re: Experiments and Observations Post by: The Heartical Don on September 11, 2010, 12:35:11 AM GHB is totally, like, hip with young women, or so I hear.
Title: Re: Experiments and Observations Post by: ukulelejesus on September 11, 2010, 02:24:20 AM So I really relaly got into the Beatles when i was 14. I'm 24 now for the record. i dismissed the Beach boys as lame surf sh*t because I was brainwashed by the Beatles. And I do still think the Beatles are the best BAND ever, and I know all their sh*t and trivia and I listen to them in mono exclusively. I never liked Sgt. Pepper that much til I heard it in Mono, at which point I totally got it. Aside from that, I believe that The Who are the greatest Rock & Rollers ever, and I enjoy Pete Townsend for being a totally insane creative genius. My favorite contemporary band is the Flaming Lips. Naturallya s i got into them I realized their influences were mainly The Who and The Beach Boys. I heard talk of Pet Sounds tossed about a lot in album discussions. Finally I decided to listen to Pet Sounds. I was incredibly high, because I wanted to ensure as close as an experience to the original as possible.
Quite simply it blew my mind. Here was an album better than any single Beatles album, from that dumb surf band I'd dismissed as the Beatle's inferiors. I got curious and did some research and learned mroe baout thsi SMiLE thing i'd only heard mentioned in passing. Madness. I saw it had been "completed" and that the completion had recieved well so I checked it out. It also blew my mind. The sheer perfection, the hundreds of little,. perfect melodies woven together and overflowing, the lyrical callbacks and thematic cohesion, the inventiveness of iot all blew me away. I decided I had entirely been unfair to this group. My researches brought me here, and i've been lurking for a couple months, relaly impressed with the comprehensiveness of the posts and knowledge contained. I saw a crazy thread abotu love You and being into crazy sh*t, I checked that it. It's my 2nd favorite Beach boys albums, and i've been thoroughly itno the rest as well. I'm a musician, i specialize in the ukulele, and in learning beahc boys and brian songs I've discovered a lot about the way he writes, which adds an aditional level of complexity I can draw on as asongwriter. The dense chords he works in sound perfectly clear on a ukulele, there's no muddle, it's all very concise but sounds so great. I think one of the reasons I love Love You so much is the sparse instrumentation let's you really hear the subtlety in his chord progressions and really just focus on the most basic, perfect element of the song. it's an unplugged sensibility run through a computer. it's amazing. I've really immersed myself in tio increidbly for 2 months, and a glance at my last.fm account would indicate unhealthy obsession, but I can't believe the wealth of music I've discovered. And the line someone posted here about Love You begin "Mozart on coke in a bathrobe with birthday cake in his beard" is pretty much the most exciting description of a mad genius I can imagine. Title: Re: Experiments and Observations Post by: The Heartical Don on September 11, 2010, 02:40:27 AM So I really relaly got into the Beatles when i was 14. I'm 24 now for the record. i dismissed the Beach boys as lame surf merda because I was brainwashed by the Beatles. And I do still think the Beatles are the best BAND ever, and I know all their merda and trivia and I listen to them in mono exclusively. I never liked Sgt. Pepper that much til I heard it in Mono, at which point I totally got it. Aside from that, I believe that The Who are the greatest Rock & Rollers ever, and I enjoy Pete Townsend for being a totally insane creative genius. My favorite contemporary band is the Flaming Lips. Naturallya s i got into them I realized their influences were mainly The Who and The Beach Boys. I heard talk of Pet Sounds tossed about a lot in album discussions. Finally I decided to listen to Pet Sounds. I was incredibly high, because I wanted to ensure as close as an experience to the original as possible. Quite simply it blew my mind. Here was an album better than any single Beatles album, from that dumb surf band I'd dismissed as the Beatle's inferiors. I got curious and did some research and learned mroe baout thsi SMiLE thing i'd only heard mentioned in passing. Madness. I saw it had been "completed" and that the completion had recieved well so I checked it out. It also blew my mind. The sheer perfection, the hundreds of little,. perfect melodies woven together and overflowing, the lyrical callbacks and thematic cohesion, the inventiveness of iot all blew me away. I decided I had entirely been unfair to this group. My researches brought me here, and i've been lurking for a couple months, relaly impressed with the comprehensiveness of the posts and knowledge contained. I saw a crazy thread abotu love You and being into crazy merda, I checked that it. It's my 2nd favorite Beach boys albums, and i've been thoroughly itno the rest as well. I'm a musician, i specialize in the ukulele, and in learning beahc boys and brian songs I've discovered a lot about the way he writes, which adds an aditional level of complexity I can draw on as asongwriter. The dense chords he works in sound perfectly clear on a ukulele, there's no muddle, it's all very concise but sounds so great. I think one of the reasons I love Love You so much is the sparse instrumentation let's you really hear the subtlety in his chord progressions and really just focus on the most basic, perfect element of the song. it's an unplugged sensibility run through a computer. it's amazing. I've really immersed myself in tio increidbly for 2 months, and a glance at my last.fm account would indicate unhealthy obsession, but I can't believe the wealth of music I've discovered. And the line someone posted here about Love You begin "Mozart on coke in a bathrobe with birthday cake in his beard" is pretty much the most exciting description of a mad genius I can imagine. How is your drug consumption today? Title: Re: Experiments and Observations Post by: ukulelejesus on September 11, 2010, 02:41:00 AM It's working out for me.
Title: Re: Experiments and Observations Post by: sockittome on September 11, 2010, 09:52:12 AM relaly?
Title: Re: Experiments and Observations Post by: bgas on September 11, 2010, 10:14:20 AM Title: Re: Experiments and Observations Post by: ukulelejesus on September 11, 2010, 07:51:41 PM relaly? You relaly got a hold on me.Title: Re: Experiments and Observations Post by: Magic Transistor Radio on September 12, 2010, 09:45:33 PM I think I figured out who NOBODY was
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqrqaPThCmI Title: Re: Experiments and Observations Post by: The Heartical Don on September 13, 2010, 12:21:44 AM I think I figured out who NOBODY was http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqrqaPThCmI I think we got a winner here. Our nobody will have received a big cake with a Commodore 64 in it, and each year he'd allowed to plug it in for 2 months. Title: Re: Experiments and Observations Post by: Mike's Beard on September 13, 2010, 01:51:50 AM I think I figured out who NOBODY was http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqrqaPThCmI Anyone else think that this guy should have had a bullet to the brain years ago? Title: Re: Experiments and Observations Post by: Curtis Leon on September 13, 2010, 02:23:55 AM I think I figured out who NOBODY was http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqrqaPThCmI Anyone else think that this guy should have had a bullet to the brain years ago? I say he should've been locked up in a asylum and given pills for the rest of his life. It's obvious he's completely off his rocker. Title: Re: Experiments and Observations Post by: Mike's Beard on September 13, 2010, 02:43:34 AM A bullet's quicker and cheaper.
Title: Re: Experiments and Observations Post by: ukulelejesus on September 13, 2010, 02:22:38 PM Why would you want to kill the guy who wrote Never Learn Not to Love!?!?!?!
Title: Re: Experiments and Observations Post by: Jason on September 13, 2010, 02:23:40 PM Why would you want to kill the guy who wrote Never Learn Not to Love!?!?!?! Please report this post... Title: Re: Experiments and Observations Post by: Andrew G. Doe on September 13, 2010, 02:45:02 PM I think I figured out who NOBODY was http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqrqaPThCmI That is simultaneously one of the funniest, and the scariest, things I've ever seen. There's a longer version of this interview - here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xioCGmZVoqw&feature=related) - that is just... surreal (and you might want to stick your fingers in your ears at about 1.36, btw). And yet... you can see how compelling and charismatic he could be. Title: Re: Experiments and Observations Post by: Mike's Beard on September 13, 2010, 02:48:17 PM What, Nobody or Charlie? ;)
Title: Re: Experiments and Observations Post by: Andrew G. Doe on September 13, 2010, 02:57:28 PM What, Nobody or Charlie? ;) Why, Charlie of course. Nobody was, is... well, nobody. Title: Re: Experiments and Observations Post by: ♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇 on September 13, 2010, 05:31:20 PM Nobody knows the trouble I've seen...nobody knows...the sorrow...
Title: Re: Experiments and Observations Post by: buddhahat on September 14, 2010, 12:22:05 AM So I really relaly got into the Beatles when i was 14. I'm 24 now for the record. i dismissed the Beach boys as lame surf merda because I was brainwashed by the Beatles. And I do still think the Beatles are the best BAND ever, and I know all their merda and trivia and I listen to them in mono exclusively. I never liked Sgt. Pepper that much til I heard it in Mono, at which point I totally got it. Aside from that, I believe that The Who are the greatest Rock & Rollers ever, and I enjoy Pete Townsend for being a totally insane creative genius. My favorite contemporary band is the Flaming Lips. Naturallya s i got into them I realized their influences were mainly The Who and The Beach Boys. I heard talk of Pet Sounds tossed about a lot in album discussions. Finally I decided to listen to Pet Sounds. I was incredibly high, because I wanted to ensure as close as an experience to the original as possible. Quite simply it blew my mind. Here was an album better than any single Beatles album, from that dumb surf band I'd dismissed as the Beatle's inferiors. I got curious and did some research and learned mroe baout thsi SMiLE thing i'd only heard mentioned in passing. Madness. I saw it had been "completed" and that the completion had recieved well so I checked it out. It also blew my mind. The sheer perfection, the hundreds of little,. perfect melodies woven together and overflowing, the lyrical callbacks and thematic cohesion, the inventiveness of iot all blew me away. I decided I had entirely been unfair to this group. My researches brought me here, and i've been lurking for a couple months, relaly impressed with the comprehensiveness of the posts and knowledge contained. I saw a crazy thread abotu love You and being into crazy merda, I checked that it. It's my 2nd favorite Beach boys albums, and i've been thoroughly itno the rest as well. I'm a musician, i specialize in the ukulele, and in learning beahc boys and brian songs I've discovered a lot about the way he writes, which adds an aditional level of complexity I can draw on as asongwriter. The dense chords he works in sound perfectly clear on a ukulele, there's no muddle, it's all very concise but sounds so great. I think one of the reasons I love Love You so much is the sparse instrumentation let's you really hear the subtlety in his chord progressions and really just focus on the most basic, perfect element of the song. it's an unplugged sensibility run through a computer. it's amazing. I've really immersed myself in tio increidbly for 2 months, and a glance at my last.fm account would indicate unhealthy obsession, but I can't believe the wealth of music I've discovered. And the line someone posted here about Love You begin "Mozart on coke in a bathrobe with birthday cake in his beard" is pretty much the most exciting description of a mad genius I can imagine. Time will tell if you are or aren't Nobody (he seems to unwittingly post himself into oblivion after several days) but regardless - welcome to you and thanks for sharing your story. Always great to hear about the moment that the BB obsession takes hold and cool to have the more psychedelic perspective too. Title: Re: Experiments and Observations Post by: MBE on September 14, 2010, 01:55:21 AM Manson is unreal. Still I think he's not as crazy as he likes people to think he is. In other words he's a great comedian. A sick bastard but he is an entertainer right?
Title: Re: Experiments and Observations Post by: Mike's Beard on September 14, 2010, 02:30:02 AM He was too smart and calculating to be completely crazy, so I think he falls firmly into sick, evil bastard category. He clearly had/has a knack for appealing to misguided losers. Just look at Susan Atkins.
Title: Re: Experiments and Observations Post by: The Heartical Don on September 14, 2010, 03:01:11 AM He was too smart and calculating to be completely crazy, so I think he falls firmly into sick, evil bastard category. He clearly had a knack for appealing to misguided losers (still does). Just look at Susan Atkins. Well - smart, calculating, manipulative, full of lust and desire, and a complete lack of conscience. I doubt whether 'crazy' is a fitting word. I'd reserve that for people who see pink elephants all of the time, or who buy Kenny G. records. Title: Re: Experiments and Observations Post by: Mike's Beard on September 14, 2010, 03:03:51 AM He was too smart and calculating to be completely crazy, so I think he falls firmly into sick, evil bastard category. He clearly had a knack for appealing to misguided losers (still does). Just look at Susan Atkins. Well - smart, calculating, manipulative, full of lust and desire, and a complete lack of conscience. I doubt whether 'crazy' is a fitting word. I'd reserve that for people who see pink elephants all of the time, or who buy Kenny G. records. Or believe that they can levitate and see ghosts. ;) Title: Re: Experiments and Observations Post by: ukulelejesus on September 14, 2010, 11:35:26 AM Time will tell if you are or aren't Nobody (he seems to unwittingly post himself into oblivion after several days) but regardless - welcome to you and thanks for sharing your story. Always great to hear about the moment that the BB obsession takes hold and cool to have the more psychedelic perspective too. Thanks. I would ask who Nobody is but I can tell I'd get some kind of pun for an answer. Title: Re: Experiments and Observations Post by: Andrew G. Doe on September 14, 2010, 11:39:01 AM Time will tell if you are or aren't Nobody (he seems to unwittingly post himself into oblivion after several days) but regardless - welcome to you and thanks for sharing your story. Always great to hear about the moment that the BB obsession takes hold and cool to have the more psychedelic perspective too. Thanks. I would ask who Nobody is but I can tell I'd get some kind of pun for an answer. Nobody was, and indeed still is, a troll and a f*ckwit, because he made supremely dumbass posts. Title: Re: Experiments and Observations Post by: Alex on September 14, 2010, 11:45:18 AM and you might want to stick your fingers in your ears at about 1.36 Look at your game, girl :serenade :serenade Title: Re: Experiments and Observations Post by: Mike's Beard on September 14, 2010, 12:29:59 PM Time will tell if you are or aren't Nobody (he seems to unwittingly post himself into oblivion after several days) but regardless - welcome to you and thanks for sharing your story. Always great to hear about the moment that the BB obsession takes hold and cool to have the more psychedelic perspective too. Thanks. I would ask who Nobody is but I can tell I'd get some kind of pun for an answer. If you wish to know who Nobody is check out some of the posts in the sandbox from around a year ago by him. He then came back under the name socoldigoburr about a month ago and managed to piss off AGD on roughly an hourly basis. Title: Re: Experiments and Observations Post by: Andrew G. Doe on September 14, 2010, 01:00:22 PM Time will tell if you are or aren't Nobody (he seems to unwittingly post himself into oblivion after several days) but regardless - welcome to you and thanks for sharing your story. Always great to hear about the moment that the BB obsession takes hold and cool to have the more psychedelic perspective too. Thanks. I would ask who Nobody is but I can tell I'd get some kind of pun for an answer. If you wish to know who Nobody is check out some of the posts in the sandbox from around a year ago by him. He then came back under the name socoldigoburr about a month ago and managed to piss off AGD on roughly an hourly basis. It was a dirty job, but somebody had to do it. ;D Title: Re: Experiments and Observations Post by: Rocker on September 14, 2010, 01:10:24 PM Always thought it was him: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=630cAlfBdeo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=630cAlfBdeo)
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