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Title: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: stack-o-tracks on February 18, 2015, 02:48:37 AM
Which song would you have him and his band cover?


I'd love to hear his take on Lil Jon & The Eastside Boys' "Get Low" or Crowded House's "Don't Dream It's Over".


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: RiC on February 18, 2015, 02:54:17 AM
Closer by Nine Inch Nails.


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: stack-o-tracks on February 18, 2015, 03:00:21 AM
Closer by Nine Inch Nails.

Great choice, but if I were to pick a NIN song for BW to cover, it'd have to be "Every Day Is Exactly The Same" or "The Great Below".


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: RiC on February 18, 2015, 03:09:52 AM
Closer by Nine Inch Nails.

Great choice, but if I were to pick a NIN song for BW to cover, it'd have to be "Every Day Is Exactly The Same" or "The Great Below".
Yep. I think he could actually make them work quite well.


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: halblaineisgood on February 18, 2015, 03:21:46 AM
 Al Jardine singing Badfinger's "No Matter What". Brian .arrange.


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: SinisterSmile on February 18, 2015, 06:22:57 AM
Gallons Of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through The Strip - Nirvana


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: Micha on February 18, 2015, 06:51:26 AM
Firestarter by The Prodigy. ;D



Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: lee on February 18, 2015, 07:09:50 AM
^ :lol. I'd pay good money to hear that. Especially if it included a music video.


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: 37!ws on February 18, 2015, 07:20:43 AM
Shortnin' Bread


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: SloopJohnB on February 18, 2015, 09:06:28 AM
"Top of the City" by Kate Bush. I always thought it would make a great Beach Boys/Brian Wilson song.


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: Micha on February 18, 2015, 09:10:38 AM
^ :lol. I'd pay good money to hear that. Especially if it included a music video.

I once heard an accappella version of that. :)


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: Wrightfan on February 18, 2015, 09:38:42 AM
Young Brian: Through funky time machine physics, "What A Fool Believes" by Doobie Brothers.

Present Brian: "The World I Know" by Collective Soul.


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: SenorPotatoHead on February 18, 2015, 10:14:08 AM
Would have been cool/interesting if the band had done an album of covers (a la Pinups, Diver Down, et al)....oh, wait, I guess they kind of did (sort of) with 15 Big Ones.    :-\


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: JK on February 18, 2015, 10:19:06 AM
"Top of the City" by Kate Bush. I always thought it would make a great Beach Boys/Brian Wilson song.

Great choice! One that came to my mind was Procol Harum's "A Salty Dog"----the UK equivalent of "Surf's Up" in some ways...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GweIiICisag   


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: Steveo on February 18, 2015, 10:23:32 AM
The soundtrack of our lives - Everything beautiful must die
http://youtu.be/HCXd3hJsBHk

For years i wished that he would do a cover of The Modern Folk Quartets - This Could Be The Night. Imagine the happy look on one swedish 18 year old kid when he got that Harry Nilsson tribute as a christmas present. Still loving that cover!


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: Shady on February 18, 2015, 10:56:17 AM
Wild World by Cat Stevens


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: ♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇 on February 18, 2015, 11:07:05 AM
Down in a hole by Alice in Chains. Already have the arrangement in my head. It'd be similar to the 'Desper version' of Til I Die


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: Steve Latshaw on February 18, 2015, 11:08:04 AM
DO I LOVE YOU by the Ronettes.


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: ♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇 on February 18, 2015, 11:10:25 AM
Young Brian: Through funky time machine physics, "What A Fool Believes" by Doobie Brothers.

Present Brian: "The World I Know" by Collective Soul.

Great choice! TWIK would be killer with his current voice.


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: ontor pertawst on February 18, 2015, 11:19:54 AM
He should have put a Spector-with-gooey-synths version of "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" on the Disney album!

"Roadrunner" with a spectacular vocal arrangement on the fade on a Modern Lovers tribute. Blondie Chaplin on guitar, Al Jardine on backing vox.

"Workin' in the Coal Mine" with the above trading verses.

"Goin' Down" by Nilsson... Probyn banjo, equally spectacular vocal arrangement.

Captain Beefheart - "Harry Irene" just to hear BW sing "their tuna sandwiches would turn the dark into day."

but if I have to choose one, how about a solo piano demo of "Speeding Motorcycle"


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: Michael Edward Osbourne on February 18, 2015, 11:25:34 AM
Who Loves The Sun / VU


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: Joel Goldenberg on February 18, 2015, 11:34:12 AM
Once In A While — the standard as done in the early 1960s by the doo-wop group The Chimes. Gorgeous version with some of the emotional resonance Brian brings to his best music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-ZGFyBJ1k8


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: bossaroo on February 18, 2015, 04:45:34 PM
"Maxine" by Donald Fagen and any number of Burt Bacharach or Tom Jobim tunes.


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: The Dumb Angel on February 18, 2015, 04:49:18 PM
Gallons Of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through The Strip - Nirvana
I was kinda thinking Endless Nameless would be great, but Gallons is a good one too.  :)

But in all seriousness, "Box Of Rain" by the Grateful Dead.


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: Eric Aniversario on February 18, 2015, 06:45:22 PM
Looking Back With Love

....think about it. It would actually sound pretty cool.


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: NickandthePassions on February 18, 2015, 07:22:48 PM
Atomic Dog


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: ontor pertawst on February 18, 2015, 07:30:25 PM
goshdarn, that would be fun. Imagine his hand gestures!

He'd do an excellent "Bow-wow-wow-yippie-yo-yippie-yeah"


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: Rocky Raccoon on February 18, 2015, 07:33:04 PM
The Great Beyond by REM


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: Ron on February 18, 2015, 08:03:08 PM
Imagine Brian Wilson and his merry band of musicians covering "Sunday Will Never Be The Same" by Spanky & Our Gang.  Holy sh*t!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqw1MGEHKNE

It's old enough too that he'd be into it... and he has the ability to sing the lead pretty like that, and it's got enough harmony stuff going on that he could fiddle with it and make it awesome.


If you listen you can kind of hear him singing, uncredited in the back of the chorus. 


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: Ron on February 18, 2015, 08:09:29 PM
Another awesome one would be the 5th Dimension's "Black Patch"... which has some incredible harmony stuff, I'd like to hear Brian try some stuff like that acapella again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iCAXqa4l_8

It'd be cool to hear if he could re-imagine the entire song, but maybe keep that awesome melody that Marilyn McCoo sings.


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: RangeRoverA1 on February 18, 2015, 08:13:00 PM
He should have put a Spector-with-gooey-synths version of "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" on the Disney album!
Wow, I forgot about that 1. Uncle Remus sang it in "Song of the South". I would do w/o Spector, tho, but yeah, I can picture Brian & Co. performing this choon.


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: joshferrell on February 18, 2015, 09:15:42 PM
"Surf City" and "Surf route 101" by Jan and Dean... and "I love La" from Randy Newman


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: Fall Breaks on February 19, 2015, 03:35:00 AM
Neil Young's "Change Your Mind" but with instead of an eight minute guitar solo there would be an eight minute "Shortenin' Bread" jam.


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: Michael Edward Osbourne on February 19, 2015, 08:50:09 AM
Neil Young's "Change Your Mind" but with instead of an eight minute guitar solo there would be an eight minute "Shortenin' Bread" jam.

I like the idea of that!


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: rab2591 on February 19, 2015, 07:34:13 PM
In honor of the release of No Pier Pressure, Brian should cover 'Bye Bye Love' by the Everly Brothers ;D


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: The LEGENDARY OSD on February 19, 2015, 08:16:50 PM
In honor of the release of No Pier Pressure, Brian should cover 'Bye Bye Love' by the Everly Brothers ;D
:thumbsup-Good riddance.


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: shelter on February 20, 2015, 12:26:15 AM
Crowded House's "Don't Dream It's Over".

Good one!

A few that come to mind:

Warm Sounds - Birds and Bees
Van Dyke Parks - Clang of the Yankee Reaper
The Yellow Balloon - Stained Glass Window
Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade of Pale
The Alan Parsons Project - Old and Wise
Tim Hardin - How Can We Hang On To a Dream
America - Ventura Highway


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: shelter on February 20, 2015, 12:27:31 AM
Wild World by Cat Stevens

YES!


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: Lee Marshall on February 20, 2015, 12:31:37 PM
I don't want Brian to waste even 1 second singing anyone else's songs but his own.  Haven't we had enough Beach Boys-related covers to cover the whole 9 already?

No...I want Brian to sing Brian Wilson songs that haven't even been written yet.  I want Brian and HIS FRIENDS to sing the new songs I want him to write with Tony Asher.  You know...Pet Sounds Tony Asher...the collaborator who provided the lyrics to the most highly acclaimed album Brian was ever connected with.

I want them to do another album.  Why haven't they already?  Geez  THAT kind of success...and no meaningful and worthy encore?

THAT was THE album about entering adulthood.  The timing in 1966 was perfect.  How about an album now about winding life down?  Pretty timely.  Who else has done it?  Yet all fans and babyboomers can sure as heck relate.  It'd be HUGE.

Now THAT would make for a great LAST Beach Boys/Brian Wilson album.  A look back at life.  Hills climbed.  Oportunities missed.  A view of accomplishments...failures...realized hopes and bucket-lists.  An album about a look back at life...lived.  THAT'S what I want Brian Wilson to 'cover'...for himself, for Tony ...and for us. :hat


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: alf wiedersehen on February 20, 2015, 01:14:43 PM
I want him to cover "Stagger Lee" by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds.


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: Peadar 'Big Dinner' O'Driscoll on February 20, 2015, 01:16:22 PM
You're Breaking My Heart - Harry Nilsson


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: Lee Marshall on February 20, 2015, 01:26:54 PM
You're Breaking My Heart - Harry Nilsson

F. U. ;)


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: ontor pertawst on February 20, 2015, 01:31:37 PM
Obscenity for a good cause! A Wilson Schmilsson EP for charity...


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: Alex on February 20, 2015, 03:17:51 PM
Closer by Nine Inch Nails.

I just can't picture Brian singing "I want to f*** you like an animal".  :lol :lol :lol


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: lostbeachboy on February 20, 2015, 04:06:51 PM
Lionel Richie's Hello


Title: Re: If you could get Brian Wilson to cover ANY song...
Post by: FFS on February 20, 2015, 04:26:59 PM
Where Is My Mind by The Pixies.......Totally unlikely but an ace leftfield choice for our Mozart. Plus I'd love to hear what melodies he or Darian could cook up for this.