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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: 2017 copyright extension release details?
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on: December 10, 2017, 10:26:22 AM
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The version of Barbara Ann here is freaking awesome...sounds like something from the White Album
Yeah! My first thought was, "they could have had ANOTHER hit with this!" I was thinking "no way can this be 1967...someone spliced something in from 1977" the first two times I heard it The prototype for Love You was in 1967! Yeah pretty much Funny how AGD's every "theory: about the BBs has been proven wrong with these releases.... You gotta explain this one to me... Just BW not running the band after SMiLE and Carl being in charge. Plus the Hawaiian shows being total disasters instead of merely being a bit off.... Just a little thing called having ears can tell you that Brian was in charge till Friends. I was suprised it was a revelation to anyone.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Brian Wilson - What I Really Want For Christmas
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on: December 07, 2017, 11:32:02 PM
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If we believe the interviews from when this was released, and I have no reason not too, then this album was all Brian's idea.
He wanted to cut a christmas album, he went into the studio and did just that. This is a fully motivated Wilson. Arrangement-wise, it is the closest we're going to get to the classic BW sound.
It is the closest we're going to get to Brian just doing what he does, the old way, with no interference. And it shows.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Love You
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on: December 05, 2017, 01:06:50 PM
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Now that you mentioned, some tracks can be seen as modular. Johnny Carson, Airplane... However, for me it's always been adult version of Pet Sounds. Adult yet child, whereas PS was between those two, young adult.
Agreed. I’ve seen Pet Sounds as the start of a series of albums about Brian’s life: Pet Sounds - young love Friends - young adult, has children, starts real life Love You - 10 years into parenthood but nostalgic about the past No Pier Pressure - old man, trying to recapture youth with young artists, ends it with a “last song” I feel like these are 4 of Brian’s most personal albums. Most other albums he did were for something else other than himself, but these four feel like Brian opens up his inner most thoughts, no matter how ridiculous, and shares them with the world. I'd take it back to All Summer Long. Chuck Today in too.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: What did the beach boys do better than the beatles?
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on: December 04, 2017, 08:09:27 AM
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No incredulous crying here, just mild disbelief at the lack of objectivity. Different schools of thought, though.
How can it be objective? Define 'better' Were the Beatles better instrumentalists than the Beach Boys? To answer that objectively you'd first need to define a sytem of judging rock playing in a way that eveyone hearing it agrees on. It would need to be a consistent, cross-genre scale of judging. Would it be purely technical? A big problem would be that rock is generally not written down, so there would be no score to consult. At least in a classical performance you could judge a players expressive capabilities by seeing how they interpret a score. How is that possible with rock? You have no frame of reference. Conversely with harmony, unless you are familiar with different styles of harmony, for example, close part jazz harmony and doo wop, and unless you can judge which of those is better in a way that everyone accepts, then how can you possibly say which band is better at harmonizing. You can use as many technical terms as you want, ultimately it's subjective. I think Baroque music is better than Hip Hop. I could give 100 reasons why. Why am I right and some kid in New York wrong? Unless we have a frame of reference we can agree on, it is subjective. Sorry to give you aestetics 101, I'm sure you know all this already. And I would defend your right to love the Beatles to the death. What I don't like though, is having my opinion met with any sort of shock or disbelief. Or judgement. It's snobbery of the worst kind. Rant over, you know I love you guys.......
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Dec ‘66 ‘Smile’ fan-mix
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on: November 30, 2017, 11:39:24 PM
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I was under the impression from interviews .. Our Prayer was the opening track on Smile and it went into H+V .. cantina version..
Musically, Our Prayer would have worked great as an intro if GV had been the first track. You're Welcome works as an intro to H&V . It was only 2004 that we got Prayer into H&V. I love BWPS, but that beginning is very clunky. Imagine how much cooler You're Welcome woukd have been, if they'd all walked onstage singing it like the boxed set outtake! You're Welcome - intro to the album.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Noel Gallagher hates Brian Wilson
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on: November 30, 2017, 11:19:34 PM
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I have despised Gallagher and Oasis since I first heard them twenty + years ago. I don't think their music is good; it sounds awful to me and literally pains my ears and brain. His voice...just urgh. Awful. And obviously he's the biggest ass in the history of asses.
However, I get the feeling that the comment in this article was just him being stupid and not necessarily meaning it. Bottom line, he's a complete jackass so this comment is consistent with past behaviour.
I read an interview with him in the early 90s before they broke big where he slagged off the Beach Boys. Hated him ever since. Never got the fuss. Their music is boring and derivative. My 11 year old could write a better song in 5 minutes than anything that talentless little spunk-bubble has even imagined. No exaggeration. Words cannot express how much I hate this man.
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