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50+ songs and some other things about our solar system

Hi



https://www.amoeba.com/bambu-the-caribou-sessions-record-store-day-lp-dennis-wilson/albums/3925117/

[24-bits – 96.00 kHz]

I don't know if it's mentioned before, but what a bout a Digital download?

I found this: http://www.qobuz.com/nl-nl/album/no-pier-pressure-deluxe-brian-wilson/0060254721359

It's 16 songs, HIGH-RES 24-bits – 96.00 kHz, for almost 21 euros, that's a very good price.

Isn't Runaway Dancer Brian's little tribute to the Doobie Brothers? (Remember What A Fool Believes?)

Beach Boys music is still hot, also for the next generation.
This is from about a week ago,
Jett Rebel ( https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Jett+Rebel ), a young brand new talent from HOLLAND.
His music is often complex and funky (difficult to describe, but try listening yourself)
But, to my surprise he revealed himself also as a 'die hard' Brian Wilson fan. In a talkshow he showed his fave lps: Pet Sounds, SMiLE and Love You

He performed 2 songs on the Dutch TV

Surf's Up: http://pauwenwitteman.vara.nl/media/336836

Airplane:  http://pauwenwitteman.vara.nl/media/336824

Norah Jones was very ..meh, but they nailed it:
Punch Brothers - Surf's Up:  https://youtu.be/g_TTBz9_Wes UNBELIEVABLE!

On the Island,
that song reminds me a little about Brian's collaboration with Jackie DeShannon: 'Boat To Sail'  from 1975, he arranged and sang backing vocals. (& DeShannon wrote the song)

http://www.last.fm/music/Jackie+DeShannon/_/Boat+To+Sail

http://www.yourepeat.com/g/jackie+deshannon+boat+to+sail

My musical conclusion is: very very good idea, a Pet Sounds tune arranged with SMiLE in mind, but it's too short, it sounds like an advertisement, which it is of course, for the BBC.

It could also be a teaser for more. Many comments say they miss stars like Adele or Paul McCartney,  so I hope Brian will arrange the last missing verse, or give all of the remaining Beach Boys just a single word, or one big harmony chord (dream on...), that would make a great version someday.

My analytical conclusion is simple that the 'peoples choice'  for 2014 is GOK as the best song on YouTube. People have TASTE! This video production is stunning, but the old GOK videos got many, many views anyway.
My all time faves are from Behind The Sounds:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVUBpzlELOg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCTVcNsJGX0

For your interest:  these are the the top 15 songs (I put different versions together, all above 0.5 million views)

20 million views: GOK
16: Kokomo (?... never the real BW/BB sound)
13: DWB (that high, a surprise to me)
11: Good Vibes
10: SUSA
9: IGA
8: Barb
6: WIBN
4: C.Girls
3: Sloop
2: FFF
2: IMRoom
2: 409
2: ICHMusic
2: Forever (surprise to me (TV / Stamos link!))

24-10-2014

God Only Knows, Brian Wilson’s latest music video, is now  most viewed on YouTube, if we compare all Beach Boys related tunes.
It took  17 days to get past Don’t Worry Baby which had about  8 million views.

Here’s proof: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=beach+boys&search_sort=video_view_count

To sum it up:  today it has over  10.000 comments,  about  100.000 likes and over 8 million views.

This new version is not yet the most viewed BB video on YouTube, but it will be in a few days, with 1 million each day so far.

Top 10 Beach Boys most viewed on YouTube:

Don't Worry Baby (original music / fan video)  8 million views
Kokomo (fan video) 6.8
Good Vibrations (live 1976) 6.6
God Only Knows (2014 BBC version) 6.2
God Only Knows (1966 alt prev. version) 5.3
Kokomo (original video) 5.2
Barbara Ann 3
I Get Around 3
Kokomo (Stamos Cocktail video) 2.8
Surfin USA (Surfin' Bulldog video) 2.7

A few days ago I heard this Wagner Ouverture:

Richard Wagner - Die Walküre Ouverture (aka Prelude)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKInmSFOPTQ

The tempo and the up and down scales are VERY similer to this:

Mrs O'Leary's Cow intro (aka intro to H&V?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTDNiJl1Awo

---> You can play, mash these videos together at the same time. It doesn't have to be 100% at the right beat, it works! <---

What did Walkure Ever do to Wagner in order for Wagner to want him to Die? Walkure was a good man...

huh?

Phil Spector did the same, kinda...
He took 25 secs from Lohengrin and used it as an intro. To Brian, Spector was god...

Richard Wagner - Lohengrin Ouverture (Prelude)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqk4bcnBqls
About 10 minutes long, starts very soft 'from a distant' but with an explosion of sound at about 2/3 of the time (golden ratio)

The Ronettes produced by Phil Spector - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilLT-ge6Luo&t=4

& the same pizzicato line here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvMOAwssA4c&t=12

A few days ago I heard this Wagner Ouverture:

Richard Wagner - Die Walküre Ouverture (aka Prelude)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKInmSFOPTQ

The tempo and the up and down scales are VERY similer to this:

Mrs O'Leary's Cow intro (aka intro to H&V?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTDNiJl1Awo

---> You can play, mash these videos together at the same time. It doesn't have to be 100% at the right beat, it works! <---

Let's start with 2 'samples'

Laura Mvula: I Don't Know What The Weather Will Be - The Tabernacle - Live in London
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofqwG4MimGU
This video is a very good way to introduce her

Like The Morning Dew (cd version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn_AHzit2JE



Laura Mvula, a singer/composer from Birmingham has created a brand new, wonderful album.
She says "harmony is my first love", and that's true, her music is even described by critics as "Nina Simone sings The Beach Boys". Others mention the word 'gospeldelia'. It's an honest and very original album. Her lead voice can be soulful and in free rhythm, but the harmonies are very tight, with jazzy, modern voicings.
 
read more: http://www.google.nl/search?q=Laura+Mvula

listen: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Laura+Mvula

twitter: https://twitter.com/search?q=Laura%20Mvula

For the love of music I'm plugging a new recording of Jacco Gardner.
His music style? Late 60s baroque pop psychedelia with infuences from Pink Floyd (early era Syd Barrett!), Moody Blues, Brian Wilson, Curt Boettcher etc

Jacco Gardner is a baroque pop multi instrumentalist. He creates a unique sound by combining the sounds of harpsichord, strings, flutes and other classical instruments with raw psychedelic effects.

Check it out for his USA concert tour in march:
http://www.jaccogardner.com

Here's a playlist, from the Excelsior Recordings label:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZpdaZ-fTLQ&list=PLZjq1v90YZfWHPN2IfYCAtS8-Os3_9mU4



Read this exellent review: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/17715-cabinet-of-curiosities/

I believe Bruce role as musician is very limited on stage. He's more like a chearleader/crowd pleaser/keep the party going entertainer, and okay, he does a good job with that.

He really is a well trained keyboard player, he knows great styles from the american songbook like Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Gershwin etc, and probably many serious jazz or classical music as well. Very little of this is shown on stage.

I believe he really likes the deep cuts  from Pet Sounds , SMiLE and Sunflower. But he's not in a band that focusses on that type of music, although he's part of the F#%ckn Beach Boys. It's  the curse of succes of songs like Barbara Ann and Kokomo, you have to play them night after night. So he's pretending party while doing business. [In an interview once he said he would eagerly swap some of the songs with songs by the Beatles.]

If the band would just play things they like themselves as good pieces of music, they would become real musicians again.

More interesting and unusual to me is how he combined instruments ... in this case ('When I Grow Up'), the harmonica and harpsichord blending into one strange sound. I remember when I was younger wondering what this magical 'instrument' was.

And then there's Blondie in the 70's with Denise

Their version has the same brilliant use of harmonica

some rare stuff with doowop

http://youtube.com/watch?v=kkbwNEU1cXs I've Got A 'wopwop' Crush On You

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ymySEnO5Su4 It's Trying To Say 'toweeoo'

http://youtube.com/watch?v=RszgbdRmm_U Male Ego 'why, why, why, whydooway?'

http://youtube.com/watch?v=d6rFh8OyHfg Message Man

Let's not forget about the Four Freshmen influence, although they are more close harmony jazz, than pop.
Their use of solo harpsichord ´fills´(only in a few songs, I believe from the mid 50s?) could also have been an influence on Brian.  
I have some of it on LPs but I can't recall the song  titles but when I heard it I immediatly compared it to songs like When I Grow Up.
(Even their song titles influenced Brian: In This Whole Wild World, Imagination, We'll Be Together Again etc)

Still I Dream Of It - Brian's touching demo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aO3Ev3OboE

This is a by a new famous movie star / singer  Carice van Houten from Holland:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE_UP8ocMuQ (clip/advertorial, different to the cd version)

& another version, live
(edit) http://dewerelddraaitdoor.vara.nl/media/197847

Ed Harcourt's version (he sounds a bit like Dennis)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKgp89ArXUM

Nice songs with not so great tags: the studio versions of Funky Pretty and Marcella

My tag theory: if it sounds good with only one repeat, it is also good with more repeats.

The last 3 songs of the Surf's Up album (ADITLOAT,TID,SU) are great!
The last 3 songs of the Surf's Up album (ADITLOAT,TID,SU) are great!
The last 3 songs of the Surf's Up album (ADITLOAT,TID,SU) are great!

There is hardly any guitar on the album, and Brian maybe played a few simple lines?
I believe all songwriting and all arrangements were 90-100% Brian's vision.
But, to Carl's ears,  Brian's vocals were shockingly bad. (imagine Brian's singing on Solar System)

To 'save' the record, Carl probably  
1  replaced some of Brian's voice with other voices
or
2 overdubbed/mixed some of Brian's with others (but I don't remember such combined vocal lines)
or
3 gave Brian some hamburgers to record better vocals again

So Carl's main role was being a 'mixdown producer', sing his parts, and trying to get the best overall vocal blend.

This is by 3 women and a guitar player,  without the spoken words:

"This pain in my heart, these tears in my eyes, please tell the truth..."

Lonely Sea (BB cover) - Karina Denike with Lily Taylor and Melody Jeune Ferris
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGs2EihzqnQ

Stephen Fairweather did make a backing track cover version, of the whole / if not 90% of the Love You album.

His instrumental version of Honkin' Down The Highway is very good. However, I can't find it anymore on: http://www.beachboysbritain.org.uk/loveyou.html

People from that  site would know  more about it...