With special guest lecturer Alexandra Morgan... 

Now that would be worth the price of admission.

I don't know if there are any Texas Attorney Beach Boys fans, but this would seem to fit the bill if you didn't already know about it (might be interesting for others as well if you can shell out the cash):

http://www.texasbarcle.com/materials/Programs/2658/WebCastInfo.htm

The bridge in Add Some Music moving into the "When day is over, I close my tired eyes, music is in my soul."

The set list hasn't/can't be perfect until they perform Surfs Up.

Amen to that




































































































....and surprise MONA WITH DEH MOOOOG!!!!!

If they played Mona, icicles would form in hell.

I knew it was a fake because it had Love To Say Dada on it.

[cue the angry mob of Smile timeline apologists in 3...2...]

Gosh, aren't you the smart one

I ain't Dom Priore.

I knew it was a fake because it had Love To Say Dada on it.

[cue the angry mob of Smile timeline apologists in 3...2...]

Try writing a song.  I know not everybody has the same musical talents, but get to a keyboard, or a guitar and make some sounds.  Practice the same little group of notes until you can do it without looking at your fingers.  Then add words.  You don't have to know how to sing well, you can speak the words to the little group of notes.  The words don't have to be profound.  Just say them (or sing them to the little group of notes if you can). 

Have this little song, this little feel, in your head and put on Pet Sounds.  Skip to track 11, I Just Wasn't Made For These Times.  Listen to the words, to the melody Brian sings, and hear the aching chorus.  Appreciate the effort that went from little groups of notes to a giant symphony of emotional magnitude.

Music is creation.  If you want to get your music mojo back, try creating.     

My wife says the opening line is very me:

We look like we know what we're doing When they ask us to play 

re: the teen profiles- I love that Brian see's fit to point out that he is the tallest in the group. And, omg, Bruce has a ginger fetish and we are all participants in it by listening to Deirdre.

Awww, Al correcting Brian made me sad.

Oh Brian has thrown more than enough shade Al's way to cancel it out. What I don't like is how Al (and Mike has done this many times before) talks about Brian's drug use and basically point to Brian and say "LOOK AT THE MESS THAT CAUSED!" I don't know if Brian gets embarrassed by it but I think it would embarrass an average person.

I always take exception with those moments, because it really was the anti-psychotics that Landy had Brian on that got him in that state.  You listen to interviews from 1976 and it seems like he's just kind of different, not spacey at all like he can be now.  The man is a survivor to be certain.

I would love to see a lot of the unreleased Adult/Child era stuff get released next.  Obviously if he's willing to go back to Sweet Insanity to flesh out Getting In Over My Head, he can look to the mid to late 70s for the "next great rock and roll album."

The future is looking bright  

Thanks Southbay

EDIT:

I can't believe Mike doesn't even remember what album "All I wanna do" was on 

He may have wanted to make sure you weren't talking about All I Want To Do from 20/20 

I want to know when they're going to release Everybody Wants to Live, Lines, It's Trying to Say and the other Adult/Child songs that were never released.

They could even change the lyrics:

A cigarette butt when you throw it in the water is wrong
The trick is to throw it in the trash   

If you really want to be hip you should go for the late-70's Brian look with the stringy hair, beard and Messianic robe!

When Brian and the Boys were doing promos for different bands this year, the one that Brian introduced was Fleet Foxes, and I immediately saw him dressed in his robe, long hair and beard, and trying to teach Shortenin' Bread to Robin Pecknold and crew.

OHHHH, o.k. I apologize.  Brian should retire. 

Instead, Melinda should set up a new website, Brianwilsonpresentsnannycam.com, where you can view Brian resting, eating sandwiches, and writing groovy new songs on his synthesiser, 24/7.

Best. Post. Ever.

Maybe if he covered this?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJSztSTErus

Song woulda been better if Bruce sang it through a vocoder.
Fact.

And then with the "I love you Diane, I miss you Diane" part have the harmonies put through a phaser like the sound at the beginning and end of It's Over Now.

(Apologies as this goes a bit off topic), but I just thought of something odd... Future Landy patient Maureen McCormick was on an early episode of Bewitched with  Elizabeth Montgomery - and Future Landy patient Gig Young was previously married to Elizabeth Montgomery just a few years before Bewtiched started.

So a double bizzarro roundabout Landy connection there. Not sure if we could connect Brian to all that though, but I'll bet BW watched an episode or 2 of Bewitched in its 8 year run. Or at the very least, he probably watched the I Dream of Jeannie episode which guest-starred Phil Spector (yes, that really exists).

I could say I was born in the wrong decade, but then we wouldn't have YouTube. 
Mentioning Bewitched requires me to put this up. Quentin Tarantino, I believe, has said on more than one occasion that it constitutes the two minutes that, for all time, justify the existence of television. Or words to that effect.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3cFkXSgfjg

And we have Bobby Hart and the late beloved Tommy Boyce to thank for it.

As for the pestilent Pittsburgher - if only Dennis had lived long enough to beat the hell out of him. If only.

Anyway, the Spector appearance on Jeannie can be seen at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJTUx7QDCuY&feature=related

(There's a longer excerpt at YT but the video is murkier.)

Today's music, when it's about dance grooves, R&B type music like Beyonce etc, it's mostly in minor.

Believe it or not, but Caroline, No is the first minor key song Brian put on record.
Here Today, Good Vibrations and Wind Chimes start also in minor key.
Of all songs, it's only 1% minor key?

Well, Let Him Run Wild has quite a bit of minor chords in the verse

My Diane - Brian vocal demo, it's about as raw and emotional as they come

wat

Sorry, I meant the Dennis vocal demo from the Love You sessions.  Head not screwed on all the way.

It's because of the Hey Little Tomboy lyrics and Brian's pitchiness on Deep Purple, that I took what seemed like the best and made my fantasy Adult/Child album:

Life Is For The Living
Soulful Old Man Sunshine (if it would have fit anywhere, it would have been on Adult/Child, although the harmonies overshadow anything else on the album)
Lines
Shortenin' Bread - It really works after Carl's singing on the end section of lines (He's gonna tell her)
Still I Dream of It

It's Trying To Say
Sherry She Needs Me - 1976 vocals with 1965 backing track?  Works for me, especially if there were more backing vocals on the version we have now
It's Over Now
Everybody Wants to Live
My Diane - Brian vocal demo, it's about as raw and emotional as they come

The last three songs on this are pretty depressing, and the total run time is only 27 minutes (of course Friends was 25:30 and Wild Honey was 24:00, so it's not unheard of), but I think it has an overall Sunday morning alone in the house type of feel to it that may have been Brian's intention.

Surf's Up is in a mostly minor key.

they pioneered the return to basically produced albums long before John Wesley Harding 

Yep, ONE MONTH is a long time.

Considering that most bands put out 2 or more albums per year back then, compared to artists nowadays taking 2-5 years or more to put out albums...I wouldn't say a long time, but still....

Well if you count Smiley Smile released in September, it's more like 3 months, but who's counting?

I don't have a problem with the surf/car songs. I like it all. But it makes me sick that the Beach Boys public image is stuck in a rut. The thing I like about them is their diversity. One of the most diverse bands of all time. This list is good because it shows the wide range they had as a band.

Yeah, the whole stuck in a rut thing is a problem. For most people, the Beach Boys are strictly a surf n' car oldies band that apparently fell off the planet basically in 1967, only to emerge in 1988 as old farts with a surprise huge hit. "Oooh, 'Kokomo'! Holland...Sunflower...Friends...Wild Honey? WTF are you talkin' about? What's this Pet Sounds business? How can anything by a surf band ever rate as high as anything the Beatles ever did?"

Part of it is the fault of the Beach Boys themselves, though...

You were correct up until the "What's this Pet Sounds business?" More like "They were terrible, then they put out a sorta good album because they were blatantly ripping off THE MOTHERFUCKING BEATLES DAWG, and then Brian went insane (lol what an idiot) and then they did 'Kokomo' and Full House later."

To which I always tell them, what the  were they doing from 1967 to 1988?  Twenty freakin' years of grass and cocaine?  No.  They had a fat man orchestrating synthesizers thirty years before LCD Soundsystem, they were making some of the best pop-rock albums of the early 1970s, and they pioneered the return to basically produced albums long before John Wesley Harding and the Beatles Get Back Sessions.  Freakin' hipsters.

Well, his picture is on Page 49 of the 1960 Hawthorne High School yearbook, class of 1960.  I'm assuming he graduated with his class.  He's on the first full row, third from the left.

http://www.e-yearbook.com/sp/eybb?school=30018&year=1960

How's that for obsessive   

 

I'm stealing this...