Not sure if this is new topic worthy, or that it hasn't been noted before (I did try the 'search' function), but I just noticed the engravings on the boxset vinyl:

LP Side 1:  "Dumb Angel"
LP Side 2:  "For Carl and Dennis"
LP Side 3:  "Look, Listen, Vibrate"
LP Side 4:  "For Chuck and Larry"

Heroes 45, Side 1:  "A+ Score"
Heroes 45, Side 2:  "And 5"

Nice little surpise.

No, but I am.  Worth anything?

Sounds great to me.  I love the retention of Carl's vocal; it seems appropriate in that he made that song his own in '71.  It's also nice to hear the two brothers' voices one after another.

Here's the way I'm thinking about the disc one "album" -- all it needs to be is entertaining. I'm not expecting heavenly light to shine down from the sky as I finally hear what the "Barnyard Suite" was going to be in 1967. Disc One is a big-budget popcorn movie, and the individual tracks are like the sets. No one complains if the city street is a facade, or a green screen, as long as it FEELS real and serves the movie. Special effects, like flying in the yodels in "Wonderful"? Not only acceptable, but EXPECTED in a big budget popcorn movie. I fully expect it to be terrifically entertaining; it will be the SMiLE I urge friends to listen to. The rest of the box set -- those are the bonus features on the BluRay disc -- the documentaries, the interviews, the outtakes, the deleted scenes. That stuff is for the historians -- professional and amateur -- to sift through. Disc One should just make you ... well, you know... smile.

This.

Since 1986.  25 years.

Valid post in my mind.  Some levity is a good thing in these dark days.

This thread smells like fart.  Someone light a match.

Love Wild Honey - I wouldn't change a thing.  It's rawness is like a freshly picked scab - gross but satisfying.

The final four Capitol records (Smiley to 20/20) are my favourites.  So much variety!

I'm not a huge TLOS fan.  It has some very pleasant moments but these are offset by some serious contrivances that make it hard to listen to all the way through.  I listen to it in secret...and that's a shame.

And now an off-topic delight from ghost regarding 'Sgt. Pepper':  "It's like an advertisement for George Martin's dick. Here it is, come and suck it."

Perfect.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeYi0RA2_7A&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaz-x7d0ysg&feature=related

Sometimes it takes a cover to realize how great the original really is. Listen to how cool Heroes sounds on vinyl. The organ is MINDBLOWING by the end of the song. Goodness!

Thanks for the tip!  Purchased this off eBay immediately.

I saw them in Calgary on this tour.  Brian said that Mike was absent due to illness and that he might die! 

More is one of my favourite early Floyd albums; there are some great tracks and the rest are pleasant and undemanding when you're just pottering around the house.

Obscured by Clouds has its hits  - the opening sequence of songs - and misses - 'Wots uh the Deal' - but again even the low points are undemanding.  I cite this trait as a positive because Floyd at full-force, as I'm sure you know, can be very heavy and intense.  Piper and Saucerful come to mind as albums that have deep psychic penetration and can wear you out.

I love Ummagumma despite seldom listening to it.  The album art, the concept, and the execution are all terrific and oh so cool.

Secondary English Teacher.  Good times.   

Grizzly Bear

You, my friend, have smoked too much ganja in your life.  And I like it.

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I found a picture of the film in production:

I feel a caption competition coming on.

"Expert offers feedback on Santa Goes to Kokomo"…

Nice!

"John Stamos pays tribute to Dennis Wilson's 'Forever'"

I found a picture of the film in production:

Regardless of whether or not this is a success it will mean the same thing to me:  a new reason never to tell people that I love the Beach Boys.

The new conversation touchstone won't be:  "That catalogue-spanning, well-thought reunion show was incredible!" or "Loved the SMiLE boxset!" it'll be "Oh, that Fox made-for-TV movie!".

This, in conjunction with what will undoubtedly be a well-planned and catalogue-spanning reunion, will at last dispel the notion that the band is dated, tacky and irrelevant.

A new era of fandom is nigh.

Slick covers of their early hits, replete with extra-syrupy sweet vocals and new arrangements, dancing guys and gals with melodrama oozing from every pore on their faces, FUN! glinting off their pearly whites...

........................................

I for one will be returning to the closet.  Time to go into hiding again.

The title's perfect!  Doesn't it imply 'division'?

Exactly.  Their history is littered with bad decisions.  I rather doubt the hip decision-making process is better at near 70.

The reunion, should it happen, will be poorly conceived, cheesy, and reinforce forever the stereotype that the Beach Boys were a band that sang about the beach and have no legitimate place in the greater Music Pantheon.  Fact.

I for one hope it doesn't happen.

Pre-ordered CD on Amazon.ca...delayed.  I cancelled and bought it on iTunes.

Pre-ordered vinyl on Amazon.ca...delayed.

There really isn't much point in pre-ordering is there?

Someone, somewhere has very little faith in BW releases selling.

I would have a threesome with this album and 'Wild Honey'.  'Smiley Smile' and '20/20' could watch.

If I could make love to this album, I would.  And my standards in vinyl-copulation are high.