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926  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Throw Me A Cool BBs Line on: September 08, 2010, 08:38:52 AM
I always thought Brian was a fine lyricist. He writes pop music, and he is just a direct and more or less unvarnished fellow. Consider much of side two of Today! for examples of what are, I think, the most consistent example of Brian's lyric-writing abilities. "Please Let Me Wonder", "Kiss Me Baby", "She Knows Me Too Well", and "In The Back Of My Mind"

Wasn't Mike responsible for much of these?

That said, I agree he has done some great lyrics...course we need not look any further than the immortal lyrics of Til I Die
927  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Brian's morphing tunes on: September 01, 2010, 11:30:13 AM
"Love To Say Dada" ended up being "Cool Cool Water". Part of "Wind Chimes" ended up in "Been Way To Long". The melody to "All This Is That" ends up in "Happy Days".  This raises a question though. Exactly how do we tell the difference between melodies morphing into other songs, and "musical references", where something from one song is quoted in another song, in a deliberate way? Let's use Brian's Back as an example. "You Still Believe In Me" is quoted at the end of "Brian's Back", but it's more of a deliberate reference to another song, as apposed to one melody idea progressing from one song to another.

really? explain the whole All This is That being Happy days, I've never heard this theory


anyone else know anything about this claim?

The melodies for such lines as 'Dusk time the shadows fall / Into the timeless time of all' are rather similar to 'Happy days are here again / The sky is blue and clear again...' Smiley
928  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: VH1 s**ts on The Beach Boys on: August 31, 2010, 04:37:15 AM
Lady Gaga is quite good.

Indeed Smiley
929  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Interesting article on BWRG on: August 27, 2010, 04:08:22 PM
Surely if he were to remove the artificial reverb, Al would have to have been given the PT session files.

If said reverb was already printed to the tracks he mixed, surely his comments are a bit pointless?

On a side note, the less sparing use of reverb is for me personally a welcome change from the drier sounding TLOS mix, which I think in part contributed to the lukewarm reception the CD received sound-wise.
930  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Brian playing guitar? on: August 27, 2010, 09:30:40 AM
Brian's bass playing looks pretty hot at the TAMI show
931  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: TLOS Sound Quality on: August 21, 2010, 05:52:35 AM
I'd love to hear vinyl versions some time
932  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: TLOS Sound Quality on: August 20, 2010, 12:43:44 PM

SMiLE is another matter entirely. It is a beautiful recording.


How does the CD and vinyl compare here?

Also any chance you could indulge me with a little parental mocking in order to demonstrate to me how one or two ripped vinyl TLOS tracks may sound compared to CD?

I have no vinyl facilities unfortunately.

Cheers
933  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Brian & SMiLE on: August 19, 2010, 01:37:31 PM
Has Brian ever performed Heroes and Villains with his band like the single/Smiley version?

Not sure - been a while since I've watched the Radio City DVD. Anyone ?

I think the Radio City version is just like the single version with the ascending vocal harmony thing at the end.  Or basicallly the BWPS version without the intro, cantina section or tag...?
934  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Brian Reimagines Gershwin on: August 13, 2010, 04:10:30 PM
He's also not pushing the limits of his range.

I am one of the few who has basically limited my listening to the TLIILY on BW.com. Surely those high notes he hits there are around the upper limit of his range?

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935  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Bob Ludwig on: August 07, 2010, 12:12:06 PM
It's funny, in any article that I have read in which Bob Ludwig is quoted, he always comes across as a fierce opponent of the hypercompression trend.

Such as here: http://emusician.com/tutorials/emusic_masters_mastering/

Quote from: Bob Ludwig
“To me, it's a fact that highly compressed music is tiring to the ear and doesn't make you want to listen to something over and over again. Could this be one of the reasons for the record industry's demise?

Yet whenever we have a new release from Brian, people always lament Ludwig's participation as the Mastering Engineer.

Does pressure from the record companies force him abandon his principles? Or does he simply have a different idea as to what constitutes overly compressed audio compared to the people of this board?

Sam Smiley
936  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Credits on BWRG on: August 05, 2010, 11:25:00 AM


[leans back in chair, folds arms across chest, smiles contentedly into beard]



Is that why you have a beard?
937  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: I just saw The Beach Boys: An American Family for the first time... on: July 29, 2010, 05:44:17 AM
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A day or two later we ran into the show's producer John Stamos at a Brian Wilson concert in Orange County. (I should mention that the story of THIS concert, and the weekend surrounding it, is one worth telling too, maybe another time)

So um has Jon ever told this particular story in the mean time? Smiley

Cheers
938  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: The Specific Beach Boys Musical Moment That Is Kicking Your Ass Right Now on: July 23, 2010, 07:46:03 AM
'And o-o-o-o-oh come the night time...'

Gettin Hungry  Smiley
939  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Good Vibrations, as a \ on: July 23, 2010, 07:43:40 AM
Well I think Carol Kaye in one of the extra interviews on one of the DVDs comments on the basic 'jazz feel' of the chorus.

940  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Cocktails-amazing song on: July 08, 2010, 04:30:15 PM
I'm not quite sure when All Alone was recorded but I think his vocals are very strong there too.
941  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Al Jardine's \ on: July 03, 2010, 05:46:35 PM
I kind of agree but he does have a very warm voice though. 'California...California; you are everything to me'.
942  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: \ on: July 01, 2010, 04:03:40 AM
Ooo lots of interesting stuff there Smiley
943  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: \ on: June 30, 2010, 04:38:13 PM
If someone is no longer a fan of Brian because he used autotune -- they should have dropped out after BW88. (That used an early type of pitch correction -- or so AGD's site suggests.)

Sorry to return to the subject of autotune/pitch correction, but do you know any more details about any pre-autotune pitch correction; it's interesting, I do for one gather that engineers would sometimes skillfully manipulate tape speeds to correct certain notes (?).

Cheers
944  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Tracklisting for Brian's new album on: June 20, 2010, 04:35:35 AM
Looks good doesn't it Smiley

They finished recording and mixing ages ago, and the mastering is presumably done if we have tracklisting and all, so why do we have to wait another two months for the thing?!

Oh well.  Smiley
945  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: New tour and album info coming to Brian's website soon on: June 14, 2010, 09:38:35 AM
Even Cheryl Cole?
946  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Too Many Stickies in this forum on: June 04, 2010, 07:23:15 AM
I thought it was fine as was Smiley
947  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Hand written letters fron Brian up for auction on: June 02, 2010, 05:33:16 PM
So...um...what were Brian's high school grades?
948  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Brian's new album released August 17th on: May 28, 2010, 06:21:02 AM
Think you did.

I really didn't, it was someone else, but I'm just being silly really.
949  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Brian's new album released August 17th on: May 27, 2010, 01:21:55 PM
Not suggestion anything, just wondering how you know the band are backing him up on "Rhapsody"...

Didn't say I did  Shocked

Wink
950  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Brian's new album released August 17th on: May 27, 2010, 11:38:11 AM
Are you suggesting he sang all the parts like on GIOMH and Imagination...?
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