Hope this isn't a real silly question:

What is the background music in the first 10 or so mins of the doc ? (excluding Surfin and Surfin Safari of course)

Cheers
Sam

PS Great doc watched it a second time this evening

Well, judging by Never Learn Not To Love..........

Timbales on I Get Around? Wow

I think mine came to just over £18, but it just arrived in the mail around a week after I made the paypal payment to MFM Productions, no fuss here .

I should add however that when I ordered there was a special offer for free shipping which has expired now I think, so yours may be more like £20-25 (?)

Sam

I don't mind Hold On Dear Brother at all, the vocals are great 'I want your lo-o-o-ove...'

Aside from their writing ability, I love their vocal contributions anyway.

Listening with headphones, you can actually hear which vocals came from the demos and which were newly-recorded. This is most apparent on "Southern California" which features the demo lead on the first and third verse (I think) and a new vocal for the second verse and bridge.

I think Scott Bennett sang the demo for SoCal though.

I would be interested to know exactly which vocals were newly cut at the Capitol Studios.  I think the title track must be one.

It's very interesting that many people were perhaps able to enjoy the album more in blissful ignorance of the sound of the original 1960s sessions.

I am another who heard BWPS first and it blew my mind.

I really love those last you mention too, and would specify to that the Hawthorne version of Devoted to You also.

I also read an interview somewhere where Brian just describes it as their 'sto-o-ned' album or something like that haha.

I guess its a little different in '65 when they were still kids almost, rather than middle age men.

"Melt Away" To me it's easily Brian's best solo song (besides "Caroline No" and the BWPS Smile songs). Was this a single in '88? If so, why wasn't it a hit?

Landy, Landy, Landy. If there had been proper promotion, no Landy controversy and a big push "Meet Me in My Dreams Tonight" b/w "Melt Away" by Brian Wilson could've gotten into the top 10.

Really?

No sign of it on UK Amazon? Any prospect?

I love Cuddle Up, but for me there is something about the chorus that lets the rest of the song down. I dunno but it just doesn't live up to the beauty of the goregeous string and piano middle section and the background vox of the second verse 'The night...(aaah)'. Although now it is hard to imagine it any other way, I wonder how a more um 'restrained' chorus would have worked.

A Day In The Life Of A Tree: This song has one of the best melodies I've ever heard. It's beautiful, yet sad. It fits perfectly with the lyrics. This also has probably the most magnificent fade of any song I've ever heard.

I love that to and have said before I think that fade is every bit as heartbreaking if not more than that of Til I Die.

Sam

How about less recent outakes?

How do the Unsurpassed Masters relate to Sea of Tunes sets?

In saying Brian added the line to the song, does he actually mean he did this directly by singing it or just that he dictated it be added?

Thanks Jon looking forward to it

Hi all hope you had a nice festive period

I was just wondering if there is any news on the Dennis BBC4 doc I think it had been mentioned for a Jan 10 airing.

Also, what ever became of the feat. Queen version of Holy Man?

Cheers
Sam

I'm not trying to start anything, but has anyone confirmed or denied if Brian's vocals on TLOS were autotuned? A lot of things new albums released use it, even if the ears can't detect it through the instrumentation.

I don't know about the final product, but I think I remember reading a quote from perhaps Scott that no autotune was used on the original demos and some of the vocals of the final product were lifted straight from the demos I believe.

unlike Wild Honey which is very dry, limited production, compact, clean, sober themes. Yes they use organ and harpsichord in places, but every '60's band was doing that whether they were psych or not. In my opinion WH is actually one of the least Psychedelic BB's records in the '66 to '69 period...certainly Good Vibrations, Heroes and Villains, Smile, Friends,  and 20/20 have more Psychedelic auras than WH.

Would you not call Friends 'dry, limited production...' etc ?

I wouldn't say it has much more of a psychedelic aura than WH?

post it bruv! please

Sam

I think I have heard an acapella version of Rhapsody before, I wonder how it will compare.

'Just Dance' was pretty good

What of the decision to release the album as a Beach Boys production rather than a Brian Wilson production?

Sam

How exactly was that snare sound done? I have read something about a bit of tape delay but of course there is more to it than that, as touched upon by c-man.

Ta
Sam