A college friend of mine introduced me to The Pogues’ music and I became a fan myself.  Shane was a real good songwriter.  If I Should Fall From Grace With God, one of my favorite songs is linked here:  https://youtu.be/B4v6aNjGFFk?si=tusDA57QmB_jOjWq .  Another hit from the same album is Fairytale of New York (an interesting Christmasy song).

But their best album imo is Rum, Sodomy and The Lash.

Thank you for this post.  I listened to the album today while taking my dog on a nice long walk.  It was a very pleasant listen… my favorite was O Holy Night… I loved the harmonies.

Yeah that seems like a good guess to me - thank you.

Also in case anyone wasn’t already aware there is a posthumous song already released entitled Bubble Up:
 https://youtu.be/6j3jDTOG7yI?si=PABa4PmMOYM-7eLJ

Thanks for sharing - I wonder what The Beach Boys trick he figured out was….

Let's not forget that Jimmy Buffet also co-wrote and sang backing vocals on Brian's "South American". Here's video of the two of them recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxQjphssSYI

R. I. P.

I always leaned toward the manual doubletracking of the harmony vocals - simple as it may seem - but it's definitely a mystery I've been thinking about since I first saw that broadcast. Only Jimmy and Brian (and the people in the studio) knew what he meant I guess.

Thanks for sharing - I wonder what The Beach Boys trick he figured out was….

Let's not forget that Jimmy Buffet also co-wrote and sang backing vocals on Brian's "South American". Here's video of the two of them recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxQjphssSYI

R. I. P.

I don’t really consider myself a Parrothead, but like the early Beach Boys he definitely painted a picture of beach life with his music and entertained a huge following.  Recently on a trip to the beach, a friend was playing music from an American Reggae band called Stick Figure and I found one of their songs was written by Jimmy Buffet:

https://youtu.be/Zes3M6JM_EE

[WYWH]

My appreciation of Pink Floyd stops with WYWH (and there are many things before then that I can't warm to). I tried The Wall and I even own The Final Cut--although I do like some songs on both they could all fit on a single CD as far as I'm concerned. 

My appreciation of Pink Floyd stops with WYWH (and there are many things before then that I can't warm to). I tried The Wall and I even own The Final Cut--although I do like some songs on both they could all fit on a single CD as far as I'm concerned. 

I pretty much agree.  Despite being recommended by a friend, I removed The Final Cut from my music library and  I don't enjoy listening to The Wall in its entirety.  Without worrying too much about the story, I took a stab at creating a shorter The Wall album with the songs I like:  https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3qQgUFMF8lUXaM1XhmKNCB

I do like how "the band" in The Wall does some Beach Boys style harmonies...

[TDSOTM]

I've gotten into a Pink Floyd phase the past couple of months.  Of course I had heard some of their songs growing up, but never got into them before recently.  My favorite albums are THDSOTM and Meddle.  When Time transitions into The Great Gig In The Sky, I am actually reminded of BW's piano playing...

Aww, sorry to hear that! But at least you gave Animals a try. Though I love the album, I find I have to be in a rather dark mood to listen to it, myself.

Interesting, your last sentence. I find Waters' stuff almost consistently depressing! So from TDSOTM this is the Richard Wright composition "The Great Gig In The Sky", an example of a track where wordless vocals say more than lyrics ever could. It may be Wright's finest hour as a pianist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVBCE3gaNxc

A few years back, during a particularly stressful time, I would wake up to the refrain to “Hawaii”. Lasted for months before it went away.

That's a good one.  I don't get annoyed by it, but I get the non-verbal vocal descending line from Barnyard in my head sometimes

I went to Tennessee this past weekend for Thanksgiving at my in-laws.  There are a lot of tourist attractions in their part of Tennessee and my daughter asked to go to the Alcatraz East Crime Museum.  During the self-guided tour, I was surprised they had Charles Manson's guitar and a sensational blurb about him and Dennis:

 This may not be of any help, but to my ear the missing words sound like "Once Again"

It would fit with the other lyrics...

"Does it mean I'll never have you...  once again... once again

Also, I agree with the other comment that it very well could be an American or Canadian band.  Do you know how the person who posted to YouTube got the audio?  That could possibly be a good clue...  recorded off college radio, found on a tape given to him, etc.?

That Fats song is great!

Speaking of New Orleans music, I've really gotten into a band called Tuba Skinny lately.  They started out as street musicians there but have gone on to record albums and tour the U.S. and overseas.  My parents both liked New Orleans-style jazz aka Dixieland jazz and I remember hearing bands as a kid at festivals.  Their most recent album, Some-Kinda-Shake, is really good.  Without further ado, my favorite song from the album: https://tubaskinny.bandcamp.com/track/im-going-back-home

The aforementioned album is mostly instrumentals...  I'm still working my way through their catalog, but Pyramid Strut is also a good album that features more jazz and blues vocal numbers:   https://tubaskinny.bandcamp.com/album/pyramid-strut

This one is another song more country than rock, but I heard this the other day and really like their recording of Hard Travelin' (Mandolin Orange now known as Watch House have great harmonies as a duo):  https://youtu.be/iTlMlO7y0Pg

A couple suggestions:  Sin City by the Flying Burrito Brothers, The Swimming Song by Loudon Wainwright III (Earl Scruggs Revue also recorded a nice version)

Brian:
1.) Surfer Girl
2.) In My Room
3.) I'm Waiting for the Day
4.) I Just Wasn't Made for these Times
5.) Surf's Up

Mike:
1.) Fun, Fun, Fun
2.) Catch A Wave
3.) 409
4.) Little Duece Coupe
5.) Surfin' Safari

This post reminded of Mandolin Orange's excellent cover of Boots of Spanish Leather:

https://youtu.be/iOHkyZ62jjQ

From Melbourne's Little Band scene, these are Ronnie & The Rhythm Boys taking "Hey Joe" to its logical conclusion by having different people doing the asking and answering, in this case (if my spies have got it right) Denise Rosenberg and Stuart Grant respectively:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZxHGpykHCU



https://www.discogs.com/Various-Little-Bands/release/2329743

I've always liked his bass vocals at the end of Surfin' Safari "yeah me, with me..."

Yesterday, I watched Hotel Transylvania 3 with my family.  Good Vibrations is played near the end.  Spoiler alert:  The villain controls the kraken in his effort to kill all the monsters by playing an evil song but Dracula's son-in-law counters this by playing positive music...  "Good Vibrations" being his first choice.

Shovels and Rope featuring Sharon Van Etten:  https://youtu.be/Z7Eo4GbP1E0

The repeating guitar riff sounds similar to my ear.  Thanks for sharing.

In my Facebook feed, I've been seeing an ad for a double 12" 45 RPM vinyl version of Pet Sounds.  I was interested if any readers have it and what their opinions are.  Honestly I don't even own a vinyl version of Pet Sounds and was wondering what people think of this version vs a sIngle 33 RPM record. 

Thank you!  It's not a large image but it's there:  http://www.sonic.net/~dsktracy/bbstuff/Posters,%20non-movie/pages/Surf%20DC%20poster,%206-12-83.html

I was listening to West Virginia NPR the other day and they played a Clarinet Concerto by Artie Shaw.  It was a classical music program but in introducing the number, the dj explained he blended elements of classical with jazz. 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nkXz1zA4jGE

 It seems like the coda to Surf's Up is about a minute long.  I was wondering if anyone has come across any (live) versions where they carried it out longer?  It always ends too soon for me.

do you happen when this showed up on youtube?

The vidoe on youtube says it was posted three weeks ago

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