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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: I Got Plenty O'Nuthin' Stuns Me Every Time
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on: September 28, 2010, 05:21:17 AM
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My son is a six year old Aussie kid and he walks around singing I loves you porgy. This album has opened up a new world for him and brought Gershwin to a new generation. I Got Plenty O'Nuthin is his 2nd fave on the album and he even sings words to it!!! Pet Sounds, BWPS,TLOS and the new album have been his musical progression.. Front row at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney, we cannot wait!!
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on: July 27, 2010, 05:27:34 AM
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You kinda get into it..Then he goes on with the self harm stuff and you realise you are hearing a man coked off his freakin eyeballs and a fair way down the path to self destruction...
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: What if SMiLE is released in 1967? (My prediction of what might happen)
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on: April 23, 2010, 02:36:13 AM
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My alternate history.
1967: Brian releases Smile, finishing it in a mammoth 72 hour session fueled by amphetamines. In the U.S., it takes awhile for the album to catch on, being so different. But, the sales continue to build like a wave until it's a tsunami. The album is an instant hit in the UK, and Sgt. Pepper's is looked at as not serious enough to compete with it. The band tours the album and Brian takes a vacation. He goes to Hawaii and has to be hospitalized after he badly scrapes his knee diving from a waterfall.
1968: Overwhelmed, Paul McCartney and John Lennon retreat to India. They only stay a few weeks, rushing back to the studio to try and beat Brian. Paul loses it in the studio, and the resulting album, a 1 hour psychedelic mishmash of "Wild Honey Pie/Revolution 9/Carnival of Light" with "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" as a bookend, is critically panned. Brian laughs at the Beatles fortunes in an interview.
"Well, I think maybe the Beatles are doing comedy records. Yeah, that's it, the Beatles are doing comedy records. I laughed, I had to laugh. Didn't you? Comedy records are cosmic, man. When I scrapped my knee up real bad in Hawaii, laughing was what got me through. And ice cream... ice cream...."
In early-68, the Beach Boys release Flowers, a comedy album (with skits like Brian falling into his piano) mixed with bizarre sound experiments, including a track made entirely out of the various sounds of water and a track of Brian's friends jamming at the kitchen table with their utensils, cups, and plates, chanting "we want a cake, not a belly-itcher!" Sales are modest, and the album is looked at more as a curiosity than anything else.
1969: The Beatles release Abbey Road, motivating Brian to make a good album.
"Hey, I guess those Beatles are still OK, huh?," Brian jokes with an interviewer. "I thought Paul lost his marbles, personally."
Recording stops halfway through, when Brian falls from the rooftop studio constructed on his house and breaks a leg. A few weeks later, with Brian's leg still in a cast, the sessions continue. The resulting album, Wild Honey (a nod to "Wild Honey Pie") has 3 singles: "Time to Get Alone", "Can't Wait Too Long", and "Darlin'". It goes neck and neck with Abbey Road in the sales chart both in the US and overseas during the Christmas season. Brian is still more interested in recording lighter material after the headaches associated with Smile.
"Listening to Flowers helped when I broke my leg. It reminded me of good times. It's far out, y'know, to really break something. They just kind of fix it in place and it heals itself. Amazing! I think the vitamins I ate helped a lot."
People are still marveling at Smile, as its cult following grows.
"Yeah, I'd like to record another Smile. Recording music that spiritual, though, takes a heck of a lot out of you. You really have to dig deep within yourself to make music like that. Still, I think I'm gonna record another Smile. I will record another Smile, actually," Brian says, and so 1969 concludes.
1970: In collaboration with Van Dyke Parks (whose album Song Cycle was a modest success) and Stephen Kalinich, Brian records A World Of Peace Must Come. The avant-garde backing tracks, performed by 20-30 musicians each, are hailed as works of genius. With songs from the perspectives of trees, songs about peace, songs about marijuana, songs about love, and songs about food, the album is a perfect end to the 60s. As a result of the title track, "A World Of Peace Must Come", peace on Earth breaks out. The U.S. and Soviet Union dismantle their instruments of war and disband their armies, ringing in the change. The banking system, viewed as nothing but trouble, is suspended. With world peace achieved, Brian no longer sees the need to record commercial records.
"I'm just glad I could bring peace to the world. It's a good feeling," Brian says modestly, as he ceremoniously cuts a ribbon in downtown L.A. to usher in a new national holiday, Brian Wilson Day.
Love it..John Lennon releases Imagine produced by Brian Wilson.. |
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