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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Carl or Brian on God Only Knows?
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on: July 02, 2018, 08:35:03 PM
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Regardless of whether I have or not, it's still objectively Carl.
You may think it’s Carl. You may believe so strongly. But there is simply no way to say that it’s objectively Carl. The only person you might say it was objectively — given the official credits and words from authorities ON THIS VERY THREAD — is Brian. That simply has to do with what the word objective means. Except it is Carl's voice. There is objective truth in this world. The argumentum ad verecundiam is not convincing. So David Leaf, Mark L., Craig and Alan Boyd are all liars / mistaken? It’s attitudes like yours (personal, subjective judgment at the expense of professional expertise) that led to the Trump administration and the decline of democracy in the West. And I am most assuredly not kidding. It was Brian when he recorded, and it’s Brian now. I hate Trump, and I love Brian... This is Carl.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: New Mike Single
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on: July 06, 2017, 05:39:27 PM
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Curious how you'd respond to this list.
The original post I was replying to appeared to suggest that Brian's tremendously poor artistic decisions should be validated or elevated by Mike's tremendously poor artistic decisions. My response to your post: virtually everybody whose devotion to the Beach Boys lies above "casual" and beneath "diehard" considers NPP and DIA'17 to be equally disposable latter-day solo works recorded by septuagenarians. Only super fanboys think about any of the points that you listed. "At least Brian's music is newly written" is a total fallacy that I'm seriously not interested in engaging with. Bad music is bad music. The irony is lost on anyone who believes this new Mike Love single is something reprehensible but thinks NPP advances the case for Brian Wilson: Musical Artist. For the majority opinion of how NPP contributed to his legacy, consult the exceptionally honest Tiny Mix Tapes review. (For the record, I disagree with some aspects of the piece, but the general sentiment is dead-on.) Are you fair dinkum mate?
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