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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Thread for various insignificant questions that don't deserve their own thread!
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on: January 10, 2021, 09:29:29 AM
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I was told by Alan Boyd that Desper added the drums during the KTSA sessions. "When Girls Get Together" was also apparently remixed and considered for "15 Big Ones" in 1976; there's a "15 Big One Mix" on that 2000 "Brother Rarities" compilation. None of the mixes are like night-and-day different.
I think that's possibly an error drawing on the year it was prepared - it was included in a late '76 handwritten tracklist for the 'New Album' concurrent with Love You, so it might've been slightly later around the time Brian was also mining the vaults for My Solution and Good Time. The drums heard on KTSA are present in that mix (added '76 by Brian?) while other parts like the strings are removed.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Regarding Here Comes The Night
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on: September 28, 2016, 06:09:27 PM
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I always enjoyed it, though I wish they'd put the single version out, it's an easier listen. As far as an album track, I never thought it meshed we. Everything's so chill and down, and kinda dark, even Shortenin Bread is a little out of place, but I works for a good album ending jam. Here comes the night is kinda abrupt and jarring when I hear it in the sequence of the Light Album.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Youtube Beach Boys album reviews
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on: December 26, 2015, 01:21:28 PM
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Thanks for the shout out Ghostly! I haven't had much of a format as far as reviewing album by album. I've just done a lot of specific albums, collections, and random merchandise I've purchased or have been given. I've had some music on in the background and they've flagged me for copyrights, just can't profit off those videos, even though I doubt you're up for that. 😉
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: The Beach Boys Visit Class At Indiana University
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on: November 27, 2015, 02:06:55 PM
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I was there in attendance, you can see me towards the end when the camera is angled at Alan Boyd, I'm sitting in the row behind him. I was the one who asked Mike about releasing his solo stuff. That was the one question on my mind as I'd messaged and asked Mike on FB a year before. I didn't think of asking about other band members. I felt I was limited to one question because the Q&A was mainly for the Beach Boys class/students. I was simply asked to attend as a guest of a friend of the prof.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Albums you would change the titles to..
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on: November 05, 2015, 09:12:40 AM
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Pet Sounds to just about anything else. It's become an iconic name now, but when you really think about it...its kinda generic and unexciting. If it's gotta be a song title...God Only Knows would be fitting and more intriguing a title. Or Let's Go Away For Awhile... Possibly take the original title of YSBIM, In My Childhood? That would emphasize the theme of growing up and childish but relatable teen angst.
SMiLE should have just kept on being Dumb Angel. Very very cool title, and more meaningful.
Assuming the former didnt happen, Smiley Smile should have been given its own title to distinguish it from its predecessor. By calling it Smiley, they were setting them up to be compared and for this to inevitably come up way short. They did this album and themselves a great disservice here.
Friends to Busy Doing Nothing. Just a cooler title.
Sunflower to something else. Why Sunflower? I just dont get it. Maybe something like Sandcastles? Something intricately constructed and beautiful but also fragile? IDK.
Surfs Up, as the title for a single or at least just a song on a 1967 album wouldve been perfect. As an album title in 1971 it just feels wrong. If it were up to me, that song wouldnt even be on that album, and in any case, it sounds so out of place and IS out of place that making it the centerpiece and titular track comes off as lame and desperate to me. I much prefer the original title Landlocked.
Assuming no one else has covered this, sorry if someone already has; I haven't had the chance to read more as I'm at work...anyways, I always assumed Sunflower got its name from Al's version of Back Home from this era "where sunflowers keep growing" or something like that, haven't heard it in a while. Hope that helps!
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Good Vibrations Session Footage
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on: September 30, 2015, 03:45:10 PM
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Yep!! I'm that JustinPlank in the video describing that class I went to that Alan Boyd spoke in. That was last February when Mike and Bruce performed here in Bloomington Indiana. I was equally as shocked to hear of the 40-45 minutes of footage. I Could watch that as silent footage (much like the BB in London 1966 documentary/DVD) all the way through...it'd be really fun trying to pic together everything that's going on.
Including our plea for this footage, I think we need (as Beatles fans are getting) a DVD release of a Beach Boys music/video anthology.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Still Crusin Track Order
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on: August 28, 2015, 07:56:41 PM
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I believe the reason why Chasin' the Sky wasn't on SC was because the Boys didn't own it, or it was owned by a different company and would not be allowed on a Capitol album. My source is an issue of BB STOMP, a Carl Wilson interview. I could try to dig it up of anyone wants me too.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Differences to live song versions compared to studio versions - who wrote what?
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on: July 30, 2015, 06:36:29 PM
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Thinking of some others that are different: -Funky Pretty (the beginning intro), I really enjoy this version -Caroline No (added flute solo) -Feel Flows and All This is That (Charles Lloyd (improved?) solos) -Country Air (has that evident piano line) -Help Me, Rhonda (Knebworth and others have that great intro) -Barbara Ann ("everybody say Yeah") -Lay Down Burden (Live at Roxy version very different from Imagination version) -Surfer Girl (Lei'd in Hawaii and Roxy versions have that beautiful vocal ending) -Pet Sounds (Brian's band has always had solo sections for the instrumental) -I'm Waiting for the Day segues into Lets go away for a while (on a PS live boot I had on tape, it had a beautiful instrumental part that led right into Lets Go away -Love and Mercy (Roxy and subsequent live versions have always skipped the wordless vocal part in the middle. It was reincorporated for Brian's version at the 2001 Tribute) -Airplane (Charles Lloyd really added a lot with his flute and sax playing) -Heroes and Villains (the rocking version on In Concert and Endless Harmony is really different from the Smiley & Hawaii 67 versions) -Surfin (speaking of Hawaii 67, Brian's organ lines really add a lot) -Keepin' the Summer Alive (what is it about the live version rocking over the studio version? Why does the studio cut sound so weak?)
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Bruce as a session musician.
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on: July 26, 2015, 02:50:15 PM
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Ah, I love a young slicked back hair of Bruce's.
Seeing questions like this, makes me think we're begging for a book on Bruce! The hardest part would be the title though, I'm sure it'd be a play on I Write the Songs...but I think we could come up with something better like...
"I wish they all could be Disney Girls" Arg, that's all I could cleverly think of.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: So Tough question:
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on: June 09, 2015, 04:30:24 AM
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Thank you to all acknowledging So Tough as an album by the Beach Boys and NOT a side project!! I'd been arguing on Facebook with a few fans who keep referring to it as a side project. There's no side project about it, title or no title! It's the album before Holland and after Surfs Up.
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