Wtf where's Mike's?

His  is most assured and waiting for the likes of him in the fire and brimstone of the afterlife-guaranteed shoe in.

Saying Mike is going to Hell is taking these anti-Mike jokes too far to be honest.

I'm no prude, but I mean, if it all aligns by the book, he may not be too far off. 

It's a nice touch.

Geez, I feel like a lost cause. I have all of this stuff on my iPod. The only song that I know that I don't have on it is; When Girls Get Together. That has got to be the worst song Brian ever wrote. And why they ever resurrected it for Keepin' The Summer Alive is beyond me.

Agree to disagree, old friend. It's a most wonderful song and I can put it on repeat.

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Before anybody asks, Units was NOT banned; rather he asked me to delete his account.

That's a shame. I wonder how come I never these messages.

Amen.

Funny how defensive people can get...

Not half a funny as a mod who's anything but impartial. 

If this was the case, there wouldn't be a thread to be replying to right now.

You, sir, are a fool, and possibly a troll. Your opinion, which I respect your right to express, is, in this instance, questionable in the extreme.

He's a fool because he doesn't like Dennis' music? If that's what he believes, who the phuck are you to tell him that he's a troll and a fool? Everybody has an opinion. That was his, and if you don't like, tough Sh!t.

Amen.

Funny how defensive people can get...

I've been thinking lately. I'd take Mike Love over Van Dyke Parks. It seems like Parks had too much control over the project, it was more of an open collaboration. With Tony Asher it sounded like Brian kept artistic control over the project, but it seems Van Dyke influenced the album quite a bit. Especially upon listening to Song Cycle. Recently, as I've listened to that album, I get the feeling more and more that SMiLE sounds more like Van Dyke Parks than it does Brian Wilson...

Also what's with Van Dyke walking off the project? I feel as if that story is only a small part of the big picture. Was Van Dyke really such a primadona that he wasn't willing to entertain questions? Think about it from Mike Love's perspective. Didn't he have a say in the material the band was putting out? It was his band just as much as it was Brian's wasn't it? Of course Brian's overall contributions outshine Mike's, Mike did contribute his fair share to the songs that made the band famous in the first place. He also was the onstage charisma that kept the BB touring up through the massive 4th of July shows over a decade later. I think in all fairness Mike Love deserved a say, he was a contributing member of the group, he deserved to have creative input. I think Mike gave Brian a lot of creative leeway and recognized his talents as a composer and producer, but when it came to SMiLE he had his right to be skeptical, he had his right to ask questions.

Was he really that obnoxious during the Cabinessence sessions? I can understand if Van Dyke Parks doesn't want to run around for the rest of his life and explain SMiLE to every tom dick and harry, but Mike Love was a member of the band, he was a contributer, he had a legal and creative say in what the band did. I don't think it was right for Van Dyke to just waltz off the project simply because he didn't like to entertain questions. If anybody had any right to question what Brian and Van Dyke were doing it was the other members of the group. I really don't buy that Van Dyke just walked away because Mike Love asked a couple of condescending questions.

Now I don't really like Mike Love that much as a musician, I don't like a lot of what he's done with the band, and I'm not particularly blown away by Mike Love as an artist. I don't agree with his opinion in regards to SMiLE, but I do think he was right in voicing it, I think he was right in being concerned, and I think he was within his rights to do what he did. He thought he was doing what was best for the group, and you can't fault him for that.

Well then, this puts a lot more weight when BDW said that it was Mike Love who made him junk the album. I mean, the Beach Boys was Brian and Mike right? So if Mike wasn't feeling it, then Brian couldn't go on any longer...he already put a lot of fight into Pet Sounds, why do it again...

I'm definitely feeling that segue, which they were tighter but whatever. Still awesome.

Great news! If a job comes up in Sector 7G at my nuclear powerplant I'll give you a shout.

'grats Billy!

6. What would we do without Bgas monitoring this thread for excessive questions?

We'd have world peace.

Nah, it'd be just like it is now, one mod overly full of himself, and utter chaos

You got me confused with someone else, mate. 

I'll literally slap the feces out of both of you.

Someone quick, put that in the form of a question.

What will we do without Joe threatening to slap the feces out of us?

We dance!

6. What would we do without Bgas monitoring this thread for excessive questions?

We'd have world peace.

Nah, it'd be just like it is now, one mod overly full of himself, and utter chaos

You got me confused with someone else, mate. 

I'll literally slap the sh*t out of both of you.

Someone quick, put that in the form of a question.

Beach Boys #2

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/more/06/27/ultimate.playlist/index.html?xid=cnnbin

hmmm yes, stupid and pedantic

Great Story! I refuse to read the 3 pages of replies cause I can only imagine the tom foolery going on. 

Why would you ban Dennis Wilson's youngest kid from a board paying tribute to him?

Same reason they made Brian Wilson's illegitimate son a moderator...

ya'll are retarded, seriously

somehow, I know the DJ would screw it up and play Funky Pretty

The DJ didnt screw up, he did you a favor.

And seriously, this is the most awkward wedding dance I've ever seen...

HOLLAND ROCKS!

p.s. bgas don't be a dick.

Not sure how I feel about the Dennis part. Especially to say the stuff they did was horrible...'Oh Lord' was horrible? Really?

Remember, I am talking how the bass sounds.  I'd say Fun Fun Fun,  I get Around to start.  Brian was great of course early on, especially when you hear the live material, i thought he and dennis rocked. 

Soon, you'll learn not to voice your opinion on here, because people will tell you you're wrong, or they'll be pricks about it. As you've probably already seen.

Yep, welcome to the SS Board!

holy sh*t thats awesome

The thing about Wind Chimes (and Wonderful) on Smiley Smile is that it sounds like a "defeated" Brian Wilson. When I heard the SMiLE version, it was all happy and upbeat, something fun! When I listened to the SS version it just sounded like something was wrong...

Isn't there already a thread for this?

[diamond necklace]

"The diamond necklace played the pawn" - it's an audio-musical pun. John Lennon: "those of you in the cheap seats can applaud, the rest of you can rattle your jewellery".

Wait, what??

No joke, I would give him Sufjan Stevens' Illinois album.

I would love to see a sit down at the piano with Brian and Van Dyke just chatting and playing some tunes. The recording of them jamming on H&V in the Endless Harmony disc is one of my favorite tracks ever. Listen to it all the time, I can probably recite it verbatim.