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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: The Beach Boys on sitcoms
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on: July 18, 2012, 03:03:42 AM
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Great, thanks for that! Remember seeing that when it was first on here... Mike scored himself the most lines (big surprise there), and it's nice to see Matt Jardine there rather than just a falsetto from nowhere. Home improvement was a good show for an American sitcom.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: CD's show-casing each guy's voice
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on: July 16, 2012, 01:57:18 AM
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Sorry for an off-top question but what is "Christian outreach"? And Our Car Club is indeed very funky.
Ok. Now here we go with Brian:
1. Judy 2. The Baker Man 3. Don't Worry Baby 4. Good to My Baby (I mostly like Brian's vocs than Mike's there) 5. Farmer's Daughter 6. God Only Knows (just because I rather prefer THIS v-n than PS track with Carl on leads) 7. Good Time 8. Winter Symphony 9. Sloop John B 10. Surfer Moon 11. Spirit of America 12. Walk on By 13. You Still Believe in Me (I know, it's the 2nd song from the same album but how to pass by a haunting "Iiii wanna cry"?) 14. Wonderful (Smile, 2011) 15. Surf's Up (only Brian vocals v-n) 16. I'd Love Just Once to See You 17. Add Some Music to Your Day (because imo Brian's bit is the most groundbreaking and beautiful in the song) 18. Oh Darlin (alternate take) 19. Heroes & Villains 20. Little Saint Nick (alternate with "Drivin'" song music) 21. Transcendental Meditation 22. Back Home 23. Take a Load Off Your Feet 24. San Francisco 25. Life is For the Living (his vocals sound unique to me, i.e. jazzy) 26. We'll Run Away (I enjoy weird segues, such as 25->26 tracks. It's jolly entertaining) 27. Love & Mercy 28. Match Point of Our Love 29. I'm So Lonely 30. The Warmth of the Sun (from IJWMFTT) 31. Joy to the World 32. Summertime 33. Cabin Essence (BWPS) 34. Happy Days 35. Saturday Morning in the City 36. Caroline, No (live) 37. Be My Baby (Roxy Theatre) 38. Strange World 39. You've Lost That Loving Feeling 40. Love Ya (SI) 41. The Letter 42. Going Home
"Christian outreach" refers to "reaching out" to the community to share the gospel. In this instance it was a children's holiday program. Nice list! Some of the songs are not familiar to me though, as the the only released Brian solo albums I have are his self-titled and Imagination. Am interested in hearing 'that lucky old' sun as people speak highly of it, but have never been interested in BWPS. My list: 1. Cuckoo Clock 2. Surfer Girl 3. Ballad of ol' Betsy 4. In my Room (live) 5. Don't Worry Baby 6. She knows me too Well 7. You're so good to me 8. You still believe in Me 9. Heroes and Villians 10. I'd love just once to see you 11. Busy doing nothing 12. Good Time 13. Goin' to the Chapel 14. Solar System 15. Matchpoint of our Love 16. I'm so Lonely 17. In my Car 18. Night-time 19. Smart Girls (yeaaahh! ) 20. South American 21. Private life of Bill and Sue
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: CD's show-casing each guy's voice
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on: July 12, 2012, 06:08:38 PM
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I love your comps, Zargo. Keep 'em coming. They're fun aren't they, especially for the car! I hope you don't mind me throwing in my two cents, but....take off "River Song" (which ended up being a Dennis solo release) and insert "The Nearest Faraway Place" right after "Four Strong Winds". What'd you think? No can do, Sheriff John - It's a pretty instrumental that showcasing Bruce's writing, but as a CD showcasing his voice, TNFP doesn't add much to the scene! Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated. Here's Michael, a longer CD, perhaps unsurprisingly. I didn't see a great deal of point including lot's of songs from the early surfin' era, because they all came out very quickly and his vocal's were pretty similar. 1. Surfin' Safari 2. Cherry Cherry Coupe 3. Drive-In 4. Kiss me Baby (obviously a lot of Brian, but still a strong representative of Mike's singing) 5. California Girls 6. Here Today 7. Gettin' Hungry 8. Aren't you Glad 9. Meant for You 10. All I Want to Do 11. All I Wanna Do 12. Student Demonstration Time 13. California saga - Big Sur 14. Everyone's in Love with You 15. Airplane 16. Belles of France 17. Sumahama 18. Some of Your Love 19. Runnin' All Round the World 20. Wrinkles 21. Getcha Back 22. Kokomo 23. Summer in Paradise 24. Glow Crescent Glow 25. Spring Vacation
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: CD's show-casing each guy's voice
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on: July 12, 2012, 04:46:24 PM
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Dennis:
3. Our Car Club
That's a Mike lead, I believe. Good call... and Brian too. Was thinking "this car of mine" and typed "our car club" by mistake. Always preoccupied with the latter song I guess, cos it's so funky! I made it *the* team song back in January 2007, when I was part of a Christian outreach for 10 days in a seaside town. Along with Hawaii and Surfer's Rule
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: CD's show-casing each guy's voice
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on: July 11, 2012, 11:39:15 PM
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Any place to fit in Al's greatest lead vocal ever - "If you knew, Peggy Sue..."
It's tempting to, but I went for "Belles of Christmas" from the same era, as it's such an unusual "michael-esque" vocal. I do think Peggy Sue is a bit underrated, it has a great lead, as you point out, and also the backing vocals are quite interesting too. Here is the Bruce/Dennis track-list, which i can just fit on to one CD: Bruce: 1. Down Under 2. Don't Run Away 3. Four Strong Winds 4. Deidre (i broke my rule and had the three leads from the one album, because there's so few of his leads to pick from) 5. Tears in the Morning 6. At my Window 7. Disney Girls 8. Rendezvous 9. Endless Harmony 10. She believes in Love Again 11. Let's go to Heaven tonight (anyone know when this was recorded? Catchy number!) 12. Slow Summer Dancin' Dennis: 1. My Miss America 2. Surfer's Rule 3. This Car of Mine edit: from original mistake of listing "our car club"4. The Wanderer 5. Do you Wanna Dance 6. Be Still 7. Never Learn not to Love 8. Forever 9. Cuddle Up 10. In the Still of the Night 11. Mona 12. River Song 13. My Diane 14. Angel Come Home 15. You are so Beautiful
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: CD's show-casing each guy's voice
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on: July 11, 2012, 11:25:14 PM
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Just a question, and while I'll admit I'm being a smart ass I'm not doing it in a condescending way.
Did your wife REQUEST that you make her this cd, or are you just trying to get her to understand that they're worship-worthy like we all know they are?
I'm not married, but I can't even envision a world where any woman would let me make her an entire cd of different guys in the same band singing fairly obscure songs, and then expecting her to learn who's who.
Haha, well my wife is generally happy to humour me, and I have most control of the CD player in the car, because she knows I am more passionate about music then I am. She enjoys anything which is catchy/easy to sing along too, so I make sure I include a reasonable number in that category. She'll only get shirty if I play too many "hard to listen to" ones (i.e. a reasonable proportion of the 70's stuff, particularly the slower tracks). I am not sure how proficient she will be at being able to work out who is singing what from now on, but I think it'll help!
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: CD's show-casing each guy's voice
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on: July 09, 2012, 01:54:54 AM
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Good thread, Zargo! I like to do various mixtures from various BBs records! I'll start with Al: Al's wonderful tracklist: 1) Christmas Day 2) Blowin' In the Wind 3) Help Me, Rhonda 4) Crack At Your Love 5) Cottonfields 6) The Times They Are A-Changin' 7) Be Here in the Morning Our Team 9) Honkin' Down the Highway 10) PT Cruiser 11) School Day 12) Come Go With Me 13) Lookin' At Tomorrow 14) Lady Lynda 15) You Still Believe In Me (I love both v-ns whether Brian's or this gorgeous rendition by Al) 16) Vega-Tables 17) Surfer Girl (I know I've already chosen YSBIM from In Concert but I couldn't help bringing it on this list. It's just marvelous!) 18) Looking Down The Coast 19) I Know There's An Answer (I think his vocals are the best section of this song) 20) From There To Back Again Nice list! Many the same as mine, but mine is more chronological: 1. Christmas Day 2. Help me Rhonda (LP version) 3. Then I Kissed her 4. Vegetables (SMILE version) 5. Cotton-fields (LP version) 6. Flip-Flop flying in an airplane 7. Lookin' at tomorrow 8. California Saga (beaks of eagles) 9. You Still believe in me (live, 73) 10. Susie Cincinatti 11. Honkin' down the Highway 12. Belles of Christmas 13. Lady Lynda 14. School Days 15. Crack at Your Love 16. California Dreamin' 17. Crocodile Rock 18. Strange Things Happen 19. San Simeon 20. From There to Back Again
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: CD's show-casing each guy's voice
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on: July 08, 2012, 05:02:38 AM
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Nice list, but no Time To Get Alone or Trader ? Also, with his chorus tag, Carl puts the soul into Kokomo !
It's true, I could have included Kokomo... It's actually on my Mike one that I just finished, but could easily be on both. Trader could replace Only with You, depends on one's own taste. I couldn't skip I Can Hear Music for the 20/20 selection.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / CD's show-casing each guy's voice
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on: July 08, 2012, 04:41:41 AM
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I thought it was would be fun and informative (for my wife) to put together a CD for each band-member that "show-cased" their voice from an early (or first) lead and it's changing or use-of over the years.
The "rules" are: - One should try to pick tracks that feature the particular guy's voice primarily, rather then a song that share's the lead (as part of the reason for the mix cd's is to help my wife recognize each voice and be able to connect a name/face to a particular voice). - No more then one track from each album (if really desired, out-takes/unreleased tracks are fine to be included, either along with a song from the actual album most associated with it , or instead) -The focus is the voice, not their song-writing, though often its nice to go with their own song's anyway, if they sing it. - Sometimes I have gone for the more "interesting" or unique vocal rather then a great song.
There way be a few people who might like to have an attempt at this along with me. Just to start things off, here's my Carl mix CD that we listened to today in the car:
1. Pom-Pom Play Girl (not a lot of choice for the early songs) 2. All Dressed up For School 3. Girl Don't Tell Me 4. God Only Knows 5. Good Vibrations 6. With Me Tonight 7. Darlin' 8. Friends 9. I can Hear Music 10. Our Sweet Love 11. Feel Flows 12. You Need A Mess Of Help To Stand Alone (my least favourite Carl vocal) 13. Only With You 14. Talk to Me 15. Let us go on This Way 16. Sweet Sunday kind love 17. Good Timin' 18. Keepin' the Summer Alive 19. Where I Belong 20. Problem Child 21. Lahaina Aloha (had to pick one with Mike somewhere, and this track is a real beauty) 22. I Wish For You
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Smiley Smile Stuff / 1970's Beach Boys Albums / Re: Holland
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on: July 05, 2012, 07:59:14 PM
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A few comments:
'Sail on Sailor' is the most overrated Beach Boys song to me... aside from the hook of the three word chorus, it's a dreary mess.
'Only with You' is my favourite Dennis composition, other than River Song. Gorgeous! I just wish they could've retained the beautiful tag from his solo version. Maybe I should edit together the two versions.
'Funky Pretty" wasn't much on first listen but as mentioned by a few on this thread, the tag is one of the most fabulous pieces of music/vocal work ever! It's up there with those of 'Till I Die' and 'It's OK.' The band knows it's good too, because they are happy to have it continue for a good long time.
The rest of the album is pleasant (particularly the saga) without being stuff I play too often. I'm not generally a big fan of 5 minute plus songs unless they really need to be that long (and I don't feel any of the songs here do).
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: \
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on: May 14, 2012, 01:22:22 AM
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the chorus to night time is crazy annoying. but other songs are getting better. melt away is goooood
Night Time chorus is catchy as hell! Album highlight for me! 'Melt Away' is okay, but I have never heard this apparent "proper" mix...
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: \
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on: April 29, 2012, 02:49:03 AM
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #128 Paid in MP3 Songs #7 in MP3 Downloads > MP3 Songs > Rock
Tried to purchase... not permitted outside of the US Where are you from ? I purchased mine from amazon.de and will order the CD single on amazon.com Down under! BTW, my 9 month old son shares his first name with you (just in case that gives you a warm fuzzy feeling!) It does Your son's name is Rocker ? That's my surname.... Whoops, got confused with all the different quotes... I must redirect that remark to Mr Eric Aniversario. Rocker would be a brave first name. Better then "rapper", anyway! Incidentally, I have a friend who had (one is still alive) two cats named Bri (Brian) and Vandy (Van Dykes). He thought it was very clever, and why not?
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Worst Beach Boy Song
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on: April 28, 2012, 12:22:36 AM
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There is no question, no contest, nothing to discuss.
It is Summer of Love. Full stop.
Mike rapping. A hook stolen from an earlier (yet still lame) Brian Wilson song. Digital-lite production that sounds like the audio equivalent of one of those crappy 3D Magic Eye pictures -- yet it never resolves into anything recognizable.
Agreed. Embarrassing. I love "strange things happen' though, and a few other tracks on the album. Not a hater of Summer in Paradise at all, just this particular track.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: \
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on: April 27, 2012, 05:11:20 PM
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #128 Paid in MP3 Songs #7 in MP3 Downloads > MP3 Songs > Rock
Tried to purchase... not permitted outside of the US Where are you from ? I purchased mine from amazon.de and will order the CD single on amazon.com Down under! BTW, my 9 month old son shares his first name with you (just in case that gives you a warm fuzzy feeling!)
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: \
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on: April 25, 2012, 06:20:07 AM
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The Beach Boys have also confirmed concerts throughout Europe with additional European territories to be announced shortly. The Beach Boys will also perform shows in Japan, and concerts in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia will be announced soon. All confirmed tour dates can be found on TheBeachBoys.com.[/b]
Unreal!!!
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