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51  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Accidental Cat Thread on: March 30, 2015, 01:09:06 AM
THIS THREAD IS MEOWTRAGEOUS.
52  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: LISTEN TO THE LAST SONG, ON THE ISLAND, & I'M FEELING SAD!! BBC RADIO on: March 30, 2015, 01:07:55 AM
That BBC app sucks a lot. The streams of The Last Song & On The Island, and I'm Feeling Sad skipped more than a scratched CD played in the cheapest of Discmans.....
53  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Walking Dead - Love and Mercy on: March 30, 2015, 01:05:37 AM
Really cool that a show as popular as The Walking Dead used a song as relatively unknown as Love & Mercy for the soundtrack.


Looking forward to the new wave of zombies that are about to join our ranks....
54  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Still got that killer falsetto/the best vibrations on: March 30, 2015, 12:48:51 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyQqrPWnRPU



This Good Vibrations right here has a knock your socks off performance by one Brian Wilson. It may have been discussed here in this subforum, and was was just just in the YouTube thread thread, but if you're like me, you never leave this General On Topic Discussions forum. It's too good to miss, even if Carol Kaye didn't even play bass on Good Vibrations.


Brian Wilson still has that falsetto of an angel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyQqrPWnRPU


Brian Wilson must be an angel. Either that or he sold his soul to the devil.
55  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: I'm Feeling Sad on: March 30, 2015, 12:43:20 AM
Best song off the album so far. Fuckin' killer! AC AOR WHATEVER GENRE THESE TWATS NEED THEIR MUSIC TO FIT PERFECTLY INTO THEIR PIGEONHOLE LITTLE BOXES AND OTTO TUNA FISH OR NOT. The best, the best, the best.


Brian Wilson, you da man. And you keep stickin' it to the man. 

56  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Mike and Bruce Tour 2015 on: March 22, 2015, 01:24:09 AM
I thought Bruce did an OK lead on You're So Good to Me. People seem to be confusing a weak performance with a really shitty sound quality recording.


I hear the opposite....


A really shitty performance, coupled with a weak quality recording, that makes these fakers sound word than they wish they were..


Let's just face the music.... These 7 people or whatever  can't use their shitty keyboards to synthesize the timeless music Brian Wilson created back in the 1960s with REAL, ACTUAL instruments.
57  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: BB members singing live leads on songs originally sung by other members on: March 22, 2015, 01:14:58 AM
I don't recall Bruce singing You're So Good To Me live, but Al has.

You've been missing out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA3-QFEUMCc

HAH. It's like finding out/hearing a loved one suffer a terrible stroke.

And by "HAH", I mean, wow, I'm questioning everything good in my life that I have ever experienced.
58  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Mike and Bruce Tour 2015 on: March 22, 2015, 01:10:49 AM
There's not much love and mercy from the Brian Bunch left for Mike and his band.

I am in the Beach Boys bunch, I am a Beach Boys fan. Did you read my post where I compared the Beach Boys to a football team?

It doesn't matter. If we're gonna, let's be all simile metaphorical.


The Beach Boys are the football team that made it to the Super Bowl most of the years 1962 through 1966, and won the big game at least 4 of the 6 of those years.


The rest of the years they were mediocre but showed flashes of brilliance, 1967 through 2011.


Then a lot of the years they seemed good enough to make and win the Super Bowl, but weren't because the great blocker (Cowsill) and kicker (Totten) weren't enough to cause the "team" to be greater than the sum of its parts and allow unfortunate quarterback (Mike Love)  to allow the greatness exist that the team is known for.










The f*** am I even talking about?

Oh right, that "You're So Good To Me" cover sung by Bruce Johnston is entirely no worse than the "William Hung" or "Sanjaya" (use Google to see how entirely terrible those people are) versions of those songs.








AND SO in conclusion, as long as somebody who ISNT Mike Love or Bruce Johnston are allowed to make a living off songs Brian Wilson wrote 50 or so years ago, I should quit my complaining.,

It could be so much worse..... But hardly. This present we live in where the "Beach Boys" already act like fuckin' Brian Douglas Wilson isn't entirely responsible for the success they're experiencing. And yeah.


Yeawn. Boring. Without the Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, Bruce Johnston, Scott Totten and John Cowsill would all be working at the same service (gas/petrol) station that my dad works at in Hawthorne.
59  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: BB members singing live leads on songs originally sung by other members on: March 22, 2015, 12:24:20 AM
So in conclusion, the Beatless are George, John, Ringo & Paul...





































































...but the Beach Boys, with their wacky internal conflicts, and mental illness-having members, go on forever.
60  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: BB members singing live leads on songs originally sung by other members on: March 22, 2015, 12:18:14 AM
The answer is yes, a lot of people sang lead on Beach Boys songs who originally didn't sing lead on Beach Boys songs.


It's what they get for trying to continue to be a real, relevant, touring entity after the screaming audiences got to be too loud to hear themselves over screaming teenage girls.


The Beatles may have "cemented their legacy" with their studio crap after giving up in a live setting after a certain point, but our Beach Boys never bitched out like those British four did once their music became "bigger than Jesus" and the teenage girls overcame them.

Imagine Alan Jardine
getting shot near apartments


And then some other words with equal/similar number of syllables/rhyme schemes about how if the Beach Boys lost a member in as  dramatic of a fashion as
61  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / The Sandbox / Re: Beer, Wine, Liquor, Spirits, Cocktails...Open Bar. Discuss, Recommend, etc. on: March 21, 2015, 11:58:35 PM
Lagunitas recently released this "High West-ified" Imperial Coffee Stout that was brewed with  local (California treated) coffee, and aged in used "High West" brand bourbon & rye barrels. It's in super-limited edition quantities, and probably only available near states with a Lagunitas brewery (California and Illinois) but I gotta say for a person who isn't a fan of stouts OR coffee, buy this beer if you see it, even if it's at that $8.99 (per 22oz bomber) price tag a lot of places are selling it for.


I'm terrible at describing scents or flavors since my deviated septum causes distorted, diminished perceptions of both, but this brew is crazy delicious.... You can taste the bourbon/rye for like a second after drinking, before it finishes with a smooth coffee/stout/beer flavor.

Terrible at descriptions, as I mentioned, but. I live in "wine country" and people always talk about that garbage spoiled grape juice like it's actually delicious, when all you can actually taste is poison and wine barrel.


Well this "coffee stout" which is brewed in "wine country", you can only taste nasty barrel wood flavor for but a second, before that smooth, delicious, hoppy, Lagunitas flavor. Usually you get that choking-type thing when you drink hard stuff, but this bourbon barrel brewed beer only has the flavor for a second before it moves onto the beer-fan flavor.



If you can't tell, I have a terrible time describing it, but in conclusion, buy Lagunitas' "High West-ified Coffee Stout" if you are blessed with the opportunity to purchase it.


Otherwise, you'll have the opportunity to buy it (probably from myself or other a-holes fortunate enough to dwell in the SF bay area) in the next few months/years for way more cash monies than it originally sold for.
62  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: On The Island is No Pier Pressure's Shortenin' Bread on: March 21, 2015, 11:39:12 PM
7eah, ignore my thread. IT SUCKS KNOWING STACK-O-TRACKS FIGURED SOMETHING OUT BEFORE YOU DID,  DOESN"T IT?!



WE GOT A LITTLE HIP SHACK
MOMMAS LITTLE BABY LOVES


how come the "ERH MAH GERD LHEY DOWN BURDIN IS THE SAME SONG AS RHYGHT THYME" thread gets a thousand responses, but when  I figure out this Zoey Dayshinelle featuring track is Brian's 2015 take on Shortenin Bread, you all ignore me?


I'm not sorry you're all impotent and I'm the virile-ist person around. Acknowledge me and i'll go away for a while. 
63  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Brian Wilson Taping Soundstage Special With Special Guests on: March 20, 2015, 01:50:25 AM
Did we see the same trailer?  Zooey was note perfect - the way Brian likes it - had the Jobim jazz thing down and she's beautiful. The visuals? - She looked like she was singing into a microphone in a recording studio to me. ;-)  That struck me as consistent with portraying the idea of recording a song for NPP for the trailer since she wasn't at the live show.  I'm unclear what the problem is.  I happen to love the song, too.  Ah, we all have our opinions.

Rest of the track & Brian's vocals were fine. Just that, IMHO, Deschanel's vocal - which was indeed technically fine - was too insipid for my tastes. I don't do ickkle girly singers, is all. Hearing the track in isolation on the album might change my mind, but in that particular context, it was incongruous. And as others have stated, she looked bored as hell.


Rather than looking at her in a "she seems bored" way, look at it like she's "on the island" and she's so freakin' relaxed that she's almost falling asleep. Brian and her just shared one of the fattest doobies. The cigarette burn on the living room table is a marijuana cigarette.


What doesn't make a lick of sense though is why the "On The Island" footage that's obviously recording studio footage is there in the middle of a video promoting a LIVE AND IN CONCERT!!! television special....


They could have at least faked it. Gotten her to perform at a later date on the same stage, interspersed with shots of the audience when there actually was one....


But hey, if that non-live footage of that "very pretty girl" is the low point in this upcoming special, we've got solid gold on our hands.


Blondie Chaplin, Ricky Fataar, Billy Hinsche, and Alan Jardine performing on the same stage as Brian Wilson in 2015? Shoot me out of a cannon into the sun, I must be dreaming.
64  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: (in)Sanity Check - Right Time on: March 20, 2015, 01:38:52 AM
"Right Time" and "Lay Down Burden" are similar in a "Girls On The Beach sounds like Surfer Girl" way, but lesser so.



Right Time kicks in its own way, but Lay Down Burden is one of my top favorite BW solo tracks. It's just Brian Wilson at his gut wrenchingly saddest.


And knowing the song is inspired by Brian's baby brother being taken from this world long before his time....  Embarrassed


Right Time, while a good song, just seems like lyrical "fluff" to me.

Right, could it be the right, could it be the right time for getting together?
65  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Brian is Doing an AMA on Reddit Today at 1pm PST on: March 20, 2015, 12:30:46 AM
that AMA totally won the internet. Definitely one of the best interviews of all time. OF ALL TIME.



Did anybody else get a hilarious mental image of Brian Wilson kicking the poo out of a swarm of duck-sized horses?
66  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / Smiley Smilers Who Make Music / Re: How to Start Up a Band? on: March 19, 2015, 12:23:33 AM
The bare minimum that you'll need to start a "band" is somebody that can sing, and somebody that can play the guitar/piano/bass with enough effects that it can mimic a guitar/piano. The singer and instrumentalist can be the same person, but the more people you have, the less stressed out you'll be. At least until you're famous and the 4 different band members have 4 different managers/lawyers and you have no sort of relationship with your former friends aside from a business one.

Learn to play some scales, learn some songs other people wrote. Get inspired and learn to write your own tunes.


Either way, get proficient at playing covers and/or original tunes, and you'll be neck deep in bar slut tang before you know it.
67  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Brian Wilson Taping Soundstage Special With Special Guests on: March 19, 2015, 12:18:16 AM
Well hot damn, ain't that something ?  Grin  Major props to Nate for having the titanium balls to sing "HO,DB" with the original vocalist within arms length. And nail it.

That whole trailer was pretty mind blowing, from Our Prayer through Good Vibrations.

It all sounded so good.


Can't wait to see/hear the whole Soundstage special, AND hear what future Brian Wilson collaborations we have in store.


Hearing Blondie/Brian/Al trade off parts in just that small little part of the video shows how much those 3 complement each other. AND to have Ricky Fataar there playing his tunes.


Can't call this a good time to be a Beach Boys fan, but it sure as hell is likely the best time to be a Brian Wilson fan since the mid-1960s.....


Mazel tov, Mr. Wilson & co.!
68  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Why did Brian go with the title Then I Kissed Her instead of Then She Kissed Me? on: March 19, 2015, 12:10:53 AM
Never in the history of the two different sexes has "she walked up to him and asked him if he wanted to dance", and if she did, she sure as hell didn't kiss him after asking his sorry, no self esteem having ass to dance with her.


Sure, call it sexist or whatever, but it's the truth. I mean, maybe that happened, a couple times maximum, but it likely ended in suicide once he found out she only asked him to dance and to kiss her because she felt sorry for him. So he definitely didn't change the words to a song he was covering because of it.


And that is why the song is the way it is.
69  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / On The Island is No Pier Pressure's Shortenin' Bread on: March 19, 2015, 12:05:54 AM
Maybe it's just my ears, but more likely, your ears just haven't put 2 and 2 together yet.  Smokin
70  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / The Sandbox / Re: blood oranges vs. regular oranges on: March 18, 2015, 11:59:52 PM
When I lived in Japan I would gorge myself on the mandarin oranges. Small with soft peels, and usually perfectly sweet and tangy. They are the best fruit.

THEY AREN'T ONE OF THE OPTIONS YOU ARE DISQUALIFIED

I agree. Mandarins are good and all, but are in a completely different category than regular or "navel" oranges, or blood oranges. Like comparing lemons to limes. Who would do such a thing?
71  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / The Sandbox / Re: Terabyte drives on: March 18, 2015, 11:58:50 PM
I am not sure I understand your last post. It is clearly possible to listen to a playlist without shuffling it.

No one is forced to create playlists in order to listen to music on Spotify. You can play albums, single tracks and what not without adding them to a playlist first.

I dunno, any time I'm on an album or playlist I create, and I click an individual song, the icon for 'shuffle' does a little pulse, or flash, or for lack of a better term than those two, a sort of "click me!!" thing, otherwise I can't get anything to play.


I can click "add to queue", but then it throws up a window with GET PREMIUM

Then there's 5 windows you can swipe through that are like:

"Pick any song/Pick and play, on every device."
"Music without limits/Premium lets you play any song, anytime. No ads. No restrictions."
"Listen offline/Take your tunes anywhere."
"No ads/Just uninterrupted music."
"Better sound quality/Listen in higher definition."


So judging from what Spotify is telling me at that point, it definitely seems like I can't listen to the music I want to, when I want to.

So I'm not sure if you actually paid for Spotify but don't remember the fact that you did, or if whatever country (Swedish? Are you Swedenese?  Grin) you live in has different rules for Spotify, but as far as the Spotify app will let my California-living ass do, I'm forced to do shuffle playlists/albums of songs I want to hear, but have no guarantee I'll actually get to hear the songs I want to aside from the first or possibly second tune I want to hear on the album/playlist.


But whatever, it's not important for me, I can just buy the stuff I want to hear.
72  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / The Sandbox / Re: Terabyte drives on: March 17, 2015, 11:50:16 PM
The only option is not shuffle. I have the free version of Spotify and you can choose whether you want to shuffle or not:



I can't. You can click on the song you want to play, but it doesn't play the songs, it just makes the "shuffle playlist" icon flash so you click on it....



73  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / The Sandbox / blood oranges vs. regular oranges on: March 17, 2015, 11:48:53 PM
now that they're all in season and whatnot, which would you rather eat?

you ever had a cara cara orange? they're kinda pinkish on the inside, but look like regular oranges on the outside. it's wild!
74  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Runaway Dancer available for purchase on itunes on: March 17, 2015, 11:46:54 PM
I dunno, man, jus listen to Sebu's "Safe And Sound" and then compared that to the "ya it's been the talk of the town" that's repeated several times in this new tune.


It just don't do it for me. Not trying to be controversial or whatever or anything at all, really, but yeah.


Maybe it works for a prechorus, but for the number of times that "ya its been the talk of the town" bit plays throughout the song, it's just not on the same level as the choruses or hooks that put Brian Wilson on the level that he's on. unless that part ain't the hook? But what do i know? I'm just some Brian Wilsinfidel.


the sample of "Runaway Dancer" seemed kinda cool, but the whole thing's kinda repetitive, lacking that je ne sais quois that Brian Wilson songs generally have.....
75  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / The Sandbox / Re: Terabyte drives on: March 17, 2015, 11:38:37 PM
Says you. It's unavailable in Russia.

It's okay, Spotify is overrated, unless you want to pay money for it. YouTube is wayyyy better for hearing songs you want to hear, when you want to hear them.


If you don't want to give Spotify your money, you're forced to add a bunch of songs to a playlist, and then you aren't even allowed to play the playlist in the order you added them! The only option is to "shuffle" it and after a couple tunes, it just goes to its endless list of "songs you may like".


And when it comes to paying artists money for the music they create, Spotify is just barely, slightly above "stealing" or "pirating" music....
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