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1  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / The Sandbox / Re: Summer of Trump on: March 01, 2016, 01:46:36 AM
He's Goin Bald?
2  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Carol Kaye's BS on: January 08, 2016, 09:39:32 AM
With all due respect etc etc, and departing from the BB's history for the moment, she did recently imply that session musicians played every note on the Buffalo Springfield's records, which is clearly complete balderdash, according to my ears and to the line-up notes on the Springfield box set. It does put people's backs up, whatever the memory problems and chauvinistic environment.
3  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Holy… on: November 27, 2015, 12:57:27 AM
The vendor is no serious BB fan, or he'd know about the original lyric.

...and he'd know how to spell Beach Boys.
4  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Test LPs on: April 18, 2015, 04:34:21 AM
That's the point, surely. They're saying that if you can hear all the fine detail and layering in this LP, the turntable must be doing a great job.
5  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Test LPs on: April 17, 2015, 08:07:16 AM
I thought the board might appreciate this!

http://www.whathifi.com/news/12-best-vinyl-test-records

Coming from that quarter, a highly unexpected testimonial.
6  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Annoying Songs on: March 15, 2015, 06:46:08 AM
Most of my negative reactions to BB material would be classed as embarrassing rather than annoying. That would include some of Brian's late-70s songs. 'Annoying' would be hearing Dennis having a shag at the end of All I Want To Do.

As far as SDT is concerned, I was one of the many BB fans who would have far preferred another BW or a DW song there instead (WIBNTLA etc, blah blah). However, firstly I agree with the poster who said it's good that Mike was at least aware enough of what was happening in the wider world (oh all right, wider US) to write that song, and some of the Holland era stuff; second, some of my friends too took it seriously and were more interested in that track than, say, Long Promised Road; and third, I recently listened to the 180g pressing of SU and actually rather liked it. I think it was important at the time.

All I can say about Vietnam is, thank God we here in the UK didn't get involved in that one. Probably why we had Traffic and Syd Barrett rather than Jim Morrison and Country Joe.
7  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Brian's greatest lead vocal on: March 10, 2015, 02:39:46 AM
"Midnight's Another Day".

Yes, there's unlikely to be another one like that.

If you look on the YouTube vid of the song (well, one of them), you'll see a new comment by a certain Steve Kalinich.
8  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Record Store Day, April 18, 2015 on: February 03, 2015, 01:28:30 AM
'How Deep Is The Ocean Surf's Up (= 'Til I Die minus Brian's lead)'

...is that two separate tracks (TID and SU?)
9  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Kokomo vs. Here Comes the Night (DISCO) article - worst ever on: January 22, 2015, 06:39:05 AM
I really like HCTN, even the 12in remix  Afro, and Kokomo too.
But then I really like Looking Back With Love. (really).
10  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: \ on: January 18, 2015, 03:42:18 AM
double post
11  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: If you could only keep one album from the 1968-1973 period? on: January 15, 2015, 01:29:07 AM
Surf's Up w/ "WIBNTLA" as the bonus cut. That was easy.

+ 1 - + Fourth of July too.
12  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Christmas (Beach Boys Related) on: December 27, 2014, 03:28:40 AM
An initially unreleased masterpiece from 1967 - Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes (2014 version). Like Smile, the 2-CD version is excellent value for money!
13  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Sexual innuendo in Beach Boys songs on: December 07, 2014, 04:11:41 AM
Do You Like Worms is a fairly clear reference to William Blake's poem The Sick Rose.
14  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Has Brian Wilson ever sued Brian Wilson? on: November 09, 2014, 08:15:46 AM
Don't forget Dennis Wilson, who wrote the music to the show Fawlty Towers.

...whose middle name was Main, which strangely is where the BB ended up.
15  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Beach Boys cancel their first Tel Aviv concert on: October 22, 2014, 05:31:36 AM
hmmmm
16  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: What Song are you on: October 21, 2014, 05:25:25 AM
Wouldn't it be nice to live again. There's quite a lot I'd change about my own life - but the temptation to blow the whistle on the not-yet-happened (assuming one could remember the future, so to speak) might be too much.
17  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: God Only Knows BBC Music ad on: October 09, 2014, 08:48:56 AM
My vote goes to Nicola Benedetti and Alison Balsom!

Probably a wise move too to omit the 'what good would living do me' verse. Especially with all the angst-ridden teenagers watching.
18  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: God Only Knows BBC Music ad on: October 08, 2014, 01:39:01 AM
No one's mentioned the real reason this song was chosen by the BBC....

1. The BBC is a publicly funded broadcasting organisation - i.e. paid for from a form of taxation, and free of advertising on radio and TV (and online etc).

2. The UK has a general election in May 2015 after which it's quite possible that a Conservative government, keen to pare back public services, will make further severe cuts - including to the BBC.... if not privatising it. The Tories don't like the BBC.

3. Hence 'God only knows where I'd be without you'.
19  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Smile Sessions vs Dylan Basement Tapes Box on: August 30, 2014, 03:17:46 AM
I agree with the OP, and am really looking forward to the BAsement tapes. One irony in the BB comparison is that a lot of these are in incredibly lo-fi, whereas the BB mid-60s sessions sound like they're in your living room.

I think the reasons are partly BB politics, but also an incredible lack of confidence in the BB archivists - they've always been , or seemed to be, in the position of a team who are constantly battling to get anything released - hence MiC, yet another career retrospective containing just enough rarities to sell to the fans. All of this must be down to company management at Capitol. And what were the sales figures for MiC (snigger).

Sony, on the other hand, who bought Columbia, seem to completely understand the market and the fan-base. They give the fans exactly what thjey want - including POB - and it sells. The shame is that the BB archive went back to Capitol rather than staying with Epic -> Sony.
20  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: If the Beach Boys did release Smile back in the day on: August 08, 2014, 03:43:32 AM
Would've sold about as well as Pet Sounds I think.

I think better than PS, if released in the first 3 months of 67, because the album was wider in scope (than romantic, string-laden ballads) and people were up for it.

Here in the UK, the BBs were voted best group in the world at the end of 66, overtaking the Beatles for the first time, GV was massive, and we were listening to Hendrix, Cream, Traffic, etc - check out the charts for early 67.

After the summer and the San Francisco explosion (earthquake?), tastes began to change.
21  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Brother Re-Issues: Proposed Bonus Tracks on: May 30, 2014, 12:57:57 AM
Looking at those track listings I would far rather have had this released than MiC.
Deluxe versions of Sunflower, Surf's Up and Holland are needed!
22  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: the honeys - ecstasy Lp on: April 13, 2014, 01:10:41 AM
I have an autographed copy of the album stored somewhere; is it worth anything? "Love You Forever", "Indian Giver" and "Temptation Eyes" aren't bad, actually.
!
My copy from the mid-80s is autographed too - so maybe they all were!
It certainly has possibly the worst cover of all time (probably worse than 'Smell the Glove'), but I find it all rather enjoyable, in an unpleasantly 80s kind of way. Apart from the BW songs I like the revival of the Grassroots song among others. I file it next to Looking Back with Love in the great BB LP library.
23  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Made In California price drop on: April 13, 2014, 01:06:14 AM
Funnily enough I was idly trawling through Amazon.co.uk the other day and I saw it on Media Mine for £39.64 including shipping. I thought - yeah, given the number of times I've bought the vast majority of those songs (including the 50 Big ones set and some of the Japanese CDs) AND the relatively small amount of new footage that's really on there, that's about the right price - so, long term fan though I am, I finally got round to buying it.

I like it - at least, I like the packaging a whole lot more than the Smile box, as well as the sequencing/editing, and the 'new'/unreleased tracks are all worth having...... but I'm certainly glad I didn't stump up £80+ - sorry guys. For the fan, it could have been a two-CD set.
24  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Most \ on: November 10, 2013, 02:28:15 AM
The last two. I jettisoned my Summer in Paradise after about a week. Couldn't get into TWGMTR really - too artificial.

The rest I think of and/or play from time to time. E.g. although Keepin isn't a great album there's at least two tunes on it which keep popping into my head. Similarly Surfin Safari has some ear-worms.
25  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Japanese editon of \ on: October 26, 2013, 06:26:07 AM
I got mine in '89. Sounds fab. Still haunted by the little vocal section at the start of Can't Wait and wonder why this hasn't been officially released.
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