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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Carol Kaye's BS
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on: January 08, 2016, 09:39:32 AM
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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.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Annoying Songs
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on: March 15, 2015, 06:46:08 AM
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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.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: God Only Knows BBC Music ad
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on: October 08, 2014, 01:39:01 AM
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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'.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Smile Sessions vs Dylan Basement Tapes Box
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on: August 30, 2014, 03:17:46 AM
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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.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: If the Beach Boys did release Smile back in the day
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on: August 08, 2014, 03:43:32 AM
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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.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: the honeys - ecstasy Lp
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on: April 13, 2014, 01:10:41 AM
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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.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Made In California price drop
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on: April 13, 2014, 01:06:14 AM
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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.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Most \
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on: November 10, 2013, 02:28:15 AM
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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.
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