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26  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: OK Everybody, Sing on: December 18, 2015, 10:47:28 AM
I noticed but I don't think any of the original midis are available. I was looking for Our Prayer.
27  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Rocky Pamplin book about The Beach Boys? on: December 17, 2015, 10:50:41 PM
First off I am curious as to who chose the websites name...Smiley Smile! For it gives the impression they are... IN THE KNOW...I could be in the wrong... I wasn't in the loop back then,,, But I think Marilyn's sister Diane Rovell may have come up with the term.

If you had no idea that the Beach Boys released an album called Smiley Smile in 1967, then what else did 'Smiley Smile' refer to?
28  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: OK Everybody, Sing on: December 17, 2015, 10:37:12 PM
That mirror is gone now...
29  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: 'Darlin' featured on The Big Bang Theory TV show on: December 14, 2015, 08:01:30 AM
I don't watch the show because I find even the commercials for it too annoying to stomach.  But what I wonder is why people here are so happy to see this reference to a BBs song in a TV show.  I mean the BBs are hardly obscure (although I admit that in this case the track isn't one of their ultra-famous songs).  It's not like they're an underground indie band that needs to be discovered - they're one of the most famous bands ever.  If people need a sitcom to "discover the genius" of the BBs, I kind of actually wish that they wouldn't.  It just means that real fans will get crappier seats at Brian Wilson shows.  Why the need for the whole world to love them as much as we do?  

+1

There's really nothing remarkable about 6 notes from a Beach Boys song being the subject of a mediocre sitcom episode... the only cause for celebration is extra royalty money.
30  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Pheonix and Bill Murray release "Alone on Christmas Day" single on: December 04, 2015, 03:32:12 AM
More info here: http://pitchfork.com/news/62342-bill-murray-and-phoenix-cover-the-beach-boys-alone-on-christmas-day/

Based on the original 1979 version, not the new Mike Love recording
31  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: 1965 archives on: December 02, 2015, 03:00:07 AM
Yeah they wouldn't do back-to-back archival releases.

Except they did... last year... Keepin' Eye on Summer Alive 1964 and Live at Sacramento 1964.

EMI just issued the earliest Syd recordings from 1965, so the extension law is still intact. Everyone knows there's plenty of material* for a potential Girl Don't Tell Me/California Girls/Let Him Run Wild/Please Let Me Wonder/Kiss Me Baby/You're So Good to Me 1965 (I'm betting on any one of those titles).

*Albeit mostly already booted.
32  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Let's complete the circle - release an un-Landy version of BRIAN WILSON on: November 28, 2015, 03:56:46 AM
If Brian and his collaborators had recorded in the 1966 style in 1988, the result would have been panned as sounding stuck in the past. Who has the vision to know what is going to sound cool or hip 20 years into the future?

Uh... people who know better...? The ephemeral 'Top 40 sound' isn't anything new to the industry. The same minds who thought DX7s were an acceptable compromise over organic instruments also think pitch correction is an acceptable compromise over multiple vocal takes.
33  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Love And Mercy - portrayal of studio sessions. on: November 20, 2015, 09:30:01 AM
Also, as has been pointed out, it would be unlikely that Karol would make such a comment in any case because she would be familiar with Brian's way of working and as a professional session musician it would be highly unlikely that Brian would know better than her about how a bass will sound in a record.

It's just as likely that Kaye would have questioned the use of two keys in a way that's like, "Hey, this kid wrote in two keys. That has to be a mistake -- it's too complex for a rock and roll record." Which is exactly how Lyle Ritz cites the story. https://youtu.be/93lduXoNuCE?t=46
34  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Let's complete the circle - release an un-Landy version of BRIAN WILSON on: November 19, 2015, 11:58:57 AM
Let's complete the circle - BDW should go back in the studio and rerecord Pet Sounds with acoustic guitars and pitch correction, just like it was originally envisioned.
35  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: BEACH BOYS’ PARTY! Uncovered and Unplugged on: November 17, 2015, 03:17:54 PM
It looks like the cover was tweaked a bit for color correction and now it's slightly easier on the eyes.


New


Original
36  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Sitars – why did The Beach Boys never use them? Or did they? on: November 13, 2015, 08:20:33 PM
Wilson when asked about sitars in '66:

"Yeah. I think it's interesting, and if I feel I can make a record that uses an instrument such as a sitar, then I'll do it." (Priore 2005, p. 69)
37  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: 1982 photo of Brian. on: November 13, 2015, 11:50:26 AM
his teeth look awful
That's not his tooth, he's biting into a cigarette

Uh, no...no cigarette in the picture

It kinda looked like a cig but now I don't know after zooming in.
38  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: 1982 photo of Brian. on: November 11, 2015, 03:44:15 PM
his teeth look awful
That's not his tooth, he's biting into a cigarette
39  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: New David Marks track - \ on: November 07, 2015, 05:14:44 AM
Very well done... and listening to it right after 'Alone On Christmas Day 2015' is lol...
40  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: David marks on: November 07, 2015, 05:11:51 AM
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41  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Alone On Christmas Day on: November 07, 2015, 04:10:15 AM
New backing track = improvement over the original, can't go wrong with Spectoresque

New vocals/autotune = ...why?

I wonder who mixed this. That mistake at 2:54...

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I thought I'd heard of "French rock band Phoenix" before...
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In 1995, Laurent Brancowitz, Mazzalai's older brother, permanently joined the band on guitar after the end of Darlin', a short-lived band that Brancowitz had formed with Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (Bangalter and de Homem-Christo later formed Daft Punk

It sure is characteristic of Love to be approached by 'artier' rock musicians to record one of his songs, only for him to go, 'Uh, actually, I can do better.' (He must have heard their cover of Darlin' beforehand.)
42  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Love and Mercy Film Changes on: November 01, 2015, 09:49:27 PM
the film never explicitly states that that was the character's first LSD experience, in fact it's hinted at in the line: "I took LSD... and then I took it again."
43  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Love and Mercy Film Changes on: November 01, 2015, 07:45:08 AM
Cusack's Brian says he first heard voices in 63, after his first LSD trip in 65
Mike hears Brian start to compose GV , the backing track is virtually complete when he hears it

neither of these things are impossible although the 1963 date contradicts public knowledge.
44  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: BEACH BOYS’ PARTY! Uncovered and Unplugged on: October 22, 2015, 10:14:28 PM
The cover is literally the Party cover with inverted color palette and new B&W photos. They probably should have inverted the photographs as well so that it would be more obvious. That cyan and blue doesn't really work together at first glance.

Also, it's blatantly obvious that this is being issued for copyright reasons, and also so that the real archival release for 1965 isn't disproportionately focused on Party.
45  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Wake the World is Do You Like Worms-y on: October 22, 2015, 07:43:36 PM
did Brian Wilson invent playing piano chords with a sustain pedal?
46  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Drums (Or lack thereof) on Love You on: October 22, 2015, 07:42:41 PM
On certain tracks there is definitely electronic percussion layered on top of a real drum kit. An early mix of I'll Bet He's Nice has a drum machine loop and it makes it sound a hell of a lot like Rundgren.
47  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: \ on: October 11, 2015, 04:34:35 AM
Either Brian or Rocky Pamplin.
48  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Brian's tribute to John Lennon on: October 10, 2015, 02:59:48 AM
I wonder what Brian would think about how several people have witnessed him interacting with John Lennon in the '70s.
49  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: What Was Going On With BW in the 1990's (Besides Landy)? on: October 08, 2015, 03:34:42 PM
Perhaps Brian will address this is his autobiography.

probably not considering how tight-lipped everybody has been about what happened and why it didn't come out.
50  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: BW loves The Jesus and Mary Chain!! on: October 01, 2015, 11:17:02 PM
I can't see that story having any truth to it
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