I saw one of those Tim and Eric guys sing it a few years ago a few feet from a highly bemused Paul Williams

That sounds like quite a sight, what was the context?

Absolutely none of that stuff is acknowledged in the extras apart from the obvious color palettes.

Or perhaps the Wondermints version ( released 1996) which was recorded at the insistence of their Japanese Label? 

http://www.allmusic.com/album/wonderful-world-of-the-wondermints-mw0000464882

Was it? Never heard that before.

According to Russ Titelman:

Yes, we co-wrote "Sherri She Needs Me" and "Guess I'm Dumb." The second one was recorded by Glen Campbell; a Japanese woman just recently recorded it and it was on a Japanese album that sold about 700,000 copies. Can you imagine?!

The cover by Tatsuro Yamashita is pretty well known but Google doesn't say anything about a woman covering it in the '90s.

Doesn't sound any more like the BB than anything else he's done.

Saved. It's totally worth posting chops of soundtrack (as opposed to entire tracks).

They're not the best quality though so I'd rather wait for somebody to post better rips before anybody makes anything with them.

Beat me to it! Haha. Nice job. You could also overlap the "Gotta keep those lovin' good" parts on top of each other to make it sound double tracked.

Good idea.

Anyone going to post rips from the soundtrack? I've tried to extract Deep End and the Good Vibes vocals but it sounds so distorted I don't think it's worth posting.

I did this experiment anyway. Not perfect but I tried. (And why not this too)

Yeah. A lady whose initials are Melinda Wilson. It's most definitely her. Listen to that voice and compare it to her voice in IJWMFTT.

Wow they sound nothing alike!

That lady has to be somebody we've heard of?

I hadn't heard of it either but I would gauge that perhaps there are many more young fans of '90s hip-hop than there are of Brian Wilson or John Cusack -- coupled with more people who'd watch a crime popcorn flick over an esoteric biography.

What are the chords? Sounds like it's in G

The penultimate Beach Boys album?

Anybody hear any uncredited samples? I'm pretty sure there's electric bass from I'm So Young on Black Hole at 0:30.

I wish they included "Headphones" and "Deep End"...

Seems like every Smile piece got the shaft. That's really unfortunate.

Almost immediately I noticed that the line "you're grass and I'm a power mower" is absent from "Black Hole"

Taking out one of the most memorable parts...

I wonder if Carol felt this way, why she would participate in the roundtable "reunion" in the movie in which she talked to Tedesco and Hal Blaine as old friends and why when Hal brings up the origin of the term "wrecking crew" in said discussion, she didn't argue it?

There is a jump-cut immediately after Hal's explanation for the name. It's likely that she did argue it, but the footage was left out.

The quote does indeed come from the January 2006 issue of Record Collector. The full article was posted on this board many moons ago.

Again, I'm not saying I'm totally correct about this particular scene, but calling such speculation ridiculously abstruse is ridiculous itself

Sorry but 'Brian sitting down => Brian laying in bed' and 'Carl holding a beer => Carl is an alcoholic' is grasping for straws. Melinda's wearing a blue dress at the beginning of the movie to carry a water motif -- there is a lot 'white' in the '80s scenes to emphasize the 'clinical-ness' of the era -- stuff like that I'm willing to swallow. Also confirmed by Pohlad himself, which helps. I also feel there was legitimate 2001 foreshadowing in the 'cancelled session' scene.

Almost like he'll be those things 'til he dies...

The comparison is that both scenes served the same purpose in establishing a 'peace-keeping' character, except I think L&M was going for something beyond that which is later echoed in the repeated line 'family first, Brian'.

So according to this logic, Dennis missing from the railing during the bed montage scene was probably just Kenny Wormald missing from the set, getting a coke or something, and Bill Pohlad saying "f*** it....action!"

I was talking about the scene where Dano is in the pool. Obviously the railing disappearance was intentional. There are no doubt moments in the film with genuine undertones or foreshadowing, but they aren't so ridiculously abstruse as 'Brian sitting down => Brian laying in bed'. The color blue as a visual motif, Murry telling Brian 'Nobody is going to remember the Beach Boys in five years', and such are all obvious and unmistakable.

Er, no. I only make weird, terrible movies for 12 dollars or so but sorting out the BLOCKING definitely takes more than 5 seconds of thought. The DP furrows his brow and mutters about light. Bits of tape are placed on the ground. Actors then do actory things and so much for your intricate tape markers!

Sure, blocking takes thought, but not 'ought these guys be in the pool with Brian?'.

Carl's line "We just gotta to stick together brothers. We just stick together, it'll all be okay", I think, is meant to illustrate that he is the brother trying to hold all of it together and will be that anchor for the brothers and the band in the years to come after Brian relinquishes control. And yes, it's deep.

Deep? I disagree, unless we're looking from the angle of 'Brian sticking to his family led to his downfall'. It's just proof that Moverman did his research. Everyone already knows Carl as the member who "held the band together". Would you say the same about Carl's WIBN speech in An American Family?

I think someone earlier in the thread posted that they were planning to purchase the VHS...

Given the scene shows up again during the "Bed Montage" and Dennis is missing from the railing (yet Carl and Brian are in their same spots), yeah, I'd say that scene was probably meant to foreshadow future events. The whole movie is FULL of allegories, imagery with hidden meanings. Look at the pool Smile discussion scene and how each character is given a specific place in regards to their place in the Smile story.

The time it took to plan where each actor would be positioned in that scene probably took 5 seconds of thought at the most. The script called for 'Brian' to hold a meeting in the pool. We know in real life, based on legend, that Carl and Dennis were much more likely than Mike to tolerate the pool meetings. So that means he wasn't in the pool for that scene. It's built in the character.

Is Al Jardine in the background with no lines supposed to be some sort of deep allegory that he had the least substantial contributions to the Beach Boys? Or maybe he's just in the background with no lines because he did nothing in real life that would have benefited the film's structure and aesthetic, and especially so for that scene? I'll go with the latter.

Hey, why doesn't anyone mention how Bruce isn't in that scene? Clearly foreshadowing that Bruce would leave the band for the recording of Smiley Smile and Lei'd in Hawaii... genius!

Carl holding a beer because of his alcohol troubles? Dennis "on the edge"? Love & Mercy is a smart and subtle movie but I don't think it's that smart and subtle. Especially when it thinks Van Dyke was a lyricist at 14. Brian laying down on a chair = foreshadowing Brian laying in bed? Come on...

Grossly overweight and addicted to drugs, Wilson, 73, was on death’s door in 1982 when Landy was asked to step in.

So, Brian is a centenarian?