What does it mean when you're Losing It? That you're falling off the Deep End.

I think that particular soundtrack is exclusive to Japan and may not be the 'actual' soundtrack we'll get in September. Also, the title of the soundtrack is "Owaranai Merodi" which basically translates to "Endless Melody".

The missing tracks are "End Date", "Headphones", "Knives and Forks", "Deep End", "B&M Studio", "Baby No Morph", and "Into Mercy"
The newly titled pieces are "Losing It", "I'm Right Here", and "Intersection".

I would guess that "Knives and Forks" and "Headphones" were cut, since it's just 20 seconds of screaming and tapping.

EDIT: Wait, no "Love & Mercy Owaranai Merodi" is what the film is titled in Japan. I dunno.

Thomas was not that involved with NPP as one would think...

I never meant to insinuate that Joe Thomas was involved with NPP -- of course that isn't the case. We all know that "produced by Joe Thomas" wasn't a credit attribution, it was just ¸.•*""*•. ¸magical writing¸.•*""*•. ¸, inscripted for the purpose of summoning autotune, sleazy yacht rock song structures, and adult contemporary arrangements directly from the nether realm.

Watch as the MOR disappears once "produced by Joe Thomas" is erased -- now you hear it, now you don't!

Most offensive solo Brian album behind Imagination. Praying that Thomas and the 'guest singers' will leave for good.

the purpose of the question was to ponder possibilities. Isn't that what we often do on this board?

Unfortunately!

What if someone asked a question that couldn't be answered definitely?

Note this blurb in the second listing: "Contains voice excerpts of Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Chuck Britz and Hal Blaine"....intriguing.

Good Vibrations "Persuasion" session highlights play during the credits.

Really hope they just release the Ross score as-is and maybe include outtakes or extended versions that didn't make the cut.

I want to read a book about Love You, but only if the author has a wide music scope, and is prepared to invest an intense amount of research, which I don't see too often with people on this board. And recent books about the Beach Boys are rarely interesting or enlightening whenever the subject turns to an analysis of music composition or historical context.

It's true that some people were anxious simply over the fact that it was a "guest singers album" since Gettin' In Over My Head was so bad, but I seriously doubt people would have had the same reaction had Mac DeMarco been on the bill. I hate that dude and even I would have been excited.

I wouldn't be surprised if Brian has no idea who Elephant 6 is even though people have been asking him about it for 10 years. I wish his kids had better taste in music.

And look at those negative reactions that hit this board to word last summer that Brian was working with new artists.

It was the artists he was working with that sparked a negative reaction, not that some of them happened to be new. Also the shamelessness of "Yeah, the only reason these 'guest collaborators' are here is to make a quick buck from 10-year-olds, not to create art." Everybody would have lost their sh*t in anticipation if somebody like R. Stevie Moore or Noah Lennox was called in instead of what's-her-name-coincidentally-signed-to-Capitol-Records and what's-his-name-coincidentally-signed-to-Capitol-Records.

"Roller Skating Child" for the single, no contest.

Why does Brian record at Ocean Way on 6050 Sunset when his preferred studio in the '60s was EastWest at 6000 Sunset?

I think a 2012 remake of the song would have to be an improvement on the 85 version - the production on that album was awful and ruined almost every song on it IMO. 

This is a very ironic statement...

More clips from the film can be seen here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5CUWzn-iYs

Hanna-Barbera/Looney Tunes scores weren't exactly different from most comedy scores of that era.

Was Brian influenced by any and all cartoon/comedy motifs? Absolutely. Was Brian specifically influenced by Hoyt Curtin? The answer depends on whether he's the kinda guy to pay attention to incidental music. Would somebody ask him?

There is a less than 1% chance of the Beach Boys being mentioned in any article about the Beatles for the last fifty years. Pet Sounds is barely a footnote in books about Sgt. Pepper. I seriously doubt George was parroting anybody, and I didn't get that impression in his tone.

I have posted this elsewhere but it bears repeating here:

Look up any editorial about Pet Sounds, "the critically-acclaimed pop album, inspired by the Beatles' Rubber Soul, which later influenced Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band."

Do the same for Sgt. Pepper, "the unprecedented forerunner to art rock and experimental pop music."

I once read a claim by somebody from the industry -- don't remember who, don't remember where, but I think it was in a book -- that all four Beatles would spend weekends dropping acid and listening to Pet Sounds over and over again. Maybe somebody can find where that story originates... I've been unsuccessful.

Now, this is just my reading of it and nothing else, he says “we were trying to compete with the Beach Boys” almost as if he’s repeating what *others* have said about it.

There is a less than 1% chance of the Beach Boys being mentioned in any article about the Beatles for the last fifty years. Pet Sounds is barely a footnote in books about Sgt. Pepper. I seriously doubt George was parroting anybody, and I didn't get that impression in his tone.

The "it's not over... not over" in the middle of Surf's Up fits it so well.

Obviously he was consciously experimenting with the 'surf's up mmhmm mmhmm' melody. Nothing strange about it. It's live and he can sing anything however he wants.

Yeah, 'I'm Broke' is a Wilson/Paley song, but the arrangement is slightly different from the original recording

I like how the new arrangements are actually interesting and sound nothing like Imagination or NPP. Makes me optimistic about the covers album.

I don't know what point you're trying to make. One is a full-on collaborative effort. The other was him hanging around a recording studio and suggesting off-the-cuff "Brian, why not have Jesse Ehrlich play triplets on the root notes?". They're incomparable. If he had written lyrics, it would have reflected in the publishing. It's a whole different bag.

Whatever it is, it doesn't look very programmable or analog. Probably couldn't be anything else but a DX model, right?

Again, the fire episode is touched upon in a (poorly written) outtake.

In the EPK he's listed as a Stunt Performer.

Yeah, but is it really that Jonathan Paley? Mark Linett and Darian Sahanaja's involvement are not too surprising, but Andy Paley's brother seems out of nowhere, and for a strange credit too.