[Stage Fright]

There's also "The Rumor", the last track on The Band's third album Stage Fright. It's the only track to incorporate anything of the vocal interplay all over its predecessors. And those three closing thumps have something very final about them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8Pt_ZkGg8I

[Strictly Personal]

Good call, BL.

Three that immediately come to mind:

- "The End" (The Doors song)

- "Kandy Korn" (on Captain Beefheart's Strictly Personal). That final instrumental workout takes album closers to another level:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwp5Cic3N3I

- "When The Levee Breaks" (Led Zeppelin IV). Putting "Stairway To Heaven" at the end of side one rather than side two was a stroke of genius. Bonham's drumming on "WTLB" is to die for:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WVvizpjJK4

As for Beach Boys albums, "Surf's Up" is about as good as it gets. I also have a soft spot for "The Shift" on their debut, as its unique harmonic structure gives an inkling of what Brian would be capable of in the years to come...

[Infuriatingly, the Tusk version isn't on Youtube.]

I'm more of a Stevie fan, if only on the strength of "Sara", which goes to places where few pop songs ever venture. Part of the song is in the Lydian mode, which has always done strange and exciting things to me. Infuriatingly, the Tusk version isn't on Youtube. 

Well, it's there now. This is the stunning full-length version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOVyBhVsOV0

As for Christine, I first heard her voice when she was Christine Perfect and sang with Chicken Shack. Their gorgeous cover of Etta James' "I'd Rather Go Blind" was a UK #14 hit in 1969:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DrAH9I0G2I

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Shack

Is anyone else here a huge fan?

Their newest album, The Tipping Point has been on replay for me since I first got it.

My wife and I going to see them on tour next month!!

Hi there, pm. Not a huge fan but I knew and liked a few of the early songs at the time, most notably "Mad World" and "Shout". I watched a great documentary about them a while back.

Hope you enjoy the concert next month!

I discovered "Battleflag" by a circuitous route that took me from the remixes of Com Truise to the Belgian outfit Arsenal to their guest singer Shawn Smith to his band Pigeonhed and lastly to the stunning remix Lo Fidelity Allstars made of the Pigeonhed song "Battle Flag":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bh-j4vVbTU

Julian Lennon just turned 59
I had totally forgotten about his 1984 album, Valotte. Just listened to the title track plus a few others. Pretty good stuff.

I missed this first time round. I'm unacquainted with Julian's music, E, so thank you for posting this! That title track is pretty cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pAlNUJzj7E

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valotte

[Любовь права]

These are Olga Voskonyan & BIO performing "Нежные слова" (Tender words) from their 2021 album Любовь права (Love is right), with music by the late Oleg Parastaev of Alyans/NRG and lyrics by Olga Voskonyan. Olga's stuff can teeter on the edge of simplistic but it always has a calming effect on me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI5sBd92R9k

THD, I've simplified your link, for which many thanks:

https://www.amazon.fr/Pet-Sounds-Lachevement-Brian-Wilson/dp/2916560068/

And yes, I agree about évaluation!!

Let us know if you decide to fork out for either book.

Hi, THD.

This is a new one on me. It would seem to be available from Amazon:

https://www.amazon.fr/Beach-Boys-LEnfance-pour-léternité/dp/2910196275

Regrettably the two reviews (one of which is scathing) intimate that it's for newcomers to the band and its history.

This is all the information I could find!

The lights are shining less brightly at Smiley. Rest in peace, Rob.

Hi TS. Odd that I'm the first to welcome you here almost a month later (I'm an infrequent visitor to these shores these days).

I hope you've stuck around and still feel inclined to post.

I associate Clio's "Faces" with a time when my head wasn't in a good place. It's great to revisit it now that I've moved on. I love the mid-80s synth sound on this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw3mlykbAfk

https://vehlinggo.com/2015/01/14/clio-faces-italo-disco-beats-alive-1985/

Goodness, the previous post is this thread is almost a year old!

While doing a jigsaw puzzle last night (one of those fascinating "What happens next?" affairs), I had some Italo Disco playing on YouTube. To be honest, I find a little of it goes a long way! And if the track starts with just four-on-the-floor, I generally move on. Two great tracks that don't do this (arguably the best of what I heard last night) are another by Clio, "Eyes" (produced by Robert Ferrante)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1BRc3vpepA

...and "Can Delight" by My Mine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5wybR3h6Zw

Bellissimo!

[Get Back]

I love "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love". Absolutely love those recordings! The video for "Real Love" is pretty bad though.

The "Get Back" movie I didn't watch. A friend of mine and I were going to but after he zapped through all three parts and basically only saw talking bits and other stuff that didn't seem to be very interesting, we decided not to. I only made sure to watch the rooftop performance (I love that and the idea of it). And honestly I don't feel like I missed anything. But I'm not a fan. If I was I probably would have a different view (although, I still haven't seen "Long promised Road" yet).

I'm not a huge Beatles fan either! But I lived through their entire career and I do appreciate their immense talent as a band.

I think if you weren't to watch the talking bits, the rest of the film would make no sense. It's the talk that drives Get Back: Paul's Herculean efforts to create something good out of the mess they started off with; John's ability to twist everything into hilarious one-liners; George's complaints about being ignored (and walking out of the sessions at one point); and Ringo's lack of talk, but when it comes to trying out stuff, he's onto it straight away.

My wife and I watched all three parts and were mesmerized. That's another thing -- if you miss out on the "preamble", the concert seems facile, whereas it was a major struggle to put it on at all. And Billy Preston's entry into the project at a late stage is worth the price of admission alone -- what an inspiration he proved to be!

Just my two euro cents.            

[Watch the first clip from The Beatles: Get Back - which premieres on Disney+ from November 25]

Watch the first clip from The Beatles: Get Back - which premieres on Disney+ from November 25


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSrCk1icisI

My wife and I are so excited for this.

We watched all three episodes in December and were most impressed. What an extraordinary achievement after such a chaotic start, particularly given the obvious personality problems within the group. What did you think of it, rab and/or Rocker?

Actually I came here to post this Beatles song, which I heard on the car radio, didn't recognize but thought sounded great. I realize the reconstructed songs are not everyone's cup of tea but I find this and "Free As A Bird" intensely moving:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax7krBKzmVI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Love_(Beatles_song)

Uploader Dan Fingerman's description says it all (not to forget the ~350 comments):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54YgGYE6DUA

Hi peeps. A bit of a different upload today. I found this video on Youtube through a Discord server about Boards of Canada. The original uploader claimed to have found this video on a thrifted VHS tape. People went nuts over the fact this could be unreleased Boards of Canada tracks, but I doubt it. Especially since the tape was found in the USA, according to the original uploader. Some Boards of Canada tracks seem to have been sprinkled in though. I liked the upload so I downloaded it. Turns out the original uploader deleted the entire channel (probably due to hate from people saying it's fake). Never thought I'd be someone to save something from being lost media, but here I am... I doubt it's a lost Boards of Canada release, but it's a really nice collection of music anyway! Hope you enjoy it.

Original description from the now deleted video:

A few or more years ago I used to work at a local Red White & Blue Thrift center and the employees would always get first pick on any of the items that were dropped off. There was a box full of VHS tapes, some of which were horror movies. I grabbed four of the tapes. The tapes have remained on my shelf and never watched any of them until recently over the pandemic when the entire world was in lockdown. I went to go watch The Shining. I took the tape out of it's box and noticed there was no label on the VHS tape. I popped it in and to my surprise this is what was on that tape. I was a little irritated, as I am a big Stephen King fan and was looking to watch the movie. I fast forwarded the tape, but it goes all blank after the music and clouds stop. I figured, some jack-ass decided to over dub cheesy music over some boring video footage of clouds. After all these months, I decided to convert the VHS footage to digital and post it.

No idea who made this tape, whether it's some kind of joke, or what the music is. I tried to use the Shazam music app to see if I could identify, but no luck there. Maybe someone else knows? If I had to make an honest guess, I think possibly the tape is a student experiment for a class and maybe they made a tape compiled of music to throw on top of it and they accidentally put it in the wrong cassette box? Either way, I find it interesting or maybe slightly creepy. I was goin to throw the tape away, but something about the whole ordeal, I find very interesting.

Timestamps

00: 00:00
01: 00:17
02: 01:30
03: 02:55
04: 03:08
05: 06:14
06: 07:28
07: 09:04
08: 10:07
09: 13:25
10: 14:20 (Boqurant - Boards of Canada)
11: 15:33
12: 18:06
13: 20:05
14: 21:54
15: 22:18
16: 24:40 (Seeya Later - Boards of Canada)
17: 28:42
18: 30:40
19: 32:50
20: 35:44
21: 39:32

I was listening to RAM recently and struck by the Wilson influence in this one. A couple of thoughts I jotted down -

-Ram On
--Sounds like it could have been a smiley smile outtake. You get some bass vocals very reminiscent of Mike.  Some really cool harmonies in general behind this sparse production effort.

-Dear Boy
--Starts off extremely Beatles-y...but about 25 seconds in we get some beach boys style harmonies with a 'child is the father of the man' style counterpoint

Uncle Albert
--Brian Wilson style chords and bass all over this one. Some smile esque 'vocal noises', humor, transitions

Smile Away
--Sounds like a prototype of 15 Big Ones era

Monkberry moon delight
-- Mashing triad piano, cool backing vocals. Reminds me of night blooming jasmine and ding dang a bit

Fascinating observation, barto. I gave all the tracks a listen (I'm not familiar with the album as a whole) and I see what you mean, particularly in the first three instances.

For completeness' sake, here is the album in question. Starting times of songs are in the first comment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdGaLyow4Ag

[Podium Witteman]

Well, for those with access to Dutch TV, this coming Sunday's edition of the music programme Podium Witteman (NPO 2, 18:20 CET) will include a feature on The Seven Symphonies. The album's arranger Roeland Jacobs will be there to discuss it (in Dutch) with programme regular Mike Boddé "and show how wonderfully well the music of head Beach Boy Brian Wilson fits together".

Regrettably the subject was only allotted a few minutes! The show began with the strings of a slimmed-down Antwerp Philharmonic Orchestra playing "Our Prayer". Right at the end of the show, after all the other guests had done their thing, The Boys' version of "Our Prayer" was followed by another live version by those strings. (Curiously, all other snippets of BB performances were from live shows rather than illustrating BW's genius in the studio.)

During his interview, the enthusiastic Roeland Jacobs confirmed for me that the Dutch newspaper remark about translating each of the Boys' four voices in "Our Prayer" to violins, violas, cellos and double basses respectively was erroneous and that he'd used the logical division into first and second violins, violas and cellos.

Lastly, Mike Boddé manned the piano for the orchestral version of "God Only Knows", for which the strings were augmented by a flautist and a trombonist, both of whom alternated the melody with Mike. The idea of ending this piece (and the album) with the descending lines from the instrumental break is utterly brilliant.

[Podium Witteman]

Great to see so many wonderful responses! Well, for those with access to Dutch TV, this coming Sunday's edition of the music programme Podium Witteman (NPO 2, 18:20 CET) will include a feature on The Seven Symphonies. The album's arranger Roeland Jacobs will be there to discuss it (in Dutch) with programme regular Mike Boddé "and show how wonderfully well the music of head Beach Boy Brian Wilson fits together".

Hope you're enjoying the Ives symphonies, THD.

[Mona]

Listen to the Dominoes, Chuck Berry,  Bo Diddley. Last named's Mona is all fifties musical genres melted into one and transcended in a way that shocks and thrills me every time I hear it. Like Allison, Buddy etc., Bo was (is) a Tex-Mexican-Native-American... in addition to being Black and Rhythm and Blues, all of the above, and we get some of each here in a magic combination that the best of the Sixties only occasionally matched (Like a Rolling Stone(s)). Listen to the western whip-cracking beat (a much more sensual variation than usual of  Bo's  dime-and-a-haircut one) nipping at his butt on every line forcing him to exclaim and testify, just hear the way he sings "Hey...hey! Hey!! Moanahhh!", and the masterful way his horny lamenting desire fits in the spaces between sympathetic rhythm guitar drumbeats, a perfect, stripped down 'me to you' performance. This is the template of Plastic Ono Lennon (among other things)  I believe

I like that last sentence! And a wonderful description all round.

Here, 16 years later, is Bo's "Mona" -- in mono:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=678JyXiRCXM

Terrible news.

Have u tried the Music Banter forum?
https://www.musicbanter.com/name-tune/

Ooh, that's a good one. Many thanks for the link!

["movements" (a more accurate term for these sections than the several of the them that use "symphony" in the title]

Here's a track listing for the seven "movements" (a more accurate term for these sections than the several of the them that use "symphony" in the title). Note that some songs have sections that appear apart from one another in the mix of songs within a movement. All in all, it's a pretty nice job of weaving songs together--some orchestrations are stronger (and fuller) than others, of course.

A rather surprising number of TWGMTR tracks selected here; and there are several Dennis songs that made the cut.

Thanks for posting these, Don.

Yes indeed, "symphony" is a strange choice, although those responsible may have been thinking of Uncle Phil's "little symphonies for the kids".

[NRC]

I read about it in a Dutch newspaper, but didn't know they were on Spotify yet. So thanks a lot for posting, I listened to the first two and quite enjoyed them. Some very nice song choices already.

You're welcome! There was a full-page article about the project in the NRC -- maybe that was where you saw it. Most of it was pretty irrelevant and to the best of my knowledge made no mention at all of the CD being released the next day let alone the uploads onto Youtube and Spotify.

I plan to listen to it during the coming week.

Here you go:

I. Capella: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzfIycVOLIw

II. Room For Nature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEN4Eh2i0l4

III. Beach Waltz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LQ2c4DBM1s

IV. The Nearest Faraway Symphony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr6zEozjCzk

V. Symphony Of The Unknown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH1-vZkYP-Q

VI. Symphony Of The Little Bird: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvdpNsJay7I

VII. Pet Symphony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr9S92XyUrg

[The Seven Symphonies, a Classical Tribute to Beach Boys Music]

Odd that it's taken so long for this to reach these shores. The following is my abridged and tweaked version of a Dutch online description of a momentous BB-related CD released today:

The world premiere concert performance of The Seven Symphonies, a Classical Tribute to Beach Boys Music will take place on Thursday 2 June 2022 at the city theatre (Stadsschouwburg) in Antwerp, Belgium. This new work by Roeland Jacobs and Rob van Weelde, based on the music of The Beach Boys, will be played live by the Antwerp Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Alexandra Arrieche. A CD of the work was released today, Friday 11 March.

"The Beach Boys' music is characterized by a very harmonic sound and is therefore ideally suited for transformation into a classical repertoire and performance by a large orchestra," according to musician and arranger Roeland Jacobs and Rob van Weelde, co-founder of WedgeView Studios and owner of the WedgeView label.

"We started working with this music and selected 33 songs. We were guided by the beauty of the songs and their classical potential, less by their fame," says Roeland, who wrote the arrangements of the songs. Rob in turn made the division into the seven symphonies: "Capella", "Room For Nature", "Beach Waltz", "The Nearest Faraway Symphony", "Symphony Of The Unknown", "Symphony Of The Little Bird" and "Pet Symphony".

When making the arrangements, Roeland Jacobs had to determine which instruments should be used for the leads and which for the rhythm sections. Dominique Vanhaegenberg was responsible for orchestrating the work for a 60-piece orchestra.

"Throughout this process we were in touch with Scott Totten, member and musical director of the Beach Boys touring band," Roeland and Rob explain. "The audio recordings have also been made available to him and through him to the original Beach Boys." At the beginning of August 2021, The Seven Symphonies CD was recorded by Alexandra Arrieche and the Antwerp Philharmonic Orchestra at the Galaxy Studios in Mol, Antwerp Province. Following its release on Friday 11 March, the work will be performed live by the same forces  on Thursday 2 June in Antwerp city theatre.

Here's a link to all seven "symphonies" on YouTube (it's also on Spotify):

www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22the+seven+symphonies%22