[Fresno's up at southern air, Marat. Author Ian R., eh? Trondheim, i.e., HD. Northern air: oh tuatara! Mr Ian R., eh? T.U.O.S. (tap us on, serf).]

There's a danish cartoon/comic book character ("kristers Oplevelser" = Krister's adventures) who talks exclusively in palindromes. Like here, where we have Krister commenting on the american presidential campaign IN ENGLISH palindromic paragraph (hoping this'll work or perhaps jk can help out):

www.kristersoplevelser.dk/bulk/imgpages/076_01.jpg.html


>NOT/NIL, CLINTON !<  [By jk]

It works, R. Did I write that Clinton one?? Interesting...!

And now: When you decide to take just <southern> and <northern> from the lyrics of "California Girls" to construct a palindrome (which ended up starring Ian Rusten!) and find yourself stuck with the unworkable combination <TUOS>, it's amazing what a desperate mind will come up with... 

Fresno's up at southern air, Marat. Author Ian R., eh? Trondheim, i.e., HD. Northern air: oh tuatara! Mr Ian R., eh? T.U.O.S. (tap us on, serf).

Dean Martin "That's Amore". The local staish played it today as 50s pick (for 60s was Dusty Springfield "Wishin' & Hopin'" etc). Quickly recognize as the 3 mice sang it in movie "Babe: pig in the city". I liked it then. Dean's voice is better though. No idea what "amore" is, might be some Italian food, as there's ref. to "pizza" & "pasta" in the  lyrics.

Amore is the Italian word for love.

"In Napoli where love is king
When boy meets girl here's what they say"

Of course Dino may be confessing his love of pasta----can't say I blame him...

[My Woman]

Here, finally available to me on YouTube, is Angel Olsen's album My Woman:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-wwe7Ld2K8

Happy listening, john k!

I don't miss the other Boys on this one----gorgeous stuff.

I see the first 5 volumes of the Knausgard available. Is that series worth looking into? Trying to expand my horizons by reading more International writers.

My wife and daughter-in-law are major fans (they read it in Dutch and even got a volume signed by the man himself). I'm told it's a sensational read----Nobel Prize material...

This post is lifted from my other forum. The book from which it comes, which I don't think has been translated into English yet (I may be wrong), contains lengthy passages about Hitler, told (according to my wife who is reading the Dutch version) disarmingly but with utter detachment. I cannot believe that there won't be an English-language edition soon...

Here you go:

https://archipelagobooks.org/book/my-struggle-book-six/

"Coming soon."

[*]

Hi, Mari. Listening to "Homebody" right now. :=)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5qU4KI8rAw  

You might like to give this* a try. I think it's lovely:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-GN1ibonvE#!

* This being the album Mademoiselle by The Underground Youth...

Sorry to interrupt the flow but has this been linked yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNbWQSMm798

[even OFRS is kinda fun!]

Easily one of their top 10 albums, not a dull moment to be found, even OFRS is kinda fun!

And it segues nicely into "Don't Back Down"----Brian's forgotten note is the first one in that song (probably said that before)...

The images are disparate enough to be references to individual tracks on an unidentified (non-BB) album. And the illustration was never used. Just a thought...

Curiously,  the Lorna K of the preceding image has recorded an album that includes five Brian Wilson songs:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/in-my-room/id292156833

I've scoured the net in all directions (and then some) and found absolutely nothing about the unknown drawing...

Everyone should hear this magical gem by Claude Debussy at least once in their lives.

The first audience did better than that: they requested (and got) a repeat performance...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZvbuAXdmv4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prelude_a_l%27apres-midi_d%27un_faune




  

Like I predicted, we had some celebration of Good Vibrations at the Beach Boys convention in London. Together we watched the silent movie of Brian's GV production, brought in by the brilliant special guest: Alan Boyd! And what a thrill it was to see Brian in total command of the studio situation with the Boys and 'The Clique'/Wrecking Crew - even without sound. This great & historic live footage was filmed like this by an unknown hero, called BOB(?) Al on his box, Dennis fooling around much like Lennon did! And at one point Brian wears a vest/waistcoat similar to Spector's!
Sidebar re: our SMiLEY-pal Theydon Bois. I wondered about his name; french or what? Then on my way to Greenford, I discovered that there's a London Tube-station also called "Theydon Bois"!?
And tomorrow, monday it's the 10/10 2016: the big jubilee date!!! POST & CELEBRATE, please ...

Thanks for the info, R. Sounds like it was quite a bash.

Yes, that station. It's pronounced "Thayd'n Boys"! 

I'm still trying to ascertain the exact date when they premiered "Good Vibrations" on the radio in the UK in October '66. That's when I first heard it (it was in the evening) and I must have made a note of it but unfortunately I don't have my diary for that year any more...

Pacific Soul Ltd. "God Only Knows," from the debut CD Dance Divine, which comes out next week:

https://youtu.be/TGBA25001hs

Bass player and background vocalist is Teresa Cowles, who recently played Carol Kaye in "Love and Mercy." 

Very tasty, sir. I've linked it on "my" forum...

[Tundra----we reign it. I await rope (Panama) for a bus, Tetsu. Bar of a man-ape, Portia waiting (i.e., reward Nut)]

This is in response to that curious remark supposedly made by Dennis about Al:

Tundra----we reign it. I await rope (Panama) for a bus, Tetsu. Bar of a man-ape, Portia waiting (i.e., reward Nut)

^^^^^

How come ognir rrats managed to edit Ringo Starrfruit's post? In my topic too! 

[Go West]

It's always interesting to take cognisance of a new Adam Marsland/Karma Frog production.

Time, actually, that I bought another of your albums (after Go West). I checked the Dutch alternative to Amazon and to my great joy they have The Owl and the Full Moon:

https://www.bol.com/nl/p/the-owl-and-the-full-moon/9200000014104905

Soon to be heard on a CD player near me. :=)

are we talking the same Al Jardine here, of the Beach Boys, who Dennis once termed as "a man waiting for a bus"

I've never really understood that quote. Is there some subtext to the "man waiting for a bus" thing that I'm missing? Was it supposed to mean that Denny was bored and disengaged?

Apparently, Dennis was describing how boring he thought Al was. No one seems to know when and where he made that remark.

I'm happy to be corrected but it sounds apocryphal to me. ...

[A Seat at the Table]

hello, everyone.

Hi, M. May you and the captain continue to open musical doors of all shapes and sizes. :=)     

Wait, what? What have I got to do with Bubs & Undie's drunk thread? Open musical doors, eh? Listening to Solange's new one a the moment. A Seat at the Table. Unless you meant literally musical doors. Perhaps little cymbals or bells hung on strings! My uncle and aunt had a beads-on-string kind of door in their house when I was but a lad. I'm guessing it was a '70s thing. (If I remember it, it was probably the early '80s, but nobody ever accused them of being with the times.)

Not "Undie"----please! Not here, anyway.

Cap'n, you and Mari have pointed me towards lots of interesting new (and not so new) music, both here and across the road. That's all I was saying, in my usual convoluted way.

Big fuss about A Seat at the Table in the Netherlands too. The Knowles sisters have largely passed me by----my loss, no doubt...   

The OP says very clearly to post songs with "sun" in the title & the lyrics. That song you posted doesn't suit. The question is - why it's posted here in the 1st place? I'm sure by now you read the rules, didn't you? I shan't count it.

I don't want it counted anyway. In fact, don't you dare count it!

Actually, mine isn't the only post here devoted to "sunshine pop". Whatever the topic description, the topic title is ambiguous. I'm sure donald won't mind. I've got my hard hat on just in case he does.

And here's some more sunshine pop----so there!

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

[Love You]

Hi SCZ. Good idea for a first topic!

The album that gave me the most trouble to start with but has since become a favourite is Love You. Friends and So Tough are similar cases in point, thanks to SWD's study video and an "alternate" version, respectively. All three "conversions" are thanks to this forum!

The one you're listening to now is another matter entirely. I don't think I'll ever wholly come to terms with 15 Big Ones----bits and pieces, yes, but not all of it...   

[Si, erase----yes, no? I tar bivalve. Remit emo's didgeridoo good. I, Reg, did sometime rev LA vibrations. Eyes are I's]

Thanks, jk. But I DO mean the Beach Boys member: nicknamed "Clem"!

Okay, R, have it your own way.

Here's that new shorter celebratory GV palindrome where it belongs:

Si, erase----yes, no? I tar bivalve. Remit emo's didgeridoo good. I, Reg, did sometime rev LA vibrations. Eyes are I's


 

[Si, erase----yes, no? I tar bivalve. Remit emo's didgeridoo good. I, Reg, did sometime rev LA vibrations. Eyes are I's]

Well, you know... palindromes more or less write themselves in the end. But yes----why not?!

Like this one?

Cent, you know me by now - always running with your great ideas (and john's too). Can't help myself. To me, your palindrome sounds like the full PS-ending with old man Murry (Reggie D/Gage) tampering with the speed of Caroline No. How dared he?!:

>Dog, "Banana" made
PS on tape! REG'ger-EP
at no: sped a man??  An *
         ab GOD !!<

Or why not make it a tanka- aka waka-palindrome, the 3 of us together? Like so [by CenturyDeprived/john k (4th line)/rasmus skotte:]

>Dog "Banana" 'made'
PS-tape!  NO, Caroline
No: a Gage gaga -
one-nil OR a con-EP
at sped-a-man?  An 'ab God!'<

That's the spirit, R. :=)

Here's my first attempt at a shorter GV palindrome:

Si, erase----yes, no? I tar bivalve. Remit emo's didgeridoo good. I, Reg, did sometime rev LA vibrations. Eyes are I's

["Emma, I'd Etna Wilson," I blabbed. "O ogre, have a Danko oblate ponder reef! I (Lyme Regis) rip/rev L.A. vibrations. Yo, Brian! O bedlam... Ron, tame vole! Kim, add A, edit B! Beach, CA, ebb tide: add a Mike Love mat, normal debonair boys. No, I tar bivalve R. Pirsig, ere my life err. Ed, no petal book----nada! Eva her good ebb albinos Li wanted. I am me."]

GV-triplet with a BIG nod to "CLEM" (actually being Carl Wilson - but if it WAS Mike Love, it'd work out just as well):

Clem might be Clem Cattini, who played drums with The Tornados and then did session work for hundreds of artists. The Tornados' "Telstar" (a pocket symphony of sorts) would tie in with rocket science. And Do-Mi almost rhymes with Joe Meek, who produced the song...

As for GV in a palindrome, this one includes it but a shorter one would be more satisfying. I'll see what I can do...

This is my desperate attempt (including some of the usual suspects) to palindromically incorporate the titles and BB co-authors of two books that are all over this forum. It does fall apart near the end (where it reads like a Babelfish translation, largely thanks to the major problem of reversing Wilson) but the final sentence puts everything back into wonderful perspective. Enjoy!
 
"Emma, I'd Etna Wilson," I blabbed. "O ogre, have a Danko oblate ponder reef! I (Lyme Regis) rip/rev L.A. vibrations. Yo, Brian! O bedlam... Ron, tame vole! Kim, add A, edit B! Beach, CA, ebb tide: add a Mike Love mat, normal debonair boys. No, I tar bivalve R. Pirsig, ere my life err. Ed, no petal book----nada! Eva her good ebb albinos Li wanted. I am me."

Hey guys. Couldn't help but think of you when I heard these lines from Adam Marsland's "Happy Face":

"And if you can't get off the floor
That's what the alcohol is for" 

http://www.adammarsland.com/happyface.html