[My Woman]

aw yeah the last one is purple vinyl be jealous.

Hey M. I can only see a ? for #3 but the code tells me it's Angel Olsen's My Woman. I'm sure I'd be jealous if I could see it.

That is sensational. Mellow is most definitely the word----and the bridge is pure genius.

More, please! 

Right now I'm enjoying the Surfing Hits. Actually, I heard a couple of jumps, one just after "lake pipes roar" when it misses a beat and the same at 26:15 in "Our Car Club". I do have old equipment but it happened several times in exactly the same two places, which is odd. (Maybe I've missed some vital information somewhere). Oh, and (Wally) Hider should be Heider in the introductory text.

That aside, I've been amazed by what I've heard. I must just as well throw my 2fers into the nearest drainage ditch!

A half-hour down, a half-hour to go (later tonight)...  

Thank you so much, sir.

Walking the Cow.

Ye gods, has Hal deleted his account as well??

I've resurrected this topic for OSD's benefit. First, a little info: 

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

Here are all four Shaggs at work. Enjoy!

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

There is also a good rock version of "Peter and the Wolf":

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

Stephane Grappelli playing "The Cat" is worth the price of admission by himself.

And yes, the Russians are amazing. Their music is second to none.

Thanks for the link, sir.

This is one I found while tidying up my own "classical" topic. Maybe those fearsome gong strokes towards the end will spur someone at PSF to start a similar topic over there. Every music forum worth its salt should have one...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hxWp5QBN4g

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

Did you hear Air's Le Voyage Dans La Lune? Over the last couple years I find myself gravitating toward it every now and then.

Looking forward to reading/listening to more of the suggestions made in that thread! Thanks again.

You're welcome. I'll check out the Air album tonight...

Yeah, from there to Beck again!

 

Range Rover - I have to first compliment you on your written English.  It is very good. * * * English is a really difficult language.  You do very well with it.   

I'll echo that. :=)

But are we on the same page, Jimmy?

Once we get the Led out...

I fear we have been Led off-topic!

But you have Beck-oned us back...

[Philosophy of the World]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cs1BIlglzI

  Sounds far better than Summer In Paradise for sure. With the singing through his nose thing, he must have been heavily influenced by myKe luHv, only this guy is better.

OSD, The Shaggs are three sisters (plus a fourth on occasion). Philosophy of the World was Frank Zappa's third favourite album. It has been described as aboriginal music. Real slice-of-life stuff, to be sure.

Huh?

Maybe Ang means tongue-twisters (http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/en.htm). I'm sure she'll explain soon enough...

I've been trying to get more into ambient (listening to a lot of Brian Eno), but haven't explored much beyond.

Rab, this topic may be of some help. I can't vouch for all the links being in place, but it might encourage you to explore some areas further:

http://beachboysforum.freeforums.org/ambient-music-mood-before-melody-t177.html 

Has anyone ever completely stopped listening to the Beach Boys? Did you find you were able to "rediscover" their music later on?

Never have stopped, although my level of obsession has waxed and waned.

Same here (more or less). Welcome, SN129. :=)

[Story Behind the Heartbreak Otel (sic)]

Story Behind the Heartbreak Otel (sic)

http://elvisdaily.com/2016/09/13/story-behind-the-heartbreak-otel/

Cool article, curious title, lol. Maybe heartbreak hotels are so uncared for that even the letters on the front don't hold up...

Actually, I think it's because the author, Ana Sayfa, is Turkish and <hotel> in that language is <otel>. It got left in somehow...

http://osmancalhan.tumblr.com/post/126938129811/elvis-presley-heartbreak-hotel-otel

I was listening to an oldie station the other day and caught California Sun by The Rivieras from 1961. My immediate reaction was that the chorus to Little Honda seems to bear a strong resemblance, especially to the organ riff in the Rivieras piece:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy57Xdk9u0o

Small correction: The Rivieras' version of "CS" (an all-time favourite of mine) went US top five in early 1964. It was recorded and first released as a B-side some time in 1963 (which is why I could have sworn I heard it on French radio in that year).

Might Brian have felt the similarity to the extent of then recording an "alternate" version of "LH"----but eventually deciding against it?

[Pet Sounds]

Sold most of mine due to financial problems....

I did the same thing with my Elvis collection. Sold most of my EP's for food money back in the early 70's. Can't imagine what they're worth now. Oh well, ya gotta eat.

I know how you feel, OSD. This is copied from my other board (in a revised form):


I must be the only person anywhere who has actually trodden on Pet Sounds while it was playing!  The record player was standing on the floor at the time.  This unfortunate occurrence paved the way for the dreaded "Cat Food Incident". 

It was late 1972 and I was supposed to be looking after this bloke's house in London, watering his three expensive plants (ten quid each----in 1972!), feeding his cats and other stuff.

Time went by... A friend of mine wrecked the state-of-the-art stereo system (hence the makeshift solution on the floor), the plants started turning a glorious golden brown and the cats were getting scrawnier and more discontented by the day. Not having any money to buy cat food (I was unemployed at the time) and spurred on by the enormous scratch on side one of Pet Sounds, I bundled all my pop LPs (Beefhearts, Zappas, Velvets plus a host of wonderful and now more or less unobtainable mono stuff) into a box and sold the lot (40 albums!) at a local market stall for a measly 14 quid!

[30 Years]

I'll update my old list, now that there's a new generation of posters and my collection can hold its own better, lol: 

I have all the official albums (except the live double), the 30 Years and PSS box sets and the one-CD edition of TSS----plus a modest consignment of unofficial stuff. Solo things? The two Carl albums, POB, BWPS and NPP. A few LPs: original mono pressings (more or less permanently on loan from my brother) of Surfin' Safari, Surfer Girl and All Summer Long plus Surf's Up! (had to have that full-size cover!) and LA.

All these were acquired since 2002 (Brian's Palace performance, to be precise). After a white-hot period of adulation, Beach Boys Burnout set in (a familiar story, I'm told) but now they are back as my joint favourite pop artists (with other long-time favourites Captain Beefheart and Gary Numan and more recent discovery U2).  

[Peter and the Wolf]

Oh, Prokofiev. Mainly know him from the wonderful Peter and the Wolf heard when a child. Will explore him further.
Hard to go wrong with those incredible Russian composers.

My two eldest grandchildren attended a performance of Peter and the Wolf last Sunday:

http://gergievfestival.nl/en-us/Programme/Zaterdag-en-US/Peter-en-de-wolf-4-met-verteller-en-US

They knew the piece already from a tape but now they could actually watch the orchestral instruments playing the various roles...   


Yes, the Russians are amazing. (I know Peter Reum is a big fan.)

And do they ring the changes! I cannot imagine a greater contrast between Prokofiev's serene First Symphony (the "Classical") and its modernist successor, which I heard during that same festival.

Shostakovich is another who wrote lighter stuff (quite literally to keep himself alive during The Terror) as well as some of the most profound symphonies ever...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cs1BIlglzI

Street "What a strange town", from their self-titled: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTS9mlDhp_8

That female singer has very cool voice.

Wow. Love the alternation between her unusual voice and the spoken part----to say nothing of the "instrumental break"!

Thanks for the tip, RR. I've got their album lined up for future listening...

You gotta be kidding, john. joshferrell's was the worst.

I guess I have a weakness for songs about people losing control of their body functions. It's a foible of mine. I'm very sorry.

Kudos to DNT. May he spend his prize money wisely!

I'm sure joshferrell's wonderful lyrics weren't that far behind...

I suggested a long time ago a 'SS' chat window would be a great addition, but I think everyone thought that those 'yahoo chat' days
were gone and that the feature nobody else would be interested in.
 
I did try.

My other board had a Shoutbox for a while. Unfortunately it was the first thing you saw when you logged on, like a boulder blocking your path. That and the crazy conversations that took place in it kept posters away, so out it went... 

OK, HaV, you and your fellow adjudicators have had all the time in the world to deliberate. September 7th at around 5 PM (British time) has long been and gone...

So----who's won?? 

Not sure if this has been mentioned yet but I get really riled by people who write <it's> when they mean <its>:

<It's quite credible> requires an apostrophe, <assess its credibility> does not!

And this mistake is made everywhere, even on BBC web pages...