Whenever i get bored I dig out an old topic and hope it catches on (again)...

As someone who has not been bitten by the jazz bug, I tend to like individual pieces rather than entire albums. Examples include Coltrane's "Afro Blue",  Jimmy Guiffre's "The Train And The River" and Shelly Manne's "A Bluish Bag"----that arco bass!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4Y9x6_7h4k 

[Exposure]

I know. On paper it shouldn't work but it's freakin' awesome!

Reminds me of the real-life argument Fripp recorded through his hotel wall when in New York and set to music. Jack Nicholson has nothing to do with this track from Fripp's album Exposure----it may just be a ruse to throw the copyright police off the scent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExNAI3zJfYQ

Got Sacred Songs yesterday. An excellent album. Love NYCNY which basically sounds like Daryl fronting King Crimson.

High time I revisited that album. I'd forgotten all about that track. Wow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epLXwup4bpA 

It was like unlocking a door - or maybe several.

Now you think I'm mad?  Nothing like that has ever happened to me before, I'm boringly normal otherwise.

Lots of good things have come out of this, every single day since that day, actually. 

Agreed. That first period of infatuation (for want of a better word) is truly magical and like nothing else. For me it was in 2002 after seeing Brian (on TV) at the "Party at the Palace" and getting his "autobiography" for my birthday. After splashing out on numerous BB 2fers I'd go to bed with one BB tune in my head and wake up "hearing" another. I even moved the alarm clock out of the way so that its ticking wouldn't interfere with Denny's (or Hal's) drums. Wonderful times. :-)     

Garageband is another program that works well, it is fairly cheap (under $20, and possibly free with a new Mac) and incredibly easy to use. It is very much like Logic Pro X only many, many features are missing.

I have Garageband----as you say, free with my new Mac----but so far it's all Ancient Greek to me. I may grapple with it yet, if I find myself with a lot of time on my hands.

Needless to say, I'm utterly awed by people who can actually make these things work, incredibly easy to use or not.      

Not sure if this stupendous Little Richard cover has been on yet: 

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

ABC----"When  Smokey [Robinson] Sings"
Joni Mitchell----"Furry [Lewis] Sings The Blues"
Ian Dury and the Blockheads----"Sweet Gene Vincent"

[Surf's Up]

Hi, bb, and welcome!

Got a moment so I'll respond to a couple of your musings:

2)  I first heard Surf's Up during a dark period in my life and I could relate to its own darkness (I'm sure the cover helps). That said, it i0s, and will remain, my favourite BB album.

3)  I love "Barbara Ann" (the 45, that is). Both versions of "Help Me R(h)onda" have their charms for me.

As for 6), I think every true BB fan gets choked up at times by Brian's voice, his present voice included.

I was thinking this before - Tiny could've been perfect penguin. even nose is birdey. Tim Burton likes freaks. He could be rich & get 2nd revival. He was around in 1992-91.

Tiny Tim was certainly eccentric but a freak? To each their own, of course...

[PSS]

... okay, okay I'm really bringing a topic back from the dead here but I have to say, YES, there is definitely "static" on that particular release (the mono version included in the Pet Sounds Sessions box set) but not there on both the original vinyl copy or the 1990 CD release.  

Once again, sorry about the raising the dead bit but it is clearly audible.  

No apologies necessary, sd. You have something valid to say on the subject----that's all that counts. :=)

I shall give the PSS mono version a listen myself...

Edit: Gave it a listen. All my cloth ears could hear was heavenly music. Sorry I can't help!  

Christopher Cross "Ride Like the Wind". Sailing was good too but both on his first album. He should have sailed away after that.

 

Onkster, I hear the words "in the city" during the ascending piano chords passage and an ex-poster on my other board goes even further:

"in the city, yeah
come on and take me home
i don't want to be all alone"

or:

"in the city, yeah
come on and take me home
i want to get out of here"

He does add that his ears might be playing tricks on him for the second and third lines...

I know this is an old thread but I didn't see the point in starting a new one.

EQ'ing the bridge part in the CWTL piano track, I hear:

Line 1:  (unintelligible)
Line 2:  I'm gonna (close?) my eyes / hoping to see you   ["open" would seem to make more sense, but it sounds like one syllable, and "close" is more clever, like he is fantasizing]
Line 3:  I'm gonna let my eyes / (crawl all-all over you?)

Thoughts?

No problem about resuming an old thread. That 120-day policy baffles me-----surely it's best to keep as much information on one subject in one place? And if there's anywhere where time needn't be an issue, it's the internet!!! 

Interesting how different your words are to the ones my colleague heard! Sounds very plausible though----the angle is very Brianesque. Maybe someone with better equipment than me can help out more.   

[SS/WH]

Yeah, I reckon Wild Honey's already a perfect, concise little classic. CWTL doesn't especially fit the vibe of the album to me (and you've already got a snappier acappella outro), I find it a lot more Friends-y. Maybe if you were to swap it for Transcendental Meditation...

Interesting. Ever since I first heard it (on the SS/WH 2fer), it's struck me as being in a field of one---a lone meteor across the BB firmament. Some of its chord progressions (notably the rising section with the off-mic, unintelligible lyrics) ally it more to Wild Honey than to Friends in my opinion but in most ways it's utterly unique...

The amount of people who use that Hitler film and doop it into something funny is crazy. Funny, yeah, but a bit boring now.

Hey, CCW. :=)

The Rolling Stones Greatest Albums List spoof had class, but this is mere Mike-bashing.  And once the c-word comes into play, you know the score.

"Heavenly Father" by the Supremes with Flo on lead, particularly the middle eight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB_jRWIFA44

I'm not allowed to hear it, unfortunately, but I did catch a few seconds of it here (no middle eight, sad to say):

http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B003LYZWAU/ref=dm_mu_dp_trk38

Very nice indeed. That's when they were The Primettes, right?

Not sure. I have it as a bonus track on a reissue of Florence's solo album. It's an older song, so there may be other good versions of it out there.

Not sure how much of this is reliable but it makes for an interesting read:

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-primettes-mn0000415096 

This Mary Wilson-led B-side from 1960 is pretty cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK5CmbFbYII

That flute reminds me of the alternative version of the Boys' "I'm So Young". Great piano too...
 

[Wild Honey]

What do you all think if everything was the same except the album open with Can't Wait Too Long (Hawthorne vocals only section) and closed with Can't Wait Too Long from the twofer?

Sorry, MTR, but i really do think it's great the way it is!

As you say, "CWTL" (or rather my favourite version of it) in on the 2fer with Wild Honey----problem solved, as i see it.

I was alerted to this fairly odd album by The Ig in my TV guide, of all places.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_yzALAt2lE

 

[Aftermath]

I love it just the way it is. The only songs on the album I don't absolutely love are A Thing or Two, and How She Boogalooed It.

Am I the only one who adores "A Thing or two?"
What a great riff! Later recycled for the verses in "Do it Again."

Love it----well, like the rest of the album as it happens. "ATOT" is superb. The verse part reminds me in some way of the Stones' "Going Home"  from Aftermath.

It's rather as if Carl (or someone) said let's revisit the format of "Gettin' Hungry" and take it a stage further...   

"Heavenly Father" by the Supremes with Flo on lead, particularly the middle eight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB_jRWIFA44

I'm not allowed to hear it, unfortunately, but I did catch a few seconds of it here (no middle eight, sad to say):

http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B003LYZWAU/ref=dm_mu_dp_trk38

Very nice indeed. That's when they were The Primettes, right?

[except the running order and puting in a couple of tracks on the shelf for what are in my opinion weeker cuts like Mama Says and a great cover, but not original of I Was Made To Love Her]

I'm wondering if people are misunderstanding. I love the way the songs are produced. I didn't plan on changing anything, except the running order and puting in a couple of tracks on the shelf for what are in my opinion weeker cuts like Mama Says and a great cover, but not original of I Was Made To Love Her.

I think everyone understands very clearly indeed! No problem, MTR----to each their own.

I remember most clearly listening in the dark (with held breath) to the in late 1966, presumably October. I must have noted it in my diary that day. Unfortunately in a rash move I destroyed everything from those years, drawings, compositions----and diaries.

Does anyone out there know the exact day this happened? Or at least point me in some useful direction? (I couldn't find anything about it at AGD's Bellagio site.) Much appreciated.         

Could not have been earlier than Oct. 10th, since that's the release date.

This was the first time anyone in the UK (except a few insiders) had ever heard "GV" so I'm pretty sure it was before the release date.

Someone somewhere must have this information, surely----someone who didn't impulsively throw away their old diaries.      

I remember most clearly listening in the dark (with held breath) to the in late 1966, presumably October. I must have noted it in my diary that day. Unfortunately in a rash move I destroyed everything from those years, drawings, compositions----and diaries.

Does anyone out there know the exact day this happened? Or at least point me in some useful direction? (I couldn't find anything about it at AGD's Bellagio site.) Much appreciated.         

HOW in the world would any of us know the exact day you destroyed all your stuff??

There's no harm in asking, is there? Then at least I could start counting backwards and maybe locate the day i heard the very first UK broadcast of  "Good Vibrations". 

I remember most clearly listening in the dark (with held breath) to the very first UK broadcast of  "Good Vibrations" in late 1966, presumably October. I must have noted it in my diary that day. Unfortunately in a rash move I destroyed everything from those years, drawings, compositions----and diaries.

Does anyone out there know the exact day this happened? Or at least point me in some useful direction? (I couldn't find anything about it at AGD's Bellagio site.) Much appreciated.         

 

Those last two posts add a touch of class to this abject topic. Proficiat, K. :=)

Weirdest photos indeed. Ye gods.   

[Ladies and Gentlemen...]

Well there you go! If you liked those two, there's a natural third for you to try: The Sunlandic Twins, which fell between the two. Glad you found something you liked, and hope you find a bit more. Happy listening.

Know what? I've found a couple of great albums by one artist and I rather think I'll leave it at that.

I remember.... it might have been Hypehat, years ago insisting I should hear more of Spiritualized other than just Ladies and Gentlemen... which I was enthusing about, but I didn't----just the one album for me. So of Montreal is doing okay. :=)

Thanks for helping to get me there!