[Party!]

Looks like it gets plenty of respect round here. :=)

I bought "Barbara Ann" as a 45 back in the day and only heard Party! some 40 years later. Maybe you like best what you're used to, but I much prefer the joyous single to the album. I play Stack-O-Tracks on the 2fer from time to time but Party! got no further than a couple of listens. One man's meat, I suppose... 

Another good album from the 80s was King Crimson 'Beat'. Prog New Wave. 'Neal And Jack And Me' is a great track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CJ6TriAsBE

Yes indeed. I love the trilogy as a whole. Lotsa good stuff.

Big Country was a band launched in the '80s that took my fancy for a while, especially this track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E4960jHfgE

 

[BEAM!]

Hi!

Hope you guys are A1!.


Just up on youtube is this so so obviously Brian inspired toon by the inestimable, Peter Lacey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8igTYRZPj0I


How about that?..
L&M
Polly Crespot

Hi Polly. Good to know that Peter's still keeping the music coming----although nothing of his can replace the jewel that is BEAM! in my estimation. I have a PL topic across the road so I'll link the new vid there. Pity there's so little of BEAM! on YouTube...   

According to his entry on Wikipedia, he was an ordained minister. Now, THAT I want to know more about.

This is John-Roger Hinkins of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness awarding Carl an Integrity Award.
Seems this gent was not exactly the epitome of integrity himself...   

I couldn't help smiling when I discovered this one:

http://andyandthenag.bandcamp.com/track/ode-to-the-beach-boys

One of my favourite moments in "SC" is when the harmonica bleats in B major (long after everyone else has moved on) before the final romp home.   

And when Dennis goes "Awww-rrrrrr-rrrrrh" during the drum fill. Priceless.

Should have guessed it was Dennis! Thanks. That part reminds me of a similar moment in The Who's "Substitute"...

Very interesting! Will definately pick this up.

Don't know that earlier book either (Surf Beat) - anyone here who has read that one or other books by Crowley? If so, what is your impression of him as a writer?

Haven't read him but found this:

"Kent Crowley writes about music for numerous publications such as Vintage Guitar and Shakin' Fever. He researched Bob Keane's The Oracle of Del-Fi and edited Hollywood's Gold Star Studio founders Stan Ross and Dave Gold's upcoming Gold Star Album. He has consulted on Freak Out in Cucamonga, an upcoming documentary on Frank Zappa's Pal Studios/Studio Z."

One of my favourite moments in "SC" is when the harmonica bleats in B major (long after everyone else has moved on) before the final romp home.   

And did anybody else notice that Daryl is doing the Crimson King hand salute in that picture?

If my memory serves me right, The Doors and The Monkees were the first two groups to use a Moog, The Doors to treat Jim's voice on the title track of Strange Days and The Monkees slightly later as an instrument in its own right. Might that be why Brian brought up The Monkees next?

The Kingsmen were a rival live group in the early days and the source (in part) of "Louie Louie"...

Hall & Oates - I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bgRmYf6EYM


These guys should be a complete joke, just look at them.  However, they're really, really good.... you just have to open your ears, and the sh*t blows you away.  It's not that they're geniuses or something, but the music just moves you. 

One of my hobbies is I restore or repair jukeboxes.  I'm serious.  I bought a box off a guy about a year ago, and it was already full of records.  This record was in it.  I like to crank up the bass on these jukeboxes so you can feel it, literally.  I mean literally, you can feel the floor shaking a little bit!

So I'd heard this song before, but never on a jukebox, so I turned that sh*t up and selected this song.  That damn bassline was making the lights dim, I'm telling you I could feel it man! It was like it was 1983 and I was in a bar with a hot chick and this jukebox blasting this song out. 

I probably listened to it 10 times in a row that first time.  Everything about it is mesmerizing, I love the bridge , over and over "Iii..... I'll do anything... do almost anything that you want me to...." 

Infectious. 

Hall & Oates are money, believe that. 

Ron, are you familiar with the stuff Hall did with Robert Fripp? I've never liked H & O but this really knocks me out, Frippertronics and all:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=235nPzFOXSY

Adam, I'm working my way through it alphabetically. Every one a winner so far----even "Call Me Charley". :=)  And some great stories behind the songs.

I'm amazed by the musical talents of Evie Sands! I first heard her name quite recently as the original singer of "I Can't Let Go", the Hollies hit...

County Fair.  Poor Mike. 

Cuckoo Clock. Poor cuckoo. 

Where's Bruce's other hand?

On Mike's shoulder. It's Stomas's other hand I'm worried about. 

I think this is one of the cleverest covers they did in the sense of using a cover to convey a message - in this instance a sly acknowledgement of their perceived squareness and how they'd outgrown that old image.

Is the first instance of them covering this song at the Grateful Dead gig? Who's idea was it to cover the song - theirs or the Dead's? If it was theirs, was it a Rieley suggestion?

Peter Ames Carlin (p157) gives the impression that the BB had played it before then:

"But the Beach Boys stuck it out [the heckllng], and ... the two bands came together in a way that was both unexpected and yet entirely right. The moment began with the first notes of 'Okie From Muskogee', which the Beach Boys had taken to using as a subtle commentary on their own retro image and, implicitly, the far more decadent reality beneath it."   

A Day in the Life of a Tree
Thoughts of You
It's Over Now
Still I Dream of It
Carry Me Home
Caroline, No

Most of these! The demo of "SIDOI" in my case...

Plus: "I Bet He's Nice". The music is upbeat but the mood is one of deep sadness... 

It's my favorite album, and perhaps my favorite artwork ever made by any artist in any medium. It sounds cliche to say so, but it literally changed my life. That's seriously not an exaggeration--it turned me on to psychedelics themselves as well as psychedelic rock and the counter-culture. This completely changed my personality and way of thinking.

So much for the "square" Beach Boys, haha. I feel almost as strongly about it as you do (if you leave out the psychedelics).

Anyone remember who was responsible for the BB's arrangement of The Lord's Prayer? Was it an arrangement Brian borrowed from elsewhere, was it an existing one he modified for the group, or did he do it all himself?

Ta.

According to a couple of sources----here and here----it would seem to have been Brian alone. (You might have to scroll down briefly for the first one.)

The melody line (the high part in the harmony) closely follows the version composed by Albert Hay Malotte in 1935.  As far as I can tell Brian arranged the other vocal parts.

Lee

Thanks, Lee. This is the first recorded version of Malotte's composition sung by tenor John Charles Thomas: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylfr7XK34mY

Apparently the Beach Boys made a dig at the Seasons on "Surfer's Rule" which I have never noticed. They sing "Four Seasons you'd better believe it" at the end of the song while Brian does the falsetto to "Walk Like a Man". Interesting.

Another great "Four Seasons" moment is in the chorus of "Finders Keepers". Mike's bass sounds like Nick Massi and the "lie" of the chords when the Boys sing the title is straight out of "Big Girls Don't Cry".   

Anyone remember who was responsible for the BB's arrangement of The Lord's Prayer? Was it an arrangement Brian borrowed from elsewhere, was it an existing one he modified for the group, or did he do it all himself?

Ta.

According to a couple of sources----here and here----it would seem to have been Brian alone. (You might have to scroll down briefly for the first one.)

Bill Haley recorded a rip-roaring version back in '54 with some tasty soloing by His Comets:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oor8fvAMUIE

[NME]

Maybe bizarre is too strong a word but how about their name? It's a household word now but back in the very early '60s in the NME booking ads it was guaranteed to raise a smile.

The bonus CD----as good as the main album...

Here´s a song from me about Carl:

https://soundcloud.com/melahide/cdw-we-miss-you

Lovely song there, Manfred----the others too. :=)

Listening to "Sunset Over The Water" right now. Wonderful stuff. And "Pet Squares" is simply gorgeous. Got the page bookmarked for further listening. :=)