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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: 'Fess up - who here likes Sweet Insanity?
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on: May 19, 2014, 10:15:55 AM
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"Hotter" is such a kick ass fun 80s song that I can't believe I didn't hear it in the opening credits of How I Got Into College or One Crazy Summer. It's got all the hallmarks of a perfect 80s teen comedy/sex romp theme song. And that chorus is KILLER. I really think it could've been a hit!
Also really love Water Builds Up. Its the poppiest of pop.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: My Brian Wilson Review That Lucky Old Sun
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on: May 06, 2014, 08:45:39 AM
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"TLOS is the best Beach Boys record they never made." Hell yeah! I really adore this album, the only bad thing I can say about it is that it's not a full on BBs album. Because, man, that would have been amazing. Imagine if instead of TWGMTR (which I also truly love), the reunion album we got had been "The Beach Boys starring in That Lucky Old Sun"... a focused, themed album, nostalgic but modern, happy, melancholy, poppy, deep, silly, meaningful, SMiLEy. It would've been the Beach Boys truly making ART again, and I think general audiences might've been a little more blown away than the generally positive but totally not blown away reaction TWGMTR generated. Instead, it's just Brian, which is still perfectly fine. And damnit, I love Mexican Girl! And I love Forever You'll Be My Surfer Girl!!
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Here's a SMiLE Rearrangement Ive been working on. Feedback appreciated.
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on: March 18, 2014, 02:05:13 PM
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I love Good Vibrations! I love SMiLE! I loved your mix! A SMiLE fan mix is perfectly fine without Good Vibrations! Isn't the point of a fan mix to do something different? Well, there!
Also, if SMiLE isn't SMiLE (boy it's kinda hard to write it that way) without Good Vibrations, then what did one just listen to, if one listens to the official SMiLE (either BB or BW), and stops 5 minutes short of the album's ending? Did one just listen to SMiLE? Or did one just listen to a collection of songs from the SMiLE era? And does that ruin the experience, one having to rush off before the album is completely finished?
I think we need to get into some quantum theory to really answer these questions!
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Smiley Smile Stuff / The Beach Boys Media / Re: Beach Boys russian nesting dolls
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on: February 28, 2014, 08:01:42 AM
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Thanks for all the comments you bastards, that's what i like to hear!! "Any chance of a stop motion animated short film of the dolls doin' Woodn't It Be Nice when completed ?" Hey, something like that would be a nice way to show them off! I'll try!! Oh I just noticed the Wooooodn't it be nice... har! "When doi these go into semi mass productrion for purchase?" God, I wonder what that would take. I often wish I could show Brian, or any of the boys, the shirts I'm making, or these nesting dolls... I know some of you guys out there have connections to the band, is there any realistic chance that, for instance, a t-shirt design could be presented to Brian, or his people, and they would like it and sell it on the official site? Cuz the shirts that Brain sells on his site are pretty boring... and I think everyone would dig that Brian's sandbox design. "could you possibly make salt and pepper shakers? have the holes on mike's pour out of his ass..." LOL. That's my next project! "While I do agree that it's done good & so forth, I am not quite sure what's the deal with them having eyes with no apples, just white thing. Are you turning The BBs into shamans, dellydel?" Yeah.... I admit, that's kinda weird. I did that with Brain first, and my intention was to make him really stylized looking, and his white eyes were partly that, just a weird style, but also because Brian sometimes has that crazy 1000 yard stare, and I wanted to capture some of that. And then Mike would up being way less stylized, so then the styles started to clash immediately. But I stuck with the weird eyes... and now they're all kinda weird eyed. I NEVER SAID I WAS PERFECT!!!!! (but isn't Brian kind of a shaman anyways?) I got the Dennis and Al sketch looking prettying good, hopefully can finish one of them this weekend!
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Non Smiley Smile Stuff / The Sandbox / Re: RIP Harold Ramis
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on: February 24, 2014, 12:42:24 PM
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Damn, that blows. I often forget he also directed the first National Lampoon's Vacation, another favorite of mine.
Any video game players out there? Ramis voiced Egon for a pretty damn decent Ghostbusters game that came out a couple years ago. It wasn't perfect, but I'm glad we at least have that, since now there probably won't be a third Ghostbusters. (which is probably a good thing)
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Smiley Smile Stuff / The Beach Boys Media / Re: Beach Boys russian nesting dolls
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on: January 23, 2014, 07:39:21 AM
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LOL, no Murry dolls!! We wanna keep this a happy and joyous and Murry-free occasion The order will be this.... Brian > Mike > Carl > Dennis > Al. I'm basing this on a combination of importance and actual height. So yes, Al will be the tiniest! No Bruces, Rickys, Blondies or Davids, since this is just a 5 doll set, so I'm going with the 5 "main" BBs. Last night I painted Mike's red beard, but... do you guys think Mike should be giving a cheesy wink? I'll keep ya'll posted!!
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: The very worst Beach Boys related 'song' ever released
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on: January 15, 2014, 08:35:48 AM
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7 letters: TPLOBAS. That's the worst, no further discussion. No way is it worse than Summer Of Love I'm certain even Dellydel wouldn't be able to find anything redeeming about that fecal festival! Hehe. Ok yeah it's pretty terrible... most of the lyrics suck, the production sucks, the era sucks, BUT... the chorus ain't half bad! The "girls are always ready for the summer of love, goooing out looking...." I like, and I like how the second line is sung deeper than the first, creating a kind of circular, higher pitched, lower pitched... circle... of love? Ok, there's no way I can explain this properly And hell, I guess Mike Love doing his almost-rapping deep voice thing is kind of a guilty pleasure. Did I mention I like ridiculous things? Ok, now lets talk about how awesome Brain's "Water Builds Up" is! I swear I wake up singing that song two days a week.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: The very worst Beach Boys related 'song' ever released
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on: January 14, 2014, 12:38:42 PM
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I know people have very different definitions of what it means to be a "fan" of something, but I want to share mine: When I'm a fan of someone (a musician, an actor) I pretty much think they sh*t gold. Since I'm a fan of the Beach Boys, I must think that everything they sh*t out has some gold in it. And I do. Back in the day they used to sh*t 90% gold, and maybe 10% sh*t. Over the years the gold/sh*t ratio has changed, sure, but there's always gold to be found there, even if it takes some digging. So to me there's no such thing as a Beach Boys song that sucks all the way, because if they're the Beach Boys, and they are, and if there's at least 3 or four of them involved, as there usually is, then there's must be some gold in that poop! For example, the song It's A Beautiful Day. It ain't great. But Carl's "living out in LA... such a beautiful daaaaay" part is great. So there's a kinda crappy song that has 20 seconds of greatness, but I must've listened to it 25 times. I don't own Summer in Paradise, as it's been out of print forever, and it's kinda terrible, but I've still listened to it on Youtube dozens of times. Why have I listened to something that's kinda terrible dozens of times? Because it's The Beach Boys and they go ooooh and aaaaaah and how bad could that be? And if I owned Summer in Paradise on CD I'm sure I would've listened to it 100 times... and that's THEIR WORST ALBUM! (which is why my mind is blown... BLOWN... when I hear some board members describe songs or entire albums as UNLISTENABLE!!!) Anyhoo. That's my fandom. And sorry for all the scatological imagery. And for the record, i LOVE When Girls Get Together, Hey Little Tomboy, Bill & Sue, and I think Smart Girls is some kind of crazy demented awesome.
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