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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: \
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on: May 16, 2017, 04:04:51 PM
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"Jumping ship" was a poor choice of words - "pushed overboard" might be more accurate. The whole incident is a shame because Christianity does not have to be incompatible with Transcendental Meditation.
And more appropriately, religion and beliefs shouldn't affect ones job.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re:
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on: May 16, 2017, 11:01:59 AM
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Well said Desper on your reason for leaving, though Don Malcolm meant that as well!
Yeah, that's how I took it as well. Yeah, I took "Steve Desper jumping ship when Mike decided to toss his weight around" as "Steve Desper leaving with very good reason." I don't think any blame was being placed on Steve from that comment.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: \
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on: May 12, 2017, 07:16:58 AM
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I like the song, the lead vocal and background vocals are very good. I can't stand the line in the song, "high up on a hill, making love again."
Who was it here who was super annoyed by the opening line to Al's "Don't Fight the Sea", the "I was out in a boat, that was gently afloat" line? I didn't find that line particularly extra egregious, but it was kind of funny and understandable enough that someone else was so annoyed by it. Ah... But that's a cover. I agree that it is still a bad line, though.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Unusual Pronunciations and Accents in BB Songs
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on: October 05, 2016, 04:12:09 PM
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Less a pronunciation and more a stylized choice, the "Califor-nye-a" thing is something that I never paid a great deal of attention to, but in recent years I had someone who obviously had less exposure to BB classics who was all "Wtf?" when they heard them sing "Calior-nye-a" in a recording.
I've always heard it as "Californ-i-a" (or "Californ-eye-aye"), and I always thought of it as a nick-name for the state more than a pronunciation choice. Similar to how "Californy" is used in the Beverly Hillbillies Theme.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Good Vibrations 50th Anniversary global commemorative release announced
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on: June 29, 2016, 11:15:30 AM
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I wouldn't want another multi disk Smile set, just Disk 1 reissued in stereo with minor changes here and there. There's a discussion going on about this on the Linett thread. Do You Like Worms?, Fire, Surf's Up etc. in full stereo is preferable to Carry Me Home in my view. Also, anything I've heard from the Disk 2-5 material doesn't sound 'murky' or 'muddy'.
Just so you know, there was a stereo mix of Surf's Up on the final side of the Smile vinyl release. It sounds great. Here's the stereo Smile mixes I know of from the box set, the vinyl or from Made in California. Heroes and Villains (Stereo Mix) Our Prayer (2012 The Smile Sessions Stereo Mix) Surf's Up (stereo mix) Vega-Tables (Stereo Mix) You're Welcome (Stereo mix) Wind Chimes (Stereo Mix)
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Are We Skewing The Meaning of (Beach Boys) Songs?
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on: June 27, 2016, 10:52:28 AM
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While I can overlook any "creepiness" due to age because the writer/singer is not the same as the 'character' singing (the "You're Sixteen" example), I have always had a problem with guys in their 70's singing "Isn't it time we go steady again?" Because in that song it clearly is being sung from an older point of view and just sounds silly when they sing it.
The other lyric that give me pause is: "Took me back darlin' to that time in my car When you cried all night cause we'd gone too far"
It just paint a bad picture.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: I Love Kokomo
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on: June 17, 2016, 06:46:58 AM
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it's kind of an anti-Beach Boys song since Brian had no participation in its creation Come now, there have been many great BB songs that Brian didn't have a hand in. That doesn't make them anti-Beach Boys. Are you really going to discount 77% of Holland as "anti-Beach boys?"
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Rocky Pamplin book about The Beach Boys?
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on: December 23, 2015, 08:25:05 AM
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Daniel Johnston... well we all know who that is! I do appreciate you finding someone who has recorded music from an Institution... could you share some of his songs with us... the Genre...anything to enlighten us?
Well, that was...aggressively hostile. You asked, he answered. *I* know who Daniel Johnston is. Respected singer song writer with mental problems. I have heard many covers of his work. There was a documentary about him a few years ago. Just because you don't know him, Rocky, doesn't mean you should be rude about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Johnston
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