Reminds me a bit of this gem...

Brian: Mike, you're good with words...can you take a look at this?

Mike: Anything for my cousin Brian!  Lemme see that there.

*pauses*

Mike: Yeeeeeaaaaa, these lyrics are just way too depressing Bri.  Let's inject some positivity!  How about "I just wasn't made for these FRIES"?  Like, we're already at the hamburger stand, she still has the T-Bird's keys, but the fries are cold...so she splits, right?  So like...*hums a melody*...yeah, yeah so she cruises down to the beach...it's midnight right, so the moon is creating a really beautiful phosphorescent glow on the waves...

Brian: *laughs* Ah Mike, the song is already done.  Tony and I wrote it in five minutes!  FIVE MINUTES!  Can you believe it?  I just need you to proof-read it, you know?

Mike: Oh, uh...yeah, sure...anything for you Brian. Hmmm...a-ha, you wrote "were" in the second line when I think you meant "where".

Brian: Wow Mike, I didn't even notice that!  Second line in and there's a huge mistake! Oh man! *laughs*  Cool, thanks.

Mike: So...I like, get a co-writing credit for that, right?

Brian: *laughs loudly* Hahaha, yeah sure!  Yeah, a co-write.

Mike: I'll just write my name right at the top here then...

Brian: WHOA, no no no.  You're serious?  You want a co-writing credit for that? 

Mike: Well, why not?

*awkward silence*

Brian: I'd like the pad of paper back now, Mike.  I'm really busy right now.

Mike: Can I keep the pen?

Brian: No, that's my only pen.

Awesome. 

Seeing Cabinessence pop up on a psychedelic 60s compilation was a nice surprise:
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/comp/various_artists_f2/the_psychedelic_years_1966_1969_f1/

Yeah, on the whole the Bambu stuff doesn't touch POB, but this one's a highlight. The Dumb Angel Rarities version opens with 50 completely gratuitous seconds of percussion, which might be why I prefer it.

And the criminal inclusion would be Morrissey?

goddammit

Actually it reminds me a lot of Winds of Change. A much better written song, but a similar sound.

Sounds like a great EP. I really like this!

Emitt Rhodes' debut album. From this I'd say he sits nicely alongside other great singer-songwriters of the early 70s... the music here sounds to me like a cross between hippie-era McCartney and the Raspberries - lightweight but hook-filled and skillfully crafted pop. He also performed every instrumental part and every vocal on this, pulling it off with as much expertise as Rundgren. Good solid power pop, this.

Nice! I really like "Please Take Me Home".

Yeah, it's a fantastic little pop song.  And for me the one time on that album the overstuffed production actually does the song perfect justice... it's full-on Spector!

What's the story behind the instrumental "Why" on the Made in California compilation?

It sounds like it could be from the Paley sessions, but I can't find anything on it.

It's off the MIU sessions - November 18th, 1977.

Wonderful cover. Nice job with the video too. 

I nabbed it when it was up on Soundcloud - here it is in nicer quality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-TYMKm198w

Aye, some fantastic pictures. This is the most eerily 60s I've ever seen 80s Brian...

I'm a bit of an MIU apologist... it's quite possibly the most vapid thing they ever released (with the exception of My Diane, of course), but I never really found it offensive. It's nice to listen to (well, apart from Brian's falsetto on SGR, which he makes up for with the vocal on Match Point and SGR being a bloody great song).
LA, not so much. Too many ballads in a row, too many of them mediocre, and it's kind of a dreary experience... to the point where the standout tracks for me are Lady Lynda, something so sincerely proud of being a piece of schlock that I can't help but enjoy it, and Shortenin' Bread, which is the only halfway fun moment on the record.
And I believe I think of KTSA what most other people think of MIU: it's miserable. Goin' On is the only salvageable thing there, in my opinion. I'd like Sunshine more if it weren't for the calypso instruments. I guess the single version of School Day is alright just because the alternate acappella part isn't as unpleasant as the album cut's.

That's a fantastic playlist. I got next to nothing to add. In the Back of My Mind? The a cappella Can't Wait Too Long snippet, maybe?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JkhcP-fDfE

Here's a nice, brief new rendition of Love & Mercy that came from a music education charity. Brian showed up to sing lead.

[I Do]

County Fair or I Do
Cotton Fields (Brian's cut) or Cotton Fields (Al's cut)
Land Ahoy or Cherry Cherry Coupe
Big Sur (Holland) or Big Sur (early version)
This Whole World (Sunflower) or This Whole World (IJWMFTT) or This Whole World (live@Roxy) or American Spring version
Morning Beat or Walkin'
Funky Pretty (Holland) or Funky Pretty (live)
Hawaii or Kona Coast
Only with You (Holland/Carl lead) or Only with You (POB bonus track/Dennis lead)
Holidays (Smile) or On a Holiday (BWPS)
Catch a Wave or Sidewalk Surfin'
Marcella (So Tough) or Marcella (live In Concert) or Marcella (performed live by BW and his band)
Darlin' (WH) or Darlin' (live in Knebworth)
Be True to Your School (single) or LDC version
Thinkin' About You baby (Sharon Marie) or American Spring Version
Help Me Rhonda or Ronda or alt. version on EH soundtrack
Little Honda vs. alternate version on 2-fer
Vega-tables (Smile) or Vegetables (Smiley)
Live Let Live (TLOS) or Live Let Live (Soundtrack version)
Don't Back Down vs. alternate version on 2-fer
Airplane (LY studio cut) or Airplane (live version with Charles Lloyd flute solo)
Baby Blue Eyes (LA) or early version from Bamboo rarity
Back Home (early 63 cut) or Back Home (Sunflower cut) or Back Home (15 Big Ones) or Back Home (live at Roxy)
Keep an Eye On Summer or Brian's version on Imagination
Feel Flows (SU studio cut) or Feel Flows (live in later 70s)
Let Him Run Wild or Imagination version or the alt. version from the 2-fer
Santa Ana Winds (KTSA) or Santa Ana Winds (early version with no stupid spoken intro)
Sandy or Sherry She Needs Me or She Says that She Needs Me
Wind Chimes (Smile) or Wind Chimes (Smiley)
Graduation Day (studio) or Live version
Pamela Jean or Car Crazy Cutie
Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow (live) or Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow (Party!)
Little St. Nick or "  " (with Drive In backing)
Here Today (regular version) or Here Today (Brian vocal only)
Keepin the Summer Alive (studio) or KTSA (live at Knebworth)
Loop De Loop or Santa's Got an Airplane
Aren't You Glad (WH) or Aren't You Glad (live in London)
Bells of Christmas or Bells of Paris
Let's Go to Heaven in My Car or Water Builds Up
Let the Wind Blow (WH) or the live version on the Concert album
The Little Girl I once Knew (single) or version on Hawthorne
Lay Down Burden (Imagination) or Lay Down Burden (Live @ Roxy)
Surfer Girl (studio) or Surfer Girl (Lei'd in Hawaii rehearsal)
Good Time (Love You) or Good Time (American Spring)
Wild Honey (album cut) or Wild Honey (Live version with Blondie on lead)
I'm Bugged at My ol Man (Summer Days) or the version in the It's Ok special where Brian starts coughing up a lung
Til I Die or Til I Die (Desper long mix)
Endless harmony (KTSA) or 10 Years of Harmony
Wake the World or Wake the World (live in London)
You're So Good to me (Studio) or You're So Good to Me (lei'd In Hawaii)
Dance Dance Dance or early take of the song
Lady (DW) or Fallin' in Love (American Spring)
Shortenin' Bread (LA) or Shortenin' Bread (Adult Child) or Metal Beach
Look or Song for Children
Bull Session with Big Daddy (on the album) or the 20 minute version
All I want To Do (20/20) or All I want to Do (live in London outtake)
Come go with Me (MIU) or Come Go with Me (early 15 Big Ones outtake)
I'm So Young or early take of the song with Flute added
Breakaway (single) or alt. mix on Hawthorne or early version on EH soundtrack
I Know There's an Answer or Hang On To Your Ego
Lady Lynda (LA) or Lady Lynda (early version from MIU era) or Lady Lynda (Live at Knebworth)
Surfin' or Surfin' on SIP or Surfin' (Lei'd in Hawaii)
Girl Don't Tell Me (SD) or Girl Don't Tell Me (Live with Al in Vegas)
Trombone Dixie or Had to Phone Ya
Had to Phone Ya (15 Big Ones) or Had to Phone Ya (American Spring)
Kiss Me Baby or vocals only version
Sail On Sailor (Holland cut) or Sail On sailor (live In Concert)
Do it Again or live in London or early version on EH
The Man with All the Toys (BB version) or Man with All the Toys (BW version)
Love to Say Dada/Water or Cool Cool Water or In Blue Hawaii
Trader (Holland) or Trader (live in Concert)
Summertime (Sharon Marie) or Summertime (BWRG)
Time to Get Alone (20/20) or Time to Get Alone (Redwood) or Time to Get Alone (alt. version on Hawthorne)
Sweet Sunday Kinda Love (MIU) or Sweet Sunday Kinda Love (American Spring)
Oh Darling (KTSA) or Oh Darling (alt. version on Get the Boot/Brian vocal)

Added:
Black Widow or Let's Do it Again
Don't Worry Baby studio vs. Don't Worry Baby from the In Concert LP
That Same Song (15BO) v That Same Song (TV Special w/Double Rock Baptist Choir)
Midnight's Another Day (TLOS) v Midnight's Another Day (demo)
Heroes and Villains (Smiley) or Heroes and Villians (Lei'd in Hawaii) or H&V (live In Concert) or H&V (BWPS)
Vegetables (Laughing Gravy) or Vegetables (Smiley)
Sloop John B (album cut) or Sloop John B (other vocal, you specify)
God Only Knows (album) or GOK w/ sax solo or GOK with Brian on lead and vocal round at the end or GOK rehearsal in Hawaii on EH
Pet Sounds instrumental (studio) or Pet Sounds (live)
Caroline No (PS studio) or Caroline No (In Concert with Carl's lead)
Bluebirds Over the Mountain (20/20 or Bluebirds Over the Mountain (Live in London)
Caroline No (single/sped up/regular) or Caroline No (slowed down, "original")
Gettin' Hungry (Smiley) or Gettin' Hungry (Lei'd in Hawaii)
Do you Like Worms (Smile) or Roll Plymouth Rock (BWPS)
Wonderful (Smile) or Wonderful (Smiley) or "Wonder Bill" (Live on EH) or Wonderful (IJWMFTT) or Wonderful (BWPS)
Desert Drive (Paley Sessions) or Desert Drive (GIOMH)
Their Hearts Were Full of Spring (Original demo/Hite Morgan recording) or A Young Man is Gone or Their Hearts were Full of Spring (Rehearsal in Hawaii) or Their Hearts Were Full of Spring (Live in London)
School Days (KTSA) or School Days (Live at Knebworth)
We Got Love (Holland outtake) or We Got Love (In Concert)
You Still Believe in Me (album) or YSBIM (In Concert)
Melt Away (BW 88) or Melt Away (IJWMFTT) or Melt Away (Demo from BW 88 re-release)
Spirit of Rock and Roll (early Usher version) or Spirit of Rock and Roll (live from 80s tv special) or Spirit of Rock and Roll (Sweet Insanity with Bob Dylan) or Spirit of Rock and Roll (BW from Songs from here and back)
Loop De Loop (Landlocked early mix) or Loop De Loop (Al's newer mix from EH)
Hey Little Tomboy (MIU) or Hey Little Tomboy (Adult Child)
Still I Dream of It (Adult Child) Still I Dream of It (demo/IJWMFTT)
California Feeling (Beach Boys/MIU-LA era/most notably vocals are Carl and Al in my opinion) or California Feeling (American Spring) or California Feeling (newest BW version)
Don't Let Her Know She's an Angel (Sweet Insanity) or Don't Let Her Know She's an Angel (GIOMH)
Can't Wait too Long (snippet from Hawthorne) or Can't Wait too Long (TLOS)
Make A Wish (Sweet Insanity) or Make a Wish(GIOMH)
There's So Many (BW 88) or There's So Many (Early demo on BW88 reissue)
Rainbow Eyes (Sweet Insanity) or Rainbow Eyes (GIOMH)
Love and Mercy (BW 88) or L&M (IJWMFTT) or L&M (live at the Roxy0
Gettin In Over My Head (Paley Sessions) or Gettin' in Over My Head (GIOMH)
Walkin' the Line (Usher demo) or walkin' the Line (BW 88)

Mister Grisley listened without ears. One would buy escorts without human papillomavirus and cucumbers or watermelon, but granny preferred walking with books inserted into her basket.

"Of course not," says the inner guru before we eat tacos.

A gentleman flaunted his new pen cup, but granny wasn't interested, just curious. Thus he inserted inside her basket, of course. Whores cook weinerschnitzel and dedicate themselves to Swedish meatballs.

Meanwhile, Mister Grisley's soulmate murdered whores and mobsters but couldn't locate where her wig was. Parasol magnets masturbate while on shrooms to elucidate pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Supercalifragilisticexpialiadotious.

"Mountains laughed at your chlamydia infection," said King Lettuce to AGD, who frolicked about dancing with Brianista bashers.

Suddenly, Rab2591 fell into filledepage's pool, tripping on acid or Peyote. Filledpage called upon Mike Love to sing "Everyone's in Love with You", but then Darian said shut the hell up. Mike smoked Bruce's shorts that Maharishi levitated off his sacred woo woo machine, and burst like rainbow N2. Laughter!

Subsequently, AIDS curable medicine turned miraculous! Local Professor Flannels stripped eggs seductively, peeling directly off large bananas encrusted unto glittering turbans, hovering seductively over naked sculptures.

Jay claimed responsibility for breaking another law. Melinda called Melinda to make imaginative sounds of mating influenced heretofor copulating intensely into Macy's. As OSD conquered TB and teeth gnashed, the solar eclipse turned around screaming SOS at people, indicating TWGMTR by Myk King was Punkinhead, who ate punkins because Macintosh tasted App-a-liciously!

Jeff lost her hips despite killing Andy McDowell during rough fucking. Sometimes Pecker Cheddar beatboxed gratuitously at Probyn bloody Gregory.

Hamstrings saved orphans, inadvertently discombobulating your ass while shaving her pubes unprofessionally. Odysseus obtained 15 year contracts for killing contractors.

Ceremoniously intoxicated, blood oranges were surgically inserted next by Chilean vajays twice. Desperately so that my spare bollocks wait for Carol's touch, always intensely farted in haste. Sadly, Judd (aka Ass) fell into disrepute because Mr. Grisley had never grasped Susannah's nymphonia until yesterday.

Montana Jenkem died doing jenk.

Inevitably, Joe Thomas was jenking furiously at Jimbob's Presbyterian tendencies, whereupon his wallet burned Mike Love's itchy fungus disorder. Calipopicana blends tits with glitz from jizz-whizzing woodpeckers, preserved in funk classics.

Therefore, Kylie Hughes partied incompetently naked despite the stab from infectious armpits that squirt leather-clad ferro-cement, and consequently my little pony threesomed promiscously on pool-tables a-plenty.

Opening butts reveals guts.

However, he drank gallons of Baja Blast without complimenting the prostitute Sheila. So, body painters brandishing bastardised donuts frolicked merrily whilst naked versions of microscopic Elvi zapped any remaining adversaries. On Saturday night his Illegal Eagle League caught on big-time.

Gynecologists sued Sir Ass Backwards due to a liassbility regarding Henry's private pickle, which penetrated Billboard's hot buttered asses. Incontrovertibly, I grabbed nuns and archbishops for a forthcoming bath orgie starring Batman, but not before sacrificing an absolutely ginormous haddock.

Twenty-four vengeful Vikings breast-massaged themselves lovingly. Meanwhile, all the leftover buttermilk which was impregnated exploded yesterday, unexpectedly due North of the North Pole Nincompoops.

Asshats killed asshat-killers betwixt their little old buttocks. Naked mole-rats farted superfluous mustard onto sandwiches and died within a century marked by Mark's slippery liquid soap shavings.

Suddenly an enema exploded violently, killing three power tools instantaneously. Thunderous electronic thunders thunderously thundered hundred-fold upon Jesus McAnally before a turd finally dropped all over her favorite octopus.

BB fanboys always forget to shake it, period.

I adore that cover! They released it a year and a bit ago on the Electricity By Candlelight CD, which has a bunch of favourite songs Alex played solo to audience members when the power went out during one of his concerts. He did two other Beach Boys songs: Surfer Girl and Wouldn't It Be Nice.

forget

Wings' Wild Life. Deeply flawed and I ought to hate it, but it's a real grower.

Edit: Having got to know this album a lot better, I can tell you that "Some People Never Know" has become my absolute favourite McCartney tune. Beautiful vocal harmonies and a killer middle-eight.

shavings.

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