I have both Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys: the Complete Guide to Their Music and Catch a Wave. The former focuses on the music of the band (and solo), and it has entries for every album, song, and miscellaneous bit of music that was available up to 2004. The latter is an excellent biography of Brian. I recommend both.

If you posted you must explain yourself what you meant.

Unfortunately, I rarely ever explain myself.

You mean to say with that cryptic post that it doesn't apply to less value - cents & dimes etc.?

Never mind. I've realized I have no interest in debating about the placement of the dollar sign.

I was addressing "Bubs".

You can still call me Mr. Waves. I enjoyed that.

$10.45¢

Also, people who don't ask how you are after you ask them.

I knew someone like that. Every time I talked to her, I would ask how her day was. She would answer my question, and then she would fall silent. It was so bizarre!

I ended up asking her out on the last day of the semester--she said yes--and then I never talked to her again.

lol, why did you ask her out then?

I guess it's just one of those things we'll never know the answer to.

Speaking as someone who's currently at the tail end of obtaining their Associate's Degree at a community college, 60 credits is the minimum amount to graduate. This is split approximately 40 credits from general education classes and 20 from your chosen major. It's a major pain in the ass. I can see the worth in taking these classes (expanding knowledge base, finding new interests, etc.), but I've heard an entire classroom complain about the irrelevant courses they've been required to take.

So far, I've maintained a 4.0 GPA, but if some stupid Gen Ed class knocks me down, I might strangle a counselor.

Also, people who don't ask how you are after you ask them.

I knew someone like that. Every time I talked to her, I would ask how her day was. She would answer my question, and then she would fall silent. It was so bizarre!

I ended up asking her out on the last day of the semester--she said yes--and then I never talked to her again.

I often think of my intellectually-disabled sister and her attempts at romantic relationships when I hear "Wouldn't It Be Nice."

"And wouldn't it be nice to live together
In the kind of world where we belong"

My problem with the Sandbox is that the little "new" buttons next to the topics never take me to the "new," unread posts in their respective topics. It always drops me right on page 1 of the thread in question. Never happens in the On Topic Discussion forum. Anyone else have this problem?

Nope, doesn't work for me either.
Also, when you hit "preview" before you post something, it's just presents you with black text on a black background. which is not helpful

Since buying the album and waiting for it to arrive here at my door, I have been listening to a few of the songs. Something struck me as I was listening to "Everything's Sex," and I went and looked for this post:

Momus

This was an interesting album. It was often pretty, but also had some really odd subject matter. He has quite a fixation on sex,

Heh, so many of the songwriters I like do, (not to mention most people I know, and me) that it seems almost par for the course.

I was at a marketplace, and a band was playing off in the back. "Sorry I'm being so frickin' moody right now," the singer said to the audience.

Yes, this is a track I've really come to appreciate and love in the past year or so.  Was this a classic music by Brian and words by Mike song?  Did anyone else have an uncredited part in writing it?

Mike is thought to have written a little more than the lyrics, although there are no specifics as to what he did or didn't write. There's also a post by Alan Boyd somewhere around here that details Carl's involvement in the song; I think I remember it being mostly on the production side. Subtract their contributions, and you have what Brian added to the song, I guess.

I locked my thread, and I would ask that it stay that way.
Additionally, is it possible to get rid of Ognir Rrat's post? I ended my thread the way I wanted it to end.

Honestly I really enjoyed the movie. Especially the last half. Paul Rudd and that Tom Holland kid make up a lot of the awkward humor that I love so much.

Have you ever seen Nathan for You?

I have not. Why?

If awkward humor is your thing, it is the greatest TV show ever created. I've known a few people who find it nearly unwatchable, but it's probably one of my favorite things ever. I love it so much. The premise is this guy, Nathan Fielder, goes to different businesses (and sometimes starts his own), and pitches ideas to them that he thinks will make them more successful. Here's one where he convinces a realtor to sell her homes by advertising them as "ghost free": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7BlydBMAVU&ab_channel=ComedyCentral

It's all 100% real, by the way.

Honestly I really enjoyed the movie. Especially the last half. Paul Rudd and that Tom Holland kid make up a lot of the awkward humor that I love so much.

Have you ever seen Nathan for You?

I merged the threads and changed the title of it at that time to make it obvious that this was the thread to discuss the issue.

 

However, and this this is just a however....I also read here that Guitarfool is a moderator at Brian's site as well. If so that seems like a conflict of interest. I don't even know if that's fact or fiction, but if true, in light of some other recent drama around here, it seems not quite right. And before I get a lecture from Guitarfool that's not my intent nor to imply conspiracies. It's just that negativity regarding Brian in any form is not tolerated on Brian's site and I hope that is not being factored into this forum for any reason. I have read outright insulting horrible stuff about Al  looking like death and have to endure OSD and his derangement syndrome concerning Mike on a daily basis.

Is this accurate?

http://brianwilson.websitetoolbox.com/profile/3984181

If I buy a CD, will you sign it for me?

I think I like Radiohead.

I haven't been able to listen to it yet because I'm stupid and I wait for CDs to be available.

Part 3 Revised: War Is Peace


Whatever Happened begins.

Bubs:    very genius beginning; and middle; and the end, too

Judd:    and everything. the great thing about the ballads on this album is that they gently place their hands on my hips, rest their cheek against mine, and gracefully sway back and forth like they’re teaching me to ballroom dance, while all the snooty, rich girls look on in envy

Bubs:    ooh, the wonderful edge of pitch correction in that chorus. I love pitch correction. I detest inaccuracy and humanity.

Judd:    it just sounds so full of life; it’s like my ear is a womb and this music is impregnating me. They add a little bit just when you think it's gonna end and you’re crying because you’re sad it’s gonna end. I like that bit because it’s one of the few times my father decided to say he’s proud of me for listening to it

Bubs:   someone with muscular, serpentine arms goes for it on the cymbals. I heard they exploded when the take was over, and the fragment flew out and killed Chris Dorner, which is how it really went down

Judd:    That’s why my coffee told me.
 
Bubs:    Isn't that bass line from something 65 or 66? The awesome power of this album probably created a wormhole through which 1965 Brian was sucked, and he said hey brian you should add this bass line and they danced and sang and drank wine, and he returned and wept and canceled Smile because it wasn’t as good

Judd:    God, I love how it's just old tricks put into boisterously bangin’ new songs. my biggest love with this one in particular is how it seems like Brian ripped the essence from Southern California and From There to Back Again and pushed them together into one smaller and smaller ball until it exploded and shot out this song like a violent birth

Bubs:   I'm gonna pull up the lyrics for this one. “As the time goes by/And I wonder why/When I know the day is through.” I legitimately think James Joyce wrote those lines. Like, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf probably

Judd:    oh my god feed me with more lyrics

Bubs:   “The summer wine/My favorite time/The night that I met you.” are you thoroughly nourished

Judd:    nope

Bubs:    it’s phrases put together; once you untangle the images and cyclical meanings, the album case flips open, and a blinding, healing light emanates from the CD

Judd:    the chorus punched me in my amygdala until I was reduced to a hyperventilating, squirming ball of primordial emotions

Bubs:    Assume the position, my child, for there is more. "When I wake up in the morning/If I see that you're not there/If you're away I'll be OK/I know that you still care." this is basically a verse that cancels itself out genius. It reflects all the facets of a tumultuous relationship.

Judd:    How would you sum up that one?

Bubs:    music for a vacation spot commercial--if you were vacationing in Valhalla

Judd:    that's the next one

Bubs:    they are all reminiscent of eternal afterlife, bathed in the warm glow of eternal good

Judd:    touché.  the songs about old age tend to be the best. it felt weirdly intimate and genuine on Midnight's Another Day and the last three songs on TWGMTR. but for some reason on this one it transcends mere time and otherness. Through expressing his old age in such a way, Brian has achieve immortality.

I just walked into my living room, and everyone is gone, and some guy I've never seen before is snoring on my couch.

Part 2 Revised: Praise the Sun, for It Is the Face of Brian Wilson


Runaway Dancer begins.

Judd:    praise god, that sax is better than sex

Bubs:   That is probably the most unintentionally genius transition I've ever heard; I've listened to all of his albums so I can say that competently and reliably

Judd:   I read on some review that the synths on this song sound exactly like Wonderful Christmastime, and the more I think about it, Wonderful Christmastime must be like listening to a volcano erupt underwater because it's been compared to this Mona Lisa of song

Bubs:    “My feelings on this album can be summed up adequately by one exact shiny moment on this album, and that is the transition from "This Beautiful Day" to "Runaway Dancer". One moment, I'm experiencing bliss, assured that Brian can still make beautiful music. The next, I'm hit by a train of gold with "BRAIN MASSAGE" written on the front of it in the blood of a virgin.” How I’ve described it before.

Judd:   ah yes. it's a really mind-and-body inhabiting Ecstatic Diamond Music song

Bubs:   let's be real: this sort of salvation is what everyone's looking for from Brian. TAKE ME TO HEAVEN, BRIAN

Judd:   THIS IS SO SINCERE AND WONDERFUL.

Bubs:   this has got to be the biggest good experience on anything I've evered. The way it's structured is like two kisses on the face: it starts with that sex sax and some exquisite snapping, like you wandered into a fucking great jazz club dressed entirely in diamond-studded denim, and then synths start to fizzle like bacon in a hot pan and it all breaks loose.

Judd:   and the fist of God comes down, punches through whatever roof is in the way, and cranks the song. The outro once resuscitated me after I gasped too hard and inhaled a chair when I was listneing to this album. It's hard to sum up thoughts on this because there's so many and there's only so much room in my tiny, unqualified brain

Bubs:   I want to know who to send my first child to as a reward for creating this: the modern day equivalent of a Lost Sea Scroll

Judd:    wasn't it written in the late 90s? I suspect Jesus and Brian around the time of Imagination

Bubs:    we're not giving enough credit to Sebu, man of legendary band Capital Cities, who recently cured AIDS while also performing a concert

Judd:   Yes, he doesn't get enough attention for his saintly activities. I know he's a priest, but I'd let him have sex with me

Bubs:    I'm thinking his pale hand of righteousness steered the song in this direciton. anyway...

Judd:   who knows. to me this sounds pretty much pure-Jesus

Part 1 Revised: Shiny Happy People Holding Hands


Bubs:   I suppose we should start at the fucking great beginning that literally shoots rays of sunlight through my windows and into my brain and makes me happy and that’s the only time in my life I’ve felt true happiness

This Beautiful Day begins.

Bubs:   For some reason, I have a fuckin amazing a cappella mix of this a cappella mix of this

Judd:   Wait, what. Oh wait, yeah. I think Jesus handed it down to his disciple Mark, and he put it on SoundCloud.

Bubs:    This is an excellent beginner. Wouldn't you agree?

Judd:    Excellent! I'm partial to it; it's nice. I think that final chord sounds fabulous.

Bubs:   Really! Tell me what you like about it?

Judd:   I'm taken with the melody

Bubs:   I love the idea here

Judd:    I remember you fuckin loving that opening line; it starts the album very promisingly

Bubs:   I love the strings and the horn so much, I rub them against my skin before I go to sleep; they’re probably played by virginal cherubs

Judd:    I like the horn, too. I want to wrap it in my arms, so we can mutually keep each other warm during a harsh winter storm.

Bubs:   I picture rain drops on windows. Big fuckin sparkly rain drops. They could probably nourish this whole entire world.

Judd:    I like it because it’s like a glimpse into Brian’s goshdarn genius brain filled with music and sh*t and it’s like “boom bang pow! HERE’S SOME MUSIC FOR YOUR SOUL, YOU BITCH”

Bubs:   and those full, natural sounding harmonies! It’s like an acient, foreign tome came to life and yelled in an echo chamber! and the flute fanfare after the final chord--or maybe it's not a flute and it’s actually God whistling

Judd:    did you notice the genius edit on Brian's vocal at 1:01? I didn't notice it until someone pointed it out but once you hear it you can't unhear it and how amazing it is

Bubs:   let me put on the headphones so I can let the music enter my body in a more direct way; i need to feel it inside me judd

Judd:    okey dokes

Bubs:    wow, yes, absolutely phenomenal work on their part

Judd:   there's a genius jump to a higher note

Bubs:    I guess I wasn't really thinking of that as an edit, more like Brian’s FUCKING OUTTA THIS WORLD ABILITY TO SING

Judd:    yeah, listening to this is like being blown by Marilyn Monroe while floating on a cloud. CLOUD 10 CUZ WE’RE FLYING OVER CLOUD 9! YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?

Bubs: I’d give birth to this song’s baby, and then I would raise it by myself, and I would still pay this song alimony because that’s how good it is

Craig, would you have gone through all this trouble to discredit me as a reviewer for my inexperience if this review was positive?

"The album received mixed reviews which largely  criticized its adult contemporary arrangement , ( by whom outside this message board?)

If you would like to read the reviews for this album, you can find two different aggregates here and here. Be forewarned: the majority of reviews are scary and wrong, in that they are mostly middling and negative. Grab the pitchforks and torches, boys, we're gonna teach them a lesson.

Is THAT what this was about? Now it's more clear.

Yeah, sure, man. This thread is all about you. Glad you figured it out finally.

What on earth does being a good or bad moderator have to do with engaging in this conversation and discussion?

The fact you have to ask that question in light of you behavior just shows how you have no understanding of your role.

I'm off to go get the Hickeyscript up and running.