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11676  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Bellagio-Many updates now listed... on: March 10, 2008, 10:59:55 AM
Any details/info  on "What Can The Matter be"? Never heard of that track before. Also "Where is She", "Untitled # 3", "Settle Down", Spark in the Dark" ,"Body Talk", "Funky Fever" , or" Rooftop Harry"? Have you heard of any of these, and if so, what do they sound like?


Oh, and "Dr Tom".


11677  Smiley Smile Stuff / The Beach Boys Media / Re: The Official BB You Tube Thread on: March 10, 2008, 09:37:59 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18Ua3pPr2gY&feature=related LOL
11678  Smiley Smile Stuff / The Beach Boys Media / Re: The Official BB You Tube Thread on: March 10, 2008, 09:24:44 AM
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Just posted yesterday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hso_J5h3W9E

Great stuff! Hope BRI doesnt take it down.

What was it??
11679  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: I sleep Alone on: March 09, 2008, 10:31:50 PM
Still sounds unnatural to me.

Andrew, what say you?
11680  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: I sleep Alone on: March 09, 2008, 01:53:31 PM
I've heard the live version before, and I agree. Really, the high part on the studio version is kinda grating, if I'm being honest here. Still though...is it sped up? It really does sound unnatural, and other tracks during the Landy era were similarly sped up ( Too Much Sugar, the demo version of "Don't Let Her Know", ect.)
11681  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / The Sandbox / Re: Jaymie Danielle Castillo on: March 08, 2008, 10:23:26 PM
New pictures...

Christmas


This morning
11682  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / I sleep Alone on: March 08, 2008, 08:33:24 PM
Heard this track for the first time the other day... any info on who the song was originally written for? I mean, obviously this was written for a female singer, or at least I'd hope, judging by the lyrics. LOL
Also, are Brian's vocals sped up for the high parts?
11683  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: What is everyone listening to? on: March 08, 2008, 08:28:55 PM
Legend: The Best of Bob Marley & The Wailers.

Yeah. Good sh*t.
11684  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Brian Wilson biopic on: March 06, 2008, 01:59:35 PM
In the 80s Glenn Frey would've made a good Brian.
11685  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: My theory on what helped on: March 03, 2008, 11:55:07 PM
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Revolver has it's moments, and the following albums do as well. I'm just saying that the Beatles got to a point where their music was excessive and didn't have the freshness that it once had. The Beach Boys on the other hand in the late 60s kept making great albums whether they were commercially successful or not. I mean think about it, in 1968 the Beatles put out the 'White Album' which some consider a masterpiece, the Beach Boys put out 'Friends', great album but a flop, in 1969 the Beatles put out 'Abbey Road', the Beach Boys did '20/20'; Even though the Beach Boys grew their hair like (like everyone did) they never gave into the excessiveness of the era. And it would have been a terrible thing if the Beach Boys broke up at that time because the world wouldn't have seen the possibilities of what they produced.
I actually agree with most every thing you said, except one thing... they sure as hell did fall victim to the era's excessiveness. Two Words. Charles. Manson.
11686  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Stars & Stripes-sessions on: March 01, 2008, 10:07:49 PM
I was told that Brian produced the vocals  on S&S or at least did a lion's share of that. I'm not sure if that was indeed the case, though.
11687  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Stars & Stripes-sessions on: March 01, 2008, 08:49:42 PM
I agree about the Julio Iglesias-song but WOTS imo is just great. He makes it toally his own and Mickey Raphael from his band is probably one of the best harmonica-players in the world. Such a touching performance. But I guess it's probably sounding too much country for some people because much of the other recordings on S&S are so mainstream, while Willie really gets to the song and makes it country. Some of the other cuts sound like country but they aren't. If that makes any sense... Dunno what I try to say... sorry...

I agree with you. "The Warmth Of The Sun" could appear on a Willie Nelson album and you wouldn't even know it was a Beach Boys' song. I put it on a compilation for my car, right after Johnny Cash's "Sunday Morning Coming Down". Fits perfectly. Then I follow it with Elvis Presley's version of "Always On My Mind". Love it!

I can't remember the exact source, but I recall reading an interview with Brian where he states that "The Warmth Of The Sun" is the only song on Stars And Stripes where he contributes his falsetto.

Well, that's new to me. I never would've thought that Brian's doing falsetto on that song. You can hear Matt clearly but of course Brian may doubling him.
BTW Jasper told me about a performance of Willie Nelson at Farm Aid in '96/'97 (iirc) doing WOTS and Brian (not the Beach Boys) backs him up. Has anybody seen this?


Rocker, it was in 1988 and it was terribibble... I call it that because calling it simply "terrible" is being far too kind. It was still the Joe Thomas era...*shudder*. I'll say this though, I wish Brian of today would do those setlits. He's gotten so much better.

I'll say this, though. That *is* Brian on WOTS, but he also has a part on Caroline, No, in the background parts.
11688  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: The vision - the hypothetical final beach boys album on: March 01, 2008, 08:43:41 PM
They should redo some of the stuff hidden deep in the vaults that haven't even been booted, and they maybe could even get away with passing it off as newly written material. But only if it's Brian's band doing the backing, not the guys behind Mike and Useless.
11689  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Brian to play UK 'Hits' Tour on: March 01, 2008, 08:20:37 PM
Just another bad business decision in a whole slew of them. This makes me f*cking sick.
11690  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: 15 Big Ones: the album with the most outtakes in music history? on: March 01, 2008, 10:40:48 AM
DB, Rob, both of you guys need to chill.
11691  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: 15 Big Ones: the album with the most outtakes in music history? on: March 01, 2008, 10:39:45 AM
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Mr. Roach also says that Dennis sabotaged the final POB mixes on purpose, for the same reasons.
If that's sabotage, I'd love to hear the "good" version Smiley
11692  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Brian to play UK 'Hits' Tour on: March 01, 2008, 09:54:02 AM
Or both.
11693  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Brian to play UK 'Hits' Tour on: February 29, 2008, 02:07:33 PM
Probably not, as the TLOS demos are no longer on bw.com.

Here's something that nobody has seemed to think of...what if Brian's just lost interest in the project?
11694  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: What if Dennis had lived? on: February 29, 2008, 02:02:40 PM
From most accounts, both he and Brian really started to decline after Murry died.
11695  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: My theory on what helped on: February 28, 2008, 09:53:46 PM
He was coasting, too. They all were.
11696  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: 15 Big Ones: the album with the most outtakes in music history? on: February 28, 2008, 09:52:07 PM
I like Love You, but honestly...there was better material in the can. "Everybody wants to live" would've been great, "Sherry She Needs Me" would've been also,  and if he wanted an oldie on there, "You've Lost That Loving Feeling" would've smoked.

But that would've ruined the vibe that IS Love You. No oldies, no songs brought out of the can (with the exception of "Good Time", a song I love but which sounds so out of place vocally), a raw, honest snapshot of a recovering Brian Wilson in late 1976. Part of the greatness of Love You is that Brian didn't have to depend on "going back" to find material. "Everybody Wants To Live" is a great one, but the theme might've sounded out of place on the love-filled Love You.
The songs I'm referring to, such as "Everybody Wants to Live" were recorded around the same time as the songs that DID end op on LY. I referred to them as being in the can because that's what they are now...they weren't outtakes during the recording of Love You, they were just possible songs on the album. "Sherry She Needs Me" is an interesting case in that the vocal dated from 1976, but the track was from 1965.Can you imagine if that was the lead track? People would've been like, "Well his voice is still shot, but that sounds like a Brian Wilson production all right"... then again, "Let Us Go On this Way" was the perfect opener anyway.
11697  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Would Brian like a knighthood? on: February 28, 2008, 08:57:42 PM
Good point Jay.

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Meanwhile Brian and co. stab his American fans in the back while he continually performs his new music overseas. Thanx Brian.
Thank Brian's "people".
11698  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Brian's 2000-2007 non-album tracks on: February 28, 2008, 08:56:40 PM
Love & Mercy is great... it uses a similar arrangement as the live versions. "Barbie" (aka "Christine") was from 1986-1987... " pretty decent , but was actually "released" (if I can call it that) as a BB record. "Believe In Yourself" was from Duck Dodgers. "This Isn't Love" was released as an instrumental on the "Songs Without Words" cd.

Also, a 2007 version of "God Only Knows" and "What Love can Do".
11699  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Wilson-Asher sessions from the 1990's on: February 28, 2008, 08:52:34 PM
Also " Everything I Need".
11700  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: 15 Big Ones: the album with the most outtakes in music history? on: February 28, 2008, 08:52:00 PM
I like Love You, but honestly...there was better material in the can. "Everybody wants to live" would've been great, "Sherry She Needs Me" would've been also,  and if he wanted an oldie on there, "You've Lost That Loving Feeling" would've smoked.

DB, about Carl...when did he start using smack again? 'Cause it's like he stopped giving a sh*t. Honestly, there was no reason for 15 BO to come out the way it did. It's not like he was doing anything besides touring after Holland, right? All of a sudden he quit writing. Not that he was the most prolific writer in the world, but after writing "Trader", he didn't do anything until "Full Sail" and "Going South"...shudder. Oh, and "Angel Come Home", but that was actually a great track.
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