i thought it was:

good or bad, glad or sad
it's all gonna pass away,
so hey, lets all play and enjoy while it lasts

am i wrong here?

let's see...the crapples...er,uh, i mean the beatles, had the entire establishment focused on them (either because they were corrupting the youth of because they were amazing geniuses, either way constant coverage) and had and have nearly endless press (every week since i have been alive one or more beatles are on a magazine cover ) saying matter-of-factly  they are the greatest band ever (i mean, love me do, who can beat that?)  so the debate is settled.
if you don't like them you are obviously wrong, just ask all the aging boomers who have been patting themselves on the back for the last 40years for ending the war, man. they know what's up (note: eternal wars are now good and just let them explain why that is)
! sure they were the wealthiest generation ever, and the first to leave their children worse off than themselves, but the beatles! they win, you lose.
just ask Jan warner.

that is bitchin  news! i haven't been interested  in them without her. same for when Stevie and lindsey  left  for a while.

its Marylin,

one of my favorite books, and the movie...whew, i love it, though it makes almost no sense!

Nick Lowe has an entire new album of xmas tunes called Quality Street that is great and a "sleighbell  free zone"!
(haven't figured out how to link to videos with this device yet!)

i love these guys! very cool chords and harmonies. they really come off as dweebs  in the footage l've seen (check out the live "get closer" clip) so i can understand why they were never considered cool,  but Steely Dan liked them, which is a certain kind of cred.  well worth getting into.

my mom named me after Brian, though she thought Al was cuter she just hated the name Al,  and this was in 1974! Anyway,since about 1982  when i first heard endless summer i was totally hooked. damn,  that's been over thirty years!

How on earth did Lou Reed sneak onto the stage?

now that would be the most hilarious tour ever!!

Overrated: every single one
Underrated: Not a single one

"Take it one little inch at a time, now"

Mike's "Now don't...Don't you worry, Baby..." bass part in the chorus is pretty much my favorite BB vocal part ever. Not sure if that counts as obscure.

Finally had lunch with Sandy AND Michael Fennelly from the Millenium. Really nice guys. Sandy is as tiny as Al Jardine and has a very casual, nice-guy vibe, whereas Mike seems a little more pissed about the Music biz, but still a very friendly man.
    Sandy told me he got to be at a mixing session for Good Vibes, but I didn't press him too much about exactly what it was like. Michael had a funny story about Mike Love being a dick and stepping in some dogshit circa 1968. Anyway, I'll post some pictures as soon as I remember how!
    Off to work....

'95 Brian was a cool singer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N90zRw-2fkQ

Gotta say I prefer almost any post-98 Brian vocal to that. Painful (if spirited).

I actually think that's the best performance i've heard from Brian in a while, didn't know he could sing that song that good, maybe the coolest thing i've heard from Brian since the 80's era.

On the Paley songs, with a couple of exceptions, Brian sounds like someone trapped in a mental ward.

  I can't think of ^any exceptions!

Great song. Fun to play those chords on the piano. But i had never heard that Usher and him worked on it! Even though I can imagine it being pretty bad, I can also see how it might be pretty cool...

Whoa, didn't think I'd find many Misfits fans around these parts. It's interesting, though, in that the '85 mixes were Glenn's work where as the originals were not (while probably having his input), which is kind of the opposite situation.

There are a couple cool things I like about his mix/additions (particularly the harmony vocal on "Static Age"), but overall, yeesh. I really don't care for them, the super-reverbed mixes are very ill-fitting for most of those songs. I think he was just into that sort of production and mixing style at the time. Sounds great on November-Coming-Fire, but here? I can't get into it.

The Misfits were a natural progression from the BB for my pre-teen to Teen self (in the 80's). Very catchy mid-tempo pop-songs with monster-movie lyrics?! Perfect.


I actually have a soft spot for Legacy of Brutality because I had that cassette in high school! Static Age (as an album) now sounds "90s" to me! ha

At what point did Mike feel like every song would sound better with the deep "YYYEEEAAH" ie 'It's O.K."?

Probably right around the time he added it to the live renditions of "Good Vibrations".

I actually always hear and sing "yeah" right after the organ and 'gotta keep those lovin' good...'line during the reverb silence before the last chorus. ML imprinted that on me so many years ago it is now always there!

That footage with Dennis is great! Even Carl does some good dead-panning. And Carter on the john and the guys singing along...the goodness never ends!

I'm looking forward to this at least, no more, than I did for MIC! Thanks in advance, Stephen.

[gained]

Dennis' hand injury, which forced changes to the band in a number of ways and pushed him away from the core creative direction; ... I don't think WIBNTLA solves any of that, but some FM success might have left the band more positively disposed to Dennis' work.

I always felt that Dennis gained some creative control when he hurt his hand. Like once he wasn't stuck behind the drums he could express himself at the piano, or he could stand up front and just sing with the guys,  and even Mike thought his songs were beautiful, so I always imagined it was Dennis that kept his own songs off the records. But, yeah, a hit would've been amazing!

Showed up a day early from amazon! worth it!

Perfect! As Good as I imagined.

At the very end (1:54ish) Denny plays a great little pick-up that has his crazy smash-cymbal-then-silence-cymbal thing that he does, like in Surfin USA...Love it!

At this point, it's hard to see a workable solution emerging any time soon in Egypt.

There's a fairly easy one as far as I can tell. Restore the democratically elected government which, as problematic as they were, were not arbitrarily killing citizens in self-proclaimed "crackdowns," and were adhering to constitutional principles rather than suspending the constitution. Hold them accountable through things like public protests which actually worked with this government. With Morsi public protests actually had an effect. With the military regime that it is now, it resulted in mass human rights violations and illegal detentions. Seems to me the choice is simple and if we actually cared about the people of Egypt, we would do best to focus on the realities. Pretending as if the central problem in Egypt are the victims of illegal totalitarianism will get us nowhere and can only perpetuate the central problems that have plagued Egyptians for decades.

Wow. You actually believe what you're saying, don't you?! And you say I live in fantasy land! Is it really that hard for you to look around and see that none, i mean NONE, of the things you claimed as a solution are even slightly possible, even here in the crappy old USA, where your government just passed a law that makes it illegal to protest (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lee-camp/anti-occupy-law-passes-nea_b_1343728.html? But hey, just be vigilant, or, uh, vote for someone else, or get the right law passed. Get a grip! Time for some new ideas rather than all this 'democracy is somehow always good, you just wait and see' schtick which makes no sense. Why tow the line for the staus quo?

FAIL!
Are you saying nobody would help anyone else if the government didn't make them?!

The government doesn't make anyone do it. If the people have a problem with it, they have the power to change it. But, no, that's not what I'm saying. But if you are going to suggest that the government is the direct cause of lost lives, then I can counter that they are the direct cause of lives being saved.

Since the government can only use force to do anything (including 'good' things) it IS ALWAYS BAD.

Totalitarian governments not democratic ones.

Remember, the government is made of people. Obvious, but important. By your logic, only these amazing people in government have any desire to help anyone and, shucks, nobody will voluntarily give them their money, so they are just gonna have to take your money and do something good for you, because you (who is also a person) are incapable of choosing how best to use your limited resources. What a joke!

When you are ready to exit fantasy land and actually have a discussion like a grown up, let me know.

Yeah, I'll make sure to keep you posted.