Did Lennon ever even visit the US in 1967?

I thought so but I could barely hear the Honey's on background at all in this.

Which version is this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0EKAR_KJR0

This board needs a Troll Image Mike thread. It has needed it for a long time.

This thread was funnier when that was the direction it was heading in.

Naughty thread!

Does it need to have "water" in the lyric to be about water? Isn't it enough that the darned track bloody well sounds like water? 

And the award goes to..... Todd.

*applause*

 

I always thought 2 and half was a reference to summer saults. Not even sure why, really. 

Honestly though, you could take any poem/lyric/whatever and do that sort of analysis. I may attempt to if I get a moment.

Why the hell do people feel the need to try and equate what the Beach Boys were doing in 1967-68 to the psychedelic bullmerda coming out of Northern California at the same time? Again, the issue of trying to justify fandom to so-called "hipper-than-thous".

Pretty much. That is what is so awesome about Brian is that he is so uniquely Brian. There should be no need to put what he and the boys were doing in a box. Whether that box be labeled "Surf Rock" or "Psychedlia" or "Acid Pop" or whatever. The same could be said for VDP. They were what they were. The important thing is what we get out of it as listeners.

i don't think we'll hear smiley smile vegetables session stuff, cause i seriously doubt smiley smile wind chimes or wonderful will be in there. 

The slow "I know that you'll feel better ..." from Smiley Smile Vegetables is in BWPS, and Linett said that BWPS is serving as a blueprint.

When was that bit recorded? I had no idea that wasn't from the SMiLE sessions.

Which version in particular are you referring to? 

Agreed, That is a really cool quote. Thanks for bringing it to the discussion.

I had a friend who swore up and down that Hey Jude was about heroin. There was nothing I could say to convince him of how dumb that sounded either.

I don't mind it at all. I think reading his ideas and interpretations has proven quite interesting to read.

I think the cover will likely be something drab with the appropriate SMiLE font, ala the Pet Sounds Sessions box set.

Let's keep in mind that the Pet Sounds Sessions and Smile Sessions boxes won't be the same shape.  The PS box was, of course, a long rectangle (not a great shape on which to reproduce an LP cover).  Because the Smile box will contain vinyl LPs, it will have to be a ~12"x12" square...  the perfect shape for simply using the beloved 1967 Smile shop cover.

Ooops. You're right. I wish they would just release a picture already with a tracklist so we can all move on and start drooling. 

Nicely done. Slick vocals. Brava.

I think the cover will likely be something drab with the appropriate SMiLE font, ala the Pet Sounds Sessions box set.

Things in life tend to be gradual rather than cut and dry. A person who gets divorced usually knows it's coming long before they announce it and they may even take measures to try and save it even if they believe it is doomed. I think SMiLE can be seen like that.

So Brian knew he was going to get a divorce, but he kept recording Smile because he thought that might save the marriage?

LOL Something like that. But only as long as Marilyn doesn't mistake all those fan mail packages of Vega-tables for LSD. That might blow the whole thing!  

Things in life tend to be gradual rather than cut and dry. A person who gets divorced usually knows it's coming long before they announce it and they may even take measures to try and save it even if they believe it is doomed. I think SMiLE can be seen like that.

It's a joke! Like on kids TV or something! Why don't YOU tell Brian your favourite vegetable?

I think you are making pushing the lyrics a little too far in order to fit your theory. Like my shakespeare post way upthread, sometimes a vegetable is just a vegetable, man  

I think it is veering into Paul Is Dead territory.

Are you saying VDP meant the lyrics as a plea to send drugs to them via mail? 

[don't set yourselves up for huge disappointment when it doesn't conform to your idea of what it should be.]

Stop trying to constrain it within specific dates, or at least don't set yourselves up for huge disappointment when it doesn't conform to your idea of what it should be.

I think that is advice we would all do well to heed no matter what our opinions are.

[The Smile Sessions]

I think he means that the words and melody were pre-May 1967. So it would be ashamed to just wash those away because there were never actually put to tape before then.

OK... the name of this release is The Smile Sessions, that is, sessions for the Smile album - care to explain how sessions from, say Surf's Up fit into this picture ?  Suppose they did a 1974 Sessions project - would you include the 15BO version of "It's OK" ?

I understand that. Really. Even the first time you posted that, I understood it. I was just saying I can see where buddhahat is coming from.

I think he means that the words and melody were pre-May 1967. So it would be ashamed to just wash those away because there were never actually put to tape before then.

Vega-Tables
Vega-Tablin
Vega-Teroin
Beha-Teroin
beHa-tEroin
beHeroin
Heroin.

Simples.