Brian & Mike writing together again

[Andrew G. Doe]

I personally think Everything I Need could have been more than merely 'inoffensive' - even great - with the right production, but unfortunately Joe Thomas saw to that I believe.

I also think Mike showed with Cool Head, Warm Heart that his talents are not completely shot.

The original track has leaked... it's nice enough, but if the names Wilson/Asher weren't attached, no-one would take much notice.

[Stegibo]

How about a re-recording of Devoted to You?

[Dunderhead]

You know it doesn't seem so hard to make a new BB album. Working off of Al's solo album and That Lucky Old Sun, I think they could definitely put together something professional. Maybe not a memorable album, but something that isn't offensively bad. But maybe we'll get lucky, maybe the band has one cool album left.

[buddhahat]

This Isn't Love", from both the Roxy album and the 2nd Flintstones movie, which recycles a chunk of "You're Still A Mystery":

Wait...I thought This isn't Love was written during the Dennis/Brian 'cocaine sessions'? Asking as I have 'heard' something that sounds very much like it.

Nope.

There's a bit on the 20 minute tape from late 1982 that has Brian working out a very rudimentary chord progression that sounds very similar to This Isn't Love. I doubt it was known as This Isn't Love then. You can barely hear Brian singing on it but the vocal melody is similar to the Roxy version.

It was titled "Untitled Piano Demo" on the version I've, um, 'seen'.

The one from the Cocaine Sessions and This Isn't Love are clearly the same song though, bar the lyrics - surely just a case of Brian reaching back into his unreleased back catalogue when he and Asher needed a song, as per City Blues' reemergence on GIOMH.

[hypehat]

I think this reunion will end up being only slightly less interesting than when Brian reunited with Tony Asher about 15 years ago.

That reunion resulted in some good songs, didn't it?
I'd kind of like to see another Wilson/Asher reunion.

Two released songs. "Everything I Need", which ended up on the album The Wilsons and is OK... and "This Isn't Love", from both the Roxy album and the 2nd Flintstones movie, which recycles a chunk of "You're Still A Mystery": other tracks were written but unless I'm really missing the obvious, nothing else came out.

I don't hear that? Is it the end of the verse?

[Amy B.]

Maybe not a memorable album, but something that isn't offensively bad...

Not memorable, but not offensively bad, either. Isn't that what every artist with integrity strives for? 

[onkster]

Well, given that the guys couldn't seem to be able to do something as seemingly simple as re-record "Do It Again", I don't see how they'd be able to something that requires more personal effort, like collaborating on new songs.

[See "rerecording Do It Again" thread...]

[SurfRiderHawaii]

How about "50 Big Ones" - Brian's rock and roll album of R&R covers, with vocals by the BBs.  "Do it Again" being a cover of themselves.

Anything newly written/regurgitated old bits and pieces will most likely be crap.

[Myk Luhv]

Brian should write "Mike's Back" and present that to the Lovester -- along with a national campaign aimed at rekindling interest in the Beach Boys 50 years on!

[Awesoman]

How about a re-recording of Devoted to You?

How about no?

[Cam Mott]

I don't find Mike's lyrics to be any great shakes lately and I don't find Brian's songs to be any great shakes lately either so they still fit perfectly together and who knows magic may happen. Even if the music and songs are the cringiest cheesiest and corniest of cringe corn cheese it will be a hoot.

[Andrew G. Doe]

I think this reunion will end up being only slightly less interesting than when Brian reunited with Tony Asher about 15 years ago.

That reunion resulted in some good songs, didn't it?
I'd kind of like to see another Wilson/Asher reunion.

Two released songs. "Everything I Need", which ended up on the album The Wilsons and is OK... and "This Isn't Love", from both the Roxy album and the 2nd Flintstones movie, which recycles a chunk of "You're Still A Mystery": other tracks were written but unless I'm really missing the obvious, nothing else came out.

I don't hear that? Is it the end of the verse?

The bit just before the chorus of "Mystery".

[The Shift]

You know it doesn't seem so hard to make a new BB album. Working off of Al's solo album and That Lucky Old Sun, I think they could definitely put together something professional. Maybe not a memorable album, but something that isn't offensively bad. But maybe we'll get lucky, maybe the band has one cool album left.

My abiding hope. PFCa and TLOS show the guys still have some creative chops (or at least a supply of good quality unreleased catalogue material they can dip into) while BWRG shows that the necessary production abilities are around to knock out a satisfying piece of product.

Should they excavate some unreleased Carl or Dennis vocals to build a new full line-up BBs' track? Only if they can do full justice.  And there's only one way to tell.

[hypehat]

With modern recording technology/Linett (who seems to know his way around this stuff), they can make it a damn sight better than Free As A Bird/Real Love, the only real precedent for this sort of thing I can think of. And Carl/Dennis vocals and tracks will be better quality than the Lennon demos anyway.

OT, but I listened to those the other day and was astounded by how badly produced they are. Why they got Jeff Lynne on board is a mystery. Dude was a dinosaur in 1995.

AGD, I still don't hear it!

An EP of two Brian/Mike originals, an Al, a exhumed Carl/Dennis lead and a re-record (maybe) could be the way forward. Keep it short and sweet. But if Stebbins is right......

[Roger Ryan]

Regardless of when the music was actually written, I consider "This Isn't Love" one of Brian's finest solo compositions and it has that unique Asher angle of taking a seemingly negative line and turning it around to something positive (as in "I may not always love you..."). I really wish a proper studio version of this song would be recorded/released; I have no idea how far the Joe Thomas-produced version went (IMAGINATION outtake?) or if the loveliness was crushed by Adult Contemporary overkill.

[SMiLE Brian]

With modern recording technology/Linett (who seems to know his way around this stuff), they can make it a damn sight better than Free As A Bird/Real Love, the only real precedent for this sort of thing I can think of. And Carl/Dennis vocals and tracks will be better quality than the Lennon demos anyway.

OT, but I listened to those the other day and was astounded by how badly produced they are. Why they got Jeff Lynne on board is a mystery. Dude was a dinosaur in 1995.

AGD, I still don't hear it!

An EP of two Brian/Mike originals, an Al, a exhumed Carl/Dennis lead and a re-record (maybe) could be the way forward. Keep it short and sweet. But if Stebbins is right......

I would like them to finish or remix the best unfinished song ever, "Can't wait too long" as a bonus track on the  EP.