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Re: Buddy Holly Cover on Rolling Stone

« Reply #25 on: August 19, 2011, 07:20:39 PM »

Quote from: Rocker on August 19, 2011, 01:25:06 PM

I'm not that excited. His voice sounds a little unnatural. And his singing not as enthusiastic as on BWRG (which of course had great singing). Just my first thoughts. Not as good as I hoped for.

I thought the music was unimaginative. I mean, can someone tell me with 100% certainty that BRIAN does all the little things he would do for a Pet Sounds etc session like write out charts for the musicians and tell each one what to play and how to play it?


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Re: Buddy Holly Cover on Rolling Stone

« Reply #26 on: August 19, 2011, 07:51:45 PM »

Brian's not that guy anymore, and hasn't been for a long time.


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Re: Buddy Holly Cover on Rolling Stone

« Reply #27 on: August 19, 2011, 08:14:39 PM »

Always loved Buddy Holly, this is so great


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Re: Buddy Holly Cover on Rolling Stone

« Reply #28 on: August 19, 2011, 08:15:33 PM »

Like this a lot!

appreciate that he's using his whole band (it seems) for vocals...
Brian's voice doesn't multilayer on backgrounds like it used to...
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Re: Buddy Holly Cover on Rolling Stone

« Reply #29 on: August 19, 2011, 10:15:41 PM »

Ghost -- Brian didn't always do that in the Pet Sounds sessions themselves. The musicians contributed parts and arrangement ideas even then.


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« Reply #30 on: August 19, 2011, 10:46:14 PM »

I'm a pretty strong Buddy Holly fan but embarassingly I've never heard this song. So this is my first time hearing it, didn't know what to expect.

Amazingly, it SOUNDS like Buddy Holly wrote it, so Brian kept that vibe... was the arrangement similar to Buddy's? I know he did some pretty complex harmony stuff himself, this kind of illustrates I suppose that the Beach Boys and Buddy Holly are more similar musically than I would have imagined.

Kind of reminds me of "Words of Love".


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Re: Buddy Holly Cover on Rolling Stone

« Reply #31 on: August 20, 2011, 03:26:45 PM »

It's from July 1957, about 3 months after "Words of Love".

Great cover, not too far from the original. The echoey double-tracking seems like the Norman Petty style.

It's amazing to me how fresh (but not modern as in 2011 modern) Buddy Holly's songs still sound today.


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« Reply #32 on: August 21, 2011, 10:45:27 AM »

I can't get over how beautiful Brian sounds on this song..

His vocals are angelic


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Re: Buddy Holly Cover on Rolling Stone

« Reply #33 on: August 21, 2011, 12:40:54 PM »

I love this track. It really surprised me, this sounds more like a genuine Brian production than anything ive heard in the last 30 years. Genuine quirky arrangement, as someone pointed out sounds like Friends, but even more so like something from American Spring.


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« Reply #34 on: August 21, 2011, 12:49:40 PM »

I'm very surprised by all the positive feedback. I mean he's hitting all the notes, but I think he doesn't sound into it. And I really don't like Foskett's falsett lines on this and "I got rhythm". It sounds like trying to fulfill the cliche Beach Boys sound. That said, it's probably not surprising that "I got rhythm" is my least favorite track on BWRG


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Re: Buddy Holly Cover on Rolling Stone

« Reply #35 on: August 21, 2011, 02:44:57 PM »

Quote from: Ron on August 19, 2011, 10:46:14 PM

I'm a pretty strong Buddy Holly fan but embarassingly I've never heard this song. So this is my first time hearing it, didn't know what to expect.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ-Nfw6J3gc

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Although I think that Listen To Me was a good choice I think that after BWRG True Love Ways would've been cool for Brian


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Re: Buddy Holly Cover on Rolling Stone

« Reply #36 on: August 21, 2011, 02:54:45 PM »

Hear the My Morning Jacket cover on the other tribute? It's wonderful


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Re: Buddy Holly Cover on Rolling Stone

« Reply #37 on: October 19, 2011, 07:41:12 PM »

Good tribute album.. but could they guy who did "Take Your Time" have taken the song a little less literally? Roll Eyes


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Re: Buddy Holly Cover on Rolling Stone

« Reply #38 on: October 19, 2011, 09:26:18 PM »

Really nice to hear that. Sounds like a BW + band track to me..Bw music is becoming more delicate as the years go by....! shows his true spirit..If you get the chance to hang + really know the guy..Its obvious he is a kind hearted soul..True original..!