In The Key Of Disney

[Autotune]

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Magnetic Attraction

(...) decent songs that beg for new lyrics and arrangements.

In my opinion, this is a tune that really deserves a proper release, with a new arrangement obviously, but with the same great lyrics: "Magnetic attraction, I thought I was safe with a heart of steel / Magnetic attraction, drawn to a magnet that's the way I feel" might sound corny to some of you, but to me they're quite clever and I wish I could come up with similar lyrics. I'm pretty sure it would have had hit potential in the 80s and it would still be a good song today.

I think Brian has little to do with the composition of that song. Or so it seems from the Wilson Project account and the way it sounds.

[Autotune]

Brian has a lot of original albums left in and already outside of him. Besides the Usher sessions, Sweet Insanity and the Paley sessions (at least a couple of albums' worth of unreleased solo songs), he wrote and recorded an entire follow up to TLOS with Scott Bennett.

Untrue. 

There are tracks left over from the summer 2006 demo sessions, but post TLOS there was little, if any, new recording until the BWRG sessions.

AGD, has Brian ever worked on the "pleasure island" project he always talks about?

Not to my knowledge - it's like the fabled rock & roll album that he's been talking about since late 1999: something to say during an interview.

If I remember correctly a photo of Brian at the piano that appeared shortly after TLOS showed a handwritten song list supposedly for Pleasure Island. A most interesting and quirky lineup.

[Mikie]

He [Mertens] needs to go. Compare TLOS demo to the finished product. I liked it a whole lot more before Mertens tarted it up.

That's a little extreme. Mertens is damn good and I think Brian needs him. I assume you're just talking about the one song (DLHKSAA) and not the entire TLOS album(?)

Would that be the consensus of the board here that in general the TLOS demos sound better than the final product?

[Shady]

He [Mertens] needs to go. Compare TLOS demo to the finished product. I liked it a whole lot more before Mertens tarted it up.

That's a little extreme. Mertens is damn good and I think Brian needs him. I assume you're just talking about the one song and not the entire TLOS album(?)

Would that be the consensus of the board here that in general the TLOS demos sound better than the final product?

Very much so

[Wirestone]

It's tough. I think the demos are appreciated as the closest thing to a full-on, Brian-produced album of Brian songs that we've had since the 70s. He seems to play most of the keyboards, and does most of the vocals along with Scott.

That being said, there are some poor vocal performances in that demo group (Live Let Live), and some stuff sung by Scott (Southern California) that's fixed in the final album.

The final album is like the demos in one respect -- most of Brian's lead vocals are taken from them, according to Scott.

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

That's a little extreme. Mertens is damn good and I think Brian needs him. I assume you're just talking about the one song (DLHKSAA) and not the entire TLOS album(?)

DLHKSAA is on GIOMH, not TLOS.

[Mikie]

"I agree. Mertens' all-out flute assault on "Don't Let Her Know She's An Angel" was unforgivable. He needs to go. Compare TLOS demo to the finished product. I liked it a whole lot more before Mertens tarted it up."

That's probably what Bubba Ho-tep was alluding to, Billy.  Maybe I didn't copy his quote well enough the first time.....

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

Ahhh...gotcha.

[Peadar 'Big Dinner' O'Driscoll]

Mike Love should be the only one allowed to play sax on Brian Wilson recordings. (inaudible sax solos) Perfect!

[Wirestone]

What about Jay Migliori or Steve Douglas?

[summerinparadise.flac]

Hey all, I just wanted to address something. I am NOT ghost. My friend has informed me that alot of people have been speculating and claiming Ghost is me. I have been working on my dissertation about why animals are cool, so haven't had time to post

[ghost]

http://www.mediafire.com/?9ahfs8l047m2x8m

Heigh Ho Haight Asbury

has anyone else enjoyed this yet? it's cool, i just put it on after forgetting i had even made it and it's very satisfying for me right now , i am enjoying it immensely

[ghost]

Hey all, I just wanted to address something. I am NOT ghost. My friend has informed me that alot of people have been speculating and claiming Ghost is me. I have been working on my dissertation about why animals are cool, so haven't had time to post

i'm afraid that you are me, and i am you, and we are all together.

[drbeachboy]

Goo, goo, ga choo!

[37!ws]

Would that be the consensus of the board here that in general the TLOS demos sound better than the final product?

I certainly don't think so. The demos are short and, frankly, thin. I was thrilled to get the final product.

Some of the demo vocals were flown in to the final product?? (Definitely NOT true for "Southern California"!) Who cares? From what I understand, that's not the most uncommon thing in the world.

But yeah, give me the final product for TLOS any day. Overall, it's a far more pleasurable listening experience. Don't get me wrong, I loved the demos when I first heard them, but when I got my vinyl TLOS (HA!!! We got TLOS in the US before they did in the UK for once!!!), it rendered the demos useless for me. (Then again, I do like hearing the Scott version of "Southern California" now and then, and I do prefer his "California Role" vocal over Brian's.)

[summerinparadise.flac]

Paul Mertens is a terrible thing to happen to me. He actually changed his name so that Von is in it. He wears a Kimono and plays the flute. Not a fan, although he is a good and kind man.

[ghost]

hahahah did he really change his name to add Von?

hmmmmmmmmmmmm i think i should be paul VON mertens from now on, to sound distinguished in brian's band, perhaps one day... the paul von mertens band 

[Ron]

When TLOS came out, they had some sort of something or the other somewhere, where you could talk to Scott, or he was on a message board posting, or something.  Anyways, I asked him something about Brian playing piano, and he said that Brian played "Beautiful, layered keys" on every song on the album but two.  I don't know if the booklet supports that, but it's what Scott claimed.  I much prefer the released album over the demos. 

[Ron]

I'm not going to listen to this album online, I already listened to Whistle While You Work and loved it.  I'm going to wait another month and buy the cd to hear it... I think since albums have started leaking online over the past 10 years, it's helped ruin music.  There's something about only hearing a song or two off of it, the singles so to speak, then getting the album and popping it in and listening for the first time. 

[Mikie]

I certainly don't think so. The demos are short and, frankly, thin. I was thrilled to get the final product. But yeah, give me the final product for TLOS any day. Overall, it's a far more pleasurable listening experience. Don't get me wrong, I loved the demos when I first heard them, but when I got my vinyl TLOS (HA!!! We got TLOS in the US before they did in the UK for once!!!), it rendered the demos useless for me.

Just listened to a few of the TLOS demos and I agree; as demos usually go they're a little thin and raw. I don't have the vinyl, but just listening to the Mp3 demos makes me appreciate the further work that went into it to get it right.

Disney. Time to try to get into that. Maybe it'll grow on me like Gershwin did. Maybe not.....

[hypehat]

I'm thinking it could be a grower. The only track I still wanna listen to is Stay Awake, but that's top 10 BW solo, imo

[Awesoman]

Downloading the album now

Hope it's good quality, if it's not I'll go ahead and delete

So where are people hearing this?

[Awesoman]

Downloading the album now

Hope it's good quality, if it's not I'll go ahead and delete

So where are people hearing this?

Nevermind...I found this on my own.  :-)

[Awesoman]

So I managed to find this album on the Interwebs, and have just listened to snippets of each song.  Of course, I have no idea if what I downloaded was the final mix or not, but in any case my early impressions of this are that this album so far sounds unremarkable.  There are some interesting things going on with "When You Wish Upon A Star", but otherwise nothing really grabbed me thus far.  Will give it a better listen when the album officially releases.

[Andrew G. Doe]

Brian has a lot of original albums left in and already outside of him. Besides the Usher sessions, Sweet Insanity and the Paley sessions (at least a couple of albums' worth of unreleased solo songs), he wrote and recorded an entire follow up to TLOS with Scott Bennett.

Untrue.  

There are tracks left over from the summer 2006 demo sessions, but post TLOS there was little, if any, new recording until the BWRG sessions.

Wasn't it alleged that much of the leftovers from the summer 2006 demo sessions were actually part of Brian's intended running order to TLOS that was nixed by someone other than Brian?

Nope... if you've heard them you'd realise that slotting them into the TLOS 'concept' would require a mighty big hammer.  

I dunno. I had heard that Scott and Darian sequenced the thing and that Brian added Southern California late in the game.

True, dat - very late in the game.