In The Key Of Disney

[doc smiley]

once again  Amazon.com condones mp3 piracy...

Living in Canada, the only way I can get a copy of the track "Peace on Earth" is if I rely on the kindness of others.

I'm Perplexed, but don't see another solution to hearing this track.

Must be real poor planning by someone?

[Rocker]

GIOMH

Don't Worry Baby (with Wendy and Carnie -- has it ever been established where this track came from or why it was made?)

I'd really love to hear this.
On the german message board we made a two CD collection of all of Brian's officially released songs during his solo carreer that didn't appear as part of an album. No christmas songs, no duets, no live versions, etc. Nice listen but still shows that he could use some Beach Boys magic. And since then there are already 3-4 songs for vol. 3 I believe

[Heysaboda]

If you are at all on the fence about buying In the Key of Disney, go Immediately to your nearest record outlet (whatever that may be) and BUY IT IMMEDIATELY.  RIGHT AWAY!!! I have been spinning it since Monday and my socks are officially knocked off!  WOW this is one gorgeous GORGEOUS set of songs.

Did I say it's gorgeous?

Brian is in fine voice throughout; the vocal and instrumental arrangements have a beautiful, GORGEOUS richness.  This is some of the most beautiful singing Brian has ever done, period.  And the band: INCREDIBLE!

There are two Randy Newman songs and two by Elton John; the opener "You've Got a Friend in Me" by Newman is a strong, rocking track. Love it!  The perfect album opener.  Also "We Belong Together" is VERY nice.

The take of "Bare Necessities" uses banjo and marimba, and is a complete riot. Also, the humorous version of "Heigh Ho/Whistle While You Work/Yo Ho" is FUNNY. A riot!

The ballad “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” is so, so beautiful.

All the vocal and instrumental arrangements have just a beautiful richness. There is simply no one else today doing pop music like this.

This is one NICE album. Did I say it's gorgeous? IT IS! It doesn't take itself too seriously, but what a beautiful, beautiful sound.

WOW

That's all I can say before I go spin it again.

Hey: I’d love to hear a “Wilson Does Newman” LP.  How about it?

[Aegir]

Hey: I’d love to hear a “Wilson Does Newman” LP.  How about it?

I want to hear another album of Wilson originals.

[Wirestone]

How about Wilson-Thomas-Foskett co-writes?

[SMiLE Brian]

How about Wilson-Thomas-Foskett co-writes?

Yikes, keep Brian away from Joe Thomas!!! I'm okay if he writes with Jeff or anybody else in his band. Heck, write with Mike Love for a reunion album before Joe Thomas.

[Amanda Hart]

Hey: I’d love to hear a “Wilson Does Newman” LP.  How about it?

I want to hear another album of Wilson originals.

I know I said in my initial review of this album I wanted Wilson originals, but I would be 100% in favor of a "Wilson Does Newman." Being a Brian Wilson fan turned me on to Randy Newman, and I'm so glad it did, because I love his stuff. I would love to hear BW versions of things like Suzanne or Naked Man.

[Wirestone]

Yikes, keep Brian away from Joe Thomas!!! I'm okay if he writes with Jeff or anybody else in his band. Heck, write with Mike Love for a reunion album before Joe Thomas.

He's already working with him. According to a BBC interview in another thread, he is putting his new album together "with my friend Joe" and Jeff. Songs have been written and recorded. Brian worked in a studio with Joe in Illinois recently, and some of the "Imagination" backing musicians have played on the tracks.

It's real.

[SMiLE Brian]

Yikes, keep Brian away from Joe Thomas!!! I'm okay if he writes with Jeff or anybody else in his band. Heck, write with Mike Love for a reunion album before Joe Thomas.

He's already working with him. According to a BBC interview in another thread, he is putting his new album together "with my friend Joe" and Jeff. Songs have been written and recorded. Brian worked in a studio with Joe in Illinois recently, and some of the "Imagination" backing musicians have played on the tracks.

It's real.

Imagination Vol. 2 is coming out....

[Wirestone]

Time will tell if it's a full album or just some tracks for one. I would hope the latter ... but we will see.

[Heysaboda]

Yikes, keep Brian away from Joe Thomas!!! I'm okay if he writes with Jeff or anybody else in his band. Heck, write with Mike Love for a reunion album before Joe Thomas.

He's already working with him. According to a BBC interview in another thread, he is putting his new album together "with my friend Joe" and Jeff. Songs have been written and recorded. Brian worked in a studio with Joe in Illinois recently, and some of the "Imagination" backing musicians have played on the tracks.

It's real.

Imagination Vol. 2 is coming out....

that would be cool because Imagination is what turned me on to Brian and (later) the Beach Boys....... no kidding!

[SMiLE Brian]

Yikes, keep Brian away from Joe Thomas!!! I'm okay if he writes with Jeff or anybody else in his band. Heck, write with Mike Love for a reunion album before Joe Thomas.

He's already working with him. According to a BBC interview in another thread, he is putting his new album together "with my friend Joe" and Jeff. Songs have been written and recorded. Brian worked in a studio with Joe in Illinois recently, and some of the "Imagination" backing musicians have played on the tracks.

It's real.

Imagination Vol. 2 is coming out....

that would be cool because Imagination is what turned me on to Brian and (later) the Beach Boys....... no kidding!

Are you Joe Thomas?

[phirnis]

Yikes, keep Brian away from Joe Thomas!!! I'm okay if he writes with Jeff or anybody else in his band. Heck, write with Mike Love for a reunion album before Joe Thomas.

He's already working with him. According to a BBC interview in another thread, he is putting his new album together "with my friend Joe" and Jeff. Songs have been written and recorded. Brian worked in a studio with Joe in Illinois recently, and some of the "Imagination" backing musicians have played on the tracks.

It's real.

Oh wow... I'd much rather see him team with Andy Paley again.

[Heysaboda]

Yikes, keep Brian away from Joe Thomas!!! I'm okay if he writes with Jeff or anybody else in his band. Heck, write with Mike Love for a reunion album before Joe Thomas.

He's already working with him. According to a BBC interview in another thread, he is putting his new album together "with my friend Joe" and Jeff. Songs have been written and recorded. Brian worked in a studio with Joe in Illinois recently, and some of the "Imagination" backing musicians have played on the tracks.

It's real.

Imagination Vol. 2 is coming out....

that would be cool because Imagination is what turned me on to Brian and (later) the Beach Boys....... no kidding!

Are you Joe Thomas?

ha ha ha, why no, I'm not!

But in 1998 my wife bought "Brian Wilson's Imagination".  This was a time when I didn't know Brian Wilson from Carl Wilson from Dennis Wilson from Mr. Wilson........

But after hearing songs like "Lay Down Burden", "Cry", "Imagination", "She Said That She Needs Me", "Happy Days" etc.  I was profoundly, profoundly moved and affected.

So I asked my wife, "Why does this sound so much like the Beach Boys?" She answered, "Brian Wilson was the Beach Boys."

Years later, I now have a couple of shelves full of Brian Wilson and Beach Boys CDs and books and have seen The Man himself in concert many a time.

 

P.S. In The Key Of Disney is out there DON'T MISS IT!

[Wirestone]

Recent JT sighting:

http://www.avclub.com/chicago/articles/soundstage,25355/

He has done well for himself ...

[SMiLE Brian]

The waterfall mullet is gone....

[Mr. Wilson]

Just got the disney cd + Hollies dvd..Enjoyed them both alot..Bw + Disney is Delicate.. Dont know how to describe it..And NO Taylor Mills..HUH..?.... If ya like BB you should check out the new Hollies DVD..!

[Ron]

Delicate is the exact word I used to describe it.  I listened to it some more today.  "Baby Mine" is a great song.  Was this sung by Dumbo's mom?  I haven't seen that movie in 20 years, I'll have to watch it again.  Beautiful vocal again by Brian.

This is really similar to "Love and Mercy", it has that strange vibe Brian gets sometimes.  He has this ability to sing sad music, beautiful music, with a detached, optimistic 'smile'.  Pun intended.  Like "Can you Feel The Love tonight".  He never quite sounds like he's attached to the song!  It's some of the most beautiful stuff he's done, somehow, though.  I can't put my finger on it.

He did it in "Love and Mercy'.  Horribly sad song (in the verses) but he has this happy sound the entire time, like he's just commenting on something and not feeling it.  When he goes "Hey Ay!" after the vocal breakdown near the end, it sums it up entirely. 

He's still a phenomenal talent.  Such a unique way of singing, and I really, really dig this understated, reserved Brian that's on this album.  Some of the little notes he hits on like "Bare Necessities" are just so sweet and beautiful, I can't believe he's vocally where he is at this point in his career. 

[Andrew G. Doe]

Recent JT sighting:

http://www.avclub.com/chicago/articles/soundstage,25355/

He has done well for himself ...

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... anyone else thinking what I'm thinking ?

[shelter]

I thought that this review (in Dutch) was reasonable, until I read the last part.  
http://www.nu.nl/cd-recensies/2651943/brian-wilson--in-the-key-of-disney.html


Translated:
It would have been nice if Wilson, as a wink to his former band, would have put 'Disney Girls (1957)' on the album, even if he had nothing to do with the song. Unfortionately, nothing on In The Key Of Disney is as touching as that masterpiece by Bruce Johnston.

[Wirestone]

It would have been nice if Wilson, as a wink to his former band, would have put 'Disney Girls (1957)' on the album, even if he had nothing to do with the song. Unfortionately, nothing on In The Key Of Disney is as touching as that masterpiece by Bruce Johnston.

That is hilarious.

[18thofMay]

Recent JT sighting:

http://www.avclub.com/chicago/articles/soundstage,25355/

He has done well for himself ...

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... anyone else thinking what I'm thinking ?

No facial hair

[Alex]

The album should be called BW In The Key Of Contractual Obligtion To The Evil Mouse. I`m half kidding. Haven`t actually heard anything beyond Hi Ho so I can neither complain about nor gush over the music itself...I guess I`d just rather hear Brian do a whole album of endless Shortening Bread and Ding Dang variations.

[Wirestone]

More new work news from a pretty terse interview over at The Gothamist.

Do you write a lot on a day-to-day basis? Do the songs pour out ever?

I've been having a creative explosion lately, I really have. Just lately. I've written some good songs.

What are they about?

Well, some of them are about shelter, some are about the private life of Bill and Sue. Different kinds of songs.

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

Recent JT sighting:

http://www.avclub.com/chicago/articles/soundstage,25355/

He has done well for himself ...

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... anyone else thinking what I'm thinking ?

"Imagination Volume Two?! Ahhhhh....can't take it....it must be stopped!!!!"