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« Reply #75 on: May 01, 2012, 12:47:49 PM »

I wonder what Brian was thinking during the summer of love video shoot...  Grin

"This is actually quite bearable after 'eating a few sandwiches' if you know what I mean."
LOL, And that was the day Brian decided to finish SMiLE.
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« Reply #76 on: May 01, 2012, 01:07:20 PM »

I'm surprised no one's mentioned "Hey Little Tomboy", either of them!

Okay, so a few people have mentioned Hey Little Tomboy. If by 'worst' you mean most morally repellent then HLT has got to be a front runner. The released version is bad enough - on lyrical terms (the music itself is okay), but the unreleased version is beyond the pale. Just listening to that thing... those hideous ad libs... makes me utterly nauseous. Teenage boys singing their romantic fantasies about teenage girls can be sweet (thus early Beach Boys). Men in their late thirties singing about teenage girls shaving their legs is just sick, sick, sick... and then those snorting noises... agh! It's a glimpse into some kind of hell, and I'm never listening to it again...

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« Reply #77 on: May 01, 2012, 01:21:31 PM »

I wonder what Brian was thinking during the summer of love video shoot...  Grin

"This is actually quite bearable after 'eating a few sandwiches' if you know what I mean."
LOL, And that was the day Brian decided to finish SMiLE.

This is way too self-congratulatory but I just noticed that I had Brian say "if you know what I mean" to himself in his own head and laughed out loud.
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« Reply #78 on: May 01, 2012, 01:35:22 PM »

I wonder what Brian was thinking during the summer of love video shoot...  Grin

"This is actually quite bearable after 'eating a few sandwiches' if you know what I mean."
LOL, And that was the day Brian decided to finish SMiLE.

This is way too self-congratulatory but I just noticed that I had Brian say "if you know what I mean" to himself in his own head and laughed out loud.
Not at all rockandroll, Brian "ate a few sandwiches" like he did in 1966 and got the SMiLE spirit back...
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« Reply #79 on: May 01, 2012, 01:39:40 PM »

I'm surprised no one's mentioned "Hey Little Tomboy", either of them!

Okay, so a few people have mentioned Hey Little Tomboy. If by 'worst' you mean most morally repellent then HLT has got to be a front runner. The released version is bad enough - on lyrical terms (the music itself is okay), but the unreleased version is beyond the pale. Just listening to that thing... those hideous ad libs... makes me utterly nauseous. Teenage boys singing their romantic fantasies about teenage girls can be sweet (thus early Beach Boys). Men in their late thirties singing about teenage girls shaving their legs is just sick, sick, sick... and then those snorting noises... agh! It's a glimpse into some kind of hell, and I'm never listening to it again...

Rant over. Normal service resumed.
Personally I do not find any Beach Boys songs offensive, but if HLT upsets you you might not want to listen to Lazy Lizzie.

Here it is covered by some guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo4viCn1cbw

I have not heard Brian's original.

Edit: I have now heard Brian's recording.
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« Reply #80 on: May 01, 2012, 04:31:32 PM »

I wonder what Brian was thinking during the summer of love video shoot...  Grin

"This is actually quite bearable after 'eating a few sandwiches' if you know what I mean."
LOL, And that was the day Brian decided to finish SMiLE.

This is way too self-congratulatory but I just noticed that I had Brian say "if you know what I mean" to himself in his own head and laughed out loud.
Not at all rockandroll, Brian "ate a few sandwiches" like he did in 1966 and got the SMiLE spirit back...

Then this song is good for something!   Grin
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« Reply #81 on: May 02, 2012, 12:48:24 AM »

Audio: in 24 years of being a fan never could endure LEAVING THIS TOWN, HOLD ON DEAR BROTHER or PASSING FRIEND in their entirety.

Video: there is a video of Mike and Dean in skiing suits singing JINGLE BELL ROCK. The horror! The horror!

Agree on everything, but I like Passing Friend.

That said: the synth 'solo' (interlude? stopgap?) in Leaving This Town sounds like Greg Lake out of 'Lucky Man', after 144 Valiums.
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« Reply #82 on: May 03, 2012, 07:56:12 AM »

The by far worst Beach Boys song is Chain Reaction of Love.
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« Reply #83 on: May 03, 2012, 09:53:00 AM »



That said: the synth 'solo' (interlude? stopgap?) in Leaving This Town sounds like Greg Lake out of 'Lucky Man', after 144 Valiums.

Hahaha! Exactly.
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« Reply #84 on: May 03, 2012, 10:02:52 AM »

I'm surprised no one's mentioned "Hey Little Tomboy", either of them!

Okay, so a few people have mentioned Hey Little Tomboy. If by 'worst' you mean most morally repellent then HLT has got to be a front runner. The released version is bad enough - on lyrical terms (the music itself is okay), but the unreleased version is beyond the pale. Just listening to that thing... those hideous ad libs... makes me utterly nauseous. Teenage boys singing their romantic fantasies about teenage girls can be sweet (thus early Beach Boys). Men in their late thirties singing about teenage girls shaving their legs is just sick, sick, sick... and then those snorting noises... agh! It's a glimpse into some kind of hell, and I'm never listening to it again...

Rant over. Normal service resumed.

The snorts aren't on the original - the website added those.
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« Reply #85 on: May 03, 2012, 10:12:47 AM »

Worst Beach Boys song? Either "Full Sail" or "Maybe I Don't Know". Those are two songs I get embarrassed about even if I am alone.
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« Reply #86 on: May 03, 2012, 01:47:39 PM »

Just endured parts of the SOL video. OMG. Everything that was ever wrong with the group is in here. Every cliche that people love to volley at the group is offered up. So incredibly sad.

As for "Spring Vacation":
Somebody said they heard more than the 20 seconds from the YouTube video--where can we hear the "more"? Besides our own stereos a month from now? (And who wrote this one again?)
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