Which Beach Boys "Travesties" are.. 'To your taste?'

[EgoHanger1966]

I guess "Little Children" is considered a slight song but I've been digging that song lately -- I think it's a combination of the overwhelming synthesizers, percussion and drums, plus layers of vocals both lead and background -- and I'm increasingly coming to think it's demented... but in a good way?

I love that song. Whenever I hear it though, I imagine Brian doing his marching motion with his arms that he does in the SMiLE doc during rehearsals of (I think) Do You Like Worms. Priceless.

It's probably one of the closest cases he ever came to plagarism though - parts of it are identical to Mountain of Love, Johnny Rivers version.

[Aegir]

I'd say Surfin' USA is a lot closer to plagiarism than Little Children is.

[EgoHanger1966]

I'd say Surfin' USA is a lot closer to plagiarism than Little Children is.

For sure.

[joe_blow]

Problem Child
Still Surfin'
Summer In Paradise
In My Car

[Sam_BFC]

Another vote for Bill and Sue over here.

I guess the song is on the whole pretty innocuous (although I am a sucker for the humbuddyaaddeyeeh backgrounds), but I just can't get enough of the 'Sometimes, life can be so strange...' bridge/middle 8 (?) section - pure BW to me (even if I don't know for sure how much he had to do with it) and strangely profound cos, ya know, life can be so strange.

[Aegir]

I like how happy Brian sounds in The Private Life of Bill and Sue.

[rab2591]

Anyone else think that Jeff's chorus vocal "California to Mexico" is a bit strained - and he almost hits the note, but he doesn't?

I've loved the sound TPLOBAS ever since I've heard it, but Jeff missing that note just kills it for me.

[Sam_BFC]

Anyone else think that Jeff's chorus vocal "California to Mexico" is a bit strained - and he almost hits the note, but he doesn't?

Haven't noticed that in particular, and I'll try not to as well 

I will also add that I'm a sucker pretty much (nearly) any song that mentions California in the lyrics.

[rab2591]

Anyone else think that Jeff's chorus vocal "California to Mexico" is a bit strained - and he almost hits the note, but he doesn't?

Haven't noticed that in particular, and I'll try not to as well  

I will also add that I'm a sucker pretty much (nearly) any song that mentions California in the lyrics.

I never heard it at first, but it nags at me now....maybe I'm just hearing things haha

[hypehat]

I've never heard that, rab, but then I try to avoid listening to that song whenever I can so I guess we're cool. I do hate stuff like that, though....

[Bean Bag]

Another vote for Bill and Sue over here.

I guess the song is on the whole pretty innocuous (although I am a sucker for the humbuddyaaddeyeeh backgrounds), but I just can't get enough of the 'Sometimes, life can be so strange...' bridge/middle 8 (?) section - pure BW to me (even if I don't know for sure how much he had to do with it) and strangely profound cos, ya know, life can be so strange.

Right on!  Bill and Sue jumps out at me.  It's so Brian Wilson -- at least, what we've been used to for the last 10+ years.  I can imagine it being on any one of his solo albums.

It's a nice counterbalance to (what I assume is Mike's) Daybreak Over the Ocean.  Which I "tolerate."   

[Aegir]

Anyone else think that Jeff's chorus vocal "California to Mexico" is a bit strained - and he almost hits the note, but he doesn't?

I've loved the sound TPLOBAS ever since I've heard it, but Jeff missing that note just kills it for me.

the thing I love about the chorus is that Jeff's lines blend with Brian's so well that if you're not paying attention it just sounds like Brian is singing the whole thing (ie I think Jeff is bad at faking 1965 Brian but is pretty good at faking 2012 Brian). Maybe he's straining on purpose to sound more like Brian.

[Freddie French-Pounce]

Anyone else think that Jeff's chorus vocal "California to Mexico" is a bit strained - and he almost hits the note, but he doesn't?

I've loved the sound TPLOBAS ever since I've heard it, but Jeff missing that note just kills it for me.

the thing I love about the chorus is that Jeff's lines blend with Brian's so well that if you're not paying attention it just sounds like Brian is singing the whole thing (ie I think Jeff is bad at faking 1965 Brian but is pretty good at faking 2012 Brian). Maybe he's straining on purpose to sound more like Brian.

I almost thought it was Brian the first time round - but my senses told me other wise.

[Newguy562]

Island Fever
Still Cruisin'
Bells of Christmas

[Sheriff John Stone]

Another vote for Bill and Sue over here.

I guess the song is on the whole pretty innocuous (although I am a sucker for the humbuddyaaddeyeeh backgrounds), but I just can't get enough of the 'Sometimes, life can be so strange...' bridge/middle 8 (?) section - pure BW to me (even if I don't know for sure how much he had to do with it) and strangely profound cos, ya know, life can be so strange.

Right on!  Bill and Sue jumps out at me.  It's so Brian Wilson -- at least, what we've been used to for the last 10+ years.  I can imagine it being on any one of his solo albums.

It did appear on one of Brian's solo albums, as "South American" on Imagination.

And, I'm not totally sure, but I think Joe Thomas wrote the catchy chorus.

[ArtVandalay]

Jeff sings part of the Bill/Sue chorus? Wow...I'll have to go back and listen...

[EgoHanger1966]

Jeff sings part of the Bill/Sue chorus? Wow...I'll have to go back and listen...

It's very Jeff sounding - all the names of the places are Jeff.

[Aegir]

I still think, though, that it was intentional that the chorus, to an uneducated ear, is supposed to sound completely Brian. Imagine if two people with completely different sounding voices traded off lines in the chorus, it would sound really weird.

[runnersdialzero]

Sounds like two people trading off, to me. Jeff and Brian's voices really stand out apart from one another there and elsewhere. Just me, though.

[EgoHanger1966]

I still think, though, that it was intentional that the chorus, to an uneducated ear, is supposed to sound completely Brian. Imagine if two people with completely different sounding voices traded off lines in the chorus, it would sound really weird.

Seperately, I don't think Jeff and (modern-day) Brian sound anything alike at all. Jeff is pretty good at blending in with Brian, but I don't think that vocal trade off on Bill and Sue was meant to fool anybody.

[Jay]

 Is it just me, or is the music track on Spring Vacation kind of like an uptempo gospel song? It kind of reminds me of Here Come Down.

[Disney Boy (1985)]

I really strongly like a good half of Beach Boys '85.

[musicismylife101]

Student Demonstration Time
Rock and Roll to the Rescue
Spring Vacation
Everyone's in Love With You
The Private Life of Bill and Sue
Endless Harmony
Cassius Love vs. Sonny Wilson
I'm Bugged at My Old Man

[Shady]

"Everyone's in Love With You" is one of my favourite Mike songs along with "sumahama", those are widely considered travesties, right?

[SufferingFools]

"Everyone's in Love With You" is one of my favourite Mike songs along with "sumahama", those are widely considered travesties, right?

I dunno.  Sumahama's pretty nifty, and I wouldn't turn off Everyone's either.