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« on: November 29, 2012, 07:30:37 AM » |
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To me, this song seems to get an awful lot done in just a minute and a half. By the time it fades out, it feels as if it's taken you on a pretty long journey in a surprisingly short time. I guess in that respect it's like some of the tracks on Smiley Smile, but yet it manages to have that effect without being avant-garde. Anyone else get a similar impression?
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« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2012, 07:50:52 AM » |
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It is one of my true favourites from their early period. Really, really love it.
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« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2012, 08:18:41 AM » |
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I've always loved it but think it's just TOO short. My custom mix runs 2:18.
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« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2012, 08:30:04 AM » |
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Great song. I feel pretty stupid for only recently realizing that it was Dennis that sings it.  I don't know why, but my brain always told me it was Mike singing out of his range. |
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« Reply #4 on: November 29, 2012, 02:33:52 PM » |
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I played this constantly when I first heard this, I can't really listen to it now though. Got bored of it I think.
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« Reply #5 on: November 29, 2012, 04:57:11 PM » |
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This song sounds unfinished.
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« Reply #6 on: November 29, 2012, 05:10:19 PM » |
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Great song. I feel pretty stupid for only recently realizing that it was Dennis that sings it. I don't know why, but my brain always told me it was Mike singing out of his range. There are times when I think Mike and Dennis sound similar and this one of the songs where that is noticeable. |
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« Reply #7 on: November 29, 2012, 05:30:29 PM » |
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Love this song. Great vocal by Dennis
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« Reply #8 on: November 29, 2012, 07:11:39 PM » |
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Love this song. Great vocal by Dennis
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« Reply #9 on: November 29, 2012, 07:41:23 PM » |
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Always liked it -- interesting to me is the sense of yearning, even melancholy in a song about a car. Similar to "I Get Around" in that sense. Very Brian Wilson.
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« Reply #10 on: November 29, 2012, 08:36:41 PM » |
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"Dennis' strong singing makes the listener wish that he'd bee given a better song", as David Leaf puts it in the liner notes. I just can't understand that. The song is already great, clearly in the better half of Shut Down vol 2.
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« Reply #11 on: November 29, 2012, 08:50:22 PM » |
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To me, this song seems to get an awful lot done in just a minute and a half. By the time it fades out, it feels as if it's taken you on a pretty long journey in a surprisingly short time. I agree. |
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« Reply #12 on: November 29, 2012, 09:30:40 PM » |
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To me, this song seems to get an awful lot done in just a minute and a half. By the time it fades out, it feels as if it's taken you on a pretty long journey in a surprisingly short time. I agree. Indeed. Earliest precursor of This Whole World. Who would have thought? |
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"Surfing and cars were okay but there was a war going on."
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« Reply #13 on: November 30, 2012, 02:23:29 AM » |
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Great song for singing along to
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« Reply #14 on: November 30, 2012, 05:32:17 AM » |
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The version by the World Famous Bluejays on Smile, Vibes, Harmony got me into this song. Good garage band rendition. Worth checking out that tribute album if you like that kinda thing.
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« Reply #15 on: November 30, 2012, 10:20:38 AM » |
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« Reply #16 on: December 01, 2012, 01:26:26 PM » |
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Enjoyed your mix Phoenix, maybe get Taylor Hawkins to cut a verse?  |
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"When the time comes an American can't tell the truth because the Government doesn't, that's the time to give the country back to the Indians, if they'll have it." - Sam Holland
"What draws us all closer and makes us all care. Is not what we have, but the things that we share." - Jill Wolf
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« Reply #17 on: December 01, 2012, 03:55:57 PM » |
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Thanks! I'll start making some calls.  |
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« Reply #18 on: December 02, 2012, 02:18:23 AM » |
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I've grown so accustomed to listening to the mono version that I didn't enjoy this that much, but good edit anyway. |
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« Reply #19 on: December 02, 2012, 10:51:37 AM » |
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I agree with the earlier poster who said that the song sounds unfinished. I would also use the word filler. The production is pretty weak as are the lyrics (no clunker!).
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« Reply #20 on: December 02, 2012, 11:31:16 AM » |
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After the intensity and beauty of WOTS it's a great catchy way to end side 1. Then side 2 - Wham! WDFFIL kicks in. What an underated album Shut Down is!
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« Reply #21 on: December 02, 2012, 06:14:45 PM » |
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I've grown so accustomed to listening to the mono version that I didn't enjoy this that much, but good edit anyway. Appreciated!  |
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« Reply #22 on: December 04, 2012, 05:50:17 AM » |
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The version by the World Famous Bluejays on Smile, Vibes, Harmony got me into this song. Good garage band rendition. Worth checking out that tribute album if you like that kinda thing.
That was how I got into it too! Nice dimension they added with the backing vocals on that version. |
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