Beach Boys Survivor #15 Winner: BUSY DOING NOTHING

[bluesno1fann]

Anna Lee, The Healer

[bluesno1fann]

Be Still. If people on this board weren't so preoccupied with exalting Dennis than it would have been the first one to go, bar the truly grating TM.

It seems like all you do is criticize Dennis's work, and say really bad stuff about it.

Do you even genuinely like any of his songs?

[retrokid67]

Be Still. If people on this board weren't so preoccupied with exalting Dennis than it would have been the first one to go, bar the truly grating TM.

What's wrong with exalting Denny?   If only people can put the drugs, and booze and Manson aside and focus on the positive things he did in life like writing beautiful songs, picking up where Brian left off; and Be Still has a very positive message.  People exalt Brian's songs day and night and he would do drugs and sit at the piano smoking a cigarette instead of playing the music.   

[bluesno1fann]

Be Still. If people on this board weren't so preoccupied with exalting Dennis than it would have been the first one to go, bar the truly grating TM.

What's wrong with exalting Denny?  If only people can put the drugs, and booze and Manson aside and focus on the positive things he did in life like writing beautiful songs, picking up where Brian left off; and Be Still has a very positive message.  People exalt Brian's songs day and night.  

Agreed!
Brian gets all the attention (and for good reason).
Dennis deserves far more attention!

[retrokid67]

Be Still. If people on this board weren't so preoccupied with exalting Dennis than it would have been the first one to go, bar the truly grating TM.

What's wrong with exalting Denny?   If only people can put the drugs, and booze and Manson aside and focus on the positive things he did in life like writing beautiful songs, picking up where Brian left off; and Be Still has a very positive message.  People exalt Brian's songs day and night.   

Agreed!
Brian gets all the attention (and for good reason).
Dennis deserves far more attention!

Exactly!  it's like a Jan and Marsha thing it's annoying  I love Brian but how come he gets away with so much? he was a womanizer and a drug addict too, and he knew what he was getting into.  Denny didn't know that Manson was a murderer, and at least Manson seemed to take interest in Denny's stuff while his own brothers and band mates didn't.  for the first time in his life he felt accepted.

[Phoenix]

Anna Lee, the Healer

[Shady]

Easy, diamond head.

[bossaroo]

ANNA LEE

now that is lazy songwriting right there. the chords are elementary and the lyrics always felt like Mike just trying to score with some chick by writing a song about her.

was Anna Lee an actual person? is anything known about her?


what is it about Anna Lee that some of you prefer to When a Man Needs a Woman?
i know a lot of people are turned off by the lyrics of Man/Woman but the words to Anna Lee are pretty freakin awful.

[Watch a Cave]

Be still

[retrokid67]

Anna Lee

[zachrwolfe]

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[The Dumb Angel]

Be Still

[Menace Wilson]

Be Still, dammit!

[Shady]

How the hell is Be Still worse than the instrumentals

[Menace Wilson]

How the hell is Be Still worse than the instrumentals

Because "Passing By" is one of B-Dub's most beautiful post-Smile compositions, and Diamond Head is a weird nod to Martin Denny, which is awesome.  Those are my reasons, anyway! 

[Shady]

There's no accounting for taste 

[retrokid67]

How the hell is Be Still worse than the instrumentals

 

[alf wiedersehen]

I'm surprised to see that most people around here don't care much for instrumentals. I, for one, really enjoy instrumentals. Especially the ones by the Beach Boys.
For as much as we all care about backing tracks, once you take the vocals away, they seem to lose all value.

[bluesno1fann]

I'm surprised to see that most people around here don't care much for instrumentals. I, for one, really enjoy instrumentals. Especially the ones by the Beach Boys.
For as much as we all care about backing tracks, once you take the vocals away, they seem to lose all value.

I second that!

[The Dumb Angel]

I'm surprised to see that most people around here don't care much for instrumentals. I, for one, really enjoy instrumentals. Especially the ones by the Beach Boys.
For as much as we all care about backing tracks, once you take the vocals away, they seem to lose all value.

I second that!

And I third that!

I think instrumentals like Summer Means New Love, Let's Go Away for Awhile, and of course, Diamond Head are absolutely gorgeous. It kind of upsets me that they get voted off so soon. 

[retrokid67]

Like I've said before Be Still has a sweet, simple, uplifting message  just listen to the words what's so wrong with it

[Disney Boy (1985)]

'Be Still' is better than TM, I feel. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one that loves that song....oh well!

Nope, I love it too! As with Make It Good (which I'm sure will also be voted off early, and which I also love), it's more of a poem than an actual song - but... so what? Dennis was doing something unique and he should be applauded for that, not voted off in the first round.

"Doing your own thing" doesn't justify laziness, which Be Still and Make It Good both are.

THE WHOLE ALBUM is lazy - and all the better for it! Just look at Brian's song titles.

And what's remotely 'lazy' about the carefully crafted Make It Good, with its orchestra and dense production?

Listen to the melodies of Busy Doin' Nothin' and Passing By -- absolute heaven. Be Still doesn't have that. It just sounds like the ten minute effort of an unskilled songwriter. Boring chords, boring melody, dumb lyrics. You probably just grew to like it because of its context (the Friends album).

Make It Good is even lazier than Be Still. Instead of spending ten minutes on the song, it sounded like he just improvised everything and overdubbed strings to make it at least somewhat palatable. It didn't, and the track is truly embarrassing.

This is a great description of Make It Good, taken from the review of CATP on Beachboys.com:

"Make It Good is a pointless, rambling song, sung by Dennis as if he was fighting off the effects of chloroform, and orchestrated to little effect by Daryl Dragon."

Do you decide what you do or don't like based on other people's reviews??

I literally find myself disagreeing with almost every single thing you post on here! Wow, us BB fans are a varied bunch...

[shelter]

ANNA LEE

now that is lazy songwriting right there. the chords are elementary and the lyrics always felt like Mike just trying to score with some chick by writing a song about her.

Seconded.

[Please delete my account]

Diamond Head. Bit overlong.

Anna Lee is sheer spine-tingling magic and my favourite song on the album. If she goes out now it will be a sad, sad day for the internet.

[TimeToGetAlone]

Be Still.