I Can Hear Music

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

Hell, I *love* ATIKH. There. I said it.

[Jardine Power!]

I really love "I Can Hear Music", and I think the reason a lot of people do is because it sounds like a Beach Boys original, despite being a cover. Let's face it, it's a song that was made for them to sing!!! "Kissed Her" sounds like a cover. Not that it's a bad thing, but it just doesn't sound like a "natural" BB song to me. Mind you, I heard the Beach Boys' versions of both these songs before I'd ever heard the original versions. Just my two cents.

[MBE]

what is * ATIKH."

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

Al thinks I Know Him.


Just kidding.


It's "And Then I Kissed Her."

[Andreas]

I don't think that Brian really wrote those liner notes. More likely ghost-written around some genuine phrases from him.

[Susan]

Thanks for that track, Marie - i have been trying to track it down for comparison purposes and have been unable to find it. 

Yes, i prefer the BBs' version, but they certainly took it from Spector's arrangement...and this isn't bad at all.  It lacks the sparkle of Carl's arrangement, and i'm no fan of the Wall of Mud, but this actually isn't as muddy as much of his work, and it's a fine song...nice!

Thanks!

[Andreas]

Spector's arrangement

Spector did not produce the Ronettes' version, but Jeff Barry. It sounds somewhat more pedestrian than a typical Spector production.

[Susan]

Spector's arrangement

Spector did not produce the Ronettes' version, but Jeff Barry. It sounds somewhat more pedestrian than a typical Spector production.

LOL!  Maybe that's why it doesn't sound so muddy...

[Peter Ames Carlin]

Look, just because I completely misread Aegir's comments on "Cottonfields" doesn't mean I can't pursue a single-minded campaign of hatred and personal destruction against him, does it? Because I was kind of looking forward to it. And I love the smell of a flame war in the morning. It smells like.....a lawsuit.

[Aegir]

Um.. hahaha

Guess I should've just played along and pretended that I didn't like the song, then.

[MBE]

I think Bluebirds may not have Brian as well. You notice that Brian can be heard on Al's version of Cottonfields but not his own? Desper told me it was Brian so no it's all Al arguments.

[Jason Penick]

I think Bluebirds may not have Brian as well. You notice that Brian can be heard on Al's version of Cottonfields but not his own? Desper told me it was Brian so no it's all Al arguments.

You're saying he told you Brian was involved in the production of the 45 version of "Cotton Fields"?  I thought the story went that Al wasn't happy with Brian's attempt, so he re-cut it himself.

I always thought the second version of that song was Al's definitive Beach Boys moment.

[MBE]

No he had nothing to do with the production. He just overdubbed a vocal part.

[busy doin nothin]

I think Bluebirds may not have Brian as well. You notice that Brian can be heard on Al's version of Cottonfields but not his own? Desper told me it was Brian so no it's all Al arguments.

You're saying he told you Brian was involved in the production of the 45 version of "Cotton Fields"?  I thought the story went that Al wasn't happy with Brian's attempt, so he re-cut it himself.

I always thought the second version of that song was Al's definitive Beach Boys moment.

I think Al had a few definitive moments, but the Cottonfields 45 is definitely one.  That version is so cool.

As for the 20/20 liner notes, it has always bothered me that Brian took credit for producing and arranging ICHM when all authorities have it as the first big Carl production.  The liner notes were published in 1990, right around the time Brian's autobiography came out with lots of obnoxious statements about the other Beach Boys.  As some have suggested on this thread, a lot of this stuff (liner notes as well as autobio) was probably ghostwritten under the direction of Landy.