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― iatee, Monday, 8 February 2010 05:26 (fourteen years ago) link
hope that works better
― iatee, Monday, 8 February 2010 05:27 (fourteen years ago) link
wow, this is great. thank you so much.
p.s. that glen campbell song is amazing.
― figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Monday, 8 February 2010 09:26 (fourteen years ago) link
OH HAI
http://cueburn.blogspot.com/2007/09/various-artists-still-i-dream-of-you.html
― figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Monday, 8 February 2010 09:29 (fourteen years ago) link
god I really got in the beach boys nerd mindset this week. being obsessed w/ beach boys rarities is really frustrating because so much of it is so much better than their released output. here's my complete alternate universe post-smile bb where someone w/ some degree of sanity is in charge of what goes on the albums. imo these would alll be 5*/5* albums, and sunflower + surf's up would be up there w/ pet sounds in a not-that-challopsy sense.
(ps, all of these songs existed / were recorded in time for the albums)
Wild Honey
1. Aren't You Glad 2. I Was Made To Love Her (extended) 3. Darlin'4. Lonely Days 5. Let the Wind Blow6. Country Air 7. Can't Wait Too Long 8. I'd Love Just Once To See You 9. Their Hearts Were Full of Spring
Friends + Old Man River + I Went To Sleep - TM
20/20
1. We're Together Again2. Never Learn Not To Love3. Do It Again 4. I Can Hear Music5. Time To Get Alone6. A Time to Live In Dreams7. Be With Me8. Cabinessence 9. Our Prayer 10. Walk on By
Sunflower
1. Slip on Through2. Add Some Music to Your Day3. Lady4. Forever5. Celebrate the News 6. All I Wanna Do 7. Break Away8. This Whole World 9. Cool, Cool Water 10. It's About Time 11. Soulful Old Man Sunshine
Surf's Up
1. It's a New Day 2. Big Sur (alt) 3. Long Promised Road 4. Surf's Up5. A Day in the Life of a Tree6. Feel Flows7. Sound of Free8. 4th of July 9. Barbara10. Til I Die
― iatee, Monday, 8 February 2010 18:14 (fourteen years ago) link
thx for that - was wondering where/when some of the stuff on your collection came from
― mark kerfuffalo (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 8 February 2010 18:40 (fourteen years ago) link
No 'Loop de Loop' on Sunflower? I love that song.
― fit and working again, Monday, 8 February 2010 19:20 (fourteen years ago) link
my alternate history ends w/
carl and the passions - keep it the same
holland - + 'good timin' + 'we got love'
15 big ones - this album never happens
love you - keep it the same
(band breaks up)
this gives the beach boys a run of 10 amazing albums in a row! if you pretend like 'party' doesn't exist and delete the filler on today and summer days, it could be 12!
― iatee, Monday, 8 February 2010 19:21 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah I guess you can add loop de loop, but it'd be like the sloop john b of sunflower
― iatee, Monday, 8 February 2010 19:23 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
― mark kerfuffalo (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 8 February 2010 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link
I really like this so far iateeIf there are other songs I want to add, like like extra tracks from re-released albums or tracks from landlocked and adult child stuff I can easily do that myself
Soooo am I the only one hearing "big tits" in the song 'Hard Time'
― stop assuming I assumed something LOL (CaptainLorax), Monday, 8 February 2010 20:55 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^NO! me and my wife were listening to this and both did a double-take. the wife also thought that "Stevie" was Brian's ode to his television lol
― mark kerfuffalo (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 8 February 2010 20:59 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm pretty sure they actually are saying 'big tits' (was then undirtified and turned into 'ding dang')
― iatee, Monday, 8 February 2010 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link
also megalolz at Our Prayer studio banter ("you guys feelin that acid yet?" "Denny I know you got some more of those hash joints")
― mark kerfuffalo (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 8 February 2010 21:08 (fourteen years ago) link
the wife also thought that "Stevie" was Brian's ode to his television lol
I don't think anyone knows much about this track...who knows, it could be about his tv. (saint etienne do a good cover version tho)
― iatee, Monday, 8 February 2010 21:18 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah that's the thing, given Brian's songwriting habits writing an ode to his TV isn't really all that much of a stretch. Maybe the song's title really IS "TV" lolz
― mark kerfuffalo (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 8 February 2010 21:21 (fourteen years ago) link
According to the (heavily Landy-doctored) autobiography "Wouldn't It Be Nice", Brian wrote and recorded a huge number of demos as part of his therapy called things like "Bring Your Comb", "Stop Carnie From Eating So Many Peanut Butter Sandwiches Around Me" and "Quit Using My Toothpaste". So no it wouldn't surprise me either.
― dog latin, Monday, 8 February 2010 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link
"Stop Carnie From Eating So Many Peanut Butter Sandwiches Around Me"
this sounds like the best brian wilson song ever
― iatee, Monday, 8 February 2010 22:34 (fourteen years ago) link
...later a hit for belinda carlisle!
i have a hard time thinking that WILD HONEY could be improved. and i seem to like FRIENDS way more than most, even those who like "later" (post-67) BB a lot.
― figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Monday, 8 February 2010 22:34 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost
― figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Monday, 8 February 2010 22:35 (fourteen years ago) link
frieds is my favorite bb album!
― iatee, Monday, 8 February 2010 22:36 (fourteen years ago) link
err with 'friends' as a close second
LOL "frieds" brian wilson's concept album about fatty foods
― figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Monday, 8 February 2010 22:37 (fourteen years ago) link
he's certainly had a love/hate relationship with them
― iatee, Monday, 8 February 2010 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link
but yeah, friends is awesome. absolutely beautiful...and yeah, usually gets less attention than wild honey / sunflower / surf's up, which is weird cause it's (imo) easily the most consistent.
― iatee, Monday, 8 February 2010 22:42 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, on most of the LPs from that era there are one or two atrocious songs that you'd prefer to skip (the archetypal one being "student demonstration time"), but i'm not sure that's true of "friends." even "transcendental meditation" is off-kilter in an appealing way. i mean, none of the songs is going to knock your socks off in the way that, i dunno, "heroes and villains" will, but there's something to be said for it all being of a piece.
― figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Monday, 8 February 2010 22:51 (fourteen years ago) link
actually, "friends" is oddly reminiscent of "nashville skyline." both were tranquil/low-key albums released at a time when most were making Major Statements, and both are extremely short and sweet ("friends" is like 25 minutes long, right?). and both are very coherent.
― figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Monday, 8 February 2010 22:54 (fourteen years ago) link
I love Friends and the only thing wrong with TM is that it ruins the mellow vibe of the rest of the record.
― fit and working again, Monday, 8 February 2010 22:56 (fourteen years ago) link
wild honey was their nashville skyline really. their back-to-basics record.
― fit and working again, Monday, 8 February 2010 22:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't think it ruins it. it's not a good song by any means, but I agree w/ amateurist about 'off-kilter in an appealing way'...also it's less than 2 minutes long and is over before you know it.
also nashville skyline comparison is otm
― iatee, Monday, 8 February 2010 22:58 (fourteen years ago) link
how is country back-to-basics for dylan! (or r&b for the beach boys!)
― iatee, Monday, 8 February 2010 22:59 (fourteen years ago) link
nashville skyline/friends works better as a comparison -- both celebrate the joys of domesticity / joys of doin' nothin'.
― tylerw, Monday, 8 February 2010 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
ruin was a strong word to use... it's not a bad song for the reasons mentioned. just that it leaps out after everything that went before.
― fit and working again, Monday, 8 February 2010 23:02 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost yeah i can see that
back to basics in the sense of recording as a band in brian's front room
it is interesting though - the "non major statement" aspect of those post Smile records ... I mean, what if the Beach Boys, instead of releasing three records, had released Friends/2020/Sunflower as one double album a la the White Album? Would the late 60s be seen as more triumphant for the band then?
― tylerw, Monday, 8 February 2010 23:09 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^ VERY IMPORTANT QUESTIONS BEING ASKED HERE
― tylerw, Monday, 8 February 2010 23:10 (fourteen years ago) link
people had basically stopped caring (regardless of how good/bad the music was) - so I imagine it woulda been more or less ignored
― iatee, Monday, 8 February 2010 23:12 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah probably ...
― tylerw, Monday, 8 February 2010 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link
and I mean 'would the late 60s be seen as more triumphant'
among critics / ilm-y types, I think late period beach boys are already seen as among the most interesting act of the era
so would they be more famous-successful w/ an triple album like that? eh I really doubt it. I doubt that even had smile been finished their commercial success would be much different. I mean, even pet sounds was something of a commercial failure.
― iatee, Monday, 8 February 2010 23:24 (fourteen years ago) link
acts*
Why do I still see 20/20 as "not a proper album" in my head?
― dog latin, Monday, 8 February 2010 23:27 (fourteen years ago) link
fwiw smiley smile through surf's up is by far my favourite period in bb history, but i'm sure this is no longer a challops. I've said it before, but smiley smile is one of the best records of all time in my opinion.
― dog latin, Monday, 8 February 2010 23:29 (fourteen years ago) link
listening to rarities now - thanks so much for this iatee, once again...
xpost oh yeah, i know late 60s Beach Boys is beloved by critics/fans, just thinking out loud that maybe an ambitious triple album would've given them a little more hype at the time ... rather than "here's another Beach Boys album" which I gather is how they were received at the time. Maybe "Surf's Up" was kinda their attempt at being taken more seriously.
― tylerw, Monday, 8 February 2010 23:30 (fourteen years ago) link
heheh, never noticed before, but the section in Can't Wait Too Long 4:20, does a wicked white-funk thing that ABBA also used on Name Of The Game that I've always wanted to recreate with a band.
― dog latin, Monday, 8 February 2010 23:31 (fourteen years ago) link
cause it sorta wasn't one, I mean 'do it again' single from earlier in the year + smile outtakes + a friends outtake + bruce / al / dennis all doing their own things = pretty weird album that sorta sounds like compilation
― iatee, Monday, 8 February 2010 23:33 (fourteen years ago) link
just thinking out loud that maybe an ambitious triple album would've given them a little more hype at the time
I think it really would have depended on the record company selling it right. but, even then, friends/2020/sunflower = a total of two radio-friendly songs imo (do it again, add some music) one of which was a radio-friendly hit song, one of which failed to be. I guess the problem comes down to a lack of 'singles'...they basically became an album band, for better or worse.
― iatee, Monday, 8 February 2010 23:37 (fourteen years ago) link
(I guess if 'break away' were included, it would also count as a radio-friendly song, but as with 'add some music', was basically a failure irl so I'm not sure if it would have been any different were the situation different.)
― iatee, Monday, 8 February 2010 23:39 (fourteen years ago) link
i sort of trust that whatever they put out, the record company and the zeitgeist would have conspired to bury it. honestly i can totally understand that. i probably would have waved them off at the time. i know these albums had their cults (small ones) at the time, but i think in general the decades have helped these records.
― figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Monday, 8 February 2010 23:50 (fourteen years ago) link