Anything, back to Dennis...
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Sunday, 17 September 2006 07:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Sunday, 17 September 2006 07:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Goth Black Socks, Icicle Rocks (Bimble...), Sunday, 17 September 2006 07:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ficky Stingers (Bimble...), Sunday, 17 September 2006 19:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 17 September 2006 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 18 September 2006 00:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Oh No It's Dadaismus! (Dada), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 10:45 (seventeen years ago) link
Hey thanks for that link to The Heat Warps, it's really good shit.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 7 July 2007 03:08 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003701480
― hapman, Thursday, 24 January 2008 18:49 (sixteen years ago) link
YES
― max, Thursday, 24 January 2008 18:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Awesome!
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 24 January 2008 18:53 (sixteen years ago) link
AWES AWES AWES
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 24 January 2008 18:57 (sixteen years ago) link
at last at last at laaaast
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 24 January 2008 19:03 (sixteen years ago) link
didn't even have to read the story, just saw the link & max's rxn and it was on
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 24 January 2008 19:31 (sixteen years ago) link
So excellent.
― Sparkle Motion, Thursday, 24 January 2008 20:18 (sixteen years ago) link
It's about time now it's about time now It's about time now don't you know now
― gershy, Friday, 25 January 2008 07:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Not too early.
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 25 January 2008 08:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Looks like it's too late to make any money from it then. I have the original CD issue. Cool that's it's coming with all the Bamboo tracks.
― cheasyweasel, Friday, 25 January 2008 10:02 (sixteen years ago) link
That's 2008's Reissue Of The Year award pretty much sewn up I reckon. Can't wait for this - especially to hear all the Bamboo stuff.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 25 January 2008 10:11 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost Ebay it RIGHT NOW!
― Mark G, Friday, 25 January 2008 10:38 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pacific-Ocean-Blue-Dennis-Wilson/dp/B000008MDK
5 used and new available from £117
go now!
― Thomas, Friday, 25 January 2008 10:46 (sixteen years ago) link
One went recently on ebay for £54.
― Mark G, Friday, 25 January 2008 10:54 (sixteen years ago) link
.. and that's an actual sale, those amazon ones are not necessarily selling at that price.
― Mark G, Friday, 25 January 2008 10:55 (sixteen years ago) link
I bought the cassette of the 1992 reissue out of Virgin at the time and it cost me £6.99. Obviously it's just as well I hung onto it.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 25 January 2008 10:56 (sixteen years ago) link
£50-£60 sounds about right for Ebay. As Mark G said that's an actual sale, the ones on Amazon are just chancing their arm. I haven't sold it thus far so it's unlikely I'm going to rush and do it now that the news is out of the official release.
Strangely as much as I'm a big fan of the Beach Boys and Dennis's tracks on their albums I don't think this album is THAT good. It's scarcity has allowed it to be regarded as better than it actually is (just checked above and looks like my opinion hasn't changed much, that's me posting as mms above back in 2003!)
― cheasyweasel, Friday, 25 January 2008 11:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Great news! Thanks a lot for the sharp eye - gotta ton of friends that are going to geek out on this and through their bad cdrs out the window! The 'Bambu' stuff should be a fun and interesting listen, too
― BlackIronPrison, Friday, 25 January 2008 11:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, news being "out" is one thing, it won't actually be out for a while.
Also, news travels slowly. If I had a CD that was worth that now, but will drop off in a month, I'd do it now. You only need two bidders, you know.
Of course, you may want to be keeping that one, and not be bothered about the expanded reissue.
― Mark G, Friday, 25 January 2008 12:03 (sixteen years ago) link
sucks...I have one of those CD's too, and will probably just hang on to it...
― henry s, Friday, 25 January 2008 14:22 (sixteen years ago) link
once this comes out i'm going to sell everything except POB and John Phillips solo jam and live on the beach...oh, and i'll need a boombox, too.
― QuantumNoise, Friday, 25 January 2008 14:38 (sixteen years ago) link
is the "LADY/Fallin' In Love" single gonna be on the POB reissue?? i only recently heard it, it's so beautiful. i love this video as well http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyarfNQ4tOg
― gershy, Saturday, 26 January 2008 05:52 (sixteen years ago) link
*swoon*
― Joseph McCombs, Saturday, 26 January 2008 07:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Great news -- "He's A Bum" seems like a great song, but the quality on the bootlegs is so nth-generation, it's nearly unlistenable.
is the "LADY/Fallin' In Love" single gonna be on the POB reissue?? i only recently heard it, it's so beautiful.
That's from the 1971 Landlocked sessions so probably not.
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 31 January 2008 02:56 (sixteen years ago) link
What happened to the reissue? Was it released on May 13 and nobody reviewed or mentioned it?
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 10 June 2008 03:36 (sixteen years ago) link
I saw it mentioned in a handful of places.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 03:46 (sixteen years ago) link
I think pfork gave it a 10
lol. I just saw that it's release is June 17. I guess they changed it.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 10 June 2008 03:52 (sixteen years ago) link
now all we need is buckingham nicks
― electricsound, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 04:04 (sixteen years ago) link
You may get it.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 10 June 2008 04:10 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't like this album.
― the next grozart, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 09:35 (sixteen years ago) link
:(
― Tom D., Tuesday, 10 June 2008 09:35 (sixteen years ago) link
searing, detailed criticism there
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 09:58 (sixteen years ago) link
well, i dunno - everyone bangs on about how amazing it is, and well it just sounds like run of the mill 70s aor.
― the next grozart, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 10:41 (sixteen years ago) link
I know what you mean
― Tom D., Tuesday, 10 June 2008 10:42 (sixteen years ago) link
i think dennis's later singing voice is my least favourite of all of them. even the supposedly gorgeous stuff on Carl & The Passions is ruined by the fact it sounds like he's lying on his deathbed smoking high-tar cigars and cheese grating his own scrotum.
― the next grozart, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 10:53 (sixteen years ago) link
it just sounds like run of the mill 70s aor
What's some top-notch 70s AOR then grozart?
― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 10:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Ha! I know what you're saying but it's the damage that helps make "Make It Good" and "Cuddle Up" so great.
Things like "Thoughts Of You" don't really have any parallels in '70s AoR though.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 10:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Actually if you listen to his fills on "The Girls On The Beach" he had that 100-a-day voice as far back as '63!
Just bought this on Itunes and so far I'm a bit underwhelmed. This is my first listen so I'm sure it will grow on me a bit- I must say "Thoughts of You" is stunning, especially the middle part. I'm also digging "Time." I haven't gotten to any of the Bambu stuff yet. For whatever reason, the drummer from the Foo Fighters sings on the last track.
Maybe it's the production that's bothering me so far, I love the stripped down vibe of Dennis's tunes on Friends and 20/20 and Sunflower.
― ColinO, Saturday, 21 June 2008 02:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Actually, this is growing on me by the minute!
― ColinO, Saturday, 21 June 2008 02:16 (sixteen years ago) link
I just bought this disc and I really enjoy it (full disclosure: I have a real soft spot for that 70s West Coast rock sound, aside from The Eagles, obv.). I was hoping it would include a song called Carry Me Home, which I'm pretty sure is a Dennis Wilson song, but alas, it doesn't. It's the song where, at the end, Wilson is singing about how he "wants to go home," and it would be okay if he was "taken home." He's obviously talking about death. A really powerful, moving song. Anyway, I'm disappointed that it isn't on Pacific Ocean Blue. Anyone know this song, or know what album it appears on? Thanks.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 21 June 2008 03:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Not in the least appealing. Listening to this last summer was a real shock; I thought it'd be at least okay. I mean, if you're going to play studio-rock, then please hire a real singer if you can't hit the notes.
― post-contrarian meta-challop 2009 (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 August 2009 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
De gustibus non est disputandum. (And not meant in a snarky way).
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 28 August 2009 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
It's ok if you did!
― post-contrarian meta-challop 2009 (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 August 2009 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
lol. We're all jaded enough, already.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 28 August 2009 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link
wtf there are plenty of people singing on this album who are not Dennis (Carl, the gospel choir on the first song, etc.), and I like his gruff voice for the most part
― go Nick go! Scrub that paint! Scrub it!! Yeah!! (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 28 August 2009 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I could never get into it either, but I don't mind the vocals.
My problem with this is that I got Wolfking of LA at the same time, and that just blew me away - and gave me the californian fuckup fading star fix I needed. They're totally different records, I know. Just unfairly connected in my mind.
I should give Dennis another shot maybe.
― Brio, Friday, 28 August 2009 17:54 (fourteen years ago) link
it is possible to love both records
― velko, Friday, 28 August 2009 17:58 (fourteen years ago) link
of course! just hasn't worked out for me that way yet.
― Brio, Friday, 28 August 2009 18:20 (fourteen years ago) link
dennis wilson is sort of like judee sill in that every song seems weirdly the same, not in a repetitive way but just that the same obsessions are so upfront and overwhelming every time.
― velko, Friday, 28 August 2009 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
holy crap! just found out that carl was in my dad's church and that he was really close with him. went to their shows, hung out at parties. my dad was even the lawyer on his divorce. carl asked my dad to represent the wife (who he was close with also) because carl wanted her to get everything she deserved. my mom went on a platonic dinner date w/him and she sat in on a recording session!! and they met brian and dennis, dennis came to the church once, but hid in corner, too many "secrets" to hide. dad says dennis was the most beautiful man he'd ever met. i yelled at them "why didn't you tell me this before?!"
― jaxon, Saturday, 29 August 2009 00:07 (fourteen years ago) link
wow, get more details and pass it on
― velko, Saturday, 29 August 2009 00:20 (fourteen years ago) link
alfred u are NUTS
― butthurt (deej), Saturday, 29 August 2009 08:22 (fourteen years ago) link
his voice is 100% part of the appeal
― butthurt (deej), Saturday, 29 August 2009 08:23 (fourteen years ago) link
i love blasting this song while i'm driving around la
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMHiYrnYx64
― velko, Saturday, 29 August 2009 08:43 (fourteen years ago) link
got this today. is it bad if on first listen I like the Bambu sessions better than POB (though I do like that one too)?
― Phoenix in Flight (Cattle Grind), Saturday, 17 April 2010 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link
my favorite song is on the bambu sessions (it's not too late) and i adore POB.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 17 April 2010 21:09 (fourteen years ago) link
"It's Not Too Late" is gutting. the desperation just drips from his voice on that one.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, 22 March 2015 16:28 (nine years ago) link
Returning to this reissue this week as my car can only play CDs for the moment and I pulled this out.
There are really only a few songs in POB proper that sound purely 70s MOR – "What's Wrong," "You and I" and maybe one or two others. The rest tend toward really plodding, heavy orchestration, peculiar textural choices (such as the bass harmonicas and blaring brass on "Dreamer") and modal chord voicings that create something that is both bombastic and delicate – often at the same time. There is also an undeniable alcoholic sentimentality slathering almost everything here.
So I understand if this record isn't for everyone. Some may find it scattered or unremarkable. But for my part, I love its singularity and shamelessly big hearted and ramshackle nature – qualities I think aren't so much enhanced by the Bambu stuff as underscored.
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 23 March 2017 13:24 (seven years ago) link