The future of music made to sound like the past

Music From Big Pink too.

And I've been listening to it for about 40 years, so I don't really understand "it'll never mean all that much to me for long so I shouldn't pay it too much attention."

That's what interests me, Dan: how specific my own experience is. I'm glad to hear you have different one. I think a reviewer's words about Brian Wilson's completed Smile have always haunted me: he said that he predicted that though it was technically a good job, people wouldn't be listening to it much in a few years time. At the time I was a bit defensive, as I loved the project, but he's kind of right. I hardly ever listen to it now, whereas if it had actually come out in 1967, I probably would.

tbf only reason I stopped listening to it was because the Beach Boys finally released official versions of the Sessions.

I imagine if bootlegs were the only option, I'd have continued much longer with the Wilson version, which I actually got into probably 5 years after it came out

This was my first thought:

https://cdn.hmv.com/r/w-1280/p-webp/hmv/files/af/afccfb4d-d564-450b-b85d-7f6329543c99.jpg

yeah he was jansch worship at first

really moved on from that in cool directions though

Haven't listened to any version of any of the xp Smile material for several years, but I remember my favorite takes from the original sessions as great but seeming overall like a merry blur, like what was the ultimate point, but with the Nonesuch album---incl. working again w Van Dyke Parks, incl. on even more uneartherd bits, but at reasonable length etc, and I think they wrote/revised some more---I felt like I got it re the views of American history as remembered/filtered through pop culture and other layers of personal haze and speculative fiction and 60s shifts, now ongoing through finally getting it together, that late mastery and the ageing voice, of artistry and the body---I wrote at the time, "He's thee old Boy in The Bubble, just keeps rollin' along."
Although, while finding the Wondermints effective, I did miss the original voices---if somebody could airlift those into the Nonesuch Smile, and post the results, I'd 'ppreciate it.

original voices of the other Boys, that is; I like old Brian just fine, rasping out of the corner of his mouth and all.

otm

i think brian wilson presents smile is a better overall work...but the way it sounds like the past/not like the past is pretty much what this thread is about

xpost - i always feel like there's a certain degree of autotune going on with brian

that's why they call him b-pain

lol

I'm on a sloooooop

Stripper Girl

I can't think of his name now, but there's a singer in his 70s or 80s who recently recorded a single that totally fooled me that it was from the 60s or early 70s. His career had never really taken off back then and it was hard to be sniffy about it.

I don't think it was Charles Bradley I was thinking of here (who has now died and was a bit younger) but it may as well have been:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za-MIjJnzPM