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.
― dow, Thursday, 18 March 2021 18:12 (three years ago) link
original voices of the other Boys, that is; I like old Brian just fine, rasping out of the corner of his mouth and all.
― dow, Thursday, 18 March 2021 18:16 (three years ago) link
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
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 18 March 2021 18:58 (three years ago) link
xpost - i always feel like there's a certain degree of autotune going on with brian
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 18 March 2021 18:59 (three years ago) link
that's why they call him b-pain
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 18 March 2021 19:09 (three years ago) link
lol
― "Salvation Army FUCK!" (Neanderthal), Thursday, 18 March 2021 19:16 (three years ago) link
I'm on a sloooooop
― rob, Thursday, 18 March 2021 19:17 (three years ago) link
Stripper Girl
― "Salvation Army FUCK!" (Neanderthal), Thursday, 18 March 2021 19:31 (three years ago) link
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
― Alba, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 19:49 (two years ago) link