Anybody hear the The Beach Boys - I Can Hear Music; The 20-20 Sessions (2018)?, it looks like a copyright dump, very enjoyable. Also a live 68 set out too.
Listening to this today. Winter has been holding on tightly to Wisconsin (it snowed on Saturday) and the cabin fever is as bad as I've ever remembered it. The Beach Boys feel like a great way to think blue skies and sunshine today. They were one of the first bands I ever got into on a truly deep and obsessive level and still one of my true musical loves.
I picked up the 2020 Sessions last year - but then put it aside without really giving it the listen it deserves. There is some really fantastic stuff on it. That period in their history often gets overlooked - which is unfair because they were still creating some absolutely fantastic music - but the general public was no longer listening. The whole period that ran from Smiley Smile through Holland is really fascinating because it saw them making some of their most adventurous music.
"They don't think it be like it is, but it do." - Oscar Gamble
Anybody hear the The Beach Boys - I Can Hear Music; The 20-20 Sessions (2018)?, it looks like a copyright dump, very enjoyable. Also a live 68 set out too.
Listening to this today. Winter has been holding on tightly to Wisconsin (it snowed on Saturday) and the cabin fever is as bad as I've ever remembered it. The Beach Boys feel like a great way to think blue skies and sunshine today. They were one of the first bands I ever got into on a truly deep and obsessive level and still one of my true musical loves.
I picked up the 2020 Sessions last year - but then put it aside without really giving it the listen it deserves. There is some really fantastic stuff on it. That period in their history often gets overlooked - which is unfair because they were still creating some absolutely fantastic music - but the general public was no longer listening. The whole period that ran from Smiley Smile through Holland is really fascinating because it saw them making some of their most adventurous music.
Huge fan of that era. And also Love You, which manages to be outsider art despite being made by a band that was one a legit chart contender to the Beatles.
”INDER LOCK THE THE KISS THREAD IVE REALISED IM A PRZE IDOOT” - Thomas Jefferson
Anybody hear the The Beach Boys - I Can Hear Music; The 20-20 Sessions (2018)?, it looks like a copyright dump, very enjoyable. Also a live 68 set out too.
Listening to this today. Winter has been holding on tightly to Wisconsin (it snowed on Saturday) and the cabin fever is as bad as I've ever remembered it. The Beach Boys feel like a great way to think blue skies and sunshine today. They were one of the first bands I ever got into on a truly deep and obsessive level and still one of my true musical loves.
I picked up the 2020 Sessions last year - but then put it aside without really giving it the listen it deserves. There is some really fantastic stuff on it. That period in their history often gets overlooked - which is unfair because they were still creating some absolutely fantastic music - but the general public was no longer listening. The whole period that ran from Smiley Smile through Holland is really fascinating because it saw them making some of their most adventurous music.
Huge fan of that era. And also Love You, which manages to be outsider art despite being made by a band that was one a legit chart contender to the Beatles.
The arc of their career is pretty fascinating. A garage band that played songs about cars, surfing, and girls that turned into a sophisticated pop band by the mid 1960's and then dropped off of the radar until appearing again in the mid 1970's as a nostalgia driven act. It's that "lost" period that intrigues me the most because contrary to what many people think - they didn't stop making music. Not only that - they kept trying to move forward artistically as a band. It really wasn't until Capitol released Endless Summer in 1974 that the band ground to a halt musically. I think the success of that comp gave Mike Love license to take over and start the real "fun in the sun" nostalgia push that continues to this day. There were some interesting detours - Love You being one - but overall the progression that started with Surfin' Safari in 1962 and ended with Holland in 1973 was over.
"They don't think it be like it is, but it do." - Oscar Gamble
A good example of the mishmash that became their career is 1979's L.A. (Light Album). You get stuff like Good Timin' that plays upon trying to capture their classic sound. You get some MOR Carl Wilson tunes. You get some glop from Mike Love (Sumahama). There are a couple of standout Dennis tracks and the horrid disco version of Here Comes the Night. There was no direction anymore. Holland came and went without a trace - but it at least sounded like a cohesive project from a functioning band.
"They don't think it be like it is, but it do." - Oscar Gamble
I spent last week out in the Monterey/Salinas area of California and I had Holland on near constant repeat. It's one of my fave BB albums, but it sounded even better listening to it out there. The California "trilogy" on that LP is a really solid piece of work.
"They don't think it be like it is, but it do." - Oscar Gamble
This should really be kept in the rape van thread, but
1. California Beach
2. It's OK (feat. Hanson)
3. Surfin'
4. Calfornia Sun
5. Surfin' Safari
6. On and On and On
7. Here Comes The Sun
8. Girl From Ipanema
9. Over and Over
10. Keepin' Summer Alive
11. Summertime Blues
12. Rockaway Beach
I think this was my Trapper Keeper back in 92.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
I'm finishing up a lecture on the Wrecking Crew, who played on 60s Beach Boys records once Brian got really serious, including Pet Sounds. So I grabbed a picture of the Pet Sounds cover.
How perfect is Mike Love's dismissive look even in the official photo for the album? Stick to the fucking formula is all over his asshole face.
"Grab some wood, bub.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
I'm finishing up a lecture on the Wrecking Crew, who played on 60s Beach Boys records once Brian got really serious, including Pet Sounds. So I grabbed a picture of the Pet Sounds cover.
How perfect is Mike Love's dismissive look even in the official photo for the album? Stick to the fucking formula is all over his asshole face.
Snort.
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IMCT: Inane Middle-Class Twats - Dr. M
" *sigh* it's right when they throw the penis pump out the window." -Hoy