jmayer43
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Post by jmayer43 on Dec 2, 2023 16:04:00 GMT
Hey everyone! 👋 I spent many hours working on this little passion project this past weekend and I figured some of you here might enjoy it! I mostly focused on covering all of the songs that were featured on The Beach Boys' studio albums, but l've also included several of their non-album singles as well as some miscellaneous tracks that can be found towards the end of the video. Enjoy!
(Also apologies if this should’ve been posted to a different thread or location; I’m a long time member of The Beach Boys subreddit but I’m new here so I’m still kinda finding my way around this forum)
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Post by B.E. on Dec 2, 2023 16:32:21 GMT
Wow, cool project! I look forward to checking out the video later today when I have some time. And welcome to the forum, jmayer43.
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Post by Kapitan on Dec 2, 2023 16:44:34 GMT
Wow, that must have been both really fun and really frustrating. I can imagine obsessing over this 7 seconds or that 7 seconds for way too long and driving myself crazy. Way to stick with it through to the end (and even some extra goodies like Adult/Child). And I'll second B.E., welcome to the board. Please feel free to dive right in to anything!
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Post by jmayer43 on Dec 2, 2023 17:07:37 GMT
Wow, that must have been both really fun and really frustrating. I can imagine obsessing over this 7 seconds or that 7 seconds for way too long and driving myself crazy. Way to stick with it through to the end (and even some extra goodies like Adult/Child). And I'll second B.E. , welcome to the board. Please feel free to dive right in to anything! Haha yeah it definitely was difficult at times! Some of the songs I knew right away which part I wanted to include (I remember Let Him Run Wild and Long Promised Road were two of the easiest ones) but there were quite a few occasions where I had a song down to two different 7 second snippets but I just couldn’t decide which one I liked more, so I would end up replaying them over and over until I could make up my mind lol. I’m glad you enjoyed the extras too, Adult/Child has just too much great material on it for me to have left it out so I decided to throw it in at the end with the standalone singles. And thank you very much! I’m looking forward to talking with all of you on here, it seems like a great community!
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Post by B.E. on Dec 3, 2023 16:34:11 GMT
I watched the 60s (which took up almost exactly half of the video), took a little break, then watched the rest. Well done! I agreed with many of your choices. There were probably only a few that I didn't really consider a highlight of the song. I'm almost tempted to do something like this. Perhaps, just one album at a time, picking my favorite part of each song. I've never done that before. How did you settle on 7 seconds? I was sort of curious about that. It seemed like some of your favorite moments were lyrical, as opposed to musical - is that right? I think that would be an interesting factor in this exercise. Aside from your subjective choices, I also found it interesting hearing their entire career in chronological order like that.
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Post by jmayer43 on Dec 3, 2023 20:33:53 GMT
I watched the 60s (which took up almost exactly half of the video), took a little break, then watched the rest. Well done! I agreed with many of your choices. There were probably only a few that I didn't really consider a highlight of the song. I'm almost tempted to do something like this. Perhaps, just one album at a time, picking my favorite part of each song. I've never done that before. How did you settle on 7 seconds? I was sort of curious about that. It seemed like some of your favorite moments were lyrical, as opposed to musical - is that right? I think that would be an interesting factor in this exercise. Aside from your subjective choices, I also found it interesting hearing their entire career in chronological order like that. Thank you so much for watching, I'm glad you enjoyed! I'd definitely recommend giving it a try yourself if you're interested, although I will warn you that it is a pretty time consuming process for a band with a discography as big as the boys lol (doing one album at a time is probably a good idea haha) In terms of how I settled on 7 seconds, someone actually did a similar video on the Beatles discography where they picked their favorite 7 seconds of every Beatles song, and that was pretty much my inspiration for the project. I considered trying different times for the song snippets but found that anything shorter than 7 seconds was almost too short, and anything longer would likely make the video as a whole too long. (I didn't want it to go much longer than 40-45 minutes, as I felt like that was already almost too long haha) To answer your question about my favorite moments, I would actually say that more often than not they were selected because I just really liked the music! There were definitely some songs where the lyrics did play a role in my selection, (such as Mona and Still I Dream of It) but for the most part I just loved how those parts of the songs sounded. And yeah I agree with you, when I watched the full completed video back for the first time I feel it made me appreciate even more just how diverse and unique the Beach Boys discography is!
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Post by B.E. on Dec 3, 2023 21:01:21 GMT
Oh geez, the Beatles…I’ll add them to the list, too! Who knows when I’ll get around to it, but I’d like to give this a try at some point.
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