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Post by jk on Aug 27, 2020 10:47:47 GMT
There's a BB video topic, a BB ass-kicking moment topic but no song topic. I tell a lie... there is one now. An essay on another website got me thinking about "Busy Doin' Nothin'": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_Doin%27_Nothin%27
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Aug 29, 2020 12:49:19 GMT
I've been enjoying "Back Home". There are several versions of "Back Home", but I think what gets lost is what a good song it is. It's a fun, catchy, rollicking song. My favorite version is the 15 Big Ones' version:
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Post by jk on Sept 16, 2020 19:30:48 GMT
Actually, it's a backing track, that of "California Girls" -- one gorgeous wash of sound:
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Post by Kapitan on Sept 24, 2020 1:09:40 GMT
More a moment than a song.
I love--LOVE--the "I'm thinkin' 'bout this whole world" in the left channel at about 1:10 in "This Whole World." Very brassy, it sounds like Mike and maybe Al. It's one of my favorite moments in the song. I love it. Always have. It came up now, and so I wanted to mention it.
And in fact it's something I love about the band in that approximate era. While earlier songs seemed largely based on group vocals sung together, from the late 60s on there were great, interesting moments that obviously weren't five or six guys around a mic at once, but rather this idea, that idea, this guy, those guys. Both approaches were fruitful.
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Post by B.E. on Sept 24, 2020 1:19:43 GMT
I love--LOVE--the "I'm thinkin' 'bout this whole world" in the left channel at about 1:10 in "This Whole World." Very brassy, it sounds like Mike and maybe Al. I've always heard that as Al with Mike echoing the "ah, this whole world" bass vocal. Not proof, just how I've heard it without closely inspecting. Desper's engineering/EQing can sometimes make everyone sound the same, to an extent.
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Post by B.E. on Sept 24, 2020 1:27:38 GMT
I forget where/why/how it was pointed out to me, but it's hard not to hear that nifty guitar playing peeking through in "This Whole World" when listening with headphones. My ears dart right to it!
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Post by The Cincinnati Kid on Sept 24, 2020 2:53:30 GMT
It's Gettin' Late is playing as I type. Man, I love those wordless vocals.
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 22, 2020 12:09:34 GMT
Good Vibrations, because my public radio station at a little "top of the hour" news blurb said today was the day in 1966 that it was released.
But for the second day in a row--check the Dylan thread!--this seems untrue. Wiki says the song was released October 10, 1966. The only reference to Oct. 22 I can find there is that this is the day it entered the Cash Box chart.
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Post by Kapitan on Jan 7, 2021 18:13:59 GMT
I put on "I Get Around" a little over one minute ago. Loudly.
It's a song that was, is, and ever shall be great. I probably ought to just wait a few weeks until we discuss it in the singles polls, so I won't bother getting into detail on why it's so great. Plus, you really don't need me to tell you why it's great: people have been recognizing that fact since more than a decade before my birth. But I really think it's one of the top handful of rock and roll songs in history. It is close to perfection for what it is.
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Post by jk on Jan 7, 2021 22:02:13 GMT
I put on "I Get Around" a little over one minute ago. Loudly.
It's a song that was, is, and ever shall be great. I probably ought to just wait a few weeks until we discuss it in the singles polls, so I won't bother getting into detail on why it's so great. Plus, you really don't need me to tell you why it's great: people have been recognizing that fact since more than a decade before my birth. But I really think it's one of the top handful of rock and roll songs in history. It is close to perfection for what it is.
A few weeks?? Perhaps you can wait but I can't! I first heard "I Get Around" in 1964 when it was originally released in the UK. I must have been familiar with stuff like "In My Room" and "Lonely Sea" by then because my reaction was something along the lines of "They've done it again!" "It" being things no one else did -- then or even since. That organ/guitar line in the verse, for instance... OK, I think I've let off enough steam now to be able to wait a few weeks for the official discussion.
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Post by Kapitan on Jan 7, 2021 22:11:35 GMT
"It" being things no one else did -- then or even since. That organ/guitar line in the verse, for instance... OK, I think I've let off enough steam now to be able to wait a few weeks for the official discussion. Addressing things out of order, to the second part,
To the first, absolutely! That little line is wonderful. It has also tripped me up, back in my bar-band days. We once had a tune into the middle of which we'd throw a cover tune, almost always "Twist and Shout," but once on very short notice, "I Get Around." I have to say, when you haven't properly learned and rehearsed it, you've had a beer or four before the show (in true Minneapolis style, a la The Replacements), and you're amped up and playing the song a little faster than you probably should be playing it, it becomes a little tricky!
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Jan 8, 2021 0:10:40 GMT
I've been on a Gettin' In Over My Head kick over the last two weeks. There's a song on there - "Make A Wish"- which I think is a great song. I like everything about the song, not necessarily the performance though it's strong, but the song. I like the intro, the verses, the chorus (especially), the background vocals, and even the lyrics. I think Brian, who wrote about love between individuals to great effect, could also write effective "message songs". This is one of those BW solo songs where I can't help but think how much better it would've been as a Beach Boys song. Brian holds his own on the GIOMH version, but I could hear Mike singing the lead on this one, or even Al and Carl trading off lead vocals. I can also hear Mike's bass vocal on the chorus. Add the Beach Boys, tweak the lyrics, clean up the production and "Make A Wish" is a hit!
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Post by Kapitan on Jan 8, 2021 16:03:57 GMT
It's funny, because I feel like this is a mirror image of our "Gettin' In Over My Head" positions: I don't hear anything in that song to make it rate above mediocre (even if it were done in its best incarnation, to say nothing of the existing versions, which I pretty much dislike).
That said, sure, I'd rather have heard it with the Beach Boys' voices (which is true of pretty much all of the guys' solo songs).
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Post by B.E. on Jan 8, 2021 21:36:15 GMT
Damn, the bass on the GIOMH version kicks ass! I also dig the bridge. (They probably should have lowered the backing vocals in the mix, though.)
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Post by Kapitan on Jan 8, 2021 21:46:28 GMT
Damn, the bass on the GIOMH version kicks ass! I also dig the bridge. (They probably should have lowered the backing vocals in the mix, though.) I don't have the CD handy so I was going to listen, and it seems like it's not easily found on YouTube. (The released versions I found were pulled for copyright reasons.) So I go to Spotify: GIOMH isn't even there, though all the others are. Are they trying to pretend that album didn't exist, or what?
Plus, now I need to grab the CD and put it in the player. Talk about laborious!
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