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Post by Kapitan on Apr 1, 2021 12:45:11 GMT
If I were going to put together a playlist to entice casuals to explore The Beach Boys, here it is 1. Cassius Love v Sunny Wilson (SDV2) 2. Our Favorite Recording Sessions (All Summer Long) 3. Bull Session With Big Daddy (Today) 4. I'm Bugged At My Old Man (SDSN) 5. Vegetables (Smiley Smile) 6. Mama Said (Wild Honey) 7. Transcendental Meditation (Friends) 8. Take a Load Off Your Feet (Surf's Up) 9. Love is a Woman (Love You) 10. Here Comes the Night '79 (LA) 11. When Girls Get Together (KTSA) 12. Male Ego (BB85) 13. Wipe Out (SC) 14. Summer of Love (SIP) 15. Runaway Dancer - (BW - NPP) I unironically love three of those! (5, 6, 8) What's more, I've got nothing against Wipe Out, for what it is (which is silly fun).
But I am sure that playlist would win over legions of new fans!
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Post by kds on Apr 1, 2021 12:54:56 GMT
If I were going to put together a playlist to entice casuals to explore The Beach Boys, here it is 1. Cassius Love v Sunny Wilson (SDV2) 2. Our Favorite Recording Sessions (All Summer Long) 3. Bull Session With Big Daddy (Today) 4. I'm Bugged At My Old Man (SDSN) 5. Vegetables (Smiley Smile) 6. Mama Said (Wild Honey) 7. Transcendental Meditation (Friends) 8. Take a Load Off Your Feet (Surf's Up) 9. Love is a Woman (Love You) 10. Here Comes the Night '79 (LA) 11. When Girls Get Together (KTSA) 12. Male Ego (BB85) 13. Wipe Out (SC) 14. Summer of Love (SIP) 15. Runaway Dancer - (BW - NPP) I unironically love three of those! (5, 6, 8) What's more, I've got nothing against Wipe Out, for what it is (which is silly fun).
But I am sure that playlist would win over legions of new fans! I don't really have anything against Wipe Out. I just never listen to it and wish it didn't exist. But, I find it far more forgivable than Summer of Love, which I find even more forgivable than Runaway Dancer. Wipe Out and Summer of Love were The Beach Boys running on fumes, desperately clutching at straws to hop on the new rap thing that was overtaking music. It worked wonders for Aerosmith after all. There's no excuse for Runaway Dancer.
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 1, 2021 13:00:46 GMT
There's no excuse for Runaway Dancer. It's really kind of the same thing, just 25-30 years later and a different trend to hitch the wagon to.
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Post by kds on Apr 1, 2021 13:02:59 GMT
There's no excuse for Runaway Dancer. It's really kind of the same thing, just 25-30 years later and a different trend to hitch the wagon to. True, but 2015 was well beyond that time that it was plausible for Brian Wilson or The Beach Boys to have a legit hit. For most of Brian's peers, the 21st Century was more about one of our favorite terms "returning to form" and ceasing chasing trends.
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 1, 2021 13:17:39 GMT
Oh, 100% agreement on that. It's one thing to be hanging on to youth/mass popularity as it first fades (however misguided even that initial attempt may have been). It's quite another to repeat the action, especially a few decades later, when it's pretty clear what are both your actual taste and your actual audiences.
And honestly, even if one of those two things were different--the actual taste--I'd cut more slack. If we really had reason to believe Brian Wilson truly loved this kind of music, OK, great. I still personally wouldn't like the song, but I'd be more charitable to it. But come on...we know that isn't the case.
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Post by kds on Apr 1, 2021 13:23:29 GMT
Oh, 100% agreement on that. It's one thing to be hanging on to youth/mass popularity as it first fades (however misguided even that initial attempt may have been). It's quite another to repeat the action, especially a few decades later, when it's pretty clear what are both your actual taste and your actual audiences.
And honestly, even if one of those two things were different--the actual taste--I'd cut more slack. If we really had reason to believe Brian Wilson truly loved this kind of music, OK, great. I still personally wouldn't like the song, but I'd be more charitable to it. But come on...we know that isn't the case.
And, what really got me about Runaway Dancer is that it's on a fairly strong album. Yet, that song cracked the setlist on the first leg of the NPP Tour.
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 1, 2021 13:26:22 GMT
I'd really be curious to hear Brian's version of the song before it was passed along to Sebu. I wonder if there's any chance we'd ever get the demo of it.
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Post by kds on Apr 1, 2021 13:31:07 GMT
I'd really be curious to hear Brian's version of the song before it was passed along to Sebu. I wonder if there's any chance we'd ever get the demo of it. Maybe in 2065 for the 50th Anniversary of NPP. I think there's actually a decent melody, and maybe even a good song, underneath those trash ass godforsaken dance beats. The live version actually wasn't horrible.
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Post by kds on Apr 1, 2021 19:20:26 GMT
After posting my April Fools Playlist, here's a real one "The great Al Jardine!!!"
1. Christmas Day (Christmas Album) 2. Help Me Ronda (Today) 3. Then I Kissed Her (SDSN) 4. I Know There's an Answer (Pet Sounds) 5. Cottonfields (20/20) 6. Lookin' at Tomorrow (Surf's Up) 7. Beaks of Eagles (Holland) 8. Susie Cincinnati (15 Big Ones) 9. Honkin Down the Highway (Love You) 10. Come and Go With Me (MIU) 11. Lady Lynda (LA) 12. Santa Ana Winds (KTSA) 13. California Dreamin' (Single / Made in USA) 14. A Postcard from CA (Postcard) 15. From There to Back Again (TWGMTR)
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Apr 2, 2021 20:53:09 GMT
The Beach Boys - Winds Of Change
01 Winds Of Change 02 Santa Ana Winds 03 Full Sail 04 Sail On Sailor 05 California Saga: California 06 Cool, Cool Water 07 Lonely Sea 08 'Til I Die 09 Diamond Head 10 With Me Tonight 11 Can't Wait Too Long 12 Daybreak Over The Ocean 13 Sloop John B 14 Where I Belong 15 Cuddle Up
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