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Post by kds on Jul 25, 2022 18:31:13 GMT
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Post by Kapitan on Jul 25, 2022 18:52:48 GMT
I guess Forbes magazine just isn't the music journalism hotbed one might have thought!
Funny reading those Q&A. Some really good and cool tidbits, and then some head scratchers. Like what songs they're most excited to introduce people to? "Deschanel: And "Melt Away." "Melt Away" is a solo Brian song. But it's such a great song, that's from This Whole World."
Now, considering she just told an anecdote about having gone to buy Sunflower on vinyl when she was 19, she surely knows that This Whole World is a song on that album, not an album. In fact, considering the other errors in the article (e.g., the writer thinking Do It Again is a later-era solo song; or spelling NPP as No Peer Pressure), I wonder whether she actually said something like "But it's such a great song, that or "This Whole World," or something, and for the writer, not knowing as much about it all screwed up?
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Post by kds on Jul 25, 2022 19:00:43 GMT
I guess Forbes magazine just isn't the music journalism hotbed one might have thought!
Funny reading those Q&A. Some really good and cool tidbits, and then some head scratchers. Like what songs they're most excited to introduce people to? "Deschanel: And "Melt Away." "Melt Away" is a solo Brian song. But it's such a great song, that's from This Whole World."
Now, considering she just told an anecdote about having gone to buy Sunflower on vinyl when she was 19, she surely knows that This Whole World is a song on that album, not an album. In fact, considering the other errors in the article (e.g., the writer thinking Do It Again is a later-era solo song; or spelling NPP as No Peer Pressure), I wonder whether she actually said something like "But it's such a great song, that or "This Whole World," or something, and for the writer, not knowing as much about it all screwed up?
Since Zooey is a pretty big BB/BW fan, I'm thinking that the writer made that error / misquote. Granted, thanks to various BB boards I've been on, I've probably read more BB related blurbs over the last several years than about any other band. But, it seems like no other band / artist has more factual errors printed about them than The Beach Boys.
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Post by Kapitan on Jul 26, 2022 18:20:27 GMT
Animated video for their WIBN
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Post by Emdeeh on Jul 26, 2022 18:31:55 GMT
Thanks for the link. I like the video and the stop motion origami style. Sure beats the motion sickness-inducing animation of their other videos. "Wouldn't It Be Mice"
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Post by Kapitan on Jul 27, 2022 11:35:18 GMT
Pitchfork gives the Wilson tribute album a 5.6, which is funny in that it would have been right up their alley 15 years ago or so. Literally today, conversely, they've instead decided to give higher rating to Flo Milli's You Still Here, Ho? (7.3), noting its poetic lines like “Put that pussy on his face/No face, no case" and “Please don’t bark cause Milli bite back.”
While I more or less agree with their rating, I can't disagree more about how they get there. They say "Deschanel and Ward obviously love all the details that go into Wilson’s arrangements, and they take pains to get everything just so: the sitar and piano flourishes on “Kiss Me Baby,” the sobbing guitar on “Don’t Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder),” the revving hot-rod rhythm that drives “Do It Again” (which features newly recorded vocals by Wilson himself). But it’s all a little too tidy, a little too perfect. "
But the details on this album--including the ones they mention-- aren't "the details that go into Wilson's arrangements." Obviously the original "Kiss Me Baby" didn't have sitar; there wasn't a "sobbing guitar" on "Don't Talk," etc. And throughout my listen to the album, I kept thinking how surprisingly sloppy it was: it sounds like a home recording. (And I think kds had linked to something in which they did say it was a covid project.)
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Post by kds on Jul 27, 2022 12:16:46 GMT
Pitchfork gives the Wilson tribute album a 5.6, which is funny in that it would have been right up their alley 15 years ago or so. Literally today, conversely, they've instead decided to give higher rating to Flo Milli's You Still Here, Ho? (7.3), noting its poetic lines like “Put that pussy on his face/No face, no case" and “Please don’t bark cause Milli bite back.”
While I more or less agree with their rating, I can't disagree more about how they get there. They say "Deschanel and Ward obviously love all the details that go into Wilson’s arrangements, and they take pains to get everything just so: the sitar and piano flourishes on “Kiss Me Baby,” the sobbing guitar on “Don’t Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder),” the revving hot-rod rhythm that drives “Do It Again” (which features newly recorded vocals by Wilson himself). But it’s all a little too tidy, a little too perfect. "
But the details on this album--including the ones they mention-- aren't "the details that go into Wilson's arrangements." Obviously the original "Kiss Me Baby" didn't have sitar; there wasn't a "sobbing guitar" on "Don't Talk," etc. And throughout my listen to the album, I kept thinking how surprisingly sloppy it was: it sounds like a home recording. (And I think kds had linked to something in which they did say it was a covid project.)
And yet, there are actually BB fans who get up in arms about the lyrics to California Girls. Man. It's definitely not perfect sounding. In addition to the arrangements, even some of the vocals sound like they could've been cleaned up a bit.
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Post by Kapitan on Aug 2, 2022 19:54:40 GMT
Here's an interview with The New Yorker (la-de-da! Fancy!). There are actually some pretty interesting things in this one about how they approached the album, recording, music in general, etc.
Also, I saw this on BW's Twitter account. Because the online world (present company excluded) is so full of the worst people, I'll note that one commenter felt the need to chime in that this account isn't really run by Brian (no shit, Sherlock), and he'll be unfollowing, and complaining that the BW camp doesn't care about the UK due to some canceled shows/tours. Seems like a pleasant fellow.
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Post by Kapitan on Aug 8, 2022 17:10:20 GMT
Another positive review of the She & Him covers album. Though I'd say too positive. For example, this? Hard disagree...
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