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Post by beachboystalkmatt on Aug 10, 2023 18:17:56 GMT
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Post by Kapitan on Aug 10, 2023 19:00:20 GMT
Somehow I missed that you guys did a version of "Kokomo." It's really great. I think people ought to check it out if they haven't. Very inventive take on it, and it's very well done. It reminds me of Darian Sahanaja's version of "Do You Have Any Regrets," not that his and your covers are similar, but that both take a song not necessarily beloved by all Beach Boys fans in its original incarnation (though yes, obviously "Kokomo" was hugely successful...just also widely hated) and reimagine them in ways more palatable to other segments of the fan base.
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Post by beachboystalkmatt on Aug 10, 2023 23:54:51 GMT
Somehow I missed that you guys did a version of "Kokomo." It's really great. I think people ought to check it out if they haven't. Very inventive take on it, and it's very well done. It reminds me of Darian Sahanaja's version of "Do You Have Any Regrets," not that his and your covers are similar, but that both take a song not necessarily beloved by all Beach Boys fans in its original incarnation (though yes, obviously "Kokomo" was hugely successful...just also widely hated) and reimagine them in ways more palatable to other segments of the fan base. Thanks a lot! I’m pretty sure I posted it here when it came out. Also, apologies for putting this on this thread of non-Beach boys related stuff. It was a mistake!
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Aug 11, 2023 11:58:08 GMT
Nice version, guys! It sounds more like a vintage Beach Boys', Brian Wilson-produced version...if there would've been one.
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Post by Kapitan on Aug 27, 2023 15:45:57 GMT
It's very exciting to me that, corresponding with the (relatively) wide release of a long-awaited (long in-progress...) documentary about them, the Elephant 6 Recording Collective is in the news again! You may know, this was a mostly Athens, Georgia-based scene of indie musicians from the mid-90s or so through the turn of the century. What makes it relevant is, while the bands were a diverse (and incestuous) collection of musicians, they tended to have a few shared influences many of us can appreciate: the Beatles, the Beach Boys, the Kinks, Os Mutantes, Sid Barrett-era Pink Floyd chief among them, though different bands strayed more into folk, into psych, into pop, into punk, or whatever. The central groups of the so-called collective were the Apples In Stereo, Neutral Milk Hotel, Olivia Tremor Control, and Elf Power. Among the more popular satellites were Of Montreal, Beulah, Great Lakes, Hawk and a Hacksaw. There are dozens more. For me, they were my entre back into popular--or at least contemporary--music in the very late '90s. I'd spent five years or so by that time deep in the greats of previous decades (including some of those classics mentioned above). Realizing that the whole world wasn't just Beck, Sheryl Crow, Hootie & the Blowfish, Radiohead, and the irrepressible Sean "Puff Daddy/P Diddy" Combs, and that there were new, less-corporate acts into the same music I was, was a wonderful revelation. So seeing mention of the new doc in Pitchfork and in the New York Times the past few days has been fun. (E6 is precisely the sort of thing that Pitchfork was born and grew up on, by the way. That sort of DIY indie rock was their bread and butter before being purchased by Conde Nast and going absurdly corporate in the past 5-10 years. I'm almost surprised they wrote something positive about the new doc.)
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