The Beach Boys Band • Page 2

yesss one of my favourite eras. literal goldmine

 

"(Wouldn’t It Be Nice To) Live Again (extended 2019 – previously unreleased) (6:50)"

...this will be the actual death of me. fuck

 

I'm listening to Smile Sessions for the first time. I think?

 

Honestly as brilliant as advertised.

 

Yeah it's great. I've heard the highlights on the various albums they wound up on, but I don't think I sat down with this one for whatever reason

 

1. God Only Knows
2. In My Room
3. Don’t Worry Baby
4. California Girls
5. The Warmth of the Sun
6. Wouldn’t It Be Nice
7. You Still Believe in Me
8. I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times
9. Sketches of Smile: Our Prayer/Heroes and Villains/Wonderful/Surfs Up
10. Surf’s Up
11. Friends
12. Till I Die
13. Love and Mercy
14. Mt Vernon Farewell
15. Good Vibrations

 

whoa I didn't realise McCartney and Brian were so close in age lol

 

man Holland is such a good album. Carl's vocal on The Trader is unbelievable

 

Sad to hear. Never easy, and hope the family are okay despite the news.

 

poor guy, I hope he's somewhat at peace

 

been listening to the Feel Flows box so much recently, just an insane amount of phenomenal music on there. sucks that Dennis and Carl weren't around long enough to get their flowers for the incredible work they were doing in those years

 

I was just relistening to Smiley Smile and then the more recent Smile Sessions the other day - purest perfection. Man I feel terrible for him.

 

This was posted in the entertainment forum, but this is coming to Disney+ in a few weeks

 

Watched the Beach Boys doc. Pretty good. I like that they dive into The Wrecking Crew (Phil Spector's studio session musicians) and we get to learn about them.

I learned in this that Dennis Wilson was friends with Charlie Mansion and was the one introduced him to a lot of music industry people.

 

Brian and Carl produced a whole ass Manson album that none of us will ever hear. that's just the tip of the iceberg of wild dark Beach Boys shit too

 

The doc just talks about CM working with them on Never Learn Not to Love, and Mike Love saying he only met Manson once and didn't like him. They said Dennis introduced Manson to producer Terry Melcher (who Manson thought Sharon Tate's house belonged to), and Dennis had guilt about that the rest of his life.

 

haven't caught the doc yet, that definitely lines up with what I've read though, although I automatically distrust anything Mike Love says without corroboration lmao. I'm not too surprised if the doc glossed over some of the really dark shit like Bruce witnessing a murder at some record label office that one time. it doesn't all paint them in the best light lol

 

One criticism is post-Smiley Smile stuff was very very simplified in this. You guys that are fans of the late 60's/early 70's era Beach Boys might not be happy with how much of a footnote the 67-74 albums are in this.

Doc is like: Murray sells the publishing, Brian started getting worse mentally and takes a backseat, Brian gave the keys to the band to Carl for Wild Honey, they tried experimenting with new sounds and adding new members but fell off, Endless Summer came out and reinvigorated their career, they started selling out arenas, later they sued eachother, Brian/Al/Mike are friendly with eachother now though. *end doc*

 

can't say I'm surprised but that's pretty disappointing lol. Sunflower/Surf's Up era is honestly as a collective whole their most creative time and it's full of great stories, but none of the songs on them are Good Vibrations so they'll always get glossed over. shit sucks man

 

I like the part about the Smile sessions where Mike Love is reading the lyrics to Surf's Up and is like "Hung velvet overtaken me, dim chandelier awaken me to a song dissolved in the dawn? What does that even mean??" and Van Dyke Parks who co-wrote it has to explain the concept of abstract poetry to him lol

 

It is crazy how good Surf’s Up is and also how bad “Student Demonstration Time” is