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Re: Where are you from? [Smiley Smile Message Board]

Posted: 16 Jul 2008 04:56 AM CDT

A small town in the south of the Netherlands, between the city of Eindhoven and the Belgian border.

Re: Bruce on In Concert [Smiley Smile Message Board]

Posted: 16 Jul 2008 04:37 AM CDT

I just thought I'd bring this topic back up. I'd like to see that 1973 Brian photo too. Wink

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Re: Brian's New Album Cover [Smiley Smile Message Board]

Posted: 16 Jul 2008 02:16 AM CDT

Yes, SMiLE looks really like a washing powder box for extra white results. Cheesy

Here's the single:

Re: Brian in 81 and 82 [Smiley Smile Message Board]

Posted: 16 Jul 2008 01:56 AM CDT

Sorry to interrupt, but I was just wondering if the the version of "Sweetie" with Mike and Al has surfaced, or if its just known of? Thanks guys, its a pretty good song.

Also, did "Sweetie" then become "Love Ya"? It definitely sounds like it. And then I'm pretty sure it was considered for "The Wilsons" album. I'm really not sure. Anyways, whats the deal with this song.

Ha, a lot of time spent on a song thats not exactly Brian's top composition.

Re: Brian's New Album Cover [Smiley Smile Message Board]

Posted: 16 Jul 2008 01:45 AM CDT

The whole gallery.
I don't know, it's not the worst BW solo cover by a long shot.

Re: Brian's New Album Cover [Smiley Smile Message Board]

Posted: 16 Jul 2008 01:37 AM CDT

Basically it's just ugly, but at the same time I love how it looks so sunny and retro. So I like it. Even though it looks like a design for on an oilcloth.

Re: Lowest point in the BB career? [Smiley Smile Message Board]

Posted: 16 Jul 2008 01:37 AM CDT

Good heavens, if this is a response to my post, I thought my whole point was that Mike's writing didn't become completely worthless until AFTER "Kokomo." God knows I'm not a Mike fan but my point being after he had a #1 hit the desire to repeat the achievement poisoned everything he wrote from that moment onward.
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Simple misunderstanding. I just disagree on point. I don't think it's worth slamming Mike/Brian/Carl/Al/Bruce (Dennis gets a pass because he never wrote anything bad) at all really for anything post 1976. They'd already given us more great stuff for a longer period of time that pretty much anyone else. Life is complicated and these guys are proof if there ever was any. So what if they did some silly stuff as middle-aged guys in the 80s!

Let them live in peace.

Re: Brian's New Album Cover [Smiley Smile Message Board]

Posted: 16 Jul 2008 12:43 AM CDT

Quote from: brianc on July 14, 2008, 05:22:58 PM

What are you talking about?

The "Smile" album art is incredible, and Brian was totally involved with the creation behind that. Besides which, I think the album sleeve for the "Surfin' U.S.A." LP is amazing (definitively inspiring a bevy of imitations in 1963). The "All Summer Long" album cover is bossanova era perfection, as well. And what is not to like with the cover of Today!" or "Pet Sounds"? I also love the covers for "Smiley Smile," "Sunflower," "Surf's Up" and "Holland." It seems to me that Brian and/or the Beach Boys are prefectly capable of delivering a fine piece of album jacket art.

I'm astonished that anyone considers BWPS album art as good - its incredibly cheesy and utterly out of sync with the music inside, and looks as if it was designed for the supermarket shelf. I look at the BWPS cover and think of low-fat spread (margarine) or mouth freshener. The little steel engraved vignettes inside are cute, but the main logo sucks a big fat one.

Re: Lowest point in the BB career? [Smiley Smile Message Board]

Posted: 16 Jul 2008 12:26 AM CDT

The reason I dislike Kokomo (except for when Carl's vocal kicks in) is because it epitomises what had become so bad about the Beach Boys in the post Holland period. I'll call it the "Do It Again Syndrome" - The success of Do It Again in '68 showed that it was posiible to apply nostalgia and to milk the formula. Starting with It's OK on 15 Big Ones there was an unrelenting string of "Do It Again Syndrome" songs epitomised by Kona Coast, Keepin The Summer Alive and California Calling - and then the "Do It Again Syndrome" came to an ugly head with Kokomo. What made it worse was that what had become an albatross around the groups artistic neck became a bloody commercial hit! AAARRRRRHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! Angry

When I want to hear a song from that period were I can sit back and enjoy the listen then I put on Somewhere Near Japan, the last quality Beach Boys recording which was released.

Re: Brian's New Album Cover [Smiley Smile Message Board]

Posted: 16 Jul 2008 12:21 AM CDT

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Quote from: TdHabib on July 15, 2008, 12:53:14 PM

I like the album cover a good deal-whoops all over GIOMH, which was a horrible album cover from Peter Blake of all people!

I agree: that was the worst BW cover of all time, in my opinion.

Oh wait, the xmas album cover sucked, too. My eyes still hurt from that.

Ain't there at least two versions of that cover? I have a shiny one, but wasn't there the non-shiny one as well? At least it appears that way on some websites.

I agree though, the GIOMH cover sucked big time.

Re: SMiLE Song Titles [Smiley Smile Message Board]

Posted: 16 Jul 2008 12:03 AM CDT

Quote from: Bill Barnyard on July 15, 2008, 05:48:20 PM

VDP has of course stated that 'Roll Plymouth Rock' was always that song's title and never 'DYLW', although that's what's written on the original tape box. Bruce Johnston has stated previously that this track was at one point considered for inclusion on the LA Album and that he knew it then ('78/79') as 'Roll Plymouth Rock'.

Didn't it say Do You Like Worms on Brian's teleprompter during the Smile shows?

Re: Lowest point in the BB career? [Smiley Smile Message Board]

Posted: 15 Jul 2008 11:25 PM CDT

Quote from: Jonathan Blum on July 15, 2008, 09:31:14 PM

They clap more for "409" and "Barbara Ann" than "Here Today". Always have, always will.

No reason to single out "Kokomo" for that...

Cheers,
Jon Blum

That's true but I feel those songs deserve to be remembered.