Brian Wilson obviously had no control over his life during the late 80's. He was so uninspired during this period to create a lame rap song. If that wasn't bad enough, he samples all his 60's Beach Boys hits over beats that sounds like a poor man's Beastie Boys. The result was the track "Smart Girls", in which he debunks his past interest in California surfer babes, and instead vouches for girls with more "imagination". Wilson's reasoning? " Big brains are awesome, dude ". Yes, that's a lyric to the song. "Smart [...]
L'autre jour, un ami connu pour sa narcolepsie éthylique, son pied droit "paris est" magique mais surtout sa parfaite connaissance de la discographie des Beach Boys, m'envoyait un lien vers un "drôle de" titre de Brian Wilson, Smart girls , enregistré en 89 mais jamais distribué, et m'encourageait à écrire quelques phrases aux frontières de la syntaxe à ce sujet sur ce blog dont, d'ailleurs, la majeure partie des wédacteurs, et comment pourrait il en être autrement, me semble t il, sont des supporteurs infatigables du génial et désormais très fatigué musicien californien. Grande fut ma surprise, [...]
DOWNLOAD: Brian Wilson - Heroes and Villains (MP3) Fleisher, Scorcese, Diana Ross, Brian Wilson, Steve Martin & Bushs Tickets go on sale this morning for the new Van Halen shows . A second Aretha Franklin show at Radio City goes on sale today too . Brian Wilson, Steven Martin, Martin Scorcese & George Bush ? Weird, but true . Berkeley Place lists [...]
via WFMU's "Beware of the Blog" "In 1989 Brian Wilson began recording "Sweet Insanity", an album that was due for release in 1991 but was rejected by Sire. The album was made during one of Wilson's supposedly troubled periods when he was under the influence of psychologist Eugene Landy (who was listed as a co-producer) and included guest performances by both Bob Dylan and Weird Al Yankovic. The album has long been available as a bootleg and four of the songs were subsequently released on later albums. [...]
In 1989 Brian Wilson began recording "Sweet Insanity", an album that was due for release in 1991 but was rejected by Sire. The album was made during one of Wilson's supposedly troubled periods when he was under the influence of psychologist Eugene Landy (who was listed as a co-producer) and included guest performances by both Bob Dylan and Weird Al Yankovic. The album has long been available as a bootleg and four of the songs were subsequently released on later albums. "Smart Girls" was produced by Matt Dike , the co-founder of Delicious Vinyl who was [...]
In the U.S. tomorrow is Thanksgiving - a national holiday born out of a desire to give thanks for the things one has at the end of the harvest season. But that was a long time ago. Today, the holiday is most often celebrated as a time for Americans to get together with family and loved ones to communally take part in two very American activities: watching TV (most often this includes parades and football ) and eating (staples of any good, proper, Thanksgiving feast include turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce, [...]
At some point in the '70s, everything changed for Brian Wilson. The music that he'd made for The Beach Boys (whatever its level of weirdness) was recognizable as made within the pop tradition by human beings. The music that Brian has made since— Love You , Mount Vernon and Fairway , and his solo recordings in particular—sounds like either it was written by aliens from the Andromeda Galaxy, or it's a 2465AD revival of late 20th century pop music. By aliens. And yet, on paper, it is far less weird. Very little cut/paste modular pop. Evidence [...]
THE HAPPY GOODMAN FAMILY "The Lighthouse" 1970s Rusty Goodman was the Brian Wilson of country gospel. This is a rare public appearance after he'd retreated to the studio. This sounds like just another rewrite of "Funny How Time Slips Away" until the harmony kicks in around 2:40. Hang on for the payoff.
Consider This An Invitation To Our Angst-er Nation by Tess Lynch Goddamn you half-Japanese bots ; an Aerogarden . "They Took A Vote And Said No" - Sunset Rubdown ( mp3 ) This week has been bad vibesville. There was the neutral stuff, of course, like when Victoria the surly Yalie got kicked off of ANTM9 ( spoiler link ) and the prediction that in the near future, humans [...]
Heroes season two started last night with even more questions to be answered than last season. Rather than one over-arching goal in mind, the heroes are apparently split up, separated by distance and even time. While it was a great shotgun blast of question marks to the brain, I couldn't ...
How many times have you seen this commercial over the past few weeks? It's everywhere! You have to give Apple credit for (typically) picking great songs for their iPod ads. Aside from the great music/ music video during that commercial, I doubt I'll find a video better than Feist performing on Letterman. But it's not just Feist! The white-cladded backing vocalists, when looking carefully, consist of members from Mates of State, Broken Social Scene, The New Pornographers, The National, and Grizzly Bear. It's always encouraging to see such a collaboration! Whether [...]
Ahhh Labor Day, are you here already? I guess it's time put away all my white outfits. Err, wait. I don't actually OWN any white outfits. Hmmm, so I guess I'm safe then. When I was in school we usually looked at Labor Day with dread. After all, if it was Labor Day Weekend then summer was coming to an end and school was right around the corner (when you go to school in a small town and have 'unusual' tastes in film, music & literature, you don't really look forward to going back). Well, school is long [...]
Jace over at Televisionary already recapped the season finale so eloquently, but I've been obsessing over it for 30 hours now and have some more to add - and naturally they include the use of music. Two songs make appearances that lend themselves to all sorts of theories, The Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations" and Nirvana's "Scentless Apprentice." In the flash forward Jack is driving out to the funeral parlor ( whose name is Hoffs/Drawlar - an anagram for 'flash forward ,) he's blasting Nirvana 's "Scentless Apprentice," a which [...]
They keep on talking. I keep them company. When my days run long and my nights run late I hear these voices in my head. Everyday in everyway they're there singing their praise for a brighter day, a better way, the next best thing. I have temporarily been assigned to a halogen buzzing room, lined with books penned by prophets, to write papers upon linoleum pressed tabletops. These are the
I think virtually every person who dares call his or herself a modern music snob probably agrees on one specific thing: that Mike Love may be the biggest P.o.S. to ever reach the levels of Pop Stardom he attained. Some stars are covered in smug narcissicm, some take credit for things they never did, or pretend to play instruments they don't know how to, some bite the hands that feed them, some overvalue the little talents they actually have, some are sue-happy, some become associated with ridiculous new-age therapies, and some are greedy bastards. Mike Love is not only each [...]
"... Jesus, that ear. He should donate it to The Smithsonian." – Bob Dylan "It was Pet Sounds that blew me out of the water. I love the album so much. I've just bought my kids each a copy of it for their education in life." – Paul McCartney "I think he's a truly, truly, truly great genius." – Pete Townsend "Brian Wilson is, without a doubt, a pop genius." – Eric Clapton With Pet Sounds still
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Well, it finally happened. I was finally subjected to my first live performance of the season of "Feliz Navidad," which ne'er fails to make me want to gouge my eardrums out with a knitting needle. I also was at a fancy office Christmas party on Friday night and the soul cover band kept throwing in trombone lines from Joy To The World and Sleigh Ride, etc etc etc. It brought to my attention the fact that this post is long overdue. I've got a pretty sizeable collection of " Christmas Music That Won't Drive [...]
The earliest of my memories was a surprise that I knew was on its way. My mother could only have hidden her baby belly for so long; yet, I can't remember what it was like as a small child, of nearly one, to watch my young mother's stomach stretch and bulge until it one day disappeared, and my young sister was brought home to me. Time began at that moment for me. As I sat on the edge of our brown
What do you give the Beach Boys fan who has everything? Oh, alright, apart from their own sandpit. How about a finely-crafted Brian Wilson doll ? Picturing him from his prime, in 1966. There's only 300 being made, and seventy-five will refuse to come out their box. music beach boys brian wilson
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