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  • evenflow82
    evenflow82 Posts: 3,892
    edited May 2012
    Any 'Smile' fans in this thread. Surf's Up always blows my mind

    Solo version in 1966
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-ZjIdyWu-U

    Final studio recording from the smile sessions 1967
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ2OKoLpNBM

    The fact that Pet Sounds and Smile were set to be released in the same year shows what a creative streak Brian Wilson was on in 1966.
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  • Newch91
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    Haven't heard "Smile" yet.
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  • evenflow82
    evenflow82 Posts: 3,892
    Newch91 wrote:
    Haven't heard "Smile" yet.

    Go out and buy the two disc set! The most famous unreleased album ever!
    http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2 ... sions.html
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  • SVRDhand13
    SVRDhand13 Posts: 27,020
    Pet Sounds and Smile are both incredible. I can live without most of the Boys other stuff.
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  • Newch91
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    evenflow82 wrote:
    Newch91 wrote:
    Haven't heard "Smile" yet.

    Go out and buy the two disc set! The most famous unreleased album ever!
    http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2 ... sions.html
    I agree.
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  • FrankY59
    FrankY59 Posts: 1,051
    edited January 2019
    I like this album alot as I just recently discovered it.  I cant imagine hearing this for the first time when it was released...genius.
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  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    The Beatles tried so hard to outdo this but never came close.

    And I love Sgt. Pepper. 

    The problem was that you could tell that they were trying, whereas Pet Sounds sounds almost effortless. 
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,843
    It's almost as though that album was made outside of time.  It still seems ahead of its time.  I wonder if they tacked on Sloop John B to somehow anchor the record in reality? 

    And the way it ends- first with the heart wrenching "Caroline, No", and then that little soundscape of train fading in the distance and the dog barking that to me always pulls me out from the brink of despair.  Pure genius.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • cp3iverson
    cp3iverson Posts: 8,702
    edited January 2019
    Whatever was going on with Brian Wilson during that time resulted IMO with the most creative pop music of the 20th century

    listen to what would have been the followup to Pet Sounds before it all got too much for Brian....
    I always throw this song on my Pet Sounds mixes because its the same year and same genius style

    ”Surf’s Up”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ2OKoLpNBM&app=desktop&persist_app=1

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  • cp3iverson
    cp3iverson Posts: 8,702
    evenflow82 said:
    Any 'Smile' fans in this thread. Surf's Up always blows my mind

    Solo version in 1966
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-ZjIdyWu-U

    Final studio recording from the smile sessions 1967
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ2OKoLpNBM

    The fact that Pet Sounds and Smile were set to be released in the same year shows what a creative streak Brian Wilson was on in 1966.

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,843
    cp3iverson said:
    Whatever was going on with Brian Wilson during that time resulted IMO with the most creative pop music of the 20th century

    listen to what would have been the followup to Pet Sounds before it all got too much for Brian....
    I always throw this song on my Pet Sounds mixes because its the same year and same genius style

    ”Surf’s Up”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ2OKoLpNBM&app=desktop&persist_app=1

    That's a great point, cp3.  "Surf's Up" is right up their with the quality of the Pet Sounds Material.  That song as well as "'Til I Die" and a few others make the album Surf's Up worth having (and worth the extra bucks to get the fine quality Analogue Productions vinyl version).
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • cp3iverson
    cp3iverson Posts: 8,702
    Oh man yes. Good call, Brian.   Til I Die is unbelievable
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 51,024
    edited January 2019
    I don't like this album, or any Beach Boys album. Except "God Only Knows" - that is a really great song. However, I did gain a newfound respect and appreciation for this album after watching that newish biopic about them and Brian Wilson, with Paul Dano (who is the best). The way that film showed the creative process that went into the album definitely expanded my view of the music... It didn't make me like listening to most of it any more at all, unfortunately, but still...
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  • cp3iverson
    cp3iverson Posts: 8,702
     I actually avoided listening to the song Surf’s Up for years because i figured it was another surfing/cars song.  :lol:  never knew it was a sarcastic title
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,843
    PJ_Soul said:
    I don't like this album, or any Beach Boys album. Except "God Only Knows" - that is a really great song. However, I did gain a newfound respect and appreciation for this album after watching that newish biopic about them and Brian Wilson, with Paul Dano (who is the best). The way that film showed the creative process that went into the album definitely expanded my view of the music... It didn't make me like listening to most of it any more at all, unfortunately, but still...
    "I don't like this album, or any Beach Boys album."

    How totally un-American!

    Oh, that's right, you're not American.  :lol: 

    Yeah, "Love & Mercy" is a great film.  Dano was awesome.  But as much as I like John Cusak in several films, he was just NOT the right actor for the part of the older Brian Wilson.  A better match would have made this movie incredible.

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,843
    PJ_Soul ,  what about this song?


    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 51,024
    edited January 2019
    brianlux said:
    PJ_Soul ,  what about this song?


    That's really not doing anything for me Brian... Sounds kind of like some kind of TV theme song? Can't think of which one, but it's on the tip of my tongue....
    Post edited by PJ_Soul on
    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,843
    PJ_Soul said:
    brianlux said:
    PJ_Soul ,  what about this song?


    That's really not doing anything for me Brian... Sounds kind of like some kind of TV theme song? Can't think of which one, but it's on the tip of my tongue....
    :bawling:
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 51,024
    brianlux said:
    PJ_Soul said:
    brianlux said:
    PJ_Soul ,  what about this song?


    That's really not doing anything for me Brian... Sounds kind of like some kind of TV theme song? Can't think of which one, but it's on the tip of my tongue....
    :bawling:
    Ah, I just remembered. It reminds me of the Maude theme song. :lol:
    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,843
    PJ_Soul said:
    brianlux said:
    PJ_Soul said:
    brianlux said:
    PJ_Soul ,  what about this song?


    That's really not doing anything for me Brian... Sounds kind of like some kind of TV theme song? Can't think of which one, but it's on the tip of my tongue....
    :bawling:
    Ah, I just remembered. It reminds me of the Maude theme song. :lol:
    Oh... my... GAWD!  Well, OK then.  :lol:

    It's one of my favorite "mature" Beach Boys" songs.  Early Beach Boys stuff like "Don't Worry, Baby" and "In My Room" gave me something to hang on to as per-adolescent worries started creeping into my life.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

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