The realest Beach Boy to ever live

idk y this reminds me of

what an odd time....

YEP saw it in a tiny campus theatre in 2011 as a surprise screening, no one knew what was gonna be screened that night so I had no idea what to expect, but it was great stuff, def recommended

well S*** im on it ASAP dam

why didn’t dennis do more movies

he should have, it was a promising first step, very natural performance

the same theatre did a screening of Easy Rider the day after or something and I remember thinking Two Lane was WAY better

bro you’re hyping me the f*** up

Pet sounds is mixed so low on apple music, I crank up the volume then the next song on my playlist comes in and rapes my ears

yeah the best mono of ps you can find unfortunately only exists on vinyl

Dang

haha yeah i know of that, how cool! i mean “happy together” alone is really a good vibrations ripoff if we keeping it real so it’s not surprise

it was one of my fave screenings I went to at that little theatre actually, such a vibe, perfect atmosphere to accompany such a cruise-y movie, very unique tone - I can vividly remember a scene where they're just at a small gas station in the middle of nowhere and there's a light rain, s*** felt so authentic and the whole theatre was totally absorbed

only other screening I attended there that everyone loved as much was the goat Chinatown

Such a great album

woah, big mood... ok watching this TONIGHT

that is if i can find it mm

i know right? song sounds pretty ELO in hindsight

but yeh love these guys, they even made an amazing song feat the one and only françoise hardy!

speaking of movies im glad almost famous put feel flows on the front seat, carl deserves it

@RoomOnFire you would like this

@Lawdie are the ones you have on vinyls mainly the full albums you got into? or do you know a big portion of em outside of that? just wondering

I’ve heard all their albums. Everything before Today I can listen to on a compilation. Everything after Love You isn’t interesting to me

Classic movie!

that sounds about right

id say in my book l.a. album is the only worth checking out post love you if you ever get in the mood of wondering

sure there is one corny mike love song and ugh, the disco remake of here comes the night.. but the rest album has some nice brian-dennis-carl songs that are on the pair with all the other stuff they did through the rest of the 70s

like this one for example is just a pure carl penned song with angelic vocals, no dated production or gimmicky stuff of its time/era

crying at a day in the life of a tree

so beautiful and the music perfectly fits the lyric

pro environment lyrics >>>>

OH MERCY MERCY ME

rvi

what pisses me off is that there is a live bootleg of i believe the only time they played it live ever (brian on the organ and jack singing!!) and the audience is so dismissive...

here’s a great read if you’re interested, this is a post by none other than jack rieley himself about this song, we are VERY lucky he took some time to share insightful stories before his passing, may he rest in peace

Brian Wilson and I had been talking a lot about the sorry state of the planet back then. He was filled with questions and we went on for hours about it. Forests were dying, the air had turned brown, the earth's future was beginning to appear hazardous to health. When Brian first played the chords and sang the tentative melody for me, he asked what the song should be about and I suggested a single tree as metaphor for the earth; that single tree as metaphor for more than ecology. I fell in love with the chords at once and loved the swelling tension of that droned bass line; the song seemed to lend itself to the lyrical concept.

He went nuts for the lyrics when I showed them to him. Loved 'em, memorized the first verse and was singing around the house. Carl and I were positive that Brian had to sing A Day In The Life Of A Tree.

We recorded the instrumental track in a few days. On the day we were to record the lead vocal, I was with the engineer in the control room (this was in Belair, at the Bellagio house) and Brian was in the studio. He did a few warm-up takes and then, dramatically animated as was in wont, tore the headphones from his ears and exclaimed that he needed me to help him. I went out into the studio and he pleaded that he just wasn't getting the feeling that I intended with the lyric. "Show me what I'm supposed to do," he insisted, handing me the headphones as he ran to the control booth.

I did about 5 takes of the song, all except for the false-setto bit near the end. Each time I screwed up one part or another, and after each take Brian used the talkback to inform me something like, "I see what you mean. But how about the blah-blah part. Do another take so I'll know just how to do the song." And dumb me: I did another take.

It was after one of those that Brian burst from the control booth to the studio, laughing loudly, a proclamatory laugh. He rushed me like a bear, raised both arms into the air as would a victorious high school athletics coach and exclaimed that I had just done the final lead vocal!

I protested. It was turing into another BW cop-out, I suspected. But by then Carl was there too. He said Brian had told him a couple of days previous that I had to sing Tree. It had all been cooked in advance.

To my astonishment, the false-setto bit turned out easy. After Van Dyke's bit, the added voice at the end is Linda Jardine.

Reports of Brian crying, with joy or otherwise, upon hearing my vocal are bullshit.

ngl i really like don’t go near the water

this is probably the best beach boys song from the 90s you’ll ever hear that is actually not a beach boys song! elvis said this song is a tip of the cap to the beach boys and that he was listening a lot of holland and surf’s up while recording it

he even puts so tough and holland in his top 500 albums to hear (with of course pet sounds)

pretty sure he did the liner notes for the cd of holland and goes in full depth about his love for it too

i reckon you can hear their influence on him way back on the first track of his first (still best?) album:

@Elric @Noir