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What is your favorite song written by Brian Wilson?
I will pick something unconventional and go with "Surf's Up."
I will pick something unconventional and go with "Surf's Up."
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Re: Favorite BW Song?
Tue, March 29, 2005 - 9:27 PMHey there, new to this but am surprised there aren't more BW fans here!!!
Yeah, would have to agree with "Surf's Up" being my favourite, especially after seeing him play it at his Melbourne show.
Off the solo albums, current fave would have to be "Melt Away". -
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Tue, March 29, 2005 - 9:34 PMWelcome, Rob.
I just started this tribe a few days ago. I expect the fans to come flooding in any time now.
"Melt Away". I forgot about that one. I'll go with that one too. -
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Re: Favorite BW Song?
Tue, March 29, 2005 - 10:12 PMWell, since I have already outed myself privately to The Chuckster that I am not as familiar with BW as I should be, I will say I really, really like Frank Black's cover of Hang On To Your Ego, and another song on the same EP that sounds like it should've been written by BW named Surf Epic. -
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Tue, March 29, 2005 - 11:40 PMAnother BW cover you should listen out for is "Still I Dream Of It" by Ed Harcourt, I think it's on the Watching The Sun Come Up EP, ace cover! -
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Wed, March 30, 2005 - 8:09 PMIn My Room is a good one.
The sad thing is that 10 years later he would stay in his room for about 2 years. Stayed in bed most of the time.
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Wed, March 30, 2005 - 8:13 PMOne interesting cover is "Do It Again" by Wall of Voodoo.
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Wed, May 4, 2005 - 9:52 AMnot that controversial, cos its probably my favourite too - often played in conjunction with Till I Die of course ...
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Surf's Up Re: Favorite BW Song?
Wed, July 27, 2005 - 5:19 AMThe words of "Surf's Up" were written by Van Dyke Parks
and I saw him in a documentary saying the the words were not meant to make sense.
It occurs on SMiLE at the end of the Generations Suite.
I also like "Feel Flows", which also occurs on the "Surf's Up" album along with "Till I Die".
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Re: Surf's Up Re: Favorite BW Song?
Wed, July 27, 2005 - 6:13 AM> The words of "Surf's Up" were written by Van Dyke Parks
and I saw him in a documentary saying the the words were not meant to make sense.
not literal sense perhaps, but in a more poetic, metaphorical, symbolic, abstract sorta way, it makes a lotta sense to me ;-)
Seconded on Feel Flows - Carl at his mystical, psychedelic best. And featured as the closing track on the wonderful movie "Almost Famous".
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Wed, July 27, 2005 - 8:17 AMFeel Flows sounded amazing from the movie theater sound system at the end of Almost Famous. I sat through the credits to hear the whole thing. -
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Re: Surf's Up Re: Favorite BW Song?
Wed, July 27, 2005 - 8:52 AMme too Chuck
i understand that Surfs Up and Sunflower are available on some kinda 5.1 esque clever sound system, but being a bit slow when it comes to technical matters, im yet to experience this.
Certainly some amazing production skills went into these albums tho.
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Fri, July 29, 2005 - 6:04 AMThe Sunflower/Surf's Up CD is my favourite of the two-album CDs that I've got. Also it was the only one available at the Royal Festival Hall record store when I went to see Brian Wilson perform SMiLE on the second night.
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Sat, August 27, 2005 - 11:32 PMi've heard some of the Beach Boys classics over the years, and some of Brian Wilson's solo work. however, i checked out Smile from the library recently, and haven't been able to stop listenning to it on an almost daily basis!
i would say that any song from this CD is my favorite, but that Vege-Tables is definitely high on my list of favorites, for, among other reasons, it's hyperbolic goofy wonderfulness and absolute refusal to conform to expectations, especially of supposed coolness or hipness. -
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SMiLE Re: Favorite BW Song?
Wed, August 31, 2005 - 5:01 AMWhen I bought SMiLE eleven months ago. I played it almost daily for at least two months. I liked no part better than the whole.
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Re: SMiLE Re: Favorite BW Song?
Wed, August 31, 2005 - 1:33 PMi would have to say love and mercy...i love that bit in the "i just wasn't made for these times" documentary when he talks about his chest hurting and feeling like it was going to burst, so he sat at the piano and wrote that song.
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Fri, September 23, 2005 - 9:32 PMSmile is a good one to listen from beginning to end. It's not the sort of CD that would go well in a random mix with 50 other CDs worth of music stuffed into an iPod. -
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Mon, September 26, 2005 - 5:22 AM"Smile is a good one to listen from beginning to end. It's not the sort of CD that would go well in a random mix with 50 other CDs worth of music stuffed into an iPod."
Nor one that a radio play of one track would do justice to.
No part is better than the whole.
Karl
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Fri, September 9, 2005 - 2:13 PMI with you there, d, on Vegetables.
Though I'm also a fan of Good Vibration if only because it is a kick to do just the low end of the song at karaoke!
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Re: Favorite BW Song?
Thu, March 29, 2007 - 11:52 AMNot in order (how could I??)
"Surf's Up"
"Cabin Essence"
"Heros and Villians"
"Hang On To Your Ego"
"Busy Doing Nothing"
"Vegetables"
