What are you listening to?

[greekgeek]

Didn't know the BBQ had a cool phase until yesterday, the more you know!

 

[Numbernine]

After a conversation with @greekgeek I was reminded of the time The Beach Boys surprised the crowd and joined the Grateful Dead on stage at the Fillmore East in '71, so I've been listening to this today at the office. The Beach Boys come out around the 25 minute mark:



I love The Beach Boys and the Dead so I was really happy when I first came across this about a decade ago. It's not the most adventurous set from the Dead but it's still pretty fun. It would definitely be awesome if there were some video from the concert, but oh well.

For me, the standout is their rendition of Merle Haggard's Okie from Muskogee:

I saw them together later in the 70s at one of the early Bill Graham Day on the Green shows.

 

[Michigan Planner]

Didn't know the BBQ had a cool phase until yesterday, the more you know!

Here's probably my favorite Beach Boys track from the end of their great run from Pet Sounds up through '73.



One of the biographies I read mentioned that Van Dyke Parks came to Brian Wilson to write this song at the height (depth?) of one of his (probably very much drug-induced) mental breakdowns and Wilson wrote the whole thing in like an hour. Before that, Parks had been obsessed with the recently released Randy Newman album Sail Away and its title track and wanted something with "Sail" in the title for the next Beach Boys album so that was basically all the direction he gave Wilson.

 

[Michigan Planner]

Let's keep the Beach Boys kick going with a song from each album from Pet Sounds forward:

"God Only Knows", Pet Sounds, 1966



"Fall Breaks and Back to Winter (W. Woodpecker Symphony)", Smiley Smile, 1967



"I Was Made to Love Her", Wild Honey, 1967



"Little Bird", Friends, 1968



"Cabinessence", 20/20, 1969



"It's About Time", Sunflower, 1970

The Beach Boys - It's About Time

The 6th track of the Beach Boys' terrific album, Sunflower

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"'Til I Die", Surf's Up, 1971 (even if this isn't a list of my favorites from each album, it's impossible to pick just one to listen to from this particular album so also add "Disney Girls (1957)", "Feel Flows", and "Surf's Up" to the playlist)

The Beach Boys - 'Til I Die

"Til I Die by the Beach Boys, from the album 'Surf's Up' (1971). A personal favourite song of mine. One of Brian Wilson's most personal Beach Boys songs, ins...

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"All This is That", Carl and the Passions, 1972

All This Is That (Remastered 2012)

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupAll This Is That (Remastered 2012) · The Beach Boys50 Big Ones: Greatest Hits℗ 2012 Brother Records IncReleased o...

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"Funky Pretty", Holland, 1973

The Beach Boys - Funky Pretty (Visualizer)

Official Audio for Funky Pretty performed by The Beach Boys.Follow The Beach Boys:Facebook: www.facebook.com/thebeachboysInstagram: www.instagram.com/thebeac...

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Wild Honey, Friends, and 20/20 were pretty widely panned when those albums were released but have all had pretty positive retrospective reviews written about them. Sunflower and Surf's Up both had pretty good reviews when those ones came out but sold horribly.

There are also a bunch of random songs from singles and EPs that never showed up on any LPs and some more stuff that was from the scraped SMiLE project that was supposed to come out after Pet Sounds that are really good and worth looking into. Thankfully, over the years a lot of those songs were finally put out in various compilation albums or Brian Wilson solo projects. The 2004 Brian Wilson album Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE is definitely worth checking out as it has a lot of the stuff that was originally supposed to come out in '67 but was re-recorded from the ground up in 2004 and it turned out spectacularly.

 

[Hombre Secreto]

 

[double00]

Let's keep the Beach Boys kick going with a song from each album from Pet Sounds forward:

"God Only Knows", Pet Sounds, 1966



"Fall Breaks and Back to Winter (W. Woodpecker Symphony)", Smiley Smile, 1967



"I Was Made to Love Her", Wild Honey, 1967



"Little Bird", Friends, 1968



"Cabinessence", 20/20, 1969



"It's About Time", Sunflower, 1970

The Beach Boys - It's About Time

The 6th track of the Beach Boys' terrific album, Sunflower

www.youtube.com

"'Til I Die", Surf's Up, 1971 (even if this isn't a list of my favorites from each album, it's impossible to pick just one to listen to from this particular album so also add "Disney Girls (1957)", "Feel Flows", and "Surf's Up" to the playlist)

The Beach Boys - 'Til I Die

"Til I Die by the Beach Boys, from the album 'Surf's Up' (1971). A personal favourite song of mine. One of Brian Wilson's most personal Beach Boys songs, ins...

www.youtube.com

"All This is That", Carl and the Passions, 1972

All This Is That (Remastered 2012)

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupAll This Is That (Remastered 2012) · The Beach Boys50 Big Ones: Greatest Hits℗ 2012 Brother Records IncReleased o...

www.youtube.com

"Funky Pretty", Holland, 1973

The Beach Boys - Funky Pretty (Visualizer)

Official Audio for Funky Pretty performed by The Beach Boys.Follow The Beach Boys:Facebook: www.facebook.com/thebeachboysInstagram: www.instagram.com/thebeac...

www.youtube.com

Wild Honey, Friends, and 20/20 were pretty widely panned when those albums were released but have all had pretty positive retrospective reviews written about them. Sunflower and Surf's Up both had pretty good reviews when those ones came out but sold horribly.

There are also a bunch of random songs from singles and EPs that never showed up on any LPs and some more stuff that was from the scraped SMiLE project that was supposed to come out after Pet Sounds that are really good and worth looking into. Thankfully, over the years a lot of those songs were finally put out in various compilation albums or Brian Wilson solo projects. The 2004 Brian Wilson album Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE is definitely worth checking out as it has a lot of the stuff that was originally supposed to come out in '67 but was re-recorded from the ground up in 2004 and it turned out spectacularly.

fwiw I was made to love her was written by Stevie Wonder , the original is pretty sweet if you haven't heard it

I'll check out your playlist this evening ! love the beach boys but have skipped most of their 70s stuff so this will be fun

 

[Michigan Planner]

fwiw I was made to love her was written by Stevie Wonder , the original is pretty sweet if you haven't heard it

I'll check out your playlist this evening ! love the beach boys but have skipped most of their 70s stuff so this will be fun

The original is great too and I think the Beach Boys were pretty widely criticised at the time for their version and accused of trying to "sound Black" and Carl Wilson trying to put too much soul into it, especially having released their version just a couple months after Stevie Wonder released his. But I think it holds up pretty nicely.

IIRC, the liner notes of whatever version of this album I have on CD have interviews with Brian and Carl Wilson (the two responsible for most of the production on this one) saying how they actually wanted to record this one at Motown or Stax or FAME in Muscle Shoals but Capitol wouldn't allow them to do so. How cool would it have been to have a Beach Boys album with the Swampers playing on it? Having Hal Blaine and a few members of the Wrecking Crew isn't too bad either I guess.

 

[double00]

The original is great too and I think the Beach Boys were pretty widely criticised at the time for their version and accused of trying to "sound Black" and Carl Wilson trying to put too much soul into it, especially having released their version just a couple months after Stevie Wonder released his. But I think it holds up pretty nicely.

IIRC, the liner notes of whatever version of this album I have on CD have interviews with Brian and Carl Wilson (the two responsible for most of the production on this one) saying how they actually wanted to record this one at Motown or Stax or FAME in Muscle Shoals but Capitol wouldn't allow them to do so. How cool would it have been to have a Beach Boys album with the Swampers playing on it? Having Hal Blaine and a few members of the Wrecking Crew isn't too bad either I guess.

it's the funk bros benjamin and jamerson on the Motown original !

a lot of great studio talent in those days . imho it's cool that there were so many contemporaneous covers happening back then , I think the criticism is a bit unfortunate .

speaking of swampers last month my kiddo's drum instructor gave him Mustang Sally to work over . love those stax guys

 

[Omega Male]

 

[GeneralEmployer]

 

[Michigan Planner]

^ Watching that video and doing some math, I realize I am about the same as as Herb Alpert probably was when that was filmed. I should have stuck with the trumpet past the first few months of 5th grade band. Maybe I would be at least half as cool as he was there at the same age!

Also, AIB Alpert:
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[Omega Male]

 

[double00]

^ Watching that video and doing some math, I realize I am about the same as as Herb Alpert probably was when that was filmed. I should have stuck with the trumpet past the first few months of 5th grade band. Maybe I would be at least half as cool as he was there at the same age!

Also, AIB Alpert:
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fun fact : Flea was a trumpet prodigy and went to the same school as herb alpert

 

[Omega Male]

 

[Michigan Planner]

A buddy just texted me something about Tim Walz being a big fan of Hüsker Dü and the Replacements and I responded that he's probably a big Hold Steady fan too because he looks like he would be and, you know, he's gotta keep showing love to that Twin Cities music scene (though the Hold Steady claim to be a Brooklyn band and he instantly found this and sent it back to me:

😅

So now I've got to go back and listen to some Hold Steady. I'll start here: