2008/11/30

THE FIREMAN - ELECTRIC ARGUMENTS

Gaze into the colorful canvas of Paul McCartney's side-project's latest album. Be careful, you may not want to look away.

When I first knew about The Fireman, I had no idea that it was actually a side-project by Paul McCartney and producer Youth. And when I knew about the type of music The Fireman made, I was baffled. Paul McCartney making electronic music? I later found out that he already has recorded two albums under The Fireman name: Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest (1993) and Rushes (1998). Then I found out that a third album of the same type of music was going to be released: Electric Arguments. Having never listened to the first two albums before, I thought that listening to Electric Arguments would require previous ear-training from the other albums to get used to the fact that this was going to be Paul McCartney playing a type of music I was not used to listening to him play. But after giving Electric Arguments a spin, any previous misconceptions about what Paul McCartney’s music should sound like came tumbling down.

Electric Arguments is a feast for the ears. It’s a brilliant ...

(2008 Nov 11 /Aaron Mayagoitia)
http://www.411mania.com/music/album_reviews/91274

GOOD VIBRATIONS

Beach Boys’ Mike Love has fond memories of Worcester

Wouldn’t it be nice if we were younger? You won’t hear Mike Love singing such a lament, although he does use phrases such as “back in the day” and “those were the days” once in a while. Instead, Love, 67, a founding member of the Beach Boys, looks back with satisfaction at the group’s successes and enjoys the fact that people are still playing Beach Boys songs to this day.

The other day he noted that his daughter, Ambha, had come home from her fourth-grade class where the children had voted the Beach Boys number “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” (which continues “if we were older and we wouldn’t have to wait so long”) favorite class song.

(2008 Nov 30 / Richard Duckett)
http://www.telegram.com/article/20081130/NEWS/811300437/1110

2008/11/29

Behind The Sounds: Wouldn't It Be Nice

1966

Written by: Brian Wilson,Tony Asher,Mike Love



http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=ofByti7A4uM&fmt=18

POP SURF CULTURE: BOOK REVIEW

West Hollywood, California – “Pop Surf Culture” by Santa Monica Press is most certainly a one-of-a-kind, splendidly crafted full-color book.

The authors hypothesize that “The majesty of the vast Pacific Ocean, from the perspective of the Greater Los Angeles area, is truly the source of all inspiration in pop surf culture.”


(2008 nov 27 / Robert Reincke)

2008/11/25

RIVERS CUOMO (WEEZER)

will be releasing a Beach Boys cover song, "Don't Worry Baby" on his new album.

(2008 nov 25)
http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/music/1304419,SHO-Sunday-spins30.article

GUY PEELLAERT, A BELGIAN PAINTER DIED

Artist pushed envelop of taste and sensibilities with flamboyant rockers

GUY LOUIS PEELLAERT BELGIAN PAINTER 6-4-1934 — 17-11-2008

Guy Peellaert, a Belgian painter-collagist whose fervid imagination produced surreal album covers for John Lennon, David Bowie and Mick Jagger, as well as images for a seminal book about rock mythology, Rock Dreams, has died of kidney cancer in Paris. He was 74
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2008/11/22

WILSON FINDS HIS PLACE IN THE SUN

BRIAN WILSON: Orpheum Theatre, Wednesday night
...
The Brian Wilson diehards were abuzz during intermission. They couldn't believe how great the former Beach Boys mastermind sounded and acted during his first set.
"I haven't seen him engaged like this in a long time," someone marveled in the lobby.
"I know, and he sounds really natural tonight, too," his friend said


(2008 nov 22 / James Reed)