2011/08/31

The Beach Boys/Dennis Wilson - Cabinessence/Truck Drivin' Man

1966






Truck drivin' man do what you can
High-tail your load off the road
Out of night-life, I'm a gas man

I don't believe I gotta grieve
I'm out of luck
With a buck and a booth
Catchin' on to the truth
In the vast* past, last gasp

Right in the dust, trust that you must
Catch as catch can

(*sung as 'van')

Phil Spector Presents The Phillies Album Collection [7 cd Box]

-> amazon.com

PHIL SPECTOR PRESENTS THE PHILLES ALBUM COLLECTION

CD One – THE CRYSTALS TWIST UPTOWN by The Crystals (Philles PHLP-4000, originally issued 1962)

CD Two – HE’S A REBEL by The Crystals (Philles PHLP-4001, originally issued 1963)

CD Three – ZIP-A DEE-DOO-DAH by Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans (Philles PHLP-4002, originally issued 1963

CD Four – THE CRYSTALS SING THE GREATEST HITS, VOLUME 1 by The Crystals PHLP-4003, originally issued 1963)

CD Five – PHILLES RECORDS PRESENTS TODAY’S HITS by Various Artists (PHLP-4004, originally issued 1963)

CD Six – PRESENTING THE FABULOUS RONETTES FEATURING VERONICA by The Ronettes (PHLP-4006, originally issued 1964)

Bonus CD Seven – PHIL’S FLIPSIDES by The Phil Spector Wall of Sound

Check out this article for all tracks at legacyrecordings.com
(note there is no mention if these are mono or stereo, but there have been stereo vinyl versions of these albums in the past)

Article mentions also another 2CD set The Essential Phil Spector

2011/08/30

M, L or XL?

sept 2011 -> merchdirect.com

Press Release: THE BEACH BOYS’ LEGENDARY ‘SMiLE’ ALBUM SESSIONS TO BE RELEASED NOVEMBER 1 BY CAPITOL/EMI -- ART AND TRACKLISTS UNVEILED


August 30, 2011 -> brianwilson.com

Never-Before-Released Original 1966-’67 Album Sessions Compiled for 2CD and Digital Packages and Deluxe, Expanded Box Set; Special Packages to be Available Exclusively from TheBeachBoys.com

Official Beach Boys Music Videos to be Crowdsourced via
Tongal’s First-Ever Music Video Initiative

"The most famous unfinished album in rock & roll history…” – Rolling Stone

Hollywood, California – August 30, 2011 – With the full participation of original Beach Boys Al Jardine, Mike Love, and Brian Wilson, Capitol/EMI has, for the first time, collected and compiled the band’s legendary 1966-’67 sessions for the never-completed SMiLE album

2011/08/27

It's on AMAZON (with tracklist of the 2cd version)

-> amazon.com

Disc: 1
1. Our Prayer
2. Gee
3. Heroes And Villains
4. Do You Like Worms (Roll Plymouth Rock)
5. I'm In Great Shape
6. Barnyard
7. My Only Sunshine (The Old Master Painter / You Are My Sunshine)
8. Cabin Essence
9. Wonderful
10. Look (Song For Children)
11. Child Is Father Of The Man
12. Surf's Up
13. I Wanna Be Around / Workshop
14. Vega-Tables
15. Holidays
16. Wind Chimes
17. The Elements: Fire (Mrs. O'Leary's Cow)
18. Love To Say Dada
19. Good Vibrations
20. You're Welcome (Bonus Track)
21. Heroes And Villains (Stereo Mix) (Bonus Track)
22. Heroes And Villains Sections (Stereo Mix) (Bonus Track)
23. Vega-Tables Demo (Bonus Track)
24. He Gives Speeches (Bonus Track)
25. Smile Backing Vocals Montage (Bonus Track)
26. Surf's Up 1967 (Solo version) (Bonus Track)
27. Psycodelic Sounds: Brian Falls Into A Piano (Bonus Track)


Disc: 2
1. Our Prayer "Dialog" (9/19/66) 3:02
2. Heroes and Villains (Part 1) 3:08
3. Heroes and Villains (Part 2) 4:18
4. Heroes and Villains: Children Were Raised (1/27/67) 2:07
5. Heroes and Villains: Prelude to Fade (2/15/67) 3:42
6. My Only Sunshine (11/14/66) 6:52
7. Cabin Essence (10/3/66) 5:19
8. Surf's Up: 1st Movement (11/4/66) 4:55
9. Surf's Up Piano Demo (12/15/66) 3:53
10. Vegetables Fade (4/12/67) 5:25
11. The Elements: Fire session (11/28/66) 8:27
12. Cool Cool Water version 2 (10/26-10/29/67) 3:32
13. Good Vibrations Session Highlights 8:20
14. Psycodelic Sounds: Brian Falls Into A Microphone (11/4/66) 1:10 (Hidden Track)

Link to this 2cd set
Link to the Box set (including 5 CDs / 2LPs / 2 7" singles)
Link to The Smile Sessions Vinyl (2LP)

2011/08/26

2011/08/24

The Return-Trip Effect: Why the Return-trip Often Seems to Take Less Time

August? 2011 -> spitswww.uvt.nl
Three studies confirm the existence of the return-trip effect: the return-trip often seems shorter than the initial-trip, even though the distance travelled and the actual time travelled is identical. A pretest shows that people indeed experience a return-trip effect regularly and the effect was found on a bus trip (Study 1),
a bicycle trip (Study 2),
and when participants watched a video of someone else travelling (Study 3).

The return-trip effect also existed when another, equidistant route was taken on the return-trip, showing that it is not familiarity with the route that causes this effect. Rather, it seems that a violation of expectations appears to cause this effect.

2011/08/23

Jerry Leiber and Nickolas Ashford: remember them this way

2011/aug/23 -> guardian.co.uk
It's a sad day for anyone who loves classic pop and soul songwriting as two great practitioners of the art have died. Jerry Leiber, who passed away aged 78 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles of cardiopulmonary failure, made an indelible mark on pop with songs he created with his writing partner Mike Stoller in the late-50s and early-60s.

Nick Ashford, who died aged 70 in New York of throat cancer, wrote songs with his wife Valerie Simpson that similarly defined an era – the late-60s and early-70s. Here are some of their finest moments: please share your own below. Full obituaries will follow shortly.

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+ More about Jerry Leiber:

Beach Boys songcredits on YouKiwi: ©Jerry Leiber (Lyr)

(& Smokey Joe's Cafe was also a fave of The Beach Boys)

Most important: The team Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller wrote 90% of the music of The Coasters!

The Coasters (Robins) - Smokey Joe's Cafe

1955

Beach Boys' Brian Wilson Comes to Napa


August 22, 2011 -> napa.patch.com
These days, Wilson doesn’t seem to bother with all that. He’s playing music on stage with a band he calls “the best band I’ve every heard,” touring in a $1.4 million dollar tour bus he’s almost giddily enthused about, he’s recording new music (five new songs in the can from Chicago sessions just last week) and reshaping old classics (an already completed album of songs from Disney films, “Songs in the Key of Disney,” is set for release in October).

Early next year, the long-thought-lost original “Smile” sessions will finally be released, featuring the full Beach Boys line-up as they were in 1967.

He’s even writing songs again.

2011/08/20

Brian Wilson Announces Album of Disney Songs

August 19 2011 -> pitchfork.com

On October 25, Disney Pearl Records will release Wilson's album In the Key of Disney:
01 You've Got a Friend in Me (from Toy Story)
02 Bare Necessities (from The Jungle Book)
03 Baby Mine (from Dumbo)
04 Kiss the Girl (from The Little Mermaid)
05 Colors of the Wind (from Pocahontas)
06 Can You Feel the Love Tonight? (from The Lion King)
07 We Belong Together (from Toy Story 3)
08 I Just Can't Wait to Be King (from The Lion King)
09 Stay Awake (from Mary Poppins)
10 Heigh-Ho/Whistle While You Work (from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
11 When You Wish Upon a Star (from Pinocchio)

+ usatoday.com

Lucilla Galeazzi & L'Arpeggiata - Sogna fiore mio

2001
All the music of the cd were it is taken from is great, and it can also be heard in the 2011 movie "Tous Les Soleils"



+ website arpeggiata.com

2011/08/17

Beach Boys artikel uit 'De Witte Raaf' (in Dutch)

Source: (Januari 2005) taken from http://dewitteraaf.stylelabs.com/web/flash/content.asp
struct_id=10&pagetype=nieuw&language_id=2&pagecount=1&site=DWR_site




The Beach Boys, een tragedie

Bart Meuleman

Wie over The Beach Boys begint, kan bij zijn toehoorders op twee soorten reacties rekenen: een licht spottende, verbaasde glimlach, of een kinderlijke verrukking. Een ernstige blik met gefronste wenkbrauwen kom je zelden tegen, want vriend en vijand zijn het erover eens: The Beach Boys, dat is lichte muziek bij uitstek. Toch gaan er achter hun liedjes meerdere drama's schuil. Om te beginnen die van hun eigen biografie natuurlijk. Hoe konden verwoestende, zelfdestructieve persoonlijkheden als The Beach Boys zo'n zonnige, optimistische muziek blijven maken?


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The Studio in Baambrugge, the Netherlands


Source: http://egoboard.com/viewtopic.php?t=1406
Posted Sun Jan 23, 2005 11:57 am by Karl Rogers


The Studio in Baambrugge, the Netherlands
where "Holland" was recorded




The Story
Here is the full text of this booklet.


Until now, in a career spanning more than a decade, the Beach Boys have recorded exclusively in California. They were the patron saints of surf boards, Hondas and cruisin'. With record sales in excess of 70 million (group sales second only to the Beatles), they spread the good-time gospel all over the planet. The Beach Boys/California identity became so powerful that one virtually stood for the other. That proved a mixed blessing. And suddenly last summer they reacted, on no less than a monumental scale, to a pressure that had built up over several years. Concentrating on their widely recognized obsession - technological advance - they took off for Holland where the surf's NEVER up and went through some half a million dollars settling in and arranging for nearly four tons of flying studio, a prototype for the future, to be brought from America. The evidence of the whole incredible adventure is their new album, simply called Holland .


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Tom Tobben's SMiLE references


Since the article on the website of Van Dyke Parks is 'gone', I'd like to repost it:

Source: http://www.brianwilson.com/cgi-bin/webforum/viewmessage.cgi?r=11027741247024119890&l=level2
posted by Tom Tobben on December 11, 2004



Musical, Literary, and Historic References in Brian Wilson's SMiLE

Compiled by Tom Tobben

Van Gogh - Wheatfield with Crows
Vincent Van Gogh - Wheatfield with Crows


Like a fine piece of literature or a Charles Ives symphony, in SMiLE Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks make extensive use of references or allusions to other songs, literature, and American history. And, like America itself, SMiLE is a "melting pot" of many diverse influences uniquely blended together by Brian and Van Dyke into a cohesive whole. These references enrich Brian's masterpiece and extend the themes and imagery of the songs and musical movements beyond the words and melodies themselves, by intrinsically linking them to our rich cultural heritage and important events in our history.


Among the many such touchstones in SMiLE are the following:


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Musical influences on SMiLE?

Source: http://www.comiclist.com/smileshop/viewtopic.php?t=5411&start=15
Message Tue Nov 30, 2004 9:47 am
from the Smile Shop MSGboard by 'Chalk & Numbers'




Hi All,


Peter, I had to say "thank you" for your kind words. Mac and I are having great fun researching and writing, and (I know I can speak for Mac here as well) we're grateful for the opportunity to contribute to the book...which is sure to be a cornerstone of any SMiLE fan's library.


Thanks to CC, too, for thinking of me.


gf: Thanks for the Les Paul suggestion. I will pursue it.


I keep an eye on the conversation around here, but lately the tone of that conversation has been a bit off-putting. The generous spirit of collaborative discovery appears to have ebbed. Take a spin through some of the old saved threads, and maybe you'll see what I mean. Too many posts are met with derisive, contemptuous, smarmy reactions; and many posts are devoted to excessively narrow, technical points that don't seem to be made in the context of an overall "human" appreciation of the SMiLE music. Some days - please excuse the strained metaphor - I feel like a bunch of vivisectionists has taken over a community built by and for a group of animal lovers. No point in saying any more; I wouldn't want my comments to be taken as personal criticisms (they're not intended as such).


This thread is very interesting. The idea of an "influences" compilation is an excellent one, and I think it might make for an enjoyable CD. Here are some specific suggestions:


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