Showing posts with label The Beach Boys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Beach Boys. Show all posts

Monday, June 20, 2022

Happy 80th Birthday Brian Wilson: 20 Favorite Songs

 1. The Warmth Of The Sun 2. Guess I'm Dumb (Brian wrote and produced this for pre-stardom Glen Campbell; this is the prototype for PET SOUNDS) 3. I Just Wasn't Made For These Times 4. I Know There's An Answer 5. This Whole World 6. Add Some Music To Your Day 7. Surf's Up 8. Heroes And Villains 9. Still I Dream Of It 10. Johnny Carson 11. Solar System 12. Cabinessence 13. Love And Mercy 14. Baby Let Your Hair Grow Long 15. Rio Grande 16. Soul Searchin (track with Brian and Carl) 17. Your Imagination 18. Til I Die 19. Pacific Coast Highway 20. It’s OK (LONG PROMISED ROAD soundtrack)

Wednesday, August 3, 2016

The Beach Boys album tracks/rarities playlist.

1. The Little Girl I Once Knew
2. I Know There's An Answer
3. Vegetables (SMILEY SMILE version)
4  Friends
5. Back Home (1970 version--can be found on YouTube)
6. Slip On Through
7. Our Sweet Love
8. At My Window
9. Cabinessence (20/20 version)
10. Time To Get Alone
11. Cool Cool Water
12. Don't Go Near The Water
13. The Trader
14. You Need A Mess Of Help To Stand Alone
15. He Came Down
16. Leaving This Town (1973 IN CONCERT version)
17. It's OK (alternate mix from MADE IN CALIFORNIA boxset)
18. It's A Beautiful Day (single edit, 2012 mix from MADE IN CALIFORNIA boxset)
19. Here Comes The Night (WILD HONEY version)
20. Feel Flows

Friday, June 17, 2016

The Carl Wilson playlist--Beach Boys and solo.

1. God Only Knows
2. I Was Made To Love Her
3. Darlin'
4. Feel Flows
5  Long Promised Road\
6. Marcella
7. Angel Come Home
8. Good Timin'
9. Full Sail
10. Goin' South
11. Livin' With A Heartache
12. Young Blood
13. Rockin' All Over The World
14. Where I Belong
15. Soul Searchin' (w/Brian Wilson)
16. This Whole World
17. Our Sweet Love

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Happy 70th Birthday Brian Wilson--20 essential tracks.

1. The Warmth Of The Sun 2. Guess I'm Dumb (Brian wrote and produced this for pre-stardom Glen Campbell; this is the prototype for PET SOUNDS) 3. I Just Wasn't Made For These Times 4. I Know There's An Answer 5. This Whole World 6. Add Some Music To Your Day 7. Surf's Up 8. Heroes And Villains 9. Still I Dream Of It 10. Johnny Carson 11. Solar System 12. Cabinessence 13. Love And Mercy 14. Baby Let Your Hair Grow Long 15. Rio Grande 16. Soul Searchin (track with Brian and Carl) 17. Your Imagination 18. Til I Die 19. Pacific Coast Highway 20. We Belong Togrther (Brian covering Randy Newman's TOY STORY 3 song)

Saturday, December 17, 2011

New poem: MY SIXTIES.

Here's to memories:




twelve-ounce ten-cent cokes



in paper cups,



the giant-sized Superslide in Wichita Falls,



a copy of RUBBER SOUL



my mother bought me



for Valentine's Day,



Saturday (and sometimes Sunday) matinees



at the Grand Theater,



a rare dinner at the snack bar



of the bowling alley



across from the old Methodist Church,



occasional punishments,



an older brother I was too young to know,



teachers who liked me,



teachers who didn't,



true friends,



bullies in both child and adult sizes,



swimming lessons,



father who survived



an on-the-job accident



and had to have



a plate in his head,



comic books, candy and Fanta Orange



at the drugstore,



waiting downstairs at the Bethania Hospital



while my grandmother was dying,



listening to 45s of "Heroes and Villains"



and "Sunshine Superman" far away



from contact with the Summer of Love,



being loved more than I realized at the time.


Thursday, June 23, 2011

Sad to read this: Glen Campbell has Alzheimer's.

http://avc.lu/jyNyC0

Sad to read this about the legendary country/pop star, session musician (part of the 60s "Wrecking Crew" that included Carol Kaye, Hal Blaine and Leon Russell) and temporary Beach Boy (on a tour in the 60s after Brian Wilson opted to get off the road and work solely in the recording studio).

I genuinely liked Campbell's previous album MEET GLEN CAMPBELL--and am looking forward to his final recording GHOST ON THE CANVAS.  But I have some qualms about his determination to go out on tour (which is probably wearying enough on most people in their mid-70s) while suffering from Alzheimer's.

To me, it would be better if Campbell retires with dignity immediately after GHOST's release, instead of attracting cruel, insensitive reactions from people who will go to the shows expecting to see flubs, faltering and genuine helplessness.