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offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2003-03-08 13:07 [#00586247]
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I picked up this album today. I was just browsing through a
local recordstore, and noticed how it was available for
half-price.

And since it's one of those classic albums that seems
to be mentioned in almost every music-review i've ever
read... i felt my collection just needed this album ;-)

I just can't stop listening to it! I'm not sure what it is
about this music, but it's very intruiging and addictive as
hell. I'm listening to it for the 10th time today or
something, and it still feels like i'm hearing it for the
first time. Every time i listen i hear something new in each
of the songs... amazing.


 

offline phiz from Liverpool (United Kingdom) on 2003-03-08 13:08 [#00586251]
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Brian Wilson is the reason for your addiction, bliss, and
genius


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2003-03-08 13:10 [#00586253]
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Pet Sounds is the best album ever made.

Now... consider who's saying this! Consider that I'm saying
it's better than any Beatles album.

THAT'S some hardcore praise!


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2003-03-08 13:11 [#00586254]
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i prefer smiley smile by miles. you should get that album
too. :)


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2003-03-08 13:12 [#00586256]
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paul mccartney does a 'gues appearance' on smiley smile.
they sampled him crunching on a carrot!


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2003-03-08 13:15 [#00586262]
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It also sounds nothing like just 5 guys playing music :-p
There are so many instruments! It sounds like an entire
orchestra is playing these songs... and i bet they didn't
have pro-tools back in '66 ;-) It really is a miracle they
were able to create all this... so complex, so many
layers...


 

offline phiz from Liverpool (United Kingdom) on 2003-03-08 13:17 [#00586267]
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thats the genius of Brian Wilson, deaf in one ear, leaning
over the desk studying everything.
and to think he's obsessed with Spector, imo he shits on him


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2003-03-08 13:17 [#00586268]
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It's NOT 5 guys, in fact the band themselves played almost
nothing. Everything was session musicians, and man, these
songs had like a dozen session people on every track. Some
immaculate production.

Phil Spector and Brian Wilson really spared no expense on
that one.

And it was a commercial failure, ha...


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2003-03-08 13:17 [#00586269]
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"i prefer smiley smile by miles. you should get that
album too. :)
"

lol, posting on this board is really an expensive hobby! :-p
Now i want that album too ;-)

"they sampled him crunching on a carrot!"

hehe... paul mccartney did exactly the same thing on the
last Super Furry Animals album! Altough i think there he was
eating selery instead of carrot ;-)



 

offline phiz from Liverpool (United Kingdom) on 2003-03-08 13:19 [#00586272]
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Mike Love is the devil


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2003-03-08 13:21 [#00586274]
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"Now... consider who's saying this! Consider that I'm
saying it's better than any Beatles album.
"

What's a good beatles-album to start with? i don't have any
of their albums yet, and i have no idea where to start... I
read in the petsounds-liner notes that their album Rubber
Soul inspired wilson to create this album... hm... i think
i'll have to look for that one then.


 

offline phiz from Liverpool (United Kingdom) on 2003-03-08 13:23 [#00586278]
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Rubber Soul
Abbey Road
White Album

and you cant go wrong with the Anthologies, 2 and 3 are
great


 

offline Jarworski from The Grove (United Kingdom) on 2003-03-08 13:25 [#00586282]
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Downloading...


 

offline astrid-gil-botn from Londinium (United Kingdom) on 2003-03-08 13:26 [#00586283]
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yeah it's amazing - there is smiley smile as well whiich is
the famous unfinished album he went mad wrikting - it's
really good too - there are some tracks from it on endless
summer as well ..

i'm not into the beatles but the beach boys were really
innovative at this period - endless sunshine and teenage
angst


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2003-03-08 13:27 [#00586284]
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Pfft, you're insane, I can't answer that! I guess Abbey
Road, because... well, there is no because, I just randomly
picked that one.

Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, White Album, Abbey Road, Rubber Soul,
Magical Mystery Tour, any of them.

Magical Mystery Tour also gets a bad rap, it's bizarre...
but any album with Strawberry Fields Forever and I am the
Walrus must be amazing though.


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2003-03-08 13:27 [#00586286]
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"Rubber Soul
Abbey Road
White Album
"

thanks :-)

I think i'll look for those first... the anthologies (lots
of outtakes and different versions right?) sound fun, but
i'd rather get to know their 'proper' albums first.


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2003-03-08 13:30 [#00586288]
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"the famous unfinished album he went mad wrikting"

:-D
Oh really?
Now that sounds interesting! I had heard how he
supposedly went mad after pet sounds... but i didn't know he
was at the time working on another album... i'd love to hear
that!


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2003-03-08 13:30 [#00586289]
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Good idea, save the Anthologies for last.

If you want, pick up One to get a good primer, cheap and
full of perfect pop. But just pop... doesn't tell the whole
story. But nobody did pop like them.


 

offline astrid-gil-botn from Londinium (United Kingdom) on 2003-03-08 13:31 [#00586290]
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nahh it's a matter of taste but the beatles sound unnatural
and all their innovation seems to be just like wearing
clothes - just fashion - they just wrap mediocre songs in
good production and exotic instrumentation and editing


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2003-03-08 13:31 [#00586291]
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He went crazy trying to top Sgt. Pepper, and the result is a
REALLY creative album with some great moments, but I can't
see how anybody could call it better than Pet Sounds except
to just be a deviant. ;-)

It's awesome though. Beatles vs Beach Boys, that resulted in
the biggest surge of creativity ever, what a war.


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2003-03-08 13:31 [#00586292]
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"Pfft, you're insane, I can't answer that!"

Well i have to start somewhere...! You can't expect
me to go out and buy all their albums at the same time ;-)

Or let's put it another way: which was the first one you
bought?


 

offline titsworth from Washington, DC (United States) on 2003-03-08 13:31 [#00586293]
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so "tomorrow never knows" is shite then?


 

offline astrid-gil-botn from Londinium (United Kingdom) on 2003-03-08 13:34 [#00586294]
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no did i say they were shit?
no i didn't
i don't get as much pleasure from it than loads of other
music - also the lyrics are a joke - it's not as clever as
everyone thinks it is too - loads of people were fucking
about with tape ediits . the drums are great though


 

offline Jedi Chris on 2003-03-08 13:39 [#00586298]
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Pet sounds??!? My cat woke me up when he was snoring!!

Hehehehe

:P


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2003-03-08 13:40 [#00586300]
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I bought Sgt. Pepper and Abbey Road on an impulse one day
after reading an article about the best albums of 1969 in
Guitar World or somewhere. Then I spent my life savings on
all their albums and had them all in a week or two. Crazy!
That was the peak of my music listening 'career', been all
downhill from there.


 

offline astrid-gil-botn from Londinium (United Kingdom) on 2003-03-08 13:43 [#00586304]
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well the stuff you can get is unfinished and he 3was unhappy
about it's release - he actually went mad cos he was taking
a shit load of lsd - but there was some rivalry with the
beatles it went pet sounds - sgt peppers then the smiley
smile sessions - which weren't released for years and still
haven't been released in their finished entirety --
ever heard silver apples btw - really lush late 60's pop
band that used early synths and a really funky drummer


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2003-03-08 13:47 [#00586308]
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lol, that's actually a pretty cool story. And buying all
their albums within 2 weeks says something about the quality
of the music too i think :-p

I'll probably start with abbey road then... somewhere within
the next couple of weeks. We'll see... good thing about the
beatles and the beach boys is i don't have to search all
over the place to find their albums :-p (unlike with most of
the artists discussed on this board).


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2003-03-08 13:50 [#00586309]
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wild honey is also pretty good, following on from smiley
smile


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2003-03-08 13:53 [#00586311]
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Just looked up Silver Apples on Allmusic, sounds really
cool... thanks for the heads up.

Surrounded: This magazine I had gave a page or two to every
great album from 1969, but it gave Abbey Road like 7 pages,
so I thought... ''damn, gotta check that out.''

I always thought the Beatles were a dumb pop band before
then, naive little Zeppelin fan that I was then. But they
looked too cool in the pictures and the article was kissing
their asses like asses have never been kissed.

Best

Magazine Purchase

Ever

Yeah, get Abbey Road first, and maybe One to get a taste of
the rest of their stuff... because I doubt you'll spend
hundreds on them in 7 days like I did. ;-)


 

offline titsworth from Washington, DC (United States) on 2003-03-08 14:15 [#00586327]
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silver apples, JivverDicker on this board always goes on and
on about them.. i have to agree, they're great.


 

offline astrid-gil-botn from Londinium (United Kingdom) on 2003-03-08 14:27 [#00586334]
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also check the album an electric storm by white noise for
some realy sophisticated 60's electronic pop and of course
the legendary joe meeks "i hear a n ew world" he was the
first uk independedent pop producer and built all his own
gear like aphex twin - mad music - white noise was david
vorhaus and delia derbyshire from the groundbreaking bbc
radiophonic workshop - they did the dr who music etc -
really mental - quite druggy by mad as hell


 

offline titsworth from Washington, DC (United States) on 2003-03-08 14:31 [#00586336]
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isn't that some guy named fluid who did the dr. who music?


 

offline astrid-gil-botn from Londinium (United Kingdom) on 2003-03-08 14:40 [#00586343]
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no - check this mate: http://www.deliaderbyshire.org/

worth remembering who the pioneers of popular electronic
music are


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2003-03-08 14:54 [#00586358]
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thats a nice album. your hidden dreams is a gem, and here
come the fleas is totally nuts! :)


 

offline mylittlesister from ...wherever (United Kingdom) on 2003-03-08 15:42 [#00586404]
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SURROUNDED: you've GOT to get the "magical mystery tour"
either the album or the EP..... just for The Fool on the
Hill and Blue Jay Way...... amazing stuff


 

offline jupitah from Minneapolis (United States) on 2003-03-08 22:24 [#00586791]
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pet sounds is great. magical mystery tour is great.


 

offline Lust Incarnate from the edge of the deep green sea (United States) on 2003-03-08 22:26 [#00586795]
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Magical Mystery Tour is awesome !:) I love the beat change
in the title song where it gets slow! Mmm!

I heard that the firsttime Paul McCartney heard Pet Sounds,
he cried. Awwww.


 

offline tibbar from harrisburg, pa (United States) on 2003-03-08 22:27 [#00586796]
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dont even get me started on how completely ground-breaking
this album is... thank brian wilson for inspiring john
lennon and mccartney into their psych-pop period. a true
masterpiece. NO modern artist in pop or rock has escaped
its grasp of influence.


 

offline jupitah from Minneapolis (United States) on 2003-03-08 22:29 [#00586799]
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are there others, beach boys albums i should check out given
that i love pet sounds?


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2003-03-10 06:36 [#00588347]
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Heh, the Silver Apples are great, I just checked out their
first two albums... Floyd did the Space Rock thing first but
these guys sound just as good as the Barrett-era Floyd. And
yeah, great drummer. Thanks for the heads-up.

silverapples.com

''Formed in 1967 as an electronic rock duo featuring Dan
Taylor on drums and Simeon on a homemade synthesizer
consisting of 12 oscillators and an assortment of sound
filters, telegraph keys, radio parts, lab gear and a variety
of second hand electronic junk, the band quickly gained a
reputation as New York's leading underground musical
expression''

I'd like to get my hands on that synth.


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2003-03-10 06:41 [#00588353]
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I prefer Smiley Smile by a long way - I love that album


 

offline giginger from Milky Beans (United Kingdom) on 2003-03-10 06:50 [#00588363]
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The Beach Boys are superb. I love listening to them. So
relaxing. Mixing them with other tracks is fun too. Everyone
should do it.


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2003-03-10 07:58 [#00588417]
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Don't forget Sunny by Boney M. :)


 

offline MachineofGod from the land of halo's (United States) on 2003-03-10 08:48 [#00588460]
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ive heard practically everything by them except pet sounds,
when I was like 5-10 years old, the beach boys was all I
listened to but I listened to their corny stuff not like
this one since im aware this one is different; ill have to
find this one sometime.


 

offline bill_hicks from my city is amazing it is calle on 2003-03-10 09:48 [#00588556]
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