Just one more thread now the reissue been out for a week...
Had never heard it before, have listened to it non-stop, and I like very much... Actively disliked it on first couple of listens, but it's a grower, fo'sho. Lot more glossily produced than I thought it would be - imagined it more lo-fi and messy, like Surf's Up, for some reason. Some amazing songs - Moonshine is beautiful, Farewell My Friend is lovely, and the mid-album run of Thoughts Of You / Time / You And I is perfect, but it's Rainbows I keep coming back to... C'MOOONNN BABYYYY. What a voice.
Thoughts?
had
a cd-r bootleg for years and thought it was overrated tbh. the river, farewell my friend and thoughts of you are good but the rest i find dull. not a bad album but the myth is bigger than the reality for me. having said that i love some of his songs on the BB's albums.
yeah
it's pretty good. The elusiveness of the copies that were briefly available here and there over the years has created a hype that the quality of the music doesn't honestly deserve. Some nice stuff on here but nothing earth-shatteringly incredible. Still, the best solo Beach Boy. Give the drummer some!
I agree with Withdean
although it does have some quality tracks the myth is greater. The River is rad and has a lush massive production which is so different from Brians approach. He was def the coolest Beach Boy with an awesome voice. Anyone seen the film Two Lane Blacktop he's in with James Taylor? Got released on dvd for first time last year, his acting ain't bad.
might buy this...
wasn't dennis friends with Charles Manson?
Briefly
^
Yeah alot of folks were back then
I can't believe peopel think it's an overrated album? it's certainly not. It's a lost classic, refound. Bambu might not be as good but Pacific Ocean Blue is ace start to finish. I'm not evena big Beach Boys fan but Dennis's voice was awesome. Taylor Hawking version of Holy Man is brillaint too, i was expecting it to be shit as well.
bf
It's not overrated in any way shape or form. It's my favourite album ever, I think.
It mildly annoys me to see people dragging out the old 'there was myth/hype- it doesn't live up to it' line. That's just a cliche. It's a beautiful, honest album that has more soul in the first ten seconds than most artists have in their entire career!
Not sure what myth there was anyway. I've had it on lp for years, and I have to admit, that when I got it, some of the lyrics being printed on the inner sleeve put me off a bit- having known it from a cassette before that, but it's not the sort of record you can quibble about. Sure, it's not PERFECT, but that in itself is endearing.
Dennis Wilson could have sung the phone book and it would have been a great album
surely
the cliche is "it's an unreleased gem" not that it's slightly overrated?
bf
No, the cliche runs thusly.
1/ You can't get this album on cd, it's a lost classic.
2/a- It's not lost I've known it for years
b- I'm immune to all this talk of lost classics, it is, in fact, slightly overrated.
Both of the latter stances are pretty much designed to win 'indie top trumps' and this album deserves to be excepted from such chicanery, because it's beautiful
oh
do feck off you pompous prat ! i'm just giving my opinion that i think it's overrated. i'm not saying i'm right, you're intitled to your own opinion. i couldn't give a fuck about indie top trumps. i listened again to it today - and still feel it's no more than a 6, maybe 6.5, out of 10. good but not great.
"I've had it on lp for years"
= 2a then you eejet
bf
hehehe...I miss this place
Right on!
It's pretty good but it ain't a balls-out classic, right? All this lost classic shit that people hang on obscure records is usually way off the mark. Less well-known albums are usually less well-known cos they're not very good!
Dennis "borrowed" a song from Charles Manson
Charles's song was called Cease To Exist but Dennis renamed it "Never Learn Not To Love" (on the 20/20 album). Dennis had let Charles stay at his mansion and took the song as payment. Dennis's version of the song id far superior with the counter melody which really makes the song, missing from Charles version could only come from Brian/Dennis.
The relationship between Dennis and Charles was already fractured but the release of this song sealed it and Charles send Dennis a bullet in the post.
i can't wax enough lyrical about this record
love it love it wonderful amazing. beach boys with a big pair of swinging knackers.
His voice is cracking
The River has all the hooks. Love it.
I was afraid that the quality of this album...
...may've been exaggerated due to it being out of print for so long, but after getting a copy yesterday I can truly say that it's amazing and definitely in my top 5 Beach Boys related releases.
May I ask what the other four are
?
i can give you my top 5
1 Pet Sounds
2 Love You
3 POB
4 American Spring - American Spring
5 Smile (Brian Wilson)
For me it's prob something like
Surf's Up
POB
Love You
Sunflower
Pet Sounds.
Yeah.
gotta be
Pet Sounds
Sunflower
Orange Crate Art
Friends
Surf's Up
A pedant writes
you mean River Song.
This album get's better
I just listened for the 10th time and it's clicked. Awesome! I take back my earlier words
I music fan with poor typing and memory skills
thanks you for your pedantic skills!
I had actually been listening to Bruce Springsteen's The River
that day if i remember.... how the mind wonders at work.
*A Music fan
See told you!
Have you guys
heard "Adult Child"? Brian's 'lost' mid-70's solo album.
I havent actually. it's an unreleased one isn;t it?
I'd like to hear it. Does anyone have it?
Yeah dude
PM me
there's a song
by some herb like papa m which "borrows" the melody from rainbows, anyone know what this is/who this is by?