Anyone heard Pacific Ocean Blue?
I'm considering buying it at the weekend, I've heard he's just as talented, maybe even more so than his brother Brian.
I love Pet Sounds, so I'm hoping this record will be just as good.
Looking back on Dennis's life on wikipedia, he had a really tough time. Alcoholic father, constantly under-minded by his brother and at one point he befriended Charles Manson!
its good...
and the bonus disc is really cool too.
get it!
It's top of my list of CDs to buy
but I can't help thinking that Fleet Foxes seriously owe him some of their column inches - considering that their albums came out around the same time, and that their sound is fairly indebted to the Wilson brothers, the coverage of Pacific Ocean Blue was very minimal.
highly
recommend it. However it isn't particularly in the same vein as the Beach Boys - POB is far more varied in tone, pretty bleak while also quite uplifting with epic gospel thrown in the mix.
Some great instrumentals too.
It
sounds like a hidden gem :) Can't wait to hear it.
bf
It's my favourite album ever- took a while to get into coming from the perspective of loving the Beach Boys...but it grew and grew on me.
Get some hankies ready. I still can't listen to 'thoughts of you' and 'time' without getting a little bit teary, which proved a little embarrassing when the former came on in HMV the other day ;)
agreed
Thoughts of You, River Song and Time are excellent. same with Forever though, i have a hard time listening to dennis wilson's sentimental love songs knowing he beat the crap out of his girlfriends and cheated constantly on them.
bf
Never heard that he beat his women...and the cheating thing works cos those songs are like a confessional
"I'm the kinda guy, who loves to mess around. Know a lot of women"
etc ;)
i guess
i can't get round the hypocracy/insincerity of it* - prefer brians lyrics (particularly his late beach boys/solo efforts which are honestly bare) nb: i realise that he collaborated a lot with others on his lyrics.
*although i expect this is true for a lot of artists, just that as a big fan i've read a lot about the Beach Boys.
He also wrote the theme tune for Fawlty Towers
one for the trivia fans
Fantastic trivia
if misleading.
wow
what an amazing reissue..
his voice is just..you can tell it was pretty rough but great
I've been starting threads on this album
Pretty much weekly for a couple of months - had never heard it before the reissue, but am now obsessed with it...