Posted on 08/13/2004 9:35:15 AM PDT by Zack Nguyen
"I'm eagerly awaiting the release of "Smile."
Me too. For now, though, Pet Sounds = Perfection. Tears well up just thinking about it.
Maybe he is afraid if he conquers his demons, he will lose his musical genius. The two are tied within him. I can't wait to hear Smile.
Thanks for the ping, Zack!
In the 70s, Brian pretty much stayed in bed all the time, because of his condition. His weight ballooned during that period. I remember on SNL there was a great film where Dan Akroyd and John Belushi go into Brian's bedroom, and tell him to "get up, you're going surfing."
I like the BBs' mid-60s stuff, and will probably get Smile when it comes out. But I also need to get Sticky Fingers, Let it Bleed, Beggars' Banquet, and Exile on Main St. on CD. So it all evens out.
BTW - Do you listen to much Wilco or Uncle Tupelo? Opinion?
What condition?
That's a great point. What might have been monumental in 1967 may just be ho-hum today. Also, the fact remains that Brian Wilson at age 25 may not be the Brian Wilson of 63.
Insanity. He was an undiagnosed paranoid schitzophrenic, with depression, and addicted to lots of drugs.
I heard a bootleg of a Smile concert Wilson did a few months back and everyone that has followed all the snippets of smile tracks will be pleasantly surprised. Without spoiling it, I will say that he fit together all those pieces like a big jigsaw puzzle, and it finally works together as a unified whole. That was something I never could have imagined happening, but he pulled it off! It all flows together and isn't jarring like the box set stuff.
Save your money -- those great albums don't translate to CD very well, imo. .....takes the life right out of them.
Never heard of the two bands you mentioned, but I'll check iTunes to find some examples.
I always recommend Wilco's stuff for people who bemoan the current state of "modern" music. I know everyone raves about Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, but I think Summerteeth is their masterpiece. Not a single unlistenable track on that album. Their newest album, A Ghost is Born, has been really growing on me, and after about five or six listens I'm appreciating more and more what Tweedy is trying to pull off. Watching Wilco go from A.M. to Ghost has been pretty exciting--it's always fun to follow a band you really like as they really evolve.
It is highly ironic that the only Wilson brother still alive is Brian.
" Most everything I have heard in the past 25 plus years is just garbage."
25 years ago was the late 70's. Except for punk, the absolute NADIR of rock and roll. You want to talk garbage?
Face it, you got old and just don't listen anymore. It happens to most of us.
What's hilarious is Limbaugh blissing out to his hideous pre-disco funk while shaking his fist and saying rap "isn't music".
"Caroline, No"
(Or haven't you read my profile page :o)
Wilco is led by some former members of Uncle Tupelo, a central Illinois band that was instrumental in the alt-country movement in the 90s. Real instruments, and root-oriented music (country, blues, a little bluegrass, basic R&R, etc.) done in a slightly experimental vein. Good stuff, you ought to check them out.
You took the words right out of my mouth.
Uh.....no.
Brian has been blessed. His brother Dennis, however, was probably worse off than Brian at the time of his death. The book "Heroes and Villians" goes into detail on the last month of Dennis's life, and he was a hopeless alcoholic/heroin addicted wreck. He was homeless and completely unable to keep money in his pocket. It is terribly sad. He had been reduced to a driving need to fulfill his physical passions, and that is pretty much it.
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