Stopping the car for the Beach Boys, choice Leadbelly collections, best of the '80s, Hong Fat and Michael Hurley remembered, and dud vs. neither (Warren Zevon edition).
Dear Dean: You give the Beach Boys' Wild Honey an A+. However, it's only 24 minutes long. Should it be subject to your practice of docking LPs notch if they're under 30 minutes? Or do you now consider it an EP? Dan Weiss
It's sweet and perhaps part of my exotic allure that fans out there remember rules I may have once established but no longer even remember. FYI, the Wild Honey CD I made sure to play for an ecstatic Carola as well as an ecstatic Bob is dated 2001 on Capitol (plus something called "Hollywood and Vine" whose further details I lack the magnifying glass to make out, just as I can't make out whether there are further annotations in Chinese or some other alien script). Also the bonus track "Their Hearts Were Full of Spring." Yum.
The last time Mike Love saw Brian Wilson, two or three weeks before Brian died, the two of them sang a few songs together, with the last being "Their Hearts Were Full of Spring." Whatever one's thoughts might be of Mike Love, I found that to be a sweet and poignant way for these two lifelong friends, partners, and antagonists to say farewell.
I discovered Lead Belly’s (separate not compound there) Last Sessions from Stanley Booth’s writing. I see in Goldmine it was called pungent with history and personality. Amen.
Mr. Bad Example is a pretty solid album with nice clean production, and I’d bet even money that if you were to go back and bear down, it’d be a low-medium HM with the title track and one or two others mentioned. But why would you?
Pet sounds, today! and surf's up definitely their best. Smile would've been the greatest rock album ever without pointless (after hit single, not because it's unworthy) good vibrations added. Obviously wild honey is amazing; friends right up there. Holland never gets enough praise from critics, unless they've only heard a rejected version.
Dear Dean: You give the Beach Boys' Wild Honey an A+. However, it's only 24 minutes long. Should it be subject to your practice of docking LPs notch if they're under 30 minutes? Or do you now consider it an EP? Dan Weiss
It's sweet and perhaps part of my exotic allure that fans out there remember rules I may have once established but no longer even remember. FYI, the Wild Honey CD I made sure to play for an ecstatic Carola as well as an ecstatic Bob is dated 2001 on Capitol (plus something called "Hollywood and Vine" whose further details I lack the magnifying glass to make out, just as I can't make out whether there are further annotations in Chinese or some other alien script). Also the bonus track "Their Hearts Were Full of Spring." Yum.
Their Hearts Were Full of Spring sounds like something from early renaissance music. I'm surprised you like it.
The last time Mike Love saw Brian Wilson, two or three weeks before Brian died, the two of them sang a few songs together, with the last being "Their Hearts Were Full of Spring." Whatever one's thoughts might be of Mike Love, I found that to be a sweet and poignant way for these two lifelong friends, partners, and antagonists to say farewell.
“Wild Honey” is great.
The 2017 stereo reissue is confusingly on an album called “1967 - Sunshine Tomorrow”
No mention of “Wild Honey” on the cover
It sounds great to me, but maybe purists will disagree.
I discovered Lead Belly’s (separate not compound there) Last Sessions from Stanley Booth’s writing. I see in Goldmine it was called pungent with history and personality. Amen.
Mr. Bad Example is a pretty solid album with nice clean production, and I’d bet even money that if you were to go back and bear down, it’d be a low-medium HM with the title track and one or two others mentioned. But why would you?
Pet sounds, today! and surf's up definitely their best. Smile would've been the greatest rock album ever without pointless (after hit single, not because it's unworthy) good vibrations added. Obviously wild honey is amazing; friends right up there. Holland never gets enough praise from critics, unless they've only heard a rejected version.