Ugo
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Posted: May 07 2012, 17:51 |
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What is this, you may ask. It's the Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations" EP CD, I answer. Released in 2006 for the 40th anniversary of the original single, it includes not two, not three, but five versions of "Good Vibrations": original 45-rpm (the best one - with the organ interlude, the 'hum-de-dum' vocals and everything else), session highlights, alternate take (weird), instrumental (i.e. just the backing track, in stereo - perfect for karaoke! ) and a live concert rehearsal from 1967, plus the single's original B-side, "Let's Go Away for A While", a nice jazzy piece. I love this song, one of the Boys' absolute best ones. The worst thing that Brian Wilson ever did to it in 2004 was using another set of lyrics on the verses. I don't care whether those were the oriiginal lyrics written by Tony Asher for Pet Sounds, or whether Mike Love wrote some other lyrics afterwards. What I know is that, to me, the lyrics on the original 1966 single are just perfect, and that the lyrics sung by Brian on his SMiLE reconstruction from 2004 make the whole thing too psychedelic - which, I think, is totally unnecessary for a song like this. "And she's already working on my brain"?? C'mon, Brian, I do know what was working on your brain at the time. And it was definitely not a girl.
-------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian
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