#41

Yes. Please expand on your definitely incorrect opinion.

#42

I canā€™t believe there can be that much left to show thatā€™s worth seeing after 8 hours of Anthology videos etc.

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#43

Too saccharine. Old fogey music.

Sgt. Peppers still sounds cool.

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#44

yeah itā€™s not even an Apple product! Pete Best is in it! but no Macca. lols.

#45

But isnā€™t it being shipped with the 50th anniversary pack? Iā€™d have thought that means it has to be endorsed by them?

#46

I love that youā€™ve compared Meet Me In St Louis to the Beatles, Queen and the Beach Boys there. (Fwiw Iā€™m totally with you, fuck only knows how they wrote that album)

#47

nope the docu in the box set is the South Bank Show special called ā€˜The Making Of Sgt Pepperā€™! i recall that being from 1987 but supposedly itā€™s from 1992.

this other film isā€¦ well god knows what it is. itā€™s non Apple anyway. supposedly itā€™s being released to cinemas but thereā€™s already an Amazon listing for the blu ray, entirely separate from the Ā£100 box set.

#48

Ah right, okay. Possibly they revised the 1987 show in 1992? Iā€™m not sure why they would have needed to, though. I certainly recall all the 20th anniversary stuff in 1987.

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#49

Pet Sounds is the better album. tbf the only reason why thereā€™s not more distance between them is because Sloop John Bā€™s on Pet Sounds.

Now Revolver and Pet Sounds. Hmm. Donā€™t think I can choose.

#50

Come on lads as if the 6th best Beatles album is better than Pet Sounds. Iā€™d take Revolver or Abbey Road but thatā€™s just insulting.

#51

well yeah theyā€™re all musicians!

like saying that the combination of very high levels of talent with an astonishing work rate resulting in great success but not being considered the best of all time is similar to both modern Cristiano Ronaldo and Michael Schumacher :slight_smile:

brian wilsonā€™s first draft etc. etc.


(this is well clever due to him writing pet sounds in response to sgt peppers)

sorry for spelling it out for those of you that knew that story already

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#52

I thought he wrote Pet Sounds in response to Revolver, then The Beatles wrote Sgt Peppers and thatā€™s what made him go a bit nuts, as he thought heā€™d never do better than it.

I might be wrong.

#53

Fifty years? Fuck!

I can vaguely remember it being on the news when it was 20 years ago today that Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play.

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#54

Youā€™re right, Smile was meant to be his response to Sgt Peppers. The version he released with his band in 2004, and the ā€œofficial restoredā€ boxset by the Beach Boys a few years ago, do not necessarily reflect his original plans. Still amazing, though.

#55

just remembered reading something about mmisl a long time ago that said the lyrics were written around the music, which is why after the singer left the band they carried on for a bit instrumentally

anyway variations on swing > sgt peppers > pet sounds > a night at the opera :smiley:

#56

posted in the wrong place

#57

Just gave this a listen through again. Influential obviously but about half of it is naff. Amazing that some people literally think itā€™s is the best album ever madeā€¦

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#58

yup

the smile sessions from 2011 is closer to what he was intending to do according the man himself

and it does include this, just brian on his own, take one casually knocking out a song

itā€™s the most beautiful performance of anything iā€™ve ever heard

the harmonies under the falling vocal line at the end and the bass line walking around underneath? fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck me that is SO GOOD

canā€™t find it on youtube sadly

#59

I like the strange studio recordings where he gets stuck in a piano, and a microphone.

Though the segue from Our Prayer/Gee into Heroes & Villains is better on the 2004 solo album.

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#60

aah so THAT is why he went mad

poor bastard

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