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Smiling Pets
''Smiling Pets'' is a multi-artist tribute album consisting of experimental music, experimental/alternative rock, alternative cover versions of the Beach Boys, Beach Boys songs from ''Pet Sounds'' (1966) and the never-finished ''Smile (Beach Boys album), Smile'' project. It was released exclusively in Japan by Sony Records in March 1998. Background Some song titles differ from how they have been officially published by the Beach Boys. The most prominent of which is "Tones", which is a cover version of the instrumental ''Smile'' track "Holidays". Prior to ''Smiling Pets'', most ''Smile'' material was only sparsely available on the compilation ''Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of The Beach Boys'' (1993). Because "Holidays" had not been officially released until more than a decade later on ''The Smile Sessions'' (2011), it is highly likely that unauthorized bootlegs with erroneous track lists were consulted by ''Smiling Pets'' artists. "Tones" (also known as "Tune X") was actually a wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indie Rock
Indie rock is a Music subgenre, subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand in the early to mid-1980s. Although the term was originally used to describe rock music released through independent record labels, by the 1990s it became more widely associated with the music such bands produced. The sound of indie rock has its origins in the New Zealand Dunedin sound of the Chills, Tall Dwarfs, the Clean and the Verlaines, and early 1980s college rock radio stations who would frequently play jangle pop bands like the Smiths and R.E.M. The genre solidified itself during the mid–1980s with ''NME''s ''C86'' cassette in the United Kingdom and the underground success of Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr. and Unrest (band), Unrest in the United States. During the 1990s, indie rock bands like Sonic Youth, the Pixies and Radiohead all released albums on major labels and subgenres like slowcore, Midwest emo, slacker rock and space rock began. By this time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MxBx 1998/13,000 Miles At Light Velocity
''MxBx 1998/13,000 Miles at Light Velocity'' is the first live album by Melt-Banana. The album is not a conventional "live" album: it was not recorded at a concert, but live in the studio specially for John Zorn's Tzadik Records during the band's 1998 US tour. Many of the songs are being played in slightly different arrangements than the album versions. It is kind of a "best-of" release but with all the material re-recorded live in the studio. It also features their cover of The Beach Boys' " Surfin' U.S.A.". The album features an untitled hidden track just a few seconds after "Plot in a Pot". This is a noisy instrumental jam with Smelly Mustafa, their tour manager at the time, announcing all of Melt-Banana's tour dates. The album begins in a similar way: before "Scratch Or Stitch", their roadie, Todd Nugent, says: "Yea looks like we're ready to go, yep here they come... yep here we go!" This part was recorded in the hallways at the University of Pittsburgh because Nugent was le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Van Dyke Parks
Van Dyke Parks (born January 3, 1943) is an American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, arranger, record producer, singer, and former Warner Bros. Records executive whose work encompasses orchestral pop, elaborate recording experiments, Americana iconography, free-associative lyrics, and Caribbean sounds. He is best known for his 1967 album ''Song Cycle'' and his collaborative work with acts such as the Beach Boys, Lowell George, and Harry Nilsson, as well as various film and television scores. Born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Parks studied voice and piano at the American Boychoir School in Princeton, New Jersey, touring nationally with the choir during his youth. He concurrently pursued child acting roles in television and theater productions. After relocating to California in 1963, he performed folk music with his brother Carson along the West Coast and contributed arrangements to Disney film soundtracks, including " The Bare Necessities" for ''The Jungle Book'' (1967) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wonderful (Beach Boys Song)
"Wonderful" is a song by the American rock band the Beach Boys from their 1967 album ''Smiley Smile'' and their unfinished ''Smile'' project. Written by Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks, it was their only collaboration that resulted in a love song, telling the story of a young girl's sexual awakening and its disruption of her devotion to God and her parents. Numerous early versions of the song were recorded by the group from August 1966 to April 1967 at three different Hollywood studios. It was originally sung by Wilson with harpsichord and trumpet as accompaniment. The ''Smiley Smile'' reworking was recorded in a single three-hour session at Wilson's makeshift home studio. This version featured Carl Wilson on lead vocal, supported by piano and organ, and a 35-second doo-wop interlude. The original ''Smile'' version was released on the compilations '' Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of the Beach Boys'' (1993) and '' The Smile Sessions'' (2011). As a solo artist, Brian rerecorded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domenic Priore
Domenic Priore (born January 15, 1960) is an American author, historian and television producer whose focus is on popular music and its attendant youth culture. Biography He has written extensively about the Beach Boys' album ''Smile'', including two books on the subject, ''Look! Listen! Vibrate! Smile!'' and ''Smile: The Story of Brian Wilson's Lost Masterpiece''. In 2011, he contributed to the liner notes of compilation album '' The Smile Sessions''. He has also published a number of books and articles on the greater Los Angeles area's youth culture during the 1960s, with special focus on the surf craze and the Sunset Strip music scene. Priore worked as the primary writer and creative consultant on the AMC documentaries ''Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The Early Years (1955–1970)'' and ''Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s''. Publications * * * * * Filmography *''Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The Early Years (1955–1970)'' (2000, hosted by Ringo Starr) *''Hollywood Rock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Just Wasn't Made For These Times (song)
"I Just Wasn't Made for These Times" is a song by the American rock band the Beach Boys from their 1966 album ''Pet Sounds''. Written by Brian Wilson and Tony Asher, the lyrics describe the disillusionment of someone who struggles to fit into society. Musically, it is distinguished for its melodic bass guitar, layered vocals, and Electro-Theremin solo, marking the first time the instrument was used in popular music and the first time theremin-like sounds were used on a rock record. One of the last tracks completed for ''Pet Sounds'', Wilson produced the recording with the aid of 14 studio musicians—including Electro-Theremin inventor Paul Tanner—who variously played percussion, basses, guitars, clarinets, piccolo, harpsichord, tack piano, and bass harmonica. All six Beach Boys sang on the track. In addition to multiple vocal counterpoints, the chorus features Spanish-sung backing vocals: "''Oh, ¿cuándo seré? Un día seré''" ("When will I be? One day I will be"). "I J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I'm Waiting For The Day
"I'm Waiting for the Day" is a song by the American rock band the Beach Boys from their 1966 album ''Pet Sounds''. Written primarily by Brian Wilson, the lyrics describe a man who is "waiting for the day" when the woman he loves will be ready to commit to a relationship with him. Wilson, alongside co-author Mike Love, are the only Beach Boys who appear on the recording. Musically, the arrangement is characterized for its dynamic use of textures and word painting. Wilson produced the track in March 1966 with the aid of 17 studio musicians who variously played timpani, bongos, drums, flutes, English horn, electric guitar, two basses, strings, and an altered tack piano. Background and lyrics "I'm Waiting for the Day" was copyrighted by Wilson as a solo composition in February 1964. When the song was published on ''Pet Sounds'', it was credited to Wilson and Mike Love, who revised eight words in Wilson's original lyric. Asked in 2014 about the song, Wilson said that "there real ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arrangement
In music, an arrangement is a musical adaptation of an existing composition. Differences from the original composition may include reharmonization, melodic paraphrasing, orchestration, or formal development. Arranging differs from orchestration in that the latter process is limited to the assignment of notes to instruments for performance by an orchestra, concert band, or other musical ensemble. Arranging "involves adding compositional techniques, such as new thematic material for introductions, transitions, or modulations, and endings. Arranging is the art of giving an existing melody musical variety".(Corozine 2002, p. 3) In jazz, a memorized (unwritten) arrangement of a new or pre-existing composition is known as a ''head arrangement''. Classical music Arrangement and transcriptions of classical and serious music go back to the early history of classical music. Eighteenth century J. S. Bach frequently made arrangements of his own and other composers' p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivia Tremor Control
The Olivia Tremor Control were an American psychedelic band from Athens, Georgia that released two studio albums, a bonus disc, a singles collection and a live album between 1996 and 2000. The main members were Will Cullen Hart, Bill Doss, Eric Harris, John Fernandes and Peter Erchick. They combined indie rock and neo-psychedelia, taking influence from psychedelic pop bands of the 1960s, such as the Beach Boys and the Beatles. The Olivia Tremor Control originated as a band called Cranberry Lifecycle, which was formed in Ruston, Louisiana in the late 1980s by Hart and his high school friend Jeff Mangum. The two moved to Athens, and reworked Cranberry Lifecycle songs as a new band called Synthetic Flying Machine. After Doss joined, Mangum left the band to pursue a solo project that eventually became Neutral Milk Hotel. Doss and Hart then renamed the band the Olivia Tremor Control, and recruited Fernandes, Harris, and Erchick. With this line-up, the Olivia Tremor Control relea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector
''A Christmas Gift for You from Philles Records'' (later renamed ''A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector'', also known as ''Phil Spector's Christmas Album'') is an LP album, album of Christmas songs, produced by Phil Spector, originally released by Philles Records, Philles in November 1963. Spector treated a series of mostly secularity, secular Christmas standards to his "Wall of Sound" production style, and the selections feature the vocal performances of Spector's regular artists during this period. One month after its release, the album peaked at No. 13 on ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' magazine's special, year-end, weekly Christmas Albums sales chart. In 2003, the album was voted No. 142 on ''Rolling Stone'' magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, the 500 greatest albums of all time, maintaining the rating in a 2012 revised list. In 2017, it was ranked the 130th greatest album of the 1960s by ''Pitchfork (site), Pitchfork''. In 2019, it was ranked the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dusk At Cubist Castle
''Music from the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle'' is the debut studio album by the American band the Olivia Tremor Control, released on August 6, 1996, by Flydaddy Records. It is an eclectic album that encompasses a variety of genres, including indie pop, neo-psychedelia, and psychedelic pop. The Olivia Tremor Control were influenced by bands of 1960s and 1970s, such as the Beach Boys and the Beatles, as well as experimental musicians like John Cage. ''Dusk at Cubist Castle'' purports to be the soundtrack to an unfinished film, and the lyrics focus on surrealist imagery. The Olivia Tremor Control was formed in Athens, Georgia, and the line-up comprised Bill Doss, Will Cullen Hart, Eric Harris, and John Fernandes. Doss and Hart had been writing songs for a studio album as early as 1993, and ''Dusk at Cubist Castle'' was recorded at Pet Sounds Studio in Denver, Colorado. Childhood friend Robert Schneider served as the producer, and the recording sessions featured sev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Olivia Tremor Control
The Olivia Tremor Control were an American Psychedelic music, psychedelic band from Athens, Georgia that released two studio albums, a bonus disc, a singles collection and a live album between 1996 and 2000. The main members were Will Cullen Hart, Bill Doss, Eric Harris, John Fernandes (musician), John Fernandes and Peter Erchick. They combined indie rock and neo-psychedelia, taking influence from psychedelic pop bands of the 1960s, such as the Beach Boys and the Beatles. The Olivia Tremor Control originated as a band called Cranberry Lifecycle, which was formed in Ruston, Louisiana in the late 1980s by Hart and his high school friend Jeff Mangum. The two moved to Athens, and reworked Cranberry Lifecycle songs as a new band called Synthetic Flying Machine. After Doss joined, Mangum left the band to pursue a solo project that eventually became Neutral Milk Hotel. Doss and Hart then renamed the band the Olivia Tremor Control, and recruited Fernandes, Harris, and Erchick. With thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
