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  • June 11, 2025 at 8:09 pm #305780
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    June 11, 2025 at 10:15 pm #305782
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    Was Good Vibrations the original electro-synth track?

    June 12, 2025 at 8:38 am #305794
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    A quick look online says it’s debatable but the first really popular song was the awful Telsar, by the Tornados (1960), it seems.

    June 12, 2025 at 9:10 am #305798
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    My brother and I as youngsters played Telstar on a comb with greaseproof paper folded over the comb then humming the tune through the paper. Yep I know sounds weird but it kinda worked, it was equally dreadful though.

    June 12, 2025 at 9:19 am #305799
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    Legend says about the rivalry between the Beach Boys and the Beatles that Brian Wilson, on hearing Sgt Peppers on its release done eight months after Pet Sounds, sent McCartney a telegram ( wow how old is that ) just saying ” we give up”. Great rivals but good pals also, Brian Wilson leaves behind a wonderful music legacy.

    June 12, 2025 at 12:23 pm #305806
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    Apparently so. Also, I think on one of numerous documentaries I recall that Wilson wanted to up the ante after appreciating Revolver so much. Which would make sense. This was on Jools Holland the other week. A quite beautiful rendition, both singing and piano – that little bridge between the chorus and second verse (which sounds like a key change but isn’t) is deep:

    June 13, 2025 at 11:08 pm #305841
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    Was there for this. 20 years ago. Doesn’t seem like it. A lovely set in the sun

    Glastonbury, Brian Wilson at Glastonbury 2005: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0018b86 via @bbciplayer

    June 18, 2025 at 11:04 am #305950
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    Overrated.

    June 19, 2025 at 11:49 am #305983
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    Some of you may find this an interesting doc:

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