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Friday, June 20, 2008

Brian Wilson's Route 66

Brian Wilson is 66 today.

Here's a link to the Coverville tribute to Pet Sounds.

A link to a guy who has put a bunch of a cappella takes of the Beach Boys' versions of the songs from Pet Sounds on YouTube.

My second favorite song from Pet Sounds:


Brian from SMiLE:


Brian from a 1967 performance of a song from what would have been SMiLE:


A Neil Young song that namechecks the Beach Boys and a song from Pet Sounds. The studio version (which I can't find) is even more evocative.


A John Hiatt song which has what I think are lovely harmonies - inspired by the Beach Boys?

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And on another matter, the New York Daily News cover from Wednesday, June 18:


ROG

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mets' management should be ashamed of themselves. Whether Randolph needed to be fired or not, the timing was horrible.

Anonymous said...

And Stevie Nicks turned 60 recently. Boy do I feel old.