Post subject: [2018-06-08] The Beach Boys "The Beach Boys With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra" (Capitol)
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Time for a new acronym: YAOA.
I've been trying to figure it out, and no doubt I'll feel like an idiot for not getting it when I find out what it stands for, but I gotta ask- What's YAOA stand for? I did come up with some myself: Washed up band tries to resuscitate career with lame orchestral arrangements. (WUBTTRCWLOA) Band records new arrangements of old songs because it's easier than writing new ones and no one cares about anything but the old hits anyway (BRNAOOSBIETWNOANOCAABTOHA) Jumpin' on the orchestral bandwagon (JOTOB) Cynical product (CP)
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Post subject: [2018-06-08] The Beach Boys "The Beach Boys With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra" (Capitol)
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Jason Michael wrote:
I've been trying to figure it out, and no doubt I'll feel like an idiot for not getting it when I find out what it stands for, but I gotta ask- What's YAOA stand for? I did come up with some myself: Washed up band tries to resuscitate career with lame orchestral arrangements. (WUBTTRCWLOA) Band records new arrangements of old songs because it's easier than writing new ones and no one cares about anything but the old hits anyway (BRNAOOSBIETWNOANOCAABTOHA) Jumpin' on the orchestral bandwagon (JOTOB) Cynical product (CP)
I like them all. I'll be interested in any of this when a symphony orchestra decides to put it music to a two guitar, bass, drums and piano arrangement.
Post subject: [2018-06-08] The Beach Boys "The Beach Boys With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra" (Capitol)
Posted: Fri May 11, 2018 2:28 pm
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GodsComic wrote:
I don't hate it
No, it isn't really terrible, but I do think it could be improved if there were only a way to strip away all of that orchestral stuff. I sense that this could be a really killer track with just the standard rock 'n' roll instrumentation.
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Posted: Fri May 11, 2018 2:57 pm
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I don't hate it
No, it isn't really terrible, but I do think it could be improved if there were only a way to strip away all of that orchestral stuff. I sense that this could be a really killer track with just the standard rock 'n' roll instrumentation. [/quote] Like the Beatles did? So, "Beach Boys: Naked"?
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Post subject: [2018-06-08] The Beach Boys "The Beach Boys With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra" (Capitol)
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Bought my first Beach Boys album when I was 13 (Surfin' Safari in 1962). Lifelong fan, particularly of all things Brian Wilson, after that. This whole thing looks like something cooked up by that lifelong "hanger-on" Mike Love, who as FZ once said, "Is only in it for the money." This album is much like Mike Love's life....there's no point to it!!! No thanks!!!!!!!
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Post subject: [2018-06-08] The Beach Boys "The Beach Boys With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra" (Capitol)
Posted: Sun May 27, 2018 1:23 am
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I'm a fan of Pet Sounds & the Smile Sessions not so much the rest. To my ears Brian Wilson produced these original songs so well & with a lot of musical detail already it doesn't need any further orchestration whatsoever and makes the songs seem overblown and corny. The only time I can remember a string section add colour to a rock performance is Gregg Allman In Concert 1974 or Yes - Magnification (2001)
Post subject: [2018-06-08] The Beach Boys "The Beach Boys With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra" (Capitol)
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Gosh I dislike Good Vibrations even more than Fun Fun Fun. I'm willing to wait for it to be released and listen to it before I decide to make it my own, but that's doubtful. I'm with banzaibid. What's the point? This is like one of those Stu Phillips albums of Beatles music that they put out in the sixties so that we could get our folks to like them. The folks, sadly, are long gone. I think if they just stripped the vocals and used them with orchestral tracks it might be somewhat more acceptable as something new. But by using what appears to be the full finished tracks and just adding these orchestral fills, they're just putting an additional unnecessary coat of paint on something that already looked pretty good as it was originally created fifty years ago.
Post subject: [2018-06-08] The Beach Boys "The Beach Boys With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra" (Capitol)
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David Beller wrote:
Gosh I dislike Good Vibrations even more than Fun Fun Fun. ... [T]hey're just putting an additional unnecessary coat of paint on something that already looked pretty good as it was originally created fifty years ago.
David suggests a good analogy. It's as if someone had decided to 'enhance' the Mona Lisa by adding paint in a few areas where Leonardo had omitted it.
Post subject: [2018-06-08] The Beach Boys "The Beach Boys With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra" (Capitol)
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2018 7:24 pm
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The Beach Boys have put together a growing playlist of promo videos for the album. It includes the previously seen trailer and Mike Love interview, and so far has additional commentary from Al Jardine and Bruce Johnston:
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