, Another Planet

3 hours in, Silent Hill f is everything I wanted from a new Silent Hill. Eell, except for being as scary as when I played the original 4 in a pitch black basement 20 years ago. My pc's rgb lighting kinda hinders some of that.

Then there's *another* ridiculously good song here, Hawaii. I can't believe this wasn't a single because it's so good.
The rest of the songs on here I hadn't heard before, but I liked all of them. There are too many good songs on this album to call out any more.

It's crazy that In My Room is this early, I would have thought it came a few albums later. It's another kinda sad Brian ballad, it's also noteable I guess as a song that's not about romance, surfing, or cars

South Bay Surfer is one that I haven't heard before, but I like it a lot. It really sounds to me like the beginning of Al Jardine's influence on the music, it has a looser and raw kind of folky feel. He is indeed listed as one of the songwriters here.

Catch A Wave is one of their great surf-era rockers. It's got great harmonies and some eclectic instrumentations.
The Surfer Moon is a great ballad, as a song it's equal to a lot of Pet Sounds, but the arrangement isn't quite there. It's Brian's first string arrangement.

Surprisingly, the only single off of this album is Surfer Girl/Little Deuce Coup. I'm shocked that Little Deuce Coup is a b-side, because it's so good! Surfer girl is good too, of course, and might be the point where Brian has really started to master the vocal arrangements.

I made it to the third Beach Boys album earlier in the week.
Unlike the last one, I could look at the tracklist first and recognize almost all of these as classics. There are some great, great songs here. This is where Al Jardine replaces David Marks.

Lonely Sea hints at an early form of Til I Die, but isn't much on its own.
I did recognize Shut Down once I heard it, I never thought much of it though. A very by-the-numbers early Beach Boys song.

Farmer's Daughter is surprisingly good! It's an early Brian-sung track that's an early sketch of what they'd do later on with songs like Hushabye or The Warmth of the Sun. It's short and doesn't feel like a complete song but the elements are there.

It looks like that was the only single from this album. I didn't know what to expect from this album since the only other song titles I recognized were covers. I found it mostly unremarkable aside from a couple of songs.

I'm onto the 2nd Beach Boys album. Looking at the tracklist the only song I'm familiar with as a Beach Boys song is the title track, Surfin' USA. I think it's a great song even though it's a wholesale Chuck Berry ripoff. It's a clear improvement over Surfin' Safari.

Bob Marley and the Wailers recorded music before this, and it's collected in various compilations. I listened to one of them before this, and didn't find it very compelling as a starting point. It makes it that much more impressive how far they've come here though.

This is the first Bob Marley album, produced by none other than Lee "Scratch" Perry. This is good right away, one very striking thing is how loud the bass is. Actually, everything about the opening track is striking. The Motown bassline, the organ, the beautiful harmonies...

Surfin' was the first song they wrote and recorded, and it's the most amateurish but also the most charming in it's amateur-ness. It's got that scrappy appeal of 60s garage rock, in an alternate reality where they never hit it big I could see this being on Nuggets

As for the singles, I think Surfin Safari holds up pretty well. It adds a lot to the Chuck Berry formula that they were basically copying, and the marriage of an intricate vocal arrangement to an upbeat rock song works really well.
Ten Little Indians is racist garbage.

Dennis also turns in a nice lead on the track. The song is more of a pure vocal group song than anything else on the album, which makes it the closest to what the early Beatles were doing since their sound was based a lot more heavily on girl groups than the Beach Boys.

It's too bad that a great album cover like that goes with a pretty weak album. An album track that I do like is Little Girl (You're My Miss America), one of the few covers on here. If you look up the original and then hear this one you can see the mark of Brian the innovator,

I've decided that I'm going to listen to the Beach Boys albums from the beginning to... maybe just Love You unless someone wants to recommend one after that. There are a lot of albums I haven't listened to yet that I'm looking forward to, and some that I'm not like this first one.

I found out that Isaac Hayes covered Let's Stay Together and had to hear it to find out how he'd cover a song so defined by its specific production. The Stax version works very well, I like it a lot except for something about the way the sax sounds, like it was recorded elsewhere
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YouTube video by upfront27 The Beach Boys - Heroes & Villians 1971

I laughed my ass off when Mike Love came in on this. He invented white guy 80s rap a decade early! It's at about 1:47
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I guess this is a good place to tell you that you're in my recommended friends on there, dunno how it picked that up! I don't use it much anymore though.

Getting anywhere with the democratic party on a national level looks more and more like a lost cause to me, I think it might actually be more plausible for someone with Bernie's politics to enter the Republican primary. As the dems move further right populism will be the alternative.

I found it a little too frustrating, firecrackers are a little too scarce and bubble jumping is too fiddly. There are some secret things that are absolute game changers and it's worth looking up a spoiler free guide if you want to make progress more smoothly.

I love Amarillo By Morning, his version is really good.

There are a lot of things I like about living in the middle of nowhere now but I don't like that I have to drive 40 miles each way to see Nosferatu. I'd be willing to do it, too, except odds are that there'll be someone in the theater talking or on their phone and it'll ruin it that much more

🎵🎵 *Fleetwood Mac music starts*
*Stevie Nicks voice, sounding sad*
"When it snows/ ain't it thrilling/ though your nose gets a chilling"

Intro: *plucked strings*
Rapper: A beat is like an ocean, they're both made up of waves
& I ride it like a sailor & let it lead the way
I ain't in no hurry, I like to take it slow
Cause the world's your oyster when you've got the orinoco flow
Enya sample: Sail away, sail away, sail away

It was slow at work today

Wish I wasn't at work right now so I could check this out, this is a great song