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Post by filledeplage on May 2, 2021 17:22:05 GMT -5
Dennis on lead - never heard this one!  |
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Post by nts1drums on May 2, 2021 17:24:28 GMT -5
Good clip, if it weren’t for the fact that Dennis looks entirely wasted. Who recorded this? Seems like a recordings from the 90s (the tag line at the beginning and end of the clip). |
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Post by filledeplage on May 2, 2021 17:37:09 GMT -5
Good clip, if it weren’t for the fact that Dennis looks entirely wasted. Who recorded this? Seems like a recordings from the 90s (the tag line at the beginning and end of the clip). This is a partial of Good Timin' - look like the same performance. Maybe someone can interpret. |
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Post by steamb551 on May 3, 2021 2:57:23 GMT -5
Both amazing songs, but Good Timin’ is absolutely gorgeous so it gets my vote
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Post by Fall Breaks on May 3, 2021 9:29:17 GMT -5
Can someone please walk me through Good Timin' and point out its fantasticness along the way? For me, it's just an okay song. Goes nowhere (which isn't a problem if you start in a great place, but for me GT doesn't), repetitive, chorus feels like it's missing something. Seriously, I want to like it as much as you seem to do!
For me, there are at least four songs I prefer on Light Album alone.
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Post by nts1drums on May 3, 2021 9:33:00 GMT -5
Can someone please walk me through Good Timin' and point out its fantasticness along the way? For me, it's just an okay song. Goes nowhere (which isn't a problem if you start in a great place, but for me GT doesn't), repetitive, chorus feels like it's missing something. Seriously, I want to like it as much as you seem to do! For me, there are at least four songs I prefer on Light Album alone. Well there are the nice harmonies (which are just Carl & Bruce iirc) & it was tightly arranged, given that Brian / Carl Wilson instrumental touch or something like that. Electric Harpsichord is pretty good & the drums are some of Dennis' best in terms of just keeping tempo, nothing fancy there. That's it for me, & why I voted Baby Blue. It's so much better than Good Timin' tbh. |
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Post by drbeachboy (Dirk) on May 3, 2021 10:39:50 GMT -5
Can someone please walk me through Good Timin' and point out its fantasticness along the way? For me, it's just an okay song. Goes nowhere (which isn't a problem if you start in a great place, but for me GT doesn't), repetitive, chorus feels like it's missing something. Seriously, I want to like it as much as you seem to do! For me, there are at least four songs I prefer on Light Album alone. As with most Beach Boys tunes, it’s all about the vocals. For me, in 1979, it was great to have a new song that had those magical Beach Boys vocals. This album gave me hope that they could make contemporary music and sound like….The Beach Boys. |
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Post by kds on May 3, 2021 11:38:27 GMT -5
Can someone please walk me through Good Timin' and point out its fantasticness along the way? For me, it's just an okay song. Goes nowhere (which isn't a problem if you start in a great place, but for me GT doesn't), repetitive, chorus feels like it's missing something. Seriously, I want to like it as much as you seem to do! For me, there are at least four songs I prefer on Light Album alone. As with most Beach Boys tunes, it’s all about the vocals. For me, in 1979, it was great to have a new song that had those magical Beach Boys vocals. This album gave me hope that they could make contemporary music and sound like….The Beach Boys. That's why it gets my vote. |
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Post by #JusticeForDonGoldberg on May 3, 2021 12:43:04 GMT -5
I voted Baby Blue.
But Good Timin’ is great as well.
And like everyone else pointing out here, probably the most Beach Boys sounding song they had done since On My Way to Californ IA
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Post by Mikie on May 3, 2021 13:57:46 GMT -5
Good Timin' was one of the selected singles off the album. It also garnered quite a bit of airplay on MOR radio upon release and was in the live sets at the time. Started at Caribou by Brian and Carl and almost finished at Brother for 15 Big Ones and last minute vocals by Carl and Bruce before including it on L.A. Light. Just great, great harmonies.
But.....I selected "Baby Blue". One of the songs Dennis sacrificed for inclusion on L.A. Light to make the overall album better. It's just a fantastic song - probably in the Top 5 of Dennis' all time best. "Late at niiiiiiiiight when the whole world's sleeping, I dream of you". How much more emo can you get than that? That one dramatic line alone with the strings behind it puts "Baby Blue" on an escalator to heaven.
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Post by sneakypete77 on May 3, 2021 15:02:57 GMT -5
Can someone please walk me through Good Timin' and point out its fantasticness along the way? For me, it's just an okay song. Goes nowhere (which isn't a problem if you start in a great place, but for me GT doesn't), repetitive, chorus feels like it's missing something. Seriously, I want to like it as much as you seem to do! For me, there are at least four songs I prefer on Light Album alone. It has to be Good Timin' for me. I remember the needle dropping on vinyl and those joyous first few bars erupting and just saying to me ' yeah...we're back'. |
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Post by lonesurf on May 3, 2021 15:13:50 GMT -5
Baby Blue is actually my favorite Beach Boys track.
I remember that the (scathing) Rolling Stone review of L.A. said that the track was beautiful, but, much like The Beach Boys themselves, it went nowhere.
SMH, sigh.
To me, it’s perfect.
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Post by Will/P.P. on May 3, 2021 16:53:41 GMT -5
My vote goes to "Good Timin'" -good, good timin'. For me it was a classic from first listen.
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Post by Mikie on May 3, 2021 18:11:44 GMT -5
My vote goes to "Good Timin'" -good, good timin'. For me it was a classic from first listen. As soon as I heard "Good Timin'" for the first time, ya know what I thought? "Surfer Girl" revisited. |
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Post by Al Smith on May 3, 2021 20:05:55 GMT -5
My vote goes to "Good Timin'" -good, good timin'. For me it was a classic from first listen. As soon as I heard "Good Timin'" for the first time, ya know what I thought? "Surfer Girl" revisited. Are you sure you had put the right record on? |
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Post by Al Smith on May 3, 2021 20:12:34 GMT -5
Can someone please walk me through Good Timin' and point out its fantasticness along the way? For me, it's just an okay song. Goes nowhere (which isn't a problem if you start in a great place, but for me GT doesn't), repetitive, chorus feels like it's missing something. Seriously, I want to like it as much as you seem to do! For me, there are at least four songs I prefer on Light Album alone. One of things I love about Good Timin’ is the classic “hot” start - no 4 or 8 bar intro etc, just, bang! We’re off, like many (but not all, there are of course major exceptions, eg, CalGirls) of the Capitol years stuff. There’s a real shimmer of fairy dust to the bg’s and Carl delivers in spades against a nod to the doo-wop stylings they loved as youngsters. The production is both crisp and wet with a good sense of room tone embracing the zing of the high hat itself bouyed by the warmth of the (floor) tom. |
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Post by Mikie on May 3, 2021 20:26:24 GMT -5
As soon as I heard "Good Timin'" for the first time, ya know what I thought? "Surfer Girl" revisited. Are you sure you had put the right record on? You mean............you don't hear the slightest resemblance? Or do you need to get the wax cleaned outta yer ears? |
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Post by #JusticeForDonGoldberg on May 3, 2021 21:05:46 GMT -5
Oh another great thing about good timin that was mentioned by someone here?
The super crisp mixing.
LA was honestly their best mixed album of the 70s, hats off to whoever was in charge of that, I don’t actually feel like looking it up
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Post by Al Smith on May 3, 2021 21:14:45 GMT -5
Oh another great thing about good timin that was mentioned by someone here? The super crisp mixing. LA was honestly their best mixed album of the 70s, hats off to whoever was in charge of that, I don’t actually feel like looking it up Yeah, the production is pretty good, despite an ensemble cast of producers - great atmosphere and room tone - perhaps the benefit of recording at Criteria - although I reckon they blew the Full Sail mix in the last quarter - Carl seems too loud and not balanced with the track. Also, as I’ve mentioned before, if you sum Goin’ South to mono during the sax solo, the sax kinda disappears, which is no small gift imo. In stereo, it seems to hover between the left and middle, which may have been a phasing gaff, who knows. |
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Post by Al Smith on May 3, 2021 21:19:03 GMT -5
Are you sure you had put the right record on? You mean............you don't hear the slightest resemblance? Or do you need to get the wax cleaned outta yer ears? WHAT?   A vague resemblance if I really try - similar to Brian’s When You Wish Upon a star inspiration for SG - I get a melodic note here or there but it doesn’t jump out at me like dog cajones. |
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Post by E on May 4, 2021 0:59:39 GMT -5
Baby Blue
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Post by sneakypete77 on May 4, 2021 3:49:21 GMT -5
My vote goes to "Good Timin'" -good, good timin'. For me it was a classic from first listen.
Amen to that. And if you're going to create a new classic by revisiting an old one then there aren't many finer songs to choose than Surfer Girl.
Having said that I still don't hear it  |
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Post by AGD on May 4, 2021 4:34:29 GMT -5
"Baby Blue". Because... well, of course.
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Post by Al Smith on May 4, 2021 4:44:54 GMT -5
Wow!!!
For the first time in BB Survivor - Label Debuts the tribe has prescribed a tie!!!!
So, I proclaim the Survivors of LA Good Timin’ and Baby Blue.
Thanks for playing hard dudes, it’s been a gas!
Be back tomorrow for Heat 1 of Survivor Label Debuts Ultimate Survivor, where we vote for our favourite of all winners!
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Post by Al Smith on May 4, 2021 4:45:50 GMT -5
"Baby Blue". Because... well, of course. Talk about cutting it fine, dewd! |
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