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Post by Mikie on May 5, 2021 22:40:57 GMT -5
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Post by dick on May 6, 2021 5:28:51 GMT -5
Not that good IMHO, pretty uninspired. I would rate it 4/10 - and I'm quite a fan of Los Lobos (their La Bamba soundtrack is still one of my favs). A really impressive version (9/10) of Sail On Sailor is the one by the band KGB from 1976 featuring songwriter Ray Kennedy
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Post by Al S on May 6, 2021 6:39:23 GMT -5
Zip.
I got as far as “unsettled ocean” then bailed.
Soz.
I thought La Bamba was pretty good.
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Post by lonesurf on May 6, 2021 7:20:19 GMT -5
Zip. I got as far as “unsettled ocean” then bailed. Soz. I thought La Bamba was pretty good. Ha! Same exact spot with me. It's pleasant, but unexceptional. And my favorite part is always the call and response part that begins with “unsettled ocean” ... |
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Post by AGD on May 6, 2021 7:28:33 GMT -5
Nothing. It starts, rumbles along for three minutes and twenty seconds, then ends. The track is thin, the lead singer sounds bored and the bvs are roughly five layers shy of being average. The phrase "why bother ?" started forming in my head before the first verse had ended. Makes the Ray Kennedy, and even the KGB, version sound good. Not going to rate it because I can't be bothered.
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Post by Al S on May 6, 2021 7:57:20 GMT -5
Nothing. It starts, rumbles along for three minutes and twenty seconds, then ends. The track is thin, the lead singer sounds bored and the bvs are roughly five layers shy of being average. The phrase "why bother ?" started forming in my head before the first verse had ended. Makes the Ray Kennedy, and even the KGB, version sound good. Not going to rate it because I can't be bothered.  |
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Post by Shawn on May 6, 2021 8:31:39 GMT -5
I quite like it! 8/10. Heck, just hearing a band cover Sail On, Sailer at all brings a pleasant smile to my face.
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Post by bluemarble on May 6, 2021 8:40:18 GMT -5
Love Los Lobos ("Kiko" is one hell of an album), but I can't help but shrug my shoulders. Great guys, fabulous musicians with an impeccable track record, but this is not for me, sorry. Their version doesn't offer anything different or unusual and just makes me want to hear the original. A bit pointless if you ask me, though I can understand its place in the context of the whole album they've recorded. Perhaps it will inspire a few of their fans to listen to some of the Beach Boys' deep cuts and/or the "Holland" album? |
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Post by Mikie on May 6, 2021 9:27:11 GMT -5
A really impressive version (9/10) of Sail On Sailor is the one by the band KGB from 1976 featuring songwriter Ray Kennedy
Oh, no doubt about that version. Sail On Sailor co-writer Ray Kennedy. |
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Post by Mikie on May 6, 2021 9:30:10 GMT -5
Nothing. It starts, rumbles along for three minutes and twenty seconds, then ends. The track is thin, the lead singer sounds bored and the bvs are roughly five layers shy of being average. The phrase "why bother ?" started forming in my head before the first verse had ended. Makes the Ray Kennedy, and even the KGB, version sound good. Not going to rate it because I can't be bothered. Sorry to bother you. I know you have better things to do than waste your time reading threads like this..... |
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Post by John Manning on May 6, 2021 9:42:57 GMT -5
It's okay, decent enough, though it doesn't sound like something they really wanted to cover… comes across as half-hearted … maybe it's a filler track for a new album, or they felt obliged to cover it cos they've played it in concert or something? Doesn't deviate too far from the BBs' version, really, but lacks the ooomph that the BBs give it.
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Post by E on May 6, 2021 11:58:37 GMT -5
I like Los Lobos but thought this was pretty uninspired, to be honest. However, always nice to see someone good covering the BBs' work.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2021 1:31:54 GMT -5
I just listened to it on my phone checking this list but I'm gonna have to hear it on real speakers in a proper listening so I can hear what's really going on.
But I had a have to add another perspective. It's very significant that a band from East Los Angeles is covering a song by a band from Hawthorne California which is about 20 or 25 minutes away in a different part of the city and from a different part of cultural history.
This is extremely significant that the band who helped to make Ritchie Valens music so famous is turning their attention to The Beach Boys. Now they didn't try to do too much with this other than to reproduce it and to honor the original song, but in terms of the cross cultural connections here I would very much like to know what the band is thinking and what their intention is in unifying these 2 parts of los Angeles history.
In for those reasons I'm fascinated by the merger of Hawthorne and East Los Angeles. I'm going to hear it again on good speakers and maybe from a proper streaming service so I can get a sense of the sound quality but let's not just count this out because it's not some innovative re imagination of The Beach Boys song. My perspective comes from my particular subjectivity living in Los Angeles and knowing what this means as a bridge between 2 different cultural neighborhoods, one of which is mine, and I'm very curious to see what this great great Los Angeles band means in honoring The Beach Boys this way.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2021 20:48:39 GMT -5
Small update because just based on the liner notes you could see that this is an album of covers were they are trying to honor music from Los Angeles recorded here.
and the fact that they have decided to do with such great Fidelity and love a beach boys song is a tremendous moment of unity between 2 parts of this city, two moments in cultural history and the reaching out from East LA to Hawthorne from 60 years ago.
In that sense it's a beautiful homage and a really really wonderful event that beach boy fans should be celebrating because it's going to bring beach boy music to the wide fan base of Los Lobos.
. This is the kind of thing I'm going to celebrate with joy with my students in Los Angeles as a connection between these different realms. Thank you to Los Lobos for doing a beach boys song on their new album.
And one could hope for something innovative but I think it's pretty darn hard to be faithful to a beach boys song and I appreciate the effort to be faithful to a beach boys song and to have a pretty darn good groove and put some feeling into it which they have done here.
I am certainly not trying to convince anyone to like the song as a musical performance but you understand that I have to understand it in the larger realm of cultural studies and I am just thrilled.
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Post by AGD on May 8, 2021 4:14:58 GMT -5
Small update because just based on the liner notes you could see that this is an album of covers were they are trying to honor music from Los Angeles recorded here. and the fact that they have decided to do with such great Fidelity and love a beach boys song is a tremendous moment of unity between 2 parts of this city, two moments in cultural history and the reaching out from East LA to Hawthorne from 60 years ago. In that sense it's a beautiful homage and a really really wonderful event that beach boy fans should be celebrating because it's going to bring beach boy music to the wide fan base of Los Lobos. . This is the kind of thing I'm going to celebrate with joy with my students in Los Angeles as a connection between these different realms. Thank you to Los Lobos for doing a beach boys song on their new album. And one could hope for something innovative but I think it's pretty darn hard to be faithful to a beach boys song and I appreciate the effort to be faithful to a beach boys song and to have a pretty darn good groove and put some feeling into it which they have done here. I am certainly not trying to convince anyone to like the song as a musical performance but you understand that I have to understand it in the larger realm of cultural studies and I am just thrilled. Beginning to wonder if we listened to the same recording... |
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