Been listening to the 30th Anniversary release of Pacific Ocean Blue on and off since I got it. Like most folks, I never gave Dennis Wilson much credit, nor his work much attention.Undeservedly so, as this stuff is well worth the listen and certainly goes well beyond the Beach Boy genre he was stuck in. The dreamer, looking for his place in the world.Dreamer was written by Dennis Wilson and his...
Love this reissue of Pacific Ocean Blue - real nice stuffThe sunshine blinded me this morning loveLike the sunshine love comes and goes againI love you I love youThe sea air its flowing through my room againLike the thoughts of you fill my heart with joy againIm sorryI miss youAll things that live one day must die you knowEven love and the things we hold closeLook at love look at love look at l...
I certainly would of never thought about this. This album kind of sounds like what he Beach Boys should have been doing in the mid/late 70's. He kind of sound like Jerry Garcia, the music mellow and kind of funky. Which makes this your first FF post for the week. Hugs!
Next week, one of the most overlooked rock records of all-time will finally be available again on CD -- Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue.Here is a link to a promotional video for this two CD-set which includes interviews with Wilson's ex-wife, producer, and even Elvis Costello.http://www.amazon.com/gp/mpd/permalink/m2NG0QCZGLTCZN:m1HH46YIN6H5ZMReleased in 1977, Pacific Ocean Blue was way ahea...
Rolling Stone has released its list of the best reissues of the year as picked by David Fricke. This is one of the most varied lists we've seen this year with artists ranging from country's Hank Williams to rock's Robyn Hitchcock to jazz's Nina Simone to reggae's Augustus Pablo .Pacific Ocean Blue - Dennis Wilson The Unreleased Recordings - Hank Williams Let Me Be Your Sidekick: The Influenc...
One of the most jarring experiences I've ever had while listening to music was the first time I heard 'Pet Sounds'. I was a relatively old 20, and my previous experience with the Beach Boys was a vinyl 'Greatest Hits' in my dad's collection, which was pretty much completely devoted to the 'Fun, Fun, Fun', 'Surfin' USA' type stuff. But a guy in college, during an extended and meandering conversa...
Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue finally is in the mainstream today. There is a nice review in Paste magazine this month and the original Rolling Stone review of this album was perfect. He was in the biggest band in the US as a teenager, he picked up the songwriting slack when his brother Brian had big problems, he flirted with the Manson family, dated Christine McVie for two years when Fl...
My Itunes was on shuffle and Dennis Wilson's "Common" came on, just a few minutes ago. I heard the piano line, and immediately thought "why do I have that DirecTV commercial song on my Itunes." Turns out that Dennis Wilson wrote a piano riff that Sara Bareilles must have liked. I'm not saying that she [...]
Born this week, 1944. "Water temperatures varied from a nippy January fifty-five to a tepid sixty-seven off Muscle Beach in August. On a bread-and-butter board day in the depths of summer, the oyster-white morning would begin without any breeze, but the sky's pothered film usually disappeared by noon. The air temperature would rise to a feathery seventy-four, and the ocean-chop would establish ...
I have a love/hate affair with this song. Love it when I'm near the ocean but if I'm in anywhere else it seems like a chore to listen to.Granted I listen to this song almost weekly or every other day. I should give it a rest. But location dictates what I want to hear. If I go to Jamaica it's Marley, Tosh, Wailer or Perry. If Im in LA I need some Jane's Addiction...I'm sure someone out there has...
I've never been a big fan of the Beach Boys; I liked "Sloop John B" and "God Only Knows" of course, but their surfing music never really attracted me. So when this LP was released in 1977, like the rest of the album-buying public I paid little attention to it.Recently I've been reading rave reviews about the reissued version. This is now a double CD with plenty of bonus tracks. Well, what do ...
As a drummer, harmony vocalist and occasional songwriter, Dennis Wilson wasn't the obvious member of the Beach Boys to be first to market with a solo album. But with this 1977 release he stepped outside the shadow of his brother Brian and showed off surprising. These rock productions, thick with guitars, drums, keyboards and orchestration, combine his legacy as a part of Brian Wilson's troupe, ...
Recorded over the course of seven years, Dennis Wilson's one issued solo project "Pacific Ocean Blue" is a masterpiece. Yes. A blissed-out, coked-up masterpiece. The album's 12 songs reveal a songwriter who was looking to stretch out on his own and engage a vision of music that stood far outside what the Beach Boys were capable of handling or executing at the time. "Pacific Ocean Blue" is a moo...
