"Love and Mercy" Paul quoted in Brian Wilson film
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The oft-quoted Paul line about "God Only Knows" being the greatest song ever written is quoted in the new movie biography of Brian Wilson, "Love and Mercy," as is the fact that "Rubber Soul" inspired Brian to make "Pet Sounds." The movie, by the way, is extraordinary. Calling it a biography doesn't begin to do it justice. Great performances and brilliant, brilliant f i l m m a k i n g that literally had me choking up at the end. This is one that music fans really, really must see.
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Hey Mods, I can't figure out how to fix the title of this thread. I type a " after "love and mercy" and keep getting &q instead -- help!
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So glad someone posted about this film. It is a must see on many different levels! Fantastic!
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Bruce M.:
Hey Mods, I can't figure out how to fix the title of this thread. I type a " after "love and mercy" and keep getting &q instead -- help!
Hi Bruce, I have no idea what was going on there, I experienced the same upon multiple attempts to correct. Moving the last bit to the first somehow resolved the issue.
: AnitaTHANK YOU, (((((PAUL)))))!!! WE LOVE YOU!!!
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We have been thinking of seeing this before it goes away. Thanks for your comment
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Bruce M.:
Hey Mods, I can't figure out how to fix the title of this thread. I type a " after "love and mercy" and keep getting &q instead -- help!
Just put spaces between the letters like this: D i c k Cavett. Oh, sorry, I was thinking you meant the part in your post that got censored. What did you mean to say after brilliant?
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Looking forward to this film. Paul McCartney... and Brian Wilson. The two genius composers of popular music the last fifty years. I have all his albums with and without The Beach Boys. I don't think "God Only Knows" is the greatest song ever, but I like it.
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Hendrix Ibsen:
Looking forward to this film. Paul McCartney... and Brian Wilson. The two genius composers of popular music the last fifty years. I have all his albums with and without The Beach Boys. I don't think "God Only Knows" is the greatest song ever, but I like it.
And it is something that they were born only 2 days apart. (Brian born June 20, 1942) I didn't meet Brian (he was in his hotel room) but met the others in 1978 and told Carl that God Only Knows was my favorite BB song. He said Brian wrote it in 15 minutes!
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Yeah, the 60s generation reminds me a bit of the classical music era when you had great composers like Mozart and Haydn at the same time. And the great silence for a hundred years afterwards... before Beethoven, etc.. Let's hope neither McCartney or Wilson need to stop with the first. What gaps...
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Nancy R:
Hendrix Ibsen:
Looking forward to this film. Paul McCartney... and Brian Wilson. The two genius composers of popular music the last fifty years. I have all his albums with and without The Beach Boys. I don't think "God Only Knows" is the greatest song ever, but I like it.
And it is something that they were born only 2 days apart. (Brian born June 20, 1942) I didn't meet Brian (he was in his hotel room) but met the others in 1978 and told Carl that God Only Knows was my favorite BB song. He said Brian wrote it in 15 minutes!
Nancy, what was Dennis like in 1978? Such an underrated talent. Wish he had more opportunities to collaborate with Brian and more support in general.
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Dennis Wilson's "Pacific Ocean Blue" from 1977 was out of print for decades but re-released as a deluxe edition in 2008 with a second disc called "Bambu (The Caribou Sessions)" with unreleased/unfinished material. I've got it!
Well, it was nice to finally sit down and listen to it. It's a great album. I'm especically fond of epic and dreamy songs like "River Song". I think they are a bit Brian Wilson-esque. Too bad he didn't make more solo records, he started the promising Bamboo, but... David Bowie's cocaine use at the same time is legendary, "Station to Station"... but did apparently not so good for Dennis. The abuse took over and killed his creativity. Well well, the Wilson family is certainly fascinating people. Not quite 'standard', or what to call it. 
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Triplets Love Paul:
Bruce M.:
Hey Mods, I can't figure out how to fix the title of this thread. I type a " after "love and mercy" and keep getting &q instead -- help!
Hi Bruce, I have no idea what was going on there, I experienced the same upon multiple attempts to correct. Moving the last bit to the first somehow resolved the issue.
: AnitaThanks!
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And let me just reiterate: See "Love and Mercy" -- and soon. It's not doing great boxoffice and will soon disappear in a sea of summer special-effects blockbusters. It's a truly excellent film and worth going out of your way to see. And if the ending doesn't choke you up, check to make sure you still have a pulse.
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In 2012 I could not get tickets to the Beach Boys with Brian Wilson in Albuquerque, as it sold out quickly. The next day, my mariachi Beatles tribute act flew to Phoenix to do a show. While we waited in the airport for our van, our guitarron player started to play to pass the time. A group of people walked by and one looked and said, "Guitarron! Cool!" I noticed it was the Beach Boys, so I got up and ran and said hello to them! As I spoke I noticed right next to me was Brian Wilson! I told him I loved the music, he smiled, and his body guard said no hand shaking or autographs. Brian smiled again, and they were off for their show! It was so cool, they were very gracious and nice. I will see Love & Mercy.
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Hendrix Ibsen:
Yeah, the 60s generation reminds me a bit of the classical music era when you had great composers like Mozart and Haydn at the same time. And the great silence for a hundred years afterwards... before Beethoven, etc.. Let's hope neither McCartney or Wilson need to stop with the first. What gaps...
I'm assuming this is a typo. Beethoven died 20-40 years after Mozart. There was no hundred year gap between them. And the hundred years after Mozart was far from silent. Some of the greatest classical music ever written was during that time. We got Berlioz, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Verdi, Rossini, Wagner, Strauss, Brahms, Schubert, Bizet, Mendelssohn, Grieg and on and on. Just like the 1960s, there was plenty of good stuff afterward. Maybe disco got all the attention, but the '70s weren't so bad.
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Bruce M.:
And let me just reiterate: See "Love and Mercy" -- and soon. It's not doing great boxoffice and will soon disappear in a sea of summer special-effects blockbusters. It's a truly excellent film and worth going out of your way to see. And if the ending doesn't choke you up, check to make sure you still have a pulse.
I'm doubting it will play in China, but I can probably still see a pirated version. That won't do anything for the box office, though.
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JoeySmith:
Nancy R:
Hendrix Ibsen:
Looking forward to this film. Paul McCartney... and Brian Wilson. The two genius composers of popular music the last fifty years. I have all his albums with and without The Beach Boys. I don't think "God Only Knows" is the greatest song ever, but I like it.
And it is something that they were born only 2 days apart. (Brian born June 20, 1942) I didn't meet Brian (he was in his hotel room) but met the others in 1978 and told Carl that God Only Knows was my favorite BB song. He said Brian wrote it in 15 minutes!
Nancy, what was Dennis like in 1978? Such an underrated talent. Wish he had more opportunities to collaborate with Brian and more support in general.
He was in the booth next to us (at the Peachtree Plaza Hotel Sundial Room restaurant--it revolves around the top of the hotel) with some chick and was stand-offish and made a rude comment I won't repeat. I thought he was a real a-hole. Carl, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston and Mike Love were all super nice.
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Bruce M, you never said what was "brilliant, brilliant ****ing at the end!"
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Nancy R:
Bruce M, you never said what was "brilliant, brilliant ****ing at the end!"
I'm sorry, but I have no idea what you're talking about. I never said anything that was censored. In the headline of the thread the system kept replacing the endquote after "mercy" with the symbol &Q. The Mods fixed it by rearranging the wording of the title.
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Bruce M.:
Nancy R:
Bruce M, you never said what was "brilliant, brilliant ****ing at the end!"
I'm sorry, but I have no idea what you're talking about. I never said anything that was censored. In the headline of the thread the system kept replacing the endquote after "mercy" with the symbol &Q. The Mods fixed it by rearranging the wording of the title.
