Mission Statement: to do very little, for very few, for not very long. Disappointing the easily pleased since 1819. Not as good as it used to be from Day One. History is Bunk - PT Barnum. Artificially Intelligent before it was fashionable. Fat camp for the mind! Nothing lasts, but nothing is lost. The Shock of the Old! Often bettered, never imitated.
Interesting shot ...
ReplyDeleteWonderful utilization of Guy Webster's classic! Love the font, the riff on the Hollywood sign. Perfection.
ReplyDeleteTake a good hard look at Brian's eyes.
That's IT, Babs! His expression is Peak Brian, and the whites of his eyes - the smallest details - tell the whole story.
DeleteThe hair is a cry for help, right?
DeleteOh, I don't think it's that bad, for the times. A lot of guys were fighting for tonsorial freedom back in '66. And he got a whole lot worse - the Bathrobe Years represented a new low for the Slob Aesthetic. He had to wait until his sixties before the whole look came together for him:
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(And anyway, quit snarking at Bri. Me and Babs will beat the crap out of you with wet pool noodles.)
In ’65 and ’66, that was “the haircut”. The Beatles sported the same coiffures on ‘Rubber Soul’, as did the cool guys on the campuses of the institutions of higher learning. Also, at the time, hair of that length was considered to be freakishly long, and upset my parent's generation to no end.
Delete“From the back, you can’t tell if they’re boys or girls!” - My Father (and he was a liberal)
Your dad was a liberal, Babs?? Oh GOD to have had your luck!
DeleteOh yeah, I had hair like that back then in high school. It just grew naturally like that, ends curled back or wavy. Dad complained, but mom said if the girls like it, that's all that matters. People forget, Cornel Wilde started the long hair look just after the war, and it just *grew* from there.
DeleteBrian Jones had the best "I'm so cool I don't need to cut my hair' (see the cover of High Tide And Green Grass). If his hair had been any darker he might have been mistaken for a British Grenadier Guard whereas Ray Davies had cornered the 'How long can it grow' look (perhaps his first imaginings of 'Apeman') leaving the Beatles in their dust not least because at some point in the summer of 66 the fab four had a visit from the 'Pudding Bowl' stylists with quite devastating consequences (see their New York photos from that summer)
DeleteGeorge Hunter set the hair length record back in '65, and also established the "Americana" look that everybody else followed.
DeleteThose nuances didn't always reach here in Australia where postwar rebel teenagers were 'Cornel Wilde Boys'
Deletehttps://www.hilobrow.com/2017/10/11/squadgoals-41/
Great link, Harry. From which, this:
Delete"Cornel Wilde Boys surface in the yellow press from time to time over the next few years, as folk demons-lite, but they’re totally forgotten with the coming of rock’n’roll in the 1950s. I grew up in oceanside Sydney, but the first I heard of them was in the late 1990s, from a retro-clothing maven. (I knew of Aub Laidlaw though: he was still bikini-busting in the 1960s.)
The Cornel Wilde Boys were never that much of a moral panic, really, but it’s noteworthy that in that early pre-surfer, pre-rocker, pre-mod manifestation of youth culture, the surfboard, the zoot suit, the bikini, blue jeans, bobby socks, greasy brushbacks, jive and rhythm & blues music could all happily co-exist under one banner."
I find the released cover of Pet Sounds humorous. Mike Love is staying behind The Boys so as to be protected from the dangerous goats.
ReplyDeleteYou can play a game with the cover:
Delete1 Find the goat's ass
2 Find the horse's ass
Is that any way to talk about Mike Love and Al Jardine?
DeleteIt's the *only* way.
DeleteIf my printer was working properly, I'd print this out and insert into my CD copy of Pet Sounds.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure the 'horse's ass' is a reference to one of the BBoys, but I'm not familiar enough with them, or their politics.
If anybody wants….
ReplyDeletePet Sounds 50th Anniversary 2 CD Edition
CD1 Mono and Stereo versions
CD2 Instrumentals and Live versions
Flac - https://workupload.com/file/cbUG49jBg8s
320 - https://workupload.com/file/7XAdgfaM3Td
Look away, Farquhar
Pet Sounds 24-bit/192kHz hi-res version (worth every single kilobyte)
https://workupload.com/file/n7NHDLj3eEH
Thanks Babs! It makes me feel better having all the bits even if I may not be able to really hear the difference. I'm worth it!
DeleteAnyone else here read "Whale Music"? I'm not a card-carrying member of the fan club, but Wilson certainly is an interesting character, and he's the barely-fictionalized protagonist of the book. Can't remember the author, but he's Canadian, and his work is very likable.
ReplyDeleteI think I started reading this a whaleback.
DeleteThanks for the great cover Farq. It should be ideal for use on the new Dolby Atmos version of Pet Sounds curated by Giles Martin...
ReplyDeleteNew audio versions of classic/iconic albums, remixes and remasters, are regularly released, but the sleeve design never gets improved/updated. Why not? It's a mystery. In publishing, reprinting the first edition cover again and again is just never done - new edition, new cover, new market. In rock and pop, however, we're stuck with the original cover through decades and forever. It has more "iconic' value than the music. This is insane.
Deletelol... good one, FT.
ReplyDeleteThis is, by some way, the most popular post ever on th' IoF©. I think it's because there's no words and youse bums don't/can't read. But while you're here (and still coming here, every day) here's something: the Pet Sounds sign in the hills is in Brian's mind, and he's looking at us to ask if we see it too.
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