From: BOBHUGHES@TTLC.NET   
      
   On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 04:17:37 GMT, Limoges  wrote:   
      
   >In article ,   
   > DanKaye  wrote:   
   >   
   >> I just dl'd "Sweet Insanity", and it is actually pretty damned good,   
   >> MUCH better than the much earlier "Adult Child".   
   >> Why was this one not released?   
   >> I can understand why "Adult Child" was not released - it was pretty   
   >> sucky. But this one is probably at least as good as his latest   
   >> pre-smile solo lp.   
   >> Anyone agree? Disagree?   
   >   
   >I disagree with you about "Adult Child," but I like "Sweet Insanity" a   
   >lot, too.  It sounds way better than GIOMH to me, and I don't think that   
   >Brian improved the "Sweet Insanity" songs he remade for GIOMH.   
   >   
   >Anyway, "Smart Girls" is so goofy and exuberant that I can't help but   
   >like it - gives me a lot more pleasure than "Kokomo" for damn sure.   
      
   There are two different versions of Sweet Insanity.  I like the   
   original better.  Smart Girls has two versions- one with actual   
   samples from Beach Boys records- one with new recordings of those   
   lines.  The one with new recordings flows better, but the sampled one   
   is goofier.   
      
   The GIOMH versions of the Sweet Insanity tracks are much better.   
   Brian is much more confident now, does what he wants and doesn't let   
   the record label try to make him sound more contemporary.  Plus he has   
   a better band. (And there aren't any drum machines).   
      
   The original Sweet Insanity tapes I believe were stolen somewhere   
   along the way, which precludes it ever being released.   I'd like to   
   hear Brian release Water Builds Up someday though.  That's a great   
   song.   
      
   Adult Child isn't really an album.  It's a collection of false starts   
   for different unfinished projects.   There's the Brian Wilson big band   
   stuff, where he tries to sound like Bobby Darin and a bunch of Beach   
   Boys tracks about health and fitness.  And some really awful pseudo-   
   surf pop stuff like Hey Little Tomboy, which is probably the worst   
   song Brian ever wrote.   But It's Over and Still I Dream of It are   
   great songs, which are available on the Good Vibrations box set.   
      
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