From: derekbill@allsummerlong.com   
      
   In article <747805a5.0411041954.63b4e7e9@posting.google.com>, Phil   
    wrote:   
      
   > "yesguy"  wrote in message   
   > news:...   
   > > do lyrics have to make sense all the time, or just capture a theme?   
   > >   
   > > is all poetry just laid out there in black and white, or should some of the   
   > > lines be rather crypric in flavor?   
   > >   
   > > i don't have the answers. i don't think Mike Love has either. but we all   
   > > have opinions   
   > >   
   > > as for Mike Love's observations about Smile, he was probably not too   
   > > satisfied with the success of Pet Sounds, and wanted to fall back on the   
   old   
   > > sounds/productions. (as he does today).   but you would have thought that   
   > > the worldly success of Good Vibrations, would have made him a convert to   
   the   
   > > new generation musical sounds.   
   > >   
   > > SMiLe was not an album where the new vision could be compromised.   
   > >   
   > > i think that the group's non support of the project as a whole was probably   
   > > one of the biggest flubs in modern pop music.  this group needed a dose of   
   > > hip and it would have put them on top of the progressive musical mountain.   
   > >   
   > > my opinion for what it's worth. probably not much :-)   
   >   
   >   
   > It is worth a lot.  Your opinion is well thought out.  And I happen to   
   > agree that Van Dyke Park's lyrics are abstract poetry and very good   
   > abstract poetry I might add.  Although I am still wondering what   
   > columnated ruins domino means....   
      
   Perhaps the new album should have been called "The Beach Boys Go To   
   College". Except only one wanted to go.   
      
   Derek   
      
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