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"That Thing You Do" and "Southside Girl"

film The Wonders , directed and scripted by Tom Hanks in 1996, showed in a somewhat topical the adventures of a fictional band a one hit wonder, since his ascension until his inevitable fall in the magical year 1964. However, many times what remains in the memory is something that at first had a secondary role, and in this case, the song that imaginary group had been to number one, "That Thing You Do", was what in everyone was really willing to listen to throughout the movie (and while waiting to come out of the screen such as unpleasant side-faced duck who played the leader of the group).

"That Thing You Do", composed by Adam Schlesinger, bassist of the great Fountain of Wayne is a small wonder purposely designed for Hanks film, which had the good taste to choose it as the soundtrack, and a jewel of modern power-pop called attention to all who listen, whether or not fans of the genre (it belongs to a very exclusive club of power-pop success: the other is affiliated song "My Sharona" by The Knack ). "That Thing You Do" is addictive, vibrant, seductive, acts as a precision mechanism with all the pieces in place, and while enjoying a party, we are looking forward to the next and so during that lasts just three minutes .

For this song, ultimately, also contains a small trauma: the schizophrenia of power-pop genre, or put another way, the art of building commercial songs targeted to a small group of people. The power-pop is a style true to his roots and love of his influences, which has for decades been undergoing a long journey in the desert and that is not even taken into account by the music magazines quality. However, the genre itself has its own poison. Many groups are limited to consider it simply as a manual or recipe book, without that talent has nothing to do with it. A lot of work style are a catalog of songs with guitar playing, melodies and choruses lifeless fall under its own weight, which generates hundreds of groups equal each other and drives perfect in form, but bland in the background. Love conquers schemes to repeat many times to a genuine artistic personality and becomes a kind of aristocratic lineage as a parody of itself.

However, when the style comes together with a natural talent, there is no doubt the most wonderful music can be heard today. Also belongs to this select club "That Thing You Do."

From classical to classic and had long wanted talk about "Southside Girl", the group's legendary song Arrogance of North Carolina, wrote in 1982, after a somewhat uneven career in which they joined a sort of seventies American rock radio formula. "Southside Girl" is not only better than they did, it is also the best song of the eighties. A revelation made music, a piece of mind become enamored three minutes of unparalleled pleasure, where everything is perfect and happy. And the tools for it are simple, but ingeniously used: a low overhead to "The Dock Of The Bay" By Otis Redding , the influence of the Beatles in each atom attention to bridge a tribute to "Drive My Car" - a tune that absorbs the soul of Searchers "Needles & Pins" and above all a passionate and honest way of singing that conveys a vital spark absolutely electrifying. Unparalleled and indispensable, "Southside Girl" is one of the flagship songs in a way to understand music and a jewel that nobody should pass his life without regret.

Here you get "That Thing You Do" of Wonders, "Southside Girl" Arrogance and a version of "That Thing You Do" by the Travoltas , a delight so touched the sound of the Beach Boys on your hard Party :

That Thing You Do + Southside Girl

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Charlie Manson murders Songs

In late August 1975, before a mammoth concert in Long Beach, California, about Led Zeppelin in full swing the group's press agent, Danny Goldberg , received a red-haired girl with a nervous tic grotesque, he wanted to talk with Jimmy Page . I was sure something terrible was coming could happen at the concert that night. According to him, the last time I had a hunch and saw how they killed a guy with a shot before his eyes. The girl, completely crazy, just went away when he claimed it was impossible to talk to Jimmy. During the concert that night nothing happened. But a week later, on September 5, the girl appeared in all the news for attempted murder-with a gun that was not actually charged, U.S. President Gerald Ford , during a rally in San Francisco.

The girl was Lynette Fromme, one of the most adept and persistent convinced the family that Charles Manson met in the late sixties, where he was named Red. Interestingly, another girl from the clan renamed with a color, Sandra Good , Blue, he dragged his fanaticism for the rest of his life since the incarceration of Manson, and was even sentenced to ten years in prison in 1975 for sending threatening letters to corporations that "contaminated land". After the penalty, did not hesitate for a home near the prison of Cormoran, California, where he meets his imprisonment Manson for about forty years. Only two samples of one of the highlights of the end of the innocent magic of the sixties: the rarefied atmosphere, violent, subversive and delirious which led to the expansion of consciousness released by LSD in the middle of the decade, and particular character: Charles Manson.

Convicted experienced anti-philosopher, and especially frustrated musician, Manson started to get stronger after his release from prison on March 21, 1967. Until then, the sum of their sentences was more than half his age, thirty-two years. In his last imprisonment in prison at McNeil Island (Washington)-for pimping, theft and check forgery, "he learned to play guitar by the famous gangster Alvin Creepy Karpis , who had been mistress. After his release he traveled to San Francisco, where he found the ideal breeding ground for rooting their paranoia and convert to the cause quickly fell disoriented young people in their networks. Expert in weak points of others, magnetic and seductive, and backed by an ideology itself was a hodgepodge of Eastern mysticism, Catholicism and delusions of all kinds, was surrounded by a large group of young people (mostly women) willing to worship as what he said was, "Christ and Satan at the same time." The Manson case is of interest not only as a paradigm of a feverish time, but also because it joins a synthesis of the best music that had that golden era.

Manson gifted composer, but his personality changed too, moved along 1968 between some of the most important musicians and producers in California, who seduced with cocktails of drugs and girls and arranged. I had met Dennis Wilson the most debauchery of the Beach Boys in the spring of 1968. In fact, he lived with his young followers in his home in Sunset Boulevard 14,400, which meant that summer a cost of approximately $ 100,000 to Dennis. The drummer of the Beach Boys came to make such statements about Manson in the British magazine Rave in December 1968: "Sometimes it scares me the magician, Charlie Manson, a friend of mine (...) sings and plays and writes poetry. May soon be one of the artists of Brother Records catalog. "Despite his heterodoxy and rebellion, in Manson's dream was to become a famous musician and a millionaire. Dennis introduced him to famed producer Terry Melcher stronghold California pop sound of the late (and son of Doris Day ) and other producers and agents. It was always the same: all were drawn to the particular personality of Charlie, but soon perceived the same time sinister and violent wave that ended up away from their side. Although Manson did start some vague promises, in the end nobody wanted to bet on him and then his social resentment reached critical levels. Still, he had had time to record some songs more or less than the private study of Brian Wilson, in his own mansion at 1448 Laurel Way, and in two sessions, the first on 11 September 1967 and the second on August 9, 1968, with the sound engineer Stephen Desper flying and accompanied by six of the girls in her family, some of them participated in the murders of August next year that would world famous Manson and his clan. The songs posted on disc format a couple of years later. However, in January 1969, Manson had to add to the breakup of his musical dream theft Californian Dennis Wilson made his song "Cease To Exist", which changed the title "Never Learn Not To Love" for inclusion in the album of the Beach Boys 20/20 . Dennis always claim that the song was not Manson, but had made almost all of it. However, despite its sweetened arrangements have nothing to do with the dryness of the Manson version, the truth is that underneath is sensed an aroma perverted, insane, which is inconsistent with the spirit of the Beach musically friendly Boys.

The disagreement with Dennis Wilson had occurred much earlier, when the latter, regardless of sex orgies easily reached those involved Neil Young and Mike Love - began to distance himself from the clan and stopped paying the rent of the house Manson was busy with the family. Manson and his followers were expelled by default in early autumn 1968. Then turned in a Volkswagen bus painted black to avoid attracting the attention of the police, the Spahn Ranch in Chatsworth, a place hidden in the desert of Death Valley about fifty miles east of Los Angeles, the mountainous area of \u200b\u200bSanta Susana, and had done times in old western town productions. The ranch, now abandoned, was owned by an eighty-three, George Spahn, who was persuaded to stay there in exchange for sexual favors, Lynette Fromme. Isolated, surrendered to Manson and his virulent ideas, and exposed to continuous doses of LSD, amphetamines and group sex, clan withdrew into himself and began to distance themselves from the reality as it allowed both the infinite silence of the desert. Still missing one ingredient detonators, the engine that fired the destructive ideas Manson, and this occurred in late November 1968, when Beatles released their White Album .

Ian MacDonald explains perfectly Revolution in mind the decisive influence of the music of the Beatles in the lunatic thoughts Manson: "Trying to productions determined by chance at the same level as the material intentionally endowed of meaning is falling into a relativism that can only end in chaos, and chaos attracts psychopaths. " Indeed, gambling, creative freedom and boundless imagination began to star in the music of the Beatles, and by extension, all popular music, from 1966, constituted not only a glorious culmination of art, but also approach delusional interpretations dangerous or unhealthy. The exuberant musical style and White Album lighting served Charles Manson, that from here he reorganized his theories and found an alibi for their diligent peers abstract. "Revolution 9", for example, ceased to be the best approximation of the pop avant-garde music into a prophecy of the apocalypse soon. Manson said that blacks would rebel in the summer of 1969 that would kill all whites, would be the "Helter Skelter" Manson song perhaps related to the slaughter by their furious guitars hellish atmosphere (ignoring of course, the Helter Skelter was a typically British spiral slide). He and the family, however, hide in an underground lake that ran through the Valley of Death, "Manson borrowed this idea from an ancient legend of the Shoshone and Hopi Indians, who spoke of" hell hole "or" well bottomless "- and stay there until it became 144,000 descendants. Then would come back to earth and rule the world, as the black man inferior intelligence would have plunged back into chaos. For Manson, the Beatles were the four angels of Revelation and he was the fifth. Manson found more messages in the exceptionally strong "Piggies" by George Harrison , which he incited the mass murder of the wealthy, in "Blackbird", which prophesied the rise of the black man, and also in "Honey Pie" by the Beatles which expressed the desire to know (among other things, the song says "come to teach me the magic"). Manson and his family began sending letters to the Beatles to make an appointment, which evidently were not answered, "and the White Album was constant and required listening in the domains paranoid Spahn Ranch. On the other hand, these ideas of death and destruction were reflected in a collection of Volkswagens stolen and adapted to the desert as buggies sanders, in night patrols, with their corresponding checkpoints-in fuel tanks hidden under the rocks and, above all, in an assortment of knives, pistols and rifles (Charlie was an expert on arms). If the apocalypse would occur, it was desirable to be well prepared.

Manson-The faithful of twenty girls and five boys-only showed an absolute faith in these prophecies, though many of them came from wealthy families and had college. Aggressive tendencies and sociopaths Manson began to run wild as 1969 progressed. In June, the prevailing idea of \u200b\u200bManson at the ranch was to be taught Black people how to start the revolution. On July 26, Charles Manson and three followers - Bobby Beausoleil, Mary Brunner , who was not then testify as an accusation, and Susan Atkins - made a visit to 964, Topanga Canyon, Los Angeles where he lived the music teacher Gary Hinman , whom they knew because they had received previously. Manson erroneously thought that Hinman had inherited $ 20,000. After two days of torture, and not getting results, Manson slit his ear and told Bobby Beausoleil, who, incidentally, in 1964 had played the devil in the film Kenneth Anger Scorpio Rising , and who had played guitar briefly in early 1965 in a Love , when they were still called The Grass Roots before the arrival of Bryan MacLean - he should kill. Beausoleil, stuck in a morass of LSD and satanic ideas, do not hesitate to stab to death and Hinman, of course, to start the peculiar mark of the clan house: on one wall, with the blood of Hinman, wrote "Political Piggy". Police arrested Beausoleil on August 6, the vehicle caught driving Hinman and find the murder weapon hidden in a tire.

From here, things happened very quickly. Manson's resentment toward the music producers who had rejected him psychotic highs. The same Terry Melcher came twice to the Spahn Ranch in May to listen to the music of Manson, the second one he did with a friend who had a small digital recording equipment, but following a bout of verbal violence Manson against one of the followers to interrupt a song, Melcher decided not to return and dispose of the recordings and any kind of agreement. Beausoleil's arrest, on the other hand, could make the family become involved in crime. Manson decided to it was time for another "creepy-crawl" ('creepy crawling'), as he called night missions in which they introduced into houses and stole furniture or changing room while its inhabitants slept. However, this mission would go well beyond. Manson was looking for a crime that, first, could convince the police that Beausoleil was not responsible for the murder of Hinman and also serve as revenge for his failed desire for fame. All this, ultimately, aimed to warn blacks reached the time of Helter Skelter.

That's how you get to the warm evening of August 8, when around midnight a 63 Chevy blue through the long avenue of Benedict Canyon Drive until you get to Heaven, where a passage is diverted to the right in the direction of travel and that leads directly to the number 10,050. The farm is isolated from others and hidden among the trees of Bel Air. At that time, the property is rented on behalf of Roman Polanski , who pays for her $ 1,000 a month and since July 20 is in London working on the film The Day of the Dolphin , who never completed. His previous tenants had been Terry Melcher and his wife, actress Candice Bergen , which for months now who did not live there, but in a house owned by Doris Day in Malibu. This was something that Manson knew perfectly well, as 23 March this year were twice in the house looking for Melcher (while Sharon Tate and photographer Shahrokh Hatami conducting a photo shoot, Tate could see Manson first time, obliquely, while Khatami spoke with him), reinforcing the idea that one purpose was to beat a good scare Melcher. Car drop three girls (all of them barefoot) and a young man, dressed in black and armed with a Colt Buntline Special revolver-very hard to get model-caliber 22 with silencer, several kitchen knives four inches long and a nylon rope. The young man climbs a pole, cut with pliers the telephone wires and then they all come into the estate from the bottom of the garden hedges.

The property is divided into a main house on one level and another adjacent house, smaller, a few meters in front of the parking area, where we then lived William Garretson, 19, maintainer (for $ 35 a week) while the owner of the house, Rudi Altobelli Melcher-friend and music promoter and agent-millionaire, was out on the road. When intruders enter the garden, Garretson is in his apartment with Steve Parent, 18, who knows only a week ago, a boy about to start his college career and a fan of audio channels and, after selling a stereo, and is leaving. At home principipal, Voytek Frykowski , playboy 37 year old Polish artsy-but Polanski said of him that "it was a great friend, but a man of little talent" - sleeping on a couch in the living room after smoked marijuana, which has also made his girlfriend, Abigail Folger , young heir to a great owner of the coffee industry and fan of humanitarian charities, staying in your room. In another room are talking about the beautiful Sharon Tate, eight months pregnant and a half Jay Sebring, renowned stylist and hairdresser to the stars of Hollywood, also responsible for designing the distinctive hairstyle floating Jim Morrison - who years earlier had been his partner and with whom he maintained a strong friendship, and, moreover, was a black belt in karate and had been a student of Bruce Lee . On the bedside table, reading is the Sharon of those days: I have a baby . Jay Sebring is about to leave with his Porsche in black. Steve Young Parent also leaves the guard house, gets into his car, a white Rambler, and leads to the exit when in front of the headlights appears a tall and serious look that he calls stop while pointing a gun with a pistol.

What happens then is the closest thing to a small-scale apocalypse. Charles Tex Watson , who had joined the family in the spring of 1968-thanks, by the way, Dennis Wilson, who introduced him to Manson after Tex help him with his car damaged, "had been a model student and as sports in college, in Copeville, Texas, before deciding to be a small vacation after graduation. Brain-fried by amphetamines and destruction Manson mantras that night was not only the only one that Manson had given instructions on what to do, but also became a ruthless murderer, ruthless, almost robotic and accounts for 90% of the stabbing that occurred that day and the next ("I'm the devil and I'll kill them all," he told a terrified tenants who previously did not understand what was going on). Susan Atkins -also known as Sadie Mae in the family environment, again under the influence of White Album - California, 21 , was a beautiful vampire, and unhealthy chameleon "in 1967 was hired as a stripper for Halloween Day celebration that made the famous Satanist Anton Lavey - whose dysfunctional life made sense that same 1967 when he met and fell in love Manson it immediately (to hear Susan's voice, refined and sweet, hard to understand that when Sharon Tate cried mercy for the life of your child, could say "There will be no pity for you, bitch.") Patricia Krenwinkel was an ugly girl, hairy, lacking self-esteem, and therefore was easy prey for Manson. Neither she nor Susan Atkins knew what they were doing that night But the discovery does not hesitate to join the feast with joy, with a horrified Sharon Tate, known for its naivety, which however was the last to die and had to see how those violently ended the lives of his friends one after another. Outside in the garden, was another girl in the family, Linda Kasabian, who not imagine the carnage that was taking place and subsequently in exchange for immunity became the main prosecution witness against Manson and the family. While driving back to the ranch, Patricia Krenwinkel told fellow slaughter as follows: "When it hurts and it is bone, it hurts your hand, then it is difficult Take the knife. "Months later, on trial for the murders, Susan Atkins said:" What I remember most is the noise that Sharon's blood was coming out of their wounds. "As in the previous murder of Gary Hinman, the murderers left another message. Susan Atkins, a towel soaked in the blood of Tate, write "Pig" on the front door. No one knows who the people you just killed. The macabre scene was discovered at following day by the housekeeper, Winifred Chapman , at nine in the morning (later in the trial refused to recount what he saw as "too much for me.") William Garretson, the guard is raised by police beatings. He had spent the night listening to music with his new team, without knowing anything. It is considered a suspect but was released immediately. Later, give samples of his quirky personality to support the ineffable Rosie Tate Polanski, who claimed to be the daughter that Tate was about to give birth-data that fell on its own, since they already knew that baby was going to be a kid and you thought Richard Paul call - and also to appear interviewed on a television special in 2000, considerably drunk and suggesting that he had actually heard screaming and saw Sharon Tate's murder Abigail Folger through your window.

The next night, Aug. 9, the bloody "creepy-crawl" was repeated, this time a little east of Cielo Drive in the 3301 Waverly Drive, where lived a middle-aged couple, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca , owners of a supermarket and a boutique. Manson, angry, considering that the previous night's riot was unnecessary, he explained that this time would accompany them to teach them how to do things: "I'm not that terrified. Should they believe anything bad will not happen. Let them die quickly, as in a dream. " He walks alone to the house, entering through the back door which was open to marriage at gunpoint with a gun. Convinces them that only wants to steal and they do not happen at all. The left bound with leather straps and back to the car. Then comes the time again, Tex Watson and Patricia Krenwinkel, a new member, Leslie Van Houten , former queen of her high school in Monrovia, population of Los Angeles. As in the previous night, Manson's followers do not seem to want a quick and merciful death of their victims and rages again: Leno gets twelve cuts with a bayonet and fourteen cuts with a fork, which leaves Patricia nailed to his stomach after Tex will marked on the abdomen has the word "War." Rosemary takes the staggering figure of 41 stabs. Of course, the family firm can be seen with other inscriptions written in blood: "Death To Pigs" and "Rise" ('Lift' message to black) on the wall of the room, and "healt Skelter" (note the misspelling) in the refrigerator door (where Watson ate some chicken wings, as the girls cleaned the blood in the bathroom). Interestingly, many years later, in 1987, a daughter that marriage left orphaned, Suzanne Laberge , began visiting in jail Tex Watson, who in 1980 had founded a Christian movement called abounding Love Ministries (Ministry of Abundant Love). Suzan ended Watson not only forgiving, but also stating in his favor in subsequent parole hearings. Tex Watson, on the other hand, fled to his parents' home in Texas the day after the second slaughter, unable to understand what he had done and believing that Manson would end up killing him. And Manson, while carrying out the assassination of the LaBianca, left Susan Atkins and Linda Kasabian in Venice, also in Los Angeles, where he lived an actor with whom Linda had had sex and were also killed. Linda deliberately prevented by calling another door, which made a strange reply. They ended up aborting the plan, even before Susan Atkins had the courtesy to defecate in the stairwell.

Despite the similarities between the crimes of Hinman and 8 and 9 August, the Police Department of Los Angeles failed to consider the connection-not even believe that the Tate and LaBianca crimes were related, and focused on the hypothesis of a revenge issue of drugs in the Tate (found a few drugs in the house and the Porsche of Jay Sebring) and an imitation in the LaBianca case. A few days after the crimes, on 12 August was a raid on the Spahn Ranch and arrested Manson and his acolytes, 25, accused of car theft, but a new error, in this case a warrant expired, he had once again remain in the wild (not bothered to check they were the real names and not pseudonyms used between them.) Manson began to get nervous and late August, he decided to kill an occasional member of the family, Donald Shorty Shea, 36, who had acted as an extra in Hollywood films and also in some porn productions, "because he thought he knew too much about family activities. Bruce Davis and Steve Grogan were responsible for ending it. Barbara Hoyt , with only seventeen and a few months in the family, could hear the screams of Donald at night from a stream, testimony that later became part of the prosecution and that the family tried to avoid giving in return a free trip to Hawaii. Hoyt, frightened, and accepted September 6, 1970 made the trip with Ruth Anne Moorehouse (a hard core of the family and willing to kill their first pig, "as he once told Dan DeCarlo , leader of a biker gang that was related to the family and that provided data to the police.) Back in Hawaii, Ruth Ann offered Hoyt a burger inside containing ten tablets of LSD. After overcoming a serious psychosis, Barbara Hoyt stopped having doubts and testified against the family, and still today cries recalling the cries of Shorty Shea in the parole hearings of any member.

The clan was moving in the desert of Death Valley while searching for devil's hole where they would hide until the arrival of the Apocalypse. Finally they decided to stay in the Barker Ranch in Goler Wash, about 200 miles east of Los Angeles, and for that Manson convinced his owner promises to maintain the place and giving him the record of gold that the Beach Boys were obtained by Today! (1965), which in turn had given Dennis Wilson. Barker Ranch was an old mining, and miners who still lived in the neighborhood started complaining to the police of the threatening attitude of the group were all armed with knives in their belts, and their peculiar customs (the girls family nude sunbathing and all had sex without caring that there was someone close). This, together with evidence of car theft, fraud, forgery and even the burning of a bulldozer, led to a new police raid on 19 November in which Manson arrested and 24 people. Incidentally, this fact caused it to explode the string of revelations. All detainees were taken to the Inyo County Jail in Independence. Police discovered that the name of one of the girls, Susan Atkins, corresponded with Bobby Beausoleil information about who had accompanied him in the murder of Gary Hinman. With the aim of questioning, Susan moved to the women's prison in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, where his statement was not allowed to show responsibility. However, her cellmates, Shelly Joice Nadell and Ronnie Howard , listened stunned Atkins told how she and her colleagues had killed Sharon Tate murders and explained in great detail, including the fact that after Tate died, she had licked his fingers stained with blood ("It was the most intense sexual experience of my life" said Atkins of the killing later in the statements of the trial). Susan gave to his companions one pearl after another: "I felt so strong and the spirit was so clean that I wanted to crack the Tate's belly to remove the baby, take it and take care of me" and "wanted to empty eye sockets of all the victims and cast your eyes from the walls and cut off their fingers. " He also said something quite significant: "None of us can deny anything that Charlie orders you to do." The prisoners who heard the story of Atkins were soon give it to them to police. From here there were any arrests of family members involved in the murder, and the December 11, 1969 Manson first appeared in the Jury Room at the Court of Los Angeles, wearing a bizarre costume buckskin.

The trial, held in room number 816 of the Court of Los Angeles, did not begin until June 15, 1970, and quickly became a media spectacle. Some of the girls in the family stood guard Standing at the gates of the Tribunal and sympathized with their leader, following any of the guidelines (to shave the hair, draw a cross between the eyes or sing their songs, something major would also indicted: Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten). Then it was revealed the fascination and the placing of the girls in the Manson family, and even Linda Kasabian, the main prosecution witness who said that "God has commanded me to tell the world that Manson is a false prophet", he acknowledged that he was still in love him. Another girl in the clan, Catherine Gillies, testified that she had killed the night of the crimes, but did not because not needed. Death threats of the family were the daily bread, and Manson soon demonstrated that the tactic was to blame for his defense without regard to his followers as responsible for the crime. The new incarnation of evil kept repeating in court their eternal mantra: "I am what you have done me to be" insulting "came to tell the judge, Charles Older , the following:" You are a black old smelly "- take weird yoga positions, complaining about not being allowed to defend himself, though at first he left himself, eventually concluding that he had to do minimal preparation, and even attack with a pencil to his own lawyer, Irving Kanerak . Another surprising note was the sudden disappearance at the end of November 1970 the defense attorney Leslie Van Houten, Ronald Hughes, a bohemian-looking hippy who until then had not intervened in any case as counsel, and who had refused to follow the legal tactic of blame to save Leslie Manson. Some time later, the trial ended on 29 March 1971 his body was found about 150 miles east of Los Angeles, inlaid between two boulders in Ventura County, in an advanced state of decomposition. Sandra Good, Blue, said he had killed the family, although officially the cause of death was "undetermined." A more bizarre yet was that the then U.S. president, Richard Nixon , undermining any notion of presumption of innocence, claimed in a press conference in Denver that Manson trial and alleged murderer, was still without certainly guilty as picked Los Angeles Time in its issue of August 4.

How could it be otherwise, if Manson was also his musical side. On March 6, 1970 was issued the first official record of Charlie: Lie: The Love And Terror Cult , which includes fourteen of the songs were recorded in the private study of Brian Wilson, and was published by Phil Kaufman, a former cellmate of Manson and also one of those responsible for stealing the body of Gram Parsons the September 20, 1973. The disk folder shows the famous cover of Life of December 19, 1969, which appears Manson with a contorted face paranoia. As for music, any skeptical approach to the disc is immediately revoked when it begins the first song, "Look At You Game, Girl", which shows almost obscenely talented musician who was in Manson, under layers of violence and resentment . His nasal voice, important feature of the album, sings a soft song, and enough subtle lyricism. His compositions are often circular, hypnotic, almost mantras they contain a powerful magnetism, as is the case of "Ego", "Mechanical Man" or "Do not Do Anything Legal", and not make it very difficult to imagine how the atmosphere of music and LSD orgies family. The instrumentation is always very austere, just Manson's guitar, some percussion, the voices of their time girls and a style almost always close to the folk. Of note is the terrific "I'll Never Say Never To Always", a childish tone song but evil intentions, played only by girls "The laughter you hear at the end are particularly ominous, including Susan Atkins and Patricia Krenwinkel, who later became killers. The catchy "Garbage Dump" speaks of the custom of the family to feed on the scraps of Simi Valley supermarkets threw back their containers, which Manson believed an act of anti-capitalist. Finally, you can not stop quoting "Cease To Exist" almost unrecognizable compared to the version of the Beach Boys, and much more dylaniana here and "Big Iron Door", a great song that sounds particularly grim counterpoint thanks of onomatopoeia. With the money from record sales-not many, just sold three hundred copies, "Manson tried to cover the costs of trial. Today's testimony is as malicious and stunned, but, again, recommended and not without talent, as he repeated in interviews, "Music is my religion" - one of the most frightening of the late sixties .

Finally, on April 19, 1971 the members of the Manson Family defendants were sentenced to death (less Tex Watson, who could not be tried because at the time of the arrests were in Texas, thanks to influences that drove his family was able to avoid extradition to August, but in October was also sentenced to death.) In February 1972, however, the California Supreme Court overturned the death penalty in the state, and the sentences were commuted to life imprisonment.

The Tate-LaBianca murders, and the very existence of a group like Manson and the family, assumed one of the events that finally ended with the opening of blind optimism and confidence of the decade. As Joe Boyd says in White Bicycle, "the loving spirit of 1967 evaporated in the heat of drugs chungas, violence, commercialism and political pressure." Upon learning the jury's decision, Susan Atkins shouted: "You better close your doors locked and watch out for your children." Already seen another adept, Lynette From, Red became a living scarecrow by which he earned a life sentence for trying to kill President Ford, the same happened with his spiritual sister, Sandra Good, Blue, that between the comings and goings the jail did not hesitate to appear on television talk shows to spread the messianism of its leader and, of course, threaten any commentator who dared contradict him. The cruelty and the viciousness of the crimes committed, moreover, public star hitherto seemed untouchable, not only signified the elevation of the altars Manson in popular culture, but also produced a shock of this magnitude members convicted today carried forty years in prison and been denied all motions for probation. Susan Atkins has not received the mercy which she denied Sharon Tate, and recently was denied freedom despite being the longest serving prisoner locked up in prison in California and have an incurable brain tumor, one leg amputated and the other paralyzed, and a life expectancy of only a few months. All of them have become the most visible sign of some dark times in the same year that would close on December 6 with the free concert of the Rolling Stones fateful Altamont and four deaths.

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Charlie Manson. Lie: The Love And Terror Cult (1970)

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The history of the Left Banke serves to define exactly what is a cult. In the late sixties and recorded two albums in their time but were not too well known, over the years served to place on record its great quality. The Left Banke helped make pop more complex, to demonstrate that the dimensions from which a song could be addressed were endless. The group was formed in 1965 in New York. Michael Brown , Tom Finn, George Cameron and Steve Martin (incidentally, born in Madrid) met at United World studies, which belonged to the father of the first. The weight composition of the group rested precisely on Michael Brown, whose musical training was classical, which explains the importance that the arrangements they have in their songs. This interest in creating songs with musical support more elaborate, with the facilities given the fact that his father was the owner of the studies, made his first songs ("I Have not Got The Nerve" and "I've Got Something On My Mind ") and containing the characteristic features of his style. In fact, his music could be defined as a mixture of pop melodies and lush arrangements of classical instruments (harpsichords, violins, etc.), something that has been called baroque pop or chamber pop, as did the Zombies ( one of the main influences of Left Banke). This kind of pop would be the most exquisite development that had taken the gun Beatles Rubber Soul with (1965) and Beach Boys Pet Sounds with (1966).

After his first recordings succeeded in awakening the interest of any record, Michael Brown decided to disband the group and went to California. However, other members took up one of his compositions, "Walk Away Renee", from which she had recorded only a sketch, "completed recording and released as a single along with" I Have not Got the Nerve. " Reached number 6 on the U.S. charts. Given this success, the group rejoined and released another single: Pretty Ballerina / Lazy Day , which reached number 15. In early 1967 came his first album, Walk Away Renee / Pretty Ballerina . At just 18 years old each, Michael Brown and his group achieved a masterpiece, one of the hidden jewels of pop. All the songs on this album belong to the same manual of style: bright melodies powered by the arrangements, which filled with lyricism and a disturbing beauty, along with the stunning vocal harmonies. The album begins with "Pretty Ballerina", which includes a catchy keyboard line that explodes into a memorable chorus. In fact, this song, and "Walk Away Renee" and "She May Call You Up Tonight", the Brown wrote inspired by his crush on Renee Fladen , the girlfriend of Tom Finn. Follow "She May Call You Up Tonight", another of the great songs of the disco-if there is any non-, where the brilliance of a melody beat strong influence is pervasive and need not even be supported by arrangements. "Their wives Barterers and explores a medieval atmosphere, and is a clear example of the skill with which the Left Banke pool their voices. Then a harpsichord introduces "I've Got My Mind On somehing. In this excellent song, melody, clean and perfect subject on a battery steadily gives way to short instrumental passages, reflective and extremely beautiful.

travel far the album has been flawless, but with "Let Go Of You Girl" is reached ecstasy. Probably the best song on the album, drawn on a hypnotic keyboard and constant throughout the composition, and sinks within us to get drunk. The vocals on this occasion, are twin sisters of Colin Blunstone of the Zombies. After a song of this caliber, "Evening Gown" sounds a little interlude of luxury, with all the ingredients characteristic of the group. But it soon appears another gem: "Walk Away Renee", as we have seen had been a successful single. In this case it is a most melancholy composition, perfectly within the laws of pop. The strings underline the sadness of the melody, anticipating the darkest of the last part of the disc. Before that, however, we can see how the group performs a country song, "What Do You Know? "Which is not too harsh because the shades are typically Brown." Shadows Breaking Over My Head "again recalls the Zombies, and follows the general rule as to drive the excellent combination of voices and perfection of the melody, which in this case emphasizes the melancholy side. "I Have not Got The Nerve" has a more rhythmic, and again the harpsichord is the protagonist. The disc closes with a gold seal, "Lazy Day ", where an electric guitar appears abrupt, almost terrifying. The melody, more energetic than in previous songs, makes it clear that if the first part of the disc has dominated the pop placidity, the end is a dark aftertaste of sadness close to despair.

Shortly after this great album of beautiful twilight, unknown and undervalued in his time, members of the Left Banke decide to separate, especially by the will of Michael Brown to devote himself entirely to the composition under study. This is enough problems, as Brown continues to record the name of the group, under the opposition of the rest. From this separation, Brown publishes the single Ivy Ivy / And Suddenly. "Ivy Ivy" is a song great, superb, with a dreamy melody where a precise horn arrangements highlight this happy dream tone. Without doubt, a song and would have made albums like Sgt Pepper's or Pet Sounds were even larger, and shows the state of inspiration that was Brown. On the other hand, it is also very high quality level of "And Suddenly", an elegant and sophisticated pop song that plays in the style crooner. Despite the uniqueness of this single, had no success because of the boycott that the other group members made from the fan club, with the result that the company refused to promote it.

Brown rejoins the group three months later to record the song "Desiree" and "In The Morning Light, consisting of himself with Tom Feher, who had worked on the first album and single Ivy Ivy / And Suddenly . "Desire" delves into the melancholy with which ended the first drive of the Left Banke, and uses a more ornate orchestral arrangements and raucous, but no time lost in the wake of Brown's own quality. "In the Morning Light" also features the instrumental medley, which adds a certain epic tone hitherto non-existent in the group's songs. The quality of these recordings was very high, but the Left Banke not again achieve the success obtained with the singles from the first album. Michael Brown went again, this time for good, and the rest of the group focused on preparing a new album. Compositional weight then fell to Tom Finn, with the help of guitarist Tom Feher.

And yet, The Left Banke Too is a very good album, required listening, but perhaps it is somewhat artificial compared to the previous. Without Michael Brown, the other group members focus on recreating the characteristics of his style without providing any additional developments, except for the orchestral swelling and try for greater complexity in song structure. Nevertheless, "Goodbye Holly" is a pop song soars, the best of the album, with a perfect chorus based on the combination of voices. "There's Gonna Be A Storm", by contrast, is based on the complete sense of song, with a sensual arrangements, rather than the punch of the chorus. "Sing Little Bird Sing" is a beautiful composition, again with medieval borders and some arrangements that include harp, strings and various percussion. "Nice To See You" has a strong influence of the Beatles more psychedelic, and "Give The Man A Hand" is a song that fooled for his sad beginning, almost a prayer, gives rise to a chorus sunny and bright, forming a of the best songs on the album. In "Bryant Hotel" we are back to the Zombies, and "Dark is the Bark" is again a song-heavy arrangements, languid and melancholy, though perhaps a bit hollow. The same could be said of the latest, "My Friend Today." This album also includes two songs previously appeared on single, "Desiree" and "In The Morning Light," the only involvement of Michael Brown.

The album did not achieve any success, so the group became separated. However, in 1969 he released a new single of the Left Banke, Myrah / Pedestal , by Michael Brown and Steve Martin. These two magnificent compositions, it is difficult to say which one is best, are the culmination of the style Left Banke irrefutable and shows the talent of Michael Brown. With those finishes in the sixties brilliant story of one of the best-and least known-groups of chamber pop.

Michael Brown's career was extended during the seventies in groups like Montage and Stories. The Left Banke released a new album as a group in 1986, Strangers On A Train (after eight years since it began to be recorded), but had no impact. As we said in the beginning, over the years has meant that, from the darkness, the work of the Left Banke and glittering continue to gain momentum. Today, let this collection of songs would a luxury suicidal for any fan of pop. The compilation

There's Gonna Be A Storm has all the classic songs from the era of the group and just being minimally essential for anyone interested in the pop of the sixties. Huge and brimming with some of the most beautiful songs ever have been recorded, you can not miss.

wrote this article several years ago, back in 2002. Originally appeared on the website The 60 .

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In the film Isi / Disi (2004), starring by Santiago Segura and Florentino Fernandez , and in which he participated as a guest star Joaquin Sabina the ineffable , appeared from time to time one of those songs that take you to ask for their responsible, an electric spark of magic Beatle which ultimately was the real hidden secret of comedy. The song was "It's Only Love" and through her met Gurus, a Catalan group who had begun his career in 1998 with In the darkness, the record before us. Extremely difficult to find nowadays, it's dark can be defined as a Martian, the glorious product of a group that the manner of Spongetones , turned their love of the sixties in a round album, full of happy songs and powerful, a kind of fascinating flash-back to recover the innocence, freshness and vitality of the early records the Beatles.

The Gurus endeavored to continue the journey begun by the Brincos four decades ago, the same year that the music press through the roof put a hard-to call it that, as A week on a bus engine of the Planets . The pop lens and the face came at a festival of sixteen songs, and though the album is one of the most exciting and humble works of English music, at the time this outpouring of enthusiasm, honesty and true passion was completely out (so much so that I could not even find a cover image .) It was a shame that almost nobody will notice, for example, on songs like "In the Dark", which is what opens the disc and that retrieves and furiously uninhibited spirit of the best Brincos, pop high quality the vocal harmonies and choruses are vital. "You will be part of me fall in love to those who enjoy albums A Hard Day's Night of the Beatles, who always have felt hypnotized for songs like "I Should Have Known Better" or "Happy Just To Dance With You." In short, the devotees of those melodies that at times dating back to adolescence and make them forget the cynicism accumulated over the years. It also smacks of British invasion "escape" with a guitar sound more inspired in the years after 1965, when hatched reign Rubber Soul and Revolver .

The counterpoint is provided by the ballad "Words for her," oozing disappointment and nostalgia, a feeling that hurts off and parked the optimism to the hope of better times, and "When you're not," a of the best songs on the album, another influence appears remarkable group, the Raspberries : a sinuous melody with hints of what McCartney unstoppable extending over an addictive guitar line. Exciting, is a milestone to remember and a song at the height of the highlights of Eric Carmen . It is then when "Thousand moons back," absolutely energy to remove weight issue, festive, simple chords but direct and effective, a kind of Undertones tempered by the sensitivity of the Mersey Beat. "Toyland" is pure Lennon the early seventies, a song so lazy as charming that moves between melancholy pianos and guitars clean. Sensational, like "Inside, Out", which wears the colors of a psychedelic light to "Ticket To Ride" and yet still genuinely jubilant pop.

But there are still amazing songs like "Hotel Quail", one of my favorite vitamin and addictive to the absolute limits, and alternating between melody and chorus without giving break hardened with the addition of some fabulous arrangements trumpet the "Penny Lane." In an album that shows so much culture and love of pop, could not miss the ragtime song and music-hall drops to Kinks -but so did the Beatles once in a while, in fact this song reminiscent of "I'm Only Sleeping" on Revolver - because "Let me drag along with me" could have made the best Ray Davies the following drink ten liters of English tea. Incredibly good. However, "Mr. Magi" takes up the challenge and is best if possible, bouncy and cheerful to the enthusiasm and, of course, a legendary chorus of those who call attention even at that time is a little confused. But beware, if this was not enough, "Rainy Days" is going to make us fall in love with this album, he looks like a ghost of Lennon song and McCartney at his best, in fact, that roughly "used to have" makes us think it's Lennon who is singing and that we put goosebumps, a highlight of the album not only for their quality, but also a symbol of their idiosyncrasies, "a kind of vibrant" And I Love Her "English. The Raspberries are back with the beautiful "La Calle 33", notable for their freshness, for his honesty, but above all for the tune sung as if it were not so bad but whose sharp hook will make us very difficult to get rid of it. "Because history is not of yesterday" is amphetamine-beat, dark, somewhat similar to the mysterious caverns that make up the Merseybeats , but as always, above all 100% Beatle. "Song of a poor boy" puts an end to an extraordinary record in a light, funny and charismatic.

There is no beating about the bush. In the darkness is too good for so many years have been forgotten and, like in the child's country of fly the Impossible, a work born of both an outstanding talent as a series the true love of music (that kind of discs that will never speak in Rockdelux , as we say around here ), and so out of touch at the time that only the passage of time will put in place. The Gurus continued to record more albums, each time adding guitarfish and psychedelic doses of songs and switching to English, to reach its substantial but last rock album, Now (2008), little or nothing to do with In darkness.

The Gurus. In the dark (1998)

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The disk catalog number T2580 Capitol, scheduled for December 1966 was never published. Smile going to be the most ambitious of the Beach Boys , an unprecedented milestone in the history of music. According to a statement sent to Capitol record stores the same Christmas, shortly after Smile was first postponed to January 1967, "Have a happy and sounds really delicious folder inside." They had printed about half a million folders and many other indoor full color brochures with photos of Guy Webster. For the first time on the cover did not appear the group, but an illustration of artist Frank Holmes of naive and colorful strokes. Shop vendors offering boxes smiling smiles on their windows. Behind them was a list of twelve songs y, ahora sí, una pequeña foto del grupo en la que faltaba su único elemento imprescindible: Brian Wilson, que prefería quedar en la sombra como el director de su obra.

Varios meses después, el 10 de abril de 1967, Paul McCartney y su novia Jane Asher utilizaron un jet cedido por Frank Sinatra para viajar hasta Los Ángeles y, en el transcurso de una estancia de un día y medio, hacer una visita a Brian Wilson en el estudio, donde seguía retocando, haciendo y deshaciendo las canciones que tenían que formar parte de Smile . El orgulloso McCartney, que por entonces estaba a punto de acabar con los Beatles Sgt Pepper's your , played the piano "She's Leaving Home" and put an acetate Brian Wilson with "A Day In The Life." Play the last song was the final nail for a project that was born vigorous and enthusiastic, but was lost in his own labyrinth until Brian found himself unable to bring to fruition. Derek Taylor, press officer of the Beach Boys, wrote on May 6, the death certificate of the album: "Every piece of music beautifully designed, finely wrought, welded notable inspiration in recent months by Brian and his craftsmen The Beach Boys, has been discarded. "

was starting from this now one of the most beautiful legends of pop: the ghost of an album that could have changed everything wandered over the years until, in 2004, Brian Wilson, accompanied by the Wondermints , decided to officially and publicly give for the first time. Had begun to develop the record in May 1966, after Pet Sounds obtain a unanimous critical acclaim, but not commercially, and their intentions were spurred on by the shock that caused the single Good Vibrations in October that year. Aupado definitely the genius category, so obsessively focused on his next goal: to create a disc that will provide A new standard in pop music. A collection of songs that inspire love and good feelings, music and full of religious mysticism, a bunch of "teenage symphonies to God." It set the bar itself as high as possible. However, at that time could hardly imagine that Smile take nearly forty years to come to light.

The reasons for failure were numerous and were stacked on each other. The fragile spirit of Brian Wilson, a visionary in the study but a person insecure and vulnerable, finished bowing to negative stimuli all had to face some of which arise the moment but others hatched for years. In addition, we talk about a period in which the pop had developed to such an extent that major groups were competing to achieve the final disc, the reference work that would mark a before and after. Brian lived this race in a sickly, determined not to be overcome and devote all their strength to get there first. The pressure quickly began to have an effect on their behavior. The drug abuse was a consequence snapshots maniacal search of beauty. Still, despite the fact that Brian had built in his home a tent to smoke hashish, and that whenever he could spoke of the virtues of LSD to expand the consciousness-he helped to feed the legend of his fondness for hallucinogens: "They smoked marijuana and drank LSD. smoked a lot, every day. I helped to get me a background in music, but the experience scared me, "he said recently," the fact is that all this is no longer a topic, because Brian just tried psychedelic drugs. Hers were more like amphetamines, namely Desbutal.

The Desbutal helped him to ignore the stress, but also helped increase the paranoia of a Brian began to see enemies everywhere. With a house in which gramophone discs had only the Beach Boys and Phil Spector , his first goal could not be other than the author of "Be My Baby", whom he revered and envied in equal measure. He began to obsess even more-with-him and his music and hear every day, without ceasing, "Be My Baby." I expected to see hidden messages in their songs, personal threats and explain the mystery of the universe. One night he came home very frightened, after going to the movies to see diabolical plan of John Frankenheimer film, beginning with the phrase: "Hello, Mr. Wilson." Spector was convinced that he had devised that film (for worked for Columbia, though in reality the film was Paramount) to warn of the danger that if he dared to beat him with his new album. Another day, journalist David Dalton attended a group photo shoot and was surprised by the friendliness with which Brian had received him, who ended up inviting him to their home. Once there, surrounded by writers who repeated over and over again the initial percussion "Be My Baby", and intrigued by the strange attitudes of Brian, who seemed to expect something from him, ended the run when the leader of the Beach Boys made it the following question: "What are you doing here, Phil?". I thought the journalist was Phil Spector, dressed to enter the study and steal their musical secrets. On the other hand, spent his time trying to find the microphone that he thought his father, Murry Wilson , had been posted for stealing his ideas and songs.

The paranoia generated by amphetamine was something that also helped to feed Van Dyke Parks, the young writer and musician who had known Brian by producer Terry Melcher -involved in many of the large disks sunshine pop end of the decade, and he hired to put lyrics to the songs he was writing for Smile . This is what Van Dyke Parks said the press officer of the Beach Boys, who had previously worked with the Beatles: "Derek Taylor was sent here to spy on behalf of the Beatles to see what was cooking on the West Coast. I Derek provided them listening to Smile devise before Sgt Pepper's . " Interestingly, in interviews conducted following the official publication of Smile in 2004, still maintained the same thesis, though slightly varied: "From what I understand, some members of the Beatles went to study not taking advantage of Brian stood and listened to some tapes of what he was doing. " Fortunately, Van Dyke Parks also provided a wonderful lyrics, ethereal and imaginative enough for music that would receive them.

Another effect of Desbutal were the delusions of grandeur. In the words of journalist Jules Siegel : "A big part of what happened was for amphetamines. You can not stop, you express all your thoughts. The problem is when you succumb, the problem is simply ugly and stupid and trivial it seems all . All you see are the mistakes. " Brian repeated again and again the shots, was delivered to thousands of versions of each song, write and rewrite and then it threw out all to start over. pirate editions Smile chaos song showing elongated, shortened, combined with each other and with different titles. Brian's ideas swarmed with such intensity and in so many directions that he could not keep on rails and be satisfied. Yet from the outset was clear that their methodology would change. In "Good Vibrations" opened a new way of working, based on small fragments separate record, in principle very different from each other, which made sense when they met in a single composition. The changes of pace, delicious melodies and vocal harmonies combined frantically "Good Vibrations", the song became a smashing success and something never seen before. Brian set out to push the boundaries of this formula and apply it to a record together. The assembly of the various parties would result in a disc with artistic and spiritual message so intense that people would be happy to listen to him.

Obviously, this directly affected the spirit of the songs. The desire to "transmit vibrations loving people" and create "a sound that had an enduring charm, in the words of Brian, along with the new method of combining fragments, they did point to a totality for which needed very different concept of composition that he had used before. His acclaimed contained songs Pet Sounds majestic, a beauty without limits, but were built linear with a beginning, an end and a very marked choruses, one after another to finish the record. The formula varied only slightly in the two instrumental pieces, "Let's Go For Awhile" and "Pet Sounds", which created atmosphere, expanded to all parties and hinted at thousands of details. This was precisely the mold Smile. A hard bizarre, absolutely bizarre at the time and too advanced for what prevailed at the time, obsessive, self-dump, really conceptual, but not sterile despite digressions all focused on the melodies and the beautiful sounds. A hard, in short, avant-garde intentions, unprecedented, and that went far beyond the Sgt Pepper's that despite the new sound scheme remained a traditional set of songs. In addition, Van Dyke Parks and Brian planned it was also a concept album about the American, something that listening to recordings could only be perceived from a more intuitive view that understanding, and only a few songs. The sweaty and epic "Cabin Essence," for example, dealing with American railroad construction, conveys this sense of distant centuries, work on the rails. However, Van Dyke Parks, who needed money, he got tired of waiting for Brian out one day to study hard and left the project completed in April 1967. But give him time to take note of Brian fragmentary ideas and apply them to your first solo album, Song Cycle , published in 1968, a small jewel of Baroque sounds.

Months earlier, in November 1967, the other Beach Boys returned from a successful tour in Britain, planned following the success of "Good Vibrations." When they entered the study and found the tapes from the new album, his immediate reaction was to oppose head on which their leader was planning. Reassembled in the sweetness of victory, they believed, and may not be wrong-that Smile would not be understood by the public and become a failure. Mike Love Smile subsequently define as "an album about the madness of Brian." Brian found himself all alone and facing his teammates, who kept complaining about between takes during the dementia study sessions in which incessantly repeated the same fragments, and even Dennis and Carl , in principle more related to his brother, failed to support him to the constant harassment and demolition that came from the reactionary group, represented by Mike Love . In this issue, joined him for embezzlement complaint the group filed against his own record label, Capitol, in late February 1967-and ended with the creation of Brother Records, the label since the Beach Boys, "of so that the duration of the lawsuit could not be presented to a mass audience the next single, "Heroes & Villains." It did not help much the fact that amphetamine Brian Wilson, the victim in addition to all the pressures, felt increasingly insecure about their own music and where he wanted to go. While initially had wanted to create an optimistic album and full of love, the rest of the Beach Boys had to hear how one day I decided that Brian was actually going to make a record of watery sounds, another day, a record of humor, Next, a disc of background music to gym-filled his room fitness equipment, never used, and so a whole bunch of possibilities that changed almost every day and that undermined the already weak confidence in the disk of their peers.

The result we know what it was, but the most interesting question in this context is referring to what is strictly musical. Despite all the changes, Brian managed to finish a series of sections that would be the base of the disc. There is no doubt that there were huge Smile songs. For starters, a stunning "Heroes & Villains", as novel as "Good Vibrations", with characteristic changes of rhythm and melody, which Brian did hundreds of versions, some of them quite longer than the shortened version that subsequently appeared in Smiley Smile (1970). "Heroes & Villains" told an epic story, full of striking effects, tribal chants and spirals unusual sound. There was also the baroque charm and refined crystalline "Wonderful." However, highlighting "Surf's Up", perhaps the song newest and most radical of the disc, between angelic falsetto and dreamy mirage, the hand would take us on a fascinating dream world, to finish with a Brian Wilson almost unearthly, pure in spirit, with a piano only woke us up emotions lost planets past millennia. "Wind Chimes" was delicate, so careful and shiny as an ice sculpture. And of course we can not forget about "Good Vibrations", the first step in the column that Brian wanted to build up to paradise. All these songs represented a kind of mountain passes, landscapes that are reached after following the complicated path of the disc.

Because Smile was much more than these songs. Embedded between them, were minimal fragments and mosaics that appeared over and over again, sometimes demanding role within the songs themselves. This is what happened with the passage of "Heroes & Villains" known as "Bicycle Rider", the intriguing part of harpsichords that appeared unexpectedly in other compositions such as "Do You Like Worms" (later retitled "Roll Plymouth Rock") or implied in many others, like "Song For Children" or "In Blue Hawaaii." Indeed, the warm and precious mantra of "Do You Like Worms" was rewritten in the minimalist "Barnyard", a sunny little melody a minute that gave way to robust violins of "Old Master Painter" and the old and nostalgic "You Are My Sunshine." "Child Is Father To The Man" was another addictive mantra, expansive, with some degree of obsession in his words, repeated in a chorus as a loop that also appears at the end of "Surf's Up." The festive "I'm In Great Shape" was the addition of an area known as "The woodshop Song", with sounds of a carpenter, relaxed after a brief jazz composition. "Vegatables" was quite naive, reduced to a minimum, and paid tribute to the healthy diet of vegetables, though this was another of the ridiculous hypocrisy of Brian, addict without remedy, as everyone knew, to junk food, "On A Holiday" sounds delicious summer has played with xylophone, and "Our Prayer" is vocal harmonies was enough to distill an ethereal beauty and silky. All parts of Smile constituted an organic unity, a live sound device with its own philosophy and law. In 1967, Brian was unable to establish a fixed shape for something that was beyond all mold and that seemed to have its own life. In fact, when it was visited by McCartney, had almost forgotten the hard to focus on a single with the songs "vegatables" and "I Love To Say Dada" (an emotional regression to childhood, also minimal, which would be included later in the piece "In Blue Hawaaii"). Listening to Smile suggests a kind of constant flow, sounds that attract attention and memory appear then capriciously, indivisible, rebels and interchangeable, as if they did not matter too much the order they appeared.

can say that, in essence, Brian served part of their objectives. Smile is an album impressionist-a bit like one of the classic pieces that Brian took as a reference, Rhapsody In Blue George Gershwin of - primary, so immediately appealing to the senses before as any kind of reason, neo-baroque ornaments and spirals and hallucinated that spread endlessly. However, very far it was his desire to communicate love and good vibes. Perhaps the result of a very complicated, and emotional stability to burst into pieces, the inner journey of Smile returned a rarefied atmosphere, bizarre, rambling, obsessive, and can convey very well the descent into hell that is another track, "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow." Healthy environment was conspicuous by its absence and the monsters was rampant, threatening. But the result was undeniably beautiful. From complete, Smile had been, without doubt, one of most fascinating records of the history of music. However, Brian was also very aware that perhaps he had gone too far and that Smile had no commercially viable output. In 1968, he said the following on a radio program: "At that moment I thought the songs were not what the public wanted. The record was not commercial." Recently stated that "We did not want to edit it because we thought it was too weird." All you had to Smile and uncompromising artistic authenticity, he lost in connection with the audience of his time, something that, however, had triumphed Sgt Pepper's of the Beatles.

Gone was an experiment without limits, prompting Brian to compose a piano installed in a sandbox in the living room of his house until your dog is fond of using the sand for other purposes - recording in an empty pool or to use bottles, cans, wires, saws and logs as tools to achieve a special and unique sound. Brian searched for a mystical communion with the environment, which pushed him to attend even astrological factors when composing and recording. All this had a double-edged sword. In fact, one of the most painful losses Smile was a suite that would be called "Elements" and that would four parts: "Water", "Wind", "Earth" and "Fire." Shortly after completing the share of "Fire" (Fire), Brian realized that the days of recording coincided with three major fires had broken out in California and, convinced of his responsibility, decided to remove the tape with the song discard the idea of \u200b\u200bthe suite "Elements." Which was a pity, because it does come down to us a cut of "Water" was subsequently re-recorded the album Sunflower (1970) - a song that begins with a beautiful monastic chant of many voices, and then develops in a minimalist, vibrant, happy and emotionally charged. Also left out other amazing songs like "She's Goin 'Bald" or fraternal "With Me Tonight" (included Smiley Smile).

From cancellation Smile, it opened the way for the legend. Some of his songs were recorded with minimal instrumentation possible Smiley Smile, published in September 1967, just four months after giving Smile by buttoned. Other songs were dripping on later albums, reaching Surf's Up (1972). Since then, the myth of Smile was growing by leaps and bounds, due in part to the difficulty I was listening to those shots that had never come to light, at a time when there was no Internet. Many people had to wait until 1993, with the release of the box Good Vibrations Thirty Years Of , which he reviewed the history of the group listened to for the first time some of those songs strange and disturbing. Another solution was pirated editions, often mixing different fragments without any criterion and that exposed the audience to listen to hours of footage repeated boring, suitable only for fans. Among these issues, include the Odeon Smile, very comprehensive and concrete and disinclined to take fill, with a infernal version of "Heroes & Villains" ten minutes, or at the other end, the Smile of Vigotone, which over several CD's aims include everything.

In 2004, after a successful series of concerts that had with Pet Sounds as the backing band Wondermints, Brian Wilson decided to end the legend and definitely post Smile . When he appeared, the reviews were generally benevolent, could not be otherwise, given the quality of material, "but despite the excellent work done behind the feeling that the time had passed and that any case, the record should have been published in another way. Milestones rewrite the flesh as "Good Vibrations" seems unnecessary and a more intimate recreation than anything else, and perhaps the true value of this album is definitely the songs have set, their form and order. All this served to the pirated edition appeared short, Smile Purple Chick, who conducted a painstaking work to insert the footage recorded in 1967 in the framework offered in 2004: what should have been from the beginning. Thanks to these efforts, we can enjoy Smile that is closest to the work that Brian had in mind in 1966. Smile

will always quintessential ghost disk. Unpredictable and feverish, it seems that from the beginning was meant to stay in the shadows and give rise to endless speculations about what would have been the history of music if he had appeared at the right time. His legend is now just one of its charms, but not only, because fortunately the music contained is the height of the shadow of the myth. Play Smile is a unique experience, the brightness of a disc aborted when he had to leave but remains alive and eternal for those who ever decides to come to your sounds.

Purple Chick Smile . Here you can get the best version of Smile that has appeared so far. Includes cover design so you can print. Pure listening enjoyment.

article are photographs of a majority in the booklet of twelve pages Capitol printed when there was still hope that the disk appeared. The photograph shows the collection of Smiles and material on the disc was obtained Forum Spain The Beach Boys.