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“All The Young Dudes”

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“All the Young Dudes” is a song written by David Bowie, originally recorded and released as a single by Mott the Hoople in 1972. …

Bowie wrote “All the Young Dudes” in short order specially for them, allegedly sitting cross-legged on the floor of a room in Regent Street, London, in front of the band’s lead singer, Ian Hunter. …

Bowie himself once claimed that the song was not intended to be an anthem for glam, that it actually carried a darker message of apocalypse. …

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God Only Knows – live rehearsal 1966

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“God Only Knows” is the eighth track Pet Sounds (1966):

… produced by Brian Wilson with lyrics by Tony Asher and lead vocal by Carl Wilson.

…. how many love songs start off with the line, ‘I may not always love you’? …

Carl Wilson … described how lucky he felt being given the opportunity to sing “God Only Knows”: “I was honored to be able to sing that one. It is so beautifully written, it sings itself. …

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Paul McCartney once called it his favorite song of all time. …

Bono said in October 2006 during Brian Wilson’s induction into the UK Music Hall of Fame that “the string arrangement on ‘God Only Knows’ is fact and proof of angels“. …

Pet Sounds might be divinely inspired. One of the great recordings of all time. With “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”, “Rubber Soul”, … all the early Springstein. …

CARL DEAN WILSON
Dec. 21, 1946 – Feb. 6, 1998
dead of lung cancer,

I got back into the classic band after reading The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds (33 1/3) by music critic Jim Fusilli. He loves the album, needless to say.

Beach Boys – Wouldn’t it be nice

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The genius of Brian Wilson was complexity behind a façade of simplicity.

One superb example is the opening song on the 1966’s Pet Sounds, his greatest album.

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Pet Sounds … has been ranked at number 1 in several music magazines’ lists of greatest albums of all time, including New Musical Express, The Times and Mojo Magazine. It was ranked number 2 in Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list.

Inspired by the Beatles “Rubber Soul”, Brian announced to his wife that he aspired to the “greatest rock album ever made”.

Some feel he succeeded. A mad genius. So much creativity & innovation.

hooked on PSY – GANGNAM STYLE

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Gangnam Style (강남 스타일) is a 2012 dance pop single written and performed by Korean pop singer Park Jae Sung, better known by his stage name PSY. …

Know Your Meme – GANGNAM STYLE

Viral video going nuts. Here’s the original, 48 million + HITS.

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Compare with another edit, a more female centric version.

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Patti Smith – ‘Banga’

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Patti Smith and her band turned up on … Late Show with David Letterman to perform “Banga,” the title track of her latest album. Smith’s performance is fierce and spirited, amping up the already potent and heavy sound of the music.

Rolling Stone

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That track is a flashback to the Patty Smith of my youth.

But the album, actually, has plenty of easy listening. Including this remake of After The Gold Rush. (AUDIO)