Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue (Legacy Edition)
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Free Music Notes for Pacific Ocean Blue (Legacy Edition)
Free Music Review: Another Wilson With A Great Gift
Hit: 5 Stars
This album has a great feel to it. It is emotional but rockin' at the same time. It carries on the same feel throughout the whole album, even though many of the songs have many different elements to them. This is not like a Beach Boys album...I would describe it as an emotional road trip from SoCal to New Orleans....there is a Pacific Ocean feel but twisted with NOLA Jazz. There aren't many beautiful harmonies in the music, just wonderful instrumentals and fantastic lyrics.
My only gripe: In many songs you cannot clearly understand Dennis as he sings (and I don't have a hearing problem). 'Moonshine', for instance, is just awesome but I had to look up the lyrics on the internet...the same with 'Thoughts of You' - one of the best songs I have ever heard, yet I had to look up the lyrics because I could not understand parts of it (I could understand 90% of the whole song). The mixing is great instrumentally but the vocal mixing is somewhat lacking.
The packaging is top-notch...two discs come in the package, including a PDF file (you need a computer to access the files) with more essays/photos of the POB project. The liner notes tell a great story about POB and Bambu. The Bambu sessions are great. Listen to 'Cocktails', or 'I Love You'...Dennis truly has a gift for music.
In all I recommend this album to any lover of music. Good soulful music seems to be lacking in the modern music world, and this new issue of Pacific Ocean Blue feeds a music hunger I have been lacking for quite some time.
5/5
Free Music Review: Absolute Majesty
Hit: 5 Stars
Imagine the sound if The Band and The Beach Boys tried to record a Pink Floyd album. In the best way possible... here you go.
This album has blown me away. I am a 28 year old life long fan of the Beach Boys, and my favorite BB's is smile-holland. I have heard most of everything else, but I have to say, this album is absolutely stunning on almost every level. There are a couple of bonehead style rock songs shoehorned into this, track 2 mainly :(, but over all this is the most expansively ear pleasing set of tracks ever recorded by any of the Wilson Bro's in any form.
The power and depth of this album is almost unrivaled. I know there are a lot of people that think the "Wilson" name is some kind of stamp of glory on anything, and I am not one of those people. I have plenty of misgivings about many Brian Wilson so called "master pieces" (Big Ones and Love You for ex), but this album represents the total package of Wilson possibility that everyone has been looking for all these years.
It's that good. It's Pet Sounds Good.
This is one of those albums you want to strap on the headphones to at around midnight and listen to until you die. You know the ones you just want to keep restarting and listening to over and over again. It reminds me much of the feeling I got from Dark Side of the Moon. If you like rolling over a stone and finding bliss, here it is.
Dennis, it's a damn shame about you my man, a damn shame. Beautiful music.
Free Music Review: My First Reaction was "Wow!"
Hit: 5 Stars
After hearing Pacific Ocean Blue and Bambu for the first time, my immediate reaction was "Wow!" I now have a new-found respect for Dennis Wilson and his talent as a writer/composer. Ranging from raw rock 'n roll to downright beautiful ballads evoking considerable emotion, the songs seem remarkably fresh today despite the fact they were recorded thirty years ago. The only song that seems to resonate with the Beach Boys sound is River Song, but the rest are uniquely Dennis' style. With most albums, you may have those one or two favorite songs, but not here. There are too many of them, and it is hard to narrow them down because his range is quite amazing. Compare the elegant simplicity of Piano Variations on Thoughts of You to the rockin' Under the Moonlight, and you will see what I mean. But most of all, it is apparent that Dennis put his soul into his music as it oozes introspection, revealing the inner essence of a man who lived his life on the edge, a man whose music reflects his true feelings and experiences. The only negative feeling I had was realizing how sad it is that the world will never sample more of his fine wine.Free Music Review: Surf
Hit: 5 Stars
To say that I was surprised at the musical content of this collection is an understatement! I hadn't realized just how talented, Musically, Dennis was. Growing up in the 50's and 60's he was kind of a role model for us guys, being that he was the only "Real Surfer" of the Beach Boys, and really knew his way around the hottest cars of the era. I knew that he was an adequate drummer and at times studio drummers did the recording work, but I didn't have a clue that inside this "All American Boy" such a vast understanding of harmony and a sensitive approach to his musical progressions existed! I guess that sometimes God chooses a bloodline to flood with His overwhelming gifts of harmony, as we see in the Wilsons. At any rate it was a privilige for me to listen to this and believe that many others would agree.Free Music Review: Dennis Wilson's Gift to the Country: A Seminal Underappreciated Album
Hit: 5 Stars
All that is best about 70's rock, with none of what is worst about 70's rock. In the end what comes through is the personality of Dennis Wilson: Beach Boy. bad boy, sensitive, misunderstood Dennis Wilson. This album is a tour de force, and while indulgent in places, is always earnest. While 70's rock is earnest to a fault at times, Wilson's ability to create hooks out of the flotsam and jetsam of his doo op roots combined with honest self-revelations, is what distinguishes this album from less ambitious (if more successful) albums of the same era.
Wilson is not confined to the past, musically. Numerous influences from the past and from the vibrant 70's scene sprinkle the tracks. Combined with spectacular mastering, this collection is a no-brainer and a must for any serious fan of rock music.