Loneliness perched on top of the lake,
legs dangling from his paddleboard,
dipping into the bottomless pool.
He stared into the depths,
the paddle held delicately in his hand.
Quiet water lapping at his feet,
the trees around him silent,
an eerie, empty peace.
Solitude.
Underneath the blanket of cold, little creatures swam.
Minnows rose to the surface
nibbling on the dead skin of his feet.
They went unnoticed, until it started to tickle.
Loneliness laughed,
the sudden giggled vibration forcing the fish to flee.
But he noticed the silver critters approaching again,
and the minnows continued their meal.
A smile quietly crept onto the boy's face.
How small, how quaint, how cute they are,
the little ones that swam around his toes,
oblivious to the monster above.
They found solace.
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"Do It Again" the track that would ultimately open the Beach Boys final album on Capitol Records which was released on February 10th 1969 had originally been released as a single in August of 1968. The track was the first of many post-Pet Sounds era throwbacks to the early Beach Boys sound which would become continually more cliched and eventually lead the Beach Boys to the level of self-parody they would eventually succumb to in the 1980s while their closest contemporaries The Beatles nearing the end of their run in 1969 would go on to be viewed as the most influential band of all time. However, the song itself is not bad on its surface, and it opens with a futuristic sounding (for 1969) drumbeat captured by then-Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper using tape delays on the drums performed by Dennis Wilson and John Guerin. The song has been re-recorded numerous times over the years on various Beach Boys-related projects most notably the 2011 re-recording at Capitol studios featuring the five surviving Beach Boys at the time backed instrumentally by various members of both the Brian Wilson Band and Mike Loves touring "Beach Boys" to promote the then upcoming Beach Boys 50th Anniversary reunion tour in 2012. The hammering and power drill sound at the end of the song was an excerpt from a track called "Workshop" that was to be a part of the uncompleted "SMiLE" album.
By Sean Callaghan7 days ago in Beat
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