i feel twisted and tortured
transiently remorseless
charted but course less
existentially exhausted
i feel strangled and drained
lethargic and pained
i know it’s all in my brain
but it hurts just the same
i feel the nothing inside
it is in this nothing i ride
i find i tend to slide and glide
in this vicious vacuous vortex where i hide
i feel the side effects of haste
waves after wave of pica flavoured waste
that all too familiar, ferrous taste
there are a quite a few things time won't erase
i feel an enthusiastic depression
a maudlin miasmic succession
a ceaseless self-projected procession
a gift inside a lesson?
i feel a pounding in my skull
all empty and dull
no respite no lull
blank
void
null
About the Creator
Bren
"It's just a token of my extreme!" - Frank Zappa
"Cause it's all in the heat of the moment It's all in the pain!!!" - Devin Townsend
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'20/20'
"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 Callaghan6 days ago in Beat
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Loving it, Brenton, I keep going back to this line: "a maudlin miasmic succession." Why? I dunno; just like saying it out loud.