A treasure long lost
only legends remain of
the Vocal Awards
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Matthew J. Fromm
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Boons and Curses
Before him lay his doom. Exasperated, Imperator Valatious collapsed into his chair. Beyond the hide walls of his tent, the evening air hung disquietingly still. He ran his weathered hands through a grease-stained mane of brown hair, uncut since the campaign began.
By Matthew J. FrommExclusive • about a year ago
'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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Great!
I like how I was totally not expecting these words when I clicked into it. Well done to you for the unpredictability and a lovely rhyme.
Is it already that time again! Have they said they were looking at doing the awards again this year?
Back to say 'congratulations' for winning third place on this week's leaderboard with this piece for Most Discussed Stories of the Week. Well done!
Enjoyed the humor in this short batter
I can’t wait for this year’s vocal awards! We had so many great entries last year
Ha! Legends was a nice touch. I don’t remember reading anything about another go, or if it is an annual thing.
A great one! 😊
Good one Matthew!!!
❤️ 😁
Cool senryu! Very intrigued by the Vocal Awards, so I hope they happen! I joined 2022 wrote an entry for the Paolini challenge and a haiku then had an eventful year with big life changes before returning last fall so quite curious!
Great senryu and loved the library too! I keep compiling lists of my vocal stuff (more for my own use than anyone else's) but within a couple of weeks it is out of date! Well done if you have kept yours going.
We are in it together
Pour one out for those of us who were finalists in the *2021* Vocal+ Fiction Awards, only to have that results page wiped out when they rebuilt awards.vocal.media for last year’s version and now left with no proof 😔
Well they have pushed me out , but good words
Hee hee.
Ha Ha! Think they have their hands full with random glitches lately!
Clever lines, Matthew. Are those happening again?
Ach...yeah...forgot it's getting closer to that reminder of sucking hard lol. This was a great little senryu ha!