Plant your feet on the cold, hard tile
Strip off your old life
Toss your clothes, even your favorite scrunchie, into a careless heap
Draw back the thin plastic veil
Step into the stark white of your new life
Let the water wash away the memories
Let the heat burn away the pain
Lather away what still clings
Forget the world you're leaving behind:
Your deadlines, your relationships, your regrets, your name...
Everything.
Emerge from the shower a new person
Curl your toes into plush microfiber rug
Wrap yourself in soft cotton
Breathe deep
And wear your new self.
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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 Callaghan7 days ago in Beat
Comments (3)
I Love this. It’s so vivid and cleansing.
You described so well how a nice shower can change one's mind and life.
Marvelous free verse!!!❤️❤️💕