The Disorienting Express
For Mother Combs' Limerick Challenge
The runaway train in my brain
Threatens to drive me insane.
To divert its mad rush
These keys I must crush
Until only the echoes remain.
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I thought I was done for the day, then I realized I'd dropped the perfect first line for another one in my Author's Note for the last entry I wrote for Mother Combs' Limerick Challenge. I'm done now. I hope.
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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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Oooohhhh– such a great one!
Wonderful job.
This is such a striking piece. Wonderful work!
Noooo I hope you're not done! I love reading your limericks!
The only thing worse that a flood through the brain is a brain freeze. (Okay, there are probably plenty of other things worse, but still....)
Wonderful! Fantastic, Dana!! I bet you have a few more Limericks in you.
I'm loving these!
This is surprisingly deep for a limerick. Well done, Dana.
That last line was surprisingly deep! Very well done on this one Dana!
I'm anticipating some kind of dreamscape stream of consciousness limericks in the wee hours.