the frost is slowly fried
and the trees glimmer with rainbow dust
leaves slowly burn off branches
in the spark of cold fire
sounds softened
by the glow's cotton wake
sunlit glitter scattered among the trees
as rainbow dust
tickling the eyes
of the bundled passerbys
shorter days
show us new lights
and our hearts compensate
by brightening their rays
the same polluted air
tastes crisp and clean
at 35 degrees
every breath a reminder
that cold inspired shelter
to act vigor's part
we fill up the cellar
with liniments for winter
slick licorice tea
and beer brewing barrels
to warm the places
the furnace can't reach
the windows sizzle and crackle
as the frost is slowly fried
into feather formations
and I hear her hard cackle
as we undress the nations.
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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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