The Innocent Queen
Her feet caress the fields in tender bloom,
a daughter crowned with sunlight every day.
The earth was soft, yet it carved her tomb,
a crack in soil, a hand that drew her away.
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They called it theft, a god's devouring greed,
the story told as a maiden's loss.
Yet myth is split: her choice for the shadowed seed,
where she claimed her crown beneath the moss.
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For spring returns, but from below,
the flowers rooting in darkness all the same.
Her reign is born where the River Styx does flow,
her voice commanding the underworld by name.
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She is the blossom and the barren stone,
a captive child, and a queen upon her throne.
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Autumn Stew
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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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