When Cactus Talk
They speak in fuzzy whispers
Long necks stretched upward so
The words shoot straight
Into Gods ear
Succulents grow close
to the ground picking up
Wisdoms from busy life
Creatures - thousands
Must pass before a whole
sentence is formed
Succulents are the gayest
Members of the cactus
Community they speak in
Plump delicate sentences
About the frivolity of
Social consciousness
Gossips and gadabouts
say the larger cactus
They never listen to them
They only listen to
The higher order
Of the slow growing life
Like the mountains
That send messages
with the clouds
Saying in defense
of the succulents
You must examine
The foundation of
Things or else
Be deluded by the
Illusion of power
When all you listen to
Is it’s lofty message.
About the Creator
Jan Portugal
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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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