Recensire un disco misconosciuto ai più è un compito che mi sentivo di intraprendere, un'opera che racchiude la smania Wilsoniana di ricerca di novità, battendo piste sempre diverse in modo unico e personale.

Dopo la catastrofe dovuta al suo complesso di inferiorità davanti ad un'opera seminale quale Sgt.Peppers, il nostro molla il progetto Smile in cantiere partorendo a scaglioni perle sparse da Smile Smiley a Surf's Up con una creatività senza pari.

Certo quando si parla di Beach Boys sono molti a storcere il naso, per i più i Beach Boys sono quelli di "Barbara Ann" (che con tutto rispetto ha una sua genialità) ma è dopo Pet Sounds che le cose cambiano e questo ha fatto si che la mia curiosità mi portasse a sentire dove poteva arrivare il genio di Brian Wilson conducendomi fino a questo disco.

Ma parliamo di lui:

Il disco di cui l'anima è dichiaratamente Soul racchiude in sè echi Beatlesiani alla White Album per intenderci, un rimando in particolare a "Why Don't We do It in the Road?" è in "A thing or two", pezzo che dimostra le caratteristiche vocali di Wilson più grezze a tratti, intrecciarsi con un falsetto in controcanto davvero di gran effetto, altro pezzo interessante è "I'd Love Just Once to See You", una melodia di cui lo stesso McCartney rimase ammaliato tanto da riportarla nel suo album solista d'esordio, e non è tutto, continuando possiamo sentire nei solchi di "Let the Wind Blow", psichedelia barrettiana ammaliante ed ipnotica trascinarti fino in fondo in qualcosa che non ti aspettavi davvero.

A questo punto ti domandi:

Ma chi sto ascoltando?

Non avevo messo sù i Beach Boys?

E in effetti è proprio così che ci si sente al primo ascolto

Finisco la mia recensione trattando un altro pezzo per mè geniale che è "Here Comes the Night" di una modernità disarmante, a mio avviso certi richiami schizofrenici del cantato ricordano parecchio gli intrecci vocali di Frank Black dei Pixies... da rimanere basiti.

Consiglio a tutti questo ascolto, specialmente per chi non conoscesse i Beach Boys del post Pet Sound.

Scusate se sono stato molto breve, è la mia prima volta, quindi.... si insomma la prima volta.....

Elenco tracce e testi

01   Wild Honey (02:40)

Sweet sweet wild honey bee
Eat up eat up eat up honey

Mama I'm tellin' you as sure as I'm standing here
She's my girl and that's the way I'm keeping it now mama dear
No good will it do you to stand there and frown at me
The girl's got my heart and my love's coming down on me
My love's coming down since I got a taste of wild honey
You know she's got the sweetness of a honey bee
Wild honey
She got it on and stung me good yes sirree

With all the other stud bees buzzing all around her hive
She singled me out single handed took me alive
Well can you can you gonna take my life eating up her wild honey

(Sweet sweet wild honey bee)
(Eat up eat up eat up honey)

Oh mama she's sweeter
Gettin' sweeter
Sweeter sweeter
Sweet

Wild honey
Let me tell you how she really got to my soul
It ain't funny
The way she make wanna sing a little rock 'n' roll
There's nothing quite nice as a kiss of wild honey
I break my back workin' just to save me some money
So I can spend my life with her
Sock it to me wild honey
Wild honey she's mine
Wild honey she's mine

02   Aren't You Glad (02:18)

Today could be a lot of fun
And precious one
I'd feel good just to walk with you

Tonight will be a special treat
You're so sweet
And I feel good just to talk with you

You know that I been a long time needing you
You say that you been a long time needing me
And don't you know that there's so much more to come

I got a heart that just won't stop beating for you
I got a love I just can't stop feeling for you

Aren't you glad now darling there's me and you
(Tell me tell me you know what I mean) [me and you]
And I say aren't you glad with these days comes somethin' new
(Tell me tell me you know what I mean) [me and you]
And I say aren't you glad now tell me you're so glad
[Me and you]

(Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo)
Today is another day
Another way to get this feeling across to you
Tonight will be another night
That's outta sight cause I know the way to get close to you

You know that I'll be a long time loving you
I hope that you'll be a long time loving me
And don't you know that there's so much more to come

I got a heart that just won't stop beating for you
I got a love I just can't stop feeling for you

Aren't you glad now darling there's me and you
(Tell me tell me you know what I mean) [me and you]
And I say aren't you glad with these days comes summer
(Tell me tell me you know what I mean) [me and you]
And I say aren't you glad now tell me you're so glad
[Me and you]

03   I Was Made to Love Her (02:07)

04   Country Air (02:22)

05   A Thing or Two (02:42)

06   Darlin' (02:14)

Ohh darlin'
My darlin' you're so fine
Ohhhh-hhh-hhh ...

Don't know if words can say
But darlin' I'll find a way
To let you know what you meant to me
Guess it was meant to be
I hold you in my heart
As life's most precious part

Oh darlin'
I dream about you often, my pretty girl, baby
(Darlin' you're so fine)
I love the way you soften my life with your love
Your precious love uh huh oh

I was living like half a man
Then I couldn't love but now I can
You pick me up when I'm feeling sad
More soul than I ever had
Gonna love you every single night
Cause I think you're too outta sight

Oh darlin'
I dream about you often, my pretty girl, baby
(Darlin' you're so fine)
I love the way you soften my life with your love
Your precious love uh huh oh

Woah oh oh oh
Every night darlin'
Gonna love you every single night, yes I will
Cause I think you're too doggone outta sight

Oh darlin'
I dream about you often, my pretty girl, baby
(Darlin' you're so fine)
I love the way you soften my life with your love
Your precious love uh huh oh

07   I'd Love Just Once to See You (01:50)

08   Here Comes the Night (02:43)

09   Let the Wind Blow (02:21)

10   How She Boogalooed It (01:58)

11   Mama Says (01:04)

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