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Pacific Ocean Blue - how bloody great?
After sitting on my must-buy list for a while, I finally got hold of a copy of Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue a few weeks ago.
How bloody great? I've been blown away by how good it is and how much better it is than 'most' of the new stuff I've heard this year.
The odd thing about listening to it, though, is the fact that it reminds me of so many other artists/tracks.
There seems to be a lot of Stones in it, among others.
Anyway, my point is that as I'm only a 70s kid, I have no context against which to set it. Was it seen as truly fantastic first time around? Was it perceived as a bit derivative? Has it influenced anyone else since?
Any insight greatly appreciated and if I can generate another on-site spat, all the better...
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Well...
maybe we should ask Hep his views on this one.
Me I love it.
listen to River Song
and Sunrise by Pulp next to each other. Blatant to say the least.
By the way, agree , a classic album.
I love it too
But I don't recall it even being reviewed when it came out.
It was a Beach Boys solo album... by the drummer... in 1977... :-)
I gather it was deleted within a year of issue. I only became aware of it as a 'great lost treasure' in the late 80s when, of course, there was no Internet or CD burners, so I first heard it on a 457th generation cassette copy that was more noise than signal.
I can remember seing it advertised in the NME,
and I think I remember reading a warmish review, but not necessarily in the same rag. I can't recall anyone I knew actually buying a copy though. It was what you might call overwhelmed by indifference at the time.
Fast forward to the start of the nineties and I happened upon the first CD issue in a mate's record shop in Bristol. It's got a blue flash down the side of the front cover announcing that it's 'digitally remastered' - well it would be - and in the booklet this is credited to one Joe Gastwirt at Ocean View Digital Recording, in west LA. Me neither. Oh, and the CD tray is in a fetching shade of scarlet.
Luckily I took the plunge and bought it, as it was this release that got promptly deleted within the year (1991 I believe) leaving me with an increasingly rare artefact.
I like the album enough to have invested in the recent re-issue as well, though it's my first CD copy that I treasure most.