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I've got a huge admiration for Brian Wilson for his brilliant songcraft blends of high class composition. Not sure if its a love for a 'Californian' lifestyle as much as pure sensory pleasure. Wilson's music was always focused on incorporating 5 part harmonies often seen only in classical music and operas and making transcendent pop music out of it all. And to this old autistic brain it often triggers deep sensations of frission.

Add to that that how interesting and overall inspiring his biography was. He was neurodivergent, obsessed with the sensory experience of sound itself, but also a childhood trauma survivor (he was 90% deaf in one ear thanks to his physically abusive father), and also struggled with psychosis under the stress of fame. And despite hugely contributing to the idea of an album as more than just a collection of hit singles and shaping multiple genres in one direction, and pioneering the idea of using the recording studio as an instrument itself shaping a huge number of genres in the other direction ... he still remained enormously humble, something I greatly admire.

Brian Wilson was certainly one of my musical heroes, and the fact that he ultimately got a happy ending after his struggle with schizoaffective disorder, it makes his passing seem like anything too tragic cause if anyone deserved the happy ending he got to all that, it would be Brian Wilson.

Also, I got to hype up my favorite biopic about a musician.

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This biopic is fantastic, it doesn't bother trying to summarize Brian Wilson's life, rather it dramatizes two of the most consequential periods of Brian's life, the period in the 60s when he was producing Pet Sounds (without the rest of the Beach Boys) and he first started struggling with psychosis during the smile sessions afterwards, and the period in the 80s when he met and ggot into a relationship with Melinda (who he later married) and she helped him escape the conservatorship he was trapped in with his therapist and started properly healing from it all. It's a real emotional gut punch of a movie though.

Is it in poor taste to use this moment to hype this movie?

I think I'll share some of my favorite Wilson written songs from the beach boys, especially from their often over-looked 1970s period

On this track from 1970, Wilson bought a synth and invented chillwave

I swear this sounds like something from the Earthbound soundtrack with how off kilter the harmonies in the groove feel giving this uncanny off kilter vibe, that and all the lyrical themes of existential crisis.  

"Love You" is an oveeall goofy ass album

What do the planets mean?

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I think that it's a matter of following your heart as far as what's appropriate or not appropriate regarding the man's death.

I'd say that, as somebody with mental and physical health issues parallel to quite a lot of what happened to Brian Wilson (such as both of us having problems with hearing throughout our lives), I find his overall life beyond fascinating.

Musically, I also want to highlight this song:

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It's quite something.

Wasn't their biggest fan, but I always enjoyed this one.

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This song is quite something too

In fact the entire Adult Child album is a really fascinating album.

Originally intended to be a Brian Wilson solo album (Featuring Carl and Dennis Wilson on backing vocals), and recorded in Brian's home studio, it was never officially released but it was leaked and bootlegged years later. It's a pretty fascinating self portrait of Brian's personality and mindset at the time

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJFTiM5G4UnmTEq539CUcvK8z0FbhWfMW