The Notable Death Thread
- Thread starter Iain Aschendale
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Okay. Been a minute since Ive read Helter Skelter. He's the one who drowned, right?
Surfer Girl is one creepy ass song. I wrote a scene in a script with a couple making out in their car with that in the background. And alien was hiding in the backseat and killed them. Blood splattered across the radio.
Hmm. Now I have to go back and listen to it again.
If Surfer Girl wasn't creepy, it is now! Slasher Sci-Fi song
It's got some janky, croony-y, almost yodel-y harmonies in it. Typical Beach Boys but warped through a funhouse mirror. I think they hit a couple of major 7ths in spots, but it's difficult to tell with the way they're always climbing or sinking through the register. Maybe it's just me but I've always found the song a little unsettling.
I've never paid much attention to it because it's one of my least favorite BB songs, but now that I actually listen to it, it is a bit stalker-y, isn't it?
Along those same lines, I disliked the movie Phantom of the Opera despite a couple of fine songs because a) it's too long and boring, and b) it romanticizes a creepo stalker. (Too many years on the victim response unit may have warped my view of cinema)
Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran - in all its dozen variations - was often sung during the Iran hostage situation.
