The Notable Death Thread

[Selluwud]

"Good Vibrations" by The Beach Boys is widely considered one of the most acclaimed and important songs in pop music history. It's known for its innovative production, innovative use of instruments (like the theremin), and its influence on later progressive pop and psychedelic rock.

 

[Homer Potvin]

Not really, that was his brother Dennis - the only real surfer - and he disassociated from Manson after Manson pulled a knife on him over some trivial argument.

Okay. Been a minute since Ive read Helter Skelter. He's the one who drowned, right?

"Good Vibrations" by The Beach Boys is widely considered one of the most acclaimed and important songs in pop music history. It's known for its innovative production, innovative use of instruments (like the theremin), and its influence on later progressive pop and psychedelic rock.

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.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Surfer Girl is one creepy ass song.

Hmm. Now I have to go back and listen to it again.

 

[Selluwud]

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.

If Surfer Girl wasn't creepy, it is now! Slasher Sci-Fi song

 

[Homer Potvin]

Hmm. Now I have to go back and listen to it again.

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.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

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)

 

[Selluwud]

"Barbara Ann" seems dystopianly (made up word) prophetic today (Bomb bomb Iran)

 

[Kiraann]

"Barbara Ann" seems dystopianly (made up word) prophetic today (Bomb bomb Iran)

Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran - in all its dozen variations - was often sung during the Iran hostage situation.

 

[Trish]

Ann Burrell died yesterday at 55

 

[Daisy Lee]

Ann Burrell, Food Network Host died Tuesday, so young, at 55. I definitively qualified for her show Worst Cooks in America. Rest In Peace.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/article/anne-burrell-food-network-host-and-celebrity-chef-dies-at-55-223329384.htmlA

edit. Oops, sorry didn't see your post Trish.

 

[Rad Scribbler]

Frederick Forsyth passed away 9 June.

Famed for being the author of: The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File ... and other books.

 

[Naomasa298]

Frederick Forsyth passed away 9 June.

Famed for being the author of: The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File ... and other books.

And also famous for teaching a whole generation of people how to get a false identity in the aforementioned Day of the Jackal.

 

[Iain Aschendale]

Frederick Forsyth passed away 9 June.

Famed for being the author of: The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File ... and other books.

Frederick Forsyth, author of Day of the Jackal (and others) has joined Mr. Stone.

Frederick Forsyth, former spy and Day of the Jackal author, dies aged 86

Approached by Britain’s MI6 while reporting on Nigeria’s Biafra War, he mined his experiences for literary inspiration.

www.aljazeera.com