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| Kicking off the list of The Great White Shank’s “Seven Wonders of the Musical World” is “Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow”, released on “ Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE ” back in 2004.
Originally recorded for The Beach Boys aborted “SMiLE” album in the fall of 1966 - and original outtakes from the “SMiLE” sessions bear this out - this was no recent Brian Wilson creation by any means. Think about all the sounds the giants of the musical world circa ‘66 (The Beatles, the Stones, Dylan) were creating at that time; consider the fruits of the flowering of the “West Coast Sound” by The Byrds, The Mamas and The Papas, etc. Listen to “Mr. Tambourine Man”, or “Monday, Monday”, the listen to “Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow” and be prepared to be BLOWN AWAY.
How to describe “Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow”? Experimental. Incendiary. Psychedelic. Paranoid. Claustrophobic. Quite simply, in my mind, the most innovative and incredible piece of music I’ve ever heard. Even after numerous listenings, it never fails to amaze and awe. First, a frenzied burst of percussion, whistles and toots percolate on top of a series of rolling piano/bass notes, creating an image of frenzied activity bubbling in intensity that ends in a single, dying whistle wheezing over a playful calliope organ. Then the explosion: fierce, pounding drums, wailing violins, fuzz guitar, and thumping bass, and strange harmonies combine and reverberate in a pulsating aural pastiche that conjures up a hellish firestorm ... |
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