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Song · Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, and YouTube Music · 1966

Capitol · Universal Music Group

Good Vibrations

Capitol, under Universal. The craft is the moral. The feeling is simpler than the work.

Capitol released it. Universal holds Capitol. Wilson spent a fortune and a nervous system on three and a half minutes about a girl and a feeling. The excess was in the work, not in the moral.

Admire the work. Do not confuse a vibration with a vow.

The eight

  1. Industry

    10/10

    Months of pieces, fitted. That is industry.

  2. Household

    4/10

    A girl, a thrill. No house yet.

  3. Piety

    4/10

    Excitation, treated as almost holy.

  4. Courage

    6/10

    He built a thing no one had asked for.

  5. Republic

    3/10

    A private weather.

  6. Temperance

    5/10

    The thrill is the subject, and it is not a binge.

  7. Truth

    6/10

    He says what he feels and does not inflate the plot.

  8. Stewardship

    8/10

    A standard of how much care a pop song can bear.

Live historicallyPlay it once for the arrangement. Then say, in a plainer song, what this house actually promises.

Song · Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, and YouTube Music · 1967

Atlantic · Warner Music Group

Chain of Fools

Atlantic, under Warner. She names the chain. She is not flattered to be on it.

Atlantic released it. Warner holds Atlantic. Franklin sings a woman who has been told that patience is love, and who has counted the others. The seeing is the virtue. Staying in the chain after you have seen it is not.

If you are on a chain, name it. Then step off.

The eight

  1. Industry

    8/10

    The groove is a taunt she is done absorbing.

  2. Household

    5/10

    A loyalty that was never returned. She sees the others.

  3. Piety

    3/10

    No mercy for the arrangement.

  4. Courage

    7/10

    She says the humiliating fact.

  5. Republic

    4/10

    One woman, and the line of women before her.

  6. Temperance

    5/10

    The anger is aimed.

  7. Truth

    8/10

    For five long years. She counts.

  8. Stewardship

    6/10

    A seeing. The next step is getting off the chain.

Live historicallyIf this is a person in the house, or a habit, count the years out loud and decide.

Annie