{"id":67631,"date":"2014-03-06T18:58:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T23:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=67631"},"modified":"2014-03-07T11:08:25","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T16:08:25","slug":"dennis-wilson-was-a-good-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/06\/dennis-wilson-was-a-good-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Wilson Was a Good Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Charles Manson\u2019s <\/em>Lie: The Love and Terror Cult<em> was released forty-four years ago today.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Charles-Manson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-67636 aligncenter\" alt=\"Charles Manson\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Charles-Manson.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Charles-Manson.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Charles-Manson-271x300.jpg 271w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dennis Wilson was the only Beach Boy who surfed. Accordingly, he embraced a more, let\u2019s say,<em> briny<\/em> side of the beach-bum lifestyle\u2014he\u2019s the only Beach Boy you can picture actually sleeping on the beach, living out of the rusted trunk of some boat of a car, feeding the gulls, rolling spliffs, letting himself go. His excellent solo record, <em>Pacific Ocean Blue<\/em>, proves how undervalued he was in the band. But his work on \u201cNever Learn Not to Love,\u201d the B-side to 1968\u2019s \u201cBlue Birds Over the Mountain,\u201d proves that he knew how to wield a red pen.<\/p>\n<p>First, some obligatory exposition. It was Charles Manson\u2014yes, <em>the<\/em>\u2014who first wrote \u201cNever Learn\u201d; he called it \u201cCease to Exist,\u201d and when his friend Dennis Wilson, that Beachiest of Beach Boys, asked to record it, he was thrilled. Or rather, he would be thrilled, he said, if Wilson agreed to one condition: he was not to emend Manson\u2019s lyrics in any way.<\/p>\n<p>He did, of course; he retitled the song, rejiggered the verses, tossed in a bridge, and quietly published the song as his own. Manson, as you can imagine, was pissed, and threatened to kill Wilson, but when the former turned up on the latter\u2019s doorstep, it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justpressplay.net\/articles\/39-news\/3713-song-stories-qnever-learn-not-to-loveq-1968.html\" target=\"_blank\">apparently Wilson who beat the piss out of Manson<\/a>, not the other way around.<\/p>\n<p>As befits a story starring a cult leader, this is a tale full of apocrypha and lurid curlicues\u2014hitchhikers, bullets, <a href=\"http:\/\/carpetbomberz.com\/2008\/08\/12\/dennis-wilson-and-charles-manson\/\" target=\"_blank\">group sex culminating in group gonorrhea<\/a>\u2014but the lyrics, not the diseases, are our interest here. <!--more-->To compare, here are the lyrics to Manson\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uVpIJS_ej2g\" target=\"_blank\">Cease to Exist<\/a>\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Pretty girl, pretty pretty girl<br \/> Cease to exist<br \/> Just, come an\u2019 say you love me<br \/> Give up, your world<br \/> Come on you can be<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m your kind, oh your kind an\u2019 I can see<br \/> You walk on walk on<br \/> I love you, pretty girl<br \/> My life is yours<br \/> Ah you can have my world<\/p>\n<p>Never had a lesson, I ever learned<br \/> But I know, we all get our turn<br \/> An\u2019 I love you<br \/> Never learn not to love you<\/p>\n<p>Submission is a gift<br \/> Go on give it to your brother<br \/> Love and understandin\u2019<br \/> Is for one another<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m your kind, I\u2019m your kind<br \/> I&#8217;m your brother<\/p>\n<p>I never had a lesson, I ever learned<br \/> But I know we all, get our turn<br \/> An\u2019 I love you<br \/> Never learn not to love you<br \/> Never learn not to love you<br \/> Never learn not to love you<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And here\u2019s how Wilson punched them up in \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cmtM8PaZgag\" target=\"_blank\">Never Learn Not to Love<\/a>\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Cease to resist, come on say you love me<br \/> Give up your world, come on and be with me<br \/> I\u2019m your kind, I\u2019m your kind, and I see<\/p>\n<p>Come on come on, ooh I love you pretty girl<br \/> My life is yours, and you can have my world<br \/> I\u2019m your kind, I&#8217;m your kind, and I see<\/p>\n<p>Never had a lesson I ever learned<br \/> I know I could never learn not to love you<br \/> Come in now closer<br \/> Come in closer closer closer<\/p>\n<p>Submission is a gift given to another<br \/> Love and understanding is for one another<br \/> I\u2019m your kind, I&#8217;m your kind, and I see<\/p>\n<p>Never had a lesson I ever learned<br \/> I know I could never learn not to love you<br \/> Come in now closer<br \/> Come in closer come in closer<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The elisions and changes are all sensible\u2014most obviously in the turn from <em>exist<\/em> to <em>resist<\/em>, which retains all the chilling coercion but leaves all that existential engulfment stuff behind. In one word, it captures the difference between saying \u201cI know it\u2019s scary, but please be mine\u201d and \u201cHi, I would like to subsume the whole of your being.\u201d (Likewise, changing <em>brother<\/em> to <em>another<\/em> instantly absolves the song of any incestuous undertones.)<\/p>\n<p>But what really impresses me about Wilson\u2019s edit is how much he kept: this is no carve-up. Many are understandably baffled when they hear that the Beach Boys covered a song by Charles Manson, but when you look at how many of Manson\u2019s lyrics remain untouched, you get a good sense of what Wilson saw in the source material: a song whose helpless, scary yearning makes it at once repulsive and affecting.<\/p>\n<p>It can be hard to forgive the menacing intensity of the song, especially when you know who\u2019s responsible for it. But pop music is teeming with overzealous lovers, and the deranged, over-the-top candor of such lyrics is part of their appeal. If you think you\u2019re immune to such things, just look at these unvarnished, abject, terrifying lines of Mariah Carey\u2019s, and try to pretend you haven\u2019t sung along: \u201cYou\u2019ll always be a part of me \/ I\u2019m part of you indefinitely \/ Boy don\u2019t you know you can&#8217;t escape me \/ Ooh darling &#8216;cause you\u2019ll always be my baby.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Manson\u2019s Lie: The Love and Terror Cult was released forty-four years ago today. \u00a0 Dennis Wilson was the only Beach Boy who surfed. Accordingly, he embraced a more, let\u2019s say, briny side of the beach-bum lifestyle\u2014he\u2019s the only Beach Boy you can picture actually sleeping on the beach, living out of the rusted trunk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1187],"tags":[13104,13103,8219,13106,13105],"class_list":["post-67631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-music","tag-cease-to-exist","tag-charles-manson","tag-dennis-wilson","tag-lyrics","tag-the-beach-boys"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dennis Wilson Was a Good Editor by Dan Piepenbring<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"March 6, 2014 \u2013 Charles Manson\u2019s Lie: The Love and Terror Cult was released forty-four years ago today. \u00a0 Dennis Wilson was the only Beach Boy who surfed. 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