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On April 1st, 2009, Andy Hull started to put his life back together.
Manchester Orchestra's new album, Simple Math, is about that experience. "It's the reaction to my marital, physical, and mental failures. But for the first time, I'm not blaming anyone but myself," Hull says. Produced fat, tactile and beautiful by Dan Hannon, Simple Math is Hannon's third full-length LP with the band, starting with the debut album I'm Like A Virgin Losing A Child and then the follow-up Mean Everything To Nothing. Recorded at Blackbird Studios in Nashville and mixed by Joe Chiccarelli, the band kept the same studio set-up and production team intact from their second to third records.
Simple Math is a concept album. As Roy Shuker defines in his book Popular Music: The Key Concepts, a concept album is a record "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical." Simple Math is indeed unified by all of these. The instrumentation is big, even in its smallest moments. The composition is emotional and complex, expertly weaving music with story. The narrative is a trip through a man's brain, through his mistakes, regrets and realizations. And the lyrics, which take us firsthand through this life-changing experience, are poetic and raw, honest and passionate.
But Manchester Orchestra has always been about truth; about passion. It's why Alternative Press gave MO's 2009 acclaimed Mean Everything to Nothing (which yielded the Top 10 Modern Rock hit "I've Got Friends") a five-star lead review that called the album "a masterpiece of intricacy and honesty." You can feel their passion in the power of Hull's voice and the fury of the band's music in every track they've ever laid down, a power that wraps itself around you and demands your attention as Hull's lyrics guide you through the world as he sees it. "I've always had a clear perception of right and wrong around me," says Hull, "I've constantly questioned my beliefs, trying to find the truth."
The son and grandson of southern ministers, Hull formed Manchester Orchestra in 2004 at the age of 17 with his lifelong friends (Jonathan Corley on bass, keyboardist Chris Freeman, guitarist Robert McDowell and drummer Tim Very) and used their music as a way to explore the issues that mattered most to him, issues of life, emotional vulnerability and the human condition. "I've always believed in God, but modernized Christianity can scare me. I'm a spiritual, but not a religious, person. And I like to use my music to explore how that faith stretches and challenges me to be a better man."
In 2005, before they were even old enough to vote, Manchester Orchestra headed out on the road and played over 200 shows, quickly building a legion of loyal fans that grows bigger and bigger with every show they play and every album they release. "We wouldn't showcase for the record labels," says Hull of the band's early days. "We wanted to play as many gigs as we could and we wanted the labels to come see us live, with our audience, in the clubs." And the labels came. In 2007, their explosive first record I'm Like a Virgin Losing A Child became a critical favorite, the New York Times praising it as "Music to swoon to." Two years later, Mean Everything to Nothing arrived and was heralded as one of the best records of 2009, with Absolute Punk raving: "Quick note to the rest of the albums coming out this year: The bar has just been set." And now with the arrival of Simple Math, the bar has been set yet again. "The songs on this record are stories," explains Hull, "but more directed and personal. In many ways, it can be called a dueling conversation between my wife, God and myself."
The opening track "Deer" sets a simmering and descriptive starting-point to Hull's and our journey. It begins with an honest confession, carefully full of vivid detail. The lyric I'd go out in public if nobody ever asked perfectly sums up just how hard it is to lead a normal life once your pain becomes public. This is followed by the hard driving and rich Mighty, which Hull describes as sounding "like the Apocalypse. It's my darkest hour, in a sense." The third track, Pensacola, is a meditation on where the band has taken him and where he thinks he may be heading. "In this song, the innocence is leaving," says Hull. The raw and masterful April Fool is next, an exquisite dynamite blast of big guitars, giant drums and soaring harmonies that, ironically, "was my first attempt at a love song on this album." This moves directly into Pale Black Eye, a power-chord powder keg that builds from controlled discourse ("The song is sung three ways: Me to God, me to my wife, and God to me") to earthshaking confession, a rock and roll bloodletting. Bite your veins/ bleed your pain/ into me.
Virgin appears next, a four and a half minute rock opera that looks back at the road that led the band to the present. "It's a tri-fold story that parallels three 'firsts' for me," explains Hull. "The loss of my virginity, the potential loss of relationship, and the realization that our band has and will change after our first album. To all of these issues, the same lyric applies: It's never gonna be the same." It's here that the heartfelt and elegant title track (and first single) Simple Math arrives. "This is a song about an affair, non-existent but unrealized. I cannot hide from the truth. It finds me. The chorus is myself questioning God. Had I convinced myself, my family, my band that something is real when it isn't?" Leave It Alone next slips quietly (at first) into the aftermath, a beautiful yet angry recounting of a three-hour argument brought on by what five years on the road can do to someone. "I love the last line, If we end up alone, a plague on my head and a curse on our home. This song is my realization that there's a chance no one will ever love me like my wife Amy."
Second from last is Apprehension, a sobering, lyrical tour through the guilt, the blame, the questioning of who's at fault. "Not only is the song about Amy and me, it's also about several friends and family members going through a miscarriage. It represents that even after all has been mended in one heavy situation, life will continue to give you trials that require immense trust and faith in someone or something." And ending it all is Leaky Brakes, which tiptoes quietly but confidently in to lead us back into the present. "The final breath is essentially to admit to everything I've ever done wrong," says Hull of this final track. "The lyrics are so evolved compared to where we began. It's all here and ready to be confronted. It's up to me now."
Rarely does an album come along of such monumental honesty and vulnerability. The power of the music, the complexity of the songwriting, the opportunity to hear a band at the top of their game evolving before our very eyes – it all makes Simple Math so much more than a collection of songs, so much more than just a concept album. Simple Math is a deeply emotional experience. And, simply put, it is a masterwork.

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For a band that spends much of its time on the road, the up-shot is they love what they're doing. This is a band that has John Prine sing-a-longs in their primary tour vehicle, a Ford E-350 dubbed "The Road Hawk." For new fans looking for a conversation-starter: each of the band members has a hawk nickname, which they will probably explain to you if you ask them nicely. Hayden states, "One of the greatest joys of the road has been meeting so many people from so many different walks of life" and he credits the hospitality of GGG's fans with helping them to get from square one to across the Atlantic Ocean. Hayden says, "Music has been our ticket to see the country and beyond. It's largely due to the kindness of people we've met who've housed and fed us and taken us in for the night that's enabled us to continue our pursuit of creating music and being touring musicians." Hayden speaks about the release of the Paul Q. Kolderie (Radiohead, Uncle Tupelo, Lemonheads) and Adam Taylor (Sarah Borges, Portugal The Man) produced Sweet Nothings as a rebirth of sorts. For him, it is a reconnection to the roots of rock 'n' roll for which he exhumed influences of the past including Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, The Everly Brothers, Roy Orbison, Buddy Holly, and Little Richard. The album, which has songs both quick and catchy about the simple pleasures in life and slow and sentimental about—what else?—getting your heart ripped out, chewed up, spit out, and pieced back together, is a masterful follow-up to the band's earlier endeavors. What would drive someone to leave the comforts of home and the stability of a 9-5 job with a steady paycheck? For Hayden and the other men of Girls Guns and Glory, it's the pursuit of artistic expression. They hold the goal of creating something that's at once accessible and full of depth. Who hasn't stayed too long at the dance hoping that special someone would look their way? 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Aug 18th, 2010

The Hollywood beach movie has been making the scene since the late 1950s. Beach Blanket Bingo, Gidget, Where the Boys Are, Ride the Wild Surf, Girl Happy, Beach Ball, The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini and Surf Party are among the top films.

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Sun, surf, sand, girls, music, romance ?�all key components of the venerable Hollywood beach film. Here are ten beach movies that no�fan should ever miss.�Pack your surfboard and�hang ten, baby...

Beach Blanket Bingo (American International, 1965)

Often considered the big kahuna in the genre, Beach Blanket Bingo stars that dynamic duo of Frankie Avalon (Frankie) and Annette Funicello (Dee Dee) in one of Hollywood?s all-time sun and surf romps. It?s all here ? beach parties, a surf rock band (the Hondells), the Malibu Rat Pack motorcycle gang headed by Eric Von Zipper (Harvey Lembeck) and a comely Linda Evans in the role of girl singer Sugar Kane. Frankie and Annette sing "Beach Blanket Bingo" and "I Think You Think" while the Hondells perform "Cycle Set" and Donna Loren croons "It Only Hurts When I Cry." Deborah Walley, John Ashley, Jody McCrea, Marta Kristen, Timothy Carey, Paul Lynde, Buster Keaton and even "Mr. Insult" himself Don Rickles as Big Drop are also on hand. "You know something? A kiss is worth more than a thousand words," Frankie says. "Then why don?t you stop talking?," Annette replies. Oh, keen!

Director: William Asher

Review: "The classic beach movie of the 1960s, with Don Rickles and Buster Keaton adding their shtick to all the nonsense. Lots of great rock-and-roll." The Motion Picture Guide (1985)

On DVD: Beach Blanket Bingo (MGM/UA, 2001)

Gidget (Columbia, 1959)

Sandra Dee has the title role as Francie Lawrence a.k.a. Gidget, a 17-year-old girl who finds romance on the beach during one unforgettable summer. With Moondoggie (James Darren) as her love interest/surfing instructor, Gidget also learns the art of "shooting the curl" in the big southern California waves. Cliff Robertson, Arthur O?Connell, Sue George, Tom Laughlin, Yvonne Craig and the Four Preps are also in the mix. Based on the 1957 novel of the same name by Frederick Kohner, Gidget spawned two feature-length sequels, Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961) and Gidget Goes to Rome (1963), along with the popular Gidget TV series (1965-66) starring Sally Field. "Honest to goodness it?s the absolute ultimate!" Sandra Dee?s Gidget gushes. Well, can?t argue with that.

Director: Paul Wendkos

Review: "Sandra Dee is the ?gidget? of the title, being a young woman, so slight in stature she is tagged with a nickname which is a contraction of girl and midget. Dee is in that crucial period of growing up where she doesn?t like boys very much but is beginning to realize they are going to play a big part in her life." - Variety (1959)

On DVD: The Complete Gidget Collection (Columbia, 2004)

Australian daybill movie poster: Cliff Robertson, Sandra Dee, James Darren in Gidget (1959)

Where the Boys Are (MGM, 1960)

Dolores Hart, George Hamilton, Yvette Mimieux, Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss and Connie Francis all journey south to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for spring break in this beach movie classic based on the novel by Glendon Swarthout. There?s plenty of action, romance and college student hijinks in this one, including a scene where Jim Hutton as a drunken TV Thompson dives into a water tank and pursues one of the comely "mermaids" inside. Frank Gorshin scores a good role as a groovy jazz musician, Chill Wills plays a police captain who readies his troops for the annual collegiate invasion and Miss Connie Francis sings the title song. Dolores Hart, who plays the outspoken Merritt Andrews and gal pal of George Hamilton?s suave Ivy Leaguer Ryder Smith, later became a nun and is now known as Reverend Mother Dolores Hart. A popular porn movie later appropriated this MGM title with a bit of a twist, calling itself Where the Boys Ain?t.

Director: Henry Levin

Review: "Where the Boys Are is one of those pictures every intelligent moviegoer will loathe himself for liking ? a corny, phony, raucous outburst of fraternity humor, sorority sex talk and house-mother homilies that nevertheless warms two hours of winter with a travel-poster tanorama of fresh young faces, firm young bodies and good old Florida sunshine?" - Time (1/20/61)

On DVD: Where the Boys Are (Warner, 2004)

One sheet movie poster: Where the Boys Are (1960)

Ride the Wild Surf (Columbia, 1964)

Fabian, Shelley Fabares, Peter Brown, Barbara Eden, Tab Hunter, Susan Hart and James Mitchum all soak up the rays and surf in this beach entry set on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. "Hang ten" is the principal theme, as cool Jody Wallis (Fabian), Steamer Lane (Hunter), Chase Colton (Brown) and badass Eskimo (Mitchum) prepare to do battle in the big surfing contest. There?s the usual romance of course, along with Jan and Dean performing the movie?s title song and the Marketts singing "Surfer?s Stomp." Mickey "Da Cat" Dora, Greg Noll and Dick Ziker performed many of the surfing scenes at legendary Waimea Bay.

Director: Don Taylor

Review: "Where Ride the Wild Surf really delivers is in its picturesque use of Hawaiian locations and its admirable efforts to capture the surfing culture there, much like the first (and somewhat underrated) Gidget." - Stuart Galbraith IV, DVD Talk (2004)

On DVD: Ride the Wild Surf (Sony, 2005)

Girl Happy (MGM, 1965)

Elvis Presley stars as Rusty Wells, a singer at a Chicago nightclub who is hired by the mobster owner (Harold J. Stone) to look after his daughter Valerie (Shelley Fabares) while on spring break in Florida. A lean, handsome, raven-haired Elvis is joined in the cast by Gary Crosby, Joby Baker, Jimmy Hawkins, Nita Talbot and Mary Ann Mobley, the latter of whom reigned as Miss America of 1959. "The King" of course sings throughout the picture, delivering such spirited tunes as "Do the Clam," "Spring Fever," "Wolf Call" and "Puppet on a String."

Director: Boris Sagal

Review: "Even with a large throng of clean-cut youngsters and some fetching Fort Lauderdale backgrounds woven in for travel-poster picturesqueness, the picture meanders familiarly. The saving grace is the steady stream of tunes, as rhythmical as they are unoriginal, belted out by the star and the other youngsters. That?s one thing?for those who care?you can always count on in Presley frolic." - Howard Thompson, The New York Times (5/27/65)

On DVD: Girl Happy (Warner, 2007)

Insert movie poster: Elvis Presley in Girl Happy (1965)

Beach Party (American International, 1963)

This is the first installment in AIP?s beach movie series, with Bob Cummings starring as Robert Orwell Sutwell, an anthropology professor who with his assistant Marianne (Dorothy Malone) embark on a study of teenage sex habits. Their quest leads them to the beach where Frankie Avalon (Frankie), Annette Funicello (Dolores) and other young people hang out and hang ten. Harvey Lembeck, John Ashley, Eva Six, Jody McCrea, Morey Amsterdam and Dick Dale and the Del-Tones also appear, with the latter performing "Swingin? and a-Surfin" and "Secret Surfin? Spot." Like, far out, babe?

Director: William Asher

Review: "Doom-daddle, doom-daddle, doom-daddle. That?s the swingin? beat, the dialogue flavor and just about the sum and substance of ?Beach Party.? American International floated it in yesterday at the Palace and the Fabian Fox in Brooklyn. Aboard are a group of teen-age singing idols, headed by Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. Hanging on for dear life are two old fogeys named Bob Cummings and Dorothy Malone. Landlubbers, look out!" - The New York Times (9/26/63)

On DVD: Beach Party (MGM, 2000)

Beach Ball (Paramount, 1965)

Edd "Kookie" Byrnes of TV?s 77 Sunset Strip heads the cast as Dick Martin in this lively beach romp, with lovely, blond Chris Noel, Robert Logan, Aron Kincaid, Mikki Jamison, Don Edmonds and Brenda Benet also on hand. The story centers on three aspiring musicians and their plan to make some bread so they can get their instruments out of hock and compete in the big talent show. Sand, sun, surf, chicks, fast cars and the musical talents of the Supremes, the Hondells, the Four Seasons, the Nashville Teens, the Righteous Brothers and the Walker Brothers conspire for some good, clean fun. "Those surf ridin?, skin divin?, sky jumpin?, drag racin?, beach bashin? boys and their bikini beauties? in a blast of a beach brawl!" promised the film?s promotional material. Is it too late to sign up?

Director: Lennie Weinrib

Review: "Good, nonsensical 1960s rock and roll/surf movie." The Motion Picture Guide (1985)

On DVD: Not commercially available

One sheet movie poster: Chris Noel in Beach Ball (1965)

Wild on the Beach (Twentieth Century-Fox, 1965)

Frankie Randall and Sherry Jackson play college kids who mistakenly rent the same beach house. Their friends show up, resulting in a wild party punctuated by a lot of loud, groovy rock ?n? roll music. Sonny & Cher, the Astronauts, Jackie & Gayle, Cindy Malone, Russ Bender, Frankie Randall and Sandy Nelson provide the tunes.

Director: Maury Dexter

Review: "Notable only for an appearance by Sonny and Cher." - The Motion Picture Guide (1985)

On DVD: Not commercially available

The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (American International, 1966)

Boris Karloff ? a long way from Frankenstein (1931) ? plays a corpse who must perform a good deed within 24 hours in order to gain admittance to the pearly gates. He finds his opening when Basil Rathbone?s evil lawyer character Reginald Ripper plans to kill off the young beneficiaries to Uncle Boris? estate. Tommy Kirk, Deborah Walley, Aron Kincaid, Quinn O?Hara, Jesse White, Harvey Lembeck, Nancy Sinatra and Susan Hart are also on hand in this bizarre beach tale filmed in Pasadena, California. The Bobby Fuller Four perform "Swing a-Ma Thing" and "Make the Music Pretty."

Director: Don Weis

Review: "The climax is a less-funny reworking of the final sequence in Beach Blanket Bingo, with the heroine (Walley) strapped to the longest buzzsaw plank in film history." - Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

On DVD: The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini/Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow Midnite Movies Double Feature (MGM, 2005)

Surf Party (Twentieth Century-Fox, 1964)

Patricia Morrow, Jackie De Shannon and Kenny Miller play Arizona teens who head to Malibu, California, for sun, surf and romance. Pop singer Bobby Vinton plays Len Marshal, the owner of a surf shop. Look for the Routers and the Astronauts, two early surf groups, who perform several tunes. "When Beach Boys Meet Surf Sweeties ? it?s a Real Swingin? Splash of FUN, FUN, FUN!" heralded the film?s promo material. Talk about name dropping, but the Beach Boys and their 1964 hit single "Fun, Fun, Fun" are nowhere to be found.

Director: Maury Dexter

Review: "?Lots of romance (including naughty fun by 1964 standards), big waves and the Polish Prince (Vinton) running a surf shop. Inane stuff that was pretty hot in its time but now plays as entertaining camp." - The Motion Picture Guide (1985)

On DVD: Not commercially available

One sheet movie poster: Surf Party (1964)

Ten More Beach�Film Favorites

How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965) It?s a Bikini World (1967) Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961) Bikini Beach (1964) Back to the Beach (1987) Palm Springs Weekend (1963) Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965) The Beach Girls and the Monster (1965) Ski Party (1965) Pajama Party (1964)

Insert movie poster: Ski Party (1965)

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All images courtesy Heritage Auction Galleries, Dallas, Texas

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