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  • Cabin Essence
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  • 2011 singles
  • 1969 songs
  • Capitol Records singles
  • Songs based on actual events
  • The Beach Boys songs
  • Progressive rock songs
  • Songs about cannabis
  • Psychedelic rock songs
  • Songs about trains
  • Brian Wilson songs
  • Song recordings produced by Brian Wilson
  • Songs written by Brian Wilson
  • Songs written by Van Dyke Parks
  • Musical compositions completed by others
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  • %22Cabinessence%22 (alternately spelled %22Cabin Essence%22) is a song written by Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks for the American rock band the Beach Boys released on their 1969 album 20/20. It was originally conceived for release on the abandoned Smile album.The subject of the song is said by Wilson to be %22about railroads,%22 as he intended to encapsulate the image of Chinese laborers pounding rail spikes while their minds go %22off on a different track%22 after noticing a crow flying overhead. According to journalist Nick Kent, the song %22juxtaposed both highly-advanced Western and Eastern musical references%22 with an %22oriental presence%22, making use of the banjo and harmonica as well as percussion in the chorus designed to emulate the sound of workers assembling train tracks.%22Cabinessence%22 has received much acclaim over the years as the stand-out track on 20/20. Biographer Jon Stebbins observed the song's %22demonic chanting%22 which he believed exemplified %22some of the most haunting, manic, evil-sounding music the Beach Boys ever made%22. MOJO described Cabinessence as %22Smile in microcosm. Vast in scope, unprecedented in its ambition and as much an unsolved sonic riddle as the album it had been written for, this was the misunderstood masterpiece that caused Mike Love to crack and the project to flounder.%22
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  • Brian Wilson
  • Van Dyke Parks
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  • 5714dee725ac0d8aee539828
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  • USCA21101825
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  • The Beach Boys
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  • PT210.07780045S
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  • 2179
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  • 14176164
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  • english
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  • Capitol Records
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  • California
  • Brian Wilson's home studio
  • 1968-11-20
  • Gold Star Studios and CBS Columbia Square
  • October—December, 1966,
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  • Cabin Essence
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