I heard this song playing the day my mother died. I'll never forget waiting for the ambulance to get to our house, in shock, and this was playing in the background.
Certainly one of the most beautiful pieces Brian ever wrote- and that moment b4 the bridge where Brian sings "listen...listen" is one of the most transcendent moments in all of pop music.Pure genius.
If I were to pick a favorite song of The Beach Boys, it would have to be this one. The song gives off such a romantic, almost heartbreaking sound to me that is unmatched to any song except maybe God Only Knows. Perfect.
Yes - although he seems to have striven for a similar vibe in I Wanna Be Around/ You Are My Sunshine in the Smile album. Although neither was written by him, he gave them a new pathos by editting them right down to the melancholic essentials.
That a capella-piece is breathtakingly beautiful. The song as it appears on Pet Sounds is brilliant, but I could also listen to just that a capella piece for its entire duration. It goes straight to the heart.
@Kein Nasem - Absolutely, those harmonies are not just incredibly beautiful but they reach right into the heart and soul. I feel like it's working on another level of music altogether. Just amazing!
Man, I'd put that string arrangement up against the string section on any piece of classical music. Definitely the most beautiful strings I've heard in pop music.
agreedm the best strings on a pop song composed by a genius like Brian with still the handicap that he wasn't educated in music like most string arrangers. Thats pure music talent...
I maybe love this song more than any other on the album. Its like a magical evocation of a perfect moment in time, when your loved one rests their head on your shoulder - words alone fail to describe the beautiful intimacy of the moment, but music, in the hands of the truly special talent of Brian Wilson, truly can.
Rich Batsford very nicely said. This is also my favorite track on the album. I find it a pitty that God only knows and Wouldn't it be nice stole the show on this album. Not that these aren't good songs but the whole album has such gems which many people don't know about.
You know the beautiful thing about Brian's music is that even people who claim not to like it or have yet to hear of it, don't even realize that the artists or bands they do like, were either directly or indirectly influenced by him and the Beach Boys. God Bless you Brian, God Bless all of you.
Same thing with the Beatles man, I have a music friend, who is a moron, who doesn’t appreciate them or the beach boys enough. No Beatles, no beach boys? Even if your favorite artist wasn’t directly influenced by them, the artist they were directly influenced by, was absolutely directly influenced by them. You go back long enough in influences from any favorite artist and you end up back at the Beach boys and the Beatles. even that insane jerk Kanye West has an incredibly deep appreciation for both bands.
With a lot of artists when you hear a deconstruction of their work it brings them down to earth a bit, and you ponder something isn’t quite as genius as you thought. But when you hear a deconstruction of Brian’s work it’s like “nope, he’s simply on another plain of genius and no amount of peering behind the curtain will ever change that”
I like how Brian caught himself, "Shit" "I mean Shoot," he was probably trying to sound professional around the wrecking crew. This the only session he does that. Others are full force and anything comes out of Brian. lol
this song is a complete masterpiece. i fell in love with it as soon as i heard it, i am so blessed to even be able to listen to this. brian wilson is a genius!
03:10 Goddamnit! How could they create such atmosphere? If I didn't know that song, and it didn't have those vocal harmonies, I'd swear that was a Sigur Ros piece
Bass and Cellos, with some soft string quarted and a Organ, playing a bi-chord i think (maybe the 1st and 5th) Then a guitar with picking tremolo appears at the chorus
I really do think it was Brother Carl who said it best about his older Brother when he said : " He heard everything--the whole thing--the 1st time, every time. " That, & his visionary harmonics are BW's lasting gift to music. No one--EVER--heard what he heard--& still does, today. At 70 y/o, he still does it! Awesome. Wolfsky9
My deepest wish with this beautiful Beautiful Song is to hear the surf guitarist playing it's tremolo part a bit louder..I still have not found that particular line yet or heard it on youtube someone playing it so please, if anyone just could...God Brian Wilson did let his deepest Feeling Speak and I Love him for that ❤
Never knew about this song until I read people raving about "Pet Sounds" on a YT thread. Being two years older than this album, I decided it was time I give it a try. This song stopped. me. dead. Sure, I grew up hearing BB, but never heard how much this song influenced so much going forward. Chicago with Cetera, Pink Floyd "Great gig in the sky...Freddie Mercury for goodness sake. And the emotional impact of the slender lyric, plainly delivered. The intimacy calls to mind Mahler's Ruckert Lieder. Just.freaking. wow.
4.00 this is heaven on earth ! Never before and after will I never hear anything as beautiful as this.. He must have had some contact with the powers above because this is simply out of this world.. And at that age and without no one to copy... wow Chief 1
These videos are fucking incredible man! Really help with hearing the whole production/arrangement which is so intricate it's nearly impossible to completely dissect when listening to the finished product. Always read your comments as well, very insightful and non-biased to Brian as far as the Beach Boys story goes.. Wish you could make more "behind the sounds" vids!!
a great example of how the very best song writers take simple love songs and elevate them to works of sublime beauty. Brian was the guy that the Beatles admired the most (along with "His Bobness")and from who they drew inspiration.
@@BehindTheSounds Yes you're correct.the point I was trying to make is a mediocre song writer will approach the love song, which after all is a very common or "simple" theme in music and festoon it with hackneyed cliches and maudlin musical contrivances. As you are well aware, Brian approached the common love song from a very different and much elevated perspective. I enjoyed your presentation by the way.
@@BehindTheSounds yea brian was the master at making sophisticated complex songs sound simple. Like i get around, ya think its just a few chords easy to cover on guitar...nope its a ton of chords n effortless key changes and thats not counting the singing. The vocals are so sublime and melt into each other its hard just to pick out a lead vocal. And had #1 hits foolin people thinkin just a surf band. In fact he was so good he fooled his own band and finally himself by thinking his songs were just disposable pop. Drugs and mental illness always gets blamed for his spiral and tho they didn't help, i think he just wanted support from his band and public and got neither. 60 yrs on and that rift of art vs commerce is still bugging him crazy
I am such a fan of Brian Wilson's voice. Heck, I even think his speaking voice was attractive. Needless to say, I think his singing was absolutely beautiful. So, 1:07 to 1:24 is a slice of heavenly bliss for me.
This is one session that has disappeared they only have Brian's Demo, Vocal Demo, Take 1A and the Vocal Overdubs. The Session Tape was booted and that's why it's low quailty. It has since disappeared.
Nicely edited! To me, this track represents the tasty appetizer to the sonic banquet of SMiLE. Well, WOULD have. As such, all we have is this perfect gem of pop purity, which can be used as a yardstick to measure the creations on SMiLE. Since this was a complete track, it can be used to assess how CLOSE to completion anything on SMiLE was by comparison.
The sense of longing and yearning in this most incredible tune, expressed so poignantly in the strings and Brian's stunning falsetto, is nearly unbearable.If any tune in the BB's canon exemplifies Brian's genius, it's this tune. Certainly one of the most beautiful ballads in all of pop music.
Raoul Duke I can believe how well and satisfying Love and Mercy turned out, it's engaging story the entire film, it's like a tragedy but then it has a happy ending
Thank-you. I really appreciated this. Even though I have listened to this LP so many times, your series gives me yet another deep appreciation for the work.
The musicians including Carol Kaye and Frank Capp and Blaine are part of The Wrecking Crew, the most successful collective of studio musicians ever. Wrecking Crew musicians accompanied Glen Campbell on the very last song he would ever record, I'm Not Going To Miss You."
+Allen Probe, our family thinks a lot of Mr. Campbell. He and Mrs. Campbell--Kim--were members of our church here in Phoenix for a lot of years. He was gracious and caring. Though we didn't know him personally, we often encountered Mrs. Campbell on Sunday mornings when we went to pick up our daughter in the children's care area. One morning, he brought Al Jardine to church, and I personally was pretty okay with that because Mr. Jardine has always been a high caliber performer and man, and I'm a fan. (Alice Cooper, Vincent Furnier also attended our church.) It's my own opinion that we failed Mr. Campbell when he got in trouble some years back. My guess is that he was apparently slipping into the initial stages of his present illness. He had a traffic accident. I'm not certain how much we actually tried to help the Campbell family at those times, but I think it could have been a lot more--my own personal inadequacies in the matter, included. Many of our church still pray for Mr. and Mrs. Campbell. It was difficult for my family and me to watch the video of his last recording session.
Rich, powerful, and so well designed musically and then vocally. LOVE the string track and the vocal piece that led to the string arrangement. Pet Sounds was truly an innovation.
Wow man, these series of clips you uploaded are awesome, thanks for sharing them with us, really gives insight into what was lost over the radio of the days and also just what it takes to really produce some of the hits we loved over the years. Its not what people think it is, especially in the early days of four tracks and bouncing things down like George Martin and many early producers had to deal with. Way different than the endless tracks of digital music of today.
It's too phoenomenol almost to grasp what he has done here....in 1965 I was at primary school singing along to Old Farmer Buck on BBC Radio....and at the other side of the world Brian Wilson is creating music that is mind blowing. I have been a fan all of my life and even have his hair drier I got after a concert (amazing eh) ......but I now believe Brian done all his greatest music in a five year period (maybe six) ....his mind must have been amazing in that time.
I think your right. It wasn't received well at first, in was in England but it was one of those albums you sort of had to chill and listen to on a good stereo to really appreciate the craftsmanship (IMHO anyway) and genius of Brian. I know its my favorite, sure I liked the early surf stuff I was a young kid then, but wow the stuff he did later was just pure genius for lack of a better word.
Yeah most beach boys songs are. They're deceptively complex and are hard to pull off on just guitar n voice. Why you hardly see bands covering their songs besides the surfing usa types. I'd say 95pct of music fans try and say the music is simple pop that anyone could play. But big part of Brian's genius is making complex arrangements, odd key changes, 3 lead voices sound so effortlessly simple yet they are anything but. Why it kills me when people shrug it off as fluff, I just wanna hand em a guitar and say ok play it hot shot. Cause any musician can attest how it's not too hard to play Beatle,stones, ccr, nirvana, foo fighters etc but try covering god only knows and realize shit our band sux
@@zurdoremi agree and I don't hear many suspended chords etc...in much of the music today. Big reason why it's painfully dull is because it's just too obvious where the song is headed. Zero surprises when every hit is C G D F but I guess it's a easy proven formula so don't fuk with Mike love apparently. And it's not just an oh my generation music is better than this new crap. I'm not that old but I'm aware it can be broken down to the fact if you compare the top ten from 67 to 2020s there's really no disputing a song like I Get Around is a superior composition to Drakes new hit. Which btw get around is another deceptively sophisticated masterpiece disguised as a meat n potatoes car song. At his peak Brian was head above the rest while still reaching for a raw spiritual magic which he succeeded more so than any contemporaries. Really wish his confidence didn't get crushed over n over after pet sounds purely based on that's not hip man you gotta sing bout politics or sex to be cool. Though Brian won out in the end cause his catalog has singlehandedly had a positive impact on millions of people and will continue infinity making people happy
@@zurdoremi one of my buddies, recently commented “who really cares about diminished chords, or inversions?” we’ve been best friends for 20 years, so I know him very well and he’s a complete moron. I lovable moron, but a moron, nonetheless. He thinks Stevie Ray Vaughan is the best musician of all time. I love Stevie but Jesus Christ. Amazing guitar player but about as one dimensional as you can get. I’m actually a huge fan of Disney music because unlike most modern pop, it often uses in versions, cord, substitutions, suspended, as well as major and minor seven chord. Some of my friends think it’s immature for me to like Disney music, I just brush them off with “it’s OK if you don’t get it. There is nothing immature about my love for this music, it’s not like I cover “The Wiggles“ and nursery rhymes. Even a lot of decent musicians don’t appreciate the beach boys and complex pop arrangements. Great blues guitar players are a dime a dozen, great songwriters like Mr. Wilson are one in 1 billion.
The arrangement style is of course similar but that is to be expected. Maybe they’re the same key to fit the band’s vocal ranges. I don’t hear any similarities in the actual composition tho. In the language of music these two pieces are saying different things with similar voices.
An underrated song. One of the most beautiful ever composed.
Kel B well said. I hear this melody in my head at least once a week, and I am grateful.
+Adam Whittaker I always think about PS. It's always in my head. Beautiful.
+Kel B so true... this and "You Still Believe in Me"
Right!
couldnt agree more. gives me goosebumps every time
I heard this song playing the day my mother died. I'll never forget waiting for the ambulance to get to our house, in shock, and this was playing in the background.
"aw shit man" "i mean shoot"
Certainly one of the most beautiful pieces Brian ever wrote- and that moment b4
the bridge where Brian sings "listen...listen" is one of the most transcendent
moments in all of pop music.Pure genius.
God only knows what we'd be without him...
Anyone else think these videos are sample heaven?
+MilesPadilla1 yes indeed!
Yes😎😏
Yeah, man!
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This video?? Not the song?? Let me hear! I think the actual song is 100000% sample worthy. Let’s talk
Those harmonies... my god
This is one of the only songs that can truly bring me to tears
Its just so beautiful, its beyond words
If I were to pick a favorite song of The Beach Boys, it would have to be this one. The song gives off such a romantic, almost heartbreaking sound to me that is unmatched to any song except maybe God Only Knows. Perfect.
Yes - although he seems to have striven for a similar vibe in I Wanna Be Around/ You Are My Sunshine in the Smile album. Although neither was written by him, he gave them a new pathos by editting them right down to the melancholic essentials.
@@Picnicl yes yes
and he was only 23 here. truly mind blowing...
Genius!
Probably my favourite song on pet sounds.....if there could ever be such a thing
I watch all of these videos at least two or three times a year lol
Cool
Same. haha
I usually start around springtime :)
The piano version and the isolated strings version ripps your heart...
It's truly amazing the songs Brian Wilson did at such a young age...truly brilliant.
That a capella-piece is breathtakingly beautiful. The song as it appears on Pet Sounds is brilliant, but I could also listen to just that a capella piece for its entire duration. It goes straight to the heart.
Kein Nasem exactly!
@Kein Nasem - Absolutely, those harmonies are not just incredibly beautiful but they reach right into the heart and soul. I feel like it's working on another level of music altogether. Just amazing!
Man, I'd put that string arrangement up against the string section on any piece of classical music. Definitely the most beautiful strings I've heard in pop music.
agreedm the best strings on a pop song composed by a genius like Brian with still the handicap that he wasn't educated in music like most string arrangers. Thats pure music talent...
Azku Shang Also being deaf in one ear due to his abusive father. Brian's genius is really something that can't be overstated.
I maybe love this song more than any other on the album. Its like a magical evocation of a perfect moment in time, when your loved one rests their head on your shoulder - words alone fail to describe the beautiful intimacy of the moment, but music, in the hands of the truly special talent of Brian Wilson, truly can.
Rich Batsford very nicely said. This is also my favorite track on the album. I find it a pitty that God only knows and Wouldn't it be nice stole the show on this album. Not that these aren't good songs but the whole album has such gems which many people don't know about.
the sound at 3:10 to 4:02 gives me goosebumps. such a beautiful tune..
You know the beautiful thing about Brian's music is that even people who claim not to like it or have yet to hear of it, don't even realize that the artists or bands they do like, were either directly or indirectly influenced by him and the Beach Boys. God Bless you Brian, God Bless all of you.
Same thing with the Beatles man, I have a music friend, who is a moron, who doesn’t appreciate them or the beach boys enough. No Beatles, no beach boys? Even if your favorite artist wasn’t directly influenced by them, the artist they were directly influenced by, was absolutely directly influenced by them. You go back long enough in influences from any favorite artist and you end up back at the Beach boys and the Beatles. even that insane jerk Kanye West has an incredibly deep appreciation for both bands.
With a lot of artists when you hear a deconstruction of their work it brings them down to earth a bit, and you ponder something isn’t quite as genius as you thought. But when you hear a deconstruction of Brian’s work it’s like “nope, he’s simply on another plain of genius and no amount of peering behind the curtain will ever change that”
I like how Brian caught himself, "Shit" "I mean Shoot," he was probably trying to sound professional around the wrecking crew.
This the only session he does that. Others are full force and anything comes out of Brian. lol
My favorite song.
It makes me cry every time I'm listening to it.
Anche a me.
This is one of the most best insights into the songwriting process I've ever seen. Great job, Brian Wilson is a genius.
First song to make me cry. Absolutely beautiful.
this song is a complete masterpiece. i fell in love with it as soon as i heard it, i am so blessed to even be able to listen to this. brian wilson is a genius!
For a 2008 quality, you have a really good editing. Thanks a lot, this is really gold. You made my day
How many of us have put our heads on Brian's shoulder a few times over the years :)
Those harmonies really make me think there is a God somewhere out there
CHADSTER954 and his name is Brian Wilson
Jesus is real and he loves you :)
One of my all time favourites,don’t ya just love Brian Wilson, the mans a genius
i should hang the Pet sounds album cover on my living room wall, its a pinnacle of that time, a joy to behold, what was and what will be forever true
Honestly one of the most beautiful songs ever composed (next to God Only Knows)
03:10 Goddamnit!
How could they create such atmosphere?
If I didn't know that song, and it didn't have those vocal harmonies, I'd swear that was a Sigur Ros piece
Bass and Cellos, with some soft string quarted and a Organ, playing a bi-chord i think (maybe the 1st and 5th)
Then a guitar with picking tremolo appears at the chorus
You can't see it...but my heart is smiling:)
I really do think it was Brother Carl who said it best about his older Brother when he said : " He heard everything--the whole thing--the 1st time, every time. " That, & his visionary harmonics are BW's lasting gift to music. No one--EVER--heard what he heard--& still does, today. At 70 y/o, he still does it! Awesome. Wolfsky9
Everytime i think I know how great of a genius Brian Wilson was I am forced to add another layer of brilliance, and another,...and another
The most beautiful video on CZcams
Agreed God level, I love you Brian
My deepest wish with this beautiful Beautiful Song is to hear the surf guitarist playing it's tremolo part a bit louder..I still have not found that particular line yet or heard it on youtube someone playing it so please, if anyone just could...God Brian Wilson did let his deepest Feeling Speak and I Love him for that ❤
Another Piece Of Class from the album.
strings alone are wonderful as well as the unearthly voice over dubs.
My favorite beach boys song absolutely perfect and beautiful
This song features a lovely string arrangement and terrific interplay between the guitars and basses.
1:07 reminds me of Our Prayer.
Never knew about this song until I read people raving about "Pet Sounds" on a YT thread. Being two years older than this album, I decided it was time I give it a try. This song stopped. me. dead. Sure, I grew up hearing BB, but never heard how much this song influenced so much going forward. Chicago with Cetera, Pink Floyd "Great gig in the sky...Freddie Mercury for goodness sake. And the emotional impact of the slender lyric, plainly delivered. The intimacy calls to mind Mahler's Ruckert Lieder. Just.freaking. wow.
Ooohhh yes you mentioned the Mahler's Ruckert Lieder!!
That's exactly what I always feel with Bryan Wilson, oh...thank you❤
4.00
this is heaven on earth ! Never before and after will I never hear anything as beautiful as this..
He must have had some contact with the powers above because this is simply out of this world..
And at that age and without no one to copy...
wow
Chief 1
Just heart filling music,
best way I can describe it
2:12
"Ah, shit!
....
I mean, shoot!"
I love these behind the sounds. They're awesome
A very underrated album and band .After all these years I still don't think The Beach Boys has gotten the recognition they deserve
C'mon man they are one of the biggest bands in the entire world!
Listen to PET SOUNDS with headphones in the dark, It is....... well try it and you will not be disappointed.
Eric Waters don't forget a good dose of something 😎
And make sure it's in mono
@@slimkickens why mono man I wonder
These videos are fucking incredible man! Really help with hearing the whole production/arrangement which is so intricate it's nearly impossible to completely dissect when listening to the finished product. Always read your comments as well, very insightful and non-biased to Brian as far as the Beach Boys story goes.. Wish you could make more "behind the sounds" vids!!
Matthew Preisigke Also, the reason I commented on this video vs others... The 8 track vocal recording.. Legendary. Thank you for making these!
you educated so many people, so you own this now, what you have shown, BehindTheSounds thanks mate
Give this amazing man, the Rock and Roll HOF, American John Lennon. He deserves this shine
Brian and the Beach Boys were inducted in 1988
a great example of how the very best song writers take simple love songs and elevate them to works of sublime beauty. Brian was the guy that the Beatles admired the most (along with "His Bobness")and from who they drew inspiration.
Nothing about the composition of this song is "simple".
@@BehindTheSounds Yes you're correct.the point I was trying to make is a mediocre song writer will approach the love song, which after all is a very common or "simple" theme in music and festoon it with hackneyed cliches and maudlin musical contrivances. As you are well aware, Brian approached the common love song from a very different and much elevated perspective. I enjoyed your presentation by the way.
@@BehindTheSounds yea brian was the master at making sophisticated complex songs sound simple. Like i get around, ya think its just a few chords easy to cover on guitar...nope its a ton of chords n effortless key changes and thats not counting the singing. The vocals are so sublime and melt into each other its hard just to pick out a lead vocal. And had #1 hits foolin people thinkin just a surf band. In fact he was so good he fooled his own band and finally himself by thinking his songs were just disposable pop. Drugs and mental illness always gets blamed for his spiral and tho they didn't help, i think he just wanted support from his band and public and got neither. 60 yrs on and that rift of art vs commerce is still bugging him crazy
I had no idea Glen Campbell played on this track. He must be playing the Fender VI Bass part.
The Fender VI 6-string bass guitar was also used by the Beatles on their later recordings.
The chord progression at the beginning sounds like a Chopin prelude or study ( Em)
+Jon Edenvale a obvious classical influence there indeed :)
Jon Edenvale ya this songs hardly goes back to the same chord twice.
These are fantastic vids
You even found the right font for the text!
Superb arraignment and structure.
I am such a fan of Brian Wilson's voice. Heck, I even think his speaking voice was attractive. Needless to say, I think his singing was absolutely beautiful. So, 1:07 to 1:24 is a slice of heavenly bliss for me.
I really wish they had the whole unedited tapes of the room and the booth for the whole record
This is one session that has disappeared they only have Brian's Demo, Vocal Demo, Take 1A and the Vocal Overdubs. The Session Tape was booted and that's why it's low quailty. It has since disappeared.
Brian Wilson is Franz Schubert reincarnated
Love this song, so much.
Nicely edited!
To me, this track represents the tasty appetizer to the sonic banquet of SMiLE.
Well, WOULD have. As such, all we have is this perfect gem of pop purity, which can be used as a yardstick to measure the creations on SMiLE.
Since this was a complete track, it can be used to assess how CLOSE to completion anything on SMiLE was by comparison.
This was done with a lot of skill and love (much like the album it celebrates). Thanks.
The sense of longing and yearning in this most incredible tune,
expressed so poignantly in the strings and Brian's stunning falsetto,
is nearly unbearable.If any tune in the BB's canon exemplifies
Brian's genius, it's this tune.
Certainly one of the most beautiful ballads in all of pop music.
Reminds me of the beautiful LSD scene from Love & Mercy
Such a beautiful scene
+dwad3ify that would be cause its the song that plays
+Thorley666 we got a smart ass over here
Raoul Duke I can believe how well and satisfying Love and Mercy turned out, it's engaging story the entire film, it's like a tragedy but then it has a happy ending
Shut up you crazy americans! Give up drugs NOW!!
Thank-you. I really appreciated this. Even though I have listened to this LP so many times, your series gives me yet another deep appreciation for the work.
Beautiful
The musicians including Carol Kaye and Frank Capp and Blaine are part of The Wrecking Crew, the most successful collective of studio musicians ever. Wrecking Crew musicians accompanied Glen Campbell on the very last song he would ever record, I'm Not Going To Miss You."
+Allen Probe, our family thinks a lot of Mr. Campbell. He and Mrs. Campbell--Kim--were members of our church here in Phoenix for a lot of years. He was gracious and caring. Though we didn't know him personally, we often encountered Mrs. Campbell on Sunday mornings when we went to pick up our daughter in the children's care area. One morning, he brought Al Jardine to church, and I personally was pretty okay with that because Mr. Jardine has always been a high caliber performer and man, and I'm a fan. (Alice Cooper, Vincent Furnier also attended our church.)
It's my own opinion that we failed Mr. Campbell when he got in trouble some years back. My guess is that he was apparently slipping into the initial stages of his present illness. He had a traffic accident. I'm not certain how much we actually tried to help the Campbell family at those times, but I think it could have been a lot more--my own personal inadequacies in the matter, included. Many of our church still pray for Mr. and Mrs. Campbell.
It was difficult for my family and me to watch the video of his last recording session.
This is so very cool. Thanks for posting!
Rich, powerful, and so well designed musically and then vocally. LOVE the string track and the vocal piece that led to the string arrangement. Pet Sounds was truly an innovation.
my Pet sounds favorite song...a real pop symphony GREAT VIDEO!!!!!!!
Wow man, these series of clips you uploaded are awesome, thanks for sharing them with us, really gives insight into what was lost over the radio of the days and also just what it takes to really produce some of the hits we loved over the years. Its not what people think it is, especially in the early days of four tracks and bouncing things down like George Martin and many early producers had to deal with. Way different than the endless tracks of digital music of today.
Genius!
Perfection pure perfection
the studio, The Genius, Brian Wilson and Western Recordings
Allow me to comment again, take a moment and listen to and appreciate The Four Freshman, you'll hear how Brian Wilson was inspired.
perfect perfect 😍
Wow!
Thanks for posting. I love this Album.
It would have been real cool to be around that studio when Brian constructed the songs.
Its beyond imagination
2:28 Lyle starts playing “Have You Met Miss Jones” while Brian tries to iron out the arrangement hahaha
Great vid. Well done.
Beautiful...reminds me of Adagio by Albinoni
It's too phoenomenol almost to grasp what he has done here....in 1965 I was at primary school singing along to Old Farmer Buck on BBC Radio....and at the other side of the world Brian Wilson is creating music that is mind blowing. I have been a fan all of my life and even have his hair drier I got after a concert (amazing eh) ......but I now believe Brian done all his greatest music in a five year period (maybe six) ....his mind must have been amazing in that time.
@BehindTheSounds that fact makes his incredible genius even more astounding. This guy is better on one ear than most people are with two :)
Mind is blown!
"that's enough!" - There's never enough.
Than You very much for this Video!
I think your right. It wasn't received well at first, in was in England but it was one of those albums you sort of had to chill and listen to on a good stereo to really appreciate the craftsmanship (IMHO anyway) and genius of Brian. I know its my favorite, sure I liked the early surf stuff I was a young kid then, but wow the stuff he did later was just pure genius for lack of a better word.
Listen...listen...listen
The beginning sounds a bit of, "Child Is The Father of Man"
I think that we need a 10 hour video of pure brian wilson awesomeness.
lovely editing on this video...
very difficult chord changes, not a guitar song for sure.
I just figured it out on my guitar and it definitely is tricky
Yeah most beach boys songs are. They're deceptively complex and are hard to pull off on just guitar n voice. Why you hardly see bands covering their songs besides the surfing usa types. I'd say 95pct of music fans try and say the music is simple pop that anyone could play. But big part of Brian's genius is making complex arrangements, odd key changes, 3 lead voices sound so effortlessly simple yet they are anything but. Why it kills me when people shrug it off as fluff, I just wanna hand em a guitar and say ok play it hot shot. Cause any musician can attest how it's not too hard to play Beatle,stones, ccr, nirvana, foo fighters etc but try covering god only knows and realize shit our band sux
@@DZobe-nz7dl yeahh, usually those who criticize can't play an augmented or diminished chord in a guitar.
@@zurdoremi agree and I don't hear many suspended chords etc...in much of the music today. Big reason why it's painfully dull is because it's just too obvious where the song is headed. Zero surprises when every hit is C G D F but I guess it's a easy proven formula so don't fuk with Mike love apparently. And it's not just an oh my generation music is better than this new crap. I'm not that old but I'm aware it can be broken down to the fact if you compare the top ten from 67 to 2020s there's really no disputing a song like I Get Around is a superior composition to Drakes new hit. Which btw get around is another deceptively sophisticated masterpiece disguised as a meat n potatoes car song. At his peak Brian was head above the rest while still reaching for a raw spiritual magic which he succeeded more so than any contemporaries. Really wish his confidence didn't get crushed over n over after pet sounds purely based on that's not hip man you gotta sing bout politics or sex to be cool. Though Brian won out in the end cause his catalog has singlehandedly had a positive impact on millions of people and will continue infinity making people happy
@@zurdoremi one of my buddies, recently commented “who really cares about diminished chords, or inversions?” we’ve been best friends for 20 years, so I know him very well and he’s a complete moron. I lovable moron, but a moron, nonetheless. He thinks Stevie Ray Vaughan is the best musician of all time. I love Stevie but Jesus Christ. Amazing guitar player but about as one dimensional as you can get. I’m actually a huge fan of Disney music because unlike most modern pop, it often uses in versions, cord, substitutions, suspended, as well as major and minor seven chord. Some of my friends think it’s immature for me to like Disney music, I just brush them off with “it’s OK if you don’t get it. There is nothing immature about my love for this music, it’s not like I cover “The Wiggles“ and nursery rhymes. Even a lot of decent musicians don’t appreciate the beach boys and complex pop arrangements. Great blues guitar players are a dime a dozen, great songwriters like Mr. Wilson are one in 1 billion.
Okay my day is made after finding out Glen Campbell is on this song
He was one of the Wrecking Crew before his solo career took off
it was very nearly him in the band rather than Bruce Johnston
@BehindTheSounds He wasn't your every day hippy - he cared about being polite and decent and created some great music
This is THE most soul achingly beautiful songs I have EVER heard!
People often use hyperbole but this is truly, ONE THE GREATEST SONGS EVER COMPOSED.
into the mind of a genious
I wonder if there is more of a link to OUR Prayer and don’t talk than I’m just hearing in my head…
The arrangement style is of course similar but that is to be expected. Maybe they’re the same key to fit the band’s vocal ranges. I don’t hear any similarities in the actual composition tho. In the language of music these two pieces are saying different things with similar voices.
They both contain the types of chord changes that Brian found attractive but I don't think there's a connection beyond that