Look close fellas, this is a true contemporary musical genius. He was deaf in one ear, made harmonies and melodies that will stand the test of time. From producing, arranging, and performing, a golden age of 20th century music stand out. Best of the best.
No less an authority than New York Philharmonic composer Leonard Bernstein paid tribute to Brian Wilson by featuring him performing this particular song on a 1967 CBS-TV special, titled, "Inside Pop -- The Rock Revolution" ... which can also be viewed on CZcams.
He’s a tormented soul. This song is beautiful, but you can feel the melancholy darkness and emotional pain in the music itself…. The harmonies in the end are hauntingly beautiful.
There will never be another Brian Wilson.. I am glad I get to live in the same lifetime as him although he's 74 and I'm 20. I just "dicovered" The Beach Boys music about 8 months ago and went through the pet sounds phenomenon and never looked at music the same way. This mans music changed my life. I've listened to his music in times when I went through depression for months, I've used pet sounds as a pain killer and honestly it's made me cry so much, the music is just beautiful. I've never heard or never will hear anything like it again. That album itself has harmonies, instrumentals and lyrics that are out of this world.. outta sight! I have to go see Brian live before it's too late. I am really thankful for his music and for everything he risked just to make the music he made. it's changed my life. When I die I hope I get to hear his music wherever it is my soul ends up.
Mate, I couldn't relate more to your comment. I came across Pet Sounds this time last year and it blew me away completely, especially from listening to The Beatles and other bands. It too also changed the way I listened to music and has become a way to get through rough times and to get inspiration for songwriting.
Ok I couldn't relate more to this, his music has pretty much changed my life. I hope he knows that his music is still inspiring and influencing us 20 year olds :)
I'm 21 - and I used Pet Sounds as my painkiller as well mostly through my 20th year. Brian Wilson was probably my biggest muse. That man has a spiritual transcendence that I can't explain with words. I always wish I had more musician friends that I could write with. It would be a dream to write a song like 'Surf's Up'. This music will never die.
I never thought about that. I can’t imagine what it’d be like to be a Beach Boys fan in 66, heard this on tv, and wait 5 whole years for it to finally come out. One of my favorite artists atm Diners posted a blip on instagram from a song he was writing in later 2018 and I only had to wait til early 2020 to hear the finished product and THAT felt agonizing enough.
Oh shit... wow... to have written this before sgt. Pepper is a big deal. Along with everything else he did. I wish it hadn't fucked him up so bad that the beatles released sgt pepper and "beat him" for the best record ever. I think and I'm almost certain I have read elsewhere that that fucked him up and messed with him really bad which is one of the reasons why smile never happened and part of the reason he had the breakdown. Anyway back to this song; can you imagine what smile may have sounded like if history had been in Brian's favor? This song and sound is beyond rock n roll and music as we know it. Only Brian could truly see the future at this time and he was both miles ahead of everyone even today and miles high in the sky. Hopefully we hear some more awesome goodies in the new surfs up and sunflower sessions being released really soon.
I think bass was his "home instrument" since that's what he played for the early days of Beach Boys, I heard someone (I think it was Carol Kaye) complimenting that as well, saying that he thought of and arranged songs in terms of bass lines
@@jaredcress4328 he started playing piano in his early years around 9-10 I believe. He picked up the bass around 18-19 to perform live for The Beach Boys.
Brian had such a beautiful voice...he would have been perfect for Broadway's Phantom of the Opera, such a shame that he suffered for so long without appreciation for that talent.
Oh, girl, you did NOT just write that Brian Wilson did anything so evil as to be punished by being in the cast of Phantom of the BlahBlahBlah. Andrew Lloyd Webber's gushy ingratiating music did not age well. Brian had truth in beauty.
Side of Fries cocaine had nothing to do with it. Deep depression, schizoaffective disorder and brain damage due to psychedelic abuse. He also was brutally abused as a child. He really went through so much and is so inspiring and talented
Being a teenager in 1964 and experiencing all the amazing music being created in the next 10 years was an incredible experience. The Beach Boys began as a very commercial band then with great harmonies and quickly progressed to a very advanced point in 1966. Surf's Up was a later masterpiece with some misplaced songs among absolute sparkling gems. It was a bright flash that we loved. Some of us lost track of the Beach Boys around this time and because the Beach Boys faded from the "charts" were surprised to hear the stunningly beautiful, ethereal songs they did on this album. Van Dyke Parks' lyrics had a LOT to do with it. It was an endearing revelation.
Usually, a musician can eat for life if he has only one hit song. And yet, his creative peak continued from 1963 to about 1968, He had a series of hits all by himself. His rivals were the duo of Paul and John. There is no doubt that he is a genius.
I watched Love&Mercy, I became a fan of the band, and then I watched the movie again with completely different eyes. During the recreation of this video I almost cried.
This was the title track for the "Surf´s up" album. That was 1971. But it was also the first song Brian and Van Dyke Parks were composing for the Smile Album. Personally, I think it was the best song they wrote together.
Watching an actual genius....in a flow state....is a literal blessing. I think there are a _lot_ of genuinely genius musicians....like, a LOT actually. But Brian Wilson does stand alone. Both for the sheer reality of his genius...but also for how brief it was. How tragic the before and after was. He's a truly good person, with real issues, who also has a once in a century gift for music. He got a brief window to realize that...and in fact he fully realized it better than 99.9% of people could. We're all very lucky that we get to live in the timeline where Brian Wilson made Pet Sounds. I'm very grateful for that.
This man is out of this world, I’m literally crying his voice is so beautiful. thank you Brian for everything you’ve given us and for staying when life gave up on you❤️
i think this is the most beautiful thing i’ve ever heard. just a man and a piano. he plays so beautifully and sings beautifully this is pure emotion captured on video this is pain and joy this is humanity. brian wilson is truly one of the most amazing artists of all time.
Seeing this for the first time when I was 18 literally changed my life and the way I looked at what music could be. Such a beautiful video thank god it got filmed
To me this song is about the Rise and Fall of not just civilization but the entire universe from the first point to the collapse. I think this is also why SMiLE had soo many obstacles in it's realization and release.
What you are doing is called projection. You are applying what you think as if thats what Brian thought. I can all but assure you that's not what the song is about.
An absolutely breath taking performance from a man at the top of his game. Hauntingly beautiful to the ears. Still one of my all time favourite songs from any era, period. Even though we all had to wait another five years for the song to be fully completed by the rest of the group and be released on their Surf's Up album in 1971. In my view the finished product did do the song the justice it deserved. I find that this song is a masterpiece whichever version I listen to. However this piece of film and Brian's performance here is just magical to watch.
People don't like this song for the same reasons people don't like classical or baroque music. It's past our understanding; the purity in the music speaks for itself.
It's cool that younger people like you and your production buddies have such a sincere interest in a culture and sound that's an easy two generations removed from your day-to-day experience. At 25 my nephew is similar, with an interest in Elvis, Sinatra, Dylan, and others, that was sparked when he was around 16.We saw Dylan in concert about eight years ago. As a side note, my 'personal' Beach Boys song is 'When I Grow Up (To Be A Man)". As you may know, given your interests, that song was released as a single on August 24th, 1964 -- the day on which I was born. ; ] Peace, and keep the fires burning!
This song is why officially the beach boys are my favorite. They can sing simple fun songs, complex, melancholy, most of all, this song lyrically is absolutely poetic and creative. It's just what I need at this moment.
This is my favorite song, it’s so beautiful it’s almost hypnotizing the little changes and sounds in the background just make it so much better it’s so amazing
Music video for “Surf’s Up” by Brian Wilson in which a surfer is engulfed by waves and is pulled out by worried life guards an onlookers. The song continues as the surfer appears to lose consciousness and reawakens upon a very similar beach but now the film is black and white and there are no other people but him. He is walking around with a smile at how beautiful everything is. He is carrying his surf board as he walks around admiring the beauty. There are quick cuts back to the paramedics trying to save him with people frantically giving him CPR and trying to revive him. In one of the cuts, one of the paramedics searches his belongings for medical-related information and comes across his wallet. The Surfer is still admiring the landscapes around him when he notices a gigantic tidal wave forming (this could occur around the instance of the song where Brian sings “Surf’s up mmm…aboard a tidal wave"). With a flush of excitement in his eyes, he hurriedly enters the water ready for the wave of his life. The song begins to approach its apex as the surfer glides the wave which is now swelling to a gargantuan size. We then cut back to the crowd forming in reality as folks try to revive the surfer to no avail. As Brian sings “I heard the word…wonderful thing…a children’s song…”, the paramedic flips pasts the surfer’s license and sees a photograph of him clutching his 11 year old son on the beach, giant smiles across their faces. They are both holding surf boards. The photograph appears to be quite old. Finally, as the song is beginning it’s final coda, we cut one final time to the surfer in his “dream” now at the very top of the tidal wave, a look of utter elation washes over him as he is now high enough to penetrate the clouds. As he is blowing through them, shards of white gushing past him as the speed accelerates, his expression changes for the first time. It is one of a deep confusion as he squints through the passing clouds and sees the boy from the photograph standing there and laughing. The man then begins laughing as he outstretches his arms and leaps from the surfboard into the air. The boy does the same and they are hurtling towards one another in a surreal manner. In the closing seconds of the song, you can see the man and boy's index fingers nearly touch, in a manner mimicking Michelangelo’s “The Creation of Man”, before abruptly cutting to black.
I'm 27 I saw Beach Boys in 2008 never the same again I grew up listening to these guys my dad played there music on his player ever since I heard California girls, Hushabye,Surfs up, God Only Knows ect I just love them I'm proud to be a Beach Boys fan
This is in my opinion the best version of this song! Brian performed "Surf's Up" here with powerful and amazing passionate feeling! He never recaptured it quite this perfectly on the future recordings of the song. It's a very complex tempo to catch. The future recordings he had done the song just a tad to fast. I LOVE THIS VERSION OF "SURF'S UP!" 😁💖🎶
![The Beach Boys / Girl Don't Tell Me (Unknown Take, Stereo Vocal, Overdub Session) [1965]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/VhIPObSDGvI/mqdefault.jpg)
Even though this is an unfinished and stripped down version, I keep coming back to it. It has a certain magical quality about it.
Brian's vocal performance here is amazing
This is my favorite version hands down
This is the true version
Actually this is the version that appears on the record
@@TheStarclipse what are you talking about? What record? Not on Surf's Up the album certainly lol.
Look close fellas, this is a true contemporary musical genius. He was deaf in one ear, made harmonies and melodies that will stand the test of time. From producing, arranging, and performing, a golden age of 20th century music stand out. Best of the best.
No less an authority than New York Philharmonic composer Leonard Bernstein paid tribute to Brian Wilson by featuring him performing this particular song on a 1967 CBS-TV special, titled, "Inside Pop -- The Rock Revolution" ... which can also be viewed on CZcams.
You could say he was 'mixing in mono'
AMEN!
Mark Markson very well said, and 120% percent true! Perhaps the biggest musical genius of our time!
Was he fully dead in the one ear though? Jesus christ almighty I did not know that
Brian Wilson's falsetto voice is one of the icons of the 20th century, up there with his songwritting.
What’s sad is that I’ve heard him say a few times that he didn’t like his falsetto-and he specifically referenced this performance, too.
There's vocal coaches/ singers who comment Brian's higher vocal range he was still using his head voice; not falsetto; he had range back in the day.
@@just4music687I think on this one he uses falsetto. He does normally use head voice
Song writing*
In my opinion…the greatest composer of the 20th century. Brian truly stands alone. Yes, even above Lennon and McCartney. Thanks for the music, Brian!
Don’t forget Stravinsky.
Mi spiace ,ma dopo Lennon Mc Cartney
@@alessandroamorena1044no Brian's better
Even Leonard Bernstein loves the Beach Boys
Apples and oranges.
So pretty it almost hurts.
I can emphatically say that it does, in fact, hurt. And idk if it’ll ever be topped, pure soul music right here
We all know what that means
How a guy who was physically, mentally, and emotionally abused as a child could pour out such love in a song is beyond me!
He’s a tormented soul. This song is beautiful, but you can feel the melancholy darkness and emotional pain in the music itself…. The harmonies in the end are hauntingly beautiful.
He HAD to get it out of him!
I remember watching this on TV in '67 . Leonard Bernstein said this was a masterpiece. Boy was he spot on!
There will never be another Brian Wilson.. I am glad I get to live in the same lifetime as him although he's 74 and I'm 20. I just "dicovered" The Beach Boys music about 8 months ago and went through the pet sounds phenomenon and never looked at music the same way. This mans music changed my life. I've listened to his music in times when I went through depression for months, I've used pet sounds as a pain killer and honestly it's made me cry so much, the music is just beautiful. I've never heard or never will hear anything like it again. That album itself has harmonies, instrumentals and lyrics that are out of this world.. outta sight! I have to go see Brian live before it's too late. I am really thankful for his music and for everything he risked just to make the music he made. it's changed my life. When I die I hope I get to hear his music wherever it is my soul ends up.
Can I sit next to you......where ever our souls end up........I know it will be in Heaven.............
Mate, I couldn't relate more to your comment. I came across Pet Sounds this time last year and it blew me away completely, especially from listening to The Beatles and other bands. It too also changed the way I listened to music and has become a way to get through rough times and to get inspiration for songwriting.
+TOM STEWART you and others are definitely welcome, I won't say no to anyone :)
Ok I couldn't relate more to this, his music has pretty much changed my life. I hope he knows that his music is still inspiring and influencing us 20 year olds :)
I'm 21 - and I used Pet Sounds as my painkiller as well mostly through my 20th year. Brian Wilson was probably my biggest muse. That man has a spiritual transcendence that I can't explain with words. I always wish I had more musician friends that I could write with. It would be a dream to write a song like 'Surf's Up'. This music will never die.
*Me arguing with my friends
Me: Surfs Up was the best song of the 60s
Them: It didn’t come out till 1971
Me: BUT HE PLAYED IT ON TV IN 1966
Me arguing with myself, BW or L&Mc.
I never thought about that. I can’t imagine what it’d be like to be a Beach Boys fan in 66, heard this on tv, and wait 5 whole years for it to finally come out. One of my favorite artists atm Diners posted a blip on instagram from a song he was writing in later 2018 and I only had to wait til early 2020 to hear the finished product and THAT felt agonizing enough.
Oh shit... wow... to have written this before sgt. Pepper is a big deal. Along with everything else he did. I wish it hadn't fucked him up so bad that the beatles released sgt pepper and "beat him" for the best record ever. I think and I'm almost certain I have read elsewhere that that fucked him up and messed with him really bad which is one of the reasons why smile never happened and part of the reason he had the breakdown. Anyway back to this song; can you imagine what smile may have sounded like if history had been in Brian's favor? This song and sound is beyond rock n roll and music as we know it. Only Brian could truly see the future at this time and he was both miles ahead of everyone even today and miles high in the sky. Hopefully we hear some more awesome goodies in the new surfs up and sunflower sessions being released really soon.
@@June_Magoo listen to Brian Wilson presents SMiLE. The real SMILE finally at last, which is light years better than Peppers in my opinion
@@samwoodson9603 Imagine being a childhood Brian fan in 1966, promised a new opus called SMiLE… and then not hearing it performed until 2003!
Stunning.
One of BW's many talents: a great left hand on the piano. He really can bang those bass lines.
I think bass was his "home instrument" since that's what he played for the early days of Beach Boys, I heard someone (I think it was Carol Kaye) complimenting that as well, saying that he thought of and arranged songs in terms of bass lines
@@jaredcress4328 He also learned piano through Boogie Woogie which relies on hard hitting left-hand bass lines.
@@jaredcress4328 he started playing piano in his early years around 9-10 I believe. He picked up the bass around 18-19 to perform live for The Beach Boys.
Saw that interview, cool stuff
A broken man too tough to cry...
Many many centuries from now… Brian Wilson will be mentioned alongside of Bach, Beethoven, etc. We were alive to see a living legend… What a treat!l
Oh man, what an honour to see Brian sing this back in 66. Just amazing.
This guy's music makes me cry. And that's a very hard thing to do.
same here xoxo
The key changes catch me by surprise, and they're absolutely beautiful.
He looks like a prophetic angel sent from heaven
Loved the recreation of this in Love And Mercy, real attention to detail
This is the most incredible music I've ever heard in my life.
Brian had such a beautiful voice...he would have been perfect for Broadway's Phantom of the Opera, such a shame that he suffered for so long without appreciation for that talent.
has*, he is still alive you know
@@oriana6500 His voice really degraded in the 80s after all the cocaine, though.
Oh, girl, you did NOT just write that Brian Wilson did anything so evil as to be punished by being in the cast of Phantom of the BlahBlahBlah. Andrew Lloyd Webber's gushy ingratiating music did not age well. Brian had truth in beauty.
Side of Fries cocaine had nothing to do with it. Deep depression, schizoaffective disorder and brain damage due to psychedelic abuse. He also was brutally abused as a child. He really went through so much and is so inspiring and talented
2024,
26 yrs old,
a little high
AND shaking cus wtf!! Brian’s such a legend oh god
One of the few pop musicians who truly deserves the word "genius".
Being a teenager in 1964 and experiencing all the amazing music being created in the next 10 years was an incredible experience. The Beach Boys began as a very commercial band then with great harmonies and quickly progressed to a very advanced point in 1966. Surf's Up was a later masterpiece with some misplaced songs among absolute sparkling gems. It was a bright flash that we loved. Some of us lost track of the Beach Boys around this time and because the Beach Boys faded from the "charts" were surprised to hear the stunningly beautiful, ethereal songs they did on this album. Van Dyke Parks' lyrics had a LOT to do with it. It was an endearing revelation.
Usually, a musician can eat for life if he has only one hit song.
And yet, his creative peak continued from 1963 to about 1968,
He had a series of hits all by himself. His rivals were the duo of Paul and John.
There is no doubt that he is a genius.
scale change goosebumps
I watched Love&Mercy, I became a fan of the band, and then I watched the movie again with completely different eyes. During the recreation of this video I almost cried.
Wow... Brian was reaaally good looking
Agreed
he's dreamy 😍
Agree to disagree lmao
he was handsome when he wasnt in his obese and no showers era haha
"I heard the word...wonderful thing... a children's song." then tears. every time.
One of the greatest songwriters and musicians ever. You could just hear the passion in the words and in the orchestration.
Agreed, but Van Dyke Parks wrote these lyrics.
@@Jdchrstnsn props to him for helping Brian Wilson compose this masterpiece
@@JdchrstnsnHim and Brian wrote them together I’m pretty sure
you can tell by his singing he has perfect pitch
Effortless falsetto. So damned talented.
man.. this song took me to a place I never been.. so beautiful.
LAGUNA BEACH?:))
Your voice doesn't last forever, enjoy it while it lasts.
never fails to make me shed tears
This was the title track for the "Surf´s up" album. That was 1971. But it was also the first song Brian and Van Dyke Parks were composing for the Smile Album. Personally, I think it was the best song they wrote together.
mr. brian wilson thinks likewise!
I think it might be my favorite song he wrote period.
@@danielboyd4079 I agree, I am an all-life Beach Boys fan and Surf´s Up is my favorite favorite Beach Boys song! I had others but now I am assured.
It wasn't the first but they did both agree that it was the most important song on the album
@@nickb5371 As I heard it was the first. Van Dyke himself said that.
Brian Wilson, genius, producer, writer...This has got to be one of the most beautiful songs he has ever written...Profound...
Brian's music is what keeps me alive.
Watching an actual genius....in a flow state....is a literal blessing.
I think there are a _lot_ of genuinely genius musicians....like, a LOT actually.
But Brian Wilson does stand alone. Both for the sheer reality of his genius...but also for how brief it was. How tragic the before and after was. He's a truly good person, with real issues, who also has a once in a century gift for music. He got a brief window to realize that...and in fact he fully realized it better than 99.9% of people could. We're all very lucky that we get to live in the timeline where Brian Wilson made Pet Sounds. I'm very grateful for that.
I hope the original film of this still exists, I'd love to see the whole take.
honestly one of the most beautiful songs ever written. Always brings me to tears.
This is it! This sets the bar! It doesn't get any better than this.
This man is out of this world, I’m literally crying his voice is so beautiful. thank you Brian for everything you’ve given us and for staying when life gave up on you❤️
i think this is the most beautiful thing i’ve ever heard. just a man and a piano. he plays so beautifully and sings beautifully this is pure emotion captured on video this is pain and joy this is humanity. brian wilson is truly one of the most amazing artists of all time.
Brilliant!
"I heard the word
wonderful thing
a children's song."
1:25 the control of his voice
Words fail me; even if they didn’t - they couldn’t do this the slightest bit of justice. Truly extraordinary, never to be matched.
Seeing this for the first time when I was 18 literally changed my life and the way I looked at what music could be. Such a beautiful video thank god it got filmed
I'm 18. saw this for the first time. I'm in awe. It's otherworldly. hypnotic...yeah.
To me this song is about the Rise and Fall of not just civilization but the entire universe from the first point to the collapse. I think this is also why SMiLE had soo many obstacles in it's realization and release.
New Wave Films that's really deep I get where you're coming from ☺but ya might not be right
What you are doing is called projection. You are applying what you think as if thats what Brian thought. I can all but assure you that's not what the song is about.
I mean sure but I think the pills would have a little more to do with it
Not only that, but it’s also about hope for a new generation to make it despite the mistakes and culminated ruins of their predecessors.
@@DrFumesta I said "to me" it's about that. Its a subjective take on it.
My favorite recording of any song ever.
beautiful....
This melody blows my MIND.
An absolutely breath taking performance from a man at the top of his game. Hauntingly beautiful to the ears. Still one of my all time favourite songs from any era, period. Even though we all had to wait another five years for the song to be fully completed by the rest of the group and be released on their Surf's Up album in 1971. In my view the finished product did do the song the justice it deserved. I find that this song is a masterpiece whichever version I listen to. However this piece of film and Brian's performance here is just magical to watch.
Saying Brian Wilson has a wonderful voice is like saying rain is wet - but what a voice!
Thank you for this gem. Brian Wilson sounds (and looks :) so dreamy here. Wow.
People don't like this song for the same reasons people don't like classical or baroque music. It's past our understanding; the purity in the music speaks for itself.
Humanity at its very best in the generous expression of a genius artist in song…
God bless him
True Genius...
天才だ。間違いなく天才だ。これが浮かんでくるとはある意味狂気だ
I’m so happy this footage exists!! Smile
Without a doubt this is most likely the most important video of a musician doing what they do best, just brian, his piano, and nothing else.
One of his best
Ha, the best voice ever.
Thank you Brian for your music
wow wonderful marvelous
Unbelievable.
So awesome
WHAT A VOICE
It's cool that younger people like you and your production buddies have such a sincere interest in a culture and sound that's an easy two generations removed from your day-to-day experience. At 25 my nephew is similar, with an interest in Elvis, Sinatra, Dylan, and others, that was sparked when he was around 16.We saw Dylan in concert about eight years ago. As a side note, my 'personal' Beach Boys song is 'When I Grow Up (To Be A Man)". As you may know, given your interests, that song was released as a single on August 24th, 1964 -- the day on which I was born. ; ] Peace, and keep the fires burning!
I don’t many people who can sing that ‘doo-mii-no’ bit but this guys falsetto was faultless
Great to see a video of young Brian singing this and playing piano seems rare
What a expression, he is one with the music. Are Geneus.
This song is why officially the beach boys are my favorite. They can sing simple fun songs, complex, melancholy, most of all, this song lyrically is absolutely poetic and creative. It's just what I need at this moment.
Such amazing song.
I challenge any human alive to sing this song. The range alone is almost beyond the capability of the human instrument. Brian was a genius.
ajogoz Brian is definitely a genius. Look up Graham Norwood's version of Surf's Up. It's on CZcams. Best cover version I've ever heard.
I love this
This is my favorite song, it’s so beautiful it’s almost hypnotizing the little changes and sounds in the background just make it so much better it’s so amazing
Beautiful and talented Brian
does it not matte that the beatles and brian wilson will always be remembered!....period!
Music video for “Surf’s Up” by Brian Wilson in which a surfer is engulfed by waves and is pulled out by worried life guards an onlookers. The song continues as the surfer appears to lose consciousness and reawakens upon a very similar beach but now the film is black and white and there are no other people but him. He is walking around with a smile at how beautiful everything is. He is carrying his surf board as he walks around admiring the beauty. There are quick cuts back to the paramedics trying to save him with people frantically giving him CPR and trying to revive him. In one of the cuts, one of the paramedics searches his belongings for medical-related information and comes across his wallet. The Surfer is still admiring the landscapes around him when he notices a gigantic tidal wave forming (this could occur around the instance of the song where Brian sings “Surf’s up mmm…aboard a tidal wave"). With a flush of excitement in his eyes, he hurriedly enters the water ready for the wave of his life. The song begins to approach its apex as the surfer glides the wave which is now swelling to a gargantuan size. We then cut back to the crowd forming in reality as folks try to revive the surfer to no avail. As Brian sings “I heard the word…wonderful thing…a children’s song…”, the paramedic flips pasts the surfer’s license and sees a photograph of him clutching his 11 year old son on the beach, giant smiles across their faces. They are both holding surf boards. The photograph appears to be quite old. Finally, as the song is beginning it’s final coda, we cut one final time to the surfer in his “dream” now at the very top of the tidal wave, a look of utter elation washes over him as he is now high enough to penetrate the clouds. As he is blowing through them, shards of white gushing past him as the speed accelerates, his expression changes for the first time. It is one of a deep confusion as he squints through the passing clouds and sees the boy from the photograph standing there and laughing. The man then begins laughing as he outstretches his arms and leaps from the surfboard into the air. The boy does the same and they are hurtling towards one another in a surreal manner. In the closing seconds of the song, you can see the man and boy's index fingers nearly touch, in a manner mimicking Michelangelo’s “The Creation of Man”, before abruptly cutting to black.
Interesting
that would be incredible
that was beautiful to read
I think this is a song about the 60s , beautiful Brian,
Brian Wilson = Legend
Brain Wilson?? Fits well hahaha
They say he got brains...
...but they AINT doing him no gooood, i wish they woould!
Dan Harrison King Love how you accented this AINT! I didn't read it, I heard Brian sing it in my head :)
I'm still looking for a place to fit in.
Brilliant song from a brilliant artist.
Some of the most beautiful sounds I ever heard +brian wilson beautiful genius♡
Such a beautiful song
Wow, indeed a gem of a performance!
Heard it today on Sirius xm beach boys channel.. i thought it was dennis or carl .. omgosh is this great
I'm 27 I saw Beach Boys in 2008 never the same again I grew up listening to these guys my dad played there music on his player ever since I heard California girls, Hushabye,Surfs up, God Only Knows ect I just love them I'm proud to be a Beach Boys fan
I've never heard of him before, but this 'Brain Wilson' guy is pretty good.
Well, when a guy has 7 Top Ten songs to his credit by the time he turned 23, it's not a stretch to consider him to be pretty good.
Voice of an Angel
Outstanding.
This is in my opinion the best version of this song! Brian performed "Surf's Up" here with powerful and amazing passionate feeling! He never recaptured it quite this perfectly on the future recordings of the song. It's a very complex tempo to catch. The future recordings he had done the song just a tad to fast. I LOVE THIS VERSION OF "SURF'S UP!" 😁💖🎶
The greatest!!
Genius
Magnificent!
I’m not sure people understand how the beautiful chord changes border on genius. Just magnificent...
Wilsons had such a beautiful voice. Carl, Brian, Dennis was ugh pretty good
he came a long way from what he was
Love this song and Brian xxxx❤️🎼🎼
This can only make you cry. Just wish to hear the complete song of these days. Brian has made his perfect song!
love this