Why doesn't everyone just enjoy the music you will end up in a Psychiatrist Office if you keep making references to everything you see it doesn't matter if it is a Goat or Just maybe it's a Lama? Doesn't matter and when you listen to a song just enjoy the Beautiful Melodies and Instruments and Fantastic Singer's the World has to offer, if you keep acting like a Cop and Thinking that everything and everyone is Corrupt and must investigate everything you will have No Friends because the Only Friends Police Officers have? Are Other Police officers Please everyone for your own Mental health 🙏 The World is What you make it and Nobody knows you unless they are your friends The Artist 🎨 are just writing ✍a good Story and doesn't intend to cause you any Grief he or She is Just making a good Living just like the rest of us, You matter! John Lennon once said There's nothing wrong with Living a Drug Free Life please 🙏 don't Waste your life and Though I am Canadian and Not really a Trump Fan? " Let's Make America 🇺🇸 Great Again!"
Melancholy, beautiful, poignant and painful. Heavenly melody, with simple lyrics that have emotional depth, and profundity. Simple, and deep. Beautiful, and sad. Heavenly, and painful. Such an uncomplicated, but masterful piece.....
@@floatsting20 I have never heard that it was written to or about a specific individual, but if I am wrong please let me know. I think it is a love song about 'one you deeply love'.
This is a response 3 years later...but If the movie you NEED to watch is Love and Mercy. It's about Brian Wilson and the best damn music biopic of all time. There's even a UA-cam video that breaks it down as to why that is.
@@AT-yg4nkYou're so right, it's a fantastic movie!! I finally watched it last weekend. It's so moving and powerful. There were parts that had me sobbing, and I don't usually do that when I watch movies!! I must see it again, soon. I'm just going to purchase it, as I know it's one of those I'm going to want to watch over and over, again. 🌊⛱☮
deceptively simple.. its harmonies are so sophisticated with an ambiguous tonal center which makes it so fragile, i've always felt like it could break anytime, and before i can realize, i am the one who've already broken down, what an intense song
This is a most amazing song. Haunting. Love lost. Times gone by. Hope for the future. On top of that the music and harmonies are the best. Caroline No and God Only Knows are a masterpiece of Brian Wilson.
My dad passed a year ago. He was from Huntington Beach and was a sound engineer. I love all Beach Boys music but this song is the most beautiful. I’ll always think of him ❤️
I grew up to this in high school. Now that I listen to it again I realized what a masterpiece this is. It brings tears to my eyes as I remember my youth. You had to be there to experience the magic of this song and the ambiance of SoCal in the mid-60's. Just indescribable to todays youth. I'm so lucky I got to live in America's best days...Always thankful...I will die a happy man...It's stuff like this that got me home from Viet Nam when some days felt hopeless. God is great!
I dated a girl for a good three years. Right before we broke up, she cut her hair. The day after the break up I had Beach Boys on shuffle at work. This came on and I just wept hard. Brian Wilson, you have a beautiful soul and an amazing ear.
I remember having seen a documentary about Brian Wilson's life, in which his former wife (to whom "Caroline no" is dedicated) talked about the song and said that she also wept when she first heard it.
I hate to say it but its not dedicated or written oir his former wife. It was a high-school girlfriend he had a brief time with, and she dumped him, is how i remember it. Brian laughs about it now. Wow it was powerful when it first hit the Airwaves in 1966
Brian Wilson married a singer named Marilyn when they were both very young (she was 17 and he was 22). This song is collaboration between Brian Wilson and a guy named Tony Asher. Asher dated a woman in high school named Carol who moved to New York to do Broadway. When he met her again she had completely changed in his opinion, including her hair. So that experience combined with Brian's high school crush on a woman coincidentally also named Carol formed the basis of this song.
My father played this when I was young. An absolutely haunting, stunning, mesmerising and upliftingly sad song. A truly beautiful and unique composition.
It is only recently that have I asked myself.....how did I ever pass this song by those 47 years ago. But at the age of 26 when it was released, perhaps that was how it was meant to be......I was far too young, and at the time, nowhere near ready in life to appreciate it's beauty. Lyrics such as these can only become poignant with our maturity, when together with our personal interpretations, they evoke long forgotten memories of first loves, lost friendships, our early lives and great adventures. This is truely a beautiful song written by a true genious. It should last you a lifetime.
I love your comment Gus!! It echos exactly what my 61 year old heart feels!!! Days gone by in the 60's when love was innocent and being 14 and 15 years old, watching Frankie and Annette movies, and thinking....I cant wait a few more years to be able to join a group of good friends and go rent a beach house for a week and experiences that wonderful innocent love and fun!!!! Agree with you that as the years go by and we experience the heartaches of life, we see things thru a diff grid and have so much nostalgic life experiences that color our souls and the music becomes that much sweeter!!!! I have found that by still attending 60's Tribute Shows, Beatle Exp Fests and performances by the artists I ve grown up with, keeps me young at heart and oh so joyful!!!
Gus .. God Only Knows !! That Brian had his Demons .. But deep down he was and is one Great Song writer that wrote Beautiful melodies from his Heart .. Very deep emotional.. feelings he had that he expressed through his Music .. Such Beautiful Music !! That some just pass off as silliness probably because it cant compete with rap and heavy rock .. But simply amazing music on a very emotional human level and insight great stuff
I too feel that way when I've had the entire beach boys catalog including Pet Sounds saved on my spotify account for the last decade and now all this time later at 25 I can finally understand, connect, and totally relate to Pet Sounds! It's like all of the sudden things totally clicked for me and I finally "got" this wonderfully beautiful, amazingly intricate masterpiece of an album!
I listened to the whole Beatles discography, almost whole Pink Floyd discocraphy, Velvet Underground, David Bowie,etc... But damn, none song brang me such an experience and such a strong feeling as this one. Brian Wilson is genius and that's the fact.
Watch both parts of a documentary on UA-cam called “Brian Wilson - Songwriter 1962-1969. It’s a great documentary that explains the history of Brian and The Beach Boys
This song is the sweetest combination of nostalgia, heartache, and love. It's not about a woman who changed, but about growing up and learning about yourself. If anything, Caroline would be even more enchanting having grown, but the innocence could never be the same for either of them.
Guess I can't quite agree. I think the lyrics are clearly about a soul (Caroline) once bright and special that HAS changed, and not for the better. Her "happy glow" and former sweetness are gone and he wonders who or what took them away. He describes his observations of Caroline as heartbreaking. (Have you not known such people/stories? I have.)
Sloop John B and I Know There's An Answer are crappy tracks. Here Today features some really cheesy moments but as a whole isn't that bad. The lyrics on this album are very cheesy. The other songs however are quite beautiful.
+Jose Lopez Well everything from SMiLE beats God Only Knows into a bloody pulp for a start. And let's not pretend that it's unique and special in the context of Pet Sounds. All the songs on that are masterpieces.
I agree. I was just telling someone the other day that Caroline No is one of the most profoundly sad songs of all time but it has this irresistible beauty to it that just encapsulates a period in time perfectly. I'm not surprised about how he got that echo though. He WAS under the influence of some stuff ya know? LOL.
for me, this song evokes the feeling of once something is gone or ruined, its gone for good. Or as Don Henly put in in Boy of Summer, Don't look back, you can never look back. but still it lingers.
Pet Sounds is my fav Beach Boys album. And Caroline, No my fav track on it. Still after 50 yrs that song can put me away. So beautifully Brian! I even found it on a 45 many, many years ago
The greatest Beach Boys album of all time. Funny thing is, the rest of The Beach Boys barely had anything to do with it; Brian wrote, recorded, and sang most of it by himself. He also said he was tripping on LSD when he recorded most of it.
I was 13 when this album came out and it took me awhile to really appreciate what it REALLY was since this was the Beach Boys like I never knew before and I was used to all their surfing, beach and car music. But the day soon came when I fell in love with this album and 54 years later, that love is still shining bright in my heart and soul. Thank you Beach Boys for your gift for all of us to forever cherish.
Times change but good, authentic music doesn't. If anyone, along with me, lived in this era, we should consider ourselves fortunate to recall the plenty, when we couldn't imagine how phony this end of life truly is.
Spectacular! I still have a very long hair and will never cut it. Relationships, in metaphor to the hair, are to be held forever, irrelevant of the ups and downs. Thank you Brian Wilson.
If but one song could capture the amazing sound of Brian Wilson and his vocal range of The Beach Boys - this is that song.It s a treasure and I grew up with The Beach Boys and the long ago memories their music helped create.
This is a Brian solo tune. It can't capture their full range because it doesn't have everybody singing on it Anything with full band harmonies would be a better selection Their voices all had such wonderful and unique timbres that you wouldn't think they'd blend together so well but, there are occasions where you really have to sit and listen to a passage numerous times before you're sure who is singing each note in the chord because they blend so tightly together It's quite remarkable and no other vocal group has ever been able to hold a candle to what they did
Every generation says the same thing. It's out there oh, there's just so much to choose from now that it kind of has the supply and demand affect. There's just so freaking much the value kind of goes down like abusing phrases such as I'm sorry.
@@sickofthebulldodo1461 I listen to a lot of music and it’s still pretty rare to find anything close to as good as The Beach Boys, Beatles, zep, Floyd etc. the biggest genres now are rap and edm and both are pretty average compared to even music like radio head and 90s jay z, dr dre etc
Got my heart broken to a guy that pulled a Caroline, promised he'll never change but did. This song hits home and I'll forever love it. Thank you Brian Wilson❤️
Listened to this song a thousand times, but tonight for the first time I noticed the sax at 0:59-1:04. I like the twangy bass, like at 0:31-0:53 and 1:11 and following. (I guess the twang comes from using a guitar pick.) Also, the lazy drum roll at 1:36-1:40. Beautiful!
Brian did a very cool thing: he recorded an acoustic (stand up) bass and an electric Fender bass, which was played with a pick. He then "merged" the two sounds, creating the most incredible bass guitar sound EVER.
This song and all of them make me cry. Life really was so much more beautiful then. The 60 's and 70's live on in hearts and through this music. l'll always a happy place to go.
That's gotta be the shortest greatest song ever...brings back lots great memories of the girls I was with in my teenage years...can't ever stop the tears from fallin when I hear this one... peacenlove
Damn, this song....something about the drum and (flute?) Solo at the end really strike a cord in me. Almost like nostalgia...about something or someone ive never had. Truly an amazing song.
I couldnt agree more!!!!! I can listen to it over and over and over again!! It makes me long for those days gone by when we were all 14, innocent and in "young love"!!!
Tari K what surprised me is that the sound that sounds like a drum is a Water Bottle(the big ones) being thumped. Brian used all kinds of interesting things to get sounds, and i understand how much you love this i do too even though i never knew someone like Caroline this song just gets to me. and the origional lyric was Oh Carol I Know(Carol was a girl he had a crush one in High School)
If you watch the other video that is a cover of the song, you'll see Brian comment on the secret love for the girl but couldnt share her "REAL NAME" becuz he didnt want his wife to KNOW who it is!!
another great song from the beach boys. suspect the cutting of caroline's long hair is representative of her move into adulthood while the young man remains a boy who can't understand that things change. just a feeling. . .
+tearmann It might appear on a Beach Boys album, but this song is all Brian Wilson. No other members of the Beach Boys had anything to do with it - in fact, it was released as a Brian Wilson single a few months prior to the release of Pet Sounds, where it was also incuded. Of course, Pet Sounds as a whole could pretty much be seen as a Brian Wilson solo album, with the Beach Boys brought in for vocals.
from what i have read(about Brian and the Beach Boys history) and you will some different stories, Caroline was the first name of a girl Brian had a crush on in High School/ she said she never knew tell she hear the song. he kept in touch with her from time to time as the book I read states
The acceptance of change is hard to get yourself to. This song gives me that feeling. It's hard to convince yourself that you won't find that feeling again,; that it will be a feeling totally new that you held out for after all these years.
jen this whole LP tugs at my heart. Its like the 8th grade dance and the pain and sorrow I felt when the girl I dug didn't dig me. Its about growin' up and dealing with feelings. The drum in this song ( an empty water bottle) goes right thru my whole body. This song gives me goosebumps everytime I hear it. And though it reminds me of love lost or never had I still smile after I hear it and never tire of it. It feels so right for all of these reasons and a ton more.
"Where is that girl I used to know? How could you lose that happy glow?" Answer: She grew up. The innocence of youth, lost... "I remember how you used to say you'd never change, but that's not true."
I just heard that for the first time. Was that symbolism that she was departing on a train. I miss the innocence of my youth in the 80's and 90's, but we all mature and change.
This album has so many masterpieces it's hard to choose the best 3 songs. For me the most beautiful album ever along with Astral Weeks. The 60s were the best.
Guilherme Ferreira It would most likely now be: (First three the same) 4. Don't Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder) 5. Wouldn't it Be Nice 6. Pet Sounds
Beyond being a song about a significant other changing, I think this song is generally about the loss of innocence that comes with growing up. This song hits hard on both fronts for me being 16. Things can't ever be the same.
“Maybe The Beach Boys have got you now With those waves singing "Caroline No" Rollin' down that empty ocean road Gettin' to the surf on time.” -Neil Young
Such an overlooked album. This album inspired the Beatles sgt Pepper's lonely hearts club band. Paul McCartney once said had it not been made there wouldn't have been pepper. I discovered it in 94. It truly is a masterpiece
The Greatest song l know on lost love. Brian Wilson is my favorite. Genius in music. l love his singing voice from that period. Thank you very much dear Brian Wilson. You have been an important part of my life and love for music ❤
karnubawax If you play Pet Sounds and SMiLE back-to-back, you can actually make a double album out of it. The transition from 'Caroline No' and 'Our Prayer' fits well.
This is a beautiful song. So simple in melody but the note changes can be a bit difficult to sing. Brian Wilson's talent and genius to mix up notes! Amazing!
That songs just too damn good...a fitting final song to a great album...I turned my brother John on to this one...he was 8+ years older than me n a 60s child but he'd never heard it til then n this probly was nearly 2000...how I miss him riding shotgun with me...anyway...great piece of work there Brian... peacenlove always
As many will already know, Neil Young cites this song in lyrics to his own song "Long May You Run", a song Neil wrote about a beloved, long lost car he once owned: QUOTE: "Maybe the Beach Boys have got you now With those waves singing 'Caroline No' Rollin' down that empty ocean road Gettin' to the surf on time" -It just occurred to me now maybe Neil mentions the Beach Boys in this song about his car partly 'cause Brian Wilson used to like writing songs about cars, e.g. "Little Deuce Coupe", & the famous T-Bird in "Fun, Fun, Fun".
The album is about the transience of youth. The train departing while dogs bark is the perfect closing metaphor, leaves you with an unfinished sense of yearning. It adds quite a lot as the closing moment of the album if you ask me
Where did your long hair go Where is the girl I used to know How could you lose that happy glow Oh, Caroline no Who took that look away I remember how you used to say You'd never change, but that's not true Oh, Caroline you Break my heart I want to go and cry It's so sad to watch a sweet thing die Oh, Caroline why Could I ever find in you again The things that made me love you so much then Could we ever bring 'em back once they have gone Oh, Caroline no
Great song...BUT this was his only top 40 hit as a solo artist.This puts it in the "ONE(1) HIT WONDERS" list,such is life.....still a great sound.Thanks for sharing
This album is the GOAT 🐐. Seriously, it has it on the cover.
1943 that's right
😂
I disagree
Some would agree. I never heard and album, nor song of theirs for that matter that I didn't Enjoy. ALL their songs, ALL their albums. ❤️🥰🍯🎵🎵🎶🎶🎶🎶
Why doesn't everyone just enjoy the music you will end up in a Psychiatrist Office if you keep making references to everything you see it doesn't matter if it is a Goat or Just maybe it's a Lama? Doesn't matter and when you listen to a song just enjoy the Beautiful Melodies and Instruments and Fantastic Singer's the World has to offer, if you keep acting like a Cop and Thinking that everything and everyone is Corrupt and must investigate everything you will have No Friends because the Only Friends Police Officers have? Are Other Police officers Please everyone for your own Mental health 🙏 The World is What you make it and Nobody knows you unless they are your friends The Artist 🎨 are just writing ✍a good Story and doesn't intend to cause you any Grief he or She is Just making a good Living just like the rest of us, You matter! John Lennon once said There's nothing wrong with Living a Drug Free Life please 🙏 don't Waste your life and Though I am Canadian and Not really a Trump Fan? " Let's Make America 🇺🇸 Great Again!"
Melancholy, beautiful, poignant and painful. Heavenly melody, with simple lyrics that have emotional depth, and profundity. Simple, and deep. Beautiful, and sad. Heavenly, and painful. Such an uncomplicated, but masterful piece.....
I would call ourselfs lucky Brian has such Heart to share.
Very well-expressed.
True
@@ButOneThingIsNeedfulWho is the song about?
@@floatsting20 I have never heard that it was written to or about a specific individual, but if I am wrong please let me know. I think it is a love song about 'one you deeply love'.
I'm so obsessed with Brian Wilson lately. I can't say enough good about him. His life story touches me so deep. I feel I was living it with him.
He has been through so much, I've related to him many times as I had an abusive father and was an addict, am clean now for 9 years
This is a response 3 years later...but If the movie you NEED to watch is Love and Mercy. It's about Brian Wilson and the best damn music biopic of all time. There's even a UA-cam video that breaks it down as to why that is.
@@AT-yg4nkYou're so right, it's a fantastic movie!! I finally watched it last weekend. It's so moving and powerful. There were parts that had me sobbing, and I don't usually do that when I watch movies!! I must see it again, soon. I'm just going to purchase it, as I know it's one of those I'm going to want to watch over and over, again. 🌊⛱☮
it's the simplicity of this that makes it so hauntingly beautiful.
deceptively simple.. its harmonies are so sophisticated with an ambiguous tonal center which makes it so fragile, i've always felt like it could break anytime, and before i can realize, i am the one who've already broken down, what an intense song
Is it minor chords or 6th chords omitting the 5th???
That and the beautiful, heart-rending falsetto.🏆
This is a most amazing song. Haunting. Love lost. Times gone by. Hope for the future. On top of that the music and harmonies are the best. Caroline No and God Only Knows are a masterpiece of Brian Wilson.
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My dad passed a year ago. He was from Huntington Beach and was a sound engineer. I love all Beach Boys music but this song is the most beautiful. I’ll always think of him ❤️
Great song from one of the greatest albums ever.
Among the best albums EVER CREATED
I grew up to this in high school. Now that I listen to it again I realized what a masterpiece this is. It brings tears to my eyes as I remember my youth. You had to be there to experience the magic of this song and the ambiance of SoCal in the mid-60's. Just indescribable to todays youth. I'm so lucky I got to live in America's best days...Always thankful...I will die a happy man...It's stuff like this that got me home from Viet Nam when some days felt hopeless. God is great!
I still have the long hair, other than that, all else has been gone, too many decades ago. 😞
@@sherryherrick6567You're still here.
Thank you for your service.
I dated a girl for a good three years. Right before we broke up, she cut her hair. The day after the break up I had Beach Boys on shuffle at work. This came on and I just wept hard. Brian Wilson, you have a beautiful soul and an amazing ear.
I remember having seen a documentary about Brian Wilson's life, in which his former wife (to whom "Caroline no" is dedicated) talked about the song and said that she also wept when she first heard it.
I hate to say it but its not dedicated or written oir his former wife. It was a high-school girlfriend he had a brief time with, and she dumped him, is how i remember it. Brian laughs about it now. Wow it was powerful when it first hit the Airwaves in 1966
you heard it write young lady..
Caro Coloma . so he married the girl named Caroline that he crushed on in high school? is that true, do I have it right.
Brian Wilson married a singer named Marilyn when they were both very young (she was 17 and he was 22). This song is collaboration between Brian Wilson and a guy named Tony Asher. Asher dated a woman in high school named Carol who moved to New York to do Broadway. When he met her again she had completely changed in his opinion, including her hair. So that experience combined with Brian's high school crush on a woman coincidentally also named Carol formed the basis of this song.
I remember the very instant this song played on the local radio station in Johnstown, PA. April 1966. Pet Sounds will live forever!!!
the Brilliance of this song is in its almost simplistic
form but make no mistake this is pure Genius
True to life. i know i am going through it now.
I wish this song was a little longer. Masterpiece.
right on
It leaves you wanting more.
@@jimmypage2138
That a very long time. I'm french and i'm no so good to talk.
Me too.
A lot of songs back in the days were 2 to 3 minutes long. Never long enough when it’s a good song.
Brian, may you live forever, I know your music will.
2022 & I’m still listening to this classic song 🔥 #PETSOUNDS
One of the greatest love songs ever!!
My father played this when I was young. An absolutely haunting, stunning, mesmerising and upliftingly sad song. A truly beautiful and unique composition.
It is only recently that have I asked myself.....how did I ever pass this song by those 47 years ago. But at the age of 26 when it was released, perhaps that was how it was meant to be......I was far too young, and at the time, nowhere near ready in life to appreciate it's beauty. Lyrics such as these can only become poignant with our maturity, when together with our personal interpretations, they evoke long forgotten memories of first loves, lost friendships, our early lives and great adventures.
This is truely a beautiful song written by a true genious. It should last you a lifetime.
I love your comment Gus!! It echos exactly what my 61 year old heart feels!!!
Days gone by in the 60's when love was innocent and being 14 and 15 years old, watching Frankie and Annette movies, and thinking....I cant wait a few more years to be able to join a group of good friends and go rent a beach house for a week and experiences that wonderful innocent love and fun!!!!
Agree with you that as the years go by and we experience the heartaches of life, we see things thru a diff grid and have so much nostalgic life experiences that color our souls and the music becomes that much sweeter!!!!
I have found that by still attending 60's Tribute Shows, Beatle Exp Fests and performances by the artists I ve grown up with, keeps me young at heart and oh so joyful!!!
Sir , you put it perfectly , I need add no more .
Gus .. God Only Knows !! That Brian had his Demons .. But deep down he was and is one Great Song writer that wrote Beautiful melodies from his Heart .. Very deep emotional.. feelings he had that he expressed through his Music .. Such Beautiful Music !! That some just pass off as silliness probably because it cant compete with rap and heavy rock .. But simply amazing music on a very emotional human level and insight great stuff
Gus Ariss great insight
I too feel that way when I've had the entire beach boys catalog including Pet Sounds saved on my spotify account for the last decade and now all this time later at 25 I can finally understand, connect, and totally relate to Pet Sounds! It's like all of the sudden things totally clicked for me and I finally "got" this wonderfully beautiful, amazingly intricate masterpiece of an album!
Absolute and complete perfection. I could play this every second of every day. It would still not be enough.
I listened to the whole Beatles discography, almost whole Pink Floyd discocraphy, Velvet Underground, David Bowie,etc... But damn, none song brang me such an experience and such a strong feeling as this one. Brian Wilson is genius and that's the fact.
Thank you for the quality sound and lyrics!
Watch both parts of a documentary on UA-cam called “Brian Wilson - Songwriter 1962-1969. It’s a great documentary that explains the history of Brian and The Beach Boys
Yes!!!!!!!@♡♡♡♡♡♡♡
joe pipkin It's simply the most haunting song ever, period.
The Beatles win with The Beach Boys second.
This song is the sweetest combination of nostalgia, heartache, and love. It's not about a woman who changed, but about growing up and learning about yourself. If anything, Caroline would be even more enchanting having grown, but the innocence could never be the same for either of them.
perfectly put, man.
Guess I can't quite agree. I think the lyrics are clearly about a soul (Caroline) once bright and special that HAS changed, and not for the better. Her "happy glow" and former sweetness are gone and he wonders who or what took them away. He describes his observations of Caroline as heartbreaking. (Have you not known such people/stories? I have.)
@@ButOneThingIsNeedful I agree with you :(
The hardest thing is to pick a favorite on this album. Every song is my favorite while it's playing.
Said perfectly
Omg, you put it perfectly.
Sloop John B, yo! That or That's Not Me.
@@bobbyjuju7442 lol you just named my least fav songs on pet sounds. But still great songs!
Sloop John B and I Know There's An Answer are crappy tracks. Here Today features some really cheesy moments but as a whole isn't that bad. The lyrics on this album are very cheesy. The other songs however are quite beautiful.
Stunning Genius , Pet Sounds and in particular Caroline No ~
Truly a lovely,fragile heartbreak of a song.Their best from their grand opus.
+dennis chary agree. will always be my personal fav. would love to have heard Brain do this in person.
+dennis chary This was the first song that caught my attention for how good the Beach Boys were, but come on how do you beat God Only Knows!!
+jennifur sun ... I've heard him sing it in person on the Pet Sounds tour. A great concert. Couples were slow-dancing in the aisles throughout. :-D
+Jose Lopez Well everything from SMiLE beats God Only Knows into a bloody pulp for a start.
And let's not pretend that it's unique and special in the context of Pet Sounds. All the songs on that are masterpieces.
would love to have seen him sing that live. and as for God Only Knows, it isn't my fav tune either but don;t tell Paul that.
This album always manages to hit me in the feels man
Such a great album man.
Riz2336 one of the best of all time.
Riz2336 indeed!
"GODTIER" Album
@Arthur Chavis snd you are a ignoramus!
Not as good as sgt pepper but still great
I agree. I was just telling someone the other day that Caroline No is one of the most profoundly sad songs of all time but it has this irresistible beauty to it that just encapsulates a period in time perfectly. I'm not surprised about how he got that echo though. He WAS under the influence of some stuff ya know? LOL.
for me, this song evokes the feeling of once something is gone or ruined, its gone for good. Or as Don Henly put in in Boy of Summer, Don't look back, you can never look back. but still it lingers.
Rule 91 Don’t look back
Pet Sounds is my fav Beach Boys album. And Caroline, No my fav track on it. Still after 50 yrs that song can put me away. So beautifully Brian! I even found it on a 45 many, many years ago
My all time favourite Beach Boys song. Reminds me of watching trees sway in the wind while on LSD. Thank for this beautiful song, Brian.
Lovely Saturday Drive.
Nice man
The greatest Beach Boys album of all time. Funny thing is, the rest of The Beach Boys barely had anything to do with it; Brian wrote, recorded, and sang most of it by himself. He also said he was tripping on LSD when he recorded most of it.
Him and the Wrecking Crew playing the instuments
The greatest Beach Boys album of all time is Surf's Up.
According to Brian Wilson's interview with Larry King he only used LSD 3 times in his life so I doubt he was tripping while recording.
@@scooter12e Brian must've been trippin' when he did the interview..lol
also $2000 worth of hashich and marijuana... well the song is worth it *100 times. I would say the expense was well worth it.
Still have my album....
You break my heart, I want to go and cry.......
I was 13 when this album came out and it took me awhile to really appreciate what it REALLY was since this was the Beach Boys like I never knew before and I was used to all their surfing, beach and car music. But the day soon came when I fell in love with this album and 54 years later, that love is still shining bright in my heart and soul. Thank you Beach Boys for your gift for all of us to forever cherish.
Times change but good, authentic music doesn't. If anyone, along with me, lived in this era, we should consider ourselves fortunate to recall the plenty, when we couldn't imagine how phony this end of life truly is.
Spectacular! I still have a very long hair and will never cut it. Relationships, in metaphor to the hair, are to be held forever, irrelevant of the ups and downs.
Thank you Brian Wilson.
I love the beautiful harmony and melody of this song
One of the best songs written and sung!
Agreed.
Maybe the best vocal ever recorded.
This song is so incredible, it's almost over too quickly :(
If but one song could capture the amazing sound of Brian Wilson and his vocal range of The Beach Boys - this is that song.It s a treasure and I grew up with The Beach Boys and the long ago memories their music helped create.
“Don’t Worry Baby” and “She Knows Me Too Well” and “Please Let Me Wonder” are right up there too.
This is a Brian solo tune. It can't capture their full range because it doesn't have everybody singing on it
Anything with full band harmonies would be a better selection
Their voices all had such wonderful and unique timbres that you wouldn't think they'd blend together so well but, there are occasions where you really have to sit and listen to a passage numerous times before you're sure who is singing each note in the chord because they blend so tightly together
It's quite remarkable and no other vocal group has ever been able to hold a candle to what they did
@@mr.nobody68who else is singing on this song ?
One of the greatest groups ever. How sad we don't have that kind of inventive music anymore.
Every generation says the same thing. It's out there oh, there's just so much to choose from now that it kind of has the supply and demand affect. There's just so freaking much the value kind of goes down like abusing phrases such as I'm sorry.
@@sickofthebulldodo1461 I listen to a lot of music and it’s still pretty rare to find anything close to as good as The Beach Boys, Beatles, zep, Floyd etc. the biggest genres now are rap and edm and both are pretty average compared to even music like radio head and 90s jay z, dr dre etc
Got my heart broken to a guy that pulled a Caroline, promised he'll never change but did. This song hits home and I'll forever love it. Thank you Brian Wilson❤️
Listened to this song a thousand times, but tonight for the first time
I noticed the sax at 0:59-1:04. I like the twangy bass, like at 0:31-0:53 and 1:11 and following. (I guess the twang comes from using a guitar pick.)
Also, the lazy drum roll at 1:36-1:40. Beautiful!
yeah that sax hmm never noticed it as well thanks
Brian did a very cool thing: he recorded an acoustic (stand up) bass and an electric Fender bass, which was played with a pick. He then "merged" the two sounds, creating the most incredible bass guitar sound EVER.
Yeah the bass tone on the album is incredible.
my name is caroline. this songs makes me think about how i’m growing up and letting go of who i used to be . kind of like i’m talking to myself
Just remember: life doesn't have to imitate art.
Your Name is Caroline And You Are A Dear, Sweet And Beautiful Girl! Jesus Loves You My Dear Friend! God Bless You Always! John 3:16
Oh geez Caroline
i wanted to give lighter back
This song and all of them make me cry. Life really was so much more beautiful then. The 60 's and 70's live on in hearts and through this music. l'll always a happy place to go.
That's gotta be the shortest greatest song ever...brings back lots great memories of the girls I was with in my teenage years...can't ever stop the tears from fallin when I hear this one... peacenlove
Damn, this song....something about the drum and (flute?) Solo at the end really strike a cord in me. Almost like nostalgia...about something or someone ive never had. Truly an amazing song.
I couldnt agree more!!!!! I can listen to it over and over and over again!! It makes me long for those days gone by when we were all 14, innocent and in "young love"!!!
Tari K what surprised me is that the sound that sounds like a drum is a Water Bottle(the big ones) being thumped. Brian used all kinds of interesting things to get sounds, and i understand how much you love this i do too even though i never knew someone like Caroline this song just gets to me. and the origional lyric was Oh Carol I Know(Carol was a girl he had a crush one in High School)
If you watch the other video that is a cover of the song, you'll see Brian comment on the secret love for the girl but couldnt share her "REAL NAME" becuz he didnt want his wife to KNOW who it is!!
have seen that one just got my info from other sources including a book about his life
oooooooohhhh, DO share about the book! Title and publisher..would like to read that!
This is probably one of the greatest love songs ever written by man.
One of the most emotional Brian Wilson songs in the Beach Boys catalog.
This song has been stuck in my head all day! I'm glad I can finally listen to it!
Amazing song, this whole album is a gem.
I close my eyes everytime I listen to this song and always find myself crying - if a song does that to you, you know its good.
another great song from the beach boys. suspect the cutting of caroline's long hair is representative of her move into adulthood while the young man remains a boy who can't understand that things change. just a feeling. . .
I think you're on to something.
+tearmann It might appear on a Beach Boys album, but this song is all Brian Wilson. No other members of the Beach Boys had anything to do with it - in fact, it was released as a Brian Wilson single a few months prior to the release of Pet Sounds, where it was also incuded.
Of course, Pet Sounds as a whole could pretty much be seen as a Brian Wilson solo album, with the Beach Boys brought in for vocals.
from what i have read(about Brian and the Beach Boys history) and you will some different stories, Caroline was the first name of a girl Brian had a crush on in High School/ she said she never knew tell she hear the song. he kept in touch with her from time to time as the book I read states
Carole Mountain.
that was her
The acceptance of change is hard to get yourself to. This song gives me that feeling. It's hard to convince yourself that you won't find that feeling again,; that it will be a feeling totally new that you held out for after all these years.
I love them fifty years ago, and got heck for it. Some groups go on forever!
jen this whole LP tugs at my heart. Its like the 8th grade dance and the pain and sorrow I felt when the girl I dug didn't dig me. Its about growin' up and dealing with feelings. The drum in this song ( an empty water bottle) goes right thru my whole body. This song gives me goosebumps everytime I hear it. And though it reminds me of love lost or never had I still smile after I hear it and never tire of it. It feels so right for all of these reasons and a ton more.
"Where is that girl I used to know? How could you lose that happy glow?"
Answer: She grew up. The innocence of youth, lost...
"I remember how you used to say you'd never change, but that's not true."
"You can never go home again"- Thomas Wolfe
That's the theme of the entire album, lost innocence. The album closes with the sound of a train departing while dogs bark
I just heard that for the first time. Was that symbolism that she was departing on a train. I miss the innocence of my youth in the 80's and 90's, but we all mature and change.
As always, such a beautiful melody.
By far my favorite Beach Boys song.
This album has so many masterpieces it's hard to choose the best 3 songs. For me the most beautiful album ever along with Astral Weeks. The 60s were the best.
Brian Wilson is a Genius .incredible talent.
Top five _Pet Sounds_ songs:
1. God Only Knows
2. Caroline, No
3. Let's Go Away for a While
4. Wouldn't it Be Nice
5. Pet Sounds
Don't talk.
yes. 100% yes.
Guilherme Ferreira It would most likely now be:
(First three the same)
4. Don't Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)
5. Wouldn't it Be Nice
6. Pet Sounds
Caroline No is number one bro. No doubt about that. And probably their greatest song ever.
Don't talk???
uno delos mas perfectos cierres en un disco enla historia del pop. bellesa total
Beyond being a song about a significant other changing, I think this song is generally about the loss of innocence that comes with growing up. This song hits hard on both fronts for me being 16. Things can't ever be the same.
Why would anyone thumb this down?
“Maybe The Beach Boys
have got you now
With those waves
singing "Caroline No"
Rollin' down
that empty ocean road
Gettin' to the surf on time.”
-Neil Young
Such an overlooked album. This album inspired the Beatles sgt Pepper's lonely hearts club band. Paul McCartney once said had it not been made there wouldn't have been pepper. I discovered it in 94. It truly is a masterpiece
Yeah it is a sad song I think we all have had our hearts broken.
This song pretty much says it all....
You can Never get that Love back when you throw it away....
Never.....
Possibly the the greatest ever album, and there have been some good uns!
THANK YOU BRIAN for this song and for all the music
It's very human to resist change, but unfortunately, it's a constant in this earthly plane of existence.
Sock drawer poetry pocket symphony beauty is a joy forever.
The Greatest song l know on lost love. Brian Wilson is my favorite. Genius in music. l love his singing voice from that period. Thank you very much dear Brian Wilson. You have been an important part of my life and love for music ❤
Oh why couldn't Pet Sounds have been a double album?
karnubawax If you play Pet Sounds and SMiLE back-to-back, you can actually make a double album out of it. The transition from 'Caroline No' and 'Our Prayer' fits well.
Mike Love would have had a fit if Brian had done a double album - an album with almost no Love on it. Royalties and loyalties don't mix.
This is a beautiful song. So simple in melody but the note changes can be a bit difficult to sing. Brian Wilson's talent and genius to mix up notes! Amazing!
That songs just too damn good...a fitting final song to a great album...I turned my brother John on to this one...he was 8+ years older than me n a 60s child but he'd never heard it til then n this probly was nearly 2000...how I miss him riding shotgun with me...anyway...great piece of work there Brian... peacenlove always
As many will already know, Neil Young cites this song in lyrics to his own song "Long May You Run", a song Neil wrote about a beloved, long lost car he once owned:
QUOTE: "Maybe the Beach Boys have got you now
With those waves singing 'Caroline No'
Rollin' down that empty ocean road
Gettin' to the surf on time"
-It just occurred to me now maybe Neil mentions the Beach Boys in this song about his car partly 'cause Brian Wilson used to like writing songs about cars, e.g. "Little Deuce Coupe", & the famous T-Bird in "Fun, Fun, Fun".
Ok...
Yep!
Beautiful beautiful song, too short, tugs my heartstrings...
This song is not complete without the train and barking dogs at the end.
thats whats missing remember that from pet sounds perfect ending to that soug
I agree with you
I agree with you. Whyaretey their not here? different intrepretion
agree
The album is about the transience of youth. The train departing while dogs bark is the perfect closing metaphor, leaves you with an unfinished sense of yearning. It adds quite a lot as the closing moment of the album if you ask me
This song and album are addictive!
O my gosh-- that high "no!" So beautiful! Says it all in that one word.
0:55 - 1:11 hits me right in the feels
Rainy Saturday afternoon music.
Still the best all time album . Pet Sounds 1966 Amazing.
Where did your long hair go
Where is the girl I used to know
How could you lose that happy glow
Oh, Caroline no
Who took that look away
I remember how you used to say
You'd never change, but that's not true
Oh, Caroline you
Break my heart
I want to go and cry
It's so sad to watch a sweet thing die
Oh, Caroline why
Could I ever find in you again
The things that made me love you so much then
Could we ever bring 'em back once they have gone
Oh, Caroline no
Such a wonderful peice of emotional turmoil , he really captures life at it's deepest eb .
Such an amazing song and definitely one of my favorite tracks from Pet Sounds.
One of the best songs from one of the best albums made.
My gosh!! What an incredible song!!
That slight rise in volume on the last word....noooooooo!
Thats perfection right there!
A great song, brings back memories!
This masterpiece of an album is like sitting in a merry go round spinning slowly through space just taking in the sights….
Great song...BUT this was his only top 40 hit as a solo artist.This puts it in the "ONE(1) HIT WONDERS" list,such is life.....still a great sound.Thanks for sharing
Bailando apretadito con mi reina, que maravilloso, grande los Beach !!
Every song a pure gem
Brian = Brain
Larry Abitz ha good one
brian wilson so smart i calls him brain wilson
W O K E
I LOVE this song.
One of their best. love it.
beautiful harmony and melody
aah that mid-sixties California sound.Pure genius