@@BRNRDNCK Sorry I thought you were talking about Brians solo version which says 1967 in the official title. My favorite is from The Smile Sessions with band, but I guess thats 1967 as well. Were you talking about that one? The 1973 is my least favorite
Funny story: Years ago I was sitting in my doctor’s waiting room and this song was on. As can be expected, it got me in a positive mood and I started humming it as I went into his office. It was only after I came back out to the waiting room that I realized that the song was not playing again in there.. but still playing. He had created a loop so that it would keep playing in a never ending version! He later told me that people don’t notice the loop easily because of the structure of the original and that he did it to get people in a good mood and enter his office with good vibrations
Ok. I have to admit something. I’m 56 and thoroughly familiar with this song, but I’ve NEVER heard this version before! Just when you think you’ve heard it all…
I'd heard that additional 🎵"Hum de dum"🎵 part in the 'Beautiful Dreamer' documentary which had been released together with Brian Wilson's reworked version of the 'Smile' album, but never together with the whole 60's version so far 😀 His new 'Good Vibrations' version also includes that part, and the verses' lyrics are different 🙂
Agree, it was a major technical breakthrough and a "proof of purpose" - it must have given many other acts the sudden realization that "at this point in time it's like, everything is suddenly possible, or at least worth attempting" - things that would have felt unthinkable just two or three years before were suddenly becoming possible to do and make it sound good. Simon and Garfunkel's "The Boxer" 2½ years later was another of those recordings that showed how the limits of the game had changed.
*Smile sessions, there never was nor ever will be a finished 1967 Smile as Brian had envisioned, as much as I hate to say that. Brian has also stated that his 2004 solo album differs substantially from his original vision. Sorry, this misconception just bugs me when I see it.
Thanks for the reaction Doug. One of the greatest songs of summer. There is a thread on Discord about the origins of Progressive music and I think Brian Wilson certainly can have a argument as one of the earliest influences of the genre.
When they made huge investments in producing the songs and we still listen to them 60 years later. I doubt it will never be done again, today they probably want to have recuperated their whole investment in a song in less time than it took Brian to even record one song.
My first concert was the Beach Boys opening for Steve Miller Band in 1978 when I was 11. It was the first concert in the brand new (old) Giants' Stadium in NJ.
The story of "Smile," the mental demise of Brian Wilson, and the resulting "Smiley Smile" album are the stuff of legend. Let me HIGHLY RECOMMEND you get ahold of "Purple Chick presents: The Beach Boys Smile - a reconstruction," which attempts to restore the original Smile sessions into "what could have been." "Good Vibrations" was just the tip of the iceberg in this audio juggernaut that never fully came into fruition. Bobby Hill here on UA-cam has uploaded it and it's 100% worth a listen.
I found out from another reaction video (Virgin Rock) that it was actually an Electro-Theramin, which is just a slider connected to a knob which changes the pitch of a sine wave generator, so it doesn't have the whole wand-wave in the air feature at all. It was made to sound like a theramin but isn't one.
Los Angeles' legendary Wrecking Crew as the backing musicians on this song! Hal Blaine on drums, Ray Pohlman on bass guitar, Al Cassey on electric guitar, Jerry Cole on guitar, Larry Knechtel on Hammond organ, Billy Strange on 12-string electric guitar, Paul Tanner on Theremin and more.
Carol Kaye played bass on Good Vibrations with Lyle Ritz doubling some lines on the stand up bass. There were some others playing bass on some of the sessions that weren't used in the final recording, but that's Carols fantastic bass you hear.
@@AtomizedSound I believe they all wanted to be named "The Clique", instead of "The Wrecking Crew"; but the latter stuck and history went with it. Btw, everyone, check out the documentary movie of "The Wrecking Crew", if you haven't seen it. It is a great tribute to all the players. I believe it comes up here to watch for free (Ad supported, of course) from time to time.
Their all over the joint.... they could be from the earth to the moon and its still an amazing song. Brian Wilson a pure musical genius whos work in music will never be equaled ✌️😎
There's some great footage of some of the recording sessions for Good Vibrations, which includes drummer Hal Blaine, keyboardist Mike Melvoin and stand-up bassist Lyle Ritz (playing alongside Carl Wilson on bass guitar, doubling the bass part), plus The Beach Boys recording their vocal parts. ua-cam.com/video/uVlSVkzbJDA/v-deo.html
When I was a teenager, my friend had a cassette of the Beach Boys earliest recordings. "Luau" "Beach Boy Stomp (A.K.A. Karate)" and "Judy" were some of my favorites.
@@Arrow2theACLright. This is the version from THE SMILE SESSIONS, and would be more like the one that would have appeared on SMILE had it ever been released. The version on The Brian Wilson Band’s SMILE is pretty close to this.
You would love the 2004 remake/completion of Smile... amazing album and amazing rebound from Brian battling his mental health and rejoining some of his writers...
This is absolutely true. Dogs can even sense vibrations from Earth (i.e. earthquakes) before humans feel them. Good Vibrations and the Beach Boys' catalog at large are musts for my summer playlist. Although I love the seasonal playlists for holidays such as Halloween and Christmas the summer seasonal music is great in its own right and some of my favorite. Excellent analysis of this song Doug! Bonus points for using the solfege term for what I would usually just think of as the bVI scale degree. It's only recently that I've begun to grasp what to do with that system when the note in question is lowered or raised in relation to the major key (as the 6 or la is by default in minor).
Common misconception: that's not a Theremin It is called an electrotheremin, but it isn't played by waving your hands. It is a type of ribbon controller.
One of my all time favorite songs and of course the Beach Boys are synonymous with summer and Southern California beach scene, but I never associated this song with summer. It came on the airwaves late in the year in1966 and was in heavy rotation in the Christmas season so I have always associated it with Christmas time. Also there's no mention of the beach or surfer girls or anything else that would evoke summer. Fantastic song though.
Doug I think with your ear you'd get a kick out of 'This Whole World' off Sunflower, that song is constantly changing keys (11x by my count!) and yet Brian somehow manages to make it in to a catchy pop song.
I have heard this song a lot over the years. One of my favorite BB songs. But I have not heard this particular version before. With just a couple of extra "stuff" moments in it. Compared to what I had heard previously.
I grew up in Southern California and in the 60's and 70's the Beach Boys ruled the airwaves. Thanks Doug for bringing back some found memories. Please do some more from this amazing band❤
Doug, the recording of Surf’s Up from that album (1967) is one of the five greatest songs ever written. It is a modern equivalent of classical music. I implore you to listen to it immediately.
Not a big fan of surf music, but seeing as how there's a dearth of quality song analysis on YT, I'll take what I can get. Thanks for posting Doug. Cheers!
I used to think like that. Then I listened to BW's 2004 SMiLE and then Pet Sounds. I am a big fan of ELO, but I will admit that Pet Sounds is probably the best album that ever has been or will be made. And SMiLE may well be the second best. I feel blessed for having heard Brian perform live twice: first time when there was a brief reunion of BB... a month later they broke up again. And second time was Brian's Pet Sounds 50th anniversary tour. Just amazing. BB isn't bad, and I kinda like Kokomo too,, but Pet Sounds and SMiLE are Brian's work more than anything.
Can I make a suggestion, Doug? Today I attended the funeral of Martin Phillipps, lead singer of New Zealand band The Chills, who died on 28 July aged 61 - far too young. He has been called "New Zealand's Brian Wilson" by the US and British music press a few times for his complex arrangements and precise production work. Could you perhaps check out The Chills' song "Submarine Bells"?
Randomly decided to listen to the Smiles Sessions album earlier this year and it broke my brain. Found myself listening to the album over and over for 2 weeks straight, going back and forth between the 2004 version and Smiley Smile and back to the 1966/1967 sessions, utterly confused. The album was 90% done and it's a shame Brian opted to shelf it.
@@mightyV444 Yes, the Smile Sessions release from 2011 is definitely worth checking out. When you compare it to the official Brian Wilson Presents "Smile" from 2004, it's really not much different at all... I was expecting some rough ideas, but practically everything is there, and Brian simply chose not to release it. Very perplexing, considering how monumental it would have been if released in the appropriate timeframe, rather than 40-50 years after the fact.
@@capeda9942 - I'm listening to the 2011 release right now, and you're right, musically it's very close to Brian and his band's 2004 one 😀 The one big difference is Brian's much younger sounding voice, and I find it very touching to listen to 😍 Wonderful stuff! 🤩👍
For some reason I remember Good Vibrations as a winder song, and that's probably because it was released in October 1966 and I heard it over the holidays in Okinawa over KSBK.
Hi Doug, wonderful song and great reaction! Thanks a lot. I have a suggestion for another review from you as a professional composer especially with a look to the calendar. A song by the British pop duo Wham = Last Christmas. It’s in my opinion an outstanding composition and performance. But I can find hardly any reaction on UA-cam which has the quality of yours. Best wishes from Germany
After almost 60 years I get to hear a hitherto unknown version. Thanks for that! Little fun fact: the SciFi instrument wasn't a Theremin, but an electronic contraption named after its inventor Paul Tanner the Tannerin or Electro-Theremin. Certainly one of the best pop songs ever.😊
I've recently listened to In the Mood, the big hit of 1940. It's impressive how much they managed to cram into 3 min. 38 sec. They even sail away on a boat in the end. You should give it a reaction.
My first album was "Endless Summer", which I received in 74/75 when I was 7 years old. I got a Monkees greatest hits album around the same time. I loved watching The Monkees show afternoon after school. Within 3 years, I was listens to most rock and hard rock. In a way, the Beach Boys was alike pot..., they were the "gateway" to me becoming a metalhead. LOL...
I love this version of the song and, if anybody’s interested, there’s a great cover of it here on youtube by the impossibly talented band The Lemon Twigs. Until they’d covered it, I’d sort of forgotten this version, so rarely played anywhere.
8:19 interesting that you picked this longer version of the song. It's fine imho, I like this extra little section, but there are a couple of lines here that didn't appear on the single or the LP at the time.
Not a big fan of the BB, but I appreciate their influence on the Beatles, who I AM a big fan of. This track and “I Get Around” are up there with the best Beatles songs. The editing employed here was also used by the Beatles, later on the white album and abbey road.
Ditto! I'm not a huge BB fan, but I really do enjoy some of their songs, love their vocal harmonies and respect the brilliance of Brian Wilson. I really like the Pet Sounds album and appreciate the influence and importance it has. BTW, I am also a huge Beatles fan since I was in 2nd grade and a classmate got me Sgt. Pepper on vinyl for my birthday.
While not one of their more popular songs, I think a review of "Here Today" is right up your alley, Doug. It's the absolute epitome of Brian Wilson's composition prowess.
I will be 59 by the end of this year, and grew up on The Beach Boys since I first heard them on the Ed Sullivan show, and was hooked since then. The other group I like as much are Jan & Dean. The version you would have more fun listening to is their "Live in '69" they did over in England.
This was originally meant to be on Pet Sounds. Like Strawberry Fields/Penny was to be on Sgt Peppers. The greatest could have been even greater. Would love you to react to Beach Boys center piece for Smile project---Surf's Up. that ended up on their 1971 album of the same name....
A Theremin is next on my list of instruments to buy. They're outrageous! This, and California Girls are my favorites. But All Summer Long is their greatest song, in my opinion.
A reaction to the whole smile sessions "album" would be greaaat! Would be INCREDIBLY enlightening so I hope you'll have a look at it. Dont listen to smiley smile though thats a whole different thing they scrambled in a home studio.. the Smile Sessions have the BEach Boys and the Wrecking Crew and Van Dyke Parks making something really interesting
It’s one of their best songs if not the best really for me in its construction and arrangement for the time period. It’s sad Brian was heading downhill then and eventually had to back out of the band. I get it though and the pressure to deliver a follow-up to Pet Sounds. Smile would’ve been their magnum opus perhaps if it ever came to fruition like it was intended too. Still they all left their mark in pop culture and the music industry. Brian is a genius much like Lennon and McCartney songwriting wise from that era too.
The rivalry between The Beach Boys and The Beatles is a very interesting storyline, each trying to outdo the other with their next release. Pretty cool.
Since you’re in pop, you might really like “symptom of life” by Willow Smith. It’s set at a weird pace - I don’t have a musical ear so I don’t know how to explain it. But I would love to hear you break it down
I wish Brian could've had access to virtual instruments and midi in his prime. I know he did a lot of sheet work and had the best studio musicians but it may have gave him even more independence and immersion into his ideas, streamlining more great music.
Here's a very extended version, culled from the 2015 box set of the SMiLE project: ua-cam.com/video/-uIq7YGYUs8/v-deo.html And here is the long version of HEROES AND VILLAINS: ua-cam.com/video/v18uObyJCXs/v-deo.html
Interesting that I never connected Good Vibrations and Penny Lane. Especially in the use of whole step intervals to create an uplifting effect. Then again, they were seemingly bouncing ideas off of one another for that wonderful moment in music history!!!
It is funny. I am so used to the 45 version, that the extra sections seem out of place as I hear them for the first time. Anyone else? I used to feel that way about the bridge of "Year Of The Cat" by Al Stewart. The 45 did such a logical edit job that one listenes and feels it natural.
@### Try Neil Diamond's African Suite from the African Trilogy for some great sounds---30 time changes & two key changes. I think Mozart & Beethoven would be impressed.
it's not a theremin on the recording it's an electrotheremin / Tannerin, a slightly different instrument that you play by sliding along a bar rather than moving your hand in the air.
Surfs Up is a must. The most gorgeously complex melodies.... im sure you'll love it
Very important: listen to the 1967 version, not 1970 or 71.
@@BRNRDNCKinteresting. Why?
@@BRNRDNCKno! While its beautiful, its not Brians whole vision for this song and the added parts make for a better composition
@@JamesTailor7 The 1970 or 71 version just sounds bad
@@BRNRDNCK Sorry I thought you were talking about Brians solo version which says 1967 in the official title. My favorite is from The Smile Sessions with band, but I guess thats 1967 as well. Were you talking about that one? The 1973 is my least favorite
Funny story:
Years ago I was sitting in my doctor’s waiting room and this song was on.
As can be expected, it got me in a positive mood and I started humming it as I went into his office.
It was only after I came back out to the waiting room that I realized that the song was not playing again in there.. but still playing.
He had created a loop so that it would keep playing in a never ending version!
He later told me that people don’t notice the loop easily because of the structure of the original and that he did it to get people in a good mood and enter his office with good vibrations
Shout out to the Wrecking Crew, who Brian Wilson worked closely with on the arrangements and instrumentation.
Truer words... I'm surprised that Doug didn't even mention them... He's usually pretty good about naming the players
Ok. I have to admit something. I’m 56 and thoroughly familiar with this song, but I’ve NEVER heard this version before! Just when you think you’ve heard it all…
Likewise. This version threw me for a loop.
I'd heard that additional 🎵"Hum de dum"🎵 part in the 'Beautiful Dreamer' documentary which had been released together with Brian Wilson's reworked version of the 'Smile' album, but never together with the whole 60's version so far 😀
His new 'Good Vibrations' version also includes that part, and the verses' lyrics are different 🙂
I'm 69 and had never heard this version either.
78. Ditto.
I"m 61 and from Southern California. Neither have I.
Brian was a genius. The Wilson brothers were really talented. And Mike Love.. well, he was there.
Good Vibrations must be the first commercially successful example of Proto-Prog. Such an innovative recording.
Agree, it was a major technical breakthrough and a "proof of purpose" - it must have given many other acts the sudden realization that "at this point in time it's like, everything is suddenly possible, or at least worth attempting" - things that would have felt unthinkable just two or three years before were suddenly becoming possible to do and make it sound good. Simon and Garfunkel's "The Boxer" 2½ years later was another of those recordings that showed how the limits of the game had changed.
It’s possible it is a precursor to prog in the late 60’s or another step to its formation
Carol Kaye playing the bass on this session is SUBLIME.
The entire Smile album is worth a listen. It's pretty mind blowing stuff.
Do you prefer Pet Sounds or Smile?
*Smile sessions, there never was nor ever will be a finished 1967 Smile as Brian had envisioned, as much as I hate to say that. Brian has also stated that his 2004 solo album differs substantially from his original vision. Sorry, this misconception just bugs me when I see it.
Pet Sounds is an emotional buzz; Smile is an intellectual one. I love both.
@@scotharvey7045I get both kinds of buzz from both albums. And I also love both. I will admit that I prefer Brian Wilson's SMiLE.
Good Vibrations was groundbreaking. One of the most influential songs ever made.
Thanks for the reaction Doug. One of the greatest songs of summer. There is a thread on Discord about the origins of Progressive music and I think Brian Wilson certainly can have a argument as one of the earliest influences of the genre.
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Possible argument for that in “Pet Sounds” but could go deeper than that too around that time period
Jon Anderson of Yes cites Good Vibrations as one of his major influences.
Every separate section of the song was recorded in an entirely different studio and then he stitched it all together, geniusI
When they made huge investments in producing the songs and we still listen to them 60 years later. I doubt it will never be done again, today they probably want to have recuperated their whole investment in a song in less time than it took Brian to even record one song.
@@jimsteinmanfan80$25000 according to Brian. That's a lot in 60's dollars
Exactly@@MidwestFarmToys
Haven't heard this version, there were some extra vocals and a keyboard near the end I didn't recognize.
Same!
It's an alternate take; there are probably a dozen or so versions out there.
Same.
its the official version that was supposed to be on SMILE
It's amazing that any human mind could conceive and execute such perfection.
While also being deaf on one ear! 😀
Greatest American band of all-time.
My first concert was the Beach Boys opening for Steve Miller Band in 1978 when I was 11. It was the first concert in the brand new (old) Giants' Stadium in NJ.
The story of "Smile," the mental demise of Brian Wilson, and the resulting "Smiley Smile" album are the stuff of legend. Let me HIGHLY RECOMMEND you get ahold of "Purple Chick presents: The Beach Boys Smile - a reconstruction," which attempts to restore the original Smile sessions into "what could have been." "Good Vibrations" was just the tip of the iceberg in this audio juggernaut that never fully came into fruition. Bobby Hill here on UA-cam has uploaded it and it's 100% worth a listen.
The Hammond B3 organ along with the theremin use was very good in the arrangement being pre synthesizer days!
I found out from another reaction video (Virgin Rock) that it was actually an Electro-Theramin, which is just a slider connected to a knob which changes the pitch of a sine wave generator, so it doesn't have the whole wand-wave in the air feature at all. It was made to sound like a theramin but isn't one.
Los Angeles' legendary Wrecking Crew as the backing musicians on this song! Hal Blaine on drums, Ray Pohlman on bass guitar, Al Cassey on electric guitar, Jerry Cole on guitar, Larry Knechtel on Hammond organ, Billy Strange on 12-string electric guitar, Paul Tanner on Theremin and more.
The band actually played on it too except Mike,Bruce and Al.
@@danerd8978 In other words, the Wilson brothers.
Carol Kaye played bass on Good Vibrations with Lyle Ritz doubling some lines on the stand up bass. There were some others playing bass on some of the sessions that weren't used in the final recording, but that's Carols fantastic bass you hear.
Carol hated that name though lol. I think they all did but it stuck like most things as history progresses
@@AtomizedSound I believe they all wanted to be named "The Clique", instead of "The Wrecking Crew"; but the latter stuck and history went with it.
Btw, everyone, check out the documentary movie of "The Wrecking Crew", if you haven't seen it. It is a great tribute to all the players. I believe it comes up here to watch for free (Ad supported, of course) from time to time.
The review starts at 5:28
thanks 4 the heads up, this guy talks way to much in his videos
Holy crap I wish I found this comment earlier
A masterpiece of Music for all time. I knew it the moment I heard it in October 1966.
Their all over the joint.... they could be from the earth to the moon and its still an amazing song. Brian Wilson a pure musical genius whos work in music will never be equaled ✌️😎
There's some great footage of some of the recording sessions for Good Vibrations, which includes drummer Hal Blaine, keyboardist Mike Melvoin and stand-up bassist Lyle Ritz (playing alongside Carl Wilson on bass guitar, doubling the bass part), plus The Beach Boys recording their vocal parts. ua-cam.com/video/uVlSVkzbJDA/v-deo.html
Feelin’ those Doug Vibrations.
When I was a teenager, my friend had a cassette of the Beach Boys earliest recordings. "Luau" "Beach Boy Stomp (A.K.A. Karate)" and "Judy" were some of my favorites.
What version of this song is this? It has some sections I've never heard before.
It is the extended version. I thought since Doug has heard this song before (I mean who hasn't) then the unedited version may catch him by surprise.
@@Arrow2theACLright. This is the version from THE SMILE SESSIONS, and would be more like the one that would have appeared on SMILE had it ever been released. The version on The Brian Wilson Band’s SMILE is pretty close to this.
I was surprised,@@Arrow2theACL , and I grew up with this song (born in '54)... Thanx
Love the Theramin in the background sounds
You would love the 2004 remake/completion of Smile... amazing album and amazing rebound from Brian battling his mental health and rejoining some of his writers...
This is absolutely true. Dogs can even sense vibrations from Earth (i.e. earthquakes) before humans feel them. Good Vibrations and the Beach Boys' catalog at large are musts for my summer playlist. Although I love the seasonal playlists for holidays such as Halloween and Christmas the summer seasonal music is great in its own right and some of my favorite.
Excellent analysis of this song Doug! Bonus points for using the solfege term for what I would usually just think of as the bVI scale degree. It's only recently that I've begun to grasp what to do with that system when the note in question is lowered or raised in relation to the major key (as the 6 or la is by default in minor).
My favorite beach boys song. Great harmonies in this.
Common misconception: that's not a Theremin It is called an electrotheremin, but it isn't played by waving your hands. It is a type of ribbon controller.
this is an extended version
Grew up with the song, but NEVER heard THIS version before...
One of my all time favorite songs and of course the Beach Boys are synonymous with summer and Southern California beach scene, but I never associated this song with summer. It came on the airwaves late in the year in1966 and was in heavy rotation in the Christmas season so I have always associated it with Christmas time. Also there's no mention of the beach or surfer girls or anything else that would evoke summer. Fantastic song though.
Doug I think with your ear you'd get a kick out of 'This Whole World' off Sunflower, that song is constantly changing keys (11x by my count!) and yet Brian somehow manages to make it in to a catchy pop song.
The full 9-minute unedited instrumental version of this is incredible.
I have heard this song a lot over the years. One of my favorite BB songs. But I have not heard this particular version before. With just a couple of extra "stuff" moments in it. Compared to what I had heard previously.
Epic achievement in music history.
Worked on Brian's house when he lived in St. Charles 25 years ago
I really... REALLY love his solo version of the album SMILE. It is much more cohesive, and so much fun.
I grew up in Southern California and in the 60's and 70's the Beach Boys ruled the airwaves. Thanks Doug for bringing back some found memories. Please do some more from this amazing band❤
The instrumental track was performed by studio musicians The Wrecking Crew. The beach Boys only performed the vocals.
Todd Rundgren did a near perfect version of this on his Faithful album.
Doug, the recording of Surf’s Up from that album (1967) is one of the five greatest songs ever written. It is a modern equivalent of classical music. I implore you to listen to it immediately.
Not a big fan of surf music, but seeing as how there's a dearth of quality song analysis on YT, I'll take what I can get. Thanks for posting Doug. Cheers!
This isn't surf music, this was a new movement in rock that actually made surf music obsolete.
Definitely not many surf songs from Brian Wilson by this point. Dennis was the only one in the band who had ever actually surfed anyway.
I used to think like that. Then I listened to BW's 2004 SMiLE and then Pet Sounds. I am a big fan of ELO, but I will admit that Pet Sounds is probably the best album that ever has been or will be made. And SMiLE may well be the second best. I feel blessed for having heard Brian perform live twice: first time when there was a brief reunion of BB... a month later they broke up again. And second time was Brian's Pet Sounds 50th anniversary tour. Just amazing. BB isn't bad, and I kinda like Kokomo too,, but Pet Sounds and SMiLE are Brian's work more than anything.
Brilliant...what a composition !!!
Check out the song “Surf’s Up”. For me, it’s the peak of the Smile sessions!
I agree
The long version of SURF'S UP from the 2015 boxed set of the SMiLE sessions: ua-cam.com/video/G5u2xGO47D0/v-deo.html
Another great reaction 👌🏻
Can I make a suggestion, Doug? Today I attended the funeral of Martin Phillipps, lead singer of New Zealand band The Chills, who died on 28 July aged 61 - far too young. He has been called "New Zealand's Brian Wilson" by the US and British music press a few times for his complex arrangements and precise production work. Could you perhaps check out The Chills' song "Submarine Bells"?
Randomly decided to listen to the Smiles Sessions album earlier this year and it broke my brain. Found myself listening to the album over and over for 2 weeks straight, going back and forth between the 2004 version and Smiley Smile and back to the 1966/1967 sessions, utterly confused. The album was 90% done and it's a shame Brian opted to shelf it.
Oh wow, really? 90% done? I'd always thought it was much less! I'll have to follow your example and check out the 60's versions!
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@@mightyV444 Yes, the Smile Sessions release from 2011 is definitely worth checking out. When you compare it to the official Brian Wilson Presents "Smile" from 2004, it's really not much different at all... I was expecting some rough ideas, but practically everything is there, and Brian simply chose not to release it. Very perplexing, considering how monumental it would have been if released in the appropriate timeframe, rather than 40-50 years after the fact.
@@capeda9942 - I'm listening to the 2011 release right now, and you're right, musically it's very close to Brian and his band's 2004 one 😀 The one big difference is Brian's much younger sounding voice, and I find it very touching to listen to 😍
Wonderful stuff!
🤩👍
It's like a Dream Theater song: 4-5 different songs wrapped up into one but not 12 minutes long.
For some reason I remember Good Vibrations as a winder song, and that's probably because it was released in October 1966 and I heard it over the holidays in Okinawa over KSBK.
Those harmonies again.
Remind me of Close to the Edge ❤
A song that never fails to lift my mood. Totally reliable 😊
Best pop summer song, a masterpiece
Saw and met The Beach Boys in 1963 or 1964 in St. Louis. They were with Dick Clark’s cavalcade of stars. We were invited to Denny Wilson’s home.
Hi Doug, wonderful song and great reaction! Thanks a lot. I have a suggestion for another review from you as a professional composer especially with a look to the calendar. A song by the British pop duo Wham = Last Christmas. It’s in my opinion an outstanding composition and performance. But I can find hardly any reaction on UA-cam which has the quality of yours.
Best wishes from Germany
After almost 60 years I get to hear a hitherto unknown version. Thanks for that! Little fun fact: the SciFi instrument wasn't a Theremin, but an electronic contraption named after its inventor Paul Tanner the Tannerin or Electro-Theremin. Certainly one of the best pop songs ever.😊
I've recently listened to In the Mood, the big hit of 1940. It's impressive how much they managed to cram into 3 min. 38 sec. They even sail away on a boat in the end. You should give it a reaction.
My first album was "Endless Summer", which I received in 74/75 when I was 7 years old. I got a Monkees greatest hits album around the same time. I loved watching The Monkees show afternoon after school. Within 3 years, I was listens to most rock and hard rock. In a way, the Beach Boys was alike pot..., they were the "gateway" to me becoming a metalhead. LOL...
I’m glad you listened to this version it rocks
I love this version of the song and, if anybody’s interested, there’s a great cover of it here on youtube by the impossibly talented band The Lemon Twigs. Until they’d covered it, I’d sort of forgotten this version, so rarely played anywhere.
This is an excellent Summer song and performance. Enjoy 🎶
One of Brian’s defining moments.
8:19 interesting that you picked this longer version of the song. It's fine imho, I like this extra little section, but there are a couple of lines here that didn't appear on the single or the LP at the time.
This is arguably the greatest song ever recorded.
I knew the version by english coral group King Singers, but non the original. A real magic song! Thanks Mr Doug
Not a big fan of the BB, but I appreciate their influence on the Beatles, who I AM a big fan of.
This track and “I Get Around” are up there with the best Beatles songs.
The editing employed here was also used by the Beatles, later on the white album and abbey road.
Ditto! I'm not a huge BB fan, but I really do enjoy some of their songs, love their vocal harmonies and respect the brilliance of Brian Wilson. I really like the Pet Sounds album and appreciate the influence and importance it has. BTW, I am also a huge Beatles fan since I was in 2nd grade and a classmate got me Sgt. Pepper on vinyl for my birthday.
I like Summertime Blues, too. From Eddie Cochran in the 50s to the Who and Blue Cheer in the 60s, it's always relevant to young rockers.
While not one of their more popular songs, I think a review of "Here Today" is right up your alley, Doug. It's the absolute epitome of Brian Wilson's composition prowess.
I will be 59 by the end of this year, and grew up on The Beach Boys since I first heard them on the Ed Sullivan show, and was hooked since then. The other group I like as much are Jan & Dean.
The version you would have more fun listening to is their "Live in '69" they did over in England.
Studio footage of the recording of Good Vibrations: ua-cam.com/video/PFx4_PDGsjw/v-deo.html
Theramin! I saw The Beach Boys in 1975.
This was originally meant to be on Pet Sounds. Like Strawberry Fields/Penny was to be on Sgt Peppers. The greatest could have been even greater. Would love you to react to Beach Boys center piece for Smile project---Surf's Up. that ended up on their 1971 album of the same name....
You should totally check out the rest of SMiLE, or at least Surf's Up.
This is a special album version, with those extra parts.
I’m guessing.
I see some Van Morrison in the back..... hum He's got a lot of nice stuff i'd like to see you react to!!
Yes, the Moondance album please (or at least "Into The Mystic") 😀👍
A lot more even, the 1980 Montreux songs, Veedon Fleece stuff, Too Late to Stop Now... yup!
A Theremin is next on my list of instruments to buy. They're outrageous! This, and California Girls are my favorites. But All Summer Long is their greatest song, in my opinion.
A reaction to the whole smile sessions "album" would be greaaat! Would be INCREDIBLY enlightening so I hope you'll have a look at it. Dont listen to smiley smile though thats a whole different thing they scrambled in a home studio.. the Smile Sessions have the BEach Boys and the Wrecking Crew and Van Dyke Parks making something really interesting
With all due respect. I'd love to see his reaction to the mad drummer, or the bad piper. Yeah, lets have some fun.
That walking bass line from Carol Kaye is just dope! Bach (AKA God's bass line composer) would have been proud!
Wrecking Crew documentary is a great watch.
Wilson Phillips singing Good Vibrations: ua-cam.com/video/6YdkQWN59HY/v-deo.html
It’s one of their best songs if not the best really for me in its construction and arrangement for the time period. It’s sad Brian was heading downhill then and eventually had to back out of the band. I get it though and the pressure to deliver a follow-up to Pet Sounds. Smile would’ve been their magnum opus perhaps if it ever came to fruition like it was intended too. Still they all left their mark in pop culture and the music industry. Brian is a genius much like Lennon and McCartney songwriting wise from that era too.
The rivalry between The Beach Boys and The Beatles is a very interesting storyline, each trying to outdo the other with their next release. Pretty cool.
Is this the album version? it's slightly different from the single that I remember as a kid.
The single was the Smiley Smile version. This is the original Smile version
My brain always goes "It's the Diddly Dog" on the intro.
Since you’re in pop, you might really like “symptom of life” by Willow Smith. It’s set at a weird pace - I don’t have a musical ear so I don’t know how to explain it. But I would love to hear you break it down
Thank you SO much for posting this. I just listened to her Tiny Desk set, and it's absolutely insane. Literally jaw-dropping. Damn!
I wish Brian could've had access to virtual instruments and midi in his prime. I know he did a lot of sheet work and had the best studio musicians but it may have gave him even more independence and immersion into his ideas, streamlining more great music.
Great song, great band, another great review. Check out The Wrecking Crew documentary. Thanks, Doug.
Good Vibrations came out in October.
I think it was Brian who described this gem as "a pocket symphony." Nice.
Here's a very extended version, culled from the 2015 box set of the SMiLE project: ua-cam.com/video/-uIq7YGYUs8/v-deo.html
And here is the long version of HEROES AND VILLAINS: ua-cam.com/video/v18uObyJCXs/v-deo.html
Dance Dance Dance! My favorite!
Interesting that I never connected Good Vibrations and Penny Lane. Especially in the use of whole step intervals to create an uplifting effect. Then again, they were seemingly bouncing ideas off of one another for that wonderful moment in music history!!!
I love those stories. It wasn't a competition between the bands. It was mutual respect and inspiration
i bet this guy is a riot at parties
Always liked that song and many of there other ones 🙂
It is funny. I am so used to the 45 version, that the extra sections seem out of place as I hear them for the first time. Anyone else? I used to feel that way about the bridge of "Year Of The Cat" by Al Stewart. The 45 did such a logical edit job that one listenes and feels it natural.
@### Try Neil Diamond's African Suite from the African Trilogy for some great sounds---30 time changes & two key changes. I think Mozart & Beethoven would be impressed.
it's not a theremin on the recording it's an electrotheremin / Tannerin, a slightly different instrument that you play by sliding along a bar rather than moving your hand in the air.
I also like, the Version of "Co-Co" from the Sweet.
Hot Fun in the Summertime is a great Summer song by Sly and the Family Stone.
Polyphonics has an amazing video essey about this song