Kinda glad I have found this comment section, it brings me so much peace to know there are others that enjoy this beautiful composition as much as I do.
One of the things that immediately hits you is how confident and clear headed Brian sounds. A sharp cat. As opposed to the pained, spacey guy he became. It certainly is one wild odyssey that man took.
He was basically the same guy until the early 1980's when he was prescribed psychotropic drugs by "psychologist" Eugene Landy that forever altered his speech patterns and overall demeanor.
He was an absolute general in the recording studio. Completely focused, driven and knows what he wants....but is still open to ideas or happy accidents.
The reason I believe that I, and so many other people, always go back to this album is due to how that there is a song for everyone. You can pick out your favorites and there is never a wrong answer. Each song speaks to people differently.
I like that Brian's firmly and confidently in charge. Someone has to be. When you're working with a "band", and everybody's equal, you have to do a lot of, "Well, why don't we try doing it _this_ way ...?" and it's a big pain in the ass if you wrote the song and you already know how you want it to be played, but you have to encourage everyone to _feel_ like it's a collaborative effort. A real pro will put his ego aside and trust in the songwriter. Listening to this box set ... God, 20 or more of L.A.'s TOP musicians, all willing to play whatever Brian tells them to play ... what a luxury! No wonder it's expensive!
ph318 Well said. I have two big inspirations that changed my life in the early 21st century. Number One is Brian Wilson completing, releasing and performing a coherent version of _SMiLE_ in 2004 at age 62. We might all like the Beach Boys recordings better, but Brian's 2004 version was the real accomplishment. That's what gave _The SMiLE Sessions_ a structure. If you care to know, Number Two is Roger Waters's successful return to touring and having a blast doing it, starting in 1999 at age 56 and finishing in 2013 at 70. As a guy who probably peaked at 25, both these things mean a lot to me. It's never too late to change. You're never too old to be better. And revisiting your past is GOOD!
@Justin Puga Probably because too much rhythm would be distracting from the song, which you said yourself is very emotional. I think if anything, they could have put the drums in at last and then have the song fade out. It did sound very nice.
When I got the sheet music book, this song was the first time I ever saw a D major chord played over an F-natural bass note. The first three chords are C/F, D/F, and Eb/F. Talk about mind-blowing! And that's Brian _just getting started_ with the innovative chord changes ....
+KhalDrogo76 That is the first chord of the verse, true. I found it annoying in the film _Love and Mercy,_ depicting the _Pet Sounds_ sessions, when Carol Kaye points out that the bass is "in a different key" from the rest of the song, and that's a "mistake" or something, but Brian says "It sounds right to me." That only sounds impressive if you're not a serious musician. The real Carol Kaye knew better. D/A is just an inversion. It might have been something new in pop/rock. It was new to the Beatles when they heard it, but it was not new in all of music history. It was Carl Wilson who said that. I don't remember if he was talking about "God Only Knows" or "Wouldn't It Be Nice", but it was one of those. It's not really true. If you tell your keyboardist to play F#m and Bm chords, then tell your bassist to play D and G, you aren't composing in two different keys, you're just orchestrating a Dmaj7 to Gmaj7 change. Which is not revolutionary. What was genius was _how far_ Brian was willing to take it. Like I mentioned, the D major over an F-natural bass is pretty far out. Or, in "Surf's Up", when he sings "Columnated ruins domino", it goes from F/C, to C, to D over a C bass, where it lingers. _That's_ a very tense and daring moment. Major chords with the b7 in the bass are challenging to endure. And we don't get much resolution after that: G/D ... A/G ... D/A, where we linger even longer. Again, tense and daring. It's like hearing music in another language. To be realistic, you know Brian was exploring and experimenting with that. It's not like his genius is _so_ uncomprehensible to a normal person, and that's just how he naturally thinks. He was deliberately trying to challenge the listener and himself. And obviously, it worked, because that era of his career has had more long-term impact than any other. _Pet Sounds__ wasn't a smash hit, and _SMiLE_ didn't even get released, but those are the works he'll be best remembered for. If you have patience, there IS _SOME_ justice in this world!
+Ben Culture On the DVD commentary to Love and Mercy, there is mention that this was a reference to the fact that there were two 'Brians' converging (and two actors playing Brian). I also thought Carol's line was a bit contrived (and I am, to put it mildly, an ignoramus when it comes to music scholarship). But with just that line, the movie did capture a bit of Carol's and Brian's personalities ------- her voice on The Smile Sessions where she says she is nervous, and Brian reassures her by saying don't be nervous, it will be alright (something to that effect) ------ it comes out of nowhere during the recording session, and this scene in Love and Mercy seems to reflect that working atmosphere.
I always wondered about this song in particular. It's like some kind of relaxing futuristic lounge music circa mid '60s of any century. How does this sound happen from someone's brain and then executed so perfectly....
A “Space Soundtrack” from the mind of the best. One wrong move and this becomes Muzak. But Muzak is trying so hard to be this and yet it can never achieve it.
This is not a song. It's a composition. And it is one that demonstrates Brian's extraordinary talent. Had he wanted, he could have been a prolific film composer.
I didn't hear this track until a few years after it came out since I couldn't afford to buy albums. When I heard it, my first thought was what Brian Wilson must have been thinking of to trigger this song. In my imagination, the beginning of the song starts out looking for something, some kind of peace. It then finds it, with an almost pensive sadness. Lost love perhaps. It still gets to me.
Like Dick Wagner and Louie van Beethoven, Brian hears an entire symphony in his head, note for note and with the slightest bit of subtlety. That's a bit of genius in itself. Creating this high level of art is the other half of genius, and it's a fair assessment I think.
I Reccomend this album to everone who appreciates good music. This was the Sgt Pepper over the pond. This is how to appreciate a Genius with a Great team of musicians as support. Are you learning yet Mr Cowell ?
You don't have the last word on what is "good music"... it is an aquired taste. Lots of jazz fans hated Sgt Pepper and Pet Sounds and lots of great pop artiste's hate jazz...
I am a big Beach Boys fan but I do realise and enjoy that people like other music. It's ok. (I had to!) ;-) But why anyone would feel the need put something down in a public forum, I do not know....
I just got into the Exotica genre - drug-influenced, pacific-island type easy listening, composers Martin Denny, Les Baxter - and at 3:50 it mentions a reference to this sound being most likely influenced by Exotica! That coincidence excited me
I used this piece of music as a soundtrack for a photo/video DVD of a 2008 Caribbean cruise vacation taken with 3 generations of my family. In hindsight I realize how important that decision was. This instrumental draws out wistful memories that are so much more meaningful to me 14 years later.
These aren't from a "SACD". You're probably thinking of the Pet Sounds Sessions Box Set (released in 1997), which contains digested snippets of the recording sessions. While some elements of those were used, these videos were made primarily from the full tracking sessions heard on the unauthorized "Sea Of Tunes" bootlegs...also released in the late 1990's.
Right at 4:52 to about 4:56 it’s that very faint little Hawaiian-esque tune that made me fall in love with this song. It’s an entrancing little bit of music just within those few seconds. The whole song is great but that part has always stood out to me
She was! I like the "swinging 60s" look on a woman. I would love to meet and talk to her, and I'm not even really a bassist. But you can tell she understood and appreciated Brian's music very well. I'm impressed by women who play Fender Precisions (Carol, Suzi Quatro) because they are kind of large, tough basses. There are smaller, gentler bass guitars, but I guess the P-Bass gets a special sound.
Woww, people really do not get how much of a genius Brian was..He was telling people how close to lean in to the mic, telling Hal where to hit the drum...Just really amazing
Like McCartney, Brian knew exactly what sounds he wanted from the drums and how to get that on tape, how do you think Dennis Wilson sounded decent all those years? it was Brian producing him.
Like McCartney? George Martin and the EMI engineers are what got the sound of The Beatles on tape. The Beatles themselves were not heavily involved in production, they told Martin what they wanted.
John often just gave George Martin a vague idea of what he wanted and let him do what he wanted. But Paul was much more involved in the production of the music, more and more until the Beatles broke up.
I just cant wait to see the next one you make... please keep making these as you can... Very nice work with the research and photos and making it all work together seamlessly... Wow... even the studio out takes are incredibly entertaining musically... i cant get enough of this stuff
You will see saxophonist plas Johnson in this footage, plas Johnson is the saxophonist who played the pink panther theme of course written by Henri Mancini, so there you have a connection.
The drums did sound good, but Brian Wilson said none, and his word is law. LOL. Besides, I think the drums kind of take away from the gentleness of the song.
Precisely my opinion. And this goes for the "Smile" sessions as well. Brian's real substance abuse came much later in the form of cocaine, cigarettes and the perscribed medication courtesy of Dr. Landy.
The way he took control of the studio with most talented musicians at the time and only 23 years is amazing. Only way to describe this composition is sheer peaceful bliss almost unearthly.
I was just saying that to someone! As a description of the song. Of course, Esquivel was a stereo extremist, and Brian was into mono, but stylistically, yes, the song fits that description.
Yep mental illness contributed mainly he was made for those times and also not because he wasn't a shallow useless mainstream stoner of the day who all he did was get high have free love and say he was changing the world by not achieving anything, but Wilson was really a genius, visionary musician who went against the status quo, especially with this song - it's style is of easy listening for adults of the 60s while the Beach boys was mainly youth-oriented he wasn't afraid to publish this
WOW great info.... I was hoping to get a response from you, your videos are amazing... I have read that very small dosages of psilocybin mushrooms make a person "more lucid, improving speech" it would make sense to me he was on workable doses of shroooms although thats the first I have ever heard of that.. It may be over exaggerated his LSD use but it cant be over-estimated the impact on the music of what psychedelics he did use... "California Girls" is one song that comes to mind...
But the first hit isnt right on that 1 count. Thats what my thing about it is. "Most of us dont go away but its still a nice thought" brings the meaning of that feel though. I still love this piece. Keep um coming Mr Behind! This is more suspenseful than a high wire act and more addicting than crack. THANK YOU!!!!
RRRRRR!!!! I thought I was going to get to the bottom of that first rim shot with what sounds like echo but it could be a block, at the change... I always wanted to know if it was just a mistake that was left for the sake of not doing another take. I hear so many little things like this through out the album but this was the biggest and I guess I'll have to live without an answer or maybe ask Brian myself if by chance I see him sometime. You know... walking down the street or something. :)
@@BehindTheSoundsI don’t know they’re not, I’m asking you a question considering you put this video together. But since you don’t know, I’ll keep on looking. Thanks!
It's based on AFM sheets (the musicians credited were versatile, could play both flute, saxophone or most wind instruments) and also just based on the fact that they *sound like flutes*. What exactly is the point of your question or the insinuation that they aren't? Comments like this aren't conducive to discussion.
@@BehindTheSounds Wasn't insinuating anything with the initial question, my bad for the passive aggressive response lol. The point of the question was that I was curious because that part sounds cool, on top of the fact that the part is missing on the "Stereo Track Without String Overdub" from the anniversary box set. I appreciate the answer.
Kinda glad I have found this comment section, it brings me so much peace to know there are others that enjoy this beautiful composition as much as I do.
Im so glad there’s new comments on every video. Always new people coming in its amazing
Absolutely, I'm always overjoyed when I hear this song, just as I always have been.
One of the things that immediately hits you is how confident and clear headed Brian sounds. A sharp cat. As opposed to the pained, spacey guy he became. It certainly is one wild odyssey that man took.
He was basically the same guy until the early 1980's when he was prescribed psychotropic drugs by "psychologist" Eugene Landy that forever altered his speech patterns and overall demeanor.
BehindTheSounds I believe you are right my friend. PS. This is one brilliant fucking piece of music.
He was an absolute general in the recording studio. Completely focused, driven and knows what he wants....but is still open to ideas or happy accidents.
The reason I believe that I, and so many other people, always go back to this album is due to how that there is a song for everyone. You can pick out your favorites and there is never a wrong answer. Each song speaks to people differently.
I like that Brian's firmly and confidently in charge. Someone has to be. When you're working with a "band", and everybody's equal, you have to do a lot of, "Well, why don't we try doing it _this_ way ...?" and it's a big pain in the ass if you wrote the song and you already know how you want it to be played, but you have to encourage everyone to _feel_ like it's a collaborative effort. A real pro will put his ego aside and trust in the songwriter. Listening to this box set ... God, 20 or more of L.A.'s TOP musicians, all willing to play whatever Brian tells them to play ... what a luxury! No wonder it's expensive!
Amen.
ph318 Well said. I have two big inspirations that changed my life in the early 21st century. Number One is Brian Wilson completing, releasing and performing a coherent version of _SMiLE_ in 2004 at age 62. We might all like the Beach Boys recordings better, but Brian's 2004 version was the real accomplishment. That's what gave _The SMiLE Sessions_ a structure.
If you care to know, Number Two is Roger Waters's successful return to touring and having a blast doing it, starting in 1999 at age 56 and finishing in 2013 at 70. As a guy who probably peaked at 25, both these things mean a lot to me. It's never too late to change. You're never too old to be better. And revisiting your past is GOOD!
What a great boss!!
Was there any musician that worked with Brian and not in awe?
The end of this fucking song, oh my fucking god. I don't think there's anything quite like it in any contemporary of music. I want to cry.
It touches your deepest emotions..I know..💝🎁🎈
I've just thought: Wow! Drums! and then Brian goes: No drums! :)
wouldn't it be nice!
@Justin Puga Probably because too much rhythm would be distracting from the song, which you said yourself is very emotional. I think if anything, they could have put the drums in at last and then have the song fade out. It did sound very nice.
Gotta say I prefer it without the drums. But I get the appeal of the drums
My #1 Brian Wilson song, an absolute masterpiece
Same
This song literally brought me to tears the first time I heard it.
My favorite song from Pet Sounds!
it has so much atmosphere
A girl whos brother died in Vietnam said the same thing
Me too
This is a classical piece of modern music
+Keith Baldwin Or a modern piece of classical music !! Love it so much !
it is the most classical of the album, is just in my top 3... beautiful genius
(Let's go) Far and away my favorite piece of Brian's music.
Mine ,too .
It's certainly one of the most satisfying pieces of music that I have ever listened to.
this is absolutely one of the most beautiful songs ever written.
When I got the sheet music book, this song was the first time I ever saw a D major chord played over an F-natural bass note. The first three chords are C/F, D/F, and Eb/F. Talk about mind-blowing! And that's Brian _just getting started_ with the innovative chord changes ....
+Ben Culture he was the master at that...God Only Knows...first chord, D/A bass...already tension
+KhalDrogo76 That is the first chord of the verse, true.
I found it annoying in the film _Love and Mercy,_ depicting the _Pet Sounds_ sessions, when Carol Kaye points out that the bass is "in a different key" from the rest of the song, and that's a "mistake" or something, but Brian says "It sounds right to me." That only sounds impressive if you're not a serious musician. The real Carol Kaye knew better. D/A is just an inversion. It might have been something new in pop/rock. It was new to the Beatles when they heard it, but it was not new in all of music history.
It was Carl Wilson who said that. I don't remember if he was talking about "God Only Knows" or "Wouldn't It Be Nice", but it was one of those. It's not really true. If you tell your keyboardist to play F#m and Bm chords, then tell your bassist to play D and G, you aren't composing in two different keys, you're just orchestrating a Dmaj7 to Gmaj7 change. Which is not revolutionary.
What was genius was _how far_ Brian was willing to take it. Like I mentioned, the D major over an F-natural bass is pretty far out. Or, in "Surf's Up", when he sings "Columnated ruins domino", it goes from F/C, to C, to D over a C bass, where it lingers. _That's_ a very tense and daring moment. Major chords with the b7 in the bass are challenging to endure. And we don't get much resolution after that: G/D ... A/G ... D/A, where we linger even longer. Again, tense and daring. It's like hearing music in another language.
To be realistic, you know Brian was exploring and experimenting with that. It's not like his genius is _so_ uncomprehensible to a normal person, and that's just how he naturally thinks. He was deliberately trying to challenge the listener and himself. And obviously, it worked, because that era of his career has had more long-term impact than any other. _Pet Sounds__ wasn't a smash hit, and _SMiLE_ didn't even get released, but those are the works he'll be best remembered for. If you have patience, there IS _SOME_ justice in this world!
+Ben Culture On the DVD commentary to Love and Mercy, there is mention that this was a reference to the fact that there were two 'Brians' converging (and two actors playing Brian). I also thought Carol's line was a bit contrived (and I am, to put it mildly, an ignoramus when it comes to music scholarship). But with just that line, the movie did capture a bit of Carol's and Brian's personalities ------- her voice on The Smile Sessions where she says she is nervous, and Brian reassures her by saying don't be nervous, it will be alright (something to that effect) ------ it comes out of nowhere during the recording session, and this scene in Love and Mercy seems to reflect that working atmosphere.
What you are hearing here is sheer musical genius.
The snare drum and the timpani playing off each other like they are expressing feelings.
Fucking love that so much
could have used a little help with Mike Love's vocals though
I always wondered about this song in particular.
It's like some kind of relaxing futuristic lounge music circa mid '60s of any century.
How does this sound happen from someone's brain and then executed so perfectly....
A “Space Soundtrack” from the mind of the best. One wrong move and this becomes Muzak. But Muzak is trying so hard to be this and yet it can never achieve it.
this song always reminds me of "Didn't Wanna Have To Do It" by The Lovin' Spoonful.
This is in its own lane. Beautiful.
This is not a song. It's a composition.
And it is one that demonstrates Brian's extraordinary talent.
Had he wanted, he could have been a prolific film composer.
I just can’t get enough of this song. So beautiful. The most relaxing song in the world. IMHO! (Jan, 1952)
I wish that track kept going instead of fading out, I wish he developed it longer.. it seems like an intro into something beautiful and then it ends..
Same
I didn't hear this track until a few years after it came out since I couldn't afford to buy albums. When I heard it, my first thought was what Brian Wilson must have been thinking of to trigger this song. In my imagination, the beginning of the song starts out looking for something, some kind of peace. It then finds it, with an almost pensive sadness. Lost love perhaps. It still gets to me.
Love this song, as I love the whole Pet Sounds album. This song has always struck me as being very Bacharachesque.
Todd Jacobson Burt and Brian really loved and respected each other’s music
The series Behind the Sounds is really fascinating; thank you BehindTheSounds!
Most beautiful song ever written.
This is my favorite track on the album and one of my favorite songs blows my mind every time it's pure bliss
Complex yet melodic, brilliant.
play this at my funeral. please
a wonderful composition.
Liquid gold is all I have to say about this instrumental.
Like Dick Wagner and Louie van Beethoven, Brian hears an entire symphony in his head, note for note and with the slightest bit of subtlety. That's a bit of genius in itself. Creating this high level of art is the other half of genius, and it's a fair assessment I think.
My favorite of all their work. Fascinating to hear it being born as it were
If Brian had done nothing else, he would be remembered as a genius for this
This is one of the most beautiful musical creations I have ever heard.
Really neat that much of Brian's direction of the recording session for this classic was captured here.
I Reccomend this album to everone who appreciates good music. This was the Sgt Pepper over the pond. This is how to appreciate a Genius with a Great team of musicians as support. Are you learning yet Mr Cowell ?
You don't have the last word on what is "good music"... it is an aquired taste. Lots of jazz fans hated Sgt Pepper and Pet Sounds and lots of great pop artiste's hate jazz...
Barry Spencer S. Pepper isn’t in this league.
For the lone thumbs down on this song-HOW can you not like this song???
Elizabeth Kadavi probably a jealous Beatles fan.
Now 5 millennials with a 2-second attention span perhaps.....
@@jduff59 People often press "dislike" by mistake as it is easy to do when using a phone. Get over it
Mike Love made multiple accounts.
I am a big Beach Boys fan but I do realise and enjoy that people like other music.
It's ok. (I had to!)
;-)
But why anyone would feel the need put something down in a public forum, I do not know....
Fabulous...hearing this in stereo. Brian will one day be in the books alongside Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart.....
Brian Wilson and Ennio Morricone...Imagine
I thought about that collaboration.
Wow you literally read my mind!
Damnn
Great video, actually my favorite Beach Boys Song. I think this shows that Brian really is a genius
Amazing! Closed my eyes while listening and tried to imagine being inside the mind of the musical genius, Brian Wilson.
I just got into the Exotica genre - drug-influenced, pacific-island type easy listening, composers Martin Denny, Les Baxter - and at 3:50 it mentions a reference to this sound being most likely influenced by Exotica! That coincidence excited me
First time I heard this song I cried.
Many, many thanks for these videos. Absolutely incredible!!!
I can hear so much Bacharach in his pet sounds album, I love Bacharach.
Congratulations Prez !
I used this piece of music as a soundtrack for a photo/video DVD of a 2008 Caribbean cruise vacation taken with 3 generations of my family. In hindsight I realize how important that decision was. This instrumental draws out wistful memories that are so much more meaningful to me 14 years later.
Can’t believe amazing content like this was available on youtube in 2008 i would’ve expected this way later
That's when the SACD was released. These snippets are only a part of that.
@@Sincopare sacd?
These aren't from a "SACD". You're probably thinking of the Pet Sounds Sessions Box Set (released in 1997), which contains digested snippets of the recording sessions.
While some elements of those were used, these videos were made primarily from the full tracking sessions heard on the unauthorized "Sea Of Tunes" bootlegs...also released in the late 1990's.
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Right at 4:52 to about 4:56 it’s that very faint little Hawaiian-esque tune that made me fall in love with this song. It’s an entrancing little bit of music just within those few seconds. The whole song is great but that part has always stood out to me
This is done incredibly professionally. You should be proud. And you should be paid.
Thank you
so much soul in a track.....lovely
Carol Kaye was kinda cute
She was! I like the "swinging 60s" look on a woman.
I would love to meet and talk to her, and I'm not even really a bassist. But you can tell she understood and appreciated Brian's music very well.
I'm impressed by women who play Fender Precisions (Carol, Suzi Quatro) because they are kind of large, tough basses. There are smaller, gentler bass guitars, but I guess the P-Bass gets a special sound.
I love this composition
Woww, people really do not get how much of a genius Brian was..He was telling people how close to lean in to the mic, telling Hal where to hit the drum...Just really amazing
And Hal Blaine was such an excellent drummer, but Brian knew how the drums should go better than he did!
Like McCartney, Brian knew exactly what sounds he wanted from the drums and how to get that on tape, how do you think Dennis Wilson sounded decent all those years? it was Brian producing him.
Like McCartney? George Martin and the EMI engineers are what got the sound of The Beatles on tape. The Beatles themselves were not heavily involved in production, they told Martin what they wanted.
***** Post-Beatles during McCartneys solo career, Paul played and produced great drum tracks.
John often just gave George Martin a vague idea of what he wanted and let him do what he wanted. But Paul was much more involved in the production of the music, more and more until the Beatles broke up.
This is nice work, thanks for sharing it with us and allowing us to see the master at work.
Jim horn Played Sax for the Travelin Wilburys 😎
Also at the concert for Bangladesh
@@ant263 you're right
I just cant wait to see the next one you make... please keep making these as you can... Very nice work with the research and photos and making it all work together seamlessly... Wow... even the studio out takes are incredibly entertaining musically... i cant get enough of this stuff
🎶🎶Happy Birthday!! Maestro Wilson.. \ 🎶🎶 🎂
I always thought this song was inspired by Lujon by Henry Mancini. Both very cool sixties songs!
You will see saxophonist plas Johnson in this footage, plas Johnson is the saxophonist who played the pink panther theme of course written by Henri Mancini, so there you have a connection.
Beautiful videos, it makes my day when I see there is a new one.
Really nice work! :)
"This is pot music".
I couldn't agree more.
The drums did sound good, but Brian Wilson said none, and his word is law. LOL. Besides, I think the drums kind of take away from the gentleness of the song.
The modern day Beethoven at work, conducting his orchestra
Precisely my opinion. And this goes for the "Smile" sessions as well. Brian's real substance abuse came much later in the form of cocaine, cigarettes and the perscribed medication courtesy of Dr. Landy.
I adore this song...thanks for uploading!!
Thanks so much for putting this together. Fascinating and great to see the musicians getting the credit they deserve. Sumptuous harmonies.
Peace and Love ✌🏼️♥️
I completely agree with you..this is such a piece of magic art!!!
The way he took control of the studio with most talented musicians at the time and only 23 years is amazing. Only way to describe this composition is sheer peaceful bliss almost unearthly.
This is just as beautiful more than a half a century later!
"Space age bachelor pad music" .... Pet sounds the song also.
I was just saying that to someone! As a description of the song. Of course, Esquivel was a stereo extremist, and Brian was into mono, but stylistically, yes, the song fits that description.
Ben Culture Brian was deaf in one ear.
"Space Age Bachelor Pad" is also a great Stereolab LP.
:-)
most of the wrecking crew would vouch for Brian saying that he was nothing but a professional when it came to recording in the studio.
lovely. well put together and interesting.
Thank you for that one
Yep mental illness contributed mainly he was made for those times and also not because he wasn't a shallow useless mainstream stoner of the day who all he did was get high have free love and say he was changing the world by not achieving anything, but Wilson was really a genius, visionary musician who went against the status quo, especially with this song - it's style is of easy listening for adults of the 60s while the Beach boys was mainly youth-oriented he wasn't afraid to publish this
Beautiful work...enjoying it all, thanks.
Wow so glad you put the effort into making this..it's awesome
Love this.
The Best Ever
One of my favorite headed out West truckin songs…
As always man, awesome.
amazing
Great creative work, sir. Bravo. (And thanks.)
Proper song for a romantic soul' funeral... death= " let's go away for awhile!!
This is truly what heaven sounds like when entering the pearly gates.
Cmendoza9255 my only complaint with this piece of music is that it’s too short. Then again it’s about quality instead of quantity! Thank you Brian.
This is like Pop rock Debussy!
Best PEt Sounds track for me
WOW great info.... I was hoping to get a response from you, your videos are amazing...
I have read that very small dosages of psilocybin mushrooms make a person "more lucid, improving speech" it would make sense to me he was on workable doses of shroooms although thats the first I have ever heard of that.. It may be over exaggerated his LSD use but it cant be over-estimated the impact on the music of what psychedelics he did use... "California Girls" is one song that comes to mind...
But the first hit isnt right on that 1 count. Thats what my thing about it is. "Most of us dont go away but its still a nice thought" brings the meaning of that feel though. I still love this piece. Keep um coming Mr Behind! This is more suspenseful than a high wire act and more addicting than crack. THANK YOU!!!!
where´s i just wasnt made for this times?? hope you can upload it someday :)
Impressed
who put this together??? it's amazing. really satisfying after listening to this album a half a million times. thank you!
My reasoning for Starr is the genius drumming and percussion elements that he brought to the Beatles' sound
Thanks, awesome.......
RRRRRR!!!! I thought I was going to get to the bottom of that first rim shot with what sounds like echo but it could be a block, at the change... I always wanted to know if it was just a mistake that was left for the sake of not doing another take. I hear so many little things like this through out the album but this was the biggest and I guess I'll have to live without an answer or maybe ask Brian myself if by chance I see him sometime. You know... walking down the street or something. :)
I'm guessing he is using the Unsurpassed Masters-series
It's about 50 cds
How did Brian wilson change the title from the old man and the boy to lets go away for awile
yeah, you rule for making/posting these videos
I'd love for you to examine some of the original Smile session tracks once you're through with Pet Sounds :-)
How do you know the instruments at 4:57 are flutes?
How do you know they're not?
@@BehindTheSounds^ this
@@BehindTheSoundsI don’t know they’re not, I’m asking you a question considering you put this video together. But since you don’t know, I’ll keep on looking. Thanks!
It's based on AFM sheets (the musicians credited were versatile, could play both flute, saxophone or most wind instruments) and also just based on the fact that they *sound like flutes*. What exactly is the point of your question or the insinuation that they aren't? Comments like this aren't conducive to discussion.
@@BehindTheSounds Wasn't insinuating anything with the initial question, my bad for the passive aggressive response lol. The point of the question was that I was curious because that part sounds cool, on top of the fact that the part is missing on the "Stereo Track Without String Overdub" from the anniversary box set. I appreciate the answer.
@MrChubbleyWarner You're the first person I've heard of who had that same experience!