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Haha, I’ve heard the same.
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I’ve had such a funny evolution with the song “God Only Knows,” really only knowing The Beach Boys songs everyone knows from block parties and house parties as a child.
My first real memory of the song is from The Wonder Years when Winnie breaks up with Kevin. I was a year younger than his character at the time and damn that was cold lol. But, the song was perfect for the scene. Then, I knew the song a little better from the montage at the end of Boogie Nights, and it kind of became synonymous with that.
Then once I got into my 30s and started having an appreciation for music of all types, not just the music I always liked, I really paid attention to the lyrics and realized how exact his words are and how powerful a song it really is. Obviously, each members individual voice adds to the beauty of the song but that is a recurring theme of the Pet Sounds album as a whole.
My first real memory of the song is from The Wonder Years when Winnie breaks up with Kevin. I was a year younger than his character at the time and damn that was cold lol. But, the song was perfect for the scene. Then, I knew the song a little better from the montage at the end of Boogie Nights, and it kind of became synonymous with that.
Then once I got into my 30s and started having an appreciation for music of all types, not just the music I always liked, I really paid attention to the lyrics and realized how exact his words are and how powerful a song it really is. Obviously, each members individual voice adds to the beauty of the song but that is a recurring theme of the Pet Sounds album as a whole.
BJR posted Everyday People, arguably Sly's best with a message that should never die. Here are three more of my favorites: Stand, Everybody is a Star & Family Affair. Pardon my inability to post these cleanly.
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Two greats leave us at about the same age and same time. Enjoy
The lyricist for “God Only Knows” and 7 other songs on “Pet Sounds”, most notably “Wouldn’t It Be Nice”, was Tony Asher, who up to that point was best known as a jingle writer for commercials. His “hits” in that genre was for Mattel toys and the Chatty Cathy doll. If I remember correctly it was a chance meeting with Brian Wilson that got them together but I could be mistaken on that.
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You’re not mistaken, everything you said was in the doc I mentioned. I didn’t know any of that stuff until i saw it.
PT Anderson used “God Only Knows” as well as any director has ever used a pop song in a movie and that includes Scorsese.
This is beautiful, thanks MJMJr.
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Awesome stuff.
One of the best things about YT is the isolated vocals or isolated instruments on some great music. Amazing to hear something so familiar sound so different.
Not to stray from the beautiful tributes and memories of Brian Wilson, but a favorite Beach Boys song, Barbara Ann, is a song that in high school, college and well beyond, I had to live with as a homage to my name Bob Moran.
In fact, my Spanish teacher at Nazareth in Brooklyn, Mr. Gino Rozetti, sang it to me as I came into his classroom many mornings, as a goof, and the entire class would join in, saying Barbara Ann not, but Ba Ba Ba Bob Moran, so much so, my nickname became BaBaBa BobMoran. I can still hear the drumming on the desks.
Don't listen too closely and you'll maybe hear what I'm talking about. Sounds more like it when they come in for the chorus.....
In Law School after third year's last grueling exam, we all went to Patrick's Pub a St. John's hangout on Union Turnpike, and there was a cover band, asking for songs, and still then classmates thought Barbara Ann was Bob Moran, so they did that song, and came through the audience with a mic, it gets to me and I stumble though a song with few to no other lyrics.
The band leader, at the end says, "does anyone else want a song that they don't know the lyrics to, that was horrible".
My excuse: I had more than a few adult beverages already that night.
In fact, my Spanish teacher at Nazareth in Brooklyn, Mr. Gino Rozetti, sang it to me as I came into his classroom many mornings, as a goof, and the entire class would join in, saying Barbara Ann not, but Ba Ba Ba Bob Moran, so much so, my nickname became BaBaBa BobMoran. I can still hear the drumming on the desks.
Don't listen too closely and you'll maybe hear what I'm talking about. Sounds more like it when they come in for the chorus.....
In Law School after third year's last grueling exam, we all went to Patrick's Pub a St. John's hangout on Union Turnpike, and there was a cover band, asking for songs, and still then classmates thought Barbara Ann was Bob Moran, so they did that song, and came through the audience with a mic, it gets to me and I stumble though a song with few to no other lyrics.
The band leader, at the end says, "does anyone else want a song that they don't know the lyrics to, that was horrible".
My excuse: I had more than a few adult beverages already that night.
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Reminds me of the joke with the punch line from astronaut Neil Armstrong that he said the famous line upon landing on the moon “One small step for man, one giant leap for Manny Klein (mankind).
well said, brilliant mind to put all those layers to sync. always thought it was a cute love song, wrong!
The discussion regarding “Sloop John B” led me back to this cover version of The Beach Boys classic by the band that was not a band, The Fendertones. They were a conglomeration of musicians from various bands in the Philly area who got together to record Beach Boys songs trying to exactly replicate Brian Wilson’s complex arrangements and harmonies. The recordings were done over periods of time as their schedules permitted. I offer the covers of the two classics discussed on the thread, the other being “God Only Knows”. They were finally persuaded to do the songs live for charity and this version is just that.
Finally, Sebaya Project from Indonesia doing a great song which is unfortunately the poster child for ripped off music copyrights. The song was written by a South African, Solomon Linda, original name Mbube, was ripped off and became The Lion Sleeps Tonight in English and made a ton of money for many people while Linda died destitute.
Nevertheless, a great cover of the song.
Finally, Sebaya Project from Indonesia doing a great song which is unfortunately the poster child for ripped off music copyrights. The song was written by a South African, Solomon Linda, original name Mbube, was ripped off and became The Lion Sleeps Tonight in English and made a ton of money for many people while Linda died destitute.
Nevertheless, a great cover of the song.
So a very good singer in his own right, Vince Gill, tells a story about performing Brian Wilson's Surf's Up, and how intricate and really really hard the song is to perform. Vince at first said, impossible, then worked and worked on it and finally did it. Brian was there and applauded Vince's version and leaned over and said to Vince, "that song is so difficult we never did it live".
That is an A-ONE FANTASTIC find, I never even heard of the tribute to Wilson this is from; thanks for posting!!
thought I was at Church, absolutely beautiful, thanks also.