I remember the first time I heard this. Laying on the parents livingroom floor with my masive 1960's Wharfdale Earphones. Listening to Kenny Everett's Radio Luxembourg Radio Show.
I went straight down to the record shop the next day and "ordered" the Album. Still have it :)
In 1971 (at Christmas) I discovered my 50 y.o. Dad leaning outside my bedroom listening to this on the QT. He just smiled and asked me when I'd discovered the flute.
Ok, think I'm lame if you want, but I've said since I was a teen that my favorite song was "Head Over Heels" by Tears For Fears. I listen to this and I wonder if I should dethrone that song and replace it with this.... but then I listen more closely and it's damn near the same song. "Some-thing-happens and I'm" ... "white hot glistening shadowy flows".... Listen to both. But all hail the Beach Boys. *^^^^^^^^^* < campfire
@Fizzy5pringwater I am on board with you regarding "Head Over Heels". My favorite line from that song is "I wanted to be with you alone/ And talk about the weather." My girlfriend introduced me to this song and I was immediately hooked. They are both truly amazing and deep songs that will stand the test of time.
I was fixing up a old sailboat when i heard that carl wilson had died and it was a sad time all around, i was a clinton staff person and had bought the boat the day after the monica revelation....while fixing it one night after work, i heard about carl...i heard this song for the first time that week and named the boat after the song. Most people didnt understand the boat name, but I knew what it meant...
For 35 years I was in the military and during the last 20 years I carried this song on a CD with a note that said "If I am dieing, please play this for me and hold up the picture of my wife so I can see her one last time". Happy to say that did not happen, I retired in Dec 2010. I threw the CD away and put the wifes pic up on the wall next to my retirement paperwork. Glad I made it, hope that you achieve your dreams as well.
@leoandjurge f@$k man apologising for my language. With the respect that my great grandfather would have spoken with, an english soldier who served on a horse in WW1 and was refused service as too old after he tried to enrol in for WW2 as a 50 year old in 1939 after he'd emigrated to "The Quiet Side of the World" as he called it, I salute your service. I'm just a simple man from New Zealand, My grandaddy served alongside USMC in the Pacific and always said Thank God for decent men
@leoandjurge THANK YOU your words give me a lot of hope, in hard times thank you again an God bless u and your family . You have a friend in Campeche Mexico.
So i love this song, by far my favorite beach boys. Also almost famous is one of my top 3 favorite movies of all time.
But I gotta set the record straight, the song is about masturbating, it kinda bummed me out at first to hear that and then listen to it. Now I'm pretty over it and can listen in good health. Just don't be mistaken, it's for sure about beating it.
The song is about human feelings. (Unfolding, enveloping missiles of soul). They come and go. They flow. (White hot glistening shadowy flows). Sometimes they are powerful (Engulfs all the senses), inspiring (Whether hope dampens memory), confusing (Whether wondrous will stands tall at my side). They are the true essence of the soul (Unbending never ending tablets of time Record all the yearning) and are eased by divinity (Unfearing all appearing message divine Eases the burning).
This really shows how poetic The Beach Boys' lyrics could be. I was really surprised to learn that they wrote this. Brian Wilson, you crazy genius. :)
@GiantPetRat I agree... Brian Wilson is a crazy genius. This song was written by Carl Wilson and Jack Reiley, though... Hello to a fellow Beach Boys fan !!
We fell in stride together and our thoughts melted into conversation. The water glistened silver and gold mixed in with the deep cobalt blue, the sun shimmered around us like a perfect blanket, and the combined effects seemed to create an atmosphere that triggered at that moment a physical response that matched the dreamy-calliope mental sensations I inevitably felt listening to “Feel Flows”. We were in sync; of all the gin joints in all the places in the world, we walked into each other’s.
Unfolding enveloping missiles of soul of soul Recall senses sadly Mirage like soft blue like lanterns below To light the way gladly Whether whistling heaven’s clouds disappear Where the wind withers memory Whether whiteness whisks soft shadows away Feel flows Feel goes
One of the best Beach Boys songs ever! They were ahead of their times when it came to recording technology
Thank you for your time of service. We know it was a sacrifice for you and your family, so we are hoping that you are able to spend plenty of time with them now. Even thou nothing makes up for the time of seperation, and the missing of the children growing up, there is just today, adn the future.
@leoandjurge God bless you! i loved this song already but now it will also make me think of you and your wife! i just know she's so happy to have you home safe and sound.
their last good album in my opinion. from then on after this their sound changed with the trend and even if they had been successful in those trends i still wouldnt have liked them because those trends fucking sucked. they were only good from pet sounds to surfs up with the psychadelic/concept sound it fit them the best and was the easiest to expand lyrically and musically. the surf shit is fucking gay as is everything else.
Unique gentle vocal and musical arrangements. Charles Lloyd's flute adds a nice lighter-than-air-feeling of bliss, and the words not only work as song lyrics, but as stand-alone poetry. When I saw Almost Famous in 2000 and this song came on, bouncing around the movie theater it felt perfect somehow, reminding me of when I was 12 or 13 and was still full of wonderment.
Went backstage in 1972 and got to hang with Carl and the boys. It was during the release of Surf's Up. Only 500 people showed up due to a marketing screw up. It was a great night. He said that they wrote Feel Flows on Mescaline if I recall. Saw Brian about two months ago at a Deli where he eats everyday. He's definitely planet surfing. Stunningly brilliant somewhere in there
Went backstage in 1972 and got to hang with Carl and the boys. It was during the release of Surf's Up. Only 500 people showed up due to a marketing screw up. It was a great night. He said that they wrote Feel Flows on Mescaline
I first heard this song in 1972, sitting in the Miramar theater during the screening of the recently released "Five Summer Stories", watching Rory Russell get spit out of the Pipe. As the moog came in at about 3:03 of the song, he was cutting back toward the tube he had just exited. My God, I actually remember that. Been surfing since I was 8 - don't think I'll ever stop.
I read where the main melody of Werewolves in London and its rhythm were stolen from a riff at the end of the Beach Boys' song "Feel Flows", recorded on the studio album Surf's Up seven years earlier in 1971. Werewolves did a little better on the charts,lol!
Some of the best comments for a song on youtube, and rightfully so. This song is beautiful. When I first heard it it gave me the tingles all over. it still does every time i hear it. Thats how you know a song is good, you feel it....feel flows....
What a stunning production. One can only imagine what it was like in the studio when they cut this song with all the blending of the harmony and synthesisers. The flute rises above the vocals then gives away to another barrage of synthesised music...........Incredible to say the least!
I get so sad when I listen to this song. We can change the world, we just choose not to. I am so disappointed in Obama and everyone. Why don't people plant a couple trees, pick up trash off the road, save electricity (or get solar panels), and buy the cars that don't use gas and pollute everything? We could all live happy lives and stuff, especially if we accept Jesus into our lives. We don't need to hate on things and people, we don't need to be unhappy. Please don't even hate on me. Accept God
@5uzyD4wg We can change the world, but we need to rid it of religion to change it for the better. (Also, planting trees doesn't do anything, planting seeds does.)
@5uzyD4wg Religion is the cause of most of the worlds problems. Not hating on you, i'm hating on your naive view on "how to fix the world". You step into Obama's shoes and do a better job. Better yet, get to Obama's position in the first place. Then we will see how many people can "live happy lives and stuff".
Carl played the guitar, bass guitar, drums, keyboards, and sang the lead and backing vocals on Feel Flows. Right up there with his solo effort Heaven.
As I said in a post to Surfs Up, this album was unique because it was encoded with Quadriphonic (4 channel sound). Dynaco made a little box to connect 4 speakers that gave a "more alive" sound. Also Sansui actually made a 4 channel receiver,but 4 channel encoding never really caught on.
Here is a site that listed all known 4 channel (quad) recordings:
I remember this song from my childhood . . . I fell in love with it instantly . . . and for many years I had no idea it was the Beach Boys who created this absolute masterpiece! Takes me right back to 1976 (my childhood) . . . beautiful . . .
As stated, Jack Rieley wrote the lyrics, Carl did pretty much everything else including production. Jack said the lyrics were about an orgasm (yes, really) except the part about white puff/black puff which is about drugs.
To my knowledge, the music was created by Carl and the words were penned by an FM disc jockey who felt the Beach Boys were not getting a fair shake. This is a real good song. Only wish they would have kept it up and not fallen on the oldies act. They reclaimed and then walked away from being relevant again.
@BlazerYO22 I totally agree. I'll never forget sitting in the theater after the awesome movie and then this came on in surround sound. I sat there stunned and amazed at the beauty of it all!
Been in the military for over 33 years now. Have carried this song on a disc for more years than I can remember, with a picture of my wife, along with a note ... if I am dieing in some far away location, play me the song and hold her pic up so I can see it .....
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@leoandjurge Haha, ya ooookay. If you are dying in some far away location you deserve it for being in the military. How about playing a song for all the people you or your friends have killed ? I'd rather piss on you and bury you in a hole face down then sit on the fresh mound of dirt and have a wank to the picture of your wife. Fascist military prick.
Awesome piece of music. Compare it to the new release of Surf's Up. Its missing something. It isn't as heavy as the original release. Love this song. It has so many layers. So happy and creepy at the same time.
to be honest a love the lyrics but i fucking hate that instrumental, it goes 4 too long and completely ruins the song. when i listen 2 this i usually just restart it once it gets 2 it
I remember the first time I heard this song on my car radio, driving through heavy fog late at night on a rural road outside Santa Cruz, California in 1971. I thought then (and still do) that it was the best Beach Boys song ever, hauntingly beautiful and completely original.
Oh this is so lovely...........Carl and Brian were just so gifted. I have to say that the others were not entirely without talent and they were all very lucky to have each other, I can go to bed now with this lovely song in my mind. Goodnight all
This is my all time favorite Beach Boys song, this song is alot different than their early hits but I do admire them for trying something different and do very well at it
If the Beatles would have kept them self to their early 1960 style they would have been forgotten. You have to keep up with time. Wonder what Brian have achieved if he could have developed freely..
Pet Sounds realeased 1966. Voted by international music journalists best album ever. Smile made 1966. A better album. Not realeased because Brian was surrounded by idiots going against change of style. Album scrapped because Brians nervous breakdown. Four years later his been ill for 4 years. An easy victim for psyko Mike. Feel flow ia a rip off from Brian Wilson. This is Brian chords.
I remember hearing this song as a kid . . . This, to me, is proof above all else that the Beach Boys actually touched genius . . . this song is as good as the best of the Beatles . . . I am not a Beach Boys fan . . . but I have to give credit where credit is due . . . this is a perfect song!
Yes . . . God Only Knows is another of my favorite Beach Boys songs! Awesome song!! Both of these songs bring tears to my eyes . . . just such incredible music! . . . totally unrelated . . . but look up the song "Jesus is Waiting" by Al Green . . . absolutely perfect!! Look at the live version he did on Soul Train back in the 1970s . . . so powerful!
There were one genius in the Beach Boys. Thats Brian Wilson. The rest were idiots compared. Especially Mike Love. Made Brian scrap album Smile. This was better than Pet Sounds voted best album ever.
I remember the first time I heard this. Laying on the parents livingroom floor with my masive 1960's Wharfdale Earphones. Listening to Kenny Everett's Radio Luxembourg Radio Show.
I went straight down to the record shop the next day and "ordered" the Album. Still have it :)
Eezzamanna 1 day ago
its a bold statement but this is my favorite song of all time...and it has been for years
pinkney1221 3 weeks ago
TOO GOOD.
brandon91616 1 month ago
this song kicks ass...
doesn't matter how you got here, it's good you're here
CaraAsoleada 1 month ago
The Almost Famous soundtrack :)
foltrus666 2 months ago
This is one of my top 10 songs with out a doubt of the 70s. I head it on Almost Famouse for the first time...Absoltutly Amasing song.
EnglishRock197 2 months ago
In 1971 (at Christmas) I discovered my 50 y.o. Dad leaning outside my bedroom listening to this on the QT. He just smiled and asked me when I'd discovered the flute.
DEERFIELDR1 3 months ago 2
The best Beach Boys song not writed by Brian Wilson!!!
ThePieffe63 3 months ago
Ok, think I'm lame if you want, but I've said since I was a teen that my favorite song was "Head Over Heels" by Tears For Fears. I listen to this and I wonder if I should dethrone that song and replace it with this.... but then I listen more closely and it's damn near the same song. "Some-thing-happens and I'm" ... "white hot glistening shadowy flows".... Listen to both. But all hail the Beach Boys. *^^^^^^^^^* < campfire
Fizzy5pringwater 3 months ago
@Fizzy5pringwater I am on board with you regarding "Head Over Heels". My favorite line from that song is "I wanted to be with you alone/ And talk about the weather." My girlfriend introduced me to this song and I was immediately hooked. They are both truly amazing and deep songs that will stand the test of time.
JoeDeLaSoul 3 months ago
I was fixing up a old sailboat when i heard that carl wilson had died and it was a sad time all around, i was a clinton staff person and had bought the boat the day after the monica revelation....while fixing it one night after work, i heard about carl...i heard this song for the first time that week and named the boat after the song. Most people didnt understand the boat name, but I knew what it meant...
whatwouldbrianwilson 3 months ago 4
@whatwouldbrianwilson What a story, bet she's a beauty.
Fizzy5pringwater 3 months ago
Carl Wilson could write magic too...
aneworderfan 3 months ago
what the heaven
yofera50 4 months ago 4
what the hell
OmuNegru06 4 months ago
For 35 years I was in the military and during the last 20 years I carried this song on a CD with a note that said "If I am dieing, please play this for me and hold up the picture of my wife so I can see her one last time". Happy to say that did not happen, I retired in Dec 2010. I threw the CD away and put the wifes pic up on the wall next to my retirement paperwork. Glad I made it, hope that you achieve your dreams as well.
leoandjurge 4 months ago 40
the start of this song is just incredible, i cant even express in words of what this song makes me feel
MrSmashingpumpkins12 3 months ago
@leoandjurge That awesome dude :)
foltrus666 2 months ago
@leoandjurge I cried... ohmygod... someone give this man a medal!!!!!!
ObsceneAsylum 2 months ago in playlist BEACH BOYS
@leoandjurge f@$k man apologising for my language. With the respect that my great grandfather would have spoken with, an english soldier who served on a horse in WW1 and was refused service as too old after he tried to enrol in for WW2 as a 50 year old in 1939 after he'd emigrated to "The Quiet Side of the World" as he called it, I salute your service. I'm just a simple man from New Zealand, My grandaddy served alongside USMC in the Pacific and always said Thank God for decent men
bowiestones1 1 month ago
@leoandjurge THANK YOU your words give me a lot of hope, in hard times thank you again an God bless u and your family . You have a friend in Campeche Mexico.
maxfreemanmx 4 weeks ago in playlist YouTube Mix for The Beach Boys
@leoandjurge glad you made it man.
eggplantland 1 week ago
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leoandjurge 4 months ago
my fav album from the beach boys... gotta love it
rj689 7 months ago
Brilliance.
ianmcgeachy 7 months ago
So i love this song, by far my favorite beach boys. Also almost famous is one of my top 3 favorite movies of all time.
But I gotta set the record straight, the song is about masturbating, it kinda bummed me out at first to hear that and then listen to it. Now I'm pretty over it and can listen in good health. Just don't be mistaken, it's for sure about beating it.
hgradient 7 months ago
okay i cant remember for the life of me, during what scene does this play during almost famous? i feel like its near the begining...
hirasawaa 8 months ago
I feel like dancing in the woods
jaimeicocotte 8 months ago 2
Almost Famous! *--------------*
brunalsf1 9 months ago 3
Such a beautiful song. But what is the song about ? I don't get it.
3434aaaa 9 months ago
@3434aaaa,
The song is about human feelings. (Unfolding, enveloping missiles of soul). They come and go. They flow. (White hot glistening shadowy flows). Sometimes they are powerful (Engulfs all the senses), inspiring (Whether hope dampens memory), confusing (Whether wondrous will stands tall at my side). They are the true essence of the soul (Unbending never ending tablets of time Record all the yearning) and are eased by divinity (Unfearing all appearing message divine Eases the burning).
belliose 8 months ago 3
@3434aaaa Whatever you wan't it to be thats the beauty of a song, but I take it as life progressions the ups and downs and still smiling with it all.
StealYaMind 8 months ago
the melody goes like a perfect rollercoaster track and the lyrics are the rollercoaster. perfect music that doesnt repeat much.
YTesko1r2d229 9 months ago
Wow! These lyrics are amaZING!! Crazy genius human mind!
shambone29 9 months ago
Thanks for this rare one The Beach boys Forever
coolsweetgroovy 9 months ago
Five almost alive vote very vacuous hearts
To fool their own senses
Mortal misery masked delivery of the divine
Reinforced fences
Whether lyrics transcend comprehension
Whether lies mangle memory
Where the cold heart doesn't manage at all
Fools flow (Stone cold lusterless dust only blows)
Fools go (Ice cold lusterless dust only knows)
CGSeever 9 months ago
@CGSeever ,
Two highly appreciative phalanges upright despite,
A genre most quickly despised;
Transformed with lyrical insight,
The most superb species devised.
Congratulations.
belliose 8 months ago
2:57 Most clean/relaxing bridge EVER played..this song is amazing, it can calm me down from nearly anything
StealYaMind 10 months ago
An absolute MASTERPIECE...of time, space, feel, form, emotion and spirit!
SKOTP69 10 months ago 13
er Carl Wilson and jack Reiley in this case - not brian
channelvessel 10 months ago
This really shows how poetic The Beach Boys' lyrics could be. I was really surprised to learn that they wrote this. Brian Wilson, you crazy genius. :)
GiantPetRat 10 months ago
@GiantPetRat I agree... Brian Wilson is a crazy genius. This song was written by Carl Wilson and Jack Reiley, though... Hello to a fellow Beach Boys fan !!
fab4fan4ever64 10 months ago
simply magic,people....
TableMusTurn 10 months ago
this is such a great song. it could be a beatles song.
hallowedbeeddie 11 months ago
@hallowedbeeddie this relax's me more than any beatles song, overrated imo
StealYaMind 10 months ago
We fell in stride together and our thoughts melted into conversation. The water glistened silver and gold mixed in with the deep cobalt blue, the sun shimmered around us like a perfect blanket, and the combined effects seemed to create an atmosphere that triggered at that moment a physical response that matched the dreamy-calliope mental sensations I inevitably felt listening to “Feel Flows”. We were in sync; of all the gin joints in all the places in the world, we walked into each other’s.
OnTheWatch 11 months ago
it sounds a bit like heroes and villains
Chacha5678 11 months ago
@Chacha5678 No.....it doesn't.
ABurningCanoe 10 months ago
Unfolding enveloping missiles of soul of soul Recall senses sadly Mirage like soft blue like lanterns below To light the way gladly Whether whistling heaven’s clouds disappear Where the wind withers memory Whether whiteness whisks soft shadows away Feel flows Feel goes
One of the best Beach Boys songs ever! They were ahead of their times when it came to recording technology
novegon 1 year ago 3
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leoandjurge 1 year ago
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leoandjurge 1 year ago
@leoandjurge Oh come on now I was joking. Like I really judge people like that.
ariexmae 1 year ago
Love this and it always reminds me of my fave movie, Almost Famous
shmoopywoopy 1 year ago
I agree with David Marks' recent assertion: the Wilson boys were all musical geniuses.
theunsheep 1 year ago
reading your notes brought tears to my eyes hope the rest of your life is filled with joy may god bless thank you for serving our country
david1960ish 1 year ago
One of the most beautiful songs ever! Carl Wilson had such a wonderful voice!
SonofThor73 1 year ago
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leoandjurge 1 year ago 12
@leoandjurge
Thank you for your time of service. We know it was a sacrifice for you and your family, so we are hoping that you are able to spend plenty of time with them now. Even thou nothing makes up for the time of seperation, and the missing of the children growing up, there is just today, adn the future.
dddradrunner 1 year ago
@leoandjurge Thank you for your service my friend.
thebrianpm 1 year ago
@leoandjurge God bless you! i loved this song already but now it will also make me think of you and your wife! i just know she's so happy to have you home safe and sound.
singingpretty 1 year ago
Its my first time hearing this song Its wonderful by far one of my favorite ones now I love the darkness to it.
Jam5bam 1 year ago
The great Carl Wilson a very underrated musician....RIP
joraider08 1 year ago 2
their last good album in my opinion. from then on after this their sound changed with the trend and even if they had been successful in those trends i still wouldnt have liked them because those trends fucking sucked. they were only good from pet sounds to surfs up with the psychadelic/concept sound it fit them the best and was the easiest to expand lyrically and musically. the surf shit is fucking gay as is everything else.
tophernates 1 year ago
this song is seriously MAGICAL, giving me chills and everything!!
kindahottish 1 year ago
Unique gentle vocal and musical arrangements. Charles Lloyd's flute adds a nice lighter-than-air-feeling of bliss, and the words not only work as song lyrics, but as stand-alone poetry. When I saw Almost Famous in 2000 and this song came on, bouncing around the movie theater it felt perfect somehow, reminding me of when I was 12 or 13 and was still full of wonderment.
GolfIsTheVoid 1 year ago
GENIUS.
eljagg01 1 year ago
Went backstage in 1972 and got to hang with Carl and the boys. It was during the release of Surf's Up. Only 500 people showed up due to a marketing screw up. It was a great night. He said that they wrote Feel Flows on Mescaline if I recall. Saw Brian about two months ago at a Deli where he eats everyday. He's definitely planet surfing. Stunningly brilliant somewhere in there
philredrow 1 year ago
Went backstage in 1972 and got to hang with Carl and the boys. It was during the release of Surf's Up. Only 500 people showed up due to a marketing screw up. It was a great night. He said that they wrote Feel Flows on Mescaline
philredrow 1 year ago
I first heard this song in 1972, sitting in the Miramar theater during the screening of the recently released "Five Summer Stories", watching Rory Russell get spit out of the Pipe. As the moog came in at about 3:03 of the song, he was cutting back toward the tube he had just exited. My God, I actually remember that. Been surfing since I was 8 - don't think I'll ever stop.
Nine2SixSeven2 1 year ago
I read where the main melody of Werewolves in London and its rhythm were stolen from a riff at the end of the Beach Boys' song "Feel Flows", recorded on the studio album Surf's Up seven years earlier in 1971. Werewolves did a little better on the charts,lol!
twinkie57401 1 year ago
@twinkie57401 Might not have been "stolen" but we will never know for sure. Carl and Warren were friends..................
RobertWaltz 1 year ago
Like so many others, I REALLY love this song. Love the pre echo. And what a tremendous voice. Carl Wilson was truly under-rated! RIP Beach Boy.
woody2327 1 year ago
So different from any other Beach Boy song. Definitely the best!
kjs179 1 year ago
Some of the best comments for a song on youtube, and rightfully so. This song is beautiful. When I first heard it it gave me the tingles all over. it still does every time i hear it. Thats how you know a song is good, you feel it....feel flows....
MrDlewis17 1 year ago 3
What a stunning production. One can only imagine what it was like in the studio when they cut this song with all the blending of the harmony and synthesisers. The flute rises above the vocals then gives away to another barrage of synthesised music...........Incredible to say the least!
himycatisdead 1 year ago
Vocal creativity and mysterious lyrics by one of the greatest, if not the greatest band of all time - The Beach Boys!!
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pattytallentlj 1 year ago
i Heard This Song on Almost Famous and I Just Had To Find It!
TheToasterTV 1 year ago 4
Timeless, beautiful music.
duckbilledmonfrogga 1 year ago
I could listen to this over and over forever! It's just AWESOME!!!!!!
shmoopywoopy 1 year ago
Four phillistines disliked this beautiful song.
TheBeatlesRoooock 1 year ago
oh my god is this an amazing song.
dougroux 1 year ago
"Unbending never ending tablets of time....." Genius
TheKunig 1 year ago 4
when you play this song on a highway on a very rainy/foggy night... nothing feels better!
sunnyupadhyay 1 year ago
I also love the BB song "In my Room" Will forever associate that song with the first time I visited America in 1987. Great times!
MARTYCLFC 1 year ago 3
godspeed leoandjurge
skibluiz 1 year ago 3
I get so sad when I listen to this song. We can change the world, we just choose not to. I am so disappointed in Obama and everyone. Why don't people plant a couple trees, pick up trash off the road, save electricity (or get solar panels), and buy the cars that don't use gas and pollute everything? We could all live happy lives and stuff, especially if we accept Jesus into our lives. We don't need to hate on things and people, we don't need to be unhappy. Please don't even hate on me. Accept God
5uzyD4wg 1 year ago
@5uzyD4wg We can change the world, but we need to rid it of religion to change it for the better. (Also, planting trees doesn't do anything, planting seeds does.)
TheCMWalters 1 year ago
@5uzyD4wg Because people are lazy.
TheBeatlesRoooock 1 year ago
@5uzyD4wg Religion is the cause of most of the worlds problems. Not hating on you, i'm hating on your naive view on "how to fix the world". You step into Obama's shoes and do a better job. Better yet, get to Obama's position in the first place. Then we will see how many people can "live happy lives and stuff".
Bustersboss 1 year ago
@Bustersboss k
5uzyD4wg 1 year ago
Carl played the guitar, bass guitar, drums, keyboards, and sang the lead and backing vocals on Feel Flows. Right up there with his solo effort Heaven.
DefMode66 1 year ago 2
Very classy music. Everything that Carl ever touched had a distinct touch of class to it. One of the very best Non-Brian numbers by the band.
colindominy 1 year ago
Absolutely!!!!
LibbyLaMano 1 year ago
As I said in a post to Surfs Up, this album was unique because it was encoded with Quadriphonic (4 channel sound). Dynaco made a little box to connect 4 speakers that gave a "more alive" sound. Also Sansui actually made a 4 channel receiver,but 4 channel encoding never really caught on.
Here is a site that listed all known 4 channel (quad) recordings:
SA-CD.net
we12x42 1 year ago
I remember this song from my childhood . . . I fell in love with it instantly . . . and for many years I had no idea it was the Beach Boys who created this absolute masterpiece! Takes me right back to 1976 (my childhood) . . . beautiful . . .
jubjub2112 1 year ago
As stated, Jack Rieley wrote the lyrics, Carl did pretty much everything else including production. Jack said the lyrics were about an orgasm (yes, really) except the part about white puff/black puff which is about drugs.
gtr82 1 year ago
@gtr82 Who cares, just comment the song.
SmileySmileAM 1 year ago
I just love this and the whole album. There will never be another group like the Beach Boys. They "engulf all the senses"
64bbfan 1 year ago
One of the greatest songs ever written.
BBoydgirl1 1 year ago
i love you Feel Flows you are one of my favourite songs ever and i'll love you always
pocketunicorn 1 year ago
this song reminds me of my childhood (which i am still in)
bassputz 1 year ago
Once Carl explained how he produced this complex song. It is fascinating. The man was a real talent.
kingofpecos 1 year ago
i think i just read that james william guercio had a hand in the production of this great song.
rbgtr 1 year ago
Happy 420 all :D
p00pdawg 1 year ago
To my knowledge, the music was created by Carl and the words were penned by an FM disc jockey who felt the Beach Boys were not getting a fair shake. This is a real good song. Only wish they would have kept it up and not fallen on the oldies act. They reclaimed and then walked away from being relevant again.
pmoyer50 1 year ago
this song reminds me of the sunset and almost famous just simply good times
dracken8 1 year ago 4
The best song ever to wrap up a movie - Almost Famous
BlazerYO22 1 year ago 75
@BlazerYO22 that's my ALL TIME favorite movie ever. i can watch it every single day..hah. i do, actually. :D
that's what brought me here, to be honest. that movie changed my life, dude. ♥
lulzyandoli 1 year ago
@BlazerYO22 I totally agree. I'll never forget sitting in the theater after the awesome movie and then this came on in surround sound. I sat there stunned and amazed at the beauty of it all!
drummernezzy 4 months ago
sykodelic side of the beach boys hardly anyone has ever heard of. pure magic
attaboy83 1 year ago 5
Fabulous!!!!!!!!!!!
TheShmoo123 1 year ago
haunting & beautiful ... excellent use of musical layers. Genius!
jayisme01 1 year ago 3
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leoandjurge 2 years ago
Been in the military for over 33 years now. Have carried this song on a disc for more years than I can remember, with a picture of my wife, along with a note ... if I am dieing in some far away location, play me the song and hold her pic up so I can see it .....
leoandjurge 2 years ago 149
@leoandjurge wow thats deep, and thats how you can tell its a great song when somebody wants to die listening to this.
codyhoffman 1 year ago 6
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leoandjurge 1 year ago
@leoandjurge I'm sorry to hear that.
sgtpepper1138 1 year ago
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leoandjurge 1 year ago
@leoandjurge thank you for your service, and for sharing this story. sweet.
singingpretty 1 year ago
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@leoandjurge Haha, ya ooookay. If you are dying in some far away location you deserve it for being in the military. How about playing a song for all the people you or your friends have killed ? I'd rather piss on you and bury you in a hole face down then sit on the fresh mound of dirt and have a wank to the picture of your wife. Fascist military prick.
ariexmae 1 year ago
@ariexmae well arn't you an ignorant cocksucker
CannonFodder95 1 year ago
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@ariexmae well aren't you an ignorant cocksucker
CannonFodder95 1 year ago
Carl was so sincere. This is lovely
menziesmilngavie 2 years ago 3
Apart from Kokomo, I think this is the best beach boys song that Brian had nothing to do with.
johnmusk 2 years ago
Never realized how pretty this was. The sound quality is superb & very catchy. Many thanks. Is this a remix? It's SO sharp!!
genebh1 2 years ago 4
JUST MY FAVORITE BEACH BOYS SONG!!!! THERE IS NOTHING QUITE LIKE THAT!! "Feel "flows" PURE GENIUS!!!!!!
drumsterZ 2 years ago 6
Fantastic.......Jack Rieley was so under rated in the Beach Boys history......he really did bring them back from the dead
RJW14863 2 years ago
Awesome piece of music. Compare it to the new release of Surf's Up. Its missing something. It isn't as heavy as the original release. Love this song. It has so many layers. So happy and creepy at the same time.
Tabbiu 2 years ago 4
Sublime.
kettlezone 2 years ago 2
actually this song is about orgasm....straight from the man who wrote the lyrics.. jack reily....the white puff and black puff is about drugs tho...
ilovequeens1 2 years ago 3
around 2:50 . And I quote :"wow". I concur:)
sunnyfunny116 2 years ago
this song is about Carl Wilson's addiction to cocaine.
jakenstein77 2 years ago
alltime fav
and a little bit better than the "remake" from brian´s smile, which reduced the wall of sound (absolutely necessary for this track).
klippspringer 2 years ago
i <3 this song in almost famous :D
i love the whole movie.
Cheers :D
navjotx300 2 years ago 7
to be honest a love the lyrics but i fucking hate that instrumental, it goes 4 too long and completely ruins the song. when i listen 2 this i usually just restart it once it gets 2 it
MrDellusional 2 years ago
My God, still an incredibly beautiful and moving song, even after all these years. First track on the second side of "Surf's Up", if I'm correct.
Go top this, Britney Spears!
slaneybanner 2 years ago 3
Sublime.
ivycompton 2 years ago
Hey what are the names of the Beach Boys band people?
CrazyIsCool1 2 years ago
The original are Al Jardine, Mike Love and Brian, Carl and Dennis Wilson.
Jonathan6561 2 years ago
Thanks:-)
CrazyIsCool1 2 years ago
Don't forget David Marks :-)
BadBoyMattyH 2 years ago
This song is the perfect song to listen to when you are baked off your ass in the middle of the desert
FreeLicensedSkittles 2 years ago 4
Do you know from experience?
Jonathan6561 2 years ago 3
what do you think? ;)
Estefaniac19 2 years ago
lol...
Estefaniac19 2 years ago
I remember the first time I heard this song on my car radio, driving through heavy fog late at night on a rural road outside Santa Cruz, California in 1971. I thought then (and still do) that it was the best Beach Boys song ever, hauntingly beautiful and completely original.
rwestlake 2 years ago 43
I agree!!
LibbyLaMano 2 years ago
@rwestlake charles lloyd plays flute on this and sax on one of the live versions of all this is that
spacepatrolman 1 year ago
@rwestlake what a wonderfully powerful memory!
SuperAde1974 1 year ago
Gerry Lopez surfing to this song in 5 Summer Stories....yes.......
rickspsringfield 2 years ago
5 Sumer Stories...my all time favorite surf movie ever......this song so reminds of that movie...
rickspsringfield 2 years ago
Oh this is so lovely...........Carl and Brian were just so gifted. I have to say that the others were not entirely without talent and they were all very lucky to have each other, I can go to bed now with this lovely song in my mind. Goodnight all
alfiesgirluk 2 years ago 2
This is my all time favorite Beach Boys song, this song is alot different than their early hits but I do admire them for trying something different and do very well at it
Doobie1975 2 years ago 4
Is this one of the first uses of preverb on the vox?
This is one of the best Beach Boys tracks. It has a similar feeling to songs by English rocker Bill Nelson.
dixgun 2 years ago
Bottom line: Beach Boys songs about; surfing, the beach, cars, sunshine < love songs
tuesdayintokyo 2 years ago
If the Beatles would have kept them self to their early 1960 style they would have been forgotten. You have to keep up with time. Wonder what Brian have achieved if he could have developed freely..
runeguldberg 2 years ago
One of BB's best - and ample proof that there was a LOT more to the band than just Brian x
seesselberg 2 years ago
Rip off from Brian Wilson. This is Wilson chords. Brian has been ill for 3 years now. He was very easy push around.
runeguldberg 2 years ago
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LibbyLaMano 2 years ago
Pet Sounds realeased 1966. Voted by international music journalists best album ever. Smile made 1966. A better album. Not realeased because Brian was surrounded by idiots going against change of style. Album scrapped because Brians nervous breakdown. Four years later his been ill for 4 years. An easy victim for psyko Mike. Feel flow ia a rip off from Brian Wilson. This is Brian chords.
runeguldberg 2 years ago
this song fits almost famous perfectly. beautiful song.
karson100 2 years ago 3
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colindominy 2 years ago
This is Jack Rieley lyrics anyway.
runeguldberg 2 years ago
one of my favorite tunes....Carl rocks as hard as his big brother Brian in my opinion....
alifreckles50 2 years ago
I remember hearing this song as a kid . . . This, to me, is proof above all else that the Beach Boys actually touched genius . . . this song is as good as the best of the Beatles . . . I am not a Beach Boys fan . . . but I have to give credit where credit is due . . . this is a perfect song!
jubjub2112 2 years ago 6
This is a very perfect song, but I guess you haven't listened to "God Only Knows." which is even more than perfect
LibbyLaMano 2 years ago
Yes . . . God Only Knows is another of my favorite Beach Boys songs! Awesome song!! Both of these songs bring tears to my eyes . . . just such incredible music! . . . totally unrelated . . . but look up the song "Jesus is Waiting" by Al Green . . . absolutely perfect!! Look at the live version he did on Soul Train back in the 1970s . . . so powerful!
jubjub2112 2 years ago
Thanks for the Al Green tip. I'll check it out. Check out the Moody Blues song "December Snow." Awesome song!!!
LibbyLaMano 2 years ago
I actually prefer this to 'God Only Knows', which is great - 'Feel Flows', however, is perfection!
kettlezone 2 years ago 4
There were one genius in the Beach Boys. Thats Brian Wilson. The rest were idiots compared. Especially Mike Love. Made Brian scrap album Smile. This was better than Pet Sounds voted best album ever.
runeguldberg 2 years ago