The Beach Boys - Gettin' Hungry

[isaacbateman76]

This Reminds me of The Beatles : The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill ~ The way it was the rithem was arrange Are Almost The Same~

[mrmjb1960]

This was also issued under "Brian Wilson & Mike Love" as a Brother 45,too! Its flip? "Devoted To You",from the "Beach Boys' Party!" Lp.

[alexandertarangerkin]

@mrmjb1960

how could one aske for a greater fail-single...

[paul7703]

I love the nervous feeling of this song! A better production and this would of been a classic.

[Levelride311]

the intro has the heroes and villains theme in it

[NEWGUY562]

seriously this is a sad piece of shit. and this is coming from a fan of the beach boys music. so under-produced.

[YearOfCam]

See, the thing is -- just about anybody can attempt a weirdly-paced song in 'rubato' time (that is, no fixed time signature or beat except on the choruses) -- but it takes someone like Brian to pull it off and make it so amazing --

and are you like me: Do you mentally fill in the words "She belongs there..." from Wonderful just after the final bars of this?

[coolsweetgroovy]

I love this song

[FinallyunderstandU]

@coolsweetgroovy that was fun.. it sounds a bit like honeypie on the prowl.. goodnight and thanks D !!

[coolsweetgroovy]

@FinallyunderstandU you're welcome CC

[ancientloredude]

this album is totally insane......and that's probably its genius. I like good vibrations on this album but the others are underrated. I like to think of it as Brian's concept album of songs sung to the tune of nursery rhymes or kids songs (if that makes any sense). It is definitely concept at its extreme.

[oakasfan124]

The beat is Dan Deacon-esque

[YearOfCam]

Here's why this song is such a bother to so many people: It's got all the inner turmoil of SMILE but none of its optimism. This is the sound of a mind on the edge (Brian's) about to teeter over. It's got a kind of scariness to it, and represents the exact moment things started to go wrong. So, not for the surfin' and cruisin' crowd. Fits on the album, though...

[Benefit1970]

@YearOfCam That's a good way to think of it. This album is clearly an under-produced, under-thought out work that was shat out because brian's bandmates were unsupportive squares. But you do get a real honesty from it... you unfortunately get the first cracks in brian's beautiful voice. shame to hear it just a few years later. totally shaved off the top 2/3 of it.

[Abe91195]

gettin hungry, yeah from smoking all that weed

[tomas18081993]

0:29 orgasm.

<3

[jesuswasakike00]

straight influence of Manson. All Hail Charlie

[popp1nbottlez]

i'm not sure why but the beach boys are so special. i love them so much more than the beatles, but they are good too

[7Plots]

I know I'll end up having a true fondness and seeking sanctuary for this album as many of my fave VU, Tom Waits, Chameleons UK albums.

[SmileySmileAM]

PLEASE READ: IF U WANT TO HEAR SMiLE by THE BEACH BOYS, NOT BRIAN WILSON, GO 2 MY CHANNEL AND GO TO MY PLAYLISTS AND SELECT THE ONE THAT SAYS "Smile 1967(SMiLE)" it contains original recordings by the Beach Boys

[clintmagnum1]

@dorkhunter1

Dorkhunterhunter.

That`s me. Your comments are retarded!

[sebillanox]

My favorite song!!!!!!!!!!

[francoboy100]

0:00 to 0:16. wow....

[ThePaleCow]

I'm not a huge Beach Boys fan, but this is damn brilliant.

[bogenrim]

@iPL2001 I think this album was Brian Wilson's artistic way of telling Mike Love to basically go fuck himself for torching SMiLE. Funny how the Beach Boys couldn't sell any more records after they ran out of Brian's songs (with the notable exception of "Kokomo" which pretty much sucks, buth they were bound to get lucky at least once in twenty or so years)...

[woodsbike]

Thanks for sharing these!

[tpmableful]

This is what I imagine insects hear when experiencing their primal lusts.

[stanleysoldman]

great tune!

[russieross]

rbrupbacher...You childish, inane comment demonstrates why I dislike writing on forums such as these. In most cases, the idiots and the cretins come out of the woodwork. It is obvious that someone cannot express an opinion without people with third grade educations calling you names and the like. Too bad...

[russieross]

My brother was a dj for a radio station in upstate New York when this thing was released on a single, under the name of Brian Wilson and Mike Love. The record wasn't selling well, so a rep from Capitol records called the program director and told him "We need a little help on this one". The PD said to to rep "This record needs all the help it can get." It bombed...and rightly so. Utter garbage.

[rbrupbacher]

You AND your brother suck.

[MelancholyDane]

@russieross Too deep for you, obviously. Enjoy your commercial radio-rock/pop. The rest of us will listen to art music.

[russieross]

@You're right...it is getting deep in here; but it ain't water. Somebody farts in a microphone and you call it art music. I'll stick with radio-rock bop any day thank you.

[MelancholyDane]

@russieross You are incapable of analyzing a piece like this because your sonic palette is limited to the pop song paradigm. You will never appreciate the classics of 20th century rock music, such as Faust and other groups you've probably never heard of, unless you learn to branch out.

[connor4211]

@MelancholyDane You're a huge douche. If you're reading this, russieross, I'm not defending you. In fact, you too, are a douche

[DanVaccaro55]

The naive beauty of this track is incredible.

[jwild611]

Damn this was ahead of it's time..

[apolitikmusic]

@jwild611 They just weren't made for those times.

[borskyviolin]

Mike Love shines here like almost nowhere else. What an amazing song! I've never heard this before.

[AllTheNuttyBits]

This is simply amazing.

[weenielongus]

Back during the early, free days of Napster, I found an .mp3 version of this track, same take and in true stereo and has a slightly longer fade!! This is one of my favorite Beach Boys tracks ever!!

[absoluteabsence]

I love Smiley Smile...Brian is a genius & I love the odd little quirky songs on this album...Brian opened new worlds...

[iPL2001]

Wikipedia says the public was "confused" upon the release of Smiley Smile.

I can only imagine...

[harmike17]

@iPL2001 Fuck the public, this album is genious!

[oficina666]

better version did the faces!!!

[DaveBarlow]

The Faces did a wicked version of this, now available on the Five Guys Walk Into A Bar.

[crinkleman123]

Probably just an odd setting on Brians baldwin organ

[pacoenigmatic]

amazingly good

Thanks

[peaceric]

love this tune

the beginning reminds me of the Little Girl I Once Knew

[Sephiroth20066]

This and Wonderful are the best tracks on Smiley Smile.

[bobshenix]

good vibrations? heroes & villians? i know we are talkin opinion here but with this album its pretty much a general consensus those two are the only actual completed songs.

i personally love H&V but many find it too unorthodox and "out there"... i see where those ppl are coming from so that's understood.

But i just cant imagine anyone thinking good vibrations is anything but the best song on the album. just my 2 cents.

[BeachBoysGuy1]

Excellent 2 cents !!! But I also think that these songs were made complete on this release. I realise they were made to be a part of the Smile project, but each of what were originally intended to be sections or movements come across as a whole songs herein with their own identifiable arrangements. thanks jhp

[cutuphalfdead]

Vegetables is the best song on the album.

[bobshenix]

oh, and the original version of "wonderful" made for the unreleased SMiLE is far superior to the stripped down, under-produced track included on Smiley.

i like the smiley "wonderful" too but it does not hold a candle to the original SMiLE arrangement. if you really like the song you NEED TO hear how Brian intended it... there are recordings and demos of it on youtube, you should check it out.

not to mention the one Brian recorded for the newly released SMiLE, you can hear the same arrangement

[crinkleman123]

Mellotron?

[humanvynil]

Mellotron is recorded tapes. i don't believe we hear this kind of thing in here. i can't make my own idea of what we hear.

[sethisawesome]

a mellotron is an instrument, an early synthesizer with a keyboard.

[PoprocksCk]

not one of my favourites off SS - but I *still* find myself singing it in the shower ALL THE TIME. :)

[stamlove0708]

not bad. not exactly single material, though

[quad1951]

Maybe now that he is with Capitol and once he gets TLOS out, that would be one interesting choice. Getting out more boxsets seems quite boring and the material on Smiley Smile is quite an interesting project, quite different from the commercial Smile project. Taking the POB and Bambu special edition as an example, I was blown by the new material and that could be something that could be achieve with releasing material that probably many people haven't heard from the original Smile sessions.

[quad1951]

This is definetly non commercial effort, yet has great melodies. BW version of Smile some 40 yrs after is a commercial one. In between those tapes available, they should be worked on and put out. Please let "She is Going Bald" out or get it out instrumentally.

[oproller]

do so much agree with you.. would love to have an official cd from original smile-recordings

[caats19]

pretty easy to find online. bootleg versions of smile. the ones i found are in the same track list as brian's finished one

[musicistheproblem]

great cut