Not particularly proud of it, but Fantastic Mr. Fox (A wonderful movie by the incomparable Wes Anderson, for what it's worth; shows how insecure I am to be ashamed that I was brought here by it) brought me here.
@Ingr9821 Have you checked out Van Dyke Parks' solo albums? All glorious and eccentric! 'Clang of the Yankee Reaper' and 'Tokyo Rose', good ones to start with.
I actually really enjoy this smiley smile version...the production makes it sound a lot more cohesive and "finished". it's smoother on the ears. I listened to it on a mushroom trip and couldn't fathom how the unfinished, "half assed" version here was a masterpiece in itself (on top of the smile version being one too!)
the smile version is so much better than the smiley smile version. brian cut out the cantina section and the extended bits at the end. (the editing sounds really obvious on this track now) i guess he was simplifying it for smiley smile. i'm tempted to recut a cd-r of smiley smile/wild honey without heroes and villains, good vibrations and you're welcome. now smile has been released, they seem more at home on smile. smiley smile is a more simpler album and these 3 songs sound out of place.
@briney1973 The mix on the Smile Sessions version was never Brian's - it was entirely Mark Linnett and Alan Boyd's. Heroes and Villains changed shape so many times it's not even funny. The original May 1966 version apparently contained You Are My Sunshine, the later 1966 version used I'm in Great Shape and Barnyard, the familiar Cantina version was from Feburary '67, which was the first part of a planned double sided single, and then it evolved into this.
I LOVE this track..The whole album 'Smiley Smile' for all its imperfections was a revolution in sonics, and how to hear music..No guitars, no girls, no beach, no cars, no school. Just pure magic vocals. I was 11 years old. It tore the top of my head off, and forever changed me. This album never gets its due respect. SMiLE will always sound like an old guy who got a second chance to 'remake' something that went belly up. You can't beat the original for 'fresh, young, spirited, and revolutionary'.
@DavidCKendall Try the new SMiLE Sessions release. I'm glad Brian finished his solo version, but you can't beat the 60's production and Beach Boys' voices. "Smiley Smile" hugely pales in comparison to the 60's "SMiLE". Now THAT'S the original.
@TheOneartist I've purchased the SMiLE sessions. where it sits sealed on the shelf for a few weeks. I gotta go find a bottle of wine worthy of the 1st listen. Thanks for the recommend.
i have found some really strange postings on 2 you-tube sites and am trying to work them out....."qi stephen fry puts alan in his place" and "robert garopa". if you try to work them out as well....go through the back comments for about 3 months.
You can clearly hear the difference between this and the 2004 edition. For one, Brian sounds fantastic here, not so much in the 2004 version.. His voice is broken now and he sounds more like Ozzy than his former self.
The only significant difference between this version -- which was the single release in 1967 -- and the SIMLE recordings is the overdubbed bass organ, which is not on the SMILE tapes. There are multiple edits of this song (cantina segment, a faster "my children were raised" section, "at three score and five" section) floating around, but all of the instrumentation and vocals comes from the SMILE recording sessions. But the bass organ (heard here) was added for the single release that appears on
@Crazycupmuffin this is probably the one song (other than Good Vibrations) that shows little difference from the 60's release and the recent 2011 smile sessions release. The only difference is that the new version is clearer, has different sound effects at certain parts and also the new version has the margarita verse which makes the new version 1 minute longer.
I love the new Capitol/EMI "The SMiLE Sessions" version -- but this one doesn't bug me. And in defense of Mike Love, "Good Vibrations" just wasn't happening until he came up with the hook, which added focus and a pulse. You can hear all the cluttered transformations on the new "SMiLE" box. Great to see all the Beach Boys getting their due for their work on "SMiLE" in '66 and '67 when their voices rocked.i
I like this song but fuck knows what you are all talking about. 'I brought myself here'. What does that mean? I genuinely think that all you Yanks are fucking idiots.
@broadband0118 its got nothin to do with yanks man. People say it cos theres usually a comment somewhere saying for example they watched a movie with this song in it and heard it there they would say 'top gun brought me here'. So sum people say i brought myself here. Get it now?
@broadband0118 I am a Yank and i pretty much agree with you. However, just so that you know what it means: Many of us find our best music on TV shows. American radio sucks. It's all corporate playlist. So: when a great song has been played on a TV show people will say: "Thumbs up if such and such show brought you here." It's stupid and I don't get involved, but it has become a . . . way of communicating, it seems. Anyway, that's what it's all about. I'm just waiting for the new Kate Bush album.
@triplettam All the best to you my friend and thanks for your comment. If you think American radio is shit then you should hear what we have to put up with! Also, thanks for the joke about Kate Bush. You have just proved that Americans really do get irony.!!!
@broadband0118 um, Kate is no joke, my friend. She is my muse and I AM waiting for her new album from Amazon. So tread carefully. But, I do usually do get irony. It's in my genes.
Hey! lighten-up! Put this song in the realm of the time it was released. It may sound a little barbershop vocals, it was actually a pretty trippy sounding song in it's time! How else could they expiriment with those vocals! I allways thought this recording was a kind of carnival sound!
Random question but does Al or Brian sing this part/certain part(s) of the song? Their voices are similar (when Brian isn't doing falsetto) and I've seen videos of both of them doing it.
@quialman666 This is Brian singing lead. Al apparently sang the part when it was sung in performances without Brian's presence. In my opinion, the giveaway in this instance comes in the "Stand or fall..." segment: technically outside Al's abilities at the time.
Well, if it's true Mike Love disliked this video 4 times, it sounds as though he's jealous he didn't write it. This song is great. One of my favorites, which is tough considering how many great songs Brian has done. However, everyone has a right to their own opinion.
This song is pretty good, but to be honest, I feel like this album doesn't hold up to the brilliance that was Pet Sounds. I don't know, just my opinion
@RAFStudioOfficial Mike Love kicks puppies and ruined the Beach Boys. Brian gave us this. Mike Love gave us Kokomo and doesn't know when to quit hiring session players so he can keep singing car songs and making a few nickels.
@RAFStudioOfficial hes the reason smiley smile happened idiot this is his vision of smile, smiley smile is just smile songs torn up, and stripped to the bare sounds. and it sounds like smile took an acid trip through hell
Let's call the Beatles and the Beach Boy's even. Both were off the charts great. The only difference between the two was Brian Wilson could do what John and Paul could do combined! The man was a freak.
This is brilliant! Why do people waste time arguing that the beach boys are better than the beatles or vice versa. Both bands were absolutely inspired. The music is there for us all to enjoy. Now grow up please!
@daveyboots I agree! Even the Beatles knew they were being compared to the Beach Boys and the first track of their White Album, "Back in the USSR" was a clear parody of the Beach Boys' style in places, especially where the Ukraine girls really knocked 'em out. ;)
@pbanta62 The ' duh duh duh dah from the Beatles on ' Ukraine girls really knock me out ' was a tribute as much as a parody but hey , who better to parody the Beach boys then that the greaest t band on the planet ?
The Beatles are slightly overrated. They are very good, just slightly overrated. Paul loved Pet Sounds, and Brian loved The Beatles. In my opinion though, The Beach Boys had everything, and every time you listen to it, it's like you are listening to it for the first time.
The mysterious, that's right mysterious Brian Wilson & his brothers have done the best job of combining the best of pop/rock music, rhythm, & barbershop quartet harmonies. Play this song, then play "Feel Flows" and then a medley of "Warmth of the Sun" "Little Surfer Girl" "The Girls on the Beach" & wind up with "Don't Worry Baby." If that doesn't get you relaxed with no side effects, well go for Jan & Dean, Dick Dale guitar, The Ventures, Booker T. Surf & sand w/o the sunburn! -Theo - 70's DJ
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
when i wana go on a trip without LSD i just listen to this album nd close my eyes..it takes ppl to whole other world...in 1970 Carl said in Fort Worth, TX doctors wuld use this album to relax and treat patients that experienced a bad LSD trip..ican see why
@PRaY4U1LUV I dunno, any time I listen to a song by either band, I'm convinced there is no better band ever in the whole world. It's hard for me to decide.
I think that while I'm in awe of the Beatles, I'm in love with the Beach Boys.
Know what you mean. While my favourite album of all time is probably 'Pet Sounds' [track, probably 'God Only Knows', but maybe 'Feel Flows' from 'Surf's Up'], I know my favourite band is the Beach Boys, but for the life of me I can't really understand why. They made a fair bit of twaddle pop music, in their time, but some of their stuff is almost perfect composition, IMO. My modern day favourites are XTC, and they've moved on too, so there's nobody left to fill the gap.
@borskyviolin It's all about cross-pollination man. The two bands inspired each other & spurred each other on to a plane never reached before, or maybe since.
@BeatleFloydZeppelin You r sry aint ya..I'm not an old head like you..u may think your right because you r from a generation where Europeon influence and drug dazed heroin rock was most popular and overated but I like songs that have an upbeat feel and exuberate rythm in the music itself. If you like artsy song writing tell some1 who gives a rats ass. BEACHBOYS>Anybody in yr name. The only thing u told me was that yr sorry and afraid...pathetic.
@PRaY4U1LUV k first im 19 years old form canada. Not Europian, not from another generation. Listen to Abbey Road, Sgt. Pepper, or Revolver and then tell me that the beach boys are better than the beatles.
@BeatleFloydZeppelin Ok well I'll take Yellow Submarine over all of those whuch i'm already familier with And i'll take Heroes & Demons,Get Around,Barbara Ann,Kokomo,California Girls,Surfin USA,Good Vibrations over any of those posted.
I also enjoyed DION over the Beatles..old Elvis,Chuck Berry,Little Richard.
If you like Beatles more than in all honasty good for you. But don't tell me i'm wrong when I'm clearl 100% right. lol
k first im 19 years old from Norway, not from another generation. Listen to Pet Sounds, Smile (and smiley smile), Friends, Sunflower, Surf's Up. I think the Beatles had a much more prominent career and were on a continuous high of creativity and popularity. But in the period 1966-1967 they were trumped by the creative powers of Brian.
Pet Sounds beats Revolver and Rubber Sould (both of which are now considered their best albums)
@alexandertarangerkin Hey I love both pet sounds and smile(hate smiley smile)there 2 of my all time favorite records. But lets face it, the only amazing albums they did were those 2. Today and Sunflower are great too but there no classics. The beatles made amazing albums through there entire career of 13 albums! Revolver inspired pet sounds which inspired sgt pepper. Brian broke down completely after hearing a day in the life by the beatles. Don't get me wrong I love brian but paul and john win.
I would say one should call Revolver and Rubber Soul classics
but Sgt. Pepper was full of filler songs by paul (his only really good contribution was She's Leaving home and Day in the life bridge), yellow submarine was shit "album", magical mystery tour had some good songs (could be regarded as psychedelic classic), white album was a complete mess (several good songs, but tons of crap), spector ruined get back/ let it be, and abbey road was to syrupy with PaMc again...
How about de key bord in lucy in the sky, that was made by Paul, and the bass playing in that same song which is also incredible. Even more the hole idea of the album been entirely a compsoition more marked rather than just loose songs was Pauls "sgt pepper" idea. Just starting from that you should realize your critics to the beatle albums are comple un founded.
I really enjoy some of the track from Pepper (they are LSWD,little help from friends, she's leaving home, within you without you, and ofc the fabulous a day in the life) but the rest is really quite trash. When I'm Sixty Four is perhaps one of the most embarrassing granny songs of their catalogue.
As for the concept of Sgt Pepper (and its cover!) is very brilliant, but apart from the theme song they basically did nothing more with the idea.
I think "When I'm sixty four" is not only a nice and sweet song with really good voice arrangements, but also a good way to ease the album feeling, thats coming from a more psicodellyc crazy, since the previous songs are "Being for the benefit of mr kite" and "Whithin you Without you" which are kind of "too much crazyness atmosphere" and this "grany songs" get the acid down and led you into another two semi crazy songs for to finaly close this brilliant album with as like you sed a fabulous song
@alexandertarangerkin I'm an avid Beatles fan but I agree they had their share of clinkers. "When I'm 64" was a British-style homage to the "novelty song" in the same vein as what was "pop" in the '50's in the US. I thought it was on the cutesy side, but nothing nearly as "wtf?" as "Your Mother Should Know" on MMT, which meandered to ultimate nowhere, man! LOL. Or some of the odd "shortie" songs that were used as fillers for their later albums like "Maggie Mae" and "Her Majesty".
@pbanta62 I couldn't agree with you less. I think all those songs are brilliant. I wouldn't consider a single Beatles song to be filler but, i respect your opinion to each his own.
The Beach Boys 'grew up' rather quickly after they became famous and dad Murray Wilson still wanted them to do car & girl songs forever. After they fired his ass they got 'good' and far more adventurous though their personal lives were nothing to write home about... this and Good Vibrations and Pet sounds were their peak performances... IMO
@OhSeamus You're doing the same thing. A real fan doesn't need to pointlessly broadcast their love for something, but you're just as bad. I hope you have a nice life far, far away from me.
@pwnzx wow, having a bad day, are we? :P I'm not whoring for thumbs up, if that's what you mean.Geez. I don't care if people actually agree with me or not, I just speak as I please, okay? Now, have a nice day, far away from me. :P
This track emerged ahead of its time when the beatles and stones were still makin pop- a rock opera webber would have dreamed of - a real masterpiece - long live brian wilson !
another Brian's symphonic masterpiece. There s probably no doubt about that point: this guy is certainly the greatest composer of all the twentieth century pop music. if he had started a solo career instead of working for that family business,the whole pop music history would have changed faster.
@fundy76 Paul McCartney is a dick.....Billionaire asshole has a birthday party for himself at whatever mansion it is that he owns and he charges his guests for their drinks at the bar...At his own party.......What a fucking prick......Always hated him and always will......Prick........
this is a good song and all, but i personally prefer the original recorded version of this song. i find it interesting that brian wilson gave up on his album "Smile" when he heard the Beatles "Strawberry Fields Forever". now as i am more a beatles fan and as strawberry fields is my favorite song by them, the beach boys are my second fave 60s band and i don't think brian should have re-done this song the way he did making it slower..
Brian Wilson was detrmined to go head to head with the Beatles, ambitious man. The Beach boys released Smiley Smile, but then the Beatles released Sgt. Pepper. Don't worry, Brian, no one could've topped that. I really love this song. I sang it at karaoke, and I heard someone say "Man, I've never heard such a holy song!"
Thanks for uploading this. I remember riding to Montreal in 1967 for the Expo and we really loved it when this song came on the radio. Can't remember any other song from that trip.
this was just like the last piece of the puzzle for fantastic mr. fox. i dont get how anyone can NOT like that movie, or that song. they both like made my pants just fly off
I personally think he had already bested Sgt. Pepper with Pet Sounds... yes I know that is arguable but Pet Sounds is the better album melodically/harmonically IMO Just a bit too melancholy for the mainstream, of course!!
In any case I think Pepper is very overrated, classic album yes... landmark yes... but I think Magical Mystery Tour is better anyway.
This song is scary. The way it switches between different musical patterns is almost unbelievable...I had to listen to it at least five times just to understand what was going on. Only a fucking genius could write something this awesome
Trips from the ship to Matamoros, Mex. in the Summer of 1967 had me playing this song in my head........while pinching myself........"this is crazy, but it's real"......Heroes and Villans!!!
the verse sounds a bit like supergrass ghost of a friend, but this song is packed with uniqueness, still totally killer tune, the beatles and the stones are discussed below, but they are nothing like this, really cool
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love wilson. its like he personally told me, jesse here, i knew 30 years from now you were going to be born and you were going to like to experiment with drugs, i made this album especially for you, so you can listen to it while smoking marijuana, eating magical fungi or taking a dose of LSD enjoy you little mexican buddy,
thats exactly what i am doing,
listening to this album, you will never have a bad trip
runnersdialz usually I try not to respond to such stupid comments as yours, but I can't decide whether it is stupid or if someone can possibly have such low standards.
amen! michaelgibney i agree brian is levels above the stones and the beatles by far and no one will ever make a record as great is Smile or pet sounds brian is our mozart of this generation
Beatles and Stones were great but no mystery and over exposed and covered way more than any other band.
Beach Boys had mystery and their music moves me emotionally more than any 'band' ever has before or I think ever will and more than any sing a long Beatles of Stones track ever could.
I always dug this track. I appreciate what you're saying, but I reckon for every dude like you there'd be ten whose emotions respond to the Beatles. Within that early to late 60s time frame and context -(and in respect of the 'teeny' sorta demographic) - the Beatles had a depth and maturity far surpassing any of their rivals - for my money. All the same, that Brian Wilson cat was definitely agas. The fact that he blew out so badly kinda adds to the coolness in a way.
Not particularly proud of it, but Fantastic Mr. Fox (A wonderful movie by the incomparable Wes Anderson, for what it's worth; shows how insecure I am to be ashamed that I was brought here by it) brought me here.
riffraffselbow 1 day ago
For Van Dyke Parks' lyrics along the song is brilliant.
My children were raised
You know they suddenly rise
They started slow long ago
Head to Toe
Healthy Wealthy and Wise
Ingr9821 1 week ago
@Ingr9821 Have you checked out Van Dyke Parks' solo albums? All glorious and eccentric! 'Clang of the Yankee Reaper' and 'Tokyo Rose', good ones to start with.
DavidCKendall 1 week ago
dem harmonies
manicalhippieboy 2 weeks ago
smiley smile is crap compared to the smile sessions
sirloine123 3 weeks ago
Believe it or not on the new released SMILE this is done like i've never heard it...smooth with pure vocals.
WALNUTS52 3 weeks ago
I actually really enjoy this smiley smile version...the production makes it sound a lot more cohesive and "finished". it's smoother on the ears. I listened to it on a mushroom trip and couldn't fathom how the unfinished, "half assed" version here was a masterpiece in itself (on top of the smile version being one too!)
alliant 3 weeks ago
the smile version is so much better than the smiley smile version. brian cut out the cantina section and the extended bits at the end. (the editing sounds really obvious on this track now) i guess he was simplifying it for smiley smile. i'm tempted to recut a cd-r of smiley smile/wild honey without heroes and villains, good vibrations and you're welcome. now smile has been released, they seem more at home on smile. smiley smile is a more simpler album and these 3 songs sound out of place.
briney1973 1 month ago
@briney1973 The mix on the Smile Sessions version was never Brian's - it was entirely Mark Linnett and Alan Boyd's. Heroes and Villains changed shape so many times it's not even funny. The original May 1966 version apparently contained You Are My Sunshine, the later 1966 version used I'm in Great Shape and Barnyard, the familiar Cantina version was from Feburary '67, which was the first part of a planned double sided single, and then it evolved into this.
TheBoldImperator 1 week ago
How can ANYONE say Seargant Peppers was better than this? Idiots.
zapkvr 1 month ago
I don't know what brought me here, but it sure as hell wasn't Mike Love.
smeenkinator 1 month ago
I LOVE this track..The whole album 'Smiley Smile' for all its imperfections was a revolution in sonics, and how to hear music..No guitars, no girls, no beach, no cars, no school. Just pure magic vocals. I was 11 years old. It tore the top of my head off, and forever changed me. This album never gets its due respect. SMiLE will always sound like an old guy who got a second chance to 'remake' something that went belly up. You can't beat the original for 'fresh, young, spirited, and revolutionary'.
DavidCKendall 1 month ago
@DavidCKendall Try the new SMiLE Sessions release. I'm glad Brian finished his solo version, but you can't beat the 60's production and Beach Boys' voices. "Smiley Smile" hugely pales in comparison to the 60's "SMiLE". Now THAT'S the original.
TheOneartist 1 month ago
@TheOneartist I've purchased the SMiLE sessions. where it sits sealed on the shelf for a few weeks. I gotta go find a bottle of wine worthy of the 1st listen. Thanks for the recommend.
DavidCKendall 1 week ago
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i have found some really strange postings on 2 you-tube sites and am trying to work them out....."qi stephen fry puts alan in his place" and "robert garopa". if you try to work them out as well....go through the back comments for about 3 months.
figbat1 1 month ago
May I recommend the book 'A Pop Revolutuion, the transatlantic music scene 1965 to 1969' by the invisible man. The author is a big fan of this track.
garyw930 1 month ago
I hate Kokomo... so much.
chapaev36 1 month ago 3
Taskmaster brought me here
swagtasticpanda 1 month ago
a search for greatness brought me here!
1joepoe 1 month ago
fantastic mr. fox brought me here!
TheBman556 2 months ago 9
You can clearly hear the difference between this and the 2004 edition. For one, Brian sounds fantastic here, not so much in the 2004 version.. His voice is broken now and he sounds more like Ozzy than his former self.
MrKennyBones 2 months ago
The only significant difference between this version -- which was the single release in 1967 -- and the SIMLE recordings is the overdubbed bass organ, which is not on the SMILE tapes. There are multiple edits of this song (cantina segment, a faster "my children were raised" section, "at three score and five" section) floating around, but all of the instrumentation and vocals comes from the SMILE recording sessions. But the bass organ (heard here) was added for the single release that appears on
editdave 2 months ago
@Crazycupmuffin this is probably the one song (other than Good Vibrations) that shows little difference from the 60's release and the recent 2011 smile sessions release. The only difference is that the new version is clearer, has different sound effects at certain parts and also the new version has the margarita verse which makes the new version 1 minute longer.
Gentlejoker22 2 months ago
Next level shit.
MassacreMusicLeague 2 months ago
I cant hear a difference between this and the new one? someone help me?
Crazycupmuffin 2 months ago
Sounds like a Cowsills song to me.
HarvestmanMan 2 months ago
I love the new Capitol/EMI "The SMiLE Sessions" version -- but this one doesn't bug me. And in defense of Mike Love, "Good Vibrations" just wasn't happening until he came up with the hook, which added focus and a pulse. You can hear all the cluttered transformations on the new "SMiLE" box. Great to see all the Beach Boys getting their due for their work on "SMiLE" in '66 and '67 when their voices rocked.i
TheHeckie 2 months ago
I like this song but fuck knows what you are all talking about. 'I brought myself here'. What does that mean? I genuinely think that all you Yanks are fucking idiots.
broadband0118 3 months ago 7
@broadband0118 its got nothin to do with yanks man. People say it cos theres usually a comment somewhere saying for example they watched a movie with this song in it and heard it there they would say 'top gun brought me here'. So sum people say i brought myself here. Get it now?
Crazycupmuffin 2 months ago
@broadband0118 I am a Yank and i pretty much agree with you. However, just so that you know what it means: Many of us find our best music on TV shows. American radio sucks. It's all corporate playlist. So: when a great song has been played on a TV show people will say: "Thumbs up if such and such show brought you here." It's stupid and I don't get involved, but it has become a . . . way of communicating, it seems. Anyway, that's what it's all about. I'm just waiting for the new Kate Bush album.
triplettam 2 months ago
@triplettam All the best to you my friend and thanks for your comment. If you think American radio is shit then you should hear what we have to put up with! Also, thanks for the joke about Kate Bush. You have just proved that Americans really do get irony.!!!
broadband0118 2 months ago
@broadband0118 um, Kate is no joke, my friend. She is my muse and I AM waiting for her new album from Amazon. So tread carefully. But, I do usually do get irony. It's in my genes.
triplettam 2 months ago
i brought myself here
baydux 3 months ago 3
One of the greatest Beach Boys songs, and I'm really looking forward to the new "Smile" boxset for alternate versions of this songs.
boyo1970 3 months ago
Hey! lighten-up! Put this song in the realm of the time it was released. It may sound a little barbershop vocals, it was actually a pretty trippy sounding song in it's time! How else could they expiriment with those vocals! I allways thought this recording was a kind of carnival sound!
grantswede 3 months ago
Another one of thos BB songs where you think, "this can't possibly work..?" But it does and it's a great song too.
StLandrew1958 4 months ago
haha the dewey cox song, frikin hilarious
chessinfantry 4 months ago
this is a great song..i prefer it over "GOOD VIBRATIONS"..which is almost not bad..
801liveable 4 months ago
Even better than big daddy hairy sweaty hot n ready slimy scaley lumpy bumpy cummy yummy jizzy wizzy baggy saggy crispy crunchy munchy bunchy rusty dusty dick!
POOPIESkillz 4 months ago
@POOPIESkillz You shouldn't have done that :* Also, Fantastic Mr. Fox ^_^
ypenguin34 4 months ago 2
@HanoverFist247 My ass smells like SHIT! Do you have feces under you fingernails? I do.
RandomSpevv 4 months ago
aids
lebeev 5 months ago
Random question but does Al or Brian sing this part/certain part(s) of the song? Their voices are similar (when Brian isn't doing falsetto) and I've seen videos of both of them doing it.
quialman666 5 months ago
@quialman666 This is Brian singing lead. Al apparently sang the part when it was sung in performances without Brian's presence. In my opinion, the giveaway in this instance comes in the "Stand or fall..." segment: technically outside Al's abilities at the time.
jrileyk 5 months ago
Well, if it's true Mike Love disliked this video 4 times, it sounds as though he's jealous he didn't write it. This song is great. One of my favorites, which is tough considering how many great songs Brian has done. However, everyone has a right to their own opinion.
LacyJaneCompton 6 months ago
4 Villains stopped by.
tubefluid 6 months ago 3
This and Do It Again (not the same Steely Dan song) are my Beach Boys Favorites...
stuwrightfrom53 6 months ago
How could anyone dislike this song - dolt
CynVee 6 months ago
@HanoverFist247 right back at you, pal. Whatever that means.
missingt00th 6 months ago
Taskmaster brought me here.
abazanuff 7 months ago 19
@abazanuff this MUST become the #1 comment!
mrjesse999 7 months ago 6
Happy Birthday, Brian!
blackwelderadam 7 months ago
Heroes and villains & good vivbrations are psychedelic masterpieces
MrAugustus88 7 months ago
This song is pretty good, but to be honest, I feel like this album doesn't hold up to the brilliance that was Pet Sounds. I don't know, just my opinion
amberlover678 7 months ago
@amberlover678 You wouldn't be "one of the few" in that respect - this was the "replacement" for "SMiLE" and it fell far short of what was expected.
RazrHack 7 months ago
WTF, did I have my head in the sand back when I was listening to BB's on the 9 transistor AM radio?
An awakening at age 55.
gliese854 7 months ago
I was born in the wrong generation.
RagingLampoon 8 months ago 2
Mike Love disliked this video 4 times.
RAFStudioOfficial 8 months ago 66
@RAFStudioOfficial Brian Wilson disliked this video 4 times on a "bad" day and 227 times on a "good" one.
jon1carlo 8 months ago
@RAFStudioOfficial He's funny like that.
claytonave 7 months ago
@RAFStudioOfficial Mike Love kicks puppies and ruined the Beach Boys. Brian gave us this. Mike Love gave us Kokomo and doesn't know when to quit hiring session players so he can keep singing car songs and making a few nickels.
spooky29 4 months ago
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liamrocksmysockstm 3 months ago in playlist The Beach Boys - Smiley Smile
@RAFStudioOfficial hes the reason smiley smile happened idiot this is his vision of smile, smiley smile is just smile songs torn up, and stripped to the bare sounds. and it sounds like smile took an acid trip through hell
liamrocksmysockstm 3 months ago in playlist The Beach Boys - Smiley Smile
@RAFStudioOfficial
Yes, Mike Love is certainly a Villain.
Madman2001madman 2 months ago
Great song, but after hearing the 5, 8 and 10 minute versions, this "abridged cut" of the song just feels lacking and incomplete
theSuperMetroid 8 months ago
2:12 onwards = EARGASM
JRientoul 8 months ago
This is the one Smiley Smile song that doesn't soud like crap compared to its Smile equivalent
ZedgetRedd 8 months ago
This is fantastic.
kkknoxskorner 8 months ago
a good song to listen to when your on shrooms :)
dalefrybread 8 months ago
This is what Genius sounds like.
BettinaBalser 8 months ago
I can't wait for "The Smile Sessions"!!
jarlcarrerorl 8 months ago
Let's call the Beatles and the Beach Boy's even. Both were off the charts great. The only difference between the two was Brian Wilson could do what John and Paul could do combined! The man was a freak.
MrJuanlennon 8 months ago
This is brilliant! Why do people waste time arguing that the beach boys are better than the beatles or vice versa. Both bands were absolutely inspired. The music is there for us all to enjoy. Now grow up please!
daveyboots 9 months ago
@daveyboots I agree! Even the Beatles knew they were being compared to the Beach Boys and the first track of their White Album, "Back in the USSR" was a clear parody of the Beach Boys' style in places, especially where the Ukraine girls really knocked 'em out. ;)
pbanta62 8 months ago
@pbanta62 The ' duh duh duh dah from the Beatles on ' Ukraine girls really knock me out ' was a tribute as much as a parody but hey , who better to parody the Beach boys then that the greaest t band on the planet ?
luxyaltz219 8 months ago
@alexandertarangerkin
Regardless of how you feel about Mr. McCartney's songs on Sgt. Pepper it is indeed a groundbreaking and a classic album. Your argument is invalid.
tuckerb2222 9 months ago
The Beatles are slightly overrated. They are very good, just slightly overrated. Paul loved Pet Sounds, and Brian loved The Beatles. In my opinion though, The Beach Boys had everything, and every time you listen to it, it's like you are listening to it for the first time.
KtotheY77 9 months ago
The mysterious, that's right mysterious Brian Wilson & his brothers have done the best job of combining the best of pop/rock music, rhythm, & barbershop quartet harmonies. Play this song, then play "Feel Flows" and then a medley of "Warmth of the Sun" "Little Surfer Girl" "The Girls on the Beach" & wind up with "Don't Worry Baby." If that doesn't get you relaxed with no side effects, well go for Jan & Dean, Dick Dale guitar, The Ventures, Booker T. Surf & sand w/o the sunburn! -Theo - 70's DJ
Stupnagel77 10 months ago
The "Smile" album wasn't completed until 2004. I wish U Tube would have that version.
L1S91 10 months ago
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
SmileySmileAM 10 months ago
when i wana go on a trip without LSD i just listen to this album nd close my eyes..it takes ppl to whole other world...in 1970 Carl said in Fort Worth, TX doctors wuld use this album to relax and treat patients that experienced a bad LSD trip..ican see why
SmileySmileAM 10 months ago
BEACH BOYS>Beatles
And it's mentioned because people are morons that need to know.
PRaY4U1LUV 11 months ago
@PRaY4U1LUV I dunno, any time I listen to a song by either band, I'm convinced there is no better band ever in the whole world. It's hard for me to decide.
I think that while I'm in awe of the Beatles, I'm in love with the Beach Boys.
borskyviolin 11 months ago 5
@borskyviolin
Know what you mean. While my favourite album of all time is probably 'Pet Sounds' [track, probably 'God Only Knows', but maybe 'Feel Flows' from 'Surf's Up'], I know my favourite band is the Beach Boys, but for the life of me I can't really understand why. They made a fair bit of twaddle pop music, in their time, but some of their stuff is almost perfect composition, IMO. My modern day favourites are XTC, and they've moved on too, so there's nobody left to fill the gap.
StLandrew1958 8 months ago
@borskyviolin It's all about cross-pollination man. The two bands inspired each other & spurred each other on to a plane never reached before, or maybe since.
HeartoftheDragonColo 8 months ago
@borskyviolin Good analogy! You have finally figured out what I am as well, THANKS!
MrJuanlennon 7 months ago
@PRaY4U1LUV srry Im afraid your wrong.
BeatleFloydZeppelin 11 months ago
@BeatleFloydZeppelin You r sry aint ya..I'm not an old head like you..u may think your right because you r from a generation where Europeon influence and drug dazed heroin rock was most popular and overated but I like songs that have an upbeat feel and exuberate rythm in the music itself. If you like artsy song writing tell some1 who gives a rats ass. BEACHBOYS>Anybody in yr name. The only thing u told me was that yr sorry and afraid...pathetic.
PRaY4U1LUV 11 months ago
@PRaY4U1LUV k first im 19 years old form canada. Not Europian, not from another generation. Listen to Abbey Road, Sgt. Pepper, or Revolver and then tell me that the beach boys are better than the beatles.
BeatleFloydZeppelin 11 months ago
@BeatleFloydZeppelin Ok well I'll take Yellow Submarine over all of those whuch i'm already familier with And i'll take Heroes & Demons,Get Around,Barbara Ann,Kokomo,California Girls,Surfin USA,Good Vibrations over any of those posted.
I also enjoyed DION over the Beatles..old Elvis,Chuck Berry,Little Richard.
If you like Beatles more than in all honasty good for you. But don't tell me i'm wrong when I'm clearl 100% right. lol
PRaY4U1LUV 11 months ago
@BeatleFloydZeppelin
k first im 19 years old from Norway, not from another generation. Listen to Pet Sounds, Smile (and smiley smile), Friends, Sunflower, Surf's Up. I think the Beatles had a much more prominent career and were on a continuous high of creativity and popularity. But in the period 1966-1967 they were trumped by the creative powers of Brian.
Pet Sounds beats Revolver and Rubber Sould (both of which are now considered their best albums)
Smile beats Sgt. Pepper
alexandertarangerkin 9 months ago
@alexandertarangerkin Hey I love both pet sounds and smile(hate smiley smile)there 2 of my all time favorite records. But lets face it, the only amazing albums they did were those 2. Today and Sunflower are great too but there no classics. The beatles made amazing albums through there entire career of 13 albums! Revolver inspired pet sounds which inspired sgt pepper. Brian broke down completely after hearing a day in the life by the beatles. Don't get me wrong I love brian but paul and john win.
BeatleFloydZeppelin 9 months ago
@BeatleFloydZeppelin
I would say one should call Revolver and Rubber Soul classics
but Sgt. Pepper was full of filler songs by paul (his only really good contribution was She's Leaving home and Day in the life bridge), yellow submarine was shit "album", magical mystery tour had some good songs (could be regarded as psychedelic classic), white album was a complete mess (several good songs, but tons of crap), spector ruined get back/ let it be, and abbey road was to syrupy with PaMc again...
alexandertarangerkin 9 months ago
How about de key bord in lucy in the sky, that was made by Paul, and the bass playing in that same song which is also incredible. Even more the hole idea of the album been entirely a compsoition more marked rather than just loose songs was Pauls "sgt pepper" idea. Just starting from that you should realize your critics to the beatle albums are comple un founded.
santalonso1 9 months ago
@santalonso1
I really enjoy some of the track from Pepper (they are LSWD,little help from friends, she's leaving home, within you without you, and ofc the fabulous a day in the life) but the rest is really quite trash. When I'm Sixty Four is perhaps one of the most embarrassing granny songs of their catalogue.
As for the concept of Sgt Pepper (and its cover!) is very brilliant, but apart from the theme song they basically did nothing more with the idea.
alexandertarangerkin 8 months ago
I think "When I'm sixty four" is not only a nice and sweet song with really good voice arrangements, but also a good way to ease the album feeling, thats coming from a more psicodellyc crazy, since the previous songs are "Being for the benefit of mr kite" and "Whithin you Without you" which are kind of "too much crazyness atmosphere" and this "grany songs" get the acid down and led you into another two semi crazy songs for to finaly close this brilliant album with as like you sed a fabulous song
santalonso1 8 months ago
@alexandertarangerkin I'm an avid Beatles fan but I agree they had their share of clinkers. "When I'm 64" was a British-style homage to the "novelty song" in the same vein as what was "pop" in the '50's in the US. I thought it was on the cutesy side, but nothing nearly as "wtf?" as "Your Mother Should Know" on MMT, which meandered to ultimate nowhere, man! LOL. Or some of the odd "shortie" songs that were used as fillers for their later albums like "Maggie Mae" and "Her Majesty".
pbanta62 8 months ago
@pbanta62 I couldn't agree with you less. I think all those songs are brilliant. I wouldn't consider a single Beatles song to be filler but, i respect your opinion to each his own.
thumpasaurusrex 8 months ago
its really too bad the production of this album wasnt as rich as pet sounds
sk8rokklive29 11 months ago
psychedelic barbershop quartet
nigelblanq 1 year ago
Learning this one now for a tribute concert. What an amazing song!
thebeachbys 1 year ago
Bogus, bunce and bean are three people who disliked this video
gustovo134 1 year ago 2
reminds me of my youth. Days and months at the beach... days i can never have back!
honestruthIDIOT 1 year ago
The Beach Boys 'grew up' rather quickly after they became famous and dad Murray Wilson still wanted them to do car & girl songs forever. After they fired his ass they got 'good' and far more adventurous though their personal lives were nothing to write home about... this and Good Vibrations and Pet sounds were their peak performances... IMO
rickr442 1 year ago
the beach boys should have just been the three wilson brothers
doug1122003 1 year ago
@doug1122003 and al jardine he never did anything bad and is a nice guy. But Mike Love not so much
duke35000 1 year ago
thumbs up if you heard this song on fantastic mr. fox
gustovo134 1 year ago
@gustovo134 lmao, thumbs up whore crying for attention and no one even cared, huh? ;D
OhSeamus 1 year ago
@OhSeamus FML
gustovo134 1 year ago
@OhSeamus You're doing the same thing. A real fan doesn't need to pointlessly broadcast their love for something, but you're just as bad. I hope you have a nice life far, far away from me.
pwnzx 1 year ago
@pwnzx wow, having a bad day, are we? :P I'm not whoring for thumbs up, if that's what you mean.Geez. I don't care if people actually agree with me or not, I just speak as I please, okay? Now, have a nice day, far away from me. :P
OhSeamus 1 year ago
This track emerged ahead of its time when the beatles and stones were still makin pop- a rock opera webber would have dreamed of - a real masterpiece - long live brian wilson !
irishcherry1 1 year ago
I love the chorus the most in this song. very modern for its time
jwild611 1 year ago
another Brian's symphonic masterpiece. There s probably no doubt about that point: this guy is certainly the greatest composer of all the twentieth century pop music. if he had started a solo career instead of working for that family business,the whole pop music history would have changed faster.
Borkentreah 1 year ago
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fundy76 1 year ago
@fundy76 Paul McCartney is a dick.....Billionaire asshole has a birthday party for himself at whatever mansion it is that he owns and he charges his guests for their drinks at the bar...At his own party.......What a fucking prick......Always hated him and always will......Prick........
mpsicily 1 year ago
@mpsicily Not keen on Macca then ???!!!!!
SteveCaftdunt 1 year ago
this is a good song and all, but i personally prefer the original recorded version of this song. i find it interesting that brian wilson gave up on his album "Smile" when he heard the Beatles "Strawberry Fields Forever". now as i am more a beatles fan and as strawberry fields is my favorite song by them, the beach boys are my second fave 60s band and i don't think brian should have re-done this song the way he did making it slower..
doubleDdog09 1 year ago 3
believe it or not this was the album that got me into the beach boys. its still a top 3 fav of them for me...
wyteboybb 1 year ago
Out of the many great songs the Beach Boys have recorded, this one is in my top three favorites of theirs.
tootsiesdad 1 year ago
i hated this album the first time i heard it, but now I love it
Qdrum803 1 year ago
Brian Wilson was detrmined to go head to head with the Beatles, ambitious man. The Beach boys released Smiley Smile, but then the Beatles released Sgt. Pepper. Don't worry, Brian, no one could've topped that. I really love this song. I sang it at karaoke, and I heard someone say "Man, I've never heard such a holy song!"
54markl 1 year ago
freakozola21...Thats easy, I had the volume turned up.
russieross 1 year ago
fantastic mr fox
freakozola21 1 year ago
stevebobs: Now there's an intelligent reply.
russieross 1 year ago
@russieross how could you think this song is annoying
freakozola21 1 year ago
Thanks for uploading this. I remember riding to Montreal in 1967 for the Expo and we really loved it when this song came on the radio. Can't remember any other song from that trip.
stockdcw 1 year ago
An extremely annoying song...one of their worst singles and the album is even worse.
russieross 1 year ago
@russieross
fuck you. i doubt your single is any better.
stevebobs 1 year ago
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russieross 1 year ago
Fantastic song! 1967...what a year!
aybayb 1 year ago
@aybayb Yeah I was born. A hero and a villain!
lordofthemanor67 1 year ago
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@aybayb Yeah I was born. A hero and a villain!
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i like beach boys
psnTurok35 1 year ago
hehe heard this in fantastic mr. fox and it was brilliant
jimmy13United 1 year ago 2
Gorgeous starting at 2:13 through 2:37.
bobareebop 1 year ago
at least, at least this was released to the world from the original SMiLE
truthasfineprint 1 year ago
this was just like the last piece of the puzzle for fantastic mr. fox. i dont get how anyone can NOT like that movie, or that song. they both like made my pants just fly off
Nemobaby411 1 year ago 4
@paulsbreakfast heheheh Brian tried to top Sgt Pepper and promptly went nuts. You don't outdo Lennon and Macca. Ever.
socijaldemokrata 1 year ago
@socijaldemokrata
I personally think he had already bested Sgt. Pepper with Pet Sounds... yes I know that is arguable but Pet Sounds is the better album melodically/harmonically IMO Just a bit too melancholy for the mainstream, of course!!
In any case I think Pepper is very overrated, classic album yes... landmark yes... but I think Magical Mystery Tour is better anyway.
bobshenix 1 year ago
I love 60's groups that started off kinda lame, like Beatles, Stones, and Beach Boys, and then matured in songwriting and musicianship! It's awesome!
xxxhentaikingxxx 1 year ago
@xxxhentaikingxxx
Yup... and look at the timing of it. Can you say L S D?? Changed everything, at least musically ;)
bobshenix 1 year ago
dr dog covered this
mikegoodfss 1 year ago
Alixx2 - I have that LP! ...but mine's all scratched up from too many playings over the years. Thanks so much for sharing this!
woodsbike 1 year ago
This song is scary. The way it switches between different musical patterns is almost unbelievable...I had to listen to it at least five times just to understand what was going on. Only a fucking genius could write something this awesome
AFirmKickInThePants 1 year ago
gigentesque!!!!!!!
MrSuedehead72 1 year ago
Trips from the ship to Matamoros, Mex. in the Summer of 1967 had me playing this song in my head........while pinching myself........"this is crazy, but it's real"......Heroes and Villans!!!
toddwindyhill 1 year ago
one of my all time favorites
cgrillo20 1 year ago
Woot fantastic mr. Fox
mthep 1 year ago 2
This song was in the top 10 in the world charts in 1967
LittleSweety 1 year ago
The Beach Boys were the first band I ever loved...
Guitaribonist 1 year ago
You know what I miss?.....songs WITHOUT a freakin' VIDEO.
davo67 1 year ago
believe it or not, the beatles engaged in psychic warfare against brian wilson.
geekorthodox9 1 year ago 2
@geekorthodox9 YES I Believe it
marcofalzone 1 year ago
@geekorthodox9 please elaborate
truthasfineprint 1 year ago
the verse sounds a bit like supergrass ghost of a friend, but this song is packed with uniqueness, still totally killer tune, the beatles and the stones are discussed below, but they are nothing like this, really cool
janfreidun 1 year ago
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love wilson. its like he personally told me, jesse here, i knew 30 years from now you were going to be born and you were going to like to experiment with drugs, i made this album especially for you, so you can listen to it while smoking marijuana, eating magical fungi or taking a dose of LSD enjoy you little mexican buddy,
thats exactly what i am doing,
listening to this album, you will never have a bad trip
such a spiritual and psychedelic album
to me... A TOUCH OF HEAVEN
tandie13 1 year ago
@tandie13 HELL YEAH!! Youtube, fuckin' bow down.
seejaydeja 1 year ago
anyone else just fall in love with it as it went on more and more :)
huggybear921 1 year ago 4
@huggybear921
here! so many ppl judge it on sound not spirit
SmileySmileAM 1 year ago
So you removed the irresponsible statement you are learning, bully for you !
jsilence418 1 year ago
runnersdialz usually I try not to respond to such stupid comments as yours, but I can't decide whether it is stupid or if someone can possibly have such low standards.
jsilence418 1 year ago
this is so hot!
cnwill3 1 year ago
I love the stop at 2:36 and the vocals that come in. One of my favorite albums of all time.
Brian Wilson is genius.
wBNine1One 1 year ago 2
oh my god i love this song
cruzman3608 1 year ago 3
it was badass in fantastic mr. fox though
gerund08 2 years ago 55
In retrospect I think Smiley Smile is a beautiful artistic statement that people just didn't "get" when it was released
jwild611 2 years ago 3
mozart ??? you are nuts....beatles were,are and will be the standar for future generetions.....amen
04116404 2 years ago 2
@ 014116404 The Beach Boys did everything the Beatles did, but did so much, much better.
runnersdialzero33 2 years ago
@runnersdialzero33 nope
mos3 1 year ago
amen! michaelgibney i agree brian is levels above the stones and the beatles by far and no one will ever make a record as great is Smile or pet sounds brian is our mozart of this generation
deleofan 2 years ago
Beatles and Stones were great but no mystery and over exposed and covered way more than any other band.
Beach Boys had mystery and their music moves me emotionally more than any 'band' ever has before or I think ever will and more than any sing a long Beatles of Stones track ever could.
MichaelGibney 2 years ago 23
I totally agree! the beach boys were so mysterious and wonderful in a way not even the beatles could match. I LOVE THIS SONG
andyrimbaud 2 years ago
@MichaelGibney Why is it that some folks have to wage some sorta mental war over who was better or worse
and what they meant and this and that and much ado about meanings and what the f***, when all we ought to do is listen ?.
ng21644605 1 year ago
@MichaelGibney i wouldn't say all of beatles songs are sing a longs.
Alienpubes 1 year ago
@MichaelGibney
I always dug this track. I appreciate what you're saying, but I reckon for every dude like you there'd be ten whose emotions respond to the Beatles. Within that early to late 60s time frame and context -(and in respect of the 'teeny' sorta demographic) - the Beatles had a depth and maturity far surpassing any of their rivals - for my money. All the same, that Brian Wilson cat was definitely agas. The fact that he blew out so badly kinda adds to the coolness in a way.
zahliayasmin 10 months ago 3