What is that magic thing that I feel when I am listening to this wonderful song??? it is just like going to the sky,, it is just like being in love forever!!! I love you Brian Wilson,, hopefully I will see you again on your concerts!!!
I just can't stop listening to this. This is soaringly magnificent ! Something about this piece resonates deeply with not merely the core of my being but with being itself. Is that an overblown analysis? I think not. Seraphic choirs of Angels are Brian's prime collaborators here. God has clearly touched this man with a special grace. This is wonderful.
Somewhere along the line I read or heard that Brian once said that he aspired to write music that people could pray with.There exists an ethereal synergy that's not only inherent to this piece but that pervades the entire fabric of all his work. St. Monica is quoted as saying that he who sings prays twice. Brian's work prays a dozen times every time i hear it. This particular number prays thousands of times with each note. This is magnificent. Superlative is an inadequate description.
I saw Brian and his band at the Keswick just outside of Philly near Christmas time in 2007. My very being remains pulsating positives from that show. Better than any Dead concert I ever saw. Better than Bruce. THAT'S saying something! You're in a class by yourself, Brian Wilson and you furthermore are at the head of that class.
Brian's music always puts a smile on my face...thank you Brian for continuing your dream...this is absolutely beautiful to my heart and soul and I am sure to many others as well.
Thanks so much for posting this! I'm sitting here wearing my Brian Wilson Smile t shirt, savouring and loving every second of this gorgeous melody. Love you Brian! Smile was the best concert of my life - and I've seen a few in my time lol. God bless you Brian. You're the greatest. And the band are terrific too!
Wow....this is lovely!! Brian Wilson, your music will always be in my heart. So many musicians just seem to lose it musically as they grow older...Brian hasn't lost a thing
While I don't feel Gershwin was near the composer that Brian Wilson is, I'm glad Brian lent his special genius to the germ of an idea that George had in this song.
brian is the master in musis im so very proud that i can say i saw him face to face while he was in sydey his always been the main man in my life of music i dated to his music i wed to his music and when i pass his music will play i love brian his a giant god bless you
i love brians music but im sorry mate somehow this song makes me think of kermit the frog but then i wouldnt mind kiss you if you were a frog brian haha god bless
As a Brian wilson/beachboy fan for many years this album sounds right up there along side "petsounds"after hearing this track one more time im off to buy this album, brian wilson you still rule//
This song makes me cry every time I hear it. Those major seventh chords at the end give me goosebumps. He never ceases to amaze me. Brian is definitely back!
This song is truly a jewel - the essence of Brian WIlson - my God I love your music !! ... there are 102 Gershwin songs to finish, Brian ... pllleeeeaase !!
Today, my son put this album on my pod. This is one of my favorites. I have to say that I love The Like in I Love You. The version of I Got Plenty O'Nuttin is pure genius. It didn't need words to tell me what I needed to know. And I Got Rhythm trumps every version of this song. Brian Wilson knows how to make what at first seems to be dissonance sweet to the ear. The Happenings version was good. Brian Wilson's rendition is timelessly great.
@smitheree Brian's band doing the background vocals and you could not be more right about Rod Stewart an Englishman who wants to be Scottish, living in the US supporting a Scottish team that wants to be Irish, He will leave his heart anywhere he thinks it will give him a leg up or a leg over, but has left it behind so often he has now lost it
When Brian was born, God reached down and gave us all a gift. There's no other way to describe it. The man is just a gift. Music is God's voice, and He chose Brian to bring it to us. God bless you Brian.
No way is this band bland, instrumentally or vocally. Brian Wilson could take any 1 - 3 chord song that is popular today and complicate the shit out of it so that no one would notice. I've listened to this and other songs off this album numerous times. Brian Wilson was and still is the man. This is a masterpiece. The genius with the master brush painted another gem with music. Eat your heart out Rod Stewart.
I'm so happy for Brian and the Gershwin's. I'm also very happy that many people will hear what so many Brian (and Gershwin!) fans already know. These songs are wonderfully written and Brian's "re-imagination's" are not only beautifully arranged & produced, but Brian's vocals, as usual, make it all so personally gratifying and intimately special. Such an inspiration! BRAVO!!
That lucky old sun was brillant, had to top - and this, AMAZING!! He will never caese to impress. A fucking awesome album - especially the 'I Loves You, Porgy' trombone solo. Hooray for Brian!
Since the early sixties no ONE person has mustered the combination of writing, producing and performing as Brian Wilson. Even now, as age advances upon him, he still retains the spark of musical genius.
The production is sort of slick (a la "adult alternative"), and the studio singers/musicians are pretty damn bland. But the main melody is fantastic -- Brian's voice is unbelievable! -- and the chords Brian has chosen are just gorgeous.
I somehow feel like this track would have benefitted from a seriously stripped down arrangement, but I'm really looking forward to hearing other tracks from this album!!
What is it that this magician of music does that few others will ever be able to touch, he can spin a story around the basic 2 verse 2 chorus bar eight chorus route but what ever it is and however he does it I for one hope he never stops. A true one off that the word genius does not really do him credit. This will, on the snippets that are available, be another album of magic, his sound , the Geshwin americanisms, and his incredible band, just as it should be, prefection. Long may he reign.
@HANVIDGE .....maybe it's because he is deaf in one ear. He says he was born that way, but rumor has it Murray Wilson punched him in the ear when he was young.
C'est toujours un vrai bonheur d'attendre chaque nouvel album du plus touchant des grands compositeurs contemporains! Et ce nouveau projet semble être du bel ouvrage! En tout j'adore déjà ce titre ci!! Et un grand bravo au groupe qui l'accompagne!!!!
BW orchestrated the music of my youth and continues to deliver unexpected gems. What an amazing story of accomplishment against all odds - who would have ever thought. There seems to be no quit in the man and his harmonic deliverence.
I've always loved Brian. When I read "Catch a Wave" I couldn't imagine how hard it was for him to pursue things he really wanted to do, since there was so much opposition from his dad and the other Beach Boys (mainly Mike Love), but Brian can take a giant deep breath now since he completed the masterpiece that is SMiLE and now re imagining Gershwin--whom he has so much respect for (for all the right reasons)...I love Brian Wilson and his music still doesn't cease to amaze and inspire me.
This is one of the best recordings that Brian Wilson has done in quite some time. He's always at his best when he is inspired, and it's very clear that he was truly inspired (Gershwin admiration) for this project.
And kudos to his ever encouraging wife Melinda who has done so much over these past years to keep Brian doing what he was born to do, which is to be musically involved. He's amazingly vibrant at 68 years old. Nobody could have ever imagined this some 25 years ago! We need to contin
merveilleux
elmeskini1999 1 week ago
I agree with so many here ... Brian's music touches me deeply - beyond words!!!
Such a talent!
BeautifulPast 1 month ago
just fantastic, dave from switerland
Clevelandbrowns58 4 months ago 3
@monkeydust012 Show me a recent recording of ANYONE that doesn't use computers.
yeoGlover 4 months ago
What is that magic thing that I feel when I am listening to this wonderful song??? it is just like going to the sky,, it is just like being in love forever!!! I love you Brian Wilson,, hopefully I will see you again on your concerts!!!
gremar66 5 months ago 2
I just can't stop listening to this. This is soaringly magnificent ! Something about this piece resonates deeply with not merely the core of my being but with being itself. Is that an overblown analysis? I think not. Seraphic choirs of Angels are Brian's prime collaborators here. God has clearly touched this man with a special grace. This is wonderful.
LakewooodWestPark 6 months ago 6
I hope he plays this live when I see him this Sunday at the South Bank. Beautiful song.
PatrickBalfe 6 months ago
Somewhere along the line I read or heard that Brian once said that he aspired to write music that people could pray with.There exists an ethereal synergy that's not only inherent to this piece but that pervades the entire fabric of all his work. St. Monica is quoted as saying that he who sings prays twice. Brian's work prays a dozen times every time i hear it. This particular number prays thousands of times with each note. This is magnificent. Superlative is an inadequate description.
LakewooodWestPark 6 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Brian Wilson
I saw Brian and his band at the Keswick just outside of Philly near Christmas time in 2007. My very being remains pulsating positives from that show. Better than any Dead concert I ever saw. Better than Bruce. THAT'S saying something! You're in a class by yourself, Brian Wilson and you furthermore are at the head of that class.
LakewooodWestPark 6 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Brian Wilson
The dug's bawz, Brian see you in Glasgow on Sunday!
Paisleypaul 6 months ago
The fade out is classic BW. Beautiful harmonies with a killer bass line.
jmua04 7 months ago 2
Thank you for coming back old man
gorrionalvuelo 7 months ago 3
The first time i hear this song it touch me very deep , since then i cant stop loving it
gremar66 7 months ago 4
Brian's music always puts a smile on my face...thank you Brian for continuing your dream...this is absolutely beautiful to my heart and soul and I am sure to many others as well.
blue29eyes 8 months ago 14
Who in the world disliked this masterpiece?? C'mn It's Brian Wilson where not talking about Justin Bieber jaja
Javier23gol 8 months ago
Thanks so much for posting this! I'm sitting here wearing my Brian Wilson Smile t shirt, savouring and loving every second of this gorgeous melody. Love you Brian! Smile was the best concert of my life - and I've seen a few in my time lol. God bless you Brian. You're the greatest. And the band are terrific too!
marcintime 8 months ago
Great song!!! Its too bad that it isn't played on the radio. Thanks for posting it.
cruiser1947 10 months ago 2
Wow....this is lovely!! Brian Wilson, your music will always be in my heart. So many musicians just seem to lose it musically as they grow older...Brian hasn't lost a thing
Born2bRedeemed 10 months ago
He was such a cutie in the 60ies =)
...and what a masterpiece he has created once again !!
kinskifreak 10 months ago
Instant Wedding song for me!
GarlandFraser 10 months ago
Beautiful!
Tony221100 10 months ago
Just amazing. I have tickets to see him at The Royal Festival Hall, I just can't wait. The guy's a genius. Love to you all x
PatrickBalfe 10 months ago
Amazing song with amazing lyrics fron the great Scott Bennett. Brian did great as well.
SuperJohnCenaFan23 11 months ago
While I don't feel Gershwin was near the composer that Brian Wilson is, I'm glad Brian lent his special genius to the germ of an idea that George had in this song.
vampyros1 1 year ago
Brian Wilson, or Joe Walsh? Ha Ha. Never noticed until now...
joanogiff 1 year ago
Brians the man!
yeoGlover 1 year ago
brian is the master in musis im so very proud that i can say i saw him face to face while he was in sydey his always been the main man in my life of music i dated to his music i wed to his music and when i pass his music will play i love brian his a giant god bless you
simbadidge 1 year ago
This is truly a work of Genius! The melody is !
Singing a great song is awsome but arranging makes the difference in true greatness and Brian does both..........Beautiful !!!!!
namdoog1946 1 year ago 2
Aaah, those wonderful harmonies...
SavikDan 1 year ago
I am crying..This song is the most beautiful I've ever heard..
Brian, You made my day!!!
lejoe48 1 year ago
i love brians music but im sorry mate somehow this song makes me think of kermit the frog but then i wouldnt mind kiss you if you were a frog brian haha god bless
simbadidge 1 year ago
@simbadidge Maybe you just have a childish mind? :S
yeoGlover 1 year ago
He makes Gershwin sound just like the beach boys!
so modern
Leftyguitarplayer123 1 year ago
id love to cuddle him his family must be so proud of him i am and i only saw him once his such a wonderfull guy
simbadidge 1 year ago
As a Brian wilson/beachboy fan for many years this album sounds right up there along side "petsounds"after hearing this track one more time im off to buy this album, brian wilson you still rule//
brokenbeard1 1 year ago
@brokenbeard1 same here man! Just heard this, and after class, I'm off to Target to buy it! :)
ThyRavenAscend 1 year ago
This song makes me cry every time I hear it. Those major seventh chords at the end give me goosebumps. He never ceases to amaze me. Brian is definitely back!
kohoutek7 1 year ago
@kohoutek7 Brian's greatest gift is the ability to use different chords to emote different emotions he is a poet of music.
IainB1511 1 year ago 3
Could be from an Alan Parsons album back in the 80's ... Great music & arrangement.
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This song is truly a jewel - the essence of Brian WIlson - my God I love your music !! ... there are 102 Gershwin songs to finish, Brian ... pllleeeeaase !!
Buts52 1 year ago 3
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Buts52 1 year ago
Classic music by a classic guy. Doesn't get any better than that!
guitarplayer6852 1 year ago
Brian,You are great artist! This song is Wonderful and Sweet!
jokerrecording 1 year ago 2
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MrPetpaul 1 year ago
Pure musical genius. G-d talking through Brian.
waynatra 1 year ago
This is a beautiful song!
SilenceBroken23 1 year ago
Absolutely brilliant...now I have another Pet Sounds album to listen to.Brian is a true genius...this song is heaven.
kweezycongo 1 year ago 2
Today, my son put this album on my pod. This is one of my favorites. I have to say that I love The Like in I Love You. The version of I Got Plenty O'Nuttin is pure genius. It didn't need words to tell me what I needed to know. And I Got Rhythm trumps every version of this song. Brian Wilson knows how to make what at first seems to be dissonance sweet to the ear. The Happenings version was good. Brian Wilson's rendition is timelessly great.
pmoyer50 1 year ago 2
Wonderful!
billkokomo 1 year ago
damn he still sounds great, pardon me for my foul language
springsteen96 1 year ago 3
This is quite amazing and gets better each time you hear it.
retread01 1 year ago 4
Amazing stuff! I'd rank this one right up there with God only Knows. <3
xCoolSarahx 1 year ago 2
Brilliant - were the Wondermints doing backing vocals?
(ps Rod Stewart doesnt have a heart to eat out lol)
smitheree 1 year ago
@smitheree Brian's band doing the background vocals and you could not be more right about Rod Stewart an Englishman who wants to be Scottish, living in the US supporting a Scottish team that wants to be Irish, He will leave his heart anywhere he thinks it will give him a leg up or a leg over, but has left it behind so often he has now lost it
IainB1511 1 year ago
When Brian was born, God reached down and gave us all a gift. There's no other way to describe it. The man is just a gift. Music is God's voice, and He chose Brian to bring it to us. God bless you Brian.
gottacatchemall72 1 year ago 12
How do you thank someone who has taken you from surfin' to gershwin? God bless Brian for all he has done.
gildy10 1 year ago 7
@gildy10 sweet
caraphyllis 1 year ago
brians back? BRIANS BACK!
truthasfineprint 1 year ago 4
I want to cry when i hear this master at work. Love u Brian
katherinejreilly14 1 year ago 4
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I LOVE YOU, BRI!
caiograco92 1 year ago
I LOVE YOU, BRI!
caiograco92 1 year ago
I haven't heard some of these songs before.
denniswilsonfan 1 year ago
No way is this band bland, instrumentally or vocally. Brian Wilson could take any 1 - 3 chord song that is popular today and complicate the shit out of it so that no one would notice. I've listened to this and other songs off this album numerous times. Brian Wilson was and still is the man. This is a masterpiece. The genius with the master brush painted another gem with music. Eat your heart out Rod Stewart.
pmoyer50 1 year ago 4
The Master Of Changes
raiphdude7 1 year ago
Anyone who doesn't love this album is in dire need of ear transplants.
pmoyer50 1 year ago 6
I definitely hear "Friends" harmonies in this tune. Pure Brian Wilson. Can't wait for my copy!
RobertWaltz 1 year ago
This is so beautiful!
blue29eyes 1 year ago 2
This man is awsome, he is Gods gift to music
Paul8651 1 year ago 3
WOW !
ROCKSGGLP 1 year ago
I'm so happy for Brian and the Gershwin's. I'm also very happy that many people will hear what so many Brian (and Gershwin!) fans already know. These songs are wonderfully written and Brian's "re-imagination's" are not only beautifully arranged & produced, but Brian's vocals, as usual, make it all so personally gratifying and intimately special. Such an inspiration! BRAVO!!
crossjohn 1 year ago
That lucky old sun was brillant, had to top - and this, AMAZING!! He will never caese to impress. A fucking awesome album - especially the 'I Loves You, Porgy' trombone solo. Hooray for Brian!
loogerberooger 1 year ago
Amazing, Brian was always one of my favourites...
BF9music 1 year ago
Beautiful
Markgr122 1 year ago
Perfect
BeanDentist 1 year ago
this is soo beautiful..i love Brian Wilson...he always makes me happy, deeply happy..thank you so much Brian..
towser06 1 year ago
Since the early sixties no ONE person has mustered the combination of writing, producing and performing as Brian Wilson. Even now, as age advances upon him, he still retains the spark of musical genius.
westentrance 1 year ago 2
oh my god, this is absolutely beautiful!!!!
petemuso 1 year ago
Wow, just when you think you've heard the best ever, Brian Wilson does it again ....he's a genius
gmbdaly 1 year ago 2
Love you brian,please come to Norway again.
TheKingvan 1 year ago
this is going to be one of his greatest albums yet.
MattTC1028 1 year ago 2
Awesome music! I can't wait to check out the cd.
Seattlecarnut 1 year ago
This is new material from the great Brian Wilson.
LouisLIII 1 year ago
The master is still making music, can't wait for the new album. Long live Brian Wilson!!
Erie1992 1 year ago
This is cool Go Brian I love you
coolsweetgroovy 1 year ago
This is Gershwin soaked in California sunshine. Love it.
Magadoula 1 year ago
The production is sort of slick (a la "adult alternative"), and the studio singers/musicians are pretty damn bland. But the main melody is fantastic -- Brian's voice is unbelievable! -- and the chords Brian has chosen are just gorgeous.
I somehow feel like this track would have benefitted from a seriously stripped down arrangement, but I'm really looking forward to hearing other tracks from this album!!
hegelec 1 year ago
By the way, watch for Wilson to win the "Gershwin Prize" for popular music in the coming years.
proman84 1 year ago
Very interesting collaboration. I am kind of amazed by how great Wilson's voice sounds!
proman84 1 year ago
What is it that this magician of music does that few others will ever be able to touch, he can spin a story around the basic 2 verse 2 chorus bar eight chorus route but what ever it is and however he does it I for one hope he never stops. A true one off that the word genius does not really do him credit. This will, on the snippets that are available, be another album of magic, his sound , the Geshwin americanisms, and his incredible band, just as it should be, prefection. Long may he reign.
HANVIDGE 1 year ago 52
@HANVIDGE .....maybe it's because he is deaf in one ear. He says he was born that way, but rumor has it Murray Wilson punched him in the ear when he was young.
Fooblestheclown 1 year ago
I seems as though Brian has his full confidence back and the wind is in his sails again!! I''ll be rushing out to by this when it's released.
dmcguire70 1 year ago
The best he's interpreted someone else's work since Orange Crate Art. I loved that album and this sounds very similar and just as good.
CirSam 1 year ago 3
C'est toujours un vrai bonheur d'attendre chaque nouvel album du plus touchant des grands compositeurs contemporains! Et ce nouveau projet semble être du bel ouvrage! En tout j'adore déjà ce titre ci!! Et un grand bravo au groupe qui l'accompagne!!!!
ThierryClowez 1 year ago
I'd say this is the best song/recording he's done since 2004's Smile. GREAT!
dingothing 1 year ago
BW orchestrated the music of my youth and continues to deliver unexpected gems. What an amazing story of accomplishment against all odds - who would have ever thought. There seems to be no quit in the man and his harmonic deliverence.
eye4west 1 year ago
Great song, I especially like the harpsichord that's barely audible but it's there.
Dodo251 1 year ago
I've always loved Brian. When I read "Catch a Wave" I couldn't imagine how hard it was for him to pursue things he really wanted to do, since there was so much opposition from his dad and the other Beach Boys (mainly Mike Love), but Brian can take a giant deep breath now since he completed the masterpiece that is SMiLE and now re imagining Gershwin--whom he has so much respect for (for all the right reasons)...I love Brian Wilson and his music still doesn't cease to amaze and inspire me.
UltraMegaVisual 1 year ago 3
This album will be his masterpiece.
ThePetsound 1 year ago
@ThePetsound I think Pet Sounds was already a masterpiece.
Dodo251 1 year ago
Gershwin and Wilson. What an awesome combination.
oldstuff 1 year ago 3
i love brian wilson
bendak 1 year ago
I love every bit of it....
20ceeyou06 1 year ago
Classic BW bass licks...this is going to be awesome!!
jmua04 1 year ago 30
Love it-Go Brian!
yeoGlover 1 year ago 11
beautiful song. outstanding ..
randywong 1 year ago 3
I can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
chriscommissomusic 1 year ago 3
You're right dude, this shows Brian is without doubt still the man.
albanrichardson1 1 year ago 3
I love it and look forward to the CD coming out in the UK.
Brian is still the main man!!
gildy10 1 year ago 3
Thank you for the speedy upload! Love Brian Wilson.
SPzero06 1 year ago 2
This is one of the best recordings that Brian Wilson has done in quite some time. He's always at his best when he is inspired, and it's very clear that he was truly inspired (Gershwin admiration) for this project.
And kudos to his ever encouraging wife Melinda who has done so much over these past years to keep Brian doing what he was born to do, which is to be musically involved. He's amazingly vibrant at 68 years old. Nobody could have ever imagined this some 25 years ago! We need to contin
tbirdtim 1 year ago 3
@tbirdtim -beautiful work,huh. Love it too!!
Markgr122 1 year ago
Great vocal's from Brian and lyrics by Scott Bennett. The muse in music - the brain in Brian. Wonderful.
julievallette 1 year ago 5
Sublime!
danfromma 1 year ago
This is heart-breakingly beautiful. How could it be otherwise, with these two geniuses at play ?
John Hunter Phillips
BeachBoysGuy1 1 year ago 4
Beautiful. Wilson and Gershwin are a perfect match. An inevitable classic.
rickvandijk 1 year ago
this will be a classic album i am sure
dwibster 1 year ago 2