I gave this 8 track to my boyfriend when I was in high school. We listened to it all summer long in his hot little Nova. Music doesn't get any better!
This was around the time when the Beatles were in the studio putting out heir highly produced and experimental albums. The Beach Boys instead came out with Smiley Smile and Wild Honey, two stripped down avant garde soul albums, Every BB album has its own story and greatness, but I loved this era. Smiley Smile and Wild Honey was also the turning point where Carl became the lead singer and leader.
The first time I heard this song, I cried. I'm not one for crying, especially not at songs. (I *did* cry at the end of Toy Story 3...) It's one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard, even with the organ sounding like it's going to explode. If anything, that adds to it
Normally I'd complain about a song with so few lyrics, but it really works here. You get the feel of that country air. Brian was really operating on a high songwriting level with this album. Honestly, this album is in his top five greatest achievements. I love the minimalism: it really reminds me of a lot of modern day piano indie pop.
This was one of the 3 songs which really got me in to the Beach Boys (the others being 'This Whole World' and 'Wild Honey') after a friend sent me a load of their tracks. This is still one of my favorites, as are most of the 'Smiley Smiley' and 'Wild Honey' albums
I remember when I was 14 years old in 1994, I was sitting in my room finding the old disk records belonging to my father. Then there was this beach boys record and I started listening to Country Air. It was midsummer night, twilight came through, me sitting on the balcony and watching the sun go down at the horizon. Will never forget that moment!!!
I agree that it's a rarely heard classic. Brian Wilson influenced many great artists. Does anyone hear what I always hear when listening to this song? It's the sound of The Band.
@pmoyer50 Definitely so many people make fun of Brian, but Frank Zappa even had admiration for him FRANK ZAPPA. Frank Zappa does not tend to have admiration for any musicians who suck in any way shape or form, I wish Brian would get more recognition.
@DavidKinner : Add to the list of fans, Eric Clapton, Lindsay Buckingham, Bob Dylan, John Enwistle and Pete Townshend. Listen to the Who in "The Who Sells Out". This particular song surely must have influenced Robbie Robertson and the other songwriters in The Band. Did you ever hear "Brian Wilson Said" by Tears for Fears? I think it's an awesome tribute. Frank Zappa did have great respect for Brian. Though he wasn't into acid like Brian and many of us were back in the sixties. Brian rules!
@pmoyer50 I never heard that song by Tears for Fears, but yea all those people have admiration and especially Paul Mccartney. I remember seeing his interview where he said he was like obsessed with Pet Sounds. Pet Sounds combined with Zappa's first album "Freak Out" are the whole reason Sgt Peppers even existed! The Beatles owe them both greatly! Brian does rule. Zappa was always against all drug using of any sort so I can't blame him for that one.
@DavidKinner : It is said that Paul McCartney's favorite all time song is "God Only Knows". Sgt Peppers is a great album. Though today, I could listen to Pet Sounds everyday - I'm not sure that I could do the same with Sgt Peppers. Pepper was about a certain era in psychedelia - Pet Sounds is timeless no matter what era. George Martin and Leonard Bernstein were both infatuated with Pet Sounds. Brian was Lennon, McCartney and George Martin all wrapped up into one huge talent.
@pmoyer50 I still like Sgt Peppers, but I think it is very overrated. They came out with Revolver, one of their greatest albums before it, and I think it is much stronger than Sgt Peppers. I think it is really cool that Paul was in love with Pet Sounds, and Brian was in love with Rubber Soul.
@DavidKinner : What's really interesting, is how the Beatles gained access to the original Smile tapes when Brian was still seriously working on the album. It is reported that he felt raped in them listening to what he was creating. This is before Sgt Pepper came out. Brian Wilson was considered by the Beatles to be their only real competition. The Rolling Stones never held that distinction though certain rock journalists tried to make something of it all.
@pmoyer50 I did not know about that. I believe Zappa kind of held a candle to both The Beatles, and The Beach Boys the only problem for him was how crazy his music was. If his music had been put out there more he would have been competition. It's funny about The Stones for the longest time I thought they were so overrated, but I recently started listening to their music again, and they kind of were competition with Brian Jones they really did a lot. The Who were pretty experimental also.
@DavidKinner : The story of the Beatles gaining access to the Smile tapes is documented in one of the latest and what is considered to be the definitive book about Smile. I saw Zappa at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia in late 1968 or early 1969. It was when the group was going under the name of Reuben and the Jets. The song "Cheap Thrills" is very humorous. His album Joe's Garage is classic. The scruuuuuuutennnniiiizzzer. Ray Davies challenged John Lennon as far as lyrics is concerned.
@pmoyer50 Zappa is probably my favorite artist of all time I especially like Uncle Meat, I sadly could never see him because I am only 20. I own about 20 of his albums though. I needa go get that book then. They are both good lyricists, but in my opinion Dylan, Young, and Simon all had them both beat.
@DavidKinner : Ray Davies of the Kinks wrote some great songs - most poignant are "Waterloo Sunset", "Days" and "Autumn Almanac". I agree that Dylan, Young and Simon were about as lyrically prolific an artist can get. I recently came across a gem on itunes. It's an album made in 1967 or 1968 by the Beau Brummels. They were an original garage band from San Franciso. It's called "Triangle". Check it out. This group had great songs like, "Laugh Laugh" and "Just a Little" in 1965 or 1966.
@pmoyer50 Thanks it sounds pretty damn awesome. I have not heard as much of The Kinks as I would like to. What would you say is there most experimental album? Musically speaking. I listen to a lot of progressive rock that I was searching for so there is still a lot of other groups I don't know yet from the 1960's too well. have you ever heard of Peter Hammill? If you like progressive rock he is one of the greatest lyricists in history imo. His band was Van Der Graaf Generator, but he released
@pmoyer50 tons of solo albums also. Close to 40 if I remember correctly, and around 13 with his band. Very experimental with his voice, and everything. Robert Fripp of King Crimson even called him the Hendrix of the voice, but his lyrics are equally amazing. A lot of them are dark though.
@DavidKinner : I would say it's a toss up between "Something Else" and "The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society". Also impressive is an earlier album called "Face to Face". One of my favorites is "Arthur or the Fall and Decline of the British Empire". There are great groups from the sixties - Moby Grape, Jefferson Airplane (not Starship) Thunderclap Newman, (best known for Something in the Air) Quicksilver Messenger Service, early Byrds and many other notable groups and artists.
@pmoyer50 Thanks I will check those out. Most of my favorite groups of the 1960's are Mothers of Invention, The Beatles, The Moody Blues, Giles Giles Fripp, Beach Boys, Captain Beefheart and the magic band, Stones, The Doors, The Animals(Eric Burdon is another VERY underrated genius imo), The Band, Creedence, The Who, The Yardbirds, I love the Byrds also, Grateful Dead, Procol Harum, Iron Butterfly, Velvet Underground, Simon and Garfunkel, Early Pink Floyd, Country Joe, Jeff Beck Group, many
@DavidKinner : Wow! It's like you are familiar with what I have downloaded onto my ipod. I remember Captain Beefheart but don't have any of him now. The Moody Blues, "On the Threshold of a Dream" "Question of Balance" and "To Our Children's Children's Children" are favorite albums of mine. Yardbirds were great. It was a real breeding ground for budding guitar virtuosos. Check out John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton. His guitar is smoking. I saw Blind Faith in 1969. It was awesome.
@pmoyer50 I love them all already also! My favorite Moody Blues albums are On The Threshold, Days of Future Passed, and In Search of The Lost Chord, but I love all of their Core 7 and a few others that came out with afterwards. Have you heard Justin Hayward do Stairway To Heaven?! It is so beautiful! I love Beefheart, especially with Zappa on Bongo Fury. I love Jethro Tull also.
@DavidKinner : I saw Jethro Tull in the early seventies at the Spectrum in Philadelphia. It was them doing "Benefit". I liked Days of Future Passed but like In Search of the Lost Chord more. The Zombies, Odessey and Oracle is considered to be in the top three albums from the sixties. Disintegration by the Cure is an excellent album. Husker Du and Bob Mould's band Sugar had some good ear candy. The former had what I call sweet dissonance.
@pmoyer50 I am gonna checkout the Zombie's heard some of their stuff. I am not the biggest fan of The Cure, but from what I have heard they are really good my favorite era is probably the 1970's. I love bands like Yes, King Crimson, Rush, Traffic, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Van Der Graaf, Deep Purple, Queen, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Allman Brothers, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Comus, Quintessence, Camel, Genesis(with Peter Gabriel), Utopia, Supertramp, Gentle Giant, Gong, Magma, Kansas, Can, The Strawbs
@DavidKinner : Shades of Deep Purple and Books of Taliesyn are fantastic. The Strawbs was a talent breeding ground for future members of Yes. Genesis (with Peter Gabriel) is the only way to listen to them. Some of Supertramp is really good - it's kind of like mainstream Pink Floyd. I loved Traffic. The early Bee Gees were actually good. It's like they expanded on the Beatles Revolver in those days. Prominent Indie rock artists literally worship their early stuff. DISCO SUCKS AND ALWAYS WILL.
@pmoyer50 I love both those albums, Deep Purple in Rock, actually I pretty much love every Deep Purple album. Ritchie Blackmore is amazing! He was good in Rainbow too with the Metal God! I sort of agree to Genesis being only good with Peter Gabriel, but A Trick of The Tail, and Wind and Wuthering were very good, and then Phil Collins turned into a pop artist, and Genesis sucked. The Bee Gees were really good. I don't know why hardly anyone knows about their pre-disco music.
@DavidKinner : The Bee Gees were stigmatized by their Disco era. They were like a conglomerate and actually represented 2% of the entire music industry earnings back then and that's one big percentage to corner. It got to the point where big city radio stations were advertising the fact that it was an upcoming Bee Gees free weekend. So, blame it on the Nights on Broadway and Disco that many don't know how good they were in the sixties and early seventies.
@pmoyer50 I can't even blame them for changing their style they deserved some fame within everything they did, and maybe had they not gotten famous from the disco era many people would have no idea who they were in the 1960's and they would have been just another almost completely forgotten great band in history. What do you think is The Beach Boys best album other than Pet Sounds in your opinion?
@DavidKinner I could put Friends, Wild Honey and Sunflower at the top of the list. Parts of Smiley Smile belong in this category, too. The Beach Boys Today album is phenomenal. All Summer Long have classics such as Wendy and Don't Back Down. Both songs were light years ahead in musical ideas than their contemporaries. If Brian Wilson would have been left alone to finish Smile in 1967, it would have pulled the plug on the Sgt Peppers machine. My opinion only.
@pmoyer50 It's kind of crazy if you really listen to Zappa you would almost swear the guy is on some serious drugs, but not at all. Definitely two of the greatest songwriters of their time Zappa, and Brian are probably the best of the 1960's. They are both amazing composers too!
It's their first album built on turmoil... all was not well within the group, Smile had just been shelved, -- you can hear an attempt at 'cooling out' (the general mood) and also an undercurrent of anger (that organ and the sharpness of some singing) -- not the same old!
Love it. A fave. Again, love that 1967 drum sound. Organic and tasty. It's good for you! Love that Dennis/Brian drum sound throughout Wild Honey! It's great.
Yet another gem of a song by Brian & The Boys that never got the full kudos it deserved. A delightfully 'laid back', time-to-cool-out melody, harmony and lyrics mix that has stood the test of time - rooster-calls and all !! The bass lines are fantastic - where's my Fender, I just got to try to re-create those bass-note combo's. But I'll leave the whistling & rooster-calls to the BB's. There's a sweet, genuinely distinctive 'spritual' feel to this musical piece. Grand work, Alixx2 !! Thank You !
I love it when Carl says "C'mon" at 1:02 (it could be Brian -- hard to tell for sure) Either way, I still love it. Kudos to Alan Boyd for the Endless Harmony movie (the scene where Mike uses the toilet in London).
There is just as much Brian Wilson genius here as Smile, Pet Sounds, or All Summer Long.
Misterhappynyc 1 month ago
so wonderful to find this and enjoy it, so fresh and exciting, where has it been hiding, its never played, thanks for sharing it.
ptypaul 2 months ago
I gave this 8 track to my boyfriend when I was in high school. We listened to it all summer long in his hot little Nova. Music doesn't get any better!
6000cat 2 months ago
This was around the time when the Beatles were in the studio putting out heir highly produced and experimental albums. The Beach Boys instead came out with Smiley Smile and Wild Honey, two stripped down avant garde soul albums, Every BB album has its own story and greatness, but I loved this era. Smiley Smile and Wild Honey was also the turning point where Carl became the lead singer and leader.
efyfe 5 months ago
The first time I heard this song, I cried. I'm not one for crying, especially not at songs. (I *did* cry at the end of Toy Story 3...) It's one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard, even with the organ sounding like it's going to explode. If anything, that adds to it
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Normally I'd complain about a song with so few lyrics, but it really works here. You get the feel of that country air. Brian was really operating on a high songwriting level with this album. Honestly, this album is in his top five greatest achievements. I love the minimalism: it really reminds me of a lot of modern day piano indie pop.
sonicdeath10 1 year ago
this song moves you in a way that can't be put in words..just bliss
brendongomez 1 year ago
Perfection.
jdpip 1 year ago
One of the best songs from "Wild Honey". Like good wine, it just gets better with age.
BeachBoysJanDean1 1 year ago
Is anybody else reminded of "Santa Claus is coming to town"?
jwild611 1 year ago
This was one of the 3 songs which really got me in to the Beach Boys (the others being 'This Whole World' and 'Wild Honey') after a friend sent me a load of their tracks. This is still one of my favorites, as are most of the 'Smiley Smiley' and 'Wild Honey' albums
MrBobLucas 1 year ago
I remember when I was 14 years old in 1994, I was sitting in my room finding the old disk records belonging to my father. Then there was this beach boys record and I started listening to Country Air. It was midsummer night, twilight came through, me sitting on the balcony and watching the sun go down at the horizon. Will never forget that moment!!!
honey1making1money 1 year ago 2
Wow, still makes me go into goose pimples !
turnipcheeks 1 year ago
I agree that it's a rarely heard classic. Brian Wilson influenced many great artists. Does anyone hear what I always hear when listening to this song? It's the sound of The Band.
pmoyer50 1 year ago
@pmoyer50 Definitely so many people make fun of Brian, but Frank Zappa even had admiration for him FRANK ZAPPA. Frank Zappa does not tend to have admiration for any musicians who suck in any way shape or form, I wish Brian would get more recognition.
DavidKinner 10 months ago
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pmoyer50 10 months ago
@DavidKinner : Add to the list of fans, Eric Clapton, Lindsay Buckingham, Bob Dylan, John Enwistle and Pete Townshend. Listen to the Who in "The Who Sells Out". This particular song surely must have influenced Robbie Robertson and the other songwriters in The Band. Did you ever hear "Brian Wilson Said" by Tears for Fears? I think it's an awesome tribute. Frank Zappa did have great respect for Brian. Though he wasn't into acid like Brian and many of us were back in the sixties. Brian rules!
pmoyer50 10 months ago
@pmoyer50 I never heard that song by Tears for Fears, but yea all those people have admiration and especially Paul Mccartney. I remember seeing his interview where he said he was like obsessed with Pet Sounds. Pet Sounds combined with Zappa's first album "Freak Out" are the whole reason Sgt Peppers even existed! The Beatles owe them both greatly! Brian does rule. Zappa was always against all drug using of any sort so I can't blame him for that one.
DavidKinner 10 months ago
@DavidKinner : It is said that Paul McCartney's favorite all time song is "God Only Knows". Sgt Peppers is a great album. Though today, I could listen to Pet Sounds everyday - I'm not sure that I could do the same with Sgt Peppers. Pepper was about a certain era in psychedelia - Pet Sounds is timeless no matter what era. George Martin and Leonard Bernstein were both infatuated with Pet Sounds. Brian was Lennon, McCartney and George Martin all wrapped up into one huge talent.
pmoyer50 10 months ago
@pmoyer50 I still like Sgt Peppers, but I think it is very overrated. They came out with Revolver, one of their greatest albums before it, and I think it is much stronger than Sgt Peppers. I think it is really cool that Paul was in love with Pet Sounds, and Brian was in love with Rubber Soul.
DavidKinner 10 months ago
@DavidKinner : What's really interesting, is how the Beatles gained access to the original Smile tapes when Brian was still seriously working on the album. It is reported that he felt raped in them listening to what he was creating. This is before Sgt Pepper came out. Brian Wilson was considered by the Beatles to be their only real competition. The Rolling Stones never held that distinction though certain rock journalists tried to make something of it all.
pmoyer50 10 months ago
@pmoyer50 I did not know about that. I believe Zappa kind of held a candle to both The Beatles, and The Beach Boys the only problem for him was how crazy his music was. If his music had been put out there more he would have been competition. It's funny about The Stones for the longest time I thought they were so overrated, but I recently started listening to their music again, and they kind of were competition with Brian Jones they really did a lot. The Who were pretty experimental also.
DavidKinner 10 months ago
@DavidKinner : The story of the Beatles gaining access to the Smile tapes is documented in one of the latest and what is considered to be the definitive book about Smile. I saw Zappa at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia in late 1968 or early 1969. It was when the group was going under the name of Reuben and the Jets. The song "Cheap Thrills" is very humorous. His album Joe's Garage is classic. The scruuuuuuutennnniiiizzzer. Ray Davies challenged John Lennon as far as lyrics is concerned.
pmoyer50 10 months ago
@pmoyer50 Zappa is probably my favorite artist of all time I especially like Uncle Meat, I sadly could never see him because I am only 20. I own about 20 of his albums though. I needa go get that book then. They are both good lyricists, but in my opinion Dylan, Young, and Simon all had them both beat.
DavidKinner 10 months ago
@DavidKinner : Ray Davies of the Kinks wrote some great songs - most poignant are "Waterloo Sunset", "Days" and "Autumn Almanac". I agree that Dylan, Young and Simon were about as lyrically prolific an artist can get. I recently came across a gem on itunes. It's an album made in 1967 or 1968 by the Beau Brummels. They were an original garage band from San Franciso. It's called "Triangle". Check it out. This group had great songs like, "Laugh Laugh" and "Just a Little" in 1965 or 1966.
pmoyer50 10 months ago
@pmoyer50 Thanks it sounds pretty damn awesome. I have not heard as much of The Kinks as I would like to. What would you say is there most experimental album? Musically speaking. I listen to a lot of progressive rock that I was searching for so there is still a lot of other groups I don't know yet from the 1960's too well. have you ever heard of Peter Hammill? If you like progressive rock he is one of the greatest lyricists in history imo. His band was Van Der Graaf Generator, but he released
DavidKinner 10 months ago
@pmoyer50 tons of solo albums also. Close to 40 if I remember correctly, and around 13 with his band. Very experimental with his voice, and everything. Robert Fripp of King Crimson even called him the Hendrix of the voice, but his lyrics are equally amazing. A lot of them are dark though.
DavidKinner 10 months ago
@DavidKinner : I would say it's a toss up between "Something Else" and "The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society". Also impressive is an earlier album called "Face to Face". One of my favorites is "Arthur or the Fall and Decline of the British Empire". There are great groups from the sixties - Moby Grape, Jefferson Airplane (not Starship) Thunderclap Newman, (best known for Something in the Air) Quicksilver Messenger Service, early Byrds and many other notable groups and artists.
pmoyer50 10 months ago
@pmoyer50 Thanks I will check those out. Most of my favorite groups of the 1960's are Mothers of Invention, The Beatles, The Moody Blues, Giles Giles Fripp, Beach Boys, Captain Beefheart and the magic band, Stones, The Doors, The Animals(Eric Burdon is another VERY underrated genius imo), The Band, Creedence, The Who, The Yardbirds, I love the Byrds also, Grateful Dead, Procol Harum, Iron Butterfly, Velvet Underground, Simon and Garfunkel, Early Pink Floyd, Country Joe, Jeff Beck Group, many
DavidKinner 10 months ago
@DavidKinner : Wow! It's like you are familiar with what I have downloaded onto my ipod. I remember Captain Beefheart but don't have any of him now. The Moody Blues, "On the Threshold of a Dream" "Question of Balance" and "To Our Children's Children's Children" are favorite albums of mine. Yardbirds were great. It was a real breeding ground for budding guitar virtuosos. Check out John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton. His guitar is smoking. I saw Blind Faith in 1969. It was awesome.
pmoyer50 10 months ago
@pmoyer50 I love them all already also! My favorite Moody Blues albums are On The Threshold, Days of Future Passed, and In Search of The Lost Chord, but I love all of their Core 7 and a few others that came out with afterwards. Have you heard Justin Hayward do Stairway To Heaven?! It is so beautiful! I love Beefheart, especially with Zappa on Bongo Fury. I love Jethro Tull also.
DavidKinner 10 months ago
@DavidKinner : I saw Jethro Tull in the early seventies at the Spectrum in Philadelphia. It was them doing "Benefit". I liked Days of Future Passed but like In Search of the Lost Chord more. The Zombies, Odessey and Oracle is considered to be in the top three albums from the sixties. Disintegration by the Cure is an excellent album. Husker Du and Bob Mould's band Sugar had some good ear candy. The former had what I call sweet dissonance.
pmoyer50 10 months ago
@pmoyer50 I am gonna checkout the Zombie's heard some of their stuff. I am not the biggest fan of The Cure, but from what I have heard they are really good my favorite era is probably the 1970's. I love bands like Yes, King Crimson, Rush, Traffic, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Van Der Graaf, Deep Purple, Queen, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Allman Brothers, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Comus, Quintessence, Camel, Genesis(with Peter Gabriel), Utopia, Supertramp, Gentle Giant, Gong, Magma, Kansas, Can, The Strawbs
DavidKinner 10 months ago
@DavidKinner : Shades of Deep Purple and Books of Taliesyn are fantastic. The Strawbs was a talent breeding ground for future members of Yes. Genesis (with Peter Gabriel) is the only way to listen to them. Some of Supertramp is really good - it's kind of like mainstream Pink Floyd. I loved Traffic. The early Bee Gees were actually good. It's like they expanded on the Beatles Revolver in those days. Prominent Indie rock artists literally worship their early stuff. DISCO SUCKS AND ALWAYS WILL.
pmoyer50 10 months ago
@pmoyer50 I love both those albums, Deep Purple in Rock, actually I pretty much love every Deep Purple album. Ritchie Blackmore is amazing! He was good in Rainbow too with the Metal God! I sort of agree to Genesis being only good with Peter Gabriel, but A Trick of The Tail, and Wind and Wuthering were very good, and then Phil Collins turned into a pop artist, and Genesis sucked. The Bee Gees were really good. I don't know why hardly anyone knows about their pre-disco music.
DavidKinner 10 months ago
@DavidKinner : The Bee Gees were stigmatized by their Disco era. They were like a conglomerate and actually represented 2% of the entire music industry earnings back then and that's one big percentage to corner. It got to the point where big city radio stations were advertising the fact that it was an upcoming Bee Gees free weekend. So, blame it on the Nights on Broadway and Disco that many don't know how good they were in the sixties and early seventies.
pmoyer50 10 months ago
@pmoyer50 I can't even blame them for changing their style they deserved some fame within everything they did, and maybe had they not gotten famous from the disco era many people would have no idea who they were in the 1960's and they would have been just another almost completely forgotten great band in history. What do you think is The Beach Boys best album other than Pet Sounds in your opinion?
DavidKinner 10 months ago
@DavidKinner I could put Friends, Wild Honey and Sunflower at the top of the list. Parts of Smiley Smile belong in this category, too. The Beach Boys Today album is phenomenal. All Summer Long have classics such as Wendy and Don't Back Down. Both songs were light years ahead in musical ideas than their contemporaries. If Brian Wilson would have been left alone to finish Smile in 1967, it would have pulled the plug on the Sgt Peppers machine. My opinion only.
pmoyer50 10 months ago 6
@pmoyer50 Disco does suck, and I also really like Family. Do you like them?
DavidKinner 10 months ago
@pmoyer50 Yeah, mostly art rock lol
DavidKinner 10 months ago
@pmoyer50 It's kind of crazy if you really listen to Zappa you would almost swear the guy is on some serious drugs, but not at all. Definitely two of the greatest songwriters of their time Zappa, and Brian are probably the best of the 1960's. They are both amazing composers too!
DavidKinner 10 months ago
Just fantastic
likwidforpope 1 year ago
It's their first album built on turmoil... all was not well within the group, Smile had just been shelved, -- you can hear an attempt at 'cooling out' (the general mood) and also an undercurrent of anger (that organ and the sharpness of some singing) -- not the same old!
BucketFurter 2 years ago
love it - just love it! thanks so much.
roneythetube 2 years ago
What is the background lyric that is sung at the end of each chorus?
Thanks!
dripperj 2 years ago
@dripperj and how life is
thats my guess
SmileySmileAM 1 year ago
Great vocal combo with Brian, Al and Mike prominent on the verses.....
rustygpate 2 years ago 7
awsome
regentv980 2 years ago 13
I love that broken transistor organ...whatever it is that's crackling away!!
hahasaidthecar 3 years ago
@hahasaidthecar
Brian's beloved Baldwin Organ
mikeypoo76 1 year ago
Love it. A fave. Again, love that 1967 drum sound. Organic and tasty. It's good for you! Love that Dennis/Brian drum sound throughout Wild Honey! It's great.
ericebryan 3 years ago 9
C'mon!
malcolmbryant 3 years ago 7
Yet another gem of a song by Brian & The Boys that never got the full kudos it deserved. A delightfully 'laid back', time-to-cool-out melody, harmony and lyrics mix that has stood the test of time - rooster-calls and all !! The bass lines are fantastic - where's my Fender, I just got to try to re-create those bass-note combo's. But I'll leave the whistling & rooster-calls to the BB's. There's a sweet, genuinely distinctive 'spritual' feel to this musical piece. Grand work, Alixx2 !! Thank You !
colindominy 3 years ago 2
hehe
hughie521324 3 years ago
this album led nicely into Friends LP. band needed to mellow out for sure.
maida1982a 3 years ago
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gave them bird seed!
regentv980 3 years ago
I love it when Carl says "C'mon" at 1:02 (it could be Brian -- hard to tell for sure) Either way, I still love it. Kudos to Alan Boyd for the Endless Harmony movie (the scene where Mike uses the toilet in London).
tbirdtim 3 years ago 3
I love when Brian (or maybe Carl) harmonizes with the rooster toward the end of the song.
TheVelvetyPantaloons 3 years ago
It is Carl who sings C'mon
regentv980 3 years ago 3