Is everyone ready for "SMiLE" to come out Nov. 1st?! Hopefully the original doesn't contain that annoying "IN A WATERFALL" back up vocal! (I think this is one of the songs where new lyrics were added in '04).
@MattHatter If I remember correctly, VDP and BW had the vocals written back in 67, but they never had a change to record them before the project collapsed :-/
Solidarity with Elvis Presley, who made a movie and a song called Blue Hawaii. The blue whales. Leave it to Elvis and Brian Wilson to sing for the whales. Fans, you're so vain, you probably think this song is about you. The ocean is for whales, not people.
alixx2, please add who the composer of the song is (anyone besides BW, or does he have 100 pct of authorship) and WHEN the song was composed. Can we assume that since this was on a 2004 album the song was composed in 2004? Was anything from this 2004 album composed , wholly or in part, in 2004? Or is everything on this 2004 SMiLE album covers of previously composed songs (in the 60s)?
@idic5 I don't know whether Parks wrote the lyrics or not, but the music is essentially identical to that from bootlegs of the original 60's sessions (you can look them up on youtube, search "Purple Chick" and "Smile". Of course, Purple Chick has arranged the tracks to more or less match the 2004 version, but he does so using all and only the original 60's recording which are currently available).
SMiLe , 2004, actually works, hits the target. I assumed it would be the emabarassing stuff you hear from oldsters trying to re-do their old stuff (like mike love inc doing beach boays stuff, for example). But the songs on this album, with their distinctive and fresh sounds and harmonies are anything but embarassing and hackneyed. It has the freshness of good indie-type of music.
...you can spend all day or a lifetime slamming one and praising the other OR praising one and slamming the other, but at the end of the day...or a lifetime only ONE thing remains crystal CLEAR.....there IS no comparison.
I would loved to have been in the room when brian heard sgt pepper for the 1st time lol then getting up from his seat trembeling hand shaking ,turning over the record and then lettind side 2 finish then just sitting there vacant eyed while the stylus clicked over and over for hours while he contomplated it .But I am so glad this did finaly come out
@nolderine On that same note, I'd love to have been there when the Beatles heard Pet Sounds for the first time. Apparently Paul got up a screamed "We're FINISHED!"
Wow, this song (in fact the whole album) is complex and very oddly beautiful. I don't quite understand why everything went to pieces when this was originally recorded, but I'm glad they got it together and eventually released it. Some of their vocals remind me so much of the modern high-"harmonied" musicals of today, so I guess BB were really ahead of their time.
so he lay now on his bed, supporting his large, heavy, scarred head on his plump hand, with his one eye open, meditating and peering into the darkness
i know tha everybody can perceive trhe music uin different levels,but,lets be honest,smile has been a total fuiasco,something that rolling stones and many others are using to elevete the beach boy at the level of the fab four,wich is ridiciulos
OK- I'll just talk about this song- it links beautifully to the song before, Mrs O'Leary's Cow. The transition between those songs is historic! (and yet relatively new in its ordering). Everyone familar with the Smile legend knows that Brian Wilson adopted a fire hat and thought that fire was really going to break out. This song acts as the solution to all that fiery intensity and those background harmonies are gorgeous. I love the little 'wohh-awoo' at 0.45-0.47.
for some reason i always pictured "Workshop" coming after the "fire" song because it sounds like they are rebuilding after the fire. this one i pictured at the end, before "Surf's Up"
this is one of my favorite songs right now... I LOVE the way it uses all those little sounds, percussion and even the vocal harmonies to emulate the sound, feel and flow of "water" or "A WA WA HO WA" as Brian Wilson and helen Keller refer to it :) but seriously this song is amazing !
I know it lends me no credibility to say that I grew up across the street from a relative of the Wilsons, and in the same neighborhood as the Beach Boys(my mother grew up a block away from the Beach Boys parents in South LA) Also, my brother formed a psychedelic band with David Marks after he was out of the B. Boys in my boyhood garage. So I love Brian Wilson and want him to win, but it doesn't blind me to his sad state. I feel maybe you assign too much importance to rock music.
you know its funny... I am not minimalizing that brian was very sick he obviously was... yet he had the ability to still be productive as a song writer... and what he produced was gorgeous to me and many others... it went double platinum i believe... i dont assign so much importance to all rockers.. but brian wilsons music has recently got me through some rough times of my own and i just think its absolutely brilliant... his story is mega inspiring to myself and hordes of others im sure
not only do i have ears... i have a guitar i have been playing and writing songs with for over 20 yrs. Brian had only been writing songs for 5 years when he conceptualized this stuff! this album doesnt represent his "insanity". he went crazy when his closest confidantes couldnt understand his musical growth because he was growing SO FAST. he never struggled as a new musician, as soon as he started performing it was a hit.i can name NO other musician like that. GENIUS!
Kate Who? just kidding... but seriously man... you cant compare that girl to Brian Wilson. My buddy Mike likes kate Bush but seriously she is an underground artist... Brian wilson changed the face of history and popular culture with his music... how can you compare?
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Some loved one of his, please have mercy and take poor Brian Wilson home and let him alone! It's terrible how all his enablers are trolling him out to humiliate his self in front of crowds.
He was a great pop artist, and now you shame his name by allowing him to release this embarrassing material!
do you really believe this is embarrasing? no way. this man is incredible, he is almost 70 and he can remember all of those songs and words... this material is brilliant, not embarrassing. like most creations from a musical genious they take some listening to by "mee mortals" before you will "get it" and realize what an incredible work this really is. im proud of brian, he thought the devil lived in his house for 20 yrs cause of schizophrenia, his beautiful mind has triumphed! GO BRIAN!
i can almost hear what you are saying by "cross between early BB's and night of the living dead" for me that is the "haunting" part of the "hauntingly Beautiful"... I think this whole album is pretty charged 'spiritually' there are definitely moments such as "fire" and this song which was originally part of the "water" element also the "our prayer/gee" thing that are almost creepy... tragically scary beautiful. I cant stop listening.
@DonZabu I do too. I'm also partial to the the new "Surf's Up"...great falsettos there. However the original(well, the bootlegs) Holiday, Cabin Essence and Child is the father of the man are impossible to top for me
I am not a number I am free man
Shadowborn0 2 weeks ago
0:57-1:18 really got me rockin' out!
Ian16545 4 weeks ago
Man this nice :D ~ i like it~
isaacbateman76 2 months ago
beautiful. simply beautiful.
bfree2100 5 months ago 2
God bless Brian Wilson
BusterTV1 5 months ago
Is everyone ready for "SMiLE" to come out Nov. 1st?! Hopefully the original doesn't contain that annoying "IN A WATERFALL" back up vocal! (I think this is one of the songs where new lyrics were added in '04).
MattHatter 5 months ago
@MattHatter If I remember correctly, VDP and BW had the vocals written back in 67, but they never had a change to record them before the project collapsed :-/
xLilDuffx 5 months ago
Beat-Hoven!
predlycon 7 months ago
The thing is, the Devil did live in his house. Ask him what he did to fix that.
phallusbravo 8 months ago
so fucking beautiful
funyun2 8 months ago
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2:03 to 2:09 sounds like musical paradise....
HugeDrakeBellFan 9 months ago
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zzzznnnn11 11 months ago
one of the prisoner(2009) soundtrack!
zzzznnnn11 11 months ago 5
Solidarity with Elvis Presley, who made a movie and a song called Blue Hawaii. The blue whales. Leave it to Elvis and Brian Wilson to sing for the whales. Fans, you're so vain, you probably think this song is about you. The ocean is for whales, not people.
etbella3 1 year ago
wah-wah woo wah !
pouidg 1 year ago 2
u know what this reminds me of, owl city, lol.
RavensDryad 1 year ago
oh man if only this had been released in the 60s with the vocals of the beach boys and brian's younger voice...this is still good but damn damn damn!
doug1122003 1 year ago 5
This song comes in at a really nice part of the album
frankysandwich 1 year ago
I LOVE that bit at 2:06 lol. "Back in Blue Hawaii". That's so lovely :)
HugeDrakeBellFan 1 year ago
This is the highest rated album on metacritic.
SmoothHourglass 1 year ago
alixx2, please add who the composer of the song is (anyone besides BW, or does he have 100 pct of authorship) and WHEN the song was composed. Can we assume that since this was on a 2004 album the song was composed in 2004? Was anything from this 2004 album composed , wholly or in part, in 2004? Or is everything on this 2004 SMiLE album covers of previously composed songs (in the 60s)?
idic5 1 year ago
@idic5 I don't know whether Parks wrote the lyrics or not, but the music is essentially identical to that from bootlegs of the original 60's sessions (you can look them up on youtube, search "Purple Chick" and "Smile". Of course, Purple Chick has arranged the tracks to more or less match the 2004 version, but he does so using all and only the original 60's recording which are currently available).
hegelec 1 year ago
SMiLe , 2004, actually works, hits the target. I assumed it would be the emabarassing stuff you hear from oldsters trying to re-do their old stuff (like mike love inc doing beach boays stuff, for example). But the songs on this album, with their distinctive and fresh sounds and harmonies are anything but embarassing and hackneyed. It has the freshness of good indie-type of music.
idic5 1 year ago 3
<3 to the dolphins and wildlife in the gulf right now. thank you Brian
suparni 1 year ago
@suparni That's heartbreaking isn't it?
StanBennet 1 year ago
this album is spirituality
alliant 1 year ago
...you can spend all day or a lifetime slamming one and praising the other OR praising one and slamming the other, but at the end of the day...or a lifetime only ONE thing remains crystal CLEAR.....there IS no comparison.
davo67 1 year ago
I would loved to have been in the room when brian heard sgt pepper for the 1st time lol then getting up from his seat trembeling hand shaking ,turning over the record and then lettind side 2 finish then just sitting there vacant eyed while the stylus clicked over and over for hours while he contomplated it .But I am so glad this did finaly come out
nolderine 1 year ago
@nolderine On that same note, I'd love to have been there when the Beatles heard Pet Sounds for the first time. Apparently Paul got up a screamed "We're FINISHED!"
theSuperMetroid 11 months ago 2
Wow, this song (in fact the whole album) is complex and very oddly beautiful. I don't quite understand why everything went to pieces when this was originally recorded, but I'm glad they got it together and eventually released it. Some of their vocals remind me so much of the modern high-"harmonied" musicals of today, so I guess BB were really ahead of their time.
SphinctersForever 2 years ago 3
Just imagine if this album came out in 1967.
Dodo251 2 years ago 6
so he lay now on his bed, supporting his large, heavy, scarred head on his plump hand, with his one eye open, meditating and peering into the darkness
czech698 2 years ago
i know tha everybody can perceive trhe music uin different levels,but,lets be honest,smile has been a total fuiasco,something that rolling stones and many others are using to elevete the beach boy at the level of the fab four,wich is ridiciulos
04116404 2 years ago
@diehardskinfan
"No dude music is perceived differently by everyone"
- Words of wisdom, dude.
LogInAnders 2 years ago
here's 28, great tune
cenapecs77 2 years ago
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just 27 commernts ? thats enough for this pathetic song,,,i invited you to liste beatles o another band whort it
04116404 2 years ago
I invite you to not to be drunk when you write.
StanBennet 2 years ago
I've never heard anything like this before.
This testifies that Brian Wilson was ahead of his time. Not only that, but today it's still so.
AllTheNuttyBits 2 years ago 4
I heard it too, in The Prisoner.
cenapecs77 2 years ago 4
They used this song in the first episode of THE PRISONER...cool
7734Duke 2 years ago 3
oh my, that piano @ 57 seconds...everytime i listen to this cd that gets me. i love it.
miscreantsofrr 2 years ago
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Picnicl 2 years ago
OK- I'll just talk about this song- it links beautifully to the song before, Mrs O'Leary's Cow. The transition between those songs is historic! (and yet relatively new in its ordering). Everyone familar with the Smile legend knows that Brian Wilson adopted a fire hat and thought that fire was really going to break out. This song acts as the solution to all that fiery intensity and those background harmonies are gorgeous. I love the little 'wohh-awoo' at 0.45-0.47.
Picnicl 2 years ago
for some reason i always pictured "Workshop" coming after the "fire" song because it sounds like they are rebuilding after the fire. this one i pictured at the end, before "Surf's Up"
narrowarrows 2 years ago
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Picnicl 2 years ago
I thought this was a brian wilson song / video???
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Picnicl 2 years ago
this is one of my favorite songs right now... I LOVE the way it uses all those little sounds, percussion and even the vocal harmonies to emulate the sound, feel and flow of "water" or "A WA WA HO WA" as Brian Wilson and helen Keller refer to it :) but seriously this song is amazing !
stumptacular 2 years ago
Stumpy,
I know it lends me no credibility to say that I grew up across the street from a relative of the Wilsons, and in the same neighborhood as the Beach Boys(my mother grew up a block away from the Beach Boys parents in South LA) Also, my brother formed a psychedelic band with David Marks after he was out of the B. Boys in my boyhood garage. So I love Brian Wilson and want him to win, but it doesn't blind me to his sad state. I feel maybe you assign too much importance to rock music.
tapyenreit 3 years ago
you know its funny... I am not minimalizing that brian was very sick he obviously was... yet he had the ability to still be productive as a song writer... and what he produced was gorgeous to me and many others... it went double platinum i believe... i dont assign so much importance to all rockers.. but brian wilsons music has recently got me through some rough times of my own and i just think its absolutely brilliant... his story is mega inspiring to myself and hordes of others im sure
stumptacular 2 years ago
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Stumpy:
Do you have ears?
tapyenreit 3 years ago
not only do i have ears... i have a guitar i have been playing and writing songs with for over 20 yrs. Brian had only been writing songs for 5 years when he conceptualized this stuff! this album doesnt represent his "insanity". he went crazy when his closest confidantes couldnt understand his musical growth because he was growing SO FAST. he never struggled as a new musician, as soon as he started performing it was a hit.i can name NO other musician like that. GENIUS!
its beyond some listeners
stumptacular 3 years ago
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Picnicl 2 years ago
Kate Who? just kidding... but seriously man... you cant compare that girl to Brian Wilson. My buddy Mike likes kate Bush but seriously she is an underground artist... Brian wilson changed the face of history and popular culture with his music... how can you compare?
stumptacular 2 years ago
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Picnicl 2 years ago
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Some loved one of his, please have mercy and take poor Brian Wilson home and let him alone! It's terrible how all his enablers are trolling him out to humiliate his self in front of crowds.
He was a great pop artist, and now you shame his name by allowing him to release this embarrassing material!
tapyenreit 3 years ago
do you really believe this is embarrasing? no way. this man is incredible, he is almost 70 and he can remember all of those songs and words... this material is brilliant, not embarrassing. like most creations from a musical genious they take some listening to by "mee mortals" before you will "get it" and realize what an incredible work this really is. im proud of brian, he thought the devil lived in his house for 20 yrs cause of schizophrenia, his beautiful mind has triumphed! GO BRIAN!
stumptacular 3 years ago 22
@stumptacular This isn't embarrassing. Go to any hot beach and have this playing and those who disagree get back to me.
StanBennet 1 year ago
@stumptacular Beethoven. The beat goes on.
etbella3 1 year ago
Tapy, I'm with you. This material sounds like a cross between early Beach Boys and Night of The Living Dead.
7beers 3 years ago
i can almost hear what you are saying by "cross between early BB's and night of the living dead" for me that is the "haunting" part of the "hauntingly Beautiful"... I think this whole album is pretty charged 'spiritually' there are definitely moments such as "fire" and this song which was originally part of the "water" element also the "our prayer/gee" thing that are almost creepy... tragically scary beautiful. I cant stop listening.
stumptacular 2 years ago
I actually like this version better than the bootlegs.
DonZabu 3 years ago 18
me too. i love how it sounds like a play on church prayers at the start. "teenage symphony to god" indeed.
caats19 3 years ago 4
@DonZabu I do too. I'm also partial to the the new "Surf's Up"...great falsettos there. However the original(well, the bootlegs) Holiday, Cabin Essence and Child is the father of the man are impossible to top for me
jwild611 1 year ago