Brian Wilson - Vega-Tables

[viddrome]

This sounds like a commercial for the National Nutrition Council or something like that. It's sort of stupid but catchy. It's a guilty pleasure.

[knuckleheadjones]

This song is terrible. Plain and simple.

[NEWGUY562]

it's a strange song but that's what makes it so interesting :)

[Charlz850]

i can't wait to get the box set and this amazing song on VYNL!!!!!

[MattHatter]

On NOV. 1st, what's gonna be YOUR favorite VEGA-TABLE?! THE ORIGINAL 1967 VERSION OF "SMiLE" OR THE 2004 VERSION?! That is the question!

[SteamGrace]

Now I'm hungry...

[Wogleumpoo]

Woo! Go Paul McCartney Chomping Down On the Celery!

[BustardBuzzard]

Rock On, Brian!

[coolsweetgroovy]

I love both version I love The Beach Boys

[joeypeeebz]

It's about weed you morons, simple metaphorical correlation..

[xtelemasterx]

@joeypeeebz you're incorrect actually, the song is not about marijuana at all. at the time Brian was infatuated with the idea of eating vegetables and staying healthy, and even began requesting that his fellow bandmates eat vegetables and keep healthy. eat a lot, sleep a lot, brush 'em like crazy. :)

[SteamGrace]

@joeypeeebz hurrr durr guys every song from the 60s is about drugs or oral sex

SIMPEL METAPOHRCAL CORELETTION my ass. Sometimes (just sometimes!), a song is actually about what the freakin title implies

[Snape213]

This is the only bad Beach Boys song...

[GuardofOlympus]

Don't be silly. This song is awesome, I'm extremely impressed by this man/genius.

[xtelemasterx]

The Beatles' fans are all coming on here and saying "my! what stupid lyrics these are!" and then leaving to go listen to I am the Walrus, Mean Mr. Mustard, Yellow Submarine, and Octopus's Garden. ;)

[SHRINA17]

@xtelemasterx ---lol!  Great point!

[Cynabun1]

I <3 THIS SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bodywhomp98]

amazing, this may sound blasphemous, but beach boy harmonies, have no match. I am a baby boomer, grew up with beatles and british invasion, beach boys, etc, but I love the beatles, but no one sang better or mixed harmonies and voices in the studio like Brian.. How great to hear this piece at last. At least 30+ years since I've heard it. KSAN in SF used to use Smile out takes for station ID bumbers.

peace

[Picnicl]

You can imagine yourself in a Cabin (Essence) on the range, Wind Chimes hanging on the veranda, with all the animals and vegetables around you in the garden, containig a Workshop, on the outskirts of a (Heroes and Villains) Old West town with a railroad (the Iron Horse) going by. Inside the cabin, a little music box is playing Song for children.

[royalsteven]

Gee what nonsense lyrics abotu damn vegatables. The lyrics weren't necessarily better then compared to now, just the music (instrumentation) was way better.

[kaylawilliamsmusic]

I love this song! I recently did a cover, check out my channel. We had so much fun making this video-me and the celery that is ;)

[aLfR3dd]

Brian Wilson has a ear for harmony that's incredible.

[idic5]

@aLfR3dd I read that Bob Dylan said that Brian Wilson should will his ear to the Smithsonian.

Knowing Dylan's wit, he probably knew that Brian is deaf one year, so the double entendre of ear singular and an ear for music is intended.

[MrJihadjared]

van dyke parks did such a good job with these lyrics because they are so easy to sing along to, and brian wilsons arrangement is just so good that it makes the whimsical word play nearly a timeless production.

Does anyone else feel that the album cover poorly represents the music?

[selloutasaurus]

love it! Brian Wilson is a mega-vitamin-genius!

[cruzman3608]

extraordinary

[rockindavid310]

They play this album in a hospital for people who are a having a bad acid or shroom trip

[antherick]

lmao

[octopuscollective]

@rockindavid310 i wish the hospital i checked into had known this.. i'd probably have recovered a lot quicker!!!

[AllTheNuttyBits]

Brian Wilson's arrangements on this song are absolutely genius.

[kgbean]

That's the shittiest video I've ever partially seen.

[francoboy100]

then if it is so shitty ( which is is NOT) then why are you commenting beacuse some peolpe DONT think it is shitty ans think it is CLEVER. so you are the shitty one. i think this is a clever song and that 4 year old kids would dig this!

so there

[chaosfilms9295]

I love how Brian Wilson can take something as simple as veggetables and turn it into a song

[Parrambusties]

Why the change from VEGETABLES to VEGA-TABLES? I though, at the beginning, that it was a printing mistake... 8D

[chickenthr33]

It's called being artistic. Frank Zappa did that sort of thing a lot. Like pronouncing "down" as "dowIN"

[MrJihadjared]

Didnt you notice how brian says"vega table" at the end of the song?

[robotaholic]

I love that part "sleep a lot eat a lot brush 'em like crazy" the best!

[dmmamc]

this song always puts a smile on my face. SMILE!!!

[JOEYISAPAYNE]

even brian wilson can't get me to eat vegetables

[Huddiethegreat]

Wow, you REALLY hate them then

[JOEYISAPAYNE]

I still hate vegetables but I think this song is awesome

[DonZabu]

Does anybody know the piano tabs for this song?

[Huddiethegreat]

I love all the little percussion things going on at the beginning

[stumptacular]

im absolutely dumbfounded at the ability to turn something so mundane into something so simultaneously classic and yet fresh at the same time... timeless. brilliant. Brian. if you dont love BW's music, your ears arent on straight...

[Ulisse5555]

Ok my favourite is...

[justinomorales]

hey, this is good advice lol

[adez23]

I like this version better, but the original had Paul McCartney audibly chomping on celery, so... I'm torn.

[YouMuseMe]

@adez23 Does BW prefer carrots or beets or turnips?  ;-)

[MrJihadjared]

@adez23 it wasnt paul. he is dead

[Vincecouk]

@adez23 just a myth, the Paul McCartney thing, though Paul definitely visited Brian in '67.

[OropherThranduil]

Al: "The night before a big tour, I was out in the studio recording the vocal [for 'Vegetables'] when, to my surprise, Paul McCartney walked in and joined Brian at the console. And, briefly, the two most influential musical Geminis in the world had a chance to work together. I remember waiting for long periods of time between takes to get to the next section or verse. Brian [seemed to have] lost track of the session. Paul would come on the talkback and say something like 'Good take, Al.'"

[Vincecouk]

@OropherThranduil brilliant... yes, I know that quote. Where exactly does Al tell you McCartney munched on vegetables in it? Plus I said below that McCartney visited Brian, apparently some time during Apr' 67. 

[OropherThranduil]

@Vincecouk

just listen to the darn sessions then:

Beach Boys & Paul McCartney - “Vega-Tables” (NMR004)

that's a boot where you definitely can hear it all.

[DonZabu]

I honestly prefer the original voices to this version, but that's just me.

[dominian42]

Well sure, you couldn't replace the sound of the beach boys in their prime, but in their absence this is still as good as it gets.

[printthelegends]

@dominian42 Check out the version on the "Good Vibrations" box set. It's pretty much this, but with original Beach Boys vocals.

[Sleepwalker1977]

I like this better than the a capella version.

[briansno1fan]

amazing album considering its 40 year old material.

[Alixx2]

Another proof that the music of Brian Wilson is timeless.

[kangaroocomedy]

Oh my God! Where have I been? How have I missed this? What have I been doing with my life?? Life is so much better with BW...

[evanparker]

@briansno1fan this album is proof that mike fuck head is really the thing that held brian back 40 years. smile is amazing.

[OhNoItsGojira]

@briansno1fan true, but the material was never finalized until this album.