@jackjude The Beach Boys have a different song called "All I Want To Do" from the 20/20 album that fits the "nearest thing to metal" description. This song here is an entirely different track albeit it recorded only a year later.
I read the Wiki article on chillwave and it referenced this track so I had to look it up. Wow - definitely very ahead of its time. On a similar note, I've always felt like John Lennon's "#9 Dream" was the first shoegaze / dreampop song. Give it a listen if you haven't heard it, and tell me you don't agree.
@MegaCrasher3000 funny, I'm listening because Wiki, in The Beach Boys stub, states; "20/20 (1969) was one of the groups most diverse albums ranging from waltz based songs like "Time to Get Alone" to its remake of The Ronettes' "I Can Hear Music" to hard rock songs such as "Do It Again", "Bluebirds Over the Mountain", and "All I Want to Do"; the nearest thing to heavy metal in the group's canon with its blazing and savage guitars.[59][60] " Hmmm....I'd go more with the chillwave precursor slant!
@thousandthys Yeah, the beach boys created experimental music,They created some lo-fi, and it takes long time to develop this genre, Now are more bands of moderm chillwave/glo-fi, for now this genre are soooo Underground.
Who wrote this? Wikipedia credits it to Brian Wilson and Love, is there a mistake? Anyway I know the other Wilsons had a huge talent, I adore Feel Flows (Carl) and Be With Me (Dennis).
@VocalFXX This song is credited to Brian and Mike. Production credit is to the band. Dennis Wilson is credited as the sole writer of All I Want to Do, from 20/20 a year or two earlier. That's the one where you can hear Dennis having sex with a chick at the fade.
Haunting song, did Brian ever explain why he used the echo effect so prominetly through it? Captures a spiritual love in a way that only Brian can, God it is great.
@motorbiker63 Agreed, Sunflower is a true band effort. It was great to hear Dennis and Bruce get a featured role on these albums. They had 3 solo leads apiece. I fell in love with that album the first time I heard it 2 years ago.
@StanBennet If you want some Mike Love soulful vocals (not the 1961-65 nasally vocals), check out Aren't You Glad and Meant For You. His part for Kiss Me Baby is also pretty good. You know, Mike has this rep as being totally against anything that wasn't surf/cars/fun in the sun, but Brian had already moved past that by the Today! album, and Mike is all over those songs like a good trooper. I think Mike just had his view on what the BB were about, and was more concerned about commercial success.
Listen closely to this song through a headset, it features the trippiest production of any Brian Wilson song, with layer upon layer of voices and instruments added to the mix as it progresses, sounding like everything is being squeezed through a synthesizer until it spills out at the end with the guys singing four or five different vocal parts at the fade. Similar in feeling to The Beatles "Tomorrow Never Knows." Best line "let these little words of love become the lamps that light your way."
You are stupid and drunk. Animal Collective is unlike any other band and nobody has come close to the same style and sound as them(... YET), ironically, same as the beach boys. Though, members of Animal Collective say they were strongly influenced by The Beach Boys, and I can kinda see it in their music, but it's hidden very well. Neither one is better than the other.
I didn't like that song when I first heard it. It's melody kinda scared me like it's soundtrack for horror or mystic film. Even now I have shivers when this comes. But anyway it shows very outstanding vocals by Mike and that's radically different to his usual style of singing. Also nice guitar riff.
@000PetSounds000 Agreed. The song is credited to B. Wilson and M. Love. Carl and Dennis had some wonderful moments, but only Brian could pull off music this complex and beautiful.
After "This Whole World" the best cut on the boys best record. I wish more "fans" could hear this and all the absolutely Godly music in the 1967-73 Years. It makes my hair stand on end. It is so so good!
@MrJoeybabe25 It´s Bruce´s fav record, and possibly mine! But "Add some music to your day" is by far the best song here, not to mention "Cool, cool water" which is a "Smile" song.
yeah it does sound like guy's eyes alot. But I honestly do not believe they intentionally used any of the melodies from this song for guy's eyes. I believe it is merely a coincidence of similar genius.
Close your eyes at the beginning of the song but follow the "All I wanna do" vocal part beginning at 1:27 and hear how it unfolds in your mind and paints so many divergent colours and sounds. Follow the "All I wanna do" vocal part ( focus on it alone) till the end of the song and listen to the sounds which surround you, envelope you, guide you, lead you and welcome you. This is genius, nothing like it then, nothing like it now. All you have to do is close your eyes and let your soul hear.
Sunflower, Surf's Up, Carl and the Passions and Holland just about single handedly carried rock and roll through one of its most unproductive periods ever. Forty years after the fact, the Beach Boys remain the standard of excellence.
One of the best off SUNFLOWER, one of The BB's best, and one of the best ever. Tasteful use of shaker, and one of the greatest basslines and bass sounds, and great effect on Mike's voice. Not to mention the overall highest standard of quality evident throughout SUNFLOWER. I wonder who played bass on this. Another, along with Dennis' "Be With Me", that perfectly evokes a warm California dusk.
@ericebryan I think Sunflower is the best beach boys album second to pet sounds, then comes today! summer nights or something... I have all their studio albums.
@atarking I agree that he does have I unique sounding voice, but he was often given writing credits for something as simple as a single line or phrase (like in "Wouldn't it be Nice" he wrote the last lines "Good night my baby, sleep tight my baby". I'm not saying those lines don't add anything to the song because they do, but 99% of the creativity was Brian and Tony Asher's. It could be a similar situation here.
@atarking Either way, it IS a great song, though. Sunflower's got some great songs. The album as a whole doesn't have the cohesiveness of a Pet Sounds or SMiLE but taken separately, most of the songs are great.
There's several moments on Sunflower thats reminiscent of Pet Sounds like This Whole World and Forever. I just bought Sunflower on vinyl and it sounds great.
pet sounds, today!, then sunflower, my three favourite beach boys albums, great delivery by mike love, lovely words, does anyone no why the sunflower album faired relatively poorly (29) in the uk charts where they were achieving great commercial success at the time and the album was been hyped up by the british press?.
While i agree smiley smile has its sublime moments it will always be known as the album that should have been smile, carl put it best when he said 'smiley smile was the bunt instead of the grand slam.
Completely agree, its a fine album with many of the bb's greatest moments, however i feel it was a backwards step after 'today!' and brian was probably forced into recording one more 'fun in the sun' album before been allowed to do pet sounds, i feel that if brian was allowed to progress naturally from (side 2 of) today to pet sounds the american public wouldnt have been so shocked by the sound, however let him run wild is a milestone in pop and is beyond underrated.
@paulandnic14 sir, I'm really sorry that I don't share the same opinion. I think Summer Day's is a even better album than today...
For example it has a groovier much harder [single] version of Help Me, Rhonda.
I think you can hear more "Spectoresque" sounds on the album as well as Salt Lake City and California Girls for example. I think you mean the party album because Brian didn't feel forced to do the summer days album. He was in full swing then!
@M3town3 I find the last 2/3rds of Summer days to be FAR better than Today! - if it weren't for the fun in the sun 'Girls from NYC', Amusement Parks USA and Salt Lake City, I would agree with that Summer days is the better album....however, every song on Today! is a masterpiece (not counting bull sessions). Those first few songs on Summer Days are a step backward, in my opinion.
@rab2591 You'll have to agree that Today is a softer album than summer days. Summer day's sound more Spector in my opinion especially Salt Lake City, that's one of my favorites on the album. The instrumental backround is what one must listen to. Not all songs on the B-side were written by the beach boys one of them were even written by Spector!
@M3town3 I love the chillness of Today but your right, Summer Days does sound A LOT like spector...my favorite off the album would have to be You're So Good To Me....I'll give Salt Lake City another listen
@qsergyuko I listened to today this weekend and while it is one of the best Beach Boys albums I tought help me ronda was so weak compared to the summer days version. I think it's really good you know like a Beatles album actually! Today! Summer Days... Pet Sounds and Sunflower are my favorites.
@M3town3 Today is a near perfect album,help me Rhonda is as good as the other version,its different but not worse,summer days is a great album,so is surfs up and wild honey,wild honey has to be one of their most underrated albums,its absolutely perfect,also smiley smile isn't terrible either.
@rab2591 "So Young" is a Spector song. Spector always did the best versions. Unchained melody for example is by many remembered to be a Elvis song. People say that his song is the best version of the song, well far from it. It's "even" a live song where he had trouble with his voice and Spector had just made You've lost that lovin' feling when Unchained melody came out; with the same artists!
I dont really class the party album as a studio album, what i meant by my comment was that summer days (although been ful of quality) was more of what people 'expected' from the beach boys the tracks didnt carry the same soul searching heart rendering songs that made today! sound more like pet sounds natural predecessor, i know the help me rhonda was far superior on sdasn and the album did show brian growing as a composer, but to me side 2 of today was where he really realised where he was going
Awesome song, I love it a lot! So sensual and warm. Oh and that part "Sure as the sun will come around again to start off another day" - perfect! What a great tune! Mike's vocal and delivery is so sweet, just spot on. This song is very underrated!
My favorite Beach boy was Dennis Wilson. I started loving him in the third grade which was in about the year 1979. It is so weird and uncanny that years later when I looked up Dennis' birthday it is the same date as mine. I would have never have dreamt that Dennis was born on the same date as I was. That just blew me away!
I love the Beach Boys. This is real music. It broke my heart when Dennis and Carl passed away. I was brought up listening to the Beach Boys. What a talented group. When I listen to the Beach Boys, it is impossible to be in a bad mood. They were brilliant!!
It's spectacular. Love's loveliest vocal. It sounds like there's a vocal changeover at 1:14 to the high part -- Brian? The BB were famous for unexpected, interesting vocal handoffs, as when Al picks up from Carl in "Breakaway". It's great to hear Mike singing so beautifully; he's especially sweet on "sun" and "All I wanna do" at 0:51. Plus sounds like a single voice, not doubled. The effect Brian uses on Mike's voice in this is masterful, too. Like "All This is That" -- meditative, peaceful.
I wouldn't say Noah or AC are ripping off The Beach Boys. They have a style all their own, the really do. They definitely do draw influence from the Beach Boys and it's most prevalent in their vocal stylings. AC tends to do a lot of overlapping, poly-rhythmic vocals (Tantrum Barb, Guys Eyes) and they do it very well. While this song may be in the same key as Guys Eyes, there is very little aside from the "All I wanna Do" part that sounds at all similar to Guys Eyes.
The melody is most definitely not the same. Someone doesn't know what they're talking about! It's just the same key. Sing Guys Eyes along with this and tell me it sounds at all similar aside from the "I wanna do" part.
Stanbennet: I guess you can tell I'n not a big Mike Love fan. He has tormented Brian over the years and the man has gone through enough. Brian has been his sole support in life and Mike has behaved like an enemy. Can't choose your family. Check out "Hang on to your Ego/I Know There's an Answer". Has to be about Mike. "You come on like you're peaceful, but inside you're so uptight...." Hilarious that Mike sings the line so sagely and knowingly, totally unknowingly.....! I love it...
He wasn't his cousins enemy. Love was completley against the drugs and forces that NEARLY killed Brian. Why does nobody give Mike any credit for loving Brian over the years and caring for his well being when he was at his lowest...
Of course this is Mike Love singing lead. Let's give credit where credit is due. But don't forget that Brian Wilson is producing, and he could make shit taste like pineapple....to quote Harry Cohn....
This is Mike Love on lead vocal in the verses for sure.... It's a very understated vocal....meaning that he's not singing very loud and closely miked (pardon the pun) . The delay effect works really nice on this one for sure. Not a big Mike Love fan but, I think this is one of his better moments. My hats off to him on this one!!!
Lol, I know what you mean. There was Transcendental Meditation on the '68 Friends album also, that he wrote lyrics to. Brian's quirky, fun melody rides it.
I believe you, but his voice seems a faint version of his own voice here. Perhaps it's what they did with it in editing. It's great, don't get me wrong, that's why I was wondering if perhaps Bruce was on lead because it obviously wasn't one of the Wilsons or Jardine.
I can see what you mean. There are similarities to mikes lead here and bruces on Deidre of the same album of course. Im not saying its the case with you but many BB fans myself at time included refuse to believe that mike could be involved in such beauty. Bebause of how unpopular he is with many fans.
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@jackjude The Beach Boys have a different song called "All I Want To Do" from the 20/20 album that fits the "nearest thing to metal" description. This song here is an entirely different track albeit it recorded only a year later.
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ShiverWhenNear 1 day ago
wow, not trying to be a dick, but if you all recently discovered this song because of chillwave that is a little embarrassing!
DW8807 1 week ago
This isn't really that Lo-Fi. If you want to hear Lo-Fi, listen to Black Flag. Nevertheless, this does sound A LOT like chillwave.
normtheclone 2 weeks ago
I read the Wiki article on chillwave and it referenced this track so I had to look it up. Wow - definitely very ahead of its time. On a similar note, I've always felt like John Lennon's "#9 Dream" was the first shoegaze / dreampop song. Give it a listen if you haven't heard it, and tell me you don't agree.
MegaCrasher3000 1 month ago 10
@MegaCrasher3000 Just read that article, now im here
MrBrentMetzger 3 weeks ago 4
@MegaCrasher3000 funny, I'm listening because Wiki, in The Beach Boys stub, states; "20/20 (1969) was one of the groups most diverse albums ranging from waltz based songs like "Time to Get Alone" to its remake of The Ronettes' "I Can Hear Music" to hard rock songs such as "Do It Again", "Bluebirds Over the Mountain", and "All I Want to Do"; the nearest thing to heavy metal in the group's canon with its blazing and savage guitars.[59][60] " Hmmm....I'd go more with the chillwave precursor slant!
jackjude 3 days ago
@MegaCrasher3000 same exact way I got here! haha
DYLAN123123123123 2 days ago
The original Lo-fi/Chillwave song.
TheStationable 1 month ago
The first glo fi Song or chillwave
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@narugueno Are you from wikipedia?
thousandthys 1 month ago
@thousandthys ??? no, the voice are really lo-fi, and really i dont care if i am from wikipedia.
narugueno 1 month ago
@narugueno Haha I'm kidding, and yeah I love this song; it's crazy how similar this sounds to modern chillwave
thousandthys 1 month ago
@thousandthys Yeah, the beach boys created experimental music,They created some lo-fi, and it takes long time to develop this genre, Now are more bands of moderm chillwave/glo-fi, for now this genre are soooo Underground.
narugueno 1 month ago
I just wonder how a human being can write anything like this. Brian Wilson must be an alien. Absolute genius, sheer beauty.
aneworderfan 2 months ago
@aneworderfan Brian Wilson didn't write this. Although he was the greatest, he wasn't the ONLY immensely talented member of the Beach Boys.
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Who wrote this? Wikipedia credits it to Brian Wilson and Love, is there a mistake? Anyway I know the other Wilsons had a huge talent, I adore Feel Flows (Carl) and Be With Me (Dennis).
aneworderfan 2 months ago
@VocalFXX This song is credited to Brian and Mike. Production credit is to the band. Dennis Wilson is credited as the sole writer of All I Want to Do, from 20/20 a year or two earlier. That's the one where you can hear Dennis having sex with a chick at the fade.
rangergrrrl 1 month ago
@VocalFXX No Brian, no Beach Boys. Yes the others were very talented, and made it all complete.Oh hell I'm agreeing with you...
StanBennet 1 month ago
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soulseeker300 3 months ago in playlist soulseeker300's favorites
My Brian Valentine - Loveless
teethofghosts 3 months ago
great song
shanehenning26 4 months ago
Totally awesome. Now THAT is a SONG. Beautiful. Why the heck wasn't that a big hit? Mesmerizing.
casestudyification 4 months ago 2
the dislike bar is the is justin bieibrers penis
JuxtaposeMystery 5 months ago
First time I heard this song I got goosebumps
JohnnyHez 5 months ago
A six pack off beer,a sigarette,headphones on,and you're floating into happiness.
TheDaydreamer1964 5 months ago
@TheDaydreamer1964 whats a sigarette? oh you mean a Cigarette
truthasfineprint 4 months ago
Brian is still so many years ahead.
freudastaire 5 months ago
The most underrated Beach Boys album. One of their bests.
looniespoons 6 months ago 2
a cover of this song was in the caroline now cd
addsomemusic 6 months ago
Haunting song, did Brian ever explain why he used the echo effect so prominetly through it? Captures a spiritual love in a way that only Brian can, God it is great.
surfsupedy 6 months ago
@surfsupedy
Probably just answered your own question there.
DonZabu 6 months ago
Proto-chillwave.
mikek2k6 6 months ago
Pop music at. its most superior
barney906 6 months ago
0:31 - 0:38
most beautiful moment (lyrically, musically, everything) in any song ever
TheBrianhj 7 months ago
I remember the first time I ever heard this song way back when.....what I wouldn't give to have that same feeling again.
AllThisIsThat 7 months ago
"Pet Sounds" may be Brian's greatest moment, but "Sunflower" is the band's ...
motorbiker63 7 months ago
@motorbiker63 Agreed, Sunflower is a true band effort. It was great to hear Dennis and Bruce get a featured role on these albums. They had 3 solo leads apiece. I fell in love with that album the first time I heard it 2 years ago.
peterp21 6 months ago
Forget Good Vibrations.. I know theres an answer.. This is by far the greatest song ever recorded by The Beach Boys..
WP9628 7 months ago
@WP9628 it's not all that for a beach boy song but it is a good tune
kennyg03 7 months ago
This is the only song that Mike Love sang that I felt the sound of soul.
StanBennet 8 months ago
@StanBennet If you want some Mike Love soulful vocals (not the 1961-65 nasally vocals), check out Aren't You Glad and Meant For You. His part for Kiss Me Baby is also pretty good. You know, Mike has this rep as being totally against anything that wasn't surf/cars/fun in the sun, but Brian had already moved past that by the Today! album, and Mike is all over those songs like a good trooper. I think Mike just had his view on what the BB were about, and was more concerned about commercial success.
peterp21 6 months ago
Wow.. What a bummer, sounds so much like Guy's Eyes. :(
BruisedEyeSockets 8 months ago
Listen to the bassline at 1:26. Amazing song
uncccut23 8 months ago
The feeling of this song, for me, it's exactly the same as "Guys eyes" from Animal Collective.
badbit 8 months ago
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I FUCKING LOVE THE BEACH BOYS. So fucking underrated it makes me want to cry.
TheUpperRoom477 8 months ago
so underrated so great!
doug1122003 8 months ago
Listen closely to this song through a headset, it features the trippiest production of any Brian Wilson song, with layer upon layer of voices and instruments added to the mix as it progresses, sounding like everything is being squeezed through a synthesizer until it spills out at the end with the guys singing four or five different vocal parts at the fade. Similar in feeling to The Beatles "Tomorrow Never Knows." Best line "let these little words of love become the lamps that light your way."
deanodingo 9 months ago
Beach Boys > Animal Collective
TheStupidDrunk 9 months ago 8
You are stupid and drunk. Animal Collective is unlike any other band and nobody has come close to the same style and sound as them(... YET), ironically, same as the beach boys. Though, members of Animal Collective say they were strongly influenced by The Beach Boys, and I can kinda see it in their music, but it's hidden very well. Neither one is better than the other.
Fuckraphiphoptechno 8 months ago 2
@Fuckraphiphoptechno beach boys are better.
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I didn't like that song when I first heard it. It's melody kinda scared me like it's soundtrack for horror or mystic film. Even now I have shivers when this comes. But anyway it shows very outstanding vocals by Mike and that's radically different to his usual style of singing. Also nice guitar riff.
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TheMarishka9 9 months ago
This song, IMO, does indeed have a Pet Sounds-esque magic to it, sort of a ramped up, "I just wasn't made for these times."
rbtjrinny 9 months ago
Perfection. Massive influence
trumanfalls 9 months ago
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bjp2969 9 months ago
wonderful song.
who wrote this song? Brian Wilson?
000PetSounds000 9 months ago
@000PetSounds000 Dennis I think
soulseeker300 9 months ago
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@000PetSounds000 Agreed. The song is credited to B. Wilson and M. Love. Carl and Dennis had some wonderful moments, but only Brian could pull off music this complex and beautiful.
bjp2969 9 months ago
@000PetSounds000 Brian Wilson wrote this one for the Sunflower album. Dennis wrote "All I Want to Do" for the previous 20/20 album.
boyders16 9 months ago 3
thought I'd heard all the great songs by the Beach Boys,
but no; here's another amazing recording, thanx for posting!
popgems 10 months ago
I cannot stop listening to this song! It's so textured and beautiful and I want this to be my wedding song!
TheCrkelley 10 months ago
Mike really does deserve a standing ovation for this one. Probably my favorite vocal from him.
SJI13 11 months ago
@SJI13 I concur. Mike even does a rare falsetto in this tune, at the 1:12 mark.
mattjackleroy 10 months ago
I love the video. It has some really beautiful pictures.
soulseeker300 11 months ago
Great edition! Nature.. love.. pleasure... Beach Boys! Directly to the main video in my channel.
anitasseo 11 months ago
hay algo más sexy que los BB? / Is there anything sexier than the BB??...
anitasseo 11 months ago
reminds me of MGMTs new stuff.
bruceeeee559 11 months ago 3
@bruceeeee559 that's cause they're influenced by the beach boys lol
Chacha5678 11 months ago
flash delirium.
thatslegit303 1 year ago 22
@thatslegit303 ...sounds nothing like this
JuxtaposeMystery 5 months ago
@JuxtaposeMystery okay
thatslegit303 5 months ago
This song is way ahead of its time
mpdalry1 1 year ago 2
This is one of the least heard albums that The Beach Boys did. And it's one of the best!
SonofThor73 1 year ago
@SonofThor73 This happens a lot in music........
anitasseo 11 months ago
After "This Whole World" the best cut on the boys best record. I wish more "fans" could hear this and all the absolutely Godly music in the 1967-73 Years. It makes my hair stand on end. It is so so good!
Joe
MrJoeybabe25 1 year ago
@MrJoeybabe25 It´s Bruce´s fav record, and possibly mine! But "Add some music to your day" is by far the best song here, not to mention "Cool, cool water" which is a "Smile" song.
ClubViking63 11 months ago
they didn't sample this
soulseeker300 1 year ago
its called sampling.
MrJihadjared 1 year ago
yeah it does sound like guy's eyes alot. But I honestly do not believe they intentionally used any of the melodies from this song for guy's eyes. I believe it is merely a coincidence of similar genius.
thedarkesthole 1 year ago
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Just like a dream. This song makes me happy and I'm glad that people who believe in something and have beautiful thoughts exist. :)
IBRAVEHEART 1 year ago
Just like a dream. This song makes me happy and I'm glad that people who believe in something and have beautiful thoughts exist. :)
IBRAVEHEART 1 year ago 6
@IBRAVEHEART Wonderful comment.
kidcharlemagne76 1 year ago
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IBRAVEHEART 1 year ago
One of the greatest BB songs ever! For those Beach Boys fans who have missed Sunflower, GET IT!
This is just one example of not only one of the great lost albums of all time, but IMHO, the finest group effort the Boys ever put together.
Pet Sounds doesn't count. It was a Brian Wilson album, with the boys as guest artists.
Joe
MrJoeybabe25 1 year ago
the drums might be the best part. too bad they are so low :(
collbonz 1 year ago
These lush vocals could melt the ice in your drink. Seriously they must have been mixed by angels themselves!
himycatisdead 1 year ago
the beginning is the besttt
inlovewithmgmt 1 year ago
this song is amazing.
buru44 1 year ago
Close your eyes at the beginning of the song but follow the "All I wanna do" vocal part beginning at 1:27 and hear how it unfolds in your mind and paints so many divergent colours and sounds. Follow the "All I wanna do" vocal part ( focus on it alone) till the end of the song and listen to the sounds which surround you, envelope you, guide you, lead you and welcome you. This is genius, nothing like it then, nothing like it now. All you have to do is close your eyes and let your soul hear.
Johnnywr 1 year ago
Truly Music You Can Feel ; )
MrDanielgregory 1 year ago
beautiful song, beautiful video too!
jamesbrown69 1 year ago
Sunflower, Surf's Up, Carl and the Passions and Holland just about single handedly carried rock and roll through one of its most unproductive periods ever. Forty years after the fact, the Beach Boys remain the standard of excellence.
MikeBlitzMag 1 year ago
Perfect music for the summer.
Kanarie1973 1 year ago
great deep bass and stereo spread. wonderful inspired mike love vocal and lyrics.
HolyCowNYC 1 year ago
@HolyCowNYC dont compliment mike love, the only bad thing about aids is that it didnt take him out
jwixy1714 1 year ago
@HolyCowNYC - Wow, that's mean-spirited.
HolyCowNYC 1 year ago
Panda Bear
kanggene 1 year ago 12
not animal collective
waailappe 1 year ago
this song sounds so surreal..i love it
gory1727 1 year ago 2
This is another BB song that gives me the chills listening now. Such a haunting melody and the harmonies are amazing.
AllThisIsThat 1 year ago 2
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postshanna 1 year ago
Nice!
jimet409 1 year ago
WIN!!
Amandabearish 1 year ago
it's hard for me to admit but Mike done a very good job in this one like Big Sur on Landlocked...
nicodjamel 1 year ago
One of the best off SUNFLOWER, one of The BB's best, and one of the best ever. Tasteful use of shaker, and one of the greatest basslines and bass sounds, and great effect on Mike's voice. Not to mention the overall highest standard of quality evident throughout SUNFLOWER. I wonder who played bass on this. Another, along with Dennis' "Be With Me", that perfectly evokes a warm California dusk.
ericebryan 1 year ago 3
@ericebryan I think Sunflower is the best beach boys album second to pet sounds, then comes today! summer nights or something... I have all their studio albums.
M3town3 1 year ago
Even though Mike may have made a few mistakes he is without doubt a very talented and proffesional musician.
This song is evidence of it!
atarking 1 year ago
@atarking I agree that he does have I unique sounding voice, but he was often given writing credits for something as simple as a single line or phrase (like in "Wouldn't it be Nice" he wrote the last lines "Good night my baby, sleep tight my baby". I'm not saying those lines don't add anything to the song because they do, but 99% of the creativity was Brian and Tony Asher's. It could be a similar situation here.
11jupitercowboy8 1 year ago
@atarking Either way, it IS a great song, though. Sunflower's got some great songs. The album as a whole doesn't have the cohesiveness of a Pet Sounds or SMiLE but taken separately, most of the songs are great.
11jupitercowboy8 1 year ago
Yeah, really Lennonesk. Beautiful!
Kanarie1973 1 year ago
als ob john lenneon mitkomponiert hätte....
rijmvandijk 1 year ago
Is anyone else really reminded of Pet Sounds by the lead guitar?
madahpesojnothgual 2 years ago 22
very much so!!!
mike94pietrobon 1 year ago
There's several moments on Sunflower thats reminiscent of Pet Sounds like This Whole World and Forever. I just bought Sunflower on vinyl and it sounds great.
dumbangel75 1 year ago
pet sounds, today!, then sunflower, my three favourite beach boys albums, great delivery by mike love, lovely words, does anyone no why the sunflower album faired relatively poorly (29) in the uk charts where they were achieving great commercial success at the time and the album was been hyped up by the british press?.
paulandnic14 2 years ago 3
Smiley Smile is better than Sunflower
jammmon 1 year ago
@jammmon
While i agree smiley smile has its sublime moments it will always be known as the album that should have been smile, carl put it best when he said 'smiley smile was the bunt instead of the grand slam.
paulandnic14 1 year ago
@paulandnic14 sir, Summer day's was a happenin album.
M3town3 1 year ago
@M3town3
Completely agree, its a fine album with many of the bb's greatest moments, however i feel it was a backwards step after 'today!' and brian was probably forced into recording one more 'fun in the sun' album before been allowed to do pet sounds, i feel that if brian was allowed to progress naturally from (side 2 of) today to pet sounds the american public wouldnt have been so shocked by the sound, however let him run wild is a milestone in pop and is beyond underrated.
paulandnic14 1 year ago
@paulandnic14 sir, I'm really sorry that I don't share the same opinion. I think Summer Day's is a even better album than today...
For example it has a groovier much harder [single] version of Help Me, Rhonda.
I think you can hear more "Spectoresque" sounds on the album as well as Salt Lake City and California Girls for example. I think you mean the party album because Brian didn't feel forced to do the summer days album. He was in full swing then!
M3town3 1 year ago 2
@M3town3 I find the last 2/3rds of Summer days to be FAR better than Today! - if it weren't for the fun in the sun 'Girls from NYC', Amusement Parks USA and Salt Lake City, I would agree with that Summer days is the better album....however, every song on Today! is a masterpiece (not counting bull sessions). Those first few songs on Summer Days are a step backward, in my opinion.
rab2591 1 year ago
@rab2591 You'll have to agree that Today is a softer album than summer days. Summer day's sound more Spector in my opinion especially Salt Lake City, that's one of my favorites on the album. The instrumental backround is what one must listen to. Not all songs on the B-side were written by the beach boys one of them were even written by Spector!
M3town3 1 year ago
@M3town3 I love the chillness of Today but your right, Summer Days does sound A LOT like spector...my favorite off the album would have to be You're So Good To Me....I'll give Salt Lake City another listen
rab2591 1 year ago
@M3town3 today is the best beach boys album,maybe even better than pet sounds,total classic.
qsergyuko 1 year ago
@qsergyuko I listened to today this weekend and while it is one of the best Beach Boys albums I tought help me ronda was so weak compared to the summer days version. I think it's really good you know like a Beatles album actually! Today! Summer Days... Pet Sounds and Sunflower are my favorites.
M3town3 1 year ago
@M3town3 Today is a near perfect album,help me Rhonda is as good as the other version,its different but not worse,summer days is a great album,so is surfs up and wild honey,wild honey has to be one of their most underrated albums,its absolutely perfect,also smiley smile isn't terrible either.
qsergyuko 1 year ago
@rab2591 "So Young" is a Spector song. Spector always did the best versions. Unchained melody for example is by many remembered to be a Elvis song. People say that his song is the best version of the song, well far from it. It's "even" a live song where he had trouble with his voice and Spector had just made You've lost that lovin' feling when Unchained melody came out; with the same artists!
M3town3 1 year ago
I dont really class the party album as a studio album, what i meant by my comment was that summer days (although been ful of quality) was more of what people 'expected' from the beach boys the tracks didnt carry the same soul searching heart rendering songs that made today! sound more like pet sounds natural predecessor, i know the help me rhonda was far superior on sdasn and the album did show brian growing as a composer, but to me side 2 of today was where he really realised where he was going
paulandnic14 1 year ago
For me, "Sunflower" (1970) LP is the epitome of The Beach Boys beautiful sound. This is Mike's effort. Very nice job on this video. Lovely pictures.
John Hunter Phillips
BeachBoysGuy1 2 years ago 4
Forgot to mention that the video you made is also very nice. These beautiful pics suit the song alright.
genatzvalee 2 years ago
Awesome song, I love it a lot! So sensual and warm. Oh and that part "Sure as the sun will come around again to start off another day" - perfect! What a great tune! Mike's vocal and delivery is so sweet, just spot on. This song is very underrated!
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1973metalmaster 2 years ago
My favorite Beach boy was Dennis Wilson. I started loving him in the third grade which was in about the year 1979. It is so weird and uncanny that years later when I looked up Dennis' birthday it is the same date as mine. I would have never have dreamt that Dennis was born on the same date as I was. That just blew me away!
tla1270 2 years ago 2
"Myyyyyy love is burnin' brightly, my moon and star shine nightly..." gives me chills evertime.
SouthJerseyMatt 2 years ago 2
I love the Beach Boys. This is real music. It broke my heart when Dennis and Carl passed away. I was brought up listening to the Beach Boys. What a talented group. When I listen to the Beach Boys, it is impossible to be in a bad mood. They were brilliant!!
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StanBennet 2 years ago
It's spectacular. Love's loveliest vocal. It sounds like there's a vocal changeover at 1:14 to the high part -- Brian? The BB were famous for unexpected, interesting vocal handoffs, as when Al picks up from Carl in "Breakaway". It's great to hear Mike singing so beautifully; he's especially sweet on "sun" and "All I wanna do" at 0:51. Plus sounds like a single voice, not doubled. The effect Brian uses on Mike's voice in this is masterful, too. Like "All This is That" -- meditative, peaceful.
ericebryan 2 years ago 3
@ericebryan That's Mike crossing over into his falsetto voice at 1:14. I can't think of any other songs where he sings falsetto.
boyders16 9 months ago 2
Great song from a fantastic band. Just listen to those harmonies!
realzoomy 2 years ago 4
This LP is really Pet Sounds II !
jimet409 2 years ago 3
animal collective
Picapacapopo 2 years ago 80
@Picapacapopo Yeah i hope you are stating that Noah lennox is a complete rip off of "THE BEACH BOYS" if not.. go die. Beach boys for life.
FAGHEARTSFAG 9 months ago
@FAGHEARTSFAG
I wouldn't say Noah or AC are ripping off The Beach Boys. They have a style all their own, the really do. They definitely do draw influence from the Beach Boys and it's most prevalent in their vocal stylings. AC tends to do a lot of overlapping, poly-rhythmic vocals (Tantrum Barb, Guys Eyes) and they do it very well. While this song may be in the same key as Guys Eyes, there is very little aside from the "All I wanna Do" part that sounds at all similar to Guys Eyes.
Envee211 7 months ago
@Envee211 first bar is the same, "i wanna do" melody is similar, same fucking lyrics, yeah there is a lot being ripped off.
JuxtaposeMystery 7 months ago
@JuxtaposeMystery
The melody is most definitely not the same. Someone doesn't know what they're talking about! It's just the same key. Sing Guys Eyes along with this and tell me it sounds at all similar aside from the "I wanna do" part.
Envee211 7 months ago
you are right,love is an arse,brian was the genious,love had no talent whatsoever
thestevo46 2 years ago
Stanbennet: I guess you can tell I'n not a big Mike Love fan. He has tormented Brian over the years and the man has gone through enough. Brian has been his sole support in life and Mike has behaved like an enemy. Can't choose your family. Check out "Hang on to your Ego/I Know There's an Answer". Has to be about Mike. "You come on like you're peaceful, but inside you're so uptight...." Hilarious that Mike sings the line so sagely and knowingly, totally unknowingly.....! I love it...
technothanks 2 years ago 3
He wasn't his cousins enemy. Love was completley against the drugs and forces that NEARLY killed Brian. Why does nobody give Mike any credit for loving Brian over the years and caring for his well being when he was at his lowest...
mdefil23 2 years ago 4
This and God Only Knows are my favorite Beach Boys songs.
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DreamPark9 2 years ago
Of course this is Mike Love singing lead. Let's give credit where credit is due. But don't forget that Brian Wilson is producing, and he could make shit taste like pineapple....to quote Harry Cohn....
technothanks 2 years ago
I wasn't trying to take credit away from Mike. I was fooled by his vocals. Hearing Bruce talk, it sounded like something he would sing.
StanBennet 2 years ago
This is Mike Love on lead vocal in the verses for sure.... It's a very understated vocal....meaning that he's not singing very loud and closely miked (pardon the pun) . The delay effect works really nice on this one for sure. Not a big Mike Love fan but, I think this is one of his better moments. My hats off to him on this one!!!
griztone 2 years ago
Could it possibly be Terry Melcher? He was at all these recordings during this period...Just a thought. It really doesnt sound like Love
tpasenelli 2 years ago
At least someone out there thought the same way I did. I think it's great that Mike Love sang it. He just fooled me.
StanBennet 2 years ago
Lol, I know what you mean. There was Transcendental Meditation on the '68 Friends album also, that he wrote lyrics to. Brian's quirky, fun melody rides it.
wilsondylanmccartney 2 years ago
For a guy so interested in meditation this is the only meditative song I have ever heard from Mike Love.
barkboingfloom 2 years ago
The Lead sounds like Mike Love
looniespoons 2 years ago
Your right mate it is.
ThePeacepoet 2 years ago
I believe you, but his voice seems a faint version of his own voice here. Perhaps it's what they did with it in editing. It's great, don't get me wrong, that's why I was wondering if perhaps Bruce was on lead because it obviously wasn't one of the Wilsons or Jardine.
StanBennet 2 years ago
I can see what you mean. There are similarities to mikes lead here and bruces on Deidre of the same album of course. Im not saying its the case with you but many BB fans myself at time included refuse to believe that mike could be involved in such beauty. Bebause of how unpopular he is with many fans.
ThePeacepoet 2 years ago
ICH LIEBE DICH, ANDREA!!!
Eyyoh77 2 years ago
Is this Bruce on lead?
StanBennet 2 years ago
Its mike love on lead
ThePeacepoet 2 years ago
i'm glad animal collective AND beach boys are both good bands, otherwise i might hate one of them for the resemblance
kennykshatriya 2 years ago
sunflower most underated album ever
ThePeacepoet 2 years ago
completely.
goodsoundgirl 2 years ago
haha guys eyes, hilarrrrrious
intheflesh01 2 years ago 4
Great song!!! Beautifullllll....
MissClassicDoux 2 years ago 2
Better than Marihuana...ssssmmmiiiileee...! :-)
Eyyoh77 2 years ago 4