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Beach Boys — Good Vibrations
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TerryS
(Another SW)
Posted: May 10, 2013 - 20:02
 
Saw Brian 2 years ago and his backing band actually got this sound right. Sorry, but Brian was standing there clicking his fingers and miming, although this actually didn't  matter to me, just closed my eyes and all was good.

kurtster
(Back in Ohiya, for now ...)
Posted: May 10, 2013 - 20:00
 
 jgriffin56 wrote:
Brian's version on Smile is slightly different and worth a listen, as is that entire album 
 
Musically, a much better version, imo.

The lyrics take a little getting used to, but over time I prefer it.

It has been repeatedly rejected for the library.

jgriffin56
Posted: Apr 09, 2013 - 15:53
 
Brian's version on Smile is slightly different and worth a listen, as is that entire album 
jnhashmi
(Los Angeles)
Posted: Apr 09, 2013 - 15:46
 
Sunkist ALMOST ruined this song. I still think of the commercial whenever I hear it, but it's also got a life of it's own in my head. Whew.
Lazarus
(Bethany)
Posted: Feb 05, 2013 - 20:04
 



Saltash_Calling
(UK)
Posted: Dec 05, 2012 - 02:49
 
How many songs can still be fresh 40 years later. Definition of Godlike.

wlpendley
(New Mexico)
Posted: Nov 03, 2012 - 18:38
 
 Proclivities wrote:

{#Yes}  That's right.  It was just released as a single, the same year, I believe.  I don't think it appeared on an album until some compilation, many years later.
 



Not true. It was released on the Smiley Smile album along with Heroes and Villains.

wlpendley
(New Mexico)
Posted: Nov 03, 2012 - 18:37
 
Absolutely love this song...

Giselle62
(many bear, big rock, estuary California)
Posted: Nov 03, 2012 - 18:34
 
since I saw Vanilla Sky I've liked this song even more than before—-it was so haunting in that movie

d48m02h1918
Posted: Oct 03, 2012 - 09:32
 
You know, this is a fantastic blend of sound and harmonies....pure genius by Brian {#Jump}, but why is Mike Love such an a**hole? {#Rolleyes}

lemmoth
(NYC)
Posted: Oct 03, 2012 - 09:31
 
And oh yeah Bill and Rebecca, not Pet Sounds.

lemmoth
(NYC)
Posted: Oct 03, 2012 - 09:30
 
What the Godlike category was created for!!!!!!

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Aug 01, 2012 - 10:02
 
 ycb661 wrote:
Good Vibrations is not from the Pet Sounds Album...
 
{#Yes}  That's right.  It was just released as a single, the same year, I believe.  I don't think it appeared on an album until some compilation, many years later.

ziakut
(Albeit In The Meantime)
Posted: Jun 19, 2012 - 12:12
 
GENIUS ROCK...simply beyond anything else the year this was recorded.

lily34
(lexvegas)
Posted: Jun 19, 2012 - 12:11
 
phenomenal.

ycb661
Posted: May 18, 2012 - 17:13
 
Good Vibrations is not from the Pet Sounds Album...

Blastcat900
Posted: Mar 27, 2012 - 14:53
 
Yeah, Pet Sounds is THE album of the 20th century, all the other albums have inferior potassium.

Deegerino
(Sidney BC)
Posted: Mar 27, 2012 - 14:52
 
Boys I have missed hearing this!{#Dance}

jagdriver
(Just a nod and a wink south of Paradise)
Posted: Mar 27, 2012 - 14:51
 


Zeito
(Sieur du Lhut)
Posted: Mar 16, 2012 - 07:43
 
The finally released Smile.  And it is good.  

audiophelia
(Pennsylvania)
Posted: Mar 16, 2012 - 07:43
 
Theramin Baby!!!

kysmet
(Central Florida)
Posted: Mar 16, 2012 - 07:42
 
Fun!

ajlept
(Athens, GA)
Posted: Feb 24, 2012 - 22:33
 
Throw away all the psych drugs and give me a big dose of this stuff!

drewd
Posted: Feb 13, 2012 - 13:04
 
 GeneP59 wrote:

Make mine a Lime Ricky! {#Cheers}
Lime Ricky
 
Wow ! Now that's some old school refreshment.......
Still prefer my Sunkist orange soda.
Bubbly Bubbly Bubbly

nagsheadlocal
(North Carolina, the new New Jersey)
Posted: Feb 13, 2012 - 13:03
 
In a hundred years, I hope students in music theory class are listening to this as an example of what was right with music in the middle of the 20th century.

And I hope they are as blown away as I was one day in theory class, having Scott Joplin explained to me. And as blown away as I was the first time I heard this song. 

boober
(KC,Mo)
Posted: Feb 13, 2012 - 13:03
 
Vain attempt last night at the Grammy's by The Beach Boys to recreate the magic!

Tana
(Lancaster, PA)
Posted: Feb 13, 2012 - 13:01
 
The Beach Boys on the Grammys last night WITH BRIAN WILSON!! reduced me to tears. Looked as if he was having a good time.

Cynaera
(Oh, who cares?)
Posted: Dec 23, 2011 - 11:41
 
Two days before Christmas. The sky is blue, the air is crystal-clear and cold, there's not a trace of snow on the ground, and for some reason, this song STILL makes it feel like Christmas here!  I love the Beach Boys.{#Daisy}

neuticle
(fog fog fog)
Posted: Dec 23, 2011 - 11:39
 
Come on , only 8.1 ..I mean, really? 3 of us all went AH! at the first vocal...Perfection

wlpendley
(New Mexico)
Posted: Dec 23, 2011 - 11:38
 
Love this song, but hey RP, it was *not* released on the album Pet Sounds.  This is from "Smiley Smile" — the first LP I ever purchased.

:-)

pdjpirate
(Near the Graveyard of the Atlantic!)
Posted: Nov 21, 2011 - 18:05
 
The most enfluentual album in the last half of the 20th century...if not all time! The ultimate TEN! Rolling Stone has Pet Sound at number two of all time with Sgt. Pepper as number one, but Sgt. Pepper would not have happened, if it had not been for Pet Sound...

McCartney: "It was Pet Sounds that blew me out of the water. I love the album so much. I've just bought my kids each a copy of it for their education in life ... I figure no one is educated musically 'til they've heard that album ... I love the orchestra, the arrangements ... it may be going overboard to say it's the classic of the century ... but to me, it certainly is a total, classic record that is unbeatable in many ways ... I've often played Pet Sounds and cried. I played it to John so much that it would be difficult for him to escape the influence ... it was the record of the time."

Beatles producer George Martin: "Without Pet Sounds, Sgt. Pepper wouldn't have happened... Pepper was an attempt to equal Pet Sounds."

Clapton: "I consider Pet Sounds to be one of the greatest pop LPs to ever be released. It encompasses everything that's ever knocked me out and rolled it all into one."

Elton: "For me to say that I was enthralled would be an understatement. I had never heard such magical sounds, so amazingly recorded. It undoubtedly changed the way that I, and countless others, approached recording. It is a timeless and amazing recording of incredible genius and beauty."

Dylan: On Brian Wilson's talents, "That ear - I mean, Jesus, he's got to will that to the Smithsonian."

One last odd fact, the album featured a session guitar player by the name of Glen Campbell!! .{#Guitarist}

I saw the Beach Boys on the Steel Pier in Atlantic City, NJ, USA in the late 60's...I'll never forget it!
{#Sunny}




westslope
(BC coast)
Posted: Nov 21, 2011 - 18:03
 
 mpatnode wrote:
Hey Bill, I know you don't like the Beach Boys, but I'm glad you know we do.
 
Interesting.  Back in the day, I found much of their material and the lyrics annoying.  But the influence is undeniable.


LongGoneDaddy
Posted: Nov 10, 2011 - 06:54
 
rockin' the theremin!

Dahlia_Gumbo
(San Francisco)
Posted: Nov 10, 2011 - 06:52
 
Feel good music for me, who doesn't need that? Thanks Bill!

HazzeSwede
(Vinyl Land)
Posted: Nov 10, 2011 - 06:52
 
Never liked BB.

SmackDaddy
(San Diego)
Posted: Oct 09, 2011 - 18:16
 
 tulfan wrote:
The "genius" of this band continues to elude me.
 

A lot has to do with harmonies, but the thing with the genius of any rock band is that it has to be taken within the context of the time it was released and it's newness and originality relative to what was being done at the time and up until that time. Due to constant recycling of influences, trying to understand it 40 years later is nearly impossible. I've always said the worst thing to happen to rock n roll was when it developed a history.

Cynaera
(In a hammock under my own vine and fig tree.)
Posted: Oct 09, 2011 - 18:13
 
 tulfan wrote:
The "genius" of this band continues to elude me.
 
Okay - view them as a collective of idiots. But dont'cha still sorta want to tap your foot and maybe learn how to surf? {#Sunny}

tulfan
(One of the last ones in SE MI)
Posted: Sep 08, 2011 - 07:48
 
The "genius" of this band continues to elude me.

Misterfixit
(Nashville)
Posted: Sep 08, 2011 - 07:47
 
Ah more memories from Vietnam!  When this album first arrived in I Corps (courtesy of the delicious Edith who later Dear John'ed me, but that's another story), it came on a single 45.  The single was radpidly converted to 3" reel-to-reel tape so everyone's little PX tape recorder could play it.  (We used the 3" reels to record stuff and sent audio letters home, etc.)  Well it wasn't 24 hours before this song was #1 hit on the Battalion's Command Radio — everytime the artillery fired, every time Charlie sent in a few 122mm rockets to keep us awake, we heard "Good Vibrations".   Good Vibrations, indeed .... {#War}



Maggle_Bish
(Chicago, IL)
Posted: Sep 08, 2011 - 07:43
 
 mpatnode wrote:
Hey Bill, I know you don't like the Beach Boys, but I'm glad you know we do.
 
Hey Bill, I heard you don't like the Beach Boys.  I think you owe it to yourself to never play this song again.  Come on!


Govi
(Left Coast)
Posted: Sep 08, 2011 - 07:41
 
It was creepy then; it's still creepy now.


amoreena
(west whatnot)
Posted: Jul 18, 2011 - 18:28
 

From wiki:

Wilson's publicist Derek Taylor described "Good Vibrations" as a "pocket symphony". It featured instruments unusual for a psychedelic rock/pop song, including prominent use of the cello and an electro-theremin.<2><3><4> It is number six on Rolling Stone's list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time."<5> The song "Good Vibrations" is part of the The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list.<6>

On my list of the top 10.  Sigh.



mpatnode
Posted: Jul 18, 2011 - 18:28
 
Hey Bill, I know you don't like the Beach Boys, but I'm glad you know we do.

ziggytrix
(Dallas, TX)
Posted: Jul 07, 2011 - 14:03
 
 On_The_Beach wrote:

From Wikipedia: The theremin is an early electronic musical instrument controlled without contact from the player. It is named after its Russian inventor, Professor Léon Theremin, who patented the device in 1928. The controlling section usually consists of two metal antennasoscillator(s) for frequency with one hand, and amplitude (volume) with the other. The electric signals from the theremin are amplified and sent to a loudspeaker.
Contrary to popular belief, the theremin was not used on the 1966 recording of "Good Vibrations" by The Beach Boys, which featured Paul Tanner's "box", later called the electro-theremin. However, for concert appearances, an oscillator slide-controller was designed and built for Wilson by Robert Moog. Wilson helped to popularize the instrument when he recorded Paul Tanner playing his electro-theremin — for the first time in recorded music history—on the song "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times." The song appeared on The Beach Boys' 1966 album Pet Sounds, considered one of the most influential albums in popular music history.

 
So it was a theremin knock-off.  Interesting.


Huey
(Netherlands)
Posted: Jul 07, 2011 - 13:58
 
 fredriley wrote:
This should be adapted by Ann Summers for selling Rampant Rabbits... :o)
 
Hmmmz, the mind boggles. ;)


On_The_Beach
(Vancouver BC, Bud)
Posted: May 16, 2011 - 12:24
 
 lemmoth wrote:
More theremin please.
 
From Wikipedia: The theremin is an early electronic musical instrument controlled without contact from the player. It is named after its Russian inventor, Professor Léon Theremin, who patented the device in 1928. The controlling section usually consists of two metal antennasoscillator(s) for frequency with one hand, and amplitude (volume) with the other. The electric signals from the theremin are amplified and sent to a loudspeaker.
Contrary to popular belief, the theremin was not used on the 1966 recording of "Good Vibrations" by The Beach Boys, which featured Paul Tanner's "box", later called the electro-theremin. However, for concert appearances, an oscillator slide-controller was designed and built for Wilson by Robert Moog. Wilson helped to popularize the instrument when he recorded Paul Tanner playing his electro-theremin — for the first time in recorded music history—on the song "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times." The song appeared on The Beach Boys' 1966 album Pet Sounds, considered one of the most influential albums in popular music history.


vit
Posted: May 16, 2011 - 11:45
 
 Photo-John wrote:
Goddamnit this is wonderful. It's a serious breath of fresh air amongst all the current "alternative" swill, too. And that's coming from an angry redneck punk rock hippie.
 
Awesome.

I used to think I was over this song (by the time I was 13) but then heard it again on RP a few years ago and I can't get over its genius. It takes some serious stepping outside of normal pop boundaries to use the voice like this (in my opinion). Anyway my 3-year old daughter loves this song and my wife hates it, so I get to hear it rarely, but in powerful bursts.


GeneP59
(On the edge of tomorrow looking back at yesterday.)
Posted: May 16, 2011 - 11:44
 
 drewd wrote:
Not saying that this song has been commercialized... I suddenly feel the need for orange soda.
 
Make mine a Lime Ricky! {#Cheers}
Lime Ricky

Kaiser
(Connecticut)
Posted: May 16, 2011 - 11:42
 
Bill, in fact, I don't recognize this.  Is it a song from some sort of beach-themed band?


{#Tongue} {#Bounce}


Byronape
(Purgatory)
Posted: May 05, 2011 - 08:43
 
 lemmoth wrote:
My only problem with RP - they are constantly posting the wrong album's for songs.  Pet Sounds??? I don't think so.
 
I believe that it was released as a stand alone single after pet sounds was released.  However, the backing instrumentals were from Pet Sounds's "Let's go away for a while."  Song was actually included in the Smiley Smile album nearly a year after it was released.