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« on: September 08, 2011, 11:06:36 PM » |
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The GV (early take) which can be found on the smileysmile/wildhoney cd is great, it has such a funky chorus but what's the deal with the lyrics?
Obviously its before Mike got his lyrics down but half of it is already written anyway and didn't Mike say he was the one to come up with the boy/girl scenario in the song because the lyrics already say " I bet I know what she's like, and I can feel how right she'd be for me" or was he just talking about "I'm picking up good vibrations, she's giving me excitations "
Did Brian write the lyrics for this early take?
And who's singing in it, to me it sounds like Carl on lead and Brian backing.
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« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2011, 11:33:21 PM » |
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The GV (early take) which can be found on the smileysmile/wildhoney cd is great, it has such a funky chorus but what's the deal with the lyrics?
Obviously its before Mike got his lyrics down but half of it is already written anyway and didn't Mike say he was the one to come up with the boy/girl scenario in the song because the lyrics already say " I bet I know what she's like, and I can feel how right she'd be for me" or was he just talking about "I'm picking up good vibrations, she's giving me excitations "
Did Brian write the lyrics for this early take?
And who's singing in it, to me it sounds like Carl on lead and Brian backing.
Those lyrics were written by Tony Asher, and they were only ever intended as a placeholder, as per "Scrambled eggs". Lead vocal is generally agreed to be Brian, but there are dissenting voices. |
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« Reply #2 on: September 08, 2011, 11:45:06 PM » |
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i was watching a beach boys movie did you know that the original version of "good vbariotns was just brian yelping "good good good good good googd vibrations" over and over and over over bouncy chorus section echo chamber HERE yeah, well, it needed a hook. and then mike love rescued it from being aimless drug music by bothering to write the entire rest of the song himself?
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« Reply #3 on: September 08, 2011, 11:47:34 PM » |
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Woh I was so sure that was carl. So if it was Tony Asher's idea for the song to be about a boy/girl relationship why do Mike Love take credit for it  |
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« Reply #4 on: September 08, 2011, 11:56:37 PM » |
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Woh I was so sure that was carl. So if it was Tony Asher's idea for the song to be about a boy/girl relationship why do Mike Love take credit for it Sorry, I'm, 180% wrong - it is Carl. My bad. |
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« Reply #5 on: September 09, 2011, 12:12:36 AM » |
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Thank god, I was getting scared I couldn't tell the difference between their voices , but Carl's and even Dennis's falsetto do sound a lot like Brian's. |
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« Reply #6 on: September 09, 2011, 03:43:56 AM » |
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i was watching a beach boys movie did you know that the original version of "good vbariotns was just brian yelping "good good good good good googd vibrations" over and over and over over bouncy chorus section echo chamber HERE yeah, well, it needed a hook. and then mike love rescued it from being aimless drug music by bothering to write the entire rest of the song himself?
see you need something people can understand. what can people understand? sex. boy/girl, you know? boys like girls and girls like boys. people understand this. woo woo machines... they don't understand. they hear it and think, this is ego music, what is this? it's crazy acid alliteration ego music. this song needs something i can understand like a girl/boy theme with hooky chorus reinforcing this thematic element. before mike love, good vibrations was just a jew's harp, a cello, and a theremin. mike had to tell brian, we need something people can understand, like pianos and bass and drums and organs... |
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« Reply #8 on: September 09, 2011, 04:32:55 AM » |
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Yea thats Brian, It can get pretty confusing can't it. |
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« Reply #9 on: September 09, 2011, 04:36:53 AM » |
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Yea thats Brian, It can get pretty confusing can't it. sorry I confused myself, It's Carl sorry bout that |
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« Reply #10 on: September 09, 2011, 05:30:12 AM » |
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Lead vocal is generally agreed to be Brian, but there are dissenting voices.
You shocked me there for a moment. Glad to know I was right in assuming it's Carl. |
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« Reply #11 on: September 09, 2011, 05:43:06 AM » |
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I'll slightly refine that: verse - Carl chorus - Brian. Sorry for the confusion. Source for this info is impeccable. |
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« Reply #12 on: September 09, 2011, 05:43:32 AM » |
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WHAT!? I always thought that was Brian!
It sounds like both of them really. No, wait, it's Brian. It has to be! Or...? Carl doesn't sing like that, does he?
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« Reply #13 on: September 09, 2011, 05:45:29 AM » |
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Yeah, me too - swung between the two, but was eventually presented with compelling evidence.
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« Reply #14 on: September 09, 2011, 06:19:13 AM » |
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Yeah, me too - swung between the two, but was eventually presented with compelling evidence.
Please present us with the evidence as well! |
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« Reply #15 on: September 09, 2011, 07:35:43 AM » |
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Carl & Brian on the verse and chorus, Brians vocals are stronger and louder mixed. Brian is singing along alone with the theremin in one place, the uee ooo ooo ooo
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« Reply #16 on: September 09, 2011, 08:07:56 AM » |
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Wow I've always thought that was all Brian too, just singing in a Carl-like voice.
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« Reply #17 on: September 09, 2011, 08:10:55 AM » |
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That's not Brian?  I'm truly shocked |
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« Reply #18 on: September 09, 2011, 08:14:45 AM » |
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Why is the first line always missing from this early version?
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« Reply #19 on: September 09, 2011, 09:29:16 AM » |
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Why is the first line always missing from this early version?
I suspect that the mic input wasn't "punched in" soon enough and nobody felt it was necessary to redo the opening line since it was just a demo run-through. I have a feeling that Asher's original opening line is lost as a result and Mike's "I love the colorful clothes she wears..." was substituted for the BWPS version because no one could remember what Asher's line was. |
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« Reply #20 on: September 09, 2011, 09:39:30 AM » |
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Why is the first line always missing from this early version?
I suspect that the mic input wasn't "punched in" soon enough and nobody felt it was necessary to redo the opening line since it was just a demo run-through. I have a feeling that Asher's original opening line is lost as a result and Mike's "I love the colorful clothes she wears..." was substituted for the BWPS version because no one could remember what Asher's line was. That's a shame. I always assumed Asher did write the opening line. |
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« Reply #21 on: September 09, 2011, 09:51:11 AM » |
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Yeah, me too - swung between the two, but was eventually presented with compelling evidence.
Please present us with the evidence as well! Sure... but not right now. |
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« Reply #22 on: September 09, 2011, 09:51:39 AM » |
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Why is the first line always missing from this early version?
Because it's not there ?  |
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« Reply #23 on: September 09, 2011, 10:12:11 AM » |
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Wow...all this time I thought it was Brian as well!!!
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« Reply #24 on: September 09, 2011, 10:19:24 AM » |
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Why is the first line always missing from this early version?
Because it's not there ?  Andrew G. Doe, ladies and genitals! |
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