Time To Get Alone?

[The Shift]

Wasn't it Dom in LLVS! who said this was an example of where Brian's music would have gone post-SMiLE, if SMiLE had been released and successful?   I can't help but think he's right.  By far and away one of the BBs' finest moments.

[Jim V.]

I'm just gonna butt in here, and say that yes, it is a really good song, but I just cannot see why everybody is so into this song. Sure, its super well written, with great chord progressions, and wonderful singing, but so was a lot of the Boys late '60s/early '70s material. To me, it sounds like the Pet Sounds style being done two years later, with a bit more polish. I don't think the lyrics are any great shakes. The deep and wide part is breathtaking, but at the end of the day I just think it's another "pretty" song from the late middle phase of their career, a la "Our Sweet Love" or "Deirdre".


I gotta say though, I think Brian's 20/20 masterpiece was "I Went to Sleep." That is truly an overlooked work of genius. So sleepy, and so beautiful. Maybe my favorite BW song. Seriously.

[runnersdialzero]

I'm just gonna butt in here, and say that yes, it is a really good song, but I just cannot see why everybody is so into this song. Sure, its super well written, with great chord progressions, and wonderful singing, but so was a lot of the Boys late '60s/early '70s material. To me, it sounds like the Pet Sounds style being done two years later, with a bit more polish. I don't think the lyrics are any great shakes. The deep and wide part is breathtaking, but at the end of the day I just think it's another "pretty" song from the late middle phase of their career, a la "Our Sweet Love" or "Deirdre".


I gotta say though, I think Brian's 20/20 masterpiece was "I Went to Sleep." That is truly an overlooked work of genius. So sleepy, and so beautiful. Maybe my favorite BW song. Seriously.

"All these songs are too good, it's boring!"

Naw, j/k, u kno i luv u, but I'm having trouble following this one. I mean I guess I sort of understand, but at the same time, I don't think anyone is particularly obsessed with this one. Definitely worth talking about along with several other songs of the late 60s.

[Myk Luhv]

The lyrics to this song are better than those of "Good Vibrations".

[Jim V.]

runners, I guess what I'm trying to say is, I see "Time To Get Alone" getting SO much attention, at least in my opinion, by boardies around here and whatnot. People say it seems like proof Brian still "had it" after the SMiLE sessions ended. But I don't see this particular song as any more proof of that than, say, "I Went to Sleep", "This Whole World", or "You Need a Mess of Help to Stand Alone." Those aren't a retread of the Pet Sounds philosophy like "TTGA" and they are way more enjoyable to me.

But everybody has their own favorites. So to his each his own.

And I love you too runners

[SBonilla]

I'm just gonna butt in here, and say that yes, it is a really good song, but I just cannot see why everybody is so into this song. Sure, its super well written, with great chord progressions, and wonderful singing... To me, it sounds like the Pet Sounds style being done two years later, with a bit more polish. I don't think the lyrics are any great shakes. The deep and wide part is breathtaking, but at the end of the day I just think it's another "pretty" song from the late middle phase of their career, a la "Our Sweet Love" or "Deirdre"...

Our Sweet Love and Deirdre are sub par BB5 songs. Time To Get Alone is ahead of them musically and productionwise. To me it the is the other side of their summer songs, and it keeps that yearning thing they had in so many classic their songs. Also, the fact that it's in 3/4 (as well as I Went To Sleep) puts it in a specail place. The other waltz you gotta love is Solar System....