I'D LOVE JUST ONCE TO SEE YOU

[Nicko1234]

I love how literal we're taking the 'pie' line  

Yes, it couldn't possibly be just down to 'pie' rhyming with 'dry' could it? 

[SMiLE Brian]

I love how literal we're taking the 'pie' line  

Maybe Marilyn doesn't like pies, so would never really bake them? Therefore, Brian is voicing his displeasure at the lack of pied goods in the Wilson household.

I would have thought Brian getting annoyed at having to do the washing up all the time would have got more traction, but y'know...

We need AJ Weberman to "decode" BBs songs.

[busy doin nothin]

I always thought certain lines (not just the ending) were subtly racy:

"Oh, honey, don't know how long it's been, but this feeling's building up inside again."

"You had a way of makin' it come alive."

About as perfect a song as there has ever been.

[Nicko1234]

I always thought certain lines (not just the ending) were subtly racy:

"Oh, honey, don't know how long it's been, but this feeling's building up inside again."

"You had a way of makin' it come alive."

About as perfect a song as there has ever been.

Yep, kind of like a subtle version of Gettin' Hungry thematically.

[Mike's Beard]

I guess I'm the only one who really doesn't think too much of this song. Far too simple and corny.

[SMiLE Brian]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CSVt6prH9g

[cablegeddon]

I guess I'm the only one who really doesn't think too much of this song. Far too simple and corny.

It's a joke song or parody song if you will. IMO it's sarcastic in the indie pop sort of way....I wouldn't dismiss the song because it's great and fun but I wouln't sit and analyze the lyrics either...not in a million years

[Pinder's Gone To Kokomo And Back Again]

I remember c-man saying the boys played everything on this track, but he doesn't know for sure who played what. I'm guessing there's a strong chance Carl's on the acoustic

I remember reading somewhere that Dennis played guitar on that one. But I doubt it to be honest.

I remember reading or hearing that too someplace...

I actually wouldn't doubt it. The guitars are pretty solid, but I guess if Brian taught him the rhythm part, Dennis could have pulled it off.

[Disney Boy (1985)]

It's on Wild Honey, therefore it's brilliant!

[Generation42]

I love how literal we're taking the 'pie' line

Yeah, I mean, to me, in a song about hoping to see someone in the nude, the idea of "baking a pie," as it were, doesn't sound like it has anything to do with, you know, baked goods. 

[Matt Bielewicz]

"I love humans. Always seeing patterns in things that aren't there..."

I wouldn't read that much into it. For me, the song is touchingly intimate, not rip-roaringly raunchy nor leeringly double-entendrous. It's just quite sweet. The kind of intimacy that you get a few months into your relationship, where you're comfortable with each other, and can talk about fancying your partner openly to them or others without having to go to 'Got To Know The Woman' levels of lust-driven craziness, nor resort to Finbarr Saunders-style sniggering behind the hand.

I think there's a good chance the word 'pie' is there, as someone said above, because it rhymes with 'dry'. Expediency was a big thing for Brian around this time. Later, it got worse, to where the need for expediency outweighed the innovation and inspiration (I'm thinking of the couplet he proposed for Bruce's 'Deirdre', here: "My friend Bob; he has a job...")

But at this point, he still had the power to marry a quickly dashed-off lyric to a crisp tune and production and produce THIS kind of result: pop genius that's hard to match.

WITH a bloody amazing baroque vocal tag on the end!!!!

MattB

PS By the way, does anyone else think (as I do) that the fading tag of this song is a bit like the amazing harmony tag on the Smiley Smile version of Wind Chimes? I don't mean musically - I mean in the sense that Brian seems to be saying 'Oh yeah, I CAN still do your amazing harmony vocal breaks, yeah, course I can. But since SMiLE, no-one really cares about me any more, so I'm just gonna hide 'em away at the end here, when the song's just fading out, or put 'em at a volume level that's next to inaudible. If you WANNA listen carefully, you'll hear 'em, but I'm not gonna shout about them or put 'em up loud and in your face any more... you'll have to come looking for them...'

'Course, I could be talking total made-up buncombe, there...!

[Peter Reum]

This tune is Brian's sense of humor at it's best. I can't think of another tune on Wild Honey that shows his humor better....

[Nicko1234]

I think there's a good chance the word 'pie' is there, as someone said above, because it rhymes with 'dry'. Expediency was a big thing for Brian around this time. Later, it got worse, to where the need for expediency outweighed the innovation and inspiration (I'm thinking of the couplet he proposed for Bruce's 'Deirdre', here: "My friend Bob; he has a job...")

Expediency has always been a big thing with Mike too and he obviously must have contributed some or all of the lyrics to this one.

[Generation42]

"I love humans. Always seeing patterns in things that aren't there..."

Part of the beauty of art, no?  It's there if we want it to be.

[bgas]

"I love humans. Always seeing patterns in things that aren't there..."

Part of the beaty of art, no?  It's there if we want it to be.

Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy?

[Mitchell]

I believe Stephen Desper said it was Dennis on guitars.

I love this song, such gentle beauty, like a summer morning, mixed with a bit of Brian humour. This is the first of Brian's "daily observations", yeah? Then Busy Doin' Nothin' and I Went to Sleep...

[Generation42]

"I love humans. Always seeing patterns in things that aren't there..."

Part of the beauty of art, no?  It's there if we want it to be.

Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy?

Umm...  I mean, yeah, you know, if that's your bag.  Dive right in!   

[Disney Boy (1985)]

Here in the UK, 'pie' can indeed mean fanny (and that's fanny meaning front bottom, not fanny meaning bottom (as i believe is the case in the US) - hence the delightful term 'hairy pie'.

Personally i'm just relieved Brian didn't sing that he was looking forward to tasting her beef curtains...

[buddhahat]

Add me to the list of those who think this song is a little masterpiece. It takes me back to when I first discovered the SS/WH twofer at university. I was seriously hung up on the girl who lived three doors down from me and that last line , however ridiculous, completely defined my unrequited love for her at the time. That song, more than any other, still takes me back there.

[Rocker]

C'mon guys, a masterpiece?! Sure, it is one well written and clever lyric and also the song has a nice melody etc. But you can find much better songs in country music for example and no one would call those a masterpiece. Just because it is Brian/Beach Boys doesn't make it any better than it is

[Nicko1234]

I would agree that it isn't a masterpiece by any means but it is a nice throwaway song. It fits perfectly on Wild Honey.

[Matt Bielewicz]

Well, we're getting into the realms of taste, here, aren't we? But for me personally, most country music doesn't have the snappy pop feel of anything on Wild Honey. And I certainly don't know of any country tunes with a vocal arrangement like the one on the fade of this song.

But I would freely admit that country doesn't do a lot for me, and maybe that's just me - or maybe I'm not listening to the right country music. Hey, you got a track you think will prove me wrong, I'm all up for hearing it, honestly. Point me at something!

MattB

[Magic Transistor Radio]

This song is not meant for Marylin, Barbara or Diane. Nor for anyone Mike was seeing at the time. It was meant for Zeppo Marx.

[Micha]

C'mon guys, a masterpiece?! Sure, it is one well written and clever lyric and also the song has a nice melody etc. But you can find much better songs in country music for example and no one would call those a masterpiece. Just because it is Brian/Beach Boys doesn't make it any better than it is

I must admit that the sheer fact that I love this song doesn't make it a masterpiece per se.

[Don Malcolm]

C'mon guys, a masterpiece?! Sure, it is one well written and clever lyric and also the song has a nice melody etc. But you can find much better songs in country music for example and no one would call those a masterpiece. Just because it is Brian/Beach Boys doesn't make it any better than it is

I must admit that the sheer fact that I love this song doesn't make it a masterpiece per se.

It's a wonderful, minor gem to be sure. I realized when reading this thread that I'd forgotten to collect the "rank the tracks" data for Wild Honey. Let's just go ahead and post that here:

-----------------------------------------8
Darlin' (7.9)
Let The Wind Blow (7.2)
Wild Honey (7.1)
-----------------------------------------7
Country Air (6.7)
Aren't You Glad (6.5)
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I'd Love Just Once To See You
(5.4)
Here Comes the Night (5.3)
-----------------------------------------5
I Was Made to Love Her (4.12)
A Thing or Two (4.08)
-----------------------------------------4
How She Boogalooed It (3.3)
-----------------------------------------3
Mama Says (2.5)

Its position in the ranking seems to make sense; a few folks love it completely and have it as their #1; on whole, however, just about as many folks have it in their Bottom Four as their Top Four.

The flaw with "ranking" as opposed to "grading" (from 1-5, for example) is that we don't get overall album quality built into the data, but it's still rather interesting this way.

Am going back to collate the data on the earlier LPs. The consenus on the Wild Honey-Holland period is pretty darned interesting, and I suspect it will be even more so when we go backwards in time.