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Now available for Download i on iTunes!

Available on amazon UK on the 'morrow!

Damn straight it is! Will it be available as soon as it turns midnight?

Just got it on iTunes, gonna buy another for my girl ;) Haha!

I jolly well hope so!

So is it available on both iTunes and Amazon in the UK tomorrow? Or can I get it from iTunes now?

Doesn't appear to be on iTunes UK yet.

Should be on UK iTunes in an hour and a bit

Any songwriting credits on it?

Joe Thomas, Brian Wilson, Jim Peterik & Larry Millas

Yep. There is is.

Wonder if we'll ever know what Brian contributed.

Edit: Assuming he's not on there just for the sake of being on there (which is certainly possible), I'll speculate that he probably contributed to the chorus and tag section.

Does the quality of files differ between iTunes and Amazon?

Edit: stow that, I have download credit at Amazon!

I would imagine that since it was an older song, Brian's contribution will have been the middle eight -- which is pretty much easily detachable from the rest of the song.

Come on UK iTunes i'm going crazy waiting for this! 8)

That part sounds the least like Brian imo. I have no idea what he did contribute (maybe AGD will know more soon) but I wouldn't think the middle-eight.

I agree, I'm thinking he arranged it all, just using the chords and lyrics from the old draft.

Yeah, I originally thought the middle eight would be what he contributed, but it doesn't sound like him at all.

As I said, I think he probably reworked the chorus some harmonically. And the tag with the revolving vocals is clearly his, even if that's more arrangement than co-writing.

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The other option, as c-man has said, is that Brian came up with the title and possibly a fragment of melody back in the late 90s when he was working on Imagination (or its follow up) with Joe. Joe then worked with Jim and Larry to create a full song.

Bought  8)

Right , now everyone email/phone your local and national Radio stations to get it on their playlists

All that being said, I think it can sometimes be useful to follow the "if it sounds like it, it's probably true" rule in BB/BW land. It's not always the case, but it often is.

For example, I remember reading (inaccurately) that the Wrecking Crew did all the tracks after the first couple of albums. And I remember feeling foolish because it seemed so clear to me that those little guitar solos were by Carl. I mean, they all sounded the same. But I guess I didn't know what I was talking about.

Well, guess what? Those are all by Carl.

Likewise, if you played the TLOS demos to any real BW/BB fan, they could tell that it was a Brian writing and arranging project. You can just hear it. (And I don't think all of his ideas necessarily sound like Love You or the Wrecking Crew, but a lot do.)

So if you sit down and listen to TWGMTR, it's pretty clear that Brian had a hand in it. It has some baritone sax in the track. It has some organ. It sounds like a track he would cut with his solo band. The verses are lifts from earlier songs by him, regardless of who put them there. And that chorus -- and the way the voices weave in and out -- it just sounds like a big BW harmony orgasm.

So regardless of how the song came about -- Brian reworking something that already existed (which he did with Let the Wind Blow, for instance, which he also has a credit on) or providing the germ of an idea that others expanded upon (which has been done other times in his solo career) it has his fingerprints all over it.

And that's how it should be.

It definitely sounds like him, but then the most Brian-sounding thing on the Imagination album was Joe Thomas' tag for Sunshine, so we know that Thomas can do that kind of thing very well, too...

You mean the most Dennis-sounding thing on the Imagination album.  ;D

Thanks! I've purchased the single too!   I still miss going to my local record store and buying  a 45 rpm but downloading satisfies my I WANT IT NOW !!!  Poof, its on my computer.

Apparently not (it's two minutes past now ;) )

It's up now :)

Just downloaded off of iTunes. (Was going to go through Amazon, but sorry Amazon, whoever puts it up first gets my 99 cents). I've heard the "sizzle reel", but otherwise haven't exposed myself to the song much until I could hear the whole thing in relatively good fidelity.

I think it will take more time to digest this. Can't say a lot that others haven't. When they were talking about this song in past months, they weren't really conveying that it was in sort of 3/4 doo wop time. I was picturing a more sort of dramatic ballad, something a bit more modern sounding and less of a throwback. I do like how some of the chords don't resolve the most obvious way. Definitely a lot of Brian and Foskett in there. I can understand using Foskett for all the falsetto stuff. But he sounds like he's in there on some mid-range stuff that Al could have done. I can make Al out in the harmony. Mike seems to be the least discernable in the mix. But I've only listened through a few times.

Production-wise, it's just fine. I don't hear much Thomas-esque stuff going on. It does sound like recent Brian productions and mixes. Still too much reverb for my taste, but the reverb isn't majorily intense.

Just bought mine, 12 on the dot

We should really do a line-by-line breakdown of the song with indications on who is most audible where.

I don't know how useful it would be other than for fun. I think it's all blended too much to tell for sure, other than Brian being up front as the main lead vocalist.

i love the the "thats why god made the radio" part of the chorus in the beginning but the song fell apart after that :/...well the outro is pretty good too.

I don't think that's true, actually. Al is super audible in a couple of places -- "in my car" and "like a prayer" for instance.

People give up too easily!

Outro is the best part

Sure, I hear Al there. But it's a big mix of vocals, and I don't think a ton of spots other than those Al bits really stick out in terms of one particular person being super evident.

YOU ARE RIGHT :)

 I have the song, playing it non stop. heaven itself. . .

Song reminds me a lot of the BW version of "Keep An Eye On Summer" from Imagination.  It's not quite as stellar as it has been promoted, but it's not a bad tune. 

I think TWGMTR is very much in the style of Ballad Of Ol' Betsy. As Good timin' was a new Surfer Girl (Dennis described it as that and I agree), TWGMTR is a new Ballad Of Ol' Betsy (Boob  ;D)

I'm a little shocked that this isn't on Spotify.

I bought my copy on ITunes last night and I've listened to it 5 or 6 times already.

It's just Drop Dead Gorgeous in every way!

Drop
Dead
Gorgeous

LOVE that little organ/guitar opening -- very retro!

What a nice, very prominent part for Brian.

I don't know what the Young Uns will think, but us Old Guys like it.

I'm a young-un and I love it!