I dislike Carl's overdubs in the 1971 version. Particularly the organ.

Of the officially released versions, Surf's Up from TSS is my favorite.

However my all time favorite version is the bruiteaur mix of the 1966 recording with the 2004 BWPS version.

https://youtu.be/XVENkH7s1eQ

That is beautiful. The two lost bits of Smile I regret not hearing most are the original lead vocals for Worms, and the strings for Surf's Up. This is great.

Thanks, Wirestone!

Please don't yell at me if this has been asked elsewhere (I'm looking at you, AGD), but what about us iTunes buyers? No booklet available? Are the credits online anywhere? Hm.

I haven't heard Brian sound this articulate and wise in an interview since the 60s:
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6524001/brian-wilson-no-pier-pressure-album-love-and-mercy-biopic-exclusive-premiere

http://youtu.be/hTkM3uqWctg

The lyric video for "Right Time," with Brian looking engaged, peaceful, and in his element on a really nice song.

There's not a full demo here, but Brian plays a bit of "I Know There's An Answer" on piano while going over vocal parts in this video.
http://youtu.be/X3f6ZKQ_ffo

...other than "Don't Talk?"
I was listening to "IJWMFTT" today, and wondering what the basic demo of that could've been like. I have no clue.
Anything on youtube?

Sheesh.  I'm happy that some folks' lives are so awesome that the title of this thread is worth such outrage. I was just genuinely excited. Not trying to trick anyone.
Will the film be 100% flawless and free of annoying inaccuracies? Nah. But it's been gestating for yearsandyears, and I was just, and still am, excited to be able to FINALLY (ahem) see it.
So so-reeee.

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/magnolia/thewreckingcrew/

No, unfortunately. I was on the air when they passed by the broadcast booth. A couple of minutes later, I was handed the acetate. Carl look a lot more imposing up close than I expected.

I worked at my college radio station at the time Surf's Up came out. Our music director had scrawled on the back of Sunflower, "Side 2 is bearable," or maybe it was Side 1. Such was the BB's status at the time. When they played at our school, though, Carl and Al came wandering through our station and I was handed an acetate of "Long Promised Road" I understood to just have been delivered to them. I *may* have been the first DJ anywhere to play it on the air. Dunno for sure.

Hey, young 'uns. I was there, and "Johnny Carson" sounded absolutely idiotic.

Hey, since we're partially on the subject of weird PS percussion, I've wondered for decades what the metallic "chik" sound is on the front of and throughout "Caroline No." The one that alternates with the Sparkletts bottle. It kinda sounds like two halves of the top of a metal music stand being clacked together. It's certainly not a tambourine because there are no jingles in the sound.
I will now perform the relevant intro :-)
chik-chik-chik, bubbabubbabubba, chik-chik-chik, bubbabubbabubba, chik-"Where did your long hair go..."
Don't forget to tip your waitress.
Anyone?

lol, Ron.
If I didn't trust my ears, I wouldn't have been making music no one wants to hear since 1970. Hey, wait a minute... :-)

This has been an interesting thread to me. I never thought about who was singing the middle of GOK. What's been revealed here makes good sense to my ears.
I do think, though, that sweeping generalizations like "man overdubbing himself can never sound as good as a group take" are silly examples of anti-technology prejudice. I also still think the a cappella breakdown in Salt Lake City is all Brian in spite of what I've been told here by people who are undeniably expert, and that sounds awesome. (Don't even get me started on The Beatles "Nowwhere Man" or "Because," which sound like all-John to me, again in spite of what I've read from authoritative sources.)

1. Kokomo
2. Kokomo
3. Kokomo

Of course, for the ultimate BW take on "Twinkle Twinkle," there's "And Your Dream Comes True."

Hard to believe there are Pet sounds pix I haven't seen, but there ya go:

http://briandouglaswilson.tumblr.com/tagged/pet+sounds

Subtitled "Tony Asher Chews His Thumb"

I had it backwards at the time. I'd, er, borrowed, my older sister's Live In Concert and All Summer Long as my first BB albums. When I started filling in their older records, I wondered who David Marks was and what happened to him.

Thanks for posting this. I made a "Be My Baby" beat in Logic Pro X, imported the sample as an impulse response in Space Designer—boom—there it was. That sound.

Y'know, I wonder if we're all over-thinking the reasons for Brian's decline/withdrawal. Here's what I mean.
I was profoundly, viscerally, and so sadly struck by that recently posted interview where Brian said his internal voices started when he was around 25. I don't know why in all the decades I've been a fan I've never really considered how non-stop, every-day, every-minute awful that must be. I'm embarrassed at this lack of simple empathy on my part. Imagine having negative voices shouting at you every dark accusation and warning your subconscious can muster, all the time. I'm amazed he functioned at all. He's been suffering with this for decades. Omigod. I feel so bad for him. It no doubt happened all day today, even.

AGD, yep, that's it. Thanks. It did work.

Hm, I've listened to the Surf's Up album in Surround, or at least a makeshift variant of it that was around when the album was released. I don't remember the details, but it had something to do with mucking with phasing to generate a rear channel. It did get the sirens in "Student Demonstration Time" to spin around the room. I listened to the album that way after reading that it was mixed with the system in mind.
Anyone remember any details of this kind of Surround, or "Quad" as it was called?
Did I hallucinate all this?

I'm with the kill my soul crew on this one. Ew. This should be the single from "Worst of the Beach Boys."

"And Your Dream Comes True" is also essentially "Twinkle, Twinkle," though it took me decades to realize it. (Brian's part, specifically.)