God Only Knows BBC Music ad

[Shady]

Macca must have been busy.

He was pissed off they didn't choose "the frog chorus"

[Pretty Funky]

I was sceptical at first. I loved it though.


Was that Billie Pyper I spotter in there?  

The guardian link above has all the artists listed at the bottom of the story.

1 Dave Grohl; 2 Alison Balsom; 3 Lorde; 4 Pharrell Williams; 5 Zane Lowe; 6 Sam Smith; 7 Paloma Faith; 8 Eliza Carthy; 9 Nicola Benedetti; 10 Chris Martin; 11 Jaz Dhami; 12 Martin James Bartlett; 13 Danielle de Niese; 14 Stevie Wonder; 15 Florence Welch; 16 Lauren Laverne; 17 Brian Wilson; 18 Jake Bugg; 19 Katie Derham; 20 Gareth Malone; 21 Kylie Minogue; 22 Chrissie Hyde; 23 One Direction; 24 Emeli Sande; 25 Elton John; 26 Baaba Maal; 27 Ethan Johns; 28 Jools Holland; 29 Jamie Cullum; 30 Brian May; 31 Tees Valley Youth Choir; 32 BBC Concert Orchestra

[the captain]

I must be an old grouch, because to me it's just cheese. But if people are liking it, great.

[Aomdiddlywalla]

Yeah they really ran Brian's vocal through the machine.

But it was great to see him end the video.

Love Brian!!!!

Actually , no.  This thing has been in the works for about four months...Brian doubled his vocal with echo becasuse thats the way he recorded Carl on the original. 

Tottaly agree on both counts. Super to catch this on bbc3 as a total surprise ...?
Wife..wife.... Look !

She said ' Oh'

I agree that Brian sounded like a Beach Boy ......   more than anyone else.
In 2014 !!

Also , he is singing it really high ; different sound, at least to me

[Loaf]

He sounded great on the TV. Haven't heard it online.

[Ray Lawlor]

Lovely...and thank you for pointing it out.  Is that Brian's original production patched-in at the 1-minute point
(when he appears)?  Or a reproduction.

Actually no, not the original.  Brian played the piano, doubled the vocals and mixed it.....I think he did it three times before he was satisfied

[Pretty Funky]

Behind the scenes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp5bVdXOLs4

[The Shift]

Blown away.  I feel as though the world has woken and is recognising my deity…

… again.

[Shady]

Touching look at Brian at the end there..

BBC love that man, and I love them for that 

[Sheriff John Stone]

Thank you for posting this. I enjoyed it very much. I wish they would've included the final verse after the bridge, though. I like those kind of montages, like they did with this and "Perfect Day" a few years ago. If I'm not mistaken, I believe Elton John was on that one, too.

[The Shift]

The guardian link above has all the artists listed at the bottom of the story.

1 Dave Grohl; 2 Alison Balsom; 3 Lorde; 4 Pharrell Williams; 5 Zane Lowe; 6 Sam Smith; 7 Paloma Faith; 8 Eliza Carthy; 9 Nicola Benedetti; 10 Chris Martin; 11 Jaz Dhami; 12 Martin James Bartlett; 13 Danielle de Niese; 14 Stevie Wonder; 15 Florence Welch; 16 Lauren Laverne; 17 Brian Wilson; 18 Jake Bugg; 19 Katie Derham; 20 Gareth Malone; 21 Kylie Minogue; 22 Chrissie Hyde; 23 One Direction; 24 Emeli Sande; 25 Elton John; 26 Baaba Maal; 27 Ethan Johns; 28 Jools Holland; 29 Jamie Cullum; 30 Brian May; 31 Tees Valley Youth Choir; 32 BBC Concert Orchestra

I'll be honest, don't recognise half of these people, Steph had to tell me who most of them were!

Those I'd heard of:

1 Dave Grohl
4 Pharrell Williams
7 Paloma Faith
8 Eliza Carthy
10 Chris Martin
14 Stevie Wonder
15 Florence Welch
16 Lauren Laverne
21 Kylie Minogue
22 Chrissie Hynde
23 One Direction (I have a five-year-old daughter)
24 Emeli Sande
25 Elton John
26 Baaba Maal
28 Jools Holland
29 Jamie Cullum
30 Brian May
32 BBC Concert Orchestra

… oh and 17 Brian Wilson!

[SMiLE Brian]

John, have you tried to get your daughter to like the BBs instead?

[The Shift]

John, have you tried to get your daughter to like the BBs instead?

Oooooh yes. She LOVES H&V – dances to it – and IGA. Both she and 2yo Jack dig Rhonda and Steph gets very pissed off when they refuse to go to sleep unless she's sung the Ba-ba song.
"Ba Ba Black Sheep?" says she?
"No, BARBARA ANN!" they chorus…



Just doing my bit…

[Peadar 'Big Dinner' O'Driscoll]

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yep, unreadable though thanks to all the one direction fanatics 

[bossaroo]

this is just awesome! Brian must be feeling pretty f*cking great right about now. God only knows he deserves this kind of honor and attention.

wish I recognized a few more of the artists, but it's great to see the youngsters getting involved and paying tribute.

Ray Davies would have been really good to see... maybe Chrissie kept him away?


as always, thank you Ray Lawlor for your knowing posts!

[Rocket]

Wish this video could have waited a little for when I'm a critically acclaimed musician 

[The Shift]

God Only Knows is currently trending worldwide on twitter

yep, unreadable though thanks to all the one direction fanatics 

Interesting though that One Direction don't actually harmonise on their line. Remember that fact from when they won the Great British X-Factor's Got Talent or whatever show it was – they just sing along like a football crowd… shame.

[rab2591]

My only very small complaint is that they left the snare hits out of that part at 1:20

[The Shift]

Like the way that the stage Brian's "sat" on could be a tip to the Smile smile cover. But I'm worried that he was not concerned by the tiger and fear that he is vulnerable to big cat attack.

[Tablevega]

I wish he had held 'without' for a fraction longer on the last line. 

[SMiLE Brian]

John, have you tried to get your daughter to like the BBs instead?

Oooooh yes. She LOVES H&V – dances to it – and IGA. Both she and 2yo Jack dig Rhonda and Steoph gets very pissed off when they refuse to go to sleep unless she's sung the Ba-ba song.
"Ba Ba Black Sheep?" says she?
"No, BARBARA ANN!" they chorus…



Just doing my bit…

Get them to sing smile songs at the school talent show when the time comes.

[Tablevega]

Very, very cool to see this and I have big hopes it may even send the original back into the charts.  The absolute icing on the cake was to see Brian himself on it.

[The Shift]

This has been a lovely evening. Many thanks to Buddhahat, Lowbacca, & Pretty Funky for the heads up and the links to the vids and thank you Smilers for your company.

Very, very cool to see this and I have big hopes it may even send the original back into the charts.  The absolute icing on the cake was to see Brian himself on it.

Very nice thought, Tablevega, though I don't think the original will chart. This new version is a very serious contender for a Number One though – so many stars old and young and from different disciplines, so much BBC airtime, Children In Need charity angle – and will probably be on the charts overnight – it goes on sale midnight tonight.  I can see Pet Sounds selling a good few copies on the strength of it, and "Best Ofs… " will probably fly off the shelves* again.

What will Mr Wilson make of being at Number One again, at last, I wonder?

And will he rush out a Still Cruisin'-type album to cash-in quick? Probably (hopefully) not.

Good night everyone!**

* = servers.

** Steph doesn't sing Barbara Ann to me…

[Wirestone]

Holy crap! Well, I'd say Capitol has its act together. No doubt the album/single plans were put on hold until this could be out there. An amazing thing for Brian to be part of -- and it wouldn't be BW if it didn't look a just a little uncomfortable.

[The Shift]

No doubt the album/single plans were put on hold until this could be out there.

This very thought. It's a charity single and deserves some air before NPP is out there. Wise move all round.