Runaway Dancer available for purchase on itunes

[Rich Panteluk]

Just purchased!  Downloading now.  Excited.  Off to listen.  I enjoyed hearing it 3 or 4 times live in Vegas but the studio version is usually where Brian shines.

[Nothgual]

Nice find, Rich!  Runaway Dancer is certainly an intriguing track.

[Rich Panteluk]

We have heard Brian try a lot of different styles.  Rap, country, mor, blues.  Have we ever heard him this... disco? Nighttime, perhaps?  It makes me smile.  It will probably not be in my top ten favourites on this album, but I like it.   I was hoping for Saturday Night to be the next release.  I can't wait for the whole record to drop.  Go Brian!

[RBennett123]

Wow. Not what I was imagining from the sample. Can't really decide what a song will be like from a sample anyway. This will be stuck in my head all night now

[the professor]

it's not on Rhapsody yet. Please lets have some detailed analysis and scholarly critique. I do not have i-tunes--it crashed my computer. Is it a good song or a bad song? Disco? Here comes the night?

[RBennett123]

It doesn't sound like anything he has done before. Very modern. Sounds like a Capital Cities song, which makes sense because his guest on it is in that band. It's hard to imagine Brian would listen or even like a song that sounds like this. Very catchy, but, to my ears, sounds like he is trying to win over a new audience. Lots of sax, finger snaps, techno dance beat throughout. Only listened once, I'm at work, but only heard Brian on verse verse/chorus, the rast sounds like Sebu. I need to let it digest. My first impression was "NOOOOO", but I'll give it a few more spins tonight.

[RBennett123]

*only hear Brian on FIRST verse/chorus. Sorry, on my phone

[Summertime Blooz]

This longer clip gives me a more favorable impression of the song than the 30 second clip. It seems to go back and forth from Disco to Reggae. Wierd. Strange choice to make it the first full song on the album. I wish Itunes would post some previews for the rest of the tracks.

[RBennett123]

This longer clip gives me a more favorable impression of the song than the 30 second clip. It seems to go back and forth from Disco to Reggae. Wierd. Strange choice to make it the first full song on the album. I wish Itunes would post some previews for the rest of the tracks.

You can purchase the full track on itunes

[Wirestone]

It's a novel choice for the album's first full song. Unironic sax! The beats!

But I have to say, in terms of inappropriate Brian genre tunes, it comes out way ahead of both Night Time and Smart Girls.

[ESQ Editor]

It's a novel choice for the album's first full song. Unironic sax! The beats!

But I have to say, in terms of inappropriate Brian genre tunes, it comes out way ahead of both Night Time and Smart Girls.

This could very well up in dance clubs.   Puts previous BB/BW disco attempts to shame, although it isn't really disco.  It's more techno…kinda' cool.

[Vernon Surfer]

If you pre-order the entire album, you get both released songs immediately on itunes

[RBennett123]

Just listened 3 more times on my way home from work. Beautiful west coast eve, windows down. The song totally hit me a different way under this environment. SO CATCHY. I hear a lot more Brian then i did initially. Lots of cool chord changes in the chorus. So good. It's a real grower.

[GoofyJeff]

Wow... I dig it! 

[Mendota Heights]

It's also available for free on Spotify.

I will spin this song MANY times today. I am not that familiar with the CC catalogue so I can not compare RD to it. RD gives me this 80's vibe though, I can easily picture this song in an 80's movie (maybe it's the sax).

Brian's new album is so eclectic, this is just one of the many genres. I hope the CC and BW fans will love it!

[guitarfool2002]

Check out Capital Cities' biggest hit (so far), "Safe And Sound". It's up to over 177 million hits on YouTube, and since it came out I've thought it was one of the catchiest radio singles of 2013-14, it still gets spun regularly on FM contemp. rock stations. Hearing what Capital Cities does may give more of an idea of the vibe and sounds they do for those listening to Runaway Dancer, kind of putting it into context. I liked Safe And Sound because it had a killer brass hook in the chorus and an obvious throwback 80's synth texture, kind of like Daft Punk's take on late 70's top-40 dance sounds but fast-forwarded to the next decade.

Safe And Sound by Capital Cities, see if hearing this puts the sounds on Runaway Dancer into a different context:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47dtFZ8CFo8

One thing I'll say about RD is it's cool to hear the McCartney synth sound from "Wonderful Christmastime" put into a modern groove. I've always had a guilty pleasure for that offbeat analog synth of Macca's...

[Custom Machine]

... But I have to say, in terms of inappropriate Brian genre tunes, it comes out way ahead of both Night Time and Smart Girls.

Rather than classifying Runaway Dancer as an "inappropriate Brian genre tune", I'd say that it's more of an "unusual Brian Wilson genre tune", but regardless it's miles ahead of crap like Night Time and total crap like Smart Girls. 

[Wirestone]

This is BW hoping for a hit from a different perspective than most of us would have imagined or predicted. If the whole album sounded like this, it might be scary. But for one (or two) tracks, it's fun. I really wonder what the original demo of this sounded like!

Interesting fact from the iTunes metadata: Composed by Brian Wilson, Joe Thomas & Sebu Simonian.

[Custom Machine]

This is BW hoping for a hit from a different perspective than most of us would have imagined or predicted. If the whole album sounded like this, it might be scary. But for one (or two) tracks, it's fun. I really wonder what the original demo of this sounded like!

Interesting fact from the iTunes metadata: Composed by Brian Wilson, Joe Thomas & Sebu Simonian.

Yes, it would be great to hear the original demo.  i've gotta agree, it's a cool departure that works very well and is enjoyable to listen to.

[rab2591]

That section right before the last chorus is incredible! The synth during the chorus is damn catchy too.

The production is amazing - it sounds like a top-40 pop song, yet it also sounds Brian Wilson-y. If the quality of this track is any indication of the rest of the rest of the songs, we are in for a huge album.

Also, just want to point out how good this song sounds compared to the sample stream from Amazon/Google. The difference is like night and day.

[Yorick]

Ouch 
"Gentlemen, I think I've just been f***ed"

[Please delete my account]

Ouch 
"Gentlemen, I think I've just been f***ed"

It's OK, you didn't pay 8 million dollars for it.

[Yorick]

Hehe that's true!

[HighOnLife]

Eh. I find it kind of monotonous.

[pixletwin]

Confirmed my suspicion upon hearing the Google play preview: definitely my least favorite song on the album.