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« on: August 16, 2007, 02:44:38 AM »
What are the whispery background vocals saying at :12 and :23 in the first part of Surf's Up?  Sounds like "Wake Up Wake Up" or something like that.  These words are not included in any lyric 's for the song that I have found.  If anyone has insight into this, please let me know.  Thanks.
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« Reply #1 on: August 16, 2007, 04:20:46 AM »
"Bygone, bygone".
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« Reply #2 on: August 16, 2007, 07:36:22 AM »
Yup "bygone bygone"... I remember someone on hear recorded a version of themselves singing it as "break-up, break-up" and i just about smashed my head into the computer screen...  LOL
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« Reply #3 on: August 16, 2007, 10:14:35 AM »
I used to hear it as "Write on" (or maybe "Right-on!", as in, "Right-on, man!" -  in which case if Brian and Van were still in their early 20s and had written it today, it would probably have been "Yeah, whatever, yeah, whatever"!)
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« Reply #4 on: August 16, 2007, 12:29:29 PM »
I always heard it as "bye God, bye God".
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« Reply #5 on: August 16, 2007, 12:34:55 PM »
I decided that, poetically, it sounds better like this: "Bygone, bygone. By God, bygone." I don't care if its right or wrong, but I can hear Van Dyke reciting it in my head.  Grin
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« Reply #6 on: August 16, 2007, 01:38:30 PM »
"Paul is dead!"
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« Reply #7 on: August 16, 2007, 06:23:17 PM »
I always thought it was "like a" but "bygone" makes alot more sense.
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« Reply #8 on: August 16, 2007, 06:33:07 PM »
Quote from: Aegir on August 16, 2007, 06:23:17 PM
I always thought it was "like a" but "bygone" makes alot more sense.

Especially in light of what the song is about...



What is Surf's Up about again?  LOL
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« Reply #9 on: August 16, 2007, 06:34:04 PM »
I always heard it as "wipeout, wipeout" - which makes a crazed kinda sense - until I heard the vocal tracks isolated out. It's "bygone".
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« Reply #10 on: August 16, 2007, 06:48:22 PM »
Quote from: Andrew G. Doe on August 16, 2007, 06:34:04 PM
I always heard it as "wipeout, wipeout" - which makes a crazed kinda sense - until I heard the vocal tracks isolated out. It's "bygone".
What Smile collection contains the isolated vocal track?
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« Reply #11 on: August 17, 2007, 12:57:45 AM »
I thought it was "My God, my God"
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bygone works better, for sure Wink
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« Reply #12 on: August 19, 2007, 08:40:15 PM »
I love how at the beginning of the take for Brian's original demo of this song, the engineer mistakingly calls out, "Surfin' Take One" before the music begins.  Talk about two polar opposites of Brian's music, yet with only a small variance in song title.
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« Reply #13 on: August 19, 2007, 09:02:36 PM »
Quote from: blazer on August 16, 2007, 06:48:22 PM
Quote from: Andrew G. Doe on August 16, 2007, 06:34:04 PM
I always heard it as "wipeout, wipeout" - which makes a crazed kinda sense - until I heard the vocal tracks isolated out. It's "bygone".
What Smile collection contains the isolated vocal track?



None that I know of.  Roll Eyes
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« Reply #14 on: August 20, 2007, 10:16:29 PM »
Wow! I was way off. I used to think it was "Fire Fire", then "Biker Biker"
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« Reply #15 on: August 21, 2007, 08:35:27 AM »
.........bygone bygone....

                     ..............columnated ruins domino
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« Reply #16 on: August 26, 2007, 11:29:18 AM »
Quote from: donald on August 21, 2007, 08:35:27 AM
.........bygone bygone....

                     ..............columnated ruins domino

Well, if we want to get picky, it's sung as "colonnaded ruins domino" which is more gramatically correct than the printed lyric.
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« Reply #17 on: August 26, 2007, 10:15:41 PM »
Quote from: pixletwin on August 16, 2007, 06:33:07 PM
Quote from: Aegir on August 16, 2007, 06:23:17 PM
I always thought it was "like a" but "bygone" makes alot more sense.

Especially in light of what the song is about...

What is Surf's Up about again?  LOL
Hardy har har. I mean, "like a" is not a complete thought and makes no sense. "Bygone" is at least one word, not that it fits in with anything, but it's not as, I don't know, idiotic as "like a, like a".

My favorite misheard lyric has got to be Andrew's.
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