BEACH BOYS GOD ONLY KNOWS REACTION -Paul McCartney's favourite song 

I can’t think of a more perfect description than yours

I think they talk down suicidal jumpers by blasting this song. That's what I would do as I don't have the gift of gab.

@@stevenpatricknorton458 Well, surfing certainly beats suicide. Of course if one can't swim surfing becomes suicide. Never mind me, I'm just being silly.

I recall reading that the Beach Boys' harmonies came from one of their fave groups: the Four Freshmen. They listened to them a lot. Positive results!

@@GJoeJ010841 Brian’s family listened a lot to the Four Freshmen and Cousin Mike Love used to call around and the whole family including Brian, Carl and Dennis would sing.

Carl was very humble about it. He said that Brian had written the greatest love song and he was just fortunate enough to be able to sing it. I was lucky enough to see the Beach Boys when all three Wilson brothers were in it. These songs always bring me joy.

as far as i know brian didn't write the lyrics himself

I believe Brian is the lead vocal here.

Still is. He just celebrated his 79th birthday.

Agree 100%

Absolutely!

Me too. Love it.

Definitely one of their very best songs.

Don't Worry Baby is also Brian Wilson's favorite song.

In between, Juneteenth! Just another reason to celebrate. They are both Geminis, as I am. 4 June, 1958. steve

NOOOO...I didn't know that???

@@steveskouson9620 The hell with juneteenth!

They both play bass and their band’s names start with BEA…

Yeah man, I didn't know Carl sang the lead. I thought Brian Wilson did. The instrumentation must have sounded so strange to people when all that guitar heavy rock in the 1960's was going. And you know, I flip-flop on my favorite Beach Boys song: "God Only Knows," or "Don't Worry Baby." I think Van Dyke Parks wrote or co-wrote the lyrics to "God." That first line is a killer isn't it. That'll make you stand up and listen. Beautiful, just beautiful are those two songs. The voices are angelic and the sweetest "beach" soul outside of Motown ever.

@@brianmallen8887 Tony Asher actually wrote these lyrics, along with most of those on Pet Sounds! Van Dyke didn’t come along until Smile. They’re both brilliant but Van Dyke was more intellectual whereas Asher was a bit more emotional

@@thedude8860 Yeah, Tony Asher. See, what happened was the poets and classical composers of the 19th century hooked up, melded, synthesized, hybrid ...a blend of the two and formed in the 20th century in both pop and rock n roll....They had to shorten the sound to a song cycle, but not always. "Rhapsody in Blue" you never want that to end. I'm not saying that Tony Asher is a Hal David. But on the other hand I remember tons of jingles from childhood on that were very catchy and got to the point lightening fast. Yeah he had to be inspired, and that ad agency preassure cooker experience probably helped to write the song in 45 minutes. I wonder if he thought it up sitting there with Brian Wilson. Or if it was a poem that was a third of a page long at the most. I bet the latter. You can't come up with something that profound, that controversial, that original on the spot. Can you? And that sing-song music in the background, no guitars, these ethereal cheerful sounds. The "beach soul" singing sounding so pure, blending with the music so fine. "God Only Knows" a simple but devastating message combined with very airy, almost playful melody with brisk tempo really. For a balled. Then they kill you with that "call and response" "God only knows" the Wilsons, Love and Jardine showing what world-class singing sounds like. You know, when Brian Wilson had his "breakdown" and went into seclusion they shoulda locked him in there with Tony Asher. They coulda been like the west coast Gershwin brothers, the American Tim Rice and Andrew Loyde Webber.

So glad the Ronnettes turned it down; The Beach Boys couldn't be beat!

Great song great reaction Pet Sounds did better in the UK due to Paul doing a great promotion job.onit in interviews. try Good Vibrations

@@stephenqualtrough7322 Well Paul owed Brian a lot. People think Revolver was way ahead of its time- Pet Sounds actually came out before it. There was some friendly competition going on between The Beach Boys and The Beatles, and poor Brian had his own producers, promoters and even band members holding him back, and unfortunately went mad shortly after this album.

Rubber Soul influenced Pet Sounds not the other way around. Pet Sounds then spurred Sgt Pepper. Brian said Rubber Soul inspired him to make Pet Sounds.

@@John_Chu yes you are 100% correct John, thank you for putting the record straight, you certainly know your Beatles history, mate.

@@John_Chu You are right Brian was trying to come up h something as good as Rubber Soul with Pet Sounds and we were the lucky beneficiaries

Great song & last hit. They had to fight to put it out as it has been awhile since they'd had a hit.

Kokomo is the worst it gets skipped every time it comes on

I don’t know what you mean🤷🏻‍♀️

It’s the same musicians, so naturally it will sound like Spector production

Hahahaha clever humor

Thank you ✌🏾

Let me Guess. You are also a romantic from fiftis 😅

BW is national treasure. Saw him last Jan. Was brilliant.

He had a lot of help from Owsley

Brian Wilson said this album was also inspired by Rubber Soul.

@Cosmo Kramer - I think you're getting mixed up with Elton John and Bernie Taupin regarding the songwriting process of Brian Wilson. The music usually came first or was produced in conjunction with the lyrics. It is Elton John who provided music for lyrics penned by Taupin - perhaps an unusual way to write songs, but it worked for that partnership. Tony Asher provided lyrics for eight of the 13 songs on Pet Sounds. He was not a DJ he was jingle writer and copywriter and he most certainly did not "write the lyrics for most of the Beach Boys' big hits". Chief among lyricists working with Brian was his cousin and fellow Beach Boy Mike Love, Gary Usher, Roger Christian, Van Dyke Parks and Brian himself of course.

@@davidcopson5800 No, Asher's lyrics always came first, then Brian would write the music around the lyrics. There's no doubt Brian wrote and produced great music, as did Elton. But neither man rises to the level of musical geniuses, like Paul McCartney and Jeff Lynne, who did all three: wrote the music, wrote the lyrics, produced the songs. And I might as well throw a fourth criterion in there, met with excellence by Paul and Jeff--both of whom could play, and did play, every instrument.

You have missed out on a few things it would seem. Quite a few, even. Brian has been on tour several times in the last decade or more, by himself and with the Beach Boys. I was lucky enough to see the BB 50th reunion tour in August 2012 (this apparently was Brian's first tour with BB since sometime in the 80es - and they broke up in September 2012.) And then Brian, with a band that included Al Jardine and his son Matt Jardine, went on the Pet Sounds 50th Anniversary World Tour in 2016, which I attended in 2017. This tour seems to have continued until 2019. Now, given his age, you could not blame him for not going on tour again, but who knows?

Hmm, the Wikipedia article on BW states: "The paranoid schizophrenia diagnosis, originally made by Landy, was later retracted." I understand that as meaning the diagnosis was wrong? I saw Brian in concert four years ago, when he toured with Pet Sounds, and while he looked like an old man who has had a tough life, which is obviously true, he gave a great performance, even if he spared his voice on several songs, which I believe was very understandable. For the last part of the concert he went all in, nobody in the audience could stay in their seat and all got up dancing, and it ended with standing ovations. I guess I am some people, as I first heard "Brian Wilson presents SMiLE" (2004) in 2007, and found it to be the best album I've ever heard (and I'm a hardcore Jeff Lynne fan), that is, until I heard Pet Sounds. Before that, I had a prejudiced idea that BB was just cheesy American commercial surf pop without much merit.

@@lhpl I hear you lhp... Watch "Love and Mercy". As a Mental Health and Wellness facility coordinator, for over 20 years, this film has been instrumental in one of the few Schizophrenia Support Groups in Los Angeles. Brian Wilson suffers from schizophrenia. He's simply learned to live with it. He's gone on to marry and have children. He's an amazing, artist and human being.

The corrected diagnosis for Brian Wilson is schizoaffective disorder, not the same as schizophrenia.

@@christopherlopez8541 I have an aquaintance (a fellow student at university back in the 90es), who hss schizophrenia. She is very intelligent, a wonderful person, and a creative and skilled artist. I have no problem with the diagnosis or people who have it, I just don't think it should be used wrongly to describe people who don't have it. The same applies to another musical genius, Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett, who as far as I can tell also did not have that diagnosis, although it is often claimed. At the concert I mentioned, I think I had brief eye contact with Brian once or twice, and he seemed to be very happy performing his music and feeling the love from the audience; it really was a magical moment. The reviews in the newspapers were unfairly harsh, which I am sure not a single person in the audience would disagree with. I have seen the movie, btw. If I remember correctly, it depicts Landy as a rather negative influence?

@@Fool3SufferingFools I definitely concur, schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder are not the same. Both are different and difficult to treat, as we still don't understand why they occur. We can understand the neurology but not the causation. Brian Wilson is a testament to the human spirit conquering the seemingly impossible.