ELTON JOHN & BRIAN WILSON - Wouldn't It Be Nice (Live, 2001) 

agree 100%

Wouldn't it be nicer? (Sorry, couldn't resist.) steve

Steve

Wouldn’t it be nicer?😂 Edit: shit didn’t know someone else wrote that

It could, with Paul McCartney.

@@steveskouson9620 wrong

he totally is. I love him.

Idk, Mike Love gives him a run for his money 😂💀😂💀😂

No, is the only reasonable answer I can give!

So humble that his genius wasn't recognized enough. Well known Trailblazers like Elton and McCartney were influenced by him, yet he never has (and probably doesn't want) to receive the credit he deserves.

The pope.

Facts

@Albert Halsey England completely owns rock and roll. They borrowed from Howlin' Wolf, Robert Johnson, Elmore James, Little Richard, Albert King, John Lee Hooker, BB King. America was too racist to get it. England got it all.

So true. If you don't count Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt Pepper's and the White Album

@@matteowatteo1296 oh hell naw they don't. Rock came from the black people in America... look it up. And wdym "America was too racist to get it."?? Your shitty ass comment makes no sense

Yes, the only American competition to the beatles. McCartney and Wilson had the most respectful rivalry

Brian was actually in good condition at this time, his live shows from the late 90s and early 2000s were really good

Bro please stop you don’t look cool by living in the past and not knowing any great modern musicians.

@@ALTROTOPIA I know it's fun to dunk on people who like old stuff but it's okay to admit that there are very few songwriter/composers working today who can match the caliber of Brian Wilson.

@@ALTROTOPIA Why don't you enlighten us old people by telling us who these great modern day musicians are--you know---the one's as talented & as great as Brian Wilson, Elton John, Howlin Wolf, Elmore James, Emerson Lake & Palmer, The Beatles, Jimmy Hendrix, Janice Joplin, Rolling Stones, Patti Smith, Cass Elliot, Gram Parsons, David Bowie, The Bee Gees, Leon Russell, Prince, Alice Cooper, Bob Dylan, Tina Turner, Carol King, Neil Young, Etta James, Pink Floyd, The Moody Blues, Eric Burdon & The Animals, Donovan, The Cure, Mark Smith, Deep Purple, The Doors, etc etc etc ................... & etc etc etc..............

@@Slinkygal exactly

Yes!

Brian. You do deserve it and the Jardine s also. I hope you all understand what God is doing in your life.even today!!! BH

Thank you Brian Wilson..what a genius of a man and a great human being. God bless

Elton is a class fucking act

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That face Brian is showing, is NOT a scowl! Brian is DEEP in concentration. A KILLER keyboardist, next to a KILLER keyboardist, and pick'em. Who is better, who cares. Who wins, every single listener! Only other famous "competition" Brian and Sir Paul. Paul did Rubber Soul, and hit it out of the park. Inspired Brian to do Pet Sounds. Which pushed Paul to do Sgt. Pepper. Paul had a LOT of others to help, including 2 guys named George. Brian had his brothers, and Alan. Had to carry his BRAIN DEAD cousin along, too. It is a wonder Brian is still around. steve

Yes

You got it😊

sounds nice. great!!!

If they are both geniuses, and I DO consider Elton a genius, then by comparison to Brian, Elton is a genius spelled with a little g, compared to Brian, whos genius is spelled witj a BIG G. Even Elton admits this.

@@IgnacioClerici-mp5cy no

I know brian hes anything but humble as long as its about him yes but no not humble hes a genious with alot of problems

worldwide legend

You are right so much love and fun happy beautiful music

Just wish Carl could have been there 😪

He is all that and a bag of chips but can be a asshole to lol

Future music lovers should consider him in the same vein as Mozart, Bach, and Beethoven.

He "heard" it all, in his head, at an early age. Listen to the Wrecking Crew, session musicians par excellance from his era, talk about his genius.

I have Spotify

@@Theherobrine5 I think he means getting a physical record

THE BEST

@@hdbuckets8154 LMAO

@@Theherobrine5 LOL

I'm sure Elton was thrilled to death!

And then realizing the old timer you looked up to can still go, all these years later, and your struggling to keep up.

austin teutsch technically elton opened for the beach boys during a tour in the early 70's but brian wasnt thire

@@sadmen42 I saw him play with the Beach Boys once.

It is, Lisa.

Yes! it is a truly heartfelt intro. I wish I understood the technique he referred to. I will get someone to explain that to me.

@@patriciarussell6683When you look at a C major chord, the triad consists of the root note (C), the third note (E) and the fifth note (G). Normally a composer will play chords with the root note in the bass. So, when playing a C major or minor chord, the C is also used as the bass note. Brian however used those thirds and fifths to create different chords. For example, after the intro, God Only Knows starts of in D, but the bass note is A (fifth note). I believe he did it quite often when writing a song. Surf's Up is another song that springs to mind when it comes to using this trick. I know Elton used it on the intro of Someone Saved My Life Tonight. I'm far from an expert, but maybe it helps you to put Eltons story in context ;)

To EltonBeatles: you ARE an expert.

@@EAP--, I agree. I'll get my musical brothers to explain this one to me. (One teaches voice, another teaches piano, the third is a piano tuner. My sister also teaches piano.) If I'm lucky, I can play a radio. steve

yeah i basically melted at 3:12. A little of that Elton soul fits right in. My goodness. This tune.

bob tucker Brian was so music guy more than a songwriter. He almost always had people help him with lyrics. Great songs. Love the group so many years.

@@corinneyaworski308 No. For some reason there is this persistent belief that Brian Wilson does not write lyrics. The truth is more complicated. He absolutely does write lyrics - and he’s a fine, if quirky, lyricist - and there are many songs that are credited only to him. He does prefer to work with a co-writer, however, someone who can help articulate his lyrical ideas. Gary Usher who co-wrote several songs with him in 1962 and again in 1986 has said that Brian Wilson is a being of complete emotion; he gets so carried away by emotion that he has trouble articulating. Other writers have mentioned that Brian needs a co-writer mainly because he needs assurance that his idea is good before he goes on. There is no magic formula to writing a song and it’s no difference with Brian Wilson than anyone else. Some of his contributions to songs ( a few songs written with Andy Paley, for example) have been mainly lyrical, though generally speaking, it works the other way around with him. Tony Asher has said that the words he wrote were his (i.e., Tony Asher’s); but the ideas were culled from conversations he had had with Wilson. Similarly, Van Dyke Parks wrote all or almost all of the words of SMiLE; but he was hired by Brian to write about themes that resonated with him: American history, the pioneer movement, mass immigration from Europe and the genocide of the American Indian. With many of his songs co-written with Mike Love, Brian would often write the music for the song and the words of the chorus, maybe one line of verse and Mike would finish the words of the verses. (“California Girls”, for example was written this way.) On “I Get Around”, another famous Wilson/Love hit, Brian wrote the words to the chorus and the words to the second verse; Love wrote the first verse and the opening “round”, which Brian then embellished with harmony. Still at other times songwriters have been given a song with a complete set of lyrics and merely edited them, keeping his ideas mosty intact (Help Me Rhonda); or rewrote them completely ("Surf City", orignally called “Goodie Connie Won’t You Please Come Home). Collaborators like Scott Bennett, Andy Paley have also contributed much to the music as well. Here are some songs that he wrote both lyrics and music to: “Time To Get Alone” “Til I Die:” “Wind Chimes” “I’ll Be He’s Nice” “Still I Dream Of It” “Love and Mercy” (Eugene Landy may have contributed a line to this one) And more recently: Oxygen to the Brain

He’s Always Supported and Still supports the fellow Musicians he truly respects!

Carl Wilson sang the original lead, of this beautiful, song.

is this the greatest pop song ever created? Already have words "..but let's talk about it" ready for my epitaph. Emotionally hypnotic. Thank you Brian

My great-grandmother asked me.

George Harrison died that year as well

@@Noah1997callahan That's right! I remember thinking how sad it was that he had survived long enough to have at least heard about what happened in the country that made him an icon. Maybe not. I hope he's resting in peace.