God Only Knows - The Beach Boys | College Students' FIRST TIME REACTION! 

Another great tune by the Beach Boys that really captures an element of the times is Little Deuce Coupe.

My God supertramp 💞 ELO 💞 Simon and garfunkle 💞 And now the beach boys 😲 I have no idea whats going on dudes.....keep doing it !! Michael is chuffed 😀 thank you gentlemen 💞 Hey gentlemen its Christmas how about joni Mitchell and Peter Gabriel "my secret place "🙏 Roger Taylor "the unblinking eye " a great commentary on whats going on between Britain and the EU !

Back in 2014, when the BBC over in the UK launched a music channel they decided to use this song as part of their announcement, and as a way to feature all the different singers/genres you could find on the channel: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XqLTe8h0-jo.html Hundreds, if not Thousands, of iconic songs from iconic British bands -- and they chose a song from an American group -- it really shows you just how powerful the song is. Even Paul McCartney has referred to it as his favorite song of all time, and going on to add: "“God Only Knows’ is one of the few songs that reduces me to tears every time I hear it. It’s really just a love song, but it’s brilliantly done. It shows the genius of Brian. I’ve actually performed it with him and I’m afraid to say that during the sound check I broke down. It was just too much to stand there singing this song that does my head in and to stand there singing it with Brian,”"

same band that did the Simon & Garfunkle records....the Wrecking Crew....

If you're interested in ground-breaking production values that paved the way for Brian Wilson, check out the psycho killer himself, Phil Spector. He worked with the Righteous Brothers, the Ronettes, Ike &Tina Tuner amongst others. He famously (or infamously) worked on a Beatles album and pulled a gun on the Ramones. Years later, he's now rotting in jail for murder.

I think he also listened to it and was jealous that he didn't write it. Pretty amazing for that time.

He said several times that this is the best pop song ever

Paul listened to this, then the Beatles wrote Sgt Pepper. Brian Wilson and the Beatles went back and forth. Brian was both amazed and gutted when he hears Sgt Pepper

I understand him! It does the same with me. Oh my god it's so beautiful!

This album is what pushed The Beatles to make Sgt Peppers. Upon completion, Brian Wilson had Paul listen to it and it blew his mind....he stayed up.all nignt listening. 'God Only Knows' may be the best pop song ever recorded.

They certainly were, along with the Everly Brothers at that time, influencing so many bands to come. It is difficult, and I give these two kids credit for trying, to get into the frame of mind and the culture that was the 60's & 70's, to appreciate this music.

I once heard that Jimi Hendrix referred to The Beach Boys as "a barbershop quartet on acid."

The Beatles definitely took them seriously.

From what I remember, Brian Wilson, the main writer for the band's most popular hits actually hated the beach. The one member that seemed to actually fit the lifestyle demonstrated by the themes in these songs was the drummer, Dennis, who actually drowned in a boating accident.

Brian Wilson wrote this and almost everything The Beach Boys recorded. Paul McCartney called it the “most perfect song yet written”, which made Brian despondent. He thought that if it were the most perfect song yet written he could never top it, and that would mean the rest of his career would be headed downhill. He went kind of nuts and gave up touring. Glenn Campbell took his place in the touring band.

Boston's 1st 2nd and 3rd album are way better than this album.,but I do love this album, one of the best I've ever heard

By people who don't know anything about music maybe

@@raysaudia Bahahahaha, Oh wait, you're serious.

years before the Stones did it.

I always loved Carl's voice.

In my room ... probably the most pure , rich vocals ever recorded .

Mike Love's fake baritone as opposed to his nasal tenor.

I can't think of a song where Carl Wilson wasn't brilliant.

Jan and Dean.... ;)

Wow...how very cool, Corrine!

Corrine, you are making me cry-- in a good way. I know you're missing your mother even now, and wishing you the best!

McCartney has said in numerous interviews that he felt like their Sgt Pepper's album had to compete with Pet Sounds; in other words, they had to step up their game after that.

McCartney has repeatedly stated that "God Only Knows" is his all-time favorite song. To this day, he gets emotional when he hears it.

WHEN DID YOU BECOME AWARE OF THE BEACH BOYS? PAUL: “The early surf records…I was aware of them as a musical act, and I used to like all that, but I didn’t get deeply interested in it-it was just a real nice sound…We used to admire the singing, the high falsetto really and the very sort of ‘California’ lyrics. “It was later…it was Pet Sounds that blew me out of the water. First of all, it was Brian’s writing. I love the album so much. I’ve just bought my kids each a copy of it for their education in life-I figure no one is educated musically ’til they’ve heard that album.

@@markstoudenmire4935 The friendly nuclear escalation between McCartney and Brian Wilson changed music forever.

"Pet Sounds? Barbour shop quartet shit. It only gets cred because McCartney rates it as his favourite album!" - Noel Gallagher.

I know why. They only put out 3 videos a week. Many other reactors put out more than that every day, so A&A get drowned out in the algorithms.

I AGREE

A&A are the best! I've tried to watch other folk's reaction videos and the way they keep stopping the video, commenting, starting it up again is truly annoying.

@@jnewmark41 your probably right but I would rather listen to one good one every 3 days than 5 shit ones.

@leslie rosenstrauch Quality over quantity am I right? 🔥

Would love to hear the Associations. I don’t think anyone has reacted to them.

I second that. Love them.

Never My Love is soooo sixties. A beautiful unpretentious love song. Along Comes Mary is another great song of their catalogue. A&A, please do them someday.

@@marcribe6483 I heard a DJ, maybe two years ago, say Never My Love was the second most requested radio song of the entire 20th century.

Great idea. I'd also suggest Windy...

No but it influenced Revolver

@@docsavage8640 Sorry, you’re wrong. Check interview where Paul talked about the influence The Beach Boys Pet Sounds album had over Sgt Pepper. Just Google it. Perhaps Revolver may have influenced Pet Sounds

Steve Tanner Yep, Brian Wilson said Rubber Soul and Revolver influenced Pet Sounds. And Paul said Pet Sounds influenced Sgt Peppers.

@@coreyo3512 Exactly

@@coreyo3512 No, Pet Sounds was released before Revolver. And actually some songs from that album were influenced by Pet Sounds (like Here, There and Everywhere).

Brian made a few mixes of this song, and they all have cool interplay of the song's themes.

Brian Wilson at his genius best. The most beautiful, well-crafted song of all time...

The entire 1960s were lucky to have The Wrecking Crew help make the songs.

Yes! The Wrecking Crew. Great Documentary. Anybody who loves music should see it

And the late, great Hal Blain on drums.

The Wrecking Crew documentary is excellent. Highly recommend it 👍

Carol Kaye: most underrated bassist of all time. Except amongst bassists.

Not to mention Brian is deaf in one ear, and still remains an amazing producer--in mono or stereo!

they were inventing $#!+ on the spot. hearing doubts in his head of what it ought to sound like and trying to mimic it in real life, and experimenting until they found the sound they were looking for or something close.

Highly underrated as a singer and as a musician as a whole as well as Dennis

Everything except 'Sloop John B'

Both of those two songs are WONDERFUL! "In My Room" gets me every time, even after all these years. I was only 10 years old the first time I heard it, and have loved it all these years!

I would put "'Til I Die" up there with those three in terms of the most beautiful Beach Boys songs.

And I'd add "Caroline No" to that as well......

Well, not only that, also because of taking too much drugs like for example LSD, the pressure from both the public, critics and Capitol records, to release something really genius that would beat Pet Sounds and anything that the Beatles have done or were doing, his cousin Mike Love basically hating the music that he was doing for what would have become Smile album (which in the end obviously didn't happen, I mean it wasn't released at all) which has to do with the fact that Love didn't understand at all the groundbreaking music that Brian was doing and the fact that he feared it wouldn't sell that much as their previous hits etc. Brian Wilson had too many things that were against him unfortunately plus he was a very sensitive man. If only he had the same human and artistic support that the Beatles were having from each other and from George Martin, maybe there would have been some better chance for him to not have fallen from that infamous mental breakdown, such a shame

Sgt Pepper didn’t make him have a mental breakdown. Always putting speed in his bowls that he smoked, coupled with the band not fully supporting his new masterpiece SMiLE and all the pressure he was under made him have a mental breakdown. He was already completely paranoid when Pepper came out; that just added insult to injury because he knew he could have beaten them had he finished SMiLE on time. It wasn’t the LSD, either, which he only ever took twice. IT WAS THE METH.

Surf's Up is as good or better.

Uh yeah, his father may have had something to do with that breakdown also. Not exactly father-of-the-year material

@@vKarl7 He was being paranoid since 1964 (although he had have a nervous breakdown in 1963 If I remember correctly), he'd listen in a loop to the beginning of 'Be my baby', the Ronettes song composed and produced by Phil Spector... he was obsessed with Spector to the point of madness, when he did mistake a journalist that was visiting him in his house, with a disguised Spector... He, then, started to smoke pot when a few people were doing it, the LSD came later, but he was already emotional and mentally damaged. The recording of Smile was the deffinitive breaking point. He was so perfectionist about it that couldn't finished it... and here comes the multiple theories about Smile, if it was ready to be released, if it was just a collection of recorded sketches and so on

Merry Christmas to you, Pam!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas all, from Canada! Stay safe and well!

'Surf's Up' is an amazing song. Would still seem groundbreaking if released today.

@@joeharley5868 agreed, Surfs Up is an amazing song, I also love the B side of Beach Boys Today, you start hearing glimpses of Pet Sounds

It's a love song that begins with the words "I may not always love you." To this day that makes me smile.

@Fuphyter You can spend it with your boys! We’ve got you covered!! ❤️❤️

@@andyandalex got me choked up...thank you so much 💜

Just like great science, all great music stands on the shoulders of the giants that came before. I'm sure if we try hard enough, we could find also the giants from the 1950es and 40es and identify their legacies in later music. And continue all the way back as far as the memory of Humanity goes.

I'd add "The Little Girl I Once Knew" and "Salt Lake City." Both brilliant, along with "Warmth of the Sun" and so many others.

Oh Darling, my fav.

Ahh, that's what I came here to see! The Love Actually shout-out; "I second that emotion" (to quote another classic)

Also in "Almost Famous," the song that plays over the closing credits is the Beach Boys' "Feel Flows," which was Carl Wilson's project from beginning to end. It's on their "Surf's Up" album. Music by Carl Wilson, lyrics by Jack Rieley, Carl sings lead and plays just about all the instruments on it with the exception of an awesome jazz flute solo by Charles Lloyd.

Next year, A&A Advent calendar!!

@@valerievanwinkle6453 Perfect!

All I want for Christmas is for them to review The River by Joni Mitchell. It would really be a present to them!

R.I.P. Leslie West

@tjcrowley913 Yup, easily.

The ending could have gone on for another week or two

If you get to hear "The Pet Sounds Sessions" box set, Brian made a few mixes of God Only Knows. Near the end of one version (where music quiets and voices build up before fade), Brian took out all music and left the vocals a capella before the instrumental joins back to fade. With editing, there could be a great extended version of the song

Mostly played live and mixed on the fly. Watch God Only Knows sessions on YT to see how BW produces

@@danielvaughan1047 There are a couple of good documentaries about Brian Wilson- The Making of Smile and then the live performance in 2004

@@beverlyoyarzun3326 2004????? Damn I'm old. It feels like that concert was only a few years ago.