One Great Song - The Beach Boys "Good Vibrations"

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Bill and Brian close out the year by discussing an all time classic song, "Good Vibrations" by the Beach Boys (1966, Capitol). We get into Brian Wilson's arrangements and composition style, Mike Love's lyrical contributions, Dennis Wilson's musicianship, whether it's Carol Kaye or possibly Carl Wilson on bass, where the song belongs amongst other great songs from the 60s and 70s, just how many song parts there are, a little music theory [listener, be warned], and a listener email about struggling to become a fan of the Beach Boys.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill. And I'm Brian. And what are we talking about today, Brian?
0:04.8	Doing a special episode talking about good vibrations by the Beach Boys.
0:13.5	Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. That was the wrong thing. I hit the wrong button. That was my
0:18.9	mistake. That was my mistake. You want to do that again, Brian?
0:23.1	Sure, sure.
0:24.5	Talking about good vibrations by the Beach Boys.
0:27.8	I love the colorful clothes you wear.
0:34.0	And the way the sunlight plays upon her hair
0:38.3	I hear the sound of a gentlewood
0:45.3	on the wind that lets her perfume through the air
0:51.3	I'm picking up good vibrations she's giving me to all right all right all right so what we do here every week on the podcast is take an album of music and talk about what makes it great
1:07.1	we try to have the conversation around the music that fans do, and we usually
1:11.7	top things off with a track-by-track review of the album, but this week we're just doing a single
1:16.4	song. It's our final episode before the end of the year. We're just winding it down. Yeah,
1:22.1	we've got Christmas next week, so we're taking next week off, and we just thought that we'd have
1:26.1	a nice conversation between just Brian and myself about a song that I never got to talk about
1:32.4	because like two to half years ago, that's right. Brian, in a week that I had off from the
1:40.4	podcast, Brian did Smiley Smile, the album that this is ostensibly...
1:45.6	Kind of from...
1:47.5	I mean, it is.
1:48.7	It's from Smiley Smile, but it's a lot more than that.
1:52.1	Yeah, because the single itself had come out like a year prior to the album.
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