Me too growing up. Dad always used to play this.
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RIP. Big fav of mine this:
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“Heroes and Villains” was another one - never had heard anything like it. And the way the “Smile” tracks just sort of filtered out through the later oeuvre until coming together in the 00s resurrection. Always loved how Harvey started his Sarcastic Mix with “Our Prayer”
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Pet Sounds still has the ability to make me cry on occasion. Changed the face of modern music production.
RIP Brian 
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like sly stone, he could do something that nobody else (at the time) could do. i fucking love brian wilson. i could post song after song, all day long.
two favorites. this is a goosebumps song, every time.
and this one is just not long enough. i even love the throwaway line “remember when you spilled coke all over your blouse?”
maybe the most beautiful song he wrote and appropriate for today!
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Damn. Two proper geniuses of the sixties within a couple of days.
Watched the Sly Lives documentary last night, really good.
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I’m obsessed with this version (sampled by the Primals for Higher Than The Sun, I think). His gigs for Pet Sounds and Smile at the RFH are in my Top 10 gigs of all time. Absolute golfball goosebumps…
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Bloody hell I didn’t know they took that riff for Higher than the Sun!
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Oh what she does to me
When she makes love to me
And she says “Don’t worry baby”
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i’ve written about this guy before, he made a number of amazing acapella covers of beautiful pop songs - all by himself. harmonization, beat boxing, the whole deal. this cover is great.
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I don’t know a great deal about Brian Wilson or the Beach Boys. I do know that this is one of the best pieces of music I ever heard
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I nearly posted this too, but had a feeling Brian wasn’t really involved which the internet confirmed. Agree it’s one of the greatest though.
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Whoops!
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The background and recording section of this was quite interesting, and the impact of the synth swoosh sound on the ladies
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Read this years ago, I rember it being one of the best biogs I’ve ever read. A man whose life truly collapsed around him for a while.
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I think Caroline, No is one of his most underrated songs. So pretty and such a great end to that amazing album.
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Yeah, it’s so tender and sweet and beautiful and melancholic and truthful… all in less than 3 minutes.
Music is the true magic.
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