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Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about Surf's Up (page 1/1) ------ performed by Beach Boys not brian???? | Reviewer: doug | 8/18/2008 javawave writes; I wish to add to the wonderfully prosed reviews one salient point. Carl sings this song not Brian. His vocal range is sweetly stylized and sympathic to the lyrics. I recommend track 28 on disc 2 of the Good Vibrations Thirty years of the Beach Boys compilation to hear Carl's backing vocal and piano." Sorry, but the surf's up version has Carls vocals on the first part, then brians vocals from his 1966 demo on the second part. The track referred to in the box set is brians vocal and piano solo demo from 66. ode to the flower children | Reviewer: bill | 1/1/2008 this is a song about giving up materialism and joining the flower children AKA hippies circa late sixties until early eighties northern california often found in communes that for the most part no longer exist. as he says the laughs come hard when we are living in the past. Reading into it. | Reviewer: Anonymous | 12/25/2007 To Armands' review. V.D.Parks wrote the lyrics after B.W. explained what he felt and was trying to convey. Both young men had LSD experience which lead them to mysticism and esoteric wisdom as was the case with many youth of the day and most musical artist. The lyrics most certainly have great depth and are allegorical and part of the enjoyment for some is to decipher what is being implied. They are musical riddles. surfs up not Brian | Reviewer: javawave | 8/24/2007 I wish to add to the wonderfully prosed reviews one salient point. Carl sings this song not Brian. His vocal range is sweetly stylized and sympathic to the lyrics. I recommend track 28 on disc 2 of the Good Vibrations Thirty years of the Beach Boys compilation to hear Carl's backing vocal and piano. If you like "Surf's Up" | Reviewer: Paul | 8/24/2007 Listen to the alternate version of "Til I Die"...Brian's theme song. It doesn't get any better than this one. Lyrics Not Brian's | Reviewer: Anonymous | 7/29/2007 To the last reviewer Armand Obraize: It's doubtful that Brian could have composed such intricately complex, ethereally beautiful music all that 'stoned'. It would be awesome to hear a purely instrumental version without the weird lyrics, which aren't his anyway; they're by Van Dyke Parks, who very well could have been stoned (Columnated ruins domino, WTF?). Brian was just stoned again... | Reviewer: Armand Obraize | 5/1/2007 Either he was stoned or they just got out a ryhming dictionary. You guys read too much into it. incomparable | Reviewer: Steve Sewall | 1/3/2007 It will be decades before this piece of music is heard by listeners in the spirit in which it must have come to its composor. The feeling for Brian Wilson must have been like one of discovering a new country or region, like Mongolia, that no one ever saw before. But Wilson's new region of music is all about the all-too-familiar late 1960's fading dream of glittering early 60's sun-drenched surfer-haven California and, by extension, the good old USA. It's amazing the Beach Boys, not just Wilson, were able to master and throw themselves into the complexity and the transcendant sadness of this music. How could they do it? This song pushed the limits of their vocal abilities. Not hard to answer. Wilson sold to them cause it's just plain beautiful from start to finish. I bet he first got them in the final majestic (and optimistic) chorus - then got them working on the hard stuff that precedes it. Here's the chorus for ya - Child, child, child, child, child A child is the father of the man Child, child, child, child, child A child is the father of the man A children's song Have you listened as they played Their song is love And the children know the way That's why the child is the father to the man Child, child, child, child, child Child, child, child, child, child Na na na na na na na na Child, child, child, child, child That's why the child is the father to the man Child, child, child, child, child Surf's Up | Reviewer: Anonymous | 11/20/2006 Probably one of the most beautiful songs ever written.From this you can hear why people say that Brian Wilson was ahead of everyone at that time.The last part of the song is just fantastic. Add Your New Review About The Song