Surf's Up
Following the articles on post-Beach Boys Pet Sounds that are appearing these days on In Search of the Lost Vinyl opportunity to present this video, which many of you already conocereis through this post Pepsounds, Brian Wilson interprentando "Surf's Up "on the piano at her home in Bel Air in 1966.
As is well known "Surf's Up" was originally published in the disk counterpart of the Beach Boys 1971 although the concept, idea and much of the membership coming from before, just during the sessions of "Smile", that mythical Disc lost.
This video shows one of the first versions of this dramatic issue and we can see without the filter of any kind compositive immeasurable talent and interpretative one of the greatest geniuses of popular music. Brian Wilson and his piano in a song of tremendous complexity and unparalleled beauty. You enjoy it:
Surf's Up
A diamond necklace played the pawn
Hand in hand along some drummer, oh
To a handsome man and baton
A blind class aristocracy
Back through the glass you see op'ra
The pit and the pendulum drawn
Colonnade ruins domino
Canvass the town and brush the backdrop
Are you sleeping?
Hung velvet overtaken me
Awaken me Dim chandelier
To a song dissolved in the dawn
The music hall a costly bow
The music all is lost for now
To a muted swan trumperter
Colonnade ruins domino
Canvass the town and brush the backdrop
Are you sleeping, Brother John?
Dove nested towers the hour was
Strike the street Quicksilver moon
Carriage across the fog
Two-Step to lamplight cellar tune
The laughs come hard in Auld Lang Syne
The glass was raised, the fired rose
The Fullness of the wine, the dim last toasting
While at port, adieu or die
A choke of grief hardened I HEART
Beyond belief a broken man too tough to cry
Surf's Up
Aboard a tidal wave
Come join and hard about
The young and often spring you gave
I heard the word
Wonderful thing
A children's song
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
Tags: Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, Pet Sounds, Smile, Surf's Up
Impressive. There are no words to define this song. And, let this melancholy to think what might have been "Smile" with songs like this, "Cool Cool Water," "Cabinessence", "Wonderful" (another gem of baroque pop) and so if Brian Wilson had been more focused and less influenced by drugs (apparently, at that time was addicted to a variety of amphetamine generated, first, a vigorous and creative megalomaniac, which later resulted in serious doubt, obviously, it was impossible to achieve the ideals which took over the head, all this led to an obsessive perfectionism that made him sick, and stop killing the disc). The more I go to the Smile songs and more fascinated by what I could wake up to become.
Anyway, Brian, apart from its excesses with drugs, also had a serious handicap of wanting to create the ultimate pop album in one year, 1967, in which any album with such claims would fall by the defeated Sgt Pepper 's. Its failure was just announced.
By the way, thanks for the link!
Greetings
If I think too often in those days, and what could happen to the head by Brian Wilson there locked in his studio with his piano in the pool of sand. There are several places where I would be if I had a time machine and one of them is the study of California in 1966.
Mr. Glasshead Thank you for your wonderful articles on the Beach Boys. I've done back to enjoy their music.