I’m tryna listen with you.

so carl is on all the verses but apparently he was too young to hit the same falsetto notes as brian yet? something to that effect or couldn’t land it as well i assume so brian edited his vocals to do those, it’s very short just one words - on the first prechorus of the song:

iiiiiiiiii hear the sound of a gentle word

the iiiiiii hear the sound is brian while the rest of it is carl

same on the second prechorus:

wheeeeen I look in her eyes

the wheeeen i look is brian edited in

when you’re familiar to brians easy to pick on falsetto it’s so noticeable as soon as it’s pointed

amazing mixing really

LOVE that song the most underrated bbs instrumental piece gives me hawaiian vibes 🌺

SpongeBob stole their whole fuxking flow!

I'm not surprised you like Hawaï 🌸

wow now that you mention it that part always has sounded like brian to me but i never really noticed. is carls voice also going on at the same time for that iiiii/wheeeen part, or is it just brian then switches completely to just carl?

do you have some source where i can read about it? its kinda hard to google

(edited the post - brians line is longer than just one word my bad i just relistened)

HE DID

it’s just brian doing it - you can clearly car coming right back in after

ill have to look it up im at work

im trying to pick the voices apart, does Carl pick up to sing "gentle"? thats where its sounding like it switches to me. feel like its harder to tell on the 2nd prechorus tho

^ whenever youre off work later

listen to hawaii to train your ears and go back to it - brians falsetto is one in a million, very distinguished to pick out

the first prechorus carl definitely hits right back on “gentle word”

second he comes back on “in her eyes”

im tryna think at top of my head where i picked at but it’s not something that’s it’s commonly spread, iirc i found out through my heavy intense smile documentation and talking to insiders and engineers etc but ill look up later yeah

yeah i can def hear it

this site mentions popular-music.fandom.com/wiki/Good_Vibrations

good i was worried i couldn’t find much off of it unfortunately those kind of conversations are rarely documented

a few users talk about in here as well

forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/carl-wilson-and-brian-wilson-voice-comparisons.746238

also damn i didnt realize that Carl sang Pom Pom Play Girl

good vibrations smile version with the extra bridge tho >>>>>>

big hawaiian mood 🌺

is it the one called Good Vibrations: Western (New Bridge)?

havent listened to all those sessions in a while

cabinessence gets better everytime i hear it

nah that’s just an instrumental take of the bridge the one im thinking of it’s the song with the extra longe bridge and the “pooomdilaaa pommdila ooohooo” vocals 🌺

so tropical
listen to hawaii then this then diamond head you got a plane trip to hawaii soundtrack there

also this is gonna sound odd bc ive been rocking the bbs for so many years now but today relistening shortly to good vibrations verses at work (in the context of that environment and not comfort of home or car ride) to check on the brian/carl voices edit just dawn on me what a revolutionary record it legit is

like it’s so easy for anyone and especially newcomers as they get younger and more exposed to how colorful and experimental music gets in productions like we’re almost unphased today we’ve seen and heard it all but like man are those verse soooooo... so special like it’s the sound of color palette it’s like i can’t put words but it takes you away on an island of emotions RIGHT OFF THE BAT from brians genuis melodic driving bassline played by carole kaye, the organ and brians melodies sung by carl, it’s like a match made in trippy heaven that can’t be recreated in other circumstances

like idk for a minute i felt the impression it must’ve felt back then to hear this new sonically sound for first time in an era of where rest of music is so different and more folky and youre caught off guard

i swear on my life I SWEAR i read the thread and was repeeping good vibrations to hear the edit and see if i could detect ANY cut/splicing and as i was listening i couldn't help but hit the

the way the atmosphere shifts from verse to hook to instrumental to bridge back to hook is unparalleled and then ON TOP of all that, the choices in musical intervals, the bassline that opens the verses is relatively high, somewhat melodic and far more similar to what a synth or guitar might play but then it drops straight into this blues bassline that u could find on an old jazz record or any blues songs from the 50s

someone took the gv sessions lost footage that miraculously surfaced after 50y and almost forever gone by being thrown in the trash and added colors to it it’s amazing

one of those true lighting in a bottle moments that will and could never be topped by them or by someone else and they don't happen often

this song enbodies so much that era and the peak of creativity you can see why paul was floored by brians bass work (and i love paul basslines) the whole song really is a pocket symphony no kizzy there’s so much in it and yet that’s if you take the single version we have and not the smile with that extra godly bridge

song really amazes me today more than ever when sometimes you take it for granted and that’s sad

what an outstanding piece of artwork

and that theremin mimick on the chorus this has everything mannn it’s so layered and textured yet doesn’t give any headaches you know it keeps music with hooks catchy and simple short and that’s to me the everest of music making, the balance of something rich intelligent yet so fun and earwormy which is something many misses - lot of them inspired falls on the too pretentious act of it

i know this sounds funny and ironic but as soon as the song starts it’s so refreshing it really sounds like the poetry of the sound of a wave just stellar inimitable work ethic and quality that can’t be matched i really felt like art garfunkel when he first heard it and was like stop the car!

also props to mike love too (i know) because that bass vocals on the chorus isn’t easy to pull off

imagine if they dropped as a single the smile version tho dam