Why the Beach Boys' God Only Knows is Such A Powerful Song

What Makes the Beach Boys' God Only Knows a Powerful Song? From their 1966 album, Pet Sounds is a love song distinguished for its harmonic innovation and its subversion of typical pop music formula. It is often praised as one of the greatest songs ever written and as the Beach Boys' finest record.

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The Beach Boys - God Only Knows | Great Songs Explained

[MercuryStudios]

Do you think God Only Knows should be considered one of the greatest songs written?

[wagstaff]

One time ive clicked an advertisement and actually enjoyed it

[daytripper]

Absolutely one of the greatest songs written. I was fortunate enough to go to the Wilson's home twice in 1961. I will never forget.

[NightwingReturns]

The greatest love song of all time. God bless Brian Wilson.

[randallbowman]

No one can sing this song like Carl Wilson.

[luminousunicorn]

One of the few songs that I’m okay with crying along to. It’s beauty really can’t be expressed in words.

[bbbcid]

Plus, Carl doesn't need to sell it. His voice is so earnest and clean and sweet. There's no hint of pretense.

[gaylelee]

Really great analysis of genuinely one of the best songs ever!

[rachelcastaneda]

This song makes me cry every time I hear it.

It reminds me of my mother and father. Seeing how my father passed away 6 years ago it made me question how we, his family, would do. 😢💙

[adamholtz]

Pure perfection in song and voice !!! The Beach Boys ruled on this awesome track !

[soulagent]

Saw them perform it live shortly after Carl had died. It was sung by Bruce Johnston and yes, it was pretty emotional.

[dotfern]

Wow... ! This was so very informative... Thanks for sharing... ! Beautiful song... ! Heart touching lyrics... ❤
Perfect song... !

[danielplainview]

There is an aspect to the lyrics that this video doesn’t seem to appreciate:
A lot of the lines are geared towards acknowledging the feeling of the impermanence of intense romantic love, but in doing so and stressing a commitment to love all the same, have an earnest appreciation of what love in reality feels like. It is quite like Shakespeare’s sonnet “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”.

[RogerBates]

2:54 Brian & Tony Asher went out on a little bit of a limb with that lyric, at the time. It wasn't common for popular culture to reflect imperfect relationships at that point.

[jhanbury]

You don't hear complex chord changes like this anymore.

[Mandylovesjesus]

I love The Beach Boys! I love that song!

[howtodoitdude]

I wish you would have gone deeper into the music structure.

[thejonathandoan]

Beautiful retrospective. You hit on all the important points in this video. Nicely done!

[lagboi]

1.50 Actually Brian had made introperpective music before Pet Sounds. The B-side of Today album from 1965 is basically a precursor of Pet Sounds

[MIKELIN]

"Sometimes I have a weird way of showing my love" is a lyric from "She Knows Me So Well" which was an earlier Beach Boys song. from (I think) the Today album.