What's next for me?I mean, we don't have a Petsound song in here yet, so I'm gonna put a Petsound song in here.
I'm gonna put Caroline No on this playlist, because if there's one song that needs to, you know, if the rest of this stupid playlist is gonna be filled up with bullshit from 2020, and we forget to put too much Petsounds on, Caroline No has to be the one song.
uh that uh that appears here it is the the load-bearing you know central pillar of this album right there at the very end uh without which you know i think you could almost cut you could cut any other song from pet sounds and still have it be pet sounds even wouldn't it be nice even god only knows you you wouldn't want to do that
But Caroline No is what makes Pet Sounds Pet Sounds ultimately, and it's a song that will haunt me until my dying day.A terrifying, bottomless pit of a song on one of the masterworks of all masterworks.
While we're here, I'll just throw the song Pet Sounds in. Love it.
A little bit of instrumental music here.Run James Run.
I don't like thinking about it that way.I love that.I don't like thinking about it as a James Bond thing, because it's not.Because what it is, is it's the song Pet Sounds.
No, it is.It's Run James Run.
It's the song Pet Sounds from Pet Sounds.
Are you anti-James Bond?This is surprising to me.
No, I just, I love thinking about it as just the song.I just like that it's pizza.
What if it were a Godzilla song?What if it were a song for like a Godzilla?
Obviously that's fun to think about, but I do just love that it's more meaningful to me than any of that is just that it's,
called, that it was lifted out of being in service of something else to being like, no, this is good enough to just be not only included on this album, but to have it be the title track.
This is the title track.It is funny that this is the title track for this album.And this album looks the way it does and feels the way it is.
I mean, it is my favorite kind of, it's kind of, it's my favorite Beach Boys instrumental.And I just think it has like,
There's no other song that sounds like, as much as this one does, sounds like Brian Wilson being at the top of his game and knowing it and writing this melody, this tune that just feels like
so mischievous and sure of itself and has such life force within it.I feel like it really feels like he was, maybe he didn't even realize, but like writing the soundtrack of his own life. at this point with this number.
Yeah, but I mean, I love thinking about whatever Brian Wilson thought James Bond would be like.Writing about who's the coolest, what would be the coolest thing. Yeah, this is one of the coolest things.
This, you know, I think this song makes perfect sense in its context right before Caroline, I mean, God, that's weird that the song comes right before Caroline No on Pet Sounds.
But it could also make perfect sense, you know, in a Sean Connery bond where, you know, Pussy Galore or whatever.
No, it's too good for that.
Trying to bed him, but she's got a knife tied behind her back.I straight up don't see it working in a Bond movie.Too good for Bond.You claim to be pro-Bond, but it seems like you're very anti-Bond.
I'm pro-Bond.I think that part of the Bond thing is not, like, the music is not all, it's not like... Like, think of a song like Live and Let Die.When I say too good, I mean, like, you gotta have a song for Bond that's like a little bit, like,
It should be more in service to Bond, whereas this song just feels... it's too much its own personality, and the personality does not feel like James Bond.It feels like Brian Wilson, and that's what I mean.
That's what's so fun about it, is that it's Brian Wilson's interpretation of a James Bond song.
It's this weird, misshapen James Bond song that accidentally becomes this brilliant instrumental pocket symphony that works as the crux of this, or another one of the cruxes of this legendary record.I do wonder, I do...
I would imagine that if this song had been selected as a James Bond song, which it's just too weird to be ultimately, you know, it just, it doesn't, it would have been too out there, you know, for them to, certainly James Bond at the time.
But I do imagine that if it had somehow made it past all of the suits and, and, you know, pencil pushers and stuff at the studio that someone would have tracked lyrics for it.
You know, there would have been some sort of corny James Bond, you know, theme identified and, you know, two or three verses written and plugged in here.But I think this is a song that should be instrumental.
You know, any sort of words, whether it's James Bond, stupid words, or a set of lyrics that Brian and Tony Asher had written for this record, I think would do this song a disservice.
Yeah, it's better as an instrumental and it's better being called Pet Sounds than being in a James Bond movie.It feels too cinematic on its own.It's got something special cooking.
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