{"id":2920,"date":"2009-05-20T18:54:33","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T22:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2920"},"modified":"2009-05-20T18:54:33","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T22:54:33","slug":"midweek-makeover-what-might-have-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/05\/20\/midweek-makeover-what-might-have-been\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek Makeover: What Might Have Been"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Beach Boys&#8217; God Only Knows is &#8211; if there is ever such a thing &#8211; the perfect song.\u00c2\u00a0 Lyrically, harmonically, emotionally &#8211; everything is <em>just right<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 So much so that I just can&#8217;t listen to a cover without wanting to turn it off and listen to the original instead.\u00c2\u00a0 But the original almost wasn&#8217;t the original.\u00c2\u00a0 Turns out that Brian Wilson was originally slated to sing lead, instead of his brother Carl.\u00c2\u00a0 According to Brian, his singing lead had been in the cards for a while, and there are even recordings with him in lead:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BC_UILNwWrc[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting.\u00c2\u00a0 Same voices, same space , but different roles that resulted in a very different song, I think.\u00c2\u00a0 Not worse, not better.\u00c2\u00a0 Different in a way that makes me wonder about the choice.\u00c2\u00a0 But maybe I just say that because it was Carl Wilson&#8217;s lead that I&#8217;ve been living with:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NDfH_J4MAUQ[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>God only knows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beach Boys&#8217; God Only Knows is &#8211; if there is ever such a thing &#8211; the perfect song.\u00c2\u00a0 Lyrically, harmonically, emotionally &#8211; everything is just right.\u00c2\u00a0 So much so that I just can&#8217;t listen to a cover without wanting to turn it off and listen to the original instead.\u00c2\u00a0 But the original almost wasn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2920"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2923,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920\/revisions\/2923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}