Originally Posted By: Ice
Originally Posted By: Ice
The Beach Boys - Surf's Up (1966/1971)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKo7euwjhDQ


3:11-4:14 = The greatest 'unrecorded' moment it the history of recorded audio.


From the unfinished (until 2004) Smile album, which Wilson called a "teenage symphony to God," this is the version of the Beach Boys that the world wasn't quite ready for. Going back to his roots on the piano, Wilson was very much inspired by American composer George Gershwin.

It's almost as if Wilson put the album in a time capsule for later generations to be the first to discover. The song would later become the title track on the album Surfs Up (1971). Brian sings alone in the original version, but this 71 version includes brother Carl singing the first half.