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Episode 142: “God Only Knows” by the Beach Boys

A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs

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Psychodol

Wilson wrote a piece of music inspired by his psychodelic experience. There are no real structural or musical resemblance between the two pieces that i can put my finger on, but at the same time, i can totally see what he means. Bark's piece is based umon triplets, and they made wilson think of a shuffle beat. And those are the notes that make up the bas fifth that wilson introduces early in the songthat base riff, of course, is a famous one. Those of you who were listening to the very earliest episodes of the podcast might remember it from many, many ink spots records,. when the smallma yo amis o, that's

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