God Only Knows – BBC Music Video & Beach Boys chat.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqLTe8h0-jo

Alan Esdaile… Anyone see this air earlier tonight?

Mick Knights… Without knowing what it was I heard it this morning on the breakfast show, my initial reaction was, this is awful, but what do I know!!

Pete Shaw…. Quality! Listen to Stevie Wonder’s phrasing…wonderful!

Jane Hartley…  didn’t like it either! Why on earth did the beeb decide to broadcast on all radio and tv channels, declaring it to be sooooo big?

Steve Kinch… Possibly the most perfect pop single of all time! Unfortunately, this version has too many square pegs trying to fit in to a round hole.

Andre Martin… It is original format 1966 it was so good, that like so many tunes, why not leave alone – it was perfect then and almost half a century later its perfect. Strip out all the computer aided recording techniques that were no doubt used for this, and I suspect that many of the artistes would be nothing. Ok so I am an oldie, but appreciate good music, and the Beach Boys and that whole Album, were excellent.

John Storer……. but Steve Kinch may have hit on something. What do we regard as the most perfect pop record of all time? One can get a little over-precious about favourite songs. Its a cover version – a reinterpretartion… the Beach Boys version hasn’t been deleted or anything! Should Ike & Tina Turner not have covered “Proud Mary”? Did Soft Cell ruin “Tainted Love”? Was Hendrix’s “All Along The Watchtower” a travesty of Dylan’s original?  I, for one, enjoyed the track and thought the accompanying video was rather clever. Was particularly pleased that no one from U2 appeared.

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