THE BEACH BOYS-FOREVER

When I first heard this song it was on Full House, and I really thought it was a Jesse and the Rippers song.  Thank God it wasn’t.

Dennis Wilson got this one so right.  The song lyrics are pretty basic.  I don’t think there are more than 40 or so different words in the whole thing…but the first line of the song is one of the most beautifully profound and simple things I have ever heard.  “If every word I said could make you laugh I’d talk forever.”  I think as a “funny guy” that line just sticks with me.  Making people laugh is one of the best ways that I know how to make people happy…and the thought of making someone happy forever is probably the greatest thing anyone could do for someone else.

That is such a fleeting, simple thought in a way.  It’s like one of those things that someone who is married says to their spouse while they are doing the dishes, and the other replies “Oh, shut up and hand me the dish soap” but they smile at each other during the exchange…and it would be something that might be lost forever.  Or I like to think.

Dennis Wilson didn’t get as much shine as his brothers did a lot of times.  Brian Wilson has said that this song is one of the most beautiful and harmonic songs that The Beach Boys did.  He called it a rock and roll prayer.  That is a huge compliment coming from Brian Wilson.

Thanks John Stamos.

-Justin