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“Good Vibrations” by the Beach Boys
“It scared me, the word ‘vibrations,’ ” Brian Wilson once said, remembering how, when he was a boy, his mother, Audree, tried to explain why dogs barked at some people and not others. “A dog would pick up vibrations from these people that you can’t see but you can feel. And the same thing happened with people.” “Good Vibrations,” Wilson’s crowning achievement as a songwriter and producer, harnessed that energy and turned it into eternal sunshine. “This is a very spiritual song,” he said after its release, “and I want it to give off good vibrations.”
— “Good Vibrations.” Rolling Stone 9 Dec. 2004: 1-1
