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}} "Surf's Up" is a song written by Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks for American rock band the Beach Boys. Its title is an ironic nod to the group's earlier associations with surf music; nothing in the song is about surfing. Through its stream of consciousness lyric, the song details a man who experiences a spiritual awakening, resigns himself to God and the joy of enlightenment, and prophesies an optimistic hope for those who can capture the innocence of youth. From 1966 to 1967, "Surf's Up" was partially recorded for the group's unfinished studio album ''Smile'' before being shelved indefinitely. After Wilson was filmed performing the song for a 1967 television documentary covering the 1960s rock revolution, the composition acquired relative mystique. In 1971, the original studio recording was completed and served as the title track for the group's twenty-second official album. It was also released as a single, serving as the A-side to "Don't Go Near the Water", which did not chart. In 1967 it was acknowledged by classically-trained clarinetist David Oppenheim who called it "too complex to get the first time around...'Surf's Up' is one aspect of new things happening in pop music today. As such, it is a symbol of the change many of these young musicians see in our future." Musicologist Philip Lambert named the song "the soul of ''Smile''" for being the "sum total of its creators' most profound artistic visions" with its "perfect marriage of an eloquent lyric with music of commensurate power and depth." In 2011, ''MOJO'' staff members voted it the greatest Beach Boys song. ==Composition== Wilson has said: "The lyrics for 'Surf's Up' were very Van Dyke; only he could have done that—only Van Dyke could have written those lyrics. We wrote that at my Chickering piano, I think, in my sandbox and it took us about an hour at most to write the whole thing. We wrote it pretty fast; it all happened like it should." When asked by Van Dyke Parks what Wilson was feeling when he wrote the music for "Surf's Up," he responded with, "I just felt some love, I felt a whole lot of love, there was a whole lot of love going on at the time."〔Brian Wilson: Beautiful Dreamer〕 Most of the composition was written during the summer of 1966, but it remained untitled until later in the fall. While the duo worked on the song, which still needed additional verses, Dennis Wilson showed up to a session and described how the Beach Boys had been humiliated during a recent performance in Britain, with the crowd pointing and laughing at the group's uniformed striped shirts. This incident inspired Parks to pen the lines: "''Surf's up, aboard a tidal wave/Come about hard and join the young and often spring you gave/I heard the word, wonderful thing, a children's song''". The title of "Surf's Up" was a double entendre suggesting that The Beach Boys' earlier, simpler surfing-related material was spent. Brian was taken aback at the title "Surf's Up" because the song had absolutely nothing to do with the sport, but supported the idea. Band publicist Derek Taylor reported that both Brian and Dennis truly disdained the surf image that the Beach Boys had acquired over the years. In 1966, Brian elaborated on every lyric of the song in great detail to journalist Jules Siegel: The lyrics quote two lines from the French traditional "Frere Jacque" and the title of the Scottish song "Auld Lang Syne". Another reference point was the poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson; the lyric phrase "''While at port adieu or die''" is word play alluding to "''Their’s not to make reply, / Their’s not to reason why, / Their’s but to do and die''". The lyric "''canvass the town and brush the backdrop''" may be a reference to the term "paint the town red," originating from the story of Henry Beresford. "''The diamond necklace played the pawn''" is a reference to the French short story "The Necklace", published in 1884 by Guy de Maupassant. Musical flourishes played on muted trumpet in the verses of "Surf's Up" are almost identical to the laugh of cartoon character Woody Woodpecker, a musical reference which later recurs withiin the instrumental piece "Fall Breaks and Back to Winter (W. Woodpecker Symphony)" on the album ''Smiley Smile'' (1967). In 1975, Mike Love voiced appreciation of its musical form and content, which he believed goes beyond what is normally expected of commercial pop music. He has said of Parks' lyrics "I appreciate them for their artistry. It's like if you were to go to a modern art museum... maybe you don't understand (art ), but you can appreciate that it's beautiful." Al Jardine stated in 2007, "'Surf’s Up' is just beyond description.… It’s just one of those extraordinary compositions that along with Van Dyke’s somewhat arcane lyrics… bring together more of a tapestry… of music and lyric that just transcend meaning. And I just find it extremely deep musically."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Surf's Up (song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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