In other countries, the sides of the single were reversed, with “God Only Knows” as the A-side. At the suggestion of Johnston, Tony Rivers and the Castaways recorded a version of the song, which was issued about a week before the Beach Boys released their version as a single. On July 18, the song was issued as the B-side of the “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” single in the US. A total of 22 takes were attempted for the song. 2007: a survey conducted by the East China Normal University taking into account people from different regions of China, concluded that there were approximately 300 million religious believers (≈31% of the total population), of whom the vast majority ascribable to Buddhism, Taoism and folk religions. In the two centuries before the Meiji period there was a movement towards a purer form of Shinto, with a particular focus on the Japanese people as being the descendants of the Gods and superior to other races. The coda was ultimately scaled down to three lines sung by two voices, Brian and Johnston. Dillon suggested that Brian may have changed his mind on the lead partly to address concerns over the large percentage of singing roles he was granting himself for the album.

God Only Knows” is among the several songs that Brian Wilson and Tony Asher wrote for the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds album. Asher felt that it was the pair’s most effortless collaboration, remembering that Wilson “spent more time tweaking the instrumental part than we did writing the words! God Only Knows”, Wilson acknowledged that he himself had “not written that kind of song” before and explained, “I think Tony had a musical influence on me somehow. In his book about Pet Sounds, Charles Granata writes that some of the musical devices that “God Only Knows” employs are usually “rather ordinary” by themselves. No question. I open the book with this story and I never conclude whether it’s true or not, whether it was planted or not. Some responses were considered invalid or inconsistent during the edit stage and imputation was needed, which is why the imputation rate is higher than the non-response rate for a question.

When the site claimed it doesn’t block individual accounts unless there is a court order, the HC retorted: “If this is the logic, why have you blocked Mr Trump?”, referring to former US President Donald Trump. Here are some of the reasons on why Copper is preferred in the religious activities. Howland commented that some “classicistic gestures” are present in the orchestration for “God Only Knows”, however, listeners must keep in mind that “orchestral instruments do not always signify baroque/classicistic textures”. In a 2011 interview, Wilson commented that the melody of “I may not always love you” resembled the “I hear the sound of music” line from “The Sound of Music”. To address this issue, pianist Don Randi suggested to Wilson that they play the parts in staccato, rather than in full quarter notes. Traditional religion is having a tough time in parts of the world. Multiple vocal parts are sung in counterpoint, a technique that is distinguished from the “oos” and “ahhs” style of vocals for which the Beach Boys are known. Musician Andy Gill identified the verse and chorus melodies as variations on the same line, and added that this type of melodic variation was “very” similar to the technique as it is used in classical pieces such as Delibes’ Lakmé.

As the verse develops, it gravitates closer to the key of E on the lines “you never need to doubt it / I’ll make you so sure about it” before entering the hook line, “God only knows what I’d be without you”, which begins with a return to an A major chord on the “God only” portion. Of the tracks on Pet Sounds, it is the only one that lacks a strongly established primary key center (others employ key ambiguity to a lesser degree), and the only one that modulates its key up a fourth interval (others descend by a third). Lambert states that “a clear sense of key” eludes the listener “for the entire experience-that in fact, the idea of ‘key’ has itself been challenged and subverted”. Dillon wrote that referring to God may have also been viewed as “a square move” due to the nascent decline of traditional religion in the United States. Whether or not Narmer actually unified Egypt, the Palette dates to “precisely the period in which Egypt first became a unified, powerful, wealthy, and literate state,” historian Robert J. Wenke wrote in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt.