Beach Boys - Shortenin’ Bread (Love You Side 3 mix)

When Love You was being sequenced as a double album, this version of Shortenin Bread was to occupy all of Side 3. Brian, however, was unsatisfied with the final mix and wanted to play it with the group in the studio a few more times.
Artwork by @brigantics7686

[@NicholasJones-j3w]

I've got biscuits on my fingers!

[@rodbottomley4514]

On behalf of the group and ourselves I hope we pass the audition.

[@elijahyoung11]

I, no joke, have listened to this song very often over the course of a year and am still not sick of it. If any of you know musicians who make similar coke infused grooves that persist like this, I’ll give you Mammy’s best shortenin bread.

[@brettrosenberg]

Bread first

[@c02c02]

thank you so much for uploading this. this came on the radio in 1994 and i died flipping my car over while trying to rotary dial the radio host to ask what it was called. now i am in heaven enjoying this masterpiece.

[@Paul-dw2cl]

same thing happened to me

[@isaiahtolbert]

LOL!!!!🤪😜

[@michaelyeiter2447]

Love your comment!!!! 🎉

[@derekbrown2215]

Well at least it was a happy ending.

[@brettrosenberg]

You’re caller number 10! You’re going to see Shortnin Bread: The Musical. What radio staton really rocks your world? Caller? … caller?

[@GamerNRetro]

There needs to be an 8 hour version. Brian Wilson tripping simulator 2023.

[@sallybrown4947]

Now that's an intro to a song! Take that Pink Floyd!

[@brettrosenberg]

why do I have to wait 45 seconds for every Pink Floyd album to load. whhhhhhshssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaahhhhhhhh

[@michaelyeiter2447]

Love your comment!!!! 🎉

[@countof3everybodyOD]

Take that Bill Maher

[@hurleybot]

Music to Lay In Bed for Years To [Lo-Fi Mix]

[@brettrosenberg]

I've played this in some dj sets and nobody has ever been able to lay down while this song is playing

[@Gabriel-ki7uj]

Better get back in bed

[@marcofalzone6469]

​@@brettrosenberg I can imagine the funky dancing people could do out of sheer Repetition 😊

[@jaredcress4328]

finally..........lengthening bread

[@TUNASAMMY69]

I can't tell you how hard this made me erupt with laughter

[@JDrevolver66]

It's like a portal into Iggy Pop's nightmares!

[@brettrosenberg]

This would have been bigger than Good Vibrations if it came out in '77, I really believe that. Unfortunately, Carl got busted for stealing a mess of bread while on tour in Perth and the group put the track back in the tin

[@rideon77]

I can conquer the fucking world listening to this

[@robertbrown7408]

I dunked and ate two packets of shortbread biscuits in my tea while listening to this .😢God bless Brian after the sad loss of his wife Melinda 🙏❤ ❤❤❤

[@kmac1766]

Oh, man…I didn’t know about Melinda 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢God Bless Bri ❤

[@patpatyay]

Accidentally fell asleep listening to this, I regret nothing.

[@patpatyay]

It’s been about a week now, it has pretty much become a routine to listen to this as I fall asleep. I can’t stop listening to this.

[@MistaTofMaine]

​@@patpatyayis it still happening to you nighthawk? I've grown addicted to listening this to an unhealthy degree. The bass won't stop trolling my head. Bump!

[@patpatyay]

@@MistaTofMaine I don't listen to it every night anymore, but it still enters my head occasionally. When that does happen it sort of obligates me to listen to it as I fall asleep, just to get it out of my head. Still love this though, extremely addicting.

[@AcceleratedEvolution]

I mean. It does groove, so if Brian was crazy then we are all crazy. Visionary.

[@downthehighway]

this is literally hypnotic

[@Daniel-Q.-Phantom-esq.]

Im being so serious rn i listen to this when im on the edge of an anxiety attack and after like ten minutes i calm down and forget what i was anxious about please make an hourlong version so i dont have to start going to therapy

[@MrIveyIsBonkers]

Still not long enough.

[@brettrosenberg]

It's like walking around inside a long piece of Shortnin Bread that has an endless hallway that takes you in a giant circle and once in a while you'll pass an open door and hear Carl belting out the vocal. You can always hear the din of the synth. Would be really cool to roller-skate to this song in a giant looping hallway inside a huge piece of Shortnin Bread. I would never want to leave. know what I mean?

[@bedwarsgb4523]

That’s what she bread

[@JustinSosa]

I'm in heaven.

[@brettrosenberg]

this isn't heaven, it's the Maharishi Internationional University in Iowa (field of dreams ref)

[@bedwarsgb4523]

JustinSosa fell into a Carl Wilson solo song

[@countof3everybodyOD]

@@brettrosenbergyou’re wrong. We just went to heaven in his car

[@Gabriel-ki7uj]

Rolling up to heaven

[@naranjojo]

The guy from Big Star should sing the verse and the guy from the Box Tops should sing the chorus. They have the perfect voices for this.

[@nuclearblues52]

Anyone who likes Big Star and The Beach Boys, and knows that part of the Shortenin’ Bread story, is a friend of mine.

[@brettrosenberg]

dit di-di dit di-di dit di-di di-di-dit dit di-di dit di-di dit di-di di-di-dit dit di-di dit di-di dit di-di di-di-dit how I love my breaaaaaaaad

[@NateRuvin414]

This is pure ecstasy

[@benswithen236]

This is the best Shortenin' Bread I've heard (and would go great on Love You, which is my favourite BB album). I'd happily hear a lot more like this.

[@sallybrown4947]

Mama loves, Mama Loves,-- Short-nin Bread..... Repeat over and over and over

[@brettrosenberg]

SHORT. NIN.

[@I_Am_The_Paulrus]

For the impatient among you the singing begins at 7.55 😊

[@gailfountainatl]

I was about to post that it starts at 07:55

[@rileyalt1251]

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND TO SHORT A GOOD BREAD!

[@brettrosenberg]

Merry Christmas! Cuddle up with a warm drink and a book!

[@MFSteel]

some would say it's a reason for the season

[@hwgavin]

420 big ones ahaha, genuinely cracked up

[@karlkaempfert]

I've listened to this in its entirety 6 times, & I will continue to edit this the more I listen to it.

[@rangergrrrl]

Just did today's Wordle while listening to this. Used BREAD for the first line. Got it on the third line. Thanks, Brian...!

[@AccurateCrabLegs]

Change into a new facial expression every time the saxophone honks

[@camioso]

Believe it or not, I made it through the entirety of this

[@mrseal662]

I listen to this nonstop everyday

[@dmmamc]

All I can see is a bunch of cats making biscuits

[@marcofalzone6469]

Ladies and Gentlemen, Kraftwerk has left the building.

[@superandroidtron]

The early takes of Autobahn had a different feel, but I think they were on to something!

[@NOWtheband]

If The Beach Boys had been influenced at all by Kosmische Musik (or "Krautrock") at all, it might have manifested itself like this, ha ha! 🙂

[@brettrosenberg]

It really is an Enoesque tonepoem!

[@NOWtheband]

@@brettrosenberg - Yeah, Eno was also massively influenced by Kosmische Musik, as you probably know. He's a good lad. 🙂

[@radiomindchatter7994]

I think Faust was influenced by the Beach Boys...

[@pereldh5741]

Rumours has it that this was on repeat at Guantanamo?

[@NateTheGnat]

I'm starting to realize what "Shortenin' Bread" really is. Its bread with shortenin' on top.

[@michaelakosti2963]

wow just as brian intended!!

[@richarddresden6869]

RIP Brian you were a legend.

[@rideon77]

He's alive

[@richarddresden6869]

@@rideon77 Don't speak ill of the dead.

[@FrankGervasi]

@@richarddresden6869don’t speak ill of the bread

[@rideon77]

@@FrankGervasi LOL

[@Chris-jl4iv]

Makes me wanna smoke a cigarette while lifting weights

[@StrukesGaming]

Finally🙏

[@brettrosenberg]

nothing is final. there is no final shortnin bread. a longer bread will always surface. makes me less afraid of death to know that truth.

[@robertbrown7408]

Brian Wilson to a laughing Dennis and Carl " I like food...I like creative food !"😅

[@fboness368]

Masterpiece!

[@SGS2003]

Surfin' Sister Ray by The Velvet Boys and Riley

[@erikhurtado5125]

Can be found this long mix on any vinyl bootleg ??? Because I would buy it for SURE. and I haven't found any info about this track on discogs... I'm a Beach Boys fan since many many year, and this has been a recent great Discovery. THANKS for This Loop Ecstasy Symphony 🤩🤩🤩

[@hussbilbs]

iggy pop leaves the building

[@markstevenson6635]

Totally underrated!

[@zapple1003]

Could have made the intro just a little longer.

[@brettkilbride7625]

Is there a 28 minute version available please?

[@brettrosenberg]

please deposit 25 cents for the next 10 minutes

[@sheatiller2465]

@@brettrosenberg deposit 25 cents to Brig for the original artwork

[@RoddyMacLeodBlog]

How much of this (and/or the original) is looped? We need to know.

[@brettrosenberg]

None! They played the whole thing and then some. They are still playing it!

[@mywhitenoise_]

Give me a link to a FLAC download, please!

[@brettrosenberg]

yeah, I've got a FLAC version...it's in that jar up there on the counter...

[@OddFlavio]

YOU RULE! 🍞

[@izzigogo]

I do my art to this.... painting away

[@chrisnugent-oe8ns]

Shortenin' Bread goes well with a tab of Orange Sunshine on the side.

[@eliasonsemdupy]

life is frood

[@arthurmilano2920]

Oh and also, this is music to keep your phone in your pocket while on long cold commuting walks in the night

[@arthurmilano2920]

This is what happens when you’re a beach boys fan and you go tell your friend that his daft punk and kraftwerk singles sound like music stuck in a blender, so they get back at you and re-record this on your entire 15 big ones cassette

[@DaddyWarbucksunlimited]

Love me some SHOTE NIN BRED

[@markr1574]

i gotta get out of here

[@marcofalzone6469]

😂🙋🎵Imo.only some songs by The Cure have extended intros that are equally trance inducing

[@DaisyIsKing]

Oh no, the obsession is spreading!!

[@brettrosenberg]

#spreadthebread

[@NateTheGnat]

This would make a good Residents song. Just have someone screaming in a goofy voice over it. Well, someone besides Brian I guess...

[@NicholasJones-j3w]

Shortenin' it wouldn't be as nice?

[@truthtransistorradio6716]

This would have been an alternative to disco! They would just have to come up with a dance for it. How about running in place with sweats on? Like Jason Sudeikis on 'What's Up With That?' SNL? (right after posting this comment, I made this.... kzbin.info/www/bejne/omfblIt9fpmXl5osi=4IApM2eKdNx_cX_q }

[@PalmerEldritch23]

Inexplicably brilliant, completely hypnotic. Love too that it's just Brian with Carl and Dennis, and no doubt Mike Love HATED this tune no matter the length. Ah what could have been...

[@thejiggy22]

If Mike hated Shortenin' Bread, then why did he write Reason for the Season as a Shortenin' Bread remake, and why did he also quote it during his cover of Sugar Shack.

[@Providence..]

@@thejiggy22 Because idiot Mike Love haters like this guy think he despised everything about Brian when that obviously isn't true at all. It's childish behavior and you'd think these people would be more mature, but apparently not.

[@Providence..]

This is already a dumb comment, but speaking logically, who in their right mind would listen to a nearly twenty minute track that's just the same thing repeated over and over and over again? And why exactly would Mike hate this tune? Right, you have zero reason because you just want to hate Mike because it's popular to hate him. I swear, the BB fandom was one of the last places I'd find idiotic childish behavior like this, but boy have I been proven wrong again and again. The Mike Love hate is entirely unfounded and I wouldn't blame him at all if he feels bitter towards a lot of folk because of people like you spreading this false idea around that Mike is the goddamn antichrist. You people have forgotten what it's like to just enjoy music because you would rather hurl snarky childish remarks. Please, grow up.

[@PalmerEldritch23]

@@Providence.. Brian Eno made a 60m track called "Thursday Afternoon" that's just a single piano riff and a drone synth - and it's glorious. Here's your possible answer as to the "why" with "Shortnin' Bread": kzbin.info/www/bejne/gHrRfoiuf5eUmMk

[@PalmerEldritch23]

I'm hoping you might dig up the rumored epic "marching powder" jam session on this riff that's just Brian, Carl, and Dennis. I think it's supposed to be over an hour? Hope it surfaces some day. 😈

[@brigantics7686]

bro stole my artwork 💀

[@brettrosenberg]

How may I credit you

[@brigantics7686]

@@brettrosenberg idk edit the description to say "album artwork originally by Brigantics" at the end

[@gab2876]

Bro still did NOT credit him

[@netiosys4677]

​@@gab2876bro is busy shortening bread

[@wrenouderkirk]

lol

[@brettrosenberg]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKTNe2yhadN0hqcfeature=shared

[@richardsater]

Man, is that tedious .... worse than the disco version of "Here Comes the Night" ....

[@mikkysteaders]

Somebody didn’t get Momma’s Shortenin’ Bread when he was little

[@bedwarsgb4523]

The album cover’s sexy

[@JDrevolver66]

This season’s hot headwear accessory: a tiny Al Jardine.

[@thedude8860]

@@JDrevolver66*actual size

[@Paul-dw2cl]

is there a 19 minute version available please?

[@brettrosenberg]

Yes but it's extremely rare, almost nobody's ever heard it. I'm super curious!!

[@bedwarsgb4523]

@@brettrosenbergIt’s inside Brian’s brain. You’d have to gift him some super rare shorty bread and Phil Spector’s favoritest wig for him to sneeze out a chunk of brain that you then put inside your head in order to hear it.

[@jasonmoskowitz246]

Brian has a .01 second version, a 1 second version, the 2,3,4,5,& 6 second versions, a rare 21, two of the 30 second versions, and at least one of every length from 59 seconds to a decade.

[@subg8858]

No one’s going to care about the 18 minute version anymore, once they hear the 19 minute version