<P> The song inspired songwriter Margo Guryan to move into writing pop music . She said : `` I thought it was just gorgeous . I bought the record and played it a million times , then sat down and wrote ' Think of Rain ' . That 's really how I started writing that way . I just decided it was better than what was happening in jazz . '' Bob Stanley of Saint Etienne wrote that `` It 's impossible to exaggerate how beautiful this song is . Everywhere , it takes risks . '' Bono said in October 2006 during Brian Wilson 's induction into the UK Music Hall of Fame that `` the string arrangement on ' God Only Knows ' is fact and proof of angels '' . Jimmy Webb , an American popular music composer , has also stated his love for the song , stating , `` I love ' God Only Knows ' and its bow to the baroque that goes all the way back to 1740 and Johann Sebastian Bach . It represents the whole tradition of liturgical music that I feel is a spiritual part of Brian 's music . And Carl 's singing is pretty much at its pinnacle -- as good as it ever got . '' In a 2003 solo concert in Tel Aviv , Steven Wilson , frontman of Porcupine Tree , declared `` God Only Knows '' as his favorite song of all time . On the Insurgentes listening party that took place in Mexico City in 2009 , Steven Wilson said it was a perfect song . Simon Neil of Scottish band Biffy Clyro has the lyrics `` God only knows what I 'd be without you '' tattooed across his chest . </P>
<P> The song inspired songwriter Margo Guryan to move into writing pop music . She said : `` I thought it was just gorgeous . I bought the record and played it a million times , then sat down and wrote ' Think of Rain ' . That 's really how I started writing that way . I just decided it was better than what was happening in jazz . '' Bob Stanley of Saint Etienne wrote that `` It 's impossible to exaggerate how beautiful this song is . Everywhere , it takes risks . '' Bono said in October 2006 during Brian Wilson 's induction into the UK Music Hall of Fame that `` the string arrangement on ' God Only Knows ' is fact and proof of angels '' . Jimmy Webb , an American popular music composer , has also stated his love for the song , stating , `` I love ' God Only Knows ' and its bow to the baroque that goes all the way back to 1740 and Johann Sebastian Bach . It represents the whole tradition of liturgical music that I feel is a spiritual part of Brian 's music . And Carl 's singing is pretty much at its pinnacle -- as good as it ever got . '' In a 2003 solo concert in Tel Aviv , Steven Wilson , frontman of Porcupine Tree , declared `` God Only Knows '' as his favorite song of all time . On the Insurgentes listening party that took place in Mexico City in 2009 , Steven Wilson said it was a perfect song . Simon Neil of Scottish band Biffy Clyro has the lyrics `` God only knows what I 'd be without you '' tattooed across his chest . </P>
which musician considered the beach boys ' god only knows as a perfect song
which musician considered the beach boys ' god only knows as a perfect song
Steven Wilson
Steven Wilson