Heroes and Villains es una de mis canciones favoritas de los Beach Boys. Es la primera canción que compusieron juntos Brian Wilson y el letrista Van Dyke Parks para lo que iba a ser el disco Smile y, al igual que ocurre con muchas de las canciones que escribieron en esa época, existen multitud de versiones. La que se publicó como single y que apareció en el album Smiley Smile es la más conocida, pero siempre circularon bootlegs con partes diferentes a la canción oficial. En wikipedia está muy bien contada la historia de la canción:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroes_And_Villains

Ayer hicimos en directo una versión de Heroes and Villains, que es la que se puede ver en el video (grabado en el Neu! Club por Jorge Taús). En lugar de centrarnos en alguna de las versiones existentes hemos hecho nuestro propio corta-pega con las partes que más nos gustan y la hemos adaptado a nuestro sonido buscando que no quedara muy pesada para hacer en directo.

En esta lista de Spotify están algunas de las versiones más conocidas de la canción. La versión demo es preciosa, parece que Brian Wilson se está inventando partes sobre la marcha. La última es la que regrabó Brian Wilson en 2004 junto a la gente de los Wondermints:

http://open.spotify.com/user/truetoyourschool/playlist/5cQ2aQXB1N7Ok066MwkAdo

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One of my favorite Beach Boys songs is Heroes and Villains. It's the first song that Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks wrote together for the album that was going to be called Smile. As it happens with many of the songs they wrote in that period, there are several recordings of Heroes and Villains. The most well known recording was published as a single and was included in the album Smiley Smile, but there has always been bootlegs of other versions that didn't make it in any official record, each one with new and different parts. There's an interesting article in Wikipedia with the whole story of the song:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroes_And_Villains

Yesterday we played a cover of Heroes and Villians in our show in Madrid, you can watch it in the video (recorded at the Neu! Club by Jorge Taús). Instead of covering any of the versions that the Beach Boys made of the song, we made our own, doing a sort of cut-and-paste of our favorite parts, trying to adapt the song to our sound and trying to arrange an amusing version to play live.

In this Spotify list I've included some of the most well known versions of the songs. The demo version is simply amazing, it seems that Brian Wilson is making up new parts as he's playing the piano. The last one is the recording of the song that Brian Wilson did with The Wondermints in 2004.

http://open.spotify.com/user/truetoyourschool/playlist/5cQ2aQXB1N7Ok066MwkAdo