{"id":57972,"date":"2025-07-11T22:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T22:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/57972\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T22:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T22:22:11","slug":"grunge-icons-daughter-shares-a-touching-cover-of-god-only-knows-by-the-beach-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/57972\/","title":{"rendered":"Grunge Icon\u2019s Daughter Shares a Touching Cover of \u201cGod Only Knows\u201d by The Beach Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Loved ones, fans, and friends of <a href=\"https:\/\/americansongwriter.com\/three-generations-of-brian-wilsons-family-honor-to-late-singer-during-tribute-charity-concert\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Wilson<\/a> have been feeling the absence left by his death on June 11 of this year. The Beach Boys icon was an incredible songwriter, with an ability to take odd, unconventional instrumentation and compositions and inject incredibly emotional themes into them. His songs will be loved for centuries, I\u2019m sure. And one person who wanted to pay tribute to the great artist is none other than Toni Cornell. You might know her as the daughter of the late great Chris Cornell of Soundgarden and Audioslave.<\/p>\n<p>Released yesterday, Toni Cornell\u2019s cover of \u201cGod Only Knows\u201d by The Beach Boys (famously written by Wilson) is a tender and stripped-down version of the original.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Taking on this song is no easy feat. The final cut of \u201cGod Only Knows\u201d, originally released in 1966, is rich in Wilson\u2019s unique songwriting practices and production techniques. However, Cornell absolutely nailed her hauntingly beautiful cover of this famous avant-pop tune.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the clip of Cornell\u2019s cover below.<\/p>\n<p>Toni Cornell\u2019s Cover of \u201cGod Only Knows\u201d by The Beach Boys Would Make Her Father Proud<\/p>\n<p>Toni Cornell doesn\u2019t sound much like her father, Chris Cornell, who was known for his rich, deep vocals. However, she really has a stunning set of pipes, with notably impeccable control. Cornell sings the refrain and second verse of the song with a simple acoustic guitar and tambourine playing in the background. This clip of her singing \u201cGod Only Knows\u201d is painfully short, and I hope a full version gets released soon!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor Brian Wilson,\u201d the caption of the video reads. \u201cThank you for writing one of the most beautiful songs ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fans have been giving a lot of love to Cornell in the comments of her post, and I\u2019m not surprised. She really is a talented singer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow I know what angels sound like when they sing,\u201d said one commenter. \u201cThis made me tear up a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIncredible!\u201d said another. \u201c[Brian Wilson] is smiling somewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old singer has opted to walk in her father\u2019s footsteps recently, as she released her debut single \u201cSunset Of Your Love\u201d back in late 2024. A few months ago, she followed that single up with \u201cLittle B*tch\u201d and could very well release an album soon. However, Cornell has not announced anything quite yet.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Jeff Kravitz\/FilmMagic<\/p>\n<p>When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Loved ones, fans, and friends of Brian Wilson have been feeling the absence left by his death on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":57973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[995,171,23649,975,4006,996,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-57972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-brian-wilson","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-grunge","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-pop-music","13":"tag-the-beach-boys","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114836940000501953","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}