| "In the Back of My Mind" | |
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| Song by the Beach Boys | |
| from the album The Beach Boys Today! | |
| Released | March 8, 1965 |
| Recorded | January 13–19, 1965 |
| Studio | Western, Hollywood |
| Length | 2:09 (mono version) 2:11 (stereo version) |
| Label | Capitol |
| Composer(s) | Brian Wilson |
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| Producer(s) | Brian Wilson |
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"In the Back of My Mind" is a song by American rock band the Beach Boys from their 1965 album The Beach Boys Today!. Written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love, it is a heavily orchestrated ballad composed in 6/8 time. Dennis Wilson largely sings lead solo though briefly during the middle eight, his brothers Brian and Carl sing two lines in unison.
Fans and critics regard the song as one of the band's "masterpieces". It is one of the group's songs that most heavily draw from the Tin Pan Alley style of songwriting, while the chord patterns were virtually unprecedented in Brian's music at the time. The song ends with a breakdown of its instruments playing out of sync from each other.