New Beach Boys album - That's Why God Made the Radio

well except for the logo

such a cynical ploy to get people to think of their fave beach boys album
http://www.vinylsurrender.com/Graphics/AlbumCovers2/The%20Beach%20Boys%20-%2015%20Big%20Ones.jpg

More like four big ones and whatever Mike Love's got packing down there.

I love that 'Summer of Love' is on this thread twice now. Can I see you and raise with an ill-advised rap adventure?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz0SnpN_O00

Carl sounds amazing on that "Goin' Out' video above, I'd never heard that track before.

smart girls! love that one.
this is great too -- dylan's cameo is for the ages
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckqImMGwxKw

whoever played guitar on that song should've been spin's #1 guitarist of all time.

More like four big ones and whatever Mike Love's got packing down there.

― One Way Ticket on the 1277 Express (Bill Magill), Tuesday, May 8, 2012 1:39 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol XD

The new album cover is kinda AnCo, the band the BBs merely warmed up music for

More like four big ones and whatever Mike Love's got packing down there.

Yeah, but Mike Love is a big dick.

^^^

beat me to the joke i was thinking up while scrolling down

Not that I have been expecting otherwise, but all of the reviews of the current tour have basically been reviews of "The Beach Boys," rather than this Beach Boys. Surely no one has ever doubted the merits of the group's catalog, but it is weird to read these pieces that neither compare the current tour to the band's umpteenth past tours sans Brian, or note how the return of Brian does or does not change a thing about the group as its been for years. I mean, the current Beach Boys uses Brian's band - does that make a difference? I'm sure they sang Brian songs without him - does it matter that he's there? It's all sort of a disingenuous approach to a group that's been ignored, critically, on the nostalgia circuit for decades.

The new album cover is kinda AnCo, the band the BBs merely warmed up music for

Why don't AnCo and BB do a collab album? It will break the indiesphere.

Brian couldn't even handle the High Llamas, you think he could handle a bunch of weirdos in animal masks?

Just tell him he's reshooting the cover of Pet Sounds.

Switch animal masks for fire helmets.

lol Phil

Yeah, I could get with a Beach Boys Party...Again!

can you imagine how fucking boring a party with these guys would be now?

i'm sure they have very interesting stories to tell about their various grandchildren.

Brian couldn't even handle the High Llamas, you think he could handle a bunch of weirdos in animal masks?

Brian remains the most vocally gifted out of all of these by a country mile, so maybe it just ain't meant to be

goddamn if this hasn't been stuck in my head for practically a week now

honestly what it reminds me of the most is "Good Timin'"

goddamn if this hasn't been stuck in my head for practically a week now

it's memorable (singing it to myself atm), but not catchy enough to stick in my head. not yet anyway...

i kinda can't bring myself to listen to this. the beach boys were never meant to exist in 2012.

They just weren't made for these times.

Yeah, I could get with a Beach Boys Party...Again!

can you imagine how fucking boring a party with these guys would be now?

― akm, Wednesday, May 9, 2012 3:31 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

kind of imagine mike love was always a bummer when he got stoned

Like Love ever got legit stoned. He'd fake inhale and then sit there glaring and judging the rest of the crew.

Mike's drug of choice was apple juice iirc

In the semi-controversial "Mike Love isn't so bad" piece that ran in Mojo sometime back, Mike admitted he "smoked his share of marijuana" in the 60s, but quit once he discovered meditation.

I thought I remembered Mike bragging about having better acid trips than Brian ever did during his famous RnRHoF induction-rant

I just came from the Beach Boys concert at the Beacon theater. I can't speak for Mike Love's drug intake, but as of 2012, the man certainly has his share of psychedelic hand motions.

This could very well turn out to be the best Beach Boys album in 35 years

Best since "Blood on the Tracks!"

Summer in Paradise 4ever

best since Love You. Faint praise i know.

How about That Lucky Old Sun? which I actually liked a lot...

I just came from the Beach Boys concert at the Beacon theater.

so was it any good? I can't bring myself to go really, after seeing the setlist which was 50% uninvolving for me....and the feeling that going would be like going to see wax figures. but i'm kind of curious.

They're playing here the night of the NATO protests/meeting. It's also across the street from one of the "look at me, I'm behind the anchors on the sidewalk!" news stations. Should be a mess.

Seriously? This is 50% uninvolving?

Set 1

Do It Again
Catch a Wave
Don't Back Down
Surfin' Safari
Surfer Girl
The Little Girl I Once Knew
Wendy
Then I Kissed Her
This Whole World
Why Do Fools Fall in Love
When I Grow Up (To Be a Man)
You're So Good For Me
Cottenfields
Be True to Your School
Disney Girls
Please Let Me Wonder
Don't Worry Baby
Little Honda
Little Deuce Coupe
409
Shut Down
I Get Around

Set 2

Sloop John B
Wouldn't It Be Nice
Forever
Sail On, Sailor
Heroes and Villains
In My Room
All This is That
God Only Knows
That's Why God Made the Radio
California Dreamin'
California Girls
Dance Dance Dance
All Summer Long
Help Me Rhonda
Do You Wanna Dance?
Barbara Ann
Surfin' U.S.A.

Encore

Kokomo
Good Vibrations
Fun Fun Fun

this review is good -- actually made me want to see them!
blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2012/05/beach_boys_beacon_theater_may_9_review.php

opening with Do It Again is pretty cool, I gotta say

i mean those setlists are great. amazing they're not even doing a few more smile tracks though, considering the press that box got last year.
guess there's some groovy wilson bros. beyond the grave duets happening on "forever" and "god only knows"? heavy.

tbf, "Forever" is sung by a hologram John Stamos.

RIP Uncle Jesse
(get it cuz his band was Jesse and the Rippers, remember full house that show?)

no surf's up, no till i die, not interested. I mean I like all the rest of that but those two songs are the songs I would pay this money to hear. i guess it would be weird for them to do till i die since that could mean, like, 'any second now'

lol nobody in the band can hit those notes on Surf's Up c'mon now

the voice review suggests they've got a lot of help in the harmony dept. from the hired hands.

they're gonna hand the lead on a solo vocal to a backup singer?

yeah, you wouldn't want to hear them croak through Surf's Up anyway.

The BW solo show was one of the highlights of my musical life but also pretty depressing. It was amazing how many people were needed to prop him up. If you closed your eyes, it was almost like a Jeffrey Foskett concert with Brian singing along to the low notes. His personality and history made the concert worthwhile but that's pretty much all that's left.

Saw the Beacon show last night. First thing to say is that John Cowsill is a righteous drummer – all garage-band thump and British revival swing. He powered the set along like it was the Ramones.

Mike Love’s voice has weakened; Brian projected ok, but he battled pitch and diction problems. It's something you notice early on, then sort of forget about, because they totally had enough firepower to sing Beach Boys songs convincingly. Their secret weapon is Al Jardine, who has the strongest voice of the original guys, and who always lands that magic fourth harmony part. So with plenty of help on top from the backup musicians, plus the sort of cognitive pattern recognition from the tone of Mike's and Brian’s voices, and Al’s harmonizing, all reverberating around the theater, what you basically had was the Beach Boys. No one was complaining. A super show really. It's hard to see how the band could have been faking all that enthusiasm. Mike Love dedicated the new one to the memory of NY DJ Pete Fornatale, which was unexpected and really sweet. Also unexpected was "Marcella" -- it seemed to take a few band members by surprise as well. In recent years, thanks to a miraculous combination of free outdoor events, I've had the pleasure of seeing Brian and his reverent backup band, Mike Love's Beach Boys (with John Cowsill!), and even Al Jardine's Endless Summer band (surprisingly good, with a couple of ringers from the Beach Boys' 70s touring crew). This was better than all of those. We had great seats too – basically the last row of the upper balcony, so we could stand up and party.

Yeah, the backup singers took the lead on one or two. One or two out of, like, 44, mind you. That's not unprecedented though. Even back in the day, Blondie Chaplin took the lead on Sail On, Sailor for example.