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

Til I Die, dude.

New track would be enjoyable but for pitch correction -- the Beach Boys harmonies were never quite in tune, so making them so screw things up.

Look ma, no pitch correction:

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

Fun (fun fun) to watch these old clips and hear them pull off the harmonies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgDApIGvFxA&feature=related

At my guitar lesson yesterday we were talking about what an insane chord progression you find in "California Girls," not just the descending chords in the chorus (that bring you back to the right place) but the A/B they throw in in the verse, specifically how so few (if any) pop ®acts were harmonically sophisticated enough at the time to throw in a jazzy chord like that.

xpost Til I Die isn't about aging - it's about our tininess in the eternal scheme of things. Having the word Die in a title doesn't something into a rumination on mortality. If it did, Bruce Willis's career would have been very different.

Aging is about our tininess in the eternal scheme of things! But yeah, I know, I get it.

the die hard movies are totally about aging, he's always getting too old for this shit

for the new songs,

man writingwise they aren't as bad as i feared, parts are even kind of amazing

but lord, the production is so sterile, and it's not even "80s" glossy which is at least an aesthetic, but i feel like all the bad things about music production ever have coalesced now on protools and it's just a nightmare

heard this in the supermarket today while getting milk n stuff and holy shit this is awful

stop trying to deny your mortality. we're all going to die.

jesus christ is there any thread that can putter along without a mention of Bruce Willis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdlmhNujn0U

^^that's why god made the internet

we're all going to die hard

I have no idea why people are complaining about the production. It's fairly wet sounding. Do people not like the e.q. or something?

http://i47.tinypic.com/jzab1s.jpg

lol

ha

Those concert clips should be shown to any idiot who would argue that being perfectly in tune with a piano keyboard has anything to do with good group harmony singing in rock music.

Anyone looking to the music itself to check for signs of cynicism need only turn to Spring Vacation. It opens with a verse in which Mike Love claims to be "living the dream … cruisin' the town, diggin' the scene". The Beach Boys' music has often involved a suspension of disbelief – all those songs depicting a perfect, gilded California youth, written by a man whose own youth had been mired in physical and mental abuse – but this seems to push unreality to its limit. You find yourself wondering why on earth a 71-year-old would be cruisin' the town and diggin' the scene: perhaps he's plannin' on askin' them to keep the noise down so an old man can get some rest.

Haven't heard the new album net except the single and now "From There to Back Again" which I really like, but yeah, the production sounds like something Magic Garageband came up with. I'll have to listen to the "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times" soundtrack again before deciding whether using pitch correction for the new one was a good idea.

the production sounds like something Magic Garageband came up with.

I don't think so! I use Garageband all the time and this sounds more like a really nice studio with really nice microphones to me!

Tickets for the Wembley show went on sale today, my brother got us a couple. Mixed feelings about that.

xp I wasn't insulting GarageBand's technical prowess, which is impressive IMO, just commenting that it somehow comes across as electronically-enhanced rather than a natural live performance. Mind you the Beach Boys were on the forefront of making records that weren't intended to sound like a live performance. Double-tracking was to 1963 what Auto-Tune is to 2012.

There's definitely a little "Surf's Up" in "From There to Back Again." And did anyone else notice the scanning of the word "wonderful" at around 1:35 or so?

gah the pitch correction just ruins this stuff.

by default i guess this is the best beach boys stuff since the mid-70s, but jeez.

or late 70s i dunno.

LA (Light Album) is better than this

nah, only if the new one had a 12 minute disco version of "God Only Knows", or maybe a dubstep remake of "Surf's Up"

or a smurf movie tie in version called "Smurf's Up"

nah, only if the new one had a 12 minute disco version of "God Only Knows",

would listen

Feel obligated to post this. It's not "God Only Knows" but it is Pet Sounds.

My disco remix of "Sloop John B": http://soundcloud.com/the-me/sloop-john-b-the-me-remix

Indeed, there is crap on LA (Light Album), the disco Here Comes The Night being the overwhelmingly obvious example. It's not a great Beach Boys album, but I'd say the 5 great songs - Good Timin', Angel Come Home, Baby Blue, Sumahama and Love Surrounds Me - stands it as the best album after Love You.

Admittedly that's not saying very much, but it has a lot more going for it than all the others. The remaining mediocre tracks are at least listenable, I suppose.

best album post- Love You, of course.

http://music.aol.com/new-releases-full-cds/spinner#/4

Is this getting any radio airplay?

Kinda ok. Isn't It Time/Last 4 tracks are AMAZING. Rest ranges from 'Can We see weirdos + Mike Love?' to passable BW cruising.

NTI, I am both really liking your remix and feeling terribly embarrassed to be listening to it out loud.

private life of bill & sue sounds like Friends filtered through autotune

Beeeeeeaches in mind! Pretty bad.

I am weirdly intrigued by this album. Is it out on vinyl?

Isn't It Time/Last 4 tracks are AMAZING.
otm. the rest i never want to hear again, but i definitely want to re-listen to these!

the opening vocal stuff on the first song i gorgeous

so far this is far better than a beach boys album in 2012 has any right to be

isn't it time is great

one of the really unique things about the beach boys is how on pet sounds and smile they really eschewed conventional trap kit drumming and i like the arrangement on isn't it time for that reason

goddam spoke to soon - SPRING VACATION, is this a stamos number?

haha now spring vacation is just as bad as you'd expect

NTI, I am both really liking your remix and feeling terribly embarrassed to be listening to it out loud.

Just be glad I didn't bust out a "Here Comes the Night"-style vocoder!

"riiide your bicycle anywhere"

*ring ring*

Contrary to what many of us assumed, "That's Why God Made the Radio" written only by Brian, Joe Thomas, Jim Peterik, and Larry Millas (the last two ex-Ides of March).

We all know what that means: In a few years, they're all gonna be sued by Mike Love claiming the "lift up my antenna" line was his.....

Been playing "Isn't it Time" on repeat this weekend - so good!

seeing them tomorrow!