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

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

would listen

┗|∵|┓ (sic), Monday, 4 June 2012 01:57 (11 months ago) Permalink

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

Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 4 June 2012 02:08 (11 months ago) Permalink

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.

Morrissey & Clunes: The Severed Alliance (PaulTMA), Monday, 4 June 2012 02:10 (11 months ago) Permalink

best album post- Love You, of course.

Morrissey & Clunes: The Severed Alliance (PaulTMA), Monday, 4 June 2012 02:12 (11 months ago) Permalink

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

tylerw, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 15:27 (11 months ago) Permalink

Is this getting any radio airplay?

Lee626, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 15:46 (11 months ago) Permalink

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

I'm not going leftfield on you... (hypehat), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 15:57 (11 months ago) Permalink

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

Merdeyeux, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 16:01 (11 months ago) Permalink

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

tylerw, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 16:02 (11 months ago) Permalink

Beeeeeeaches in mind! Pretty bad.

tylerw, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 16:14 (11 months ago) Permalink

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

licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 16:18 (11 months ago) Permalink

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!

tylerw, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 16:24 (11 months ago) Permalink

the opening vocal stuff on the first song i gorgeous

wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 17:43 (11 months ago) Permalink

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

wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 17:49 (11 months ago) Permalink

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

wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 17:51 (11 months ago) Permalink

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

Ha ha, thanks, Merdeyeux! I did it because I was going through a big Lindstrom and Prins thing at the time -- and my daughters are in love with the original (they particularly love that daddy is singing with "Brian").

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

Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 21:19 (11 months ago) Permalink

"riiide your bicycle anywhere"

*ring ring*

wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 June 2012 19:36 (11 months ago) Permalink

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.....

Lee626, Saturday, 9 June 2012 08:01 (11 months ago) Permalink

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

licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 08:53 (11 months ago) Permalink

seeing them tomorrow!

that's why ZOG controls the radio (brownie), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 12:31 (11 months ago) Permalink

Been playing "Isn't it Time" on repeat this weekend - so good!
"Isn't It Time" is like an unholy combination of all the things I dislike about both 15 Big Ones and Love You.

I have no love for 15 Big Ones but this song definitely has a big Love You vibe going on -- with the skeletal ukelele arrangement and sing-songy melody.

I know everyone's dying to proclaim the last three songs Brian's autumnal masterpiece and all. But thus far, this tune feels like the best thing on the record by some length, lifted antennae be damned.

I like the melancholy intro tho.

Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 20:54 (11 months ago) Permalink

otm

iatee, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 23:19 (11 months ago) Permalink

Apparently they are selling the cd for a grand total of $5 US at the tour merch stand, and Mike Love is hawking between songs in his banter:

"We're battling it out with Adele, so buy American," said Love at one point during just one of his numerous pitches.

(from the Houston Press review of Friday's show)

Mike Love, please don't ever change.

Electro-Shock Rory (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 01:39 (11 months ago) Permalink

Glad I didn't buy it on Amazon then.

skip, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 02:14 (11 months ago) Permalink

anyone read the latest Rolling Stone? when they were listening to the "13 minute suite" that closes the album Mike Love turned his hand into a gun and mocked blowing his brains out

also, Al Jardine needed help flushing the toilet on the plane

that's why ZOG controls the radio (brownie), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 13:13 (11 months ago) Permalink

"isn't it time" is great.
good tune, good production, good voices (except brian's first words on the opening).
totally unexpected and I'm quite surprised to like a new BW/Bboys song so much in 2012!
the final suite, I'm not really convinced. it's ok but nothing special.

AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 13:38 (11 months ago) Permalink

haha I also really hate the opening vocal on that song!
Anyone has a link to that RS article?

licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 14:01 (11 months ago) Permalink

couldn't find it on the RS website. for some reason I get the print version.

that's why ZOG controls the radio (brownie), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 14:10 (11 months ago) Permalink

xpost
yeah, the rest of the vocals is great so I wonder why they left this horrible part !

AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 14:18 (11 months ago) Permalink

Mike Love, still a douche...

skip, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 14:26 (11 months ago) Permalink

anyone read the latest Rolling Stone? when they were listening to the "13 minute suite" that closes the album Mike Love turned his hand into a gun and mocked blowing his brains out

Mike Love, still a douche...

Disagree. It's kind of awesome that Mike hasn't mellowed with age.

Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 16:12 (11 months ago) Permalink

he's just not the same without a jug of apple juice tho

a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 16:19 (11 months ago) Permalink

~thoughts~

-Al Jardine still sounds pretty good!
-I lost track of Brian Wilson at the end. It turns out he was out in front playing the bass. Then he puts the bass down and starts wandering around on stage. Like just pacing back and forth.
-turn up the guitars
-weird and sad Forever and God Only Knows appearance from Dennis and Carl
-had a ball

that's why Love made the weirdos (brownie), Thursday, 14 June 2012 13:23 (11 months ago) Permalink

-weird and sad Forever and God Only Knows appearance from Dennis and Carl

Pls tell me these were holograms, Tupac-style.

Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Thursday, 14 June 2012 13:25 (11 months ago) Permalink

I wish!

that's why Love made the weirdos (brownie), Thursday, 14 June 2012 13:30 (11 months ago) Permalink

but, no

that's why Love made the weirdos (brownie), Thursday, 14 June 2012 13:31 (11 months ago) Permalink

did they just show clips of old performances or something

a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 June 2012 16:41 (11 months ago) Permalink

Dennis Wilson hologram would be amazing - arm in a cast, making fun of Mike Love, streaking, drunken rendition of "You Are So Beautiful"

a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 June 2012 16:42 (11 months ago) Permalink

drowning

Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Thursday, 14 June 2012 17:15 (11 months ago) Permalink

did they just show clips of old performances or something

type in Forever Dennis Wilson on youtube and that's what they showed. same thing for Carl.

that's why Love made the weirdos (brownie), Thursday, 14 June 2012 17:57 (11 months ago) Permalink

can't believe Mike would be cool with showing this amazing clip:

a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 June 2012 18:01 (11 months ago) Permalink

it was... strange

that's why Love made the weirdos (brownie), Thursday, 14 June 2012 18:09 (11 months ago) Permalink

wow gorgeous clip

dennis was such a dreamboat

has there ever been a band where there was such a contrast with one member being such a dude and the rest being such dorks? it's like a band with one robin zander and four rick neilsons

wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 June 2012 18:13 (11 months ago) Permalink

lol

a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 June 2012 18:16 (11 months ago) Permalink

Brian was sort of cool for awhile. pre-bathrobe.

a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 June 2012 18:17 (11 months ago) Permalink

Brian lorded over the group in early BBs videos like a dorky but hip genius. I would call him cool before the breakdown.

skip, Thursday, 14 June 2012 18:52 (11 months ago) Permalink

yeah but i doubt he was really getting in the bone zone that much you know?

wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 June 2012 18:54 (11 months ago) Permalink

some BB book I read years ago described Dennis as one of the great "swordsman" of the era.

dan selzer, Thursday, 14 June 2012 18:55 (11 months ago) Permalink

I can take a stab at it, but I'm not even sure what that means.

Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 14 June 2012 18:58 (11 months ago) Permalink

you watch that TAMI show performance and it's clear that Dennis was the most popular with the girls.

tylerw, Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:01 (11 months ago) Permalink


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