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.
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
"Isn't It Time" is like an unholy combination of all the things I dislike about both 15 Big Ones and Love You.
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
xpostyeah, 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
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
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
― that's why Love made the weirdos (brownie), Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:08 (11 months ago) Permalink
the amazing thing about Brian is that even as a 300+ pound of unshaved, unwashed pile of neuroses he STILL had multiple women literally fighting over him in the late 70s
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:10 (11 months ago) Permalink
dude had a sandbox! if there's one thing ladies love it's a dude with a sandbox. am i right?
― tylerw, Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:13 (11 months ago) Permalink
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
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:41 (11 months ago) Permalink
ladies love $$$$
and fame.
and guys who eat their vege-ta-bles.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:47 (11 months ago) Permalink
Posting just for the hell of it:
The 12-inch mix is quite something (I'm serious)
― Electro-Shock Rory (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:52 (11 months ago) Permalink
more than 25 years ago and they look old even then. not a bad track though - not sure how it slipped through the cracks in my collection. It's probably there somewhere but don't remember even hearing it.
Going to see them tomorrow night and will be wearing my new Black Flag/Beach Boys shirt.
― skip, Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:57 (11 months ago) Permalink
oh, it's on Made in the USA.
― skip, Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:58 (11 months ago) Permalink
Saw two things in the Paste review of this that caught my eye:
The seeds of most tracks date back over a decade, to a series of fruitful sessions between Wilson and producer-instrumentalist Joe Thomas, who originally collaborated with Wilson on his 1998 solo album, Imagination. A stand-out from those hours and hours of recordings was a mid-tempo, ‘50s-styled ditty called "That’s Why God Made the Radio," but instead of using the track as a springboard into a new solo album, Wilson shelved it away with an unselfish (and lofty) pride, claiming its potential could only be realized with his Beach Boys bandmates.
But just when you’re ready to write off Radio completely, it closes with a four-song stretch (part of a supposed long-form suite that remains, as of today, unfinished) that rivals anything in the group’s post-Pet Sounds repertoire.
the reflective, meditative closer “Summer’s Gone,” which was originally intended to serve as the final track on the final Beach Boys album.
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2012/06/the-beach-boys-thats-why-god-made-the-radio.html
Are there any other sources for this stuff? I'd never heard either of the first two stories -- and the latter may prove yet to be true, so...
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:47 (11 months ago) Permalink
think that stuff was covered in the recent newsweek (Time?) article. hey i'm listening to this right now! http://www.npr.org/event/music/154917913/the-beach-boys-in-concert?sc=tumblr&cc=tumb_music
― tylerw, Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:49 (11 months ago) Permalink
"isn't it time" holds its own mixed in with the hits!
― tylerw, Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:57 (11 months ago) Permalink
That's right, it's here: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/05/27/the-beach-boys-crazy-summer.html
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 14 June 2012 21:02 (11 months ago) Permalink
Jim Peterik
Not just ex-Ides of March, but also of Survivor fame, and writer of .38 Special hits, too. Plus, another local Chicago guy, which would explain why he and Brian hooked up.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 June 2012 21:56 (11 months ago) Permalink