seeing them tomorrow!
― that's why ZOG controls the radio (brownie), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 12:31 (eleven years ago) link
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 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 (eleven years ago) link
otm
― iatee, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 23:19 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Glad I didn't buy it on Amazon then.
― skip, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 02:14 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
"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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Mike Love, still a douche...
― skip, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 14:26 (eleven years ago) link
Disagree. It's kind of awesome that Mike hasn't mellowed with age.
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 16:12 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
~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 (eleven years ago) link
-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 (eleven years ago) link
I wish!
― that's why Love made the weirdos (brownie), Thursday, 14 June 2012 13:30 (eleven years ago) link
but, no
― that's why Love made the weirdos (brownie), Thursday, 14 June 2012 13:31 (eleven years ago) link
did they just show clips of old performances or something
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 June 2012 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
drowning
― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Thursday, 14 June 2012 17:15 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
can't believe Mike would be cool with showing this amazing clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hyp9b72jSE
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 June 2012 18:01 (eleven years ago) link
it was... strange
― that's why Love made the weirdos (brownie), Thursday, 14 June 2012 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 June 2012 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
Brian was sort of cool for awhile. pre-bathrobe.
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 June 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uts03i0WRms/TK1nRKEHZSI/AAAAAAAADS0/-df4fej4nh8/s1600/AlJardineNC001.jpg
― that's why Love made the weirdos (brownie), Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
ladies love $$$$
and fame.
and guys who eat their vege-ta-bles.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
Posting just for the hell of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxJfuml6ir8
The 12-inch mix is quite something (I'm serious)
― Electro-Shock Rory (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
oh, it's on Made in the USA.
― skip, Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
"isn't it time" holds its own mixed in with the hits!
― tylerw, Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Female posters post more when the main server goes down, it's true.
― Cunga, Thursday, 14 June 2012 22:00 (eleven years ago) link
more than 25 years ago and they look old even then
also really reassuring that Brian looks just as confused as disengaged onstage then as he does 2/3 of the time now
― the hat's filthy lesson (sic), Friday, 15 June 2012 00:18 (eleven years ago) link
Amazing show at Merriweather Post Pavilion last night...
MVP: Jeff FoskettBeach Boys MVP: Al - as advertised here, he sounded great.Mike was even sketchier than I could have imagined and sounded old, but the essence of the original vocals came throughBrian showed flashes of his old self but was pretty subduedBruce didn't sound very good
They gave a shoutout and solo each to David Marks (Hawaii), Jeff (Don't Worry Baby), Darian (Sail on Sailor), and Scott (don't remember) - very classy. David Marks played lead guitar and was quite good. They didn't miss any of the big hits as far as I could tell. Some of the album tracks included Ballad of Ole Betsy, Hawaii, Little Honda, When I Grow Up, and All This Is That. Isn't It Time was the worst song of the day, Radio sounded a bit better. The backing band is top notch. All in all, it was incredibly more fun than the BW solo concert I went to a few years ago. It just looked RIGHT to see all of those guys on the same stage.
― skip, Saturday, 16 June 2012 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
The video tributes to Dennis (Forever) and Carl (God Only Knows) were actually quite well handled.
All in all, it was incredibly more fun than the BW solo concert I went to a few years ago
Exactly my feeling.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 16 June 2012 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
Finally listened to as much of the new album as I could. A couple of these tracks, "Strange World" and "Spring Vacation," are among the worst I've heard from anyone in months.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 17 June 2012 16:36 (eleven years ago) link