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

Are you guys talking about the "sunlight's fading" line? That really sounds like Brian to me...listen to the vowel pronunciation on "not".

no I mean the whole first couple verses

if you've heard Brian recently, there is no way in hell he is singing those opening lines.

also the idea that there is some lack of wistful Beach Boys songs about aging, the end of summer, moving on etc. is laughable...

it's al for the first half and then brian takes over around 2:15 or so.

^^^

The first couple verses in "From There to Back Again" - I also think that's Al.

yeah that's what we're saying.
i really like this song! a nice surprise.

me too, I'm almost scared to listen to the rest of the album now.

"Isn't It Time" is like an unholy combination of all the things I dislike about both 15 Big Ones and Love You.

Mike Love sounds terrible.

the chorus of "Shelter" is really nice.

"Summer's Gone" (B. WIlson, J. Bon Jovi, J. Thomas)

Is this the part of the album I will love the most?

sound p much like a summary of Lucky Old Sun tbh, did you like that?

Is this the part of the album I will love the most? Or that will now prove to be the most disappointing to me?

also the idea that there is some lack of wistful Beach Boys songs about aging

If you want nostalgia, listen to "When I Grow Up", a wistful song about aging - starting at the ripe age of 14 and looking ahead year-by-year to how scary being 21 might be. The years really fly by quickly in the fadeout, which takes us from 22 all the way to 30 just before the coda fades into silence. One gets the sense that turning 30 must have felt like a distant riding into the sunset when it was recorded.

Youth, gotta love it....

also the idea that there is some lack of wistful Beach Boys songs about aging, the end of summer, moving on etc. is laughable...

Sorry about that last mispost

also the idea that there is some lack of wistful Beach Boys songs about aging, the end of summer, moving on etc. is laughable...

OK, aging literally means getting older. But I think there's a substantial difference between 60s songs in which aging means having to grow up and face responsibilities and now, when aging means facing up to death.

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