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

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!

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.

otm

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.

Glad I didn't buy it on Amazon then.

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

"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.

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

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

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

Mike Love, still a douche...

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.

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

~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

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

Pls tell me these were holograms, Tupac-style.

I wish!

but, no

did they just show clips of old performances or something

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

drowning

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.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hyp9b72jSE

it was... strange

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

lol

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

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

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

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

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

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

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uts03i0WRms/TK1nRKEHZSI/AAAAAAAADS0/-df4fej4nh8/s1600/AlJardineNC001.jpg

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

dude had a sandbox! if there's one thing ladies love it's a dude with a sandbox. am i right?

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

ladies love $$$$

and fame.

and guys who eat their vege-ta-bles.

Posting just for the hell of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxJfuml6ir8

The 12-inch mix is quite something (I'm serious)

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.

oh, it's on Made in the USA.

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...

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

"isn't it time" holds its own mixed in with the hits!

That's right, it's here: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/05/27/the-beach-boys-crazy-summer.html

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.

dude had a sandbox! if there's one thing ladies love it's a dude with a sandbox. am i right?

Female posters post more when the main server goes down, it's true.

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