I can't even remember what's on that anymore. I remember the medley, and Airplane near the end, some other nice stuff. You've seen the actual doco though right?

I enjoy The Beach Boys. For lo, they are rad.

"When I Grow Up (To Be A Man)" is beyond fucking brilliant, as is "Surfs Up".

"When I Grow Up (To Be A Man)" Reminds me of Amy Heckerlings 'Look Who's Talking' movie.

Oooo, and there was a reunion recently of Brian Wilson, Mike Love and Al Jardine.

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002687994

beatles.thread.

The Pixies' Levitate Me as performed by The Beach Boys
http://pottymouth.org/mcpt/Levitate.Me-Beach.Boys.mp3

holy crap, thats awesome!

there are promos, demos, writing session excepts and lots of live tracks.. but yeah I have the doco at home... awesome doco.

HEB said 1 hour ago

The Pixies' Levitate Me as performed by The Beach Boys

froginasock said 51 minutes ago

holy crap, thats awesome!

Not really the Beach Boys...
http://beta.messandnoise.com/discussions/16582

Is anyone going to Splendour?

i'm surprised there hasn't been a brian wilson sideshow announcement.

there isn't going to be - they are just coming here for splendour.

the reunion of al, mike and brian was only really to accept some record company award, it's not like they sang "sloop john b" together.

stoopid splendour.

uncle russel says that the beach boys are a bunch of poofs

uncle russel just got kicked out of home after aunty meg found his bong & needles

i just found an old video i've got with the beach boys:an american band taped on it off the telly. it's great...from 1985 and all the brian interviews take place in his bed.

Its Brians Birthday today...theres a good interview with him on Little Stevens UG...Bikini Beach Party show...

http://www.littlestevensundergroundgarage.com/play/archive.html

Happy Birthday Brian!!

Beach Boys Refurbish Classic Recordings
Brian Wilson

June 21, 2006, 3:15 PM ET

Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.

As expected, Capitol/EMI Music Catalog Marketing will salute two of the Beach Boys' most iconic releases with new editions this summer. First up on June 27 is a new CD single to mark the 40th anniversary of "Good Vibrations," to be followed on Aug. 29 by a 40th anniversary package of "Pet Sounds."

Beyond the original 45 single version, "Good Vibrations" includes an edit with snippets from various sessions, an alternate take, an instrumental and a live rehearsal version recorded in August 1967 in Honolulu. The track's original B-side, "Let's Go Away for Awhile," is also featured.

In addition to a limited double vinyl edition, "Pet Sounds" will be presented in a CD/DVD package with mono, stereo and 5.1 Surround Sound mixes. Among the extras is a mono mix of "Hang on to Your Ego" left off the original album, behind-the-scenes documentaries and interviews with key figures, an unreleased color promotional film for "Good Vibrations" and a clip from an unreleased BBC documentary, "Rhythm of Life."

Last week, original Beach Boys members Brian Wilson, Mike Love and Al Jardine appeared together in public for the first time in a decade on top of Capitol Records' office tower in Los Angeles. The artists were presented with double-platinum plaques making U.S. shipments of more than 2 million copies of the band's 2003 collection, "Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of the Beach Boys."

first band threads I've seen on beta are on the beatles and the beach boys. c'mon people you need to get over the 60's.

"the reunion of al, mike and brian was only really to accept some record company award, it's not like they sang "sloop john b" together"

apparently the interviewer / host or whatever asked them if they'd buried the hatchet, to which mike love turned around and pointed to his back.

just in case anybody had started actually feeling sorry for him.

I am hotwiring this thread because I'm bored with all else on the frontpage.

I heard a rumour that there's going to be an original-recordings-of-Smile 4CD box set for Christmas or so. We'll see if it happens.

What's everyone's favourite bit of harmonies from a Beach Boys record? For me "Our Prayer" has to be close to the best.

I'm a bit ashamed to realise (yes Ibtoo have been on a mass binge since the concert) anyway yeah.,.only just realizing that ''Little Old Lady From Pasadena'' and ''Two Girls For Every Boy'' were actually Jan & Dean songs although the Beach Boys did cover those songs. They are just so in their style I assumed they were theirs

Brian Wilson pretty much did write 'Surf City' (a.k.a. 2 girls for every boy). Murry was furious he gave it away and it was a #1!

Yeah right...makes a lot of sense. I really should find a good bio on them. There are a lot of interesting bits like that I'm not familiar with. Ha! I downloaded a ''Best Of Jan & Dean'' cause I really wanted to listen to both those tunes...

baa ba ba ba ba ba ba baaaa baaa baaa baaa

Mike Love, still a dick after all these years:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2208817/Youre-fired-Three-Beach-Boys-founding-members-dumped-bands-frontman-Mike-Love.html

Who wants to see the Mike Love Beach Boys anyway? Seriously, I want to know.

Doesn't everyone know it's just him, Bruce, the creepy band leader who looks like a geography teacher rapist and maybe on a good day, John Stamos?

I say good riddance to bad rubbish.

Maybe Brian, Al and the other guy can do something together? I'd pay to see that.

So we won't get Disney Girls or those 10 or so early 60s songs they did about surfin and cars. But think of what's left!

Check out this weeks Jools Holland performances on YouTube. Brian seems very relaxed and happy. Maybe he's secretly thinking ''Only two more shows with this prick...''

God, Mike Love is such an absolute cock. I was beginning to warm to him ever so slightly, but no, what a fuckhead.

This is why I didn't attend the recent gig!!.... MIKE FUCKING LOVE

granted... I know I missed something special before it all fell to pieces.

Mike Love is a megalomaniac wanker of the highest order... I just KNEW he couldn't be trusted to play nice and respect the legacy of the Beach Boys.

Mike Love's batshit insane Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame speech in the 80s... such a nasty piece of work and completely deluded. This was meant to be a proud moment for the band and once again he shat on it.

The Mike Love/ Beach Boys saga is sad. He's effectively booted founding members Brian Wilson and Al Jardine (and some dude called David Marks who did a year with them in the 60s) off the tour so that he can tour his watered down version of the Beach Boys with latecomer Bruce Johnson and ''new Beach Boys'' members Randell Kirsch, John Cowsill, Tim Bonhomme, Christian Love, and Scott Totten. I'm sure Randell Kirsch has a mean falsetto won some Beach Boys idol type comp to secure the job, but really...

I have done a bit of research and things effectively went pear shaped with the death of Carl Wilson in 1998 when the band effectively split up. Mike Love licenses the Beach Boys name for six months of the year off the other members or their estates. This clause means he can legally end the real Beach Boys tour and tour his own version. He takes latecomer Bruce Johnson with him to strengthen his claim to the name. At one point Al Jardine was so pissed at Mike Love that he formed Al Jardine's Beach Boys, with his sons and Brian Wilson's daughters filling in for the others. Mike Love took him to court and made him change the name to Al Jardine's Endless Summer Band.

Anyway, at any one time there are up to half a dozen bands touring with tenuous links to the Beach Boys name:

Mike Love and Bruce Johnson; They tour as ''The Beach Boys'' by licensing the name for several months a year.

Al Jardine's Endless Summer Band: This was Al Jardine's Beach Boys and features sons and daughters of real Beach Boys during various incarnaions. It currently features two of his sons.

Brian Wilson: Probably the only member with any credibility left, despite being a total acid casualty. Tours with Beach Boys coverband ''The Wondermints'' as his backing band and still relevant today.

This is where is gets really lame:

Surf City Allstars: One time member David Mark's version of the band. He played with the Beach Boys for one year in the 1960s, and has been brought back into the band at various times since the late 90s to ''strengthen'' the Beach Boys brand. His recent billing as one of the five Beach Boys during the recent reunion tour is like saying Buckethead was one the the five members of Guns and Roses.

The Legends of Surf Music: David Marks AND Al Jardine together.

California Saga: The sons and daughters of the Beach Boys have gotten together and tour and perform lesser known Beach Boys songs. They will no doubt tour as the Beach Boys when they inherit the band/brand name in coming decades. The band is genetically probably more ''Beach Boys'' than any other versions of the band featuring original members. Line-up is Carnie and Wendy Wilson (Brian Wilson's daughters), Christian and Ambha Love (Mike Love's son and daughter), Justyn Wilson (Carl Wilson's son), Carl B. Wilson (Dennis Wilson's son), and Matt and Adam Jardine (Alan Jardine's sons). Billy Hinsche (Justyn's uncle) and Rob Bonfiglio (Carnie's husband).

I won't even bother with other ''former members'' like Glen Campbell, Ricky Fataar and Blondie Chaplin. And John Stamos can go fuck himself.

hahahahaha dude that is an agonising read.

poor Brian.

Blondie has been a side man for The Rolling Stones for many years now. But still they won't add Sail On Sailor to their sets!

I'd pay good money to see Cali Saga!

losgauchos said 1 day ago: Beach Boys coverband ''The Wondermints'' as his backing band

Mmm, pretty unfair! ;)

Their albums are pretty cool power-pop psych, mostly not very Beach Boys at all.

Between them, Baby Lemonade and the BJM you have that LA 90's psych revival covered!

Yep, Wondermints stand righteous on their own (take a listen to any of their albums... if you can find 'em).

Also Ricky Fataar was in The Rutles so he's golden too. (erm, plus some other dodgy stuff I won't mention in case it disturbs sleeping brain cells)

Thanks for the update, losgauchos.

New DVD of the 50th Anniversary tour.

''The 50th Anniversary Tour was a historic, special event,'' The Beach Boys' Mike Love said. ''This DVD captures the tour brilliantly and marks an important, iconic moment in time in our band's history. It's a moment I am deeply proud of. Plus, I really the cash. Papa needs a new gold ring.''

Tracklisting:

Do It Again
Catch A Wave
Hawaii
Marcella
Isn't It Time
Little Deuce Coupe
409
Shut Down
I Get Around
Heroes And Villains
Sloop John B
Wouldn't It Be Nice
All This Is That
That's Why God Made The Radio
Sail On, Sailor
Good Vibrations
California Girls
Help Me Rhonda
Rock And Roll Music
Kokomo
Fun, Fun, Fun

Do it again on Later... with Jools Holland

(Why don't I trust a Mike Love endorsed thing?)

Can't believe they left off the Dennis and Carl songs and Heroes and Villians.

I'm certain that was Mike's call- I'm sure he doesn't want any attention taken away from him, or ''any of that Smile shit''.

New live album out. I have downloaded, as I don't want to give this incarnation any cash. Not as bad as I imagined, so far.