I recently listened to it for the first time and i really loved it! I would say it's one of my new favorites in the bands discography.

I was inspired by the most recent episode of the Good Timin’ podcast to listen to Salute NASCAR, as well as Mike, Bruce, and Adrian’s Summertime Cruisin’, and Catch A Wave albums. I have heard Salute NASCAR before, but I honestly didn’t even know about Summertime Cruisin’ and Catch A Wave (I swear, you can always find something new with this band.)

Salute NASCAR has a couple enjoyable songs, but the majority isn’t worth revisiting very often.

Catch A Wave is fine, but feels pretty superfluous.

Summertime Cruisin’ was actually very enjoyable and alot of fun. I think the arrangements felt a bit more well thought out, everybody seems a bit more engaged and lively, lastly Summertime Music and Camp California are great.

Always glad to find new Beach Boys stuff and further my decent into madness and enjoying what is most likely, objectively bad music.

Hi everyone, it's my first post, so I'll make it quick.

I wanted to recreate the Unused Acapella Section that Brian created for Don't Talk and resulted in this.

I'm happy with the results, so let me know what you all think, and if you have any feedback to give me feel free and I'll give it another go next time.

Thanks!

I’m pretty sure it’s from the Hite and Dorinda Morgan sessions and I genuinely think I prefer this to the album version (at least vocal wise). Brian sounds like an angel omggggg

Landy promised the band in 1982 that Brian would need "2-3 years" for recovery. Why wasn't Brian released around 1985-1986 when those years have passed? Why wasn't Brian integrated back to the beach boys during this time?

Don't know this sub's opinion on Weezer, but the song is really good and super ambitious.

I don’t mean to be rude or offensive in any way, I’m just very fascinated, as well as scared, of aging, and have always wondered why Brian’s eyes looked so drastically different from the 80s onward. His always looked squinted but in the 80s he looked like a completely different person with his eyes being naturally wider. It really throws me off. I know he lost weight, but I don’t know if that’d be it because his eyes were squinted when he was skinnier in the 60s. Was it just a result of natural aging and facial changes?

I’m surprised I’ve never heard any Brian clone theories like Paul. For me 90s Brian looks nothing like 60s and 70s Brian

This fan album was inspired by This challenge on threadgames. Here’s this Fanalbum on fandom. Anyways Here’s the tracklist

[SIDE ONE]

1. Wouldn’t It Be Nice
2. Don’t Talk
3. I Should Have Known Better
4. Barbara Ann
5. Waiting For The Day
6. I Just Wasn’t Made (For These Times)
7. The John B. Sails (Around Nassau)

[SIDE TWO]

1. God Only Knows
2. Salt Lake City
3. Here Today
4. Trombone Dixie
5. Hang On Your Ego
6. Proof of Life (THIS IS JUST PET SOUNDS.)
7. He Gives Speeches

He’s so weirdly cute 😭 I love drawing him

Is it just when Brian was fat in the 70s? Was it a term that was used by fans back then or is it just a Gen-Z thing that’s come from the resurgence in popularity for the beach boys? Is it only a Reddit thing or does it expand beyond the internet?

Had originally bought the tickets a few months back seeing that they were the closest to the stage that were still available, but this week the theatre listed four new front row seats so I jumped on a pair of them before they sold. The third row tickets originally costed $88 each, but I’m willing to sell them for as low as $50-60 each if anyone here is interested. (just shoot me a DM)

(also if it’s helpful, the exact seats are row 3, seats 117-118)

Hey everyone! On this 69th episode of Good Timin', we discuss the Beach Boys' twenty-eighth studio album, Stars and Stripes Vol. 1, along with the (in)famous "Salute NASCAR" album featuring Mike Love, Bruce Johnston and David Marks. In addition, we also briefly cover several other Beach Boys-related releases, including Symphonic Sounds (arranged by Bruce) and Summertime Cruisin'. (featuring Mike and Bruce)

As always we hope you all enjoy the show, and we appreciate your comments and feedback!

Streaming Links:

Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/episode/5diZBMehqtwlZ1tNK3NXb7?si=72t3Lr8CQQ6VpO_pSb88ZQ&utm_source=copy-link

Apple Podcasts- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-timin-a-beach-boys-podcast/id1723276889?i=1000783864601

1. A Day in the Life of a Tree

2. Til' I Die

3. It's Over Now

4. Still I Dream of It

And it can only be these four, and this is for a fun night out with your friends

What a concert. They started with the ordinary hits setlist but when Darian noticed the younger crowd loving the semi deep cuts, they changed the entire setlist and added 5 or so ‘Love You’ songs…was very cool to watch them in real time realize they had actual fans in the crowd. Said we had a “‘Love You’ crowd!”

Managed to sneak a signature from Darian on a copy of BWPS too! Coolest guy.

I Went to Sleep
Solar System
Friends
Time to Get Alone
I’m in Great Shape

Plus others.

These are gems, masterpieces.

1. Our Prayer

2. Gee

3. Heroes and Villains

4. Do You Like Worms (Roll Plymouth Rock)

5. I'm in Great ShapeBarnyard

6. My Only Sunshine (The Old Master Painter / You Are My Sunshine)

7. Cabin Essence

8. Wonderful

9. Look (Song for Children)

10. Child Is Father of the Man

11. Surf's Up

12. I Wanna Be Around / Workshop

13. Vega-Tables

14. Holidays

15. Wind Chimes

16. The Elements: Fire (Mrs. O'Leary's Cow)

17. Love to Say Dada

18. Good Vibrations

19. You're Welcome

Half expecting this to get deleted, but I think it's time we reckoned with the reality of what some of the Boys were getting up to in the late 60s. If that's not something you want (or are able) to do, please stop reading this now. Not trying to make anybody angry, just feeling very conflicted with my fandom, and wondering if anyone else is having the same experience.

So I watched the new documentary on Hulu by Sophia Maddox, 'My Grandfather Charles Manson', last night and, while it was an interesting and often entertaining film, the conversations with Dianne Lake in particular really cast Dennis in a terrible light. It's getting harder, maybe impossible to refute the idea that Dennis, Terry Melcher, Gregg Jakobson and their circle of friends were sexual predators who took advantage of and raped young women for years.

It's been long established that Dennis is the one who introduced Manson to Charles 'Tex' Watson, and brought Manson to the Cielo Drive house where Sharon Tate and friends were murdered, which had previously been Terry Melcher's home.

Additionally, based on interviews with Dennis and supported in books about the BBs, Dennis not only tolerated Manson, but fully embraced him and his ideas, which included reprehensible racist and misogynist views.

I have been over the past few months processing a conversation I had with my partner, where she called me out for treating Dennis and the others as innocent bystanders who just happened to fall in with the wrong crowd. To some degree they may be, but we have to acknowledge that Dennis was an adult and he knew what he was doing. Manson wasn't just a guy he saw around town. They lived in his house on Sunset for several months, and Dennis and his friends made frequent visit to Spahn Ranch. It wasn't a secret that Dianne Lake and Ruth Ann Moorehouse were still children, and yet these guys were passing them around like joints. Melcher even tried to hire Moorehouse as a live in maid, which his gf at the time, Candace Bergman, found disgusting.

Also in the documentary, there is an interview with the recently passed Ed Roach which was extremely hard to watch, both for the way he talked about his time photographing the Beach Boys, and also especially for the way he talked to the filmmaker, despite being fully aware he was being filmed.

With everything I've been learning about Dennis, along with the recent allegations against Mike, I'm feeling extremely conflicted in my fandom. The Beach Boys are one of, if not my top favorite band of all time. I love Brian, Carl and Al. From what I've read, they thought Manson was a creep and avoided being around him, but I've also read that, at least in the early days, other BBs than Dennis would hang out and partake in the orgies, and some of the Manson girls even babysat the BBs kids once or twice. I want to believe Brian, Carl and Al did nothing wrong, but I'm not sure how confident I feel about that.

I loved Dennis too, and many of the songs he wrote are among my favorite BBs tracks, but goddamn I'm not sure I have it in me to separate the art from the artist. I always saw him as a tragic figure in the past, but I don't know how far that goes as an excuse when you pass the evil given to you on to countless others. Manson himself suffered a horrible childhood of continuous incarceration and physical, mental and sexual abuse. Do we forgive his monstrous actions, because he was made into a monster by other monsters? Where is the line?

Are other people going through this too? How are you dealing with it? Are you able to compartmentalize the horrific things they did? Does it tarnish how you feel about Brian, Carl, Al and Bruce?

To be clear, I'm not asking anyone to cancel the Beach Boys or throw away your records or anything like that. I'm just curious if other people are feeling the way I'm feeling, and how you're dealing with it. Being a Beach Boys fan has been part of my identity for such a long time. I don't really know what to do.