Beach Boys ’68: A Review of Two New Sets

I thought it was going to happen. I thought it was actually bound to happen... A Beach Boys archival set spanning the entirety of 1968. Why wouldn't there be? The Beach Boys enterprise has been releasing comprehensive, almost exhaustive sets detailing the makings of some of their classic albums in the recent years. About two …

The Odd Parallels Between Disney’s Animation and The Beach Boys…

Maybe I'm totally reaching with this, but I'm gonna go for it... Disney Animation and The Beach Boys are very similar to each other... Like, really similar. Both are American, both have hailed from California, and both are as iconic as baseball, apple pie, and the red, white, and blue. Both also are more than …

LP Look #1: ‘Friends’ and ‘Moontan’

I just added two wonderful LPs to my collection, one from America's greatest pop force and another from perhaps the Netherlands' longest-running rock group. The first of which is the 1968 Beach Boys studio album Friends. The second is Golden Earring's Moontan. If all you know about The Beach Boys is the early era hits …