The Beach Boys’ First Two Reprise Albums

In December 2018, I looked into the deep and convoluted history of The Beach Boys' album Sunflower, which of course will be turning 50 this coming August. All those words on the historical aspects of the album... Now what about the album itself? What about its follow-up album, Surf's Up? Sunflower's lengthy and often convoluted history does …

Attempting to Solve the History of The Beach Boys’ SUNFLOWER…

I attempted to play detective, maybe a little historian. For a couple of years, the history of The Beach Boys' Sunflower album has boggled and bothered me, and I finally decided to attempt to get the story straight, and anyone can help me on this if they wish! If they even find this! Okay... No other …

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 Beach Boys vs. The Beatles – My Take

Is it a decades-old question? Is it the debate to end all debates in the world of music? One thing is for certain... I haven't heard the end of it for years, and I'm not very old. I'm, in fact, a 25-year-old music lover. Who am I to talk about the music of the 1960s, …

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 …

Sunshine Dream: A Review of The Newest Beach Boys Archival Release

If you haven't been here for a while, here's the skinny... I am a bonafide super-fan of the Brothers' Wilson and friends... Known as The Beach Boys, of course. I'll spare the introduction, because this is a review of an archive release exploring a year where The Beach Boys ceased being popular on American soil, …

15 Underrated Beach Boys Songs

If you're new here or you don't really know me well, here's a few words... I am obsessed with The Beach Boys. I don't play favorites, but in terms of artists and bands? They would be in my Top Ten... Sitting comfortably alongside another 60s act whose name starts with B-E-A. To the intermediate Beach …

First 10 Songs on Shuffle – Week #1

#1. 'Surrender' - Cheap Trick, Heaven Tonight (1978) - Of course shuffle starts me off with a recognizable hit that fits into the "classic rock" pool, a term I really don't care for, but yes... 'Surrender', you want to rock out to it when it blares out your speaker. Cheap Trick knew how to mix …

Top 5 Weirdest Beach Boys Compilations

The world of compilations is a weird one. With some bands, it's controlled. In the case of The Beatles, EMI was in charge of compilations. With the break-up occurring in 1970, the label sat on their inventory until an illegitimate mail-order quadruple (!) album set called Alpha Omega made the waves, prompting EMI/Apple to not …

LP Look #2: ’20/20′ and ‘Rarities’

Two Beach Boys LPs this time, one a studio album that quite frankly is kind of a compilation, and the other an actual compilation album... Now funny enough, my previous (and first ever) LP LOOK post featured the Beach Boys studio album that preceded the one that's being focused on here. Friends, released in the …