that album is so boring, don’t think I ever made it all the way through

The unverified (but likely true) story of Sean O’Hagan of The High Llamas meeting The Beach Boys for a planned collaboration that never happened:

uncanny1.blogspot.com/2005/05/brian-wilsonandy-paleysean-ohagan.html

“Mike Love was less than hospitable. "He called me a f_ggot straight away, because I'm from England. 'You're all f_ggots,' he said. I was stunned. But it's weird - he's totally homophobic, but he struts about like a Seventies camp queen, doing his little breath mint wiggle. "Why all the gay moves, Mike?"
Idk if this is true but I’m going to believe it is

which live albums would you Beachheads recommend? don't think I've ever heard a BB live album except Beach Boys Concert for memory

Most underrated Beach Boys song

sacrelig

you god dam know this is definitely true

but sherry she needs me tho

hands down the 73 one, it’s i think their most popular one and rightfully so, their best live release, the one that captures the best the band live at their best efforts which they really proved themselves as a solid act and most creative era with amazing setlist that has hits but deep album cuts too, cool vocal lead switch too since brian isnt present, you get for example a “you still believe in me” performance with carl singing it

i had no idea what i was getting myself into tbh i was just playing this game and kept hearing praise about the album so i gave it a shot without looking any background just played it

i remember pausin the game at some point or looking at the album booklet during some loading screen or stuff where i wasn’t needed to control and read some paragraph about how it was meant to be music for god and i was like yo wtf is this pro christian album

but look at where am i now how things have turned
but yeh i CANNOT forget that experience, woat clash of worlds ever

real one detected this is actually in my top 5 bbs song

the band really proved themselves without brian on this one, outstanding songcrafting

here’s a funny story of the album idk if my bbs hardcore pros knows @Fantasy @Elric but the reason this album is titled as such is that the band were retrying to rebrand themselves as they were seen as washed in this new conscious 70s era

so actually believe it or not the ORIGINAL pressing of the album did not having any indication of the bbs name on the album cover whatsoever ! only on the little corner of the vinyl you know that thin side?

carl and the passions was the band of carl’s band pre beach boys i believe or something to that effect.. ill have to double check

so you can see if you take out the big beach boys writing on the cover they tried to fool ppl and sell it as the band named carl and the passionate and the album called so tough they thot they could get away with that

also i know lot of album covers during that era had these pastel made artworks but this is underwhelming, the hell wannna see the door of a car!!! really doesn’t do the album material any justice

here’s a song i love from the album that is entirely written by blondie chaplin and ricky fataar

this is like the most anti beach boys song ever, sounds nothing like anything they did, amazing bass line! i usually send this to any, like rolling stones stans who never got the bbs and it works !

blondie chaplin (the singer guitarist songwriter) and ricky fataar (drummer) the new band members duo personally recruited by carl wilson when he was down in london to scout some new talents, they’re originally from south africa and had their band the flames which got just one album and is criminally slept on imo: this song for example is glorious

@SoHelpMeDog @Teal_

they got the job in time for surf’s up under the new management of jack riley (thank god he miraculously got involved with the bbs!) until after holland (to which blondie contributed leaving this town, and the nice we got love who didn’t make the album but was included on the 1973 live @Bad_Finger_Boogie ) where he got into a physical fight with a mike love relative and he and ricky both left, altho they still got some gig on stuff like 15 big ones and the miu album afterwards

things turned out fine anyway as blondie joined the rolling stones later on

he then joined brian wilson band when the bbs called it off after the 50th reunion tour, which was cool because even tho blondie was involved through the whole 70s bbs act he never got on record with brian or went live with him, at least only rarely so this made up for it and it was great hearing him replay some of his bbs era catalogue or take on other songs we never heard him sing before

here’s my song for y’all to start your day and have a beautiful sunny one

☀️ 🏝 💦 🍉💐

they demoed this song for another band for whom they gave the song to

and while it’s generous it’s a crime lol this is their best early era forgotten gem, how brian can be so talented and effortless that he would come up with such a magical innocent chorus melody and gave it away? im obsessed with that chorus it lifts me up, such beautiful harmonies and chords

🤗 🐿🦝

@Cookies
holy f*** the sexual tensions no wonder phil had to keep her away from bribri

WHY ALL THE GAY MOVES, MIKE

fun fact if you want a weird little laugh check out the BB discog on tidal, whoever added that is confused as S*** - Surfin Safari and 15 Big Ones are classified as compilation albums for some reason, and they think Beach Boys Party and Endless Summer Soundtrack are live albums, there's a bunch of weird stuff goin on

BRUH why jay be doing my boys dirty like that

boi he def a closet

I love my Carl
I love my Brian, my Dennis and my Al
I could even find it in my heart to love Mike Love

sike i couldnt

holy f*** he still alive?
lmao just read that he’s 5’5

manlets really don’t do well with guns and women

just lock him up with a few ladies, bro

"sooo ahhh... any of y'all heard about these ladyboy things?"

Pretty cool stand

fun fact this song was originally released as a brian wilson solo song

in 1993 to promote their first boxset the “good vibrations - 30th years of beach boys” one they did some shows where they played live some deep cuts from pet sounds and smile (some which they never done before) and in the setlist includes a beautiful rendition of caroline no with carl in the lead vocals and it sounds majestic as ever

it’s mind boggling that even as he fought cancer some years later he still had the most crystal voice as he did when he recorded those bbs classics when he was a teenager, remarkable, as they say, the voice of an angel, truly

if you ever have time to kill there’s this infamous HILARIOUS interview from 91

this is as mike love as it gets, he trashes brian solo album as it isn’t commercial enough (because remaking surfin with hip hop beats worked out just great right?) and even compares doing the still cruisin compromise vs summer in paradise to doing the party! compromise vs pet sounds

here’s some fragments transcript of it:
troun.tripod.com/mikelove.html

that from jojos adventure???