[JennysCool]

Audio at the link. Good to hear a little classic harmony once awhile in these crazy days ... A fine summer-starter!

[donna]

and an almost exhausting sense of sweetness

Must be a libertarian.

[dennisw]

The advertising is all over the local oldies station here calling it “THE BEST BEACH BOYS LINEUP IN 40 YEARS” and I think they are right. The BB are playing at the Injun casino in a few days. I hope the members that need a little retirement money do OK. Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston and Brian Wilson, Mike Love and I suppose a supporting cast of young gun musicians helping them out... after all they are all collecting SS and medicare by now

“Don’t Worry Baby”

[AU72]

The little old lady from Pasadena must be pushing 100 today.

[Revolting cat!]

4 out of 6 original members, plus Bruce (since ‘66), not bad. They sound like a Vegas Beach Boys tribute band.

[Secret Agent Man]

Frankly, it is just a terrible, terrible song. Extremely disappointed. Not anywhere near up to the Beach Boys’ standards. Just awful.

DO they really need money that badly?

[Revolting cat!]

One wonders if this awful song and its even worse recording were the basis for the compromise among the warring three principals.

[Revolting cat!]

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

LOVE the Beach Boys, they still sound great, but the song itself is...kinda lame. IMHO

Oh well, glad they’re back. Brian Wilson is a genius.

[muir_redwoods]

It’s probably just me but I find that about 85% of Beach Boy songs are indistinguishable from each other. Good Vibrations and The Sloop John B are exceptions but much of the rest is all the same.

[Turbopilot]

Going to see them on Saturday. Can’t wait. And I was born in 1982.

[TChad]

A few weeks ago, a cute ~20 year old college coed bounced into the local coffee shop waving something in one hand, and with a big smile announced to her friends, "Guess what I've got? BEACH BOYS TICKETS!

Time-warp city.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

One of my more cherished pleasures is to play the Beach Boys songs at very loud volume while driving with my windows open in the pouring rain. People look at me like I am insane. I’ll say this much... Nobody wants to risk an accident with an insane guy driving with the windows down during a rainstorm and blaring “Catch a Wave” or “Surfing USA”.

I may be weird but I get some terrific looks of stupefaction. It just has to be sufficiently LOOOUUUD.

[Kickass Conservative]

My Ex B-I-L and his Brother went to High School with those guys. His Brother was one of their buddies growing up.

It is a small world.

[a fool in paradise]

Is this a song about the awesomeness of Rush Limbaugh?

[SamAdams76]

There are a few exceptions but almost without fail, pop recording acts are unable to match the vitality of their first few albums. I think that once a recording act becomes commercially successful, they become more concerned about generating that next "hit record" instead of making great music.

Yet all it takes is one smash hit to make a career. We still have Bobby Boris Pickett touring the nation with "Monster Mash" and Terry Jacks continues to sing "Seasons In The Sun" at a nightclub near you.

[jiggyboy]

Nobody’s singing baritone, I think that’s the problem.

[TwoSue]

We saw them last night.