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Post by Patrick on Apr 24, 2012 11:37:33 GMT
The Beach Boys are Back! The Beach Boys are putting the finishing touches to their first original album in more than two decades. Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine and Bruce Johnston have reunited for the as yet untitled record, due on 5 June.
"[It] reminds me of our [1970] Sunflower album, which is probably one of our least-selling albums, [but] some of the songs there are stunning," Johnston told Billboard. "It's not a quilt or a pot-luck dinner; it's not like, 'OK, everybody show up with your songs.' It's not one of those kind of albums … It's all brand new."
All of the current Beach Boys wrote songs for the LP, including collaborations by the reconciled Wilson and Love. They have also brought in guitarist David Marks, who began playing with the band in 1962 – when he was just 13 years old. Even the late Carl Wilson is involved: a song called Waves of Love uses vocals by the youngest Wilson brother, recorded before his death in 1998.Click for rest of article.
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Post by everso on Apr 26, 2012 23:39:31 GMT
Ah, the Beach Boys. I still love their songs and Pet Sounds was one of their best albums.
"I Get Around" I know all the words. ;D
I saw the Beach Boys at Finsbury Park Astoria in (I think) 1967. They were fab.
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Post by housesparrow on Apr 27, 2012 18:58:10 GMT
Good Vibrations brings back memories of my A level year. We used to frequent the local greasy spoon, and it was one of the favourites on the juke box - that and Wendy which my friend Wendy HATED.
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Post by aubrey on May 5, 2012 9:07:06 GMT
A nice cover by Psychic TV and Genesis P Orridge:
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Post by everso on May 5, 2012 13:39:26 GMT
This is their latest single. I heard it on the radio the other day and thought it was very evocative of their stuff of the sixties. Not sure I care for the title, but, boy, their voices haven't changed!
I thought Marconi had something to do with radio, actually.
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