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Called "The Beach Boys - Reunion In Harmony".

No new music, but new interviews with all the BB

http://youtu.be/h2dTaamcyeM (http://youtu.be/h2dTaamcyeM)

Not available in the US!

Wow, really?
We'll find the way for you guys to see it too!

Thanks  ;D

Or Germany...

anything about the album?

No, just that it feels natural to be back together blahblah..
Music is just Do It Again and TWGMTR.

Brian and David speak quite a lot (and Mike..)

why does the album feel like an afterthought.

for everyone except Brian, it is.

Which might be why the lyrics are so awful.

9 out of 10 songs with lyrics by Mike Love are cringe-worthy. Bad lyrics aren't something new.

Refs to them being interviewed in the same studio as Cali Girls was recorded, and (from DM) most of the first four albums. Brian references TM at the end, and refers to being in the studio as a transcendental experience, to Mike's delight. All on good form.

Someone forgot to provide the interviewer with a mic that worked.

The piece is too short.

:pirate :h5 :rock :happydance :tm :woot :thumbsup

There is a far more greater quantity of wonderful songs cowritten by Mike Love than ones cowritten by Van Dyke Parks and Tony Asher. Even combined. And yes, Mike has written many terrible sets of lyrics.

that's true, but i think Asher's best trumped Love's best.  Though Love's best is stellar. 

I was a Mike Love disliker for many years, but since this reunion I've grown to appreciate him once more. This is also due in part to the unbiased treatment Mike is often given on this board.

Now, because of one set of lyrics, the tide has turned against Mike once more! The board is rife with anti-Mike sentiments of a like not seen since 1992.

Changing my mind is  a herculean task for me. I'm just going to ride it out, and stay lovin' the Loverster

(And I'm half convinced he wrote Spring Vacation after reading this board, and seeing all the jokes about him name-checking old songs. The joke's on us)

I keep suspecting similar things, IHA. Mike's easing gracefully into old age seems to have gone hand-in-hand with the development of a wryer side of humour, among other band members too – maybe it has something to do with the fact that half their on-stage band now consists of guys who started out as fans, some of whom probably still read boards like this, and share stories about what's being said with their now-employers.

If we need proof, all we have to do is pot a request here  and see if it comes true.

REQUEST: next time someone throws a bra on stage, the band ought to burst spontaneously into Bra-bra-bra, Bra-bra-ber-ann.

Darian, Lord, give us a sign! Show us that you care!

Any more requests, folks?  Other than the obvious?

Mike is a comic genius if he wrote those lyrics to mess with us/ :lol

Still can't watch it. Damn !

Cringe-worthy doesn't necessarily mean bad and Parks & Asher aren't even my favorite lyrical collaborators the band worked with. Mike is just super cheesy, nostalgic and "Mr. Positivity" wayyyy too often. In my opinion.

I think what the problem with those Mike lyrics is, is that they are not authentic and sound forced. They try to be something they just aren't. Plus, yes... they're cheesy and on a level every 4 grader could achieve. Back then he at least had the decency to use them on his solo stuff (or Adrian Baker/Mike Love projects) and not too often on Beach Boys material. But unfortunately that obviously changed.

Very nice little piece - Brian's on good form.

still can't see it in the US

Are there countries outside the US?

NO WAY!

 >:D

 >:D

Look at this clip and hear al jardine explaining like brian explained before this is beach final tour (at 8 seconds clip) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2dTaamcyeM&feature=related

does this work for you?  ( doesn't for me) 

http://www.clipfish.de/musikvideos/video/3775202/the-beach-boys-reunion-in-harmony/

I look at this clip and it sayz not available in my country this brian last tour al sayz you sayz!

 ::)

I can't believe I typed "far more greater".

Songs with great lyrics by Michael Love:

Surfin'
Surfin' Safari
Farmer's Daughter
Catch A Wave
Hawaii
Be True To Your School
Custom Machine
Fun Fun Fun
The Warmth Of The Sun
I Get Around
All Summer Long
Little Honda
Wendy
Don't Back Down
Little Saint Nick
When I Grow Up
Help Me Rhonda
Dance Dance Dance
Please Let Me Wonder
Kiss Me Baby
She Knows Me Too Well
In The Back Of My Mind
California Girls
Let Him Run Wild
You're So Good To Me
I'm Waiting For The Day
Good Vibrations
Aren't You Glad
Country Air
Darlin'
Let The Wind Blow
Meant For You
Do It Again
Add Some Music To Your Day
All I Wanna Do
Cool Cool Water
Only With You
Goin' On

And as far as I'm concerned, those are only the ones I consider to be inarguably great. How many other rock lyricists have a quantity of greats such as that under their belt? Not many.

So beatle, you couldn't just post this under the thread you created regarding the "last tour" but had to create a new thread?  Do we have to look forward you posting a new thread for every variation on a story you discover?

Great. I'm gonna start a paper route right now!

Also, there's already a thread about that video here:

http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,12864.0.html

 I think the best part of this video is when Brian, out of nowhere,  starts playing Ding Dang on the synths and the other BB immediately start singing




just kidding, there's nothing of that

Yeah, thanks !

No

Worked for me. I got this great message:

Sorry!

Unfortunately we do not grant access to Clipfish from your country. Be sure to check us out on your next trip to Germany.

We're sorry, but our music videos are only available in Germany.

Die Musikvideos auf Clipfish sind leider nur aus Deutschland verfügbar.

In case you think access should not be denied, please contact support@clipfish.de.

Falls wir dich fälschlicherweise von Clipfish ausgeschlossen haben, melde dich bitte unter:
support@clipfish.de.

Germany rules! ;D

Emm... err... in fact... whatever. ::)

Yes! Finally! Danke!

Now without a joke:

Brian is asked what it is like for him on a personal level to spend this much time with the guys again, working.

Before Brian can answer, Mike says, "He can hardly wait to get out of the recording studio!"

Then Brian says (looking confident and at ease): "Mike used to do a thing called transcendental meditation. To encapsulate that, to carry that further, my opinion on the group is, a transcendental experience, working with the guys and singing again." (Very slurred speech at the end, might have gotten that slightly wrong.)

Mike (impressed facial expression, both thumbs up): "Whoo hoo, right on!"

This thing is finally viewable in the US.