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We finally have one!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAmk-Wk2pNA&feature=g-all-u

Erm.. I guess it makes sense. Probably better that the boys only make a brief appearance at the end.  ;D

Possibly the worst video I've ever seen. Probably best that its made its appearance after the single has stopped shooting up the charts.

Spot the "Love You" album at 0:59.  ;D

But that was actually a pretty bad video.  It looked like a montage of unrelated car commercials with gratuitous bikini shots.

I find the moment when the garage door opens and the guys turn to the camera and smile very touching, for some reason.  Doesn't matter how young or old you are...The Beach Boys will always be there.


...in your garage, apparently. ;D

Quite nice, I thought.

This'll look quite at home on tumblr :lol

Bikinis + Surfboards + Hipsters = Really shouldn't work. I don't hate it but it's obviously nothing special. I did like the cheeky quick shot of Mike/Mike's hat towards the end though. In fact I think it's avatar worthy.

That...............was..................AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!

It would've made a whole lot more sense if they would've been performing the song in the garage. Now they just seem to be hanging out there for whatever reason, which is weird.

It is okay. In the same vein as the videos for "Getcha back" or "It's gettin' late" only a little more tasteful. But the boys' appearance at the end was not very well imo. It looks so cheap and stereotype (almost like the Beach Boys were about to party with the young ones). They should've shown them playing the song in the garage while the young people stand their in awe and watching tem. That would be a cool ending but now it is more like a withdrawn dream of an old guy who can't accept that he is just that.....old

Bloody hell!!! It's not available in my country...AGAIN !!!!  >:D :( >:( >:D
Capitol really pisses me off!!!  >:D >:D >:D

You're not missing much...

This video needs one more minute of Beach Boys footage at the very least

I love the concept - that the Beach Boys have been locked in a garage for 50 years waiting to be freed by the grandchildren of Jack Nicholson, the Fonz and the Hoff.  Hey, they might not have had any food in there but what a wardrobe!

;D

It's passable but not as great as my ideas for a TWGMTR video are.

I agree.

Digged that Love You was there, but I think basically it was made by some LA hipsters who dig the beach boys and submitted to Capitol much like the competition one for H&V. Capitol prob went 'ye this is good, shows young ppl interested, doesnt cost us anything as album is out already, why not?'

I still prefer the fan one, but where di it go???? I cant find it now  :-[ it had lots of clips from concerts back in the 70's and stuff

Here in Germany lots of stuff on YouTube isn't available due to German laws. The lyric video wasn't either. Try Firefox with the ProxTube add-on, works most of the time, worked for me this time, too.

I like that the images/hairstyles/cars, etc. seem to belong to all periods from the 60s to now; that sense of timelessness is appropriate to the theme of the song. The video occasionally captures the wistfulness of the track as well, but I wish we could just get away from the beach/surfing imagery (impossible, I know).

Cheers for that! It works!!! GREAT!!!
 ;D ;D ;D

Y'know, I didn't think it was so bad. Wasn't sure if they could blend 1960s California, cars/girls/surfing with today's hipsters... but I think they pulled it off pretty well. Love You cover was a nice touch.

Aside from seeing "Love You", I'd like to have my 3+ minutes back.

Don't forget those girls, please!!!
 ;)

Why the motorcycles ? They don't have radios.

lolololol the cheesy moment when the band appears, is this meant to be a joke?
and look at Brian's face when everyone comes in to high five the band, he's like "who are these people"

It says the video is 'private'.

won't play in LA either

I thought this.

is this the cheesy stock footage collage they've been playing on the screens of their live shows? Hideous editing, nasty, ugly-looking footage that doesn't quite fit? Won't work for me either. Total amateur hour!

Yeah, but I can see girls in bikinis in any number of videos.

Video is private.  >:(

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Private viewing only?? This can't be an official video -- or else it is, but hasn't actually been released yet.

O rly.

I don't think the video has been officially approved yet.

It's pretty common to upload a private video to YouTube so everyone involved in the production can view it for approval prior to the video being made public. Possibly this one was uploaded as a public video by mistake.

When it appears again, we'll have to see if anything was changed  ;D

Hey, people reading this: change almost everything. Dump the Getty Images crap. Show a little TASTE! it might do as video wallpaper, but that just looks like a bad fan video assembled by a robot searching for keywords on a stock footage database. Bikini. radio. surf. check. The editing tempo is super lousy, too. Yech.

Go out to a beach and half-bury some old radios in the sand. Film some kids making huge sand castle radios. Hell, film Al Jardine waiting for a bus. ANYTHING!

I don't get how some people think this video is any lamer than 80% of any non-musical output of this band.

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I SWEAR I'M HAVING A BONER RIGHT NOW.
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Because of the dog buttholes at 1:31?

http://blogs.laweekly.com/arts/2009/11/no_more_mrbrown_eye_accessoriz.php

Yea, and show the band practicing in the garage and the kids outside hearing the music and them opening the garage door. Then show people nodding to each other with looks that say, 'pretty damn good, for geezers.' Then everybody starts partying and on and on. At this point it would be OK to have some product placement, to not only defer production costs, but to make some cash.

That's Why God Made The Radio Fan Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg8QqwWb3RI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg8QqwWb3RI)

and (in a similar vein) From There to Back Again Fan Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaDiwoACJ2Q (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaDiwoACJ2Q)

It's great: it eschews an "remember when" motif, yet it charts the same landscape that "kids" have been charting in LA for 50 years.  And our Boys are waiting with amps for these cruising hipsters, hugging and high-fiving!?

I love it. Our college students are just such a generation, and they responded enthusiastically when Mr. Boyd and Mr. Kalinich lectured to them on the BB and California culture and ethos. So I have thus seen with my own eyes a version, albeit academic, of exactly that which is here depicted  in the video: the endless spirit of youth seeking--and finding--all that we mean by "The Beach Boys," embracing both "summer days and summer nights," as the video displays.

I definitely like the idea: hipster/retro/new generation and all that (although I really don't get the bikers), but I totally agree that it would have been better if they had opened the garage and seen them playing instead of them just awkwardly standing there. I don't know - this might be the first thing that's come out of the reunion that I don't love actually. Oh well - who cares? The song is still fantastic. And Brian's face is hilarious. Oh, Brian....

That's because it's less your standard "hipster" and more of the younger side of the Laurel Canyon crowd. They basically worship the 60s, including the motorcycle aspect.

Just wanted to note that now having seen the "officially released" version of the video, that first shot of the Beach Boys in the garage looks like it's a different take than the one that appeared in the video prior to it being marked "private".

I'm surprised, with one sort-of exception, no one caught the theme of the video:  they're going through the successive decades from the early '60s 'til now, tying in the history of the band and the timelessness of the radio and culture changes in the interim.  The first part with the bikers is the late '50s-early '60s.  The "Love You" cover and the girl with the braided hair is supposed to be the '70s (which look so interchangeable to now I think that's why the rest of it didn't make much sense).  Shortly after that you get the '80s, with the Kokomo T-shirt and the girls with the Madonna look, then the '90s with the guy with the beard, etc.

I think they could have made it a bit more obvious, hence the confusion.  I only caught on when they got into the '80s.  But I like the concept.

Wow! I totally missed that! Nice catch, I appreciate the video a little more now.

This easily makes all of their past videos stink.