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I realized the other day...

1. Going by calendar years only (not months), the Beach Boys self-titled album is now THIRTY YEARS OLD!

2. Again, going by calendar years only, and assuming a start year of 1961, the halfway point of the Beach Boys' career as of now is 1988, the year that Kokomo came out! So the first half of their career now covers "Surfin" all the way to "Kokomo". The second half covers "Still Cruisin" to the most recent works.

I still regard LA as a new original work. Original Work. Original Werk. Original Werth. Werthers… Werthers Original…


GARGH SEE WHAT YOU DID ANIVERSARIO!!!!!!!!!!

Brian Wilson' first solo lp was released when he was in his mid 40's.     Feels like a time warp eric

I'm with you... sometimes I think about this kind of stuff a lot, too.  Like for instance, when I was a kid the Atari was ANCIENT, I mean damn it was so old and we all wanted the Nintendo.  In reality, the Atari was only 7 years old... and now the Nintendo is 30 years old.  Hell the Playstation 3 is NINE years old!  The PS3 is older, right now, than the Atari was all those years ago when I thought it was ancient.

Or here's a good one.  In 1983, Eric Clapton released "Rock & Roll Heart" on his Money and Cigarettes album.  It's about how he's old school, so he's saying to this girl "I get off on... 57 Chevys"

So at the time, a 1957 Chevy was 26 years old.  So he was remarking in the song how he likes old, classic stuff... and a 26 year old car was so old in the early 80's that everybody was rebuilding them (Mike Love probably owns one).

So right now, a 26 year old car would be a 1989 Mustang...  Can you even imagine somebody singing a song now about how they're old school, so they respect a car that came out in 1989?  Nevermind that none of the cars in 89 were particularly special, it's just the thought that at one time, that would be considered so long ago that it's "classic"... I can't imagine anything from 1989 being old enough to be classic and write songs about. 

Weird how memories, and time works like that. 

I became a fan in 1995, and joined the Mike Wheeler Cabinessence Board the following year. I was one of the youngest, if not THE youngest member of that forum back then.

There are a few members of this board who weren't even BORN yet.


I think I need to go lay down for a while...

And if I remember correctly, you were a bit of a ring-tailed tooter back then.  :)

Damn...Getcha Back is three decades old. I remember seeing the video on VH1 back when VH1 was a brand new alternative to MTV. My body aches...

I remember as a teen-ager figuring out that Carl Wilson was 19 whole years old, four years older than me, and even older than my sister, who was 18 and heading to college, for cryin' out loud.  Man, Carl was OLD! And he was the YOUNGEST! Of course, I'll be 65 in June, so . . . . . . . . . . .