Little Girl I Once Knew should have been there

Also Steven Tyler started as a drummer, it's only when he heard the first notes of In My Room he picked up the microphone sung it and decided to be the leader and singer.

I've said this before, but if i could ask just for ONE THING in an alternative reality, it would be for Good Time to be on Sunflower instead of stuff like Tears In The Morning (puke) and have My Diane on Love You instead of Good Time

I'm with ya on that, but then if you take My Diane off from MIU, then MIU *really* suffers from having a lack of quality songs with an emotional punch.

Hahaha yeah, that poor album doesn't have much for itself to justify its existence other than the great Sweet Sunday Kind Of Love.

I've said this before, but if i could ask just for ONE THING in an alternative reality, it would be for Good Time to be on Sunflower instead of stuff like Tears In The Morning (puke) and have My Diane on Love You instead of Good Time

I think Imagination is one of Brians best solo albums?

I agree on Aloha, always loved that one since first listen, mostly due to Carls chorus, production still ruins it, but would have made good single indeed.

Summer Wine - Take A Load Your Feet
https://youtu.be/Abw1iXjs25E

Who would have thought???

Second is great, tho it would be hard to rock with as a male! love the third, great art, altho it bums me out that i'll never get to see SMiLE live

I don't know if any of you are into Hip Hop or electro, but the Beach Boys are quite sampled to pretty cool beats!

Xzibit - Highest Form Of Understanding
https://youtu.be/ZQovr36y7mM
Produced by Xzibit himself, makes a really badass use of Good Vibrations verses

K. Sparks & Jeff Chery - I Bet He's Nice
https://youtu.be/ZXTwgqH7Jmw
This one has to be the craziest, a song that is based around, you've read it, I'll Bet He's Nice! the whole text takes from the title and the samples are all over the track, amazing

C-Mon & Kypski - Air Play
https://youtu.be/Go6XdmQCpkU
This one uses some of the narration of the Mount Vernon and Fairway, who would've thought???

Minamina Goodsong - Soul Missiles
https://youtu.be/0t_16JrcmhY
Fresh song based on a Feel Flows sample !!!!

Kids & Explosions - You're Good
https://youtu.be/lw8NJpbgBIc
It's heavily turning around samples of Where Is My Mind mixed into Is This It but with the lead guitar of You're So Good To Me dropping on top of it, which gives the title to the song

death’s dynamic shroud.wmv - プライベートアイランド
https://youtu.be/yyr4zLVpOVk
Some pure Vaporwave music which uses Somewhere Near Japan!

Kev Brown - Listen
https://youtu.be/WNdfdvxDQSw
Yep, Don't Talk

Love this Vega-tables cover from 2005, very upbeat and colorful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arppaBnIANY

No worries! and i know this is the internet but by no means i intend to sound any aggressive.

Oh, you didn't at all. I didn't intend to either.

I also find this conversation fascinating. One of my interests over the last five years or so has been to try and figure out the sort of music that The Beatles were listening to and how it may have influenced their own work. Mark Lewisohn's book is certainly helpful in this regard but, for now, that only goes up to 1962.

I don't know, i mean i know The Beach Boys were like top 3 biggest mouvement ever, but to me, it's still surprising that the guys would jam on You're So Good To Me in the late 60's, you know? wasn't music fast consuming back then? well it probably is worst today but i mean so many big names coming up and evolving styles, especially through the 60's going from pop act to psychedelic era, and with that the Beach Boys kinda in a rough time commercially?

Like, the fact they still played on that song is kind of a testament to me in how they actually legit appreciated it and still inspired by it, which contradicts the talk on how the inspiration of Pet Sounds was just a phase.

Let alone with all the rest and mention of the Beach Boys they kept bringing up, inspiration or collaboration years later..

No worries! and i know this is the internet but by no means i intend to sound any aggressive.

I'm glad the Lennon quote opened this conversation cause there seems to be more i havn't heard of before, as the Do It Again story.

Which apparently that song is more popular than i thought, since i read it was mostly a UK hit, but at the Seattle show Sunday a lady from the past generation said how much she loved that song back in the day, i was very happy for her knowing they were gonna play it

Quote is from the book "The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul" by Walter Everett, page 276, apparently it originally comes from "Beatles Monthly Magazine/1965 Christmas Extra", surely there's some hardcore fans who has that original copy that can confirm, sounds like an ellaborated hoax from source to source if it is if you ask me tho, it's not like this is the only time Lennon or the Beatles mentioned Beach Boys in any form, so yeah.

Come on man, add up every references the Beatles did to the Beach Boys over their entire career

I'd be curious to know what other fans, especially BB fans, feel are direct references in Beatles material to the Beach Boys. There are certainly some broad areas (McCartney's bass lines), some instrumentation on things like Pepper, "Here There and Everywhere", and a few items that amount almost to pastiche ("Back in the USSR", a little bit on McCartney's "Vintage Clothes").

Howie Edelson likes to point out some nods to "Sunflower" in "Ram" if we want to go more into the solo years. I hear the references, though I'm also curious if McCartney has ever actually gone on record talking about "Sunflower" in any interviews.

But I've never felt the Beatles catalog or their solo years were just jam-packed with Beach Boys/Brian references, especially compared to all of their other contemporary or recent-past influences at any given time.

Well by references i meant like, in overall like the connections, not just that the Beach Boys had over the Beatles which many people has already enough stated, but more so on how the Beatles over the Beach Boys, for like example that Lennon quote i brought  up praising Brian and his work, oddly enough another proof of the admiration that i have NEVER seen anyone mentioned, so that speaks volume yeah.

Come on man, add up every references the Beatles did to the Beach Boys over their entire career, it's pretty obvious they were fans all along, yeah the Beach Boys put California on the map and invented new music, but still.

Keep in mind that Paul was gonna be in the "Do It Again" music video, but it didn't end up coming through. Which obviously may have helped it become an even bigger hit if that had been the case.

Is there any source or actual quote on that? never heard of it

Pretty sad that people can't enjoyed a romantized story based on a real one, the people who made this are filmmakers, the people who plays in it wants to make entertaining movies, the people who wants to see this wants to see a good moving movie in the end, not a freaking wikipedia fact check, jesus

Posting in the "December 1964 event" thread just reminded me of an unpopular opinion that I have.  Although I enjoy it, a wide swath of the Biopic is complete horse apples. 

Yeah, that's why it's a movie and not a documentary dude

With more than before some Love You tracks being played, here's to hope after the end of Pet Sounds tour they go more into Love You tracks, now i'll go back to see him for that !!!

Got back from my Seattle trip, tried to look for a boardie here who asked me in PM if i was attending the show, nothing, but got to meet amazing people, from young hipsters to parents, which the later were very excited about by enjoyment of the show, i got lot of compliments over my "passion" during the performance, i guess i was very expressif during the songs haha!

What can i say, i was on a cloud! number one on my bucketlist, a dream come true

Sad Darian is mussin', but still, the most surreal experience, spiritual, takes the album to a wole other level, very technical, i love how they push the harmonies in it and extend some outros of songs, setlist was great, was surprised Night Was So Young was already dropped of already but it's a win-win cause Wake & Add Some came back, add that to Feel Flows, which surprised many people i talked too (funny enough, while introducing that song Blondie said it was from So Tough, then realized he confused it while exchanging some words with some band members just said to correct himself "Surf's Up", leaving people to believe they'll play the song !!! i was in shock for seconds, before realizing he meant the album title hahaha)

Nothing i can add much more than i guess what everyone that attends these tours don't already know, just that i was bummed out byt he merch: some okay sutff, but the coolest thing was by far the boomer jacket picking from the Pet Sounds colors, but 90 dollars??? if anyone knows where i can find that on the internet or wants to get ride of it, i'll be very interested

Also i got to meet the percussionist dude, sorry forgot the name at top of my head, the guy with the long blonde hair! he came out in the audience after the show was done and people were leaving, and he was rockin' a Smithereens shirt to wich i complimented him to, only to realized he only came by to say hi to some people from the audience he seemed to already know, so i let him be by just shooking his hand saying how amazing the show was.

Thanks! glad i'm not the only one hehe

By the way, not sure if this was mentioned here before, i could bring up an ENTIRE gigantic list of people influenced, inspired or that referenced the Beach Boys or Brian Wilson (or the Wilson brothers) as i have done some deep researchs into that over the last years, but one that is always cool is Daft Punk:

They started as a band under the name of Darlin', inspired by the Beach Boys song
along with guys behind the robots in this original formation there was Laurent Brancowitz who later formed the band Phoenix, who are the ones who ended up covering Alone On Christmas, altho in an interview where they get to select their own favorite songs in general, he picked a Dennis song "Sound of Free".

But yeah, so then the Daft Punk existed, and on their first album "Homework" if you don't own it physically, well in the booklet they quote a famous Brian line from the SMiLE era, something about music and god, i forgot what it is exactly out the top of my head, so forgive me... and then, there's this big picture in it:
http://oi55.tinypic.com/14y9y55.jpg

Correct, in the middle, right there, is the Beach Boys european exclusive CD from the Good Vibrations boxset!

On that same album, there's even a song titled "Teachers" where they just namedrops their heroes, of course Brian Wilson is in it, but you probably already heard that.

Much later on, during their recording of their album "RAM" or the 2013 Grammys, i think? Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (the one behind the yellow helmet robot) said how he arrived at the parking lot right when Brian was parking, he didn't meet him or even see him, just his car, but said that he totally freaked out on it over the idea alone that Brian Wilson was in it, haha

EDIT: My bad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfj2SUnhYCk
My crush

Oh by the way, this reminds me

Of course we know how The Who harmonies are Beach Boys influenced, how Pete loves and commented on Smiley Smile, the photo of him holding the vinyl of Surfin' Safari, same with Roger attending Smile 2004 and his comments on it, etc etc

But one thing that always stood out to me in their music is the instrumental piece Sparks from the album Tommy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah66Jji74Tk
Don't you feel that the section at 2:14 there is strongly reminding a lot of that section in God Only Knows at 1:04
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkPy18xW1j8

Anyone??? this comparison has been stuck in my head for YEARS

Haven't seen The Who mentioned yet.

Even Iggy Pop would agree so:

"The Beach Boys came and sang 'Fun, Fun, Fun' at Patrimonio. Is your 'No Fun' an answer to their song?

Iggy Pop: I have about three to four songs important in my life and Fun, Fun, Fun is one of them. Along with some Johnny Cash and Muddy Waters songs. The idea of fun itself is within the constitution of the United States: the pursuit of happiness. It sure was different in Detroit... but the drugs filled that! Anyway, i saw The Beach Boys in 1965 and they were genius, Listen to The Who: It's full on Beach Boys!"

(Translated this myself from an interview he did in France, July 2011)

Bump, reading was cool but you guys forgot one crucial element of it all: Lou Reed sang Beach Boys songs !!!! on this terrible cover album:
https://www.discogs.com/fr/The-Surfsiders-The-Surfsiders-Sing-The-Beach-Boys-Songbook/release/7849538

Lou Reed is on Little Deuce Coupe and Surfin', it was speculated and debated for decades since he is not actually credited for it, but it has been since confirmed by Lou himself in the book "The Velvet Underground: New York Art " (2009)

Hahaha people thinking this is fake, what, The Beatles are too good to get inspired by The Beach Boys throughout their -entire- career? sorry, but they were massive fans all along:

"(John) Lennon's enthusiasm is evident in his reaction to the Beach Boys single "Little Girl I Once Knew" (November, 1965): "This is the greatest! Turn it up, turn it right up. It's GOT to be a hit. It's the greatest record I've heard for weeks. It's fantastic. I hope it will be a hit. It's all Brian Wilson. He just uses the voices as instruments. He never tours or anything. He just sits at home thinking up fantastic arrangements our of his head. Doesn't even read music. You keep waiting for the fabulous breaks. Great arrangement. It goes on and on with all different things. I hope it's a hit so I can hear it all the time."