Despite all of it's flaws, I have a soft spot for Steven Gaines' Heroes and Villains, if only for all the recounting of Dennis' last days and the little details about all the business deals . And don't forget The Lost Beach Boy, that Jon Stebbins wrote with Dave Marks a few years back, lots of history of the BBs early days.

Dammit, now I've got "good vibrations, assassinations" stuck in my head.

First thing that popped in my head was the Neutral Milk Hotel song.

Bad Things by Machine Gun Kelly and Camilla the Chicken...I mean Camilla Cabello
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpbQ4I3Eidg
Centuries by Fall Out Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBr7kECsjcQ

I don't usually pay attention to top 40 pop, it's mostly crap but usually only mildly annoying. I do get miffed when a sample of a classic song is used as the hook or the chorus in a new song that is clearly inferior. Add a sparkle to a turd and it's still a turd. Hearing those two abominations just makes me want to blast the original songs they sampled.

This has been floating around the internet for many years now.

Al was very diplomatic when the guy pressed him about the sh*t that went down after Carl died.

"Mike has the license to be the Beach Boys, and Brian and I have the license to be us!"

Should've lowered the key on "Christmas Day", though. His voice is cracking on those high parts.

We got The Gong and Oh Yeah, but not Fig Plucker? WTF? 

When I was 14 I read the first two chapters of thr first Harry Potter book. I absolutely hated it, don't really remember why, but I disliked it enough to swear off the rest of the books and all of the movies. I would probably dismiss it as a children's book if I tried going back to it now at age 33.

Last new system I ever bothered with was a PS2. I still love the Grand Theft Auto and Gran Turismo games from that era. These days I mostly play old Nintendo and Sega games on my computer via emulators. I could honestly care less about current video games.

That's 4 minutes of my life I'll never get back. I'd rather listen to Summer of Love on an endless loop.

I'm coming into this a few years late, but not knowing anything about the track, I'd just assumed "Miracles" was an excerpt of a rehearsal of "Little Bird".

I'm not sure what's gone on with Matt, but my guess is that he's just missing this last leg.

I've never been super familiar with Bonfiglio, beyond noticing that he has of course worked with Carnie/The Wilsons/Wilson Phillips and that orb (as has Matt Jardine). I wouldn't have assumed he would be a "falsetto guy." I've listened to a few YouTube clips from the beginning of the BW tour and he seems to sound just fine. I mean, I think Matt is by far the best guy they've had in that role so I hope he's coming back. But this seems like a fine fill-in (I would understand if they didn't try to phone up Eichenburger to fill in considering his seemingly abrupt jump to Mike's band a few years ago).

Obviously he's "worked" with Carnie, being her husband and all.

Looovvee Piper, the early singles, and some of the other random Syd stuff (Vegetable Man, Jugband Blues, Scream Thy Last Scream, etc), I could take or leave the Waters/Gilmour stuff.

Jim Hines is back?

There was an official complete singles box put out by Capitol about 10 years ago. Don't know anything about Various Denny, but Denny Remembered Vols. 1 and 2 is just a comp of different bootlegged Dennis songs, and tbe sound quality leaves a lot to be desired. A lot of the tracks from Denny Remembered are available in full fidelity on the POB/Bambu Legacy Edition reissue. Unfortunately, I won't be posting any downloads as trading bootlegs is against board policy.

Margarita wasn't even a character in the song until 2004, it was originally "margaritas", as in the drink, keeping the spirit high.

EDIT: Never mind, I must be off my rocker. Margarita the woman is in the original. "Dance, Margarita, dance...".

TheFlaming Lips-It's Summertime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8epnNzRSUdI

I first became aware of the Beach Boys circa 1992/93, about age 6 or 7, when my mom went on a house cleaning kick for several days and would keep replaying her copy of Endless Summer. She always started it on side 4, so the first BB song I ever heard was California Girls. A short time later I saw this old white-haired guy on Full House, and my mom pointed out to me it was The Beach Boys. I didn't believe her at first, this guy didn't look a thing like any of the dudes on the Endless Summer cover. I realized it was indeed them when the old white-haird Mike Love went into Be True to Your School. The BBs kind of went into the back of my mind after that.

I remember seeing the Kokomo video for the first time on VH1 in the mid 90s, recognized Mike Love right off the bat, I'd only known the Muppets version prior to that.

I also remember seeing the BW Imagination concert on TV, they showed 8 million interviews between all the songs. At the time I would have sworn it was Al Jardine and Glenn Frey in the band (cool), but it was actually Bruce Johnston and Tim Schmidt (talented, but not cool).

In 2003 I bought my first proper BBs CD, it was just Sounds of Summer. Nothing special from a hard core fan's POV but it blew my mind at the time. Prior to this the BBs songs I knew were the ones on Endless Summer, plus WIBN only because it was in so many movies. I actually did think stuff like Beach Baby and The Rain, The Park, and Other Things were by the BBs. I ended up hearing Good Vibrations, Heroes and Villains, Wild Honey, and several other songs for the first time ever. After reading the liner notes I also realized what the hell that "Smiley Smile" that Steven Page (Barenaked Ladies) kept re-listening to was. From there I finally listened to Pet Sounds, then Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE, then lots of googling and downloading until finally coming across my first original SMiLE bootlegs, then the 2fers-SS/WH, Sunflower/Surf's Up, Friends/20-20, CATP/Holland, In Concert, etc. etc. etc. By the end of 2005/early 2006 I was well on my way down the BBs rabbit hole. The advent of Rapidshare/Mediafire/Megaupload, coupled with anonymous blogs opened up a whole world of bootleg goodies for me, being a college kid with fast dorm internet but without a way to buy actual "hard copies" of underground material.

Replace Usher with the BBs and all will be right in the universe. I'm surprised Jimi Hendrix, The Kinks, The Who, Oasis, Led Zeppelin, James Brown, Parliament/Funkadelic, or The Temptations aren't in the top 20.

I usually ignore the idiocy in comment sections, but when it involves the BBs I get really sensitive and come pretty close to taking the ignorance personally.
 

Christian Love came back? Is Foskett out?

Is it possible to change my vote? I voted for Landy as a joke but meant to vote for VDP. Didn't realize there wasn't a "change vote" button.

Have they played Drip Drop yet?

Yesterday one of the finalists sang God Only Knows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esewCYA424k

I'm guessing a lot of people watched it. Katy Perry (one of the judges) said "the number 1 song that I wish I could have written is God Only Knows".

She may not have written God Only Knows, but she did co wrote California Gurls

 

Alongside a huge laundry list of writers.

Impossible. A decent BBs best of would have to take up a minimum of 8 discs.

the only realistic answer 

I'd have to include a minimum of 5 tracks from every album, not just hits but also standout album cuts, ecery single album would have to be represented-solo records and obscure stuff (such as Mike and Dean, Sunkist album, Salute to Nascar, Songs From Here and Back) included, and don't forget the unfinished/unreleased albums, standout vault/bootleg tracks...