Beach Boys references

[hapman]

Randy Newman - I Love L.A.

"Roll down the window, put down the top
Crank up the Beach Boys, baby, don't let the music stop"

[Sheriff John Stone]

Brian Wilson - "One For The Boys"
Brian Wilson - "Imagination" (I miss the way I used to call the shots around here)
Jan & Dean - "(Here They Come) From All Over The World" (The Beach Boys singing now "I Get Around")

[The Heartical Don]

Austrian  cartoonist and painter Manfred Deix did a tribute CD. I have it at home, not here now. But it's very funny. California Girls is about 'Madels From Tyrol', for instance.

[TdHabib]

Elton John had a lyric about "Brian Wilson's promiseland" on the first song from his Captain and the Kid album, which I liked a lot.

[dogear]

Chris Rainbow "Dear Brian"

[Aegir]

"Shannon" and Mike's "Checkers" would form the basis of a concept album about the deaths of the Beach Boys' dogs.

I can't believe this went so long without anyone correcting it. Checkers was Nixon's dog.  The Mike Love song is Wrinkles.

[Boiled Egg]

XTC (as Dukes Of The Stratosphear) - 'Pale And Precious' - from 'Psonic Psunspot' (and, latterly, 'Chips From The Chocolate Fireball') - a Smiley Smile pastiche (surely an officially endangered species?)

World Party - 'Kuwait City' - hidden track on 'Bang!' - California Girls (approx) pastiche

R.E.M. - 'At My Most Beautiful' - from 'Up' - Pet Sounds-era pastiche

[Dove Nested Towers]

Have to mention "Brian Wilson" by the Hanson Brothers (not to be confused with the recent teen pop
short-term sensations). They had some minor regional hits in the 70's. I used to be an acquaintance of
Paul Hansen's, and he once told me about trying to give a copy of the single to Brian at a "Wouldn't It
Be Nice" book promotion event in San Francisco, and Brian putting it up to his face and sniffing at it bewilderedly. Kevin Leslie, the "surf nazi" was hovering nearby monitoring everything very intrusively.
 Thank God for his deliverance from the forces of evil! 

[obscurereference]

(I was going to start a new 'references to the beach boys in songs' thread, when I realised it had already been done. Hope it's ok to resurrect it.)

I was going to mention Belle & Sebastian and Neil Young but other people have beaten me to it (several years ago, in fact!).

There's 'round the bend' by The Beta Band which features the lyrics:

"I listened to The Beach Boys just a minute ago,
Wild Honey,
It's not their best album but it's still pretty good,
they've got some funny little love songs on there,
but it's not mainly a Brian Wilson production so it's not as good as something like... Pet Sounds"

[Cliff1000uk]

I've often wondered if the reference to "Dennis" in Sonic Youth's "Tunic (Song For Karen)" is a reference to Dennis Wilson. Assuming ofcourse that Dennis would have been in heaven when Karen Carpenter arrived.

"I'm in heaven now - I can see you Richard
goodbye Hollywood, goodbye downey - hello Janis
hello Dennis, Elvis - and all my brand new friends
I'm so glad you're all here with me, until the very end"

I'm certain it is, given the context of the lyrics. They also did a cover of I Know There's An Answer during the Goo sessions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLktGrpiW5Q


Frank Black's version is pretty good too

[Loaf]

There's a song by UK band called Hefner which sampled (repeatedly) the 'Hi' from the start of The Trader.

Can't remember what it was called.