So i guess the Beach Boys are getting more hip

[The Heartical Don]

While I get where you are coming from Don, I must respectfully disagree. The California Girls intro or Surf's Up coda couldn't have been thought up yesterday because nobodies making music even close to that level anymore.

Point taken. Funny: you are right. I hadn't foreseen that my post could be interpreted this way, but it certainly can. I meant, of course, that the California girls intro and the SU outro aren't specifically reminiscent of 1965/1967 or any other year.

But yes, it's hard, nay, impossible to think of a contemporary artist who could have dreamt up something of a similar quality yesterday. Assuming that pop will continue to be a vital force, I don't find it too exaggerated to say that it's going through a rather thin phase nowadays.

[Mike's Beard]

I gave up hope on modern music years ago. With the exception of the odd BB's related release (and some of those are purchased simply because I'm a completist) I don't own any modern music. I think the most contemporary album I own is from 1992!

[SG7]

I know they will  have transcended to acceptance if I ever hear songs from Love You at JC Penny. 

[Musketeer]

I gave up hope on modern music years ago. With the exception of the odd BB's related release (and some of those are purchased simply because I'm a completist) I don't own any modern music. I think the most contemporary album I own is from 1992!

Nothing in 18 years has struck your fancy enough to buy?

That's a long time. My daughter's entire lifetime.

[Jason]

I know they will  have transcended to acceptance if I ever hear songs from Love You at JC Penny. 

Oh yes, kids everywhere bored as hell in JCPenney stores while their mothers sort through low-quality, high-priced merchandise to put on their maxed out credit cards listening to Johnny Carson. You know the BBs would have made it then!

[donald]

What is hip?

I watched both the recent Stones DVD releases  on cable recently....

That stuff was the hippest of the hip in the late 60's early 70's when the Beachboys were floundering.

And I liked it back then.  But I don't really care for it anymore.  It seems pathetic and phony now....posturing and pretentious. 

   The Scorcese Stones , with all of their back up and guests, don't hold a candle to Brians or Mikes bands here in the 21st century.   I will, however,  give it to Charley for still thoroughly thrashing the drums at this point in his life.

[Pinder's Gone To Kokomo And Back Again]

The Beach Boys will NEVER be hip!

especially not in today's climate.

The # 1 no no in hipster-dome is earnestness: meaning what you say/write/play/sing: Believing what you say/write/play/sing

The Beach Boys are about as earnest (in the good way) and honest/emotionally available as popular music is likely to ever get, therefore they will never be hip...... Which, of course, MAKES them hip (at least to nerds like us)  

[Don_Zabu]

The Beach Boys will NEVER be hip!

especially not in today's climate.

The # 1 no no in hipster-dome is earnestness: meaning what you say/write/play/sing: Believing what you say/write/play/sing

The Beach Boys are about as earnest (in the good way) and honest/emotionally available as popular music is likely to ever get, therefore they will never be hip...... Which, of course, MAKES them hip (at least to nerds like us)  

I know that to be true, but I have to wonder about it given how popular Neutral Milk Hotel is/was with the hip sector and the way the content of those songs was; that was basically Jeff Mangum expressing his grief for Anne Frank over an entire album.

[Pretty Funky]

No 2011 grammy nominations yet for Brian so he is still hip to me!

[Pinder's Gone To Kokomo And Back Again]

The Beach Boys will NEVER be hip!

especially not in today's climate.

The # 1 no no in hipster-dome is earnestness: meaning what you say/write/play/sing: Believing what you say/write/play/sing

The Beach Boys are about as earnest (in the good way) and honest/emotionally available as popular music is likely to ever get, therefore they will never be hip...... Which, of course, MAKES them hip (at least to nerds like us)  

I know that to be true, but I have to wonder about it given how popular Neutral Milk Hotel is/was with the hip sector and the way the content of those songs was; that was basically Jeff Mangum expressing his grief for Anne Frank over an entire album.

I completely agree, but that was still some time ago and quite a different (and more sensitive) hip sector than what we're dealing with now. Today is the day of the uber Hard Hipster (Ed Saunders would appreciate that term) who are deeply cynical and are uber consumers. They have no room for The Beach Boys other than for shallow and limited kitsch appeal.

Or maybe I'm just an out of the loop old bastard  

[Mahalo]

Lei'd in Hawaii is hip. 

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

Yeah it is.

[Mahalo]

Hell yeah... I hate to say it though, but 99.9% of the world probably think we are just a bunch of dorks who listen to weird music. They are all wrong of course...Hot Girls LOVE the Beach Boys, they just don't know it yet. That is where opportunity knox... 

[Pinder's Gone To Kokomo And Back Again]

You might very well be onto something  

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[The Heartical Don]

You might very well be onto something  

  great photos... give me new hope at my age.

[hypehat]

That you too might be able to slowdance with Mike Love?

[punkinhead]

Speaking of playing songs in the workplace.
In the kitchen I work in, someone brought it in a radio to play Christmas music, and rather than in past years, I've brought in a couple of cds, I just burnt a CD instead, but it's great, because it's like I make everyone at work listen to Child of Winter!  

I tried including a wide variety that wasn't being played, I added a majority of Spector's Christmas album, Paul's Wonderful Christmastime, Brian's Christmasy/What I really Want for Christmas/On Christmas Day/the Christmas Song, and just a couple from the original BB Christmas album (I'd been bringing that in the past few years).

Oh and the Beatles' Christmas Time is Here Again!

[The Heartical Don]

That you too might be able to slowdance with Mike Love?

Of course! What else did you think of?

[Alex]

The BBs have been hip with underground musicians since at least the 90s...Thurston Moore praising PS in IJWMFTT, the Smiling Pets album, various covers and tribute albums over the last 15 years or so featuring all sorts of "indie" artists...and the latest wave of "hip" bands like Wavves, The Drums, Best Coast, Sleigh Bells, Grizzly Bear, etc. who are influenced at least somewhat by the BBs and other early 60s artists.

[Don_Zabu]

Don't forget The Wondermints.