"That's Why God Made The Radio" Single!

[SMiLE Brian]

Does anybody remember the deleted and creepy nazi beach boys song thread that Ghost made?...

[markalpan]

Rolling Stone has a segment titled "Spring Music Preview." Here is what it has to say.

The Beach Boys - Album title to be determined. Release - June
"It's a sentimental thing for me," Brian Wilson says of the Beach Boys' first all-new studio LP in decades. "We've been together 50 years-that's a long time." Since reuniting last year, the surviving members have recorded more than a dozen new tunes at L.A.'s Ocean Way studios - where they cut "Good Vibrations" and much of Pet Sounds in the sixties. Expect lots of big harmonies and familiar subjects on songs like the mellow rocker "Beaches in Mind" and the nostalgic ballad "That's Why God Made the Radio."
"Conceptually, the album is not going to be anything outlandish like Smiley Smile - it will be like the Beach Boys circa '65," adds Mike Love. "I'm trying to write lyrics that fit the music without making it sound like you're writing from a hospice."

[Lowbacca]

Rolling Stone has a segment titled "Spring Music Preview." Here is what it has to say.

The Beach Boys - Album title to be determined. Release - June
"It's a sentimental thing for me," Brian Wilson says of the Beach Boys' first all-new studio LP in decades. "We've been together 50 years-that's a long time." Since reuniting last year, the surviving members have recorded more than a dozen new tunes at L.A.'s Ocean Way studios - where they cut "Good Vibrations" and much of Pet Sounds in the sixties. Expect lots of big harmonies and familiar subjects on songs like the mellow rocker "Beaches in Mind" and the nostalgic ballad "That's Why God Made the Radio."
"Conceptually, the album is not going to be anything outlandish like Smiley Smile - it will be like the Beach Boys circa '65," adds Mike Love. "I'm trying to write lyrics that fit the music without making it sound like you're writing from a hospice."

Old news, but thanks anyway.  And welcome to the board!

[Wilson Love]

Looks like Heinrich Rudolph Hertz first demonstrated the existance of radio waves with Gugliemo Marconi developing it and Nikola Tesla getting the first patent for a radio transmitter.
I wonder if these guys are mentioned in the lyrics.

"Don't worry Mr. Tesla. We'll get your radio goin'."

...........magic transistor radio............

[onkster]

Nazi Beach Boys song? You mean "Never Learn Not to Love"? Chorus: "I'm your kind, I'm your kinda Nazi..."

Maybe this should be filed under Misheard Lyrics...

[joshferrell]

I wonder if nostalgic ballad means it's something like "do you remember" or "sprit of rock n roll"

[Micha]

is there a Beach Boys messageboard anywhere on the internet that focuses just on information and not pages upon pages of bullshit?

This just in.............
The name of the new album is going to be "Hums Of Hitler", featuring a newly penned Brian Wison-Mike Love anti-semitic ballad and a suite loosely based on the life of Heinrich Himmler.........more details soon

Man, I rarely feel like putting someone down, but this post was unfunny, unnecessary, annoying and plain boring. So there!

It was a reference to Vintages' ramblings.
If you don't have a sense of humor, that's your problem.

No, it simply wasn't funny

I stopped reading ramblings a long time ago, so I didn't get the reference. But even if I had gotten it, I'd still agree with bgas. In fact I do have several senses of humor, but not the one about connecting random people with Hitler and Nazis. Making fun of the Nazis, that's ok.

[Jay]

Does anybody remember the deleted and creepy nazi beach boys song thread that Ghost made?...

I remember one where he argued that the beach boys were gay. 

[Lonely Summer]

The Mob can put all the money they want behind this song, doesn't matter, the Beach Boys are NOT going to have a hit single in 2012. Radio does not play new music by bands of old guys. Sheesh, the reunited Beatles even had trouble getting their new recordings played on radio back in 95/96. If there's one band the world would stop for, it is the Fab Four. If this was 1989, yeah, no problem. Things were much different back then, much of pop culture was still in love with the 60's. Today, if people wanna hear oldies, they're talking 80's/90's, maybe as far back as 1975. I am hoping the BB's make a good album artistically. I have no illusions about them being able to compete with Adele, Taylor Swift, or the new crop of boy bands.

[Ron]

I looooves me some Imagination. I almost like the heavy tinsel production....

Yeah, I'm the same way.  I know it's overdone.  I know it's all processed.  I don't care.  I love it. 

[The Heartical Don]

Rolling Stone has a segment titled "Spring Music Preview." Here is what it has to say.

The Beach Boys - Album title to be determined. Release - June
"It's a sentimental thing for me," Brian Wilson says of the Beach Boys' first all-new studio LP in decades. "We've been together 50 years-that's a long time." Since reuniting last year, the surviving members have recorded more than a dozen new tunes at L.A.'s Ocean Way studios - where they cut "Good Vibrations" and much of Pet Sounds in the sixties. Expect lots of big harmonies and familiar subjects on songs like the mellow rocker "Beaches in Mind" and the nostalgic ballad "That's Why God Made the Radio."
"Conceptually, the album is not going to be anything outlandish like Smiley Smile - it will be like the Beach Boys circa '65," adds Mike Love. "I'm trying to write lyrics that fit the music without making it sound like you're writing from a hospice."

Hi and welcome. Reading that, I think I would be absolutely delighted if those 'big harmonies' would scale just those special 'BBs Peaks' where the spine tingles and the goosebumps appear. You know: that blend. Although Denny and Carl aren't there, I am sure that with the current team they'll be able to get very, very close, and God will provide inspiration. The Big Guy knows when he's being channeled...

[Jay]

Awsome post, Don. 

[The Heartical Don]

Awsome post, Don. 

Thanks, Jay, mucho appreciated!

[puni puni]

"Conceptually, the album is not going to be anything outlandish like Smiley Smile - it will be like the Beach Boys circa '65,"

Why?

I will never understand this mindset. It's akin to picking up a $20 bill on the street and burning it.
There has got to be some sort of supernatural reason why this band squanders every single incredible opportunity it's ever been given.

[runnersdialzero]

"Conceptually, the album is not going to be anything outlandish like Smiley Smile - it will be like the Beach Boys circa '65,"

Why?

I will never understand this mindset. It's akin to picking up a $20 bill on the street and burning it.
There has got to be some sort of supernatural reason why this band squanders every single incredible opportunity it's ever been given.

You really expect them, at age 70, to record an album like Smiley Smile?

[The Heartical Don]

"Conceptually, the album is not going to be anything outlandish like Smiley Smile - it will be like the Beach Boys circa '65,"

Why?

I will never understand this mindset. It's akin to picking up a $20 bill on the street and burning it.
There has got to be some sort of supernatural reason why this band squanders every single incredible opportunity it's ever been given.

You really expect them, at age 70, to record an album like Smiley Smile?

  of course! There is no shame in oldsters lying in an empty pool, smoking dope, and harmonizing merrily away! Get hip, dude!

[UK_Surf]

Well, maybe Smiley Smile reminds him too much of old age...wanting to be around vegetables, and indeed, to chow down on vegetables. Increasingly difficult with false teeth.  Hankering for a little pad in Hawaii...it's an advert for Saga waiting to happen. Been in this town so long that back in the city I've been taken for a lost and gone...it wasn't a teenage symphony to god, it's was a pensioner's!

[hypehat]

Every great opportunity? Like, was the world clamouring for another Smiley Smile? Have the band been having sleepless nights over the fact they may not be able to reunite, smoke $5000 worth of hash and f*ck about with a Baldwin organ in Brian's house once more? Making another album like Smiley Smile would be akin to finding a £20 note on the street and drawing sunglasses on the Queen before making it into a paper plane and divebombing lollipop ladies with it. That is, nonsense. Like Smiley Smile.

And how is wanting to make records sound like the most artistically AND commercially rich period in the entire 50 years of the group a bad thing?

[The Shift]

"Conceptually, the album is not going to be anything outlandish like Smiley Smile - it will be like the Beach Boys circa '65,"

Why?

I will never understand this mindset. It's akin to picking up a $20 bill on the street and burning it.
There has got to be some sort of supernatural reason why this band squanders every single incredible opportunity it's ever been given.

You really expect them, at age 70, to record an album like Smiley Smile?

Heroes & Viagras
Vegetables
Falls Over, Breaks a Leg, and Back to Bed (The Would-he-keep-his-Pecker-up Symphony)
We're All Going Bald
Little Incontinence Pad
Good Valiums
Wash Me Tonight
Wind.
Gettin' Grey
Whistle Out


(I'm sure the usual wags can do better!)

[SMiLE Brian]

"Conceptually, the album is not going to be anything outlandish like Smiley Smile - it will be like the Beach Boys circa '65,"

Why?

I will never understand this mindset. It's akin to picking up a $20 bill on the street and burning it.
There has got to be some sort of supernatural reason why this band squanders every single incredible opportunity it's ever been given.

You really expect them, at age 70, to record an album like Smiley Smile?

Heroes & Viagras
Vegetables
Falls Over, Breaks a Leg, and Back to Bed (The Would-he-keep-his-Pecker-up Symphony)
We're All Going Bald
Little Incontinence Pad
Good Valiums
Wash Me Tonight
Wind.
Gettin' Grey
Whistle Out


(I'm sure the usual wags can do better!)

Senior smiley is genius

[SMiLE Brian]

Does anybody remember the deleted and creepy nazi beach boys song thread that Ghost made?...

I remember one where he argued that the beach boys were gay. 

That was one were he thankfully got banned.

[rab2591]

"Conceptually, the album is not going to be anything outlandish like Smiley Smile - it will be like the Beach Boys circa '65,"

Why?

I will never understand this mindset. It's akin to picking up a $20 bill on the street and burning it.
There has got to be some sort of supernatural reason why this band squanders every single incredible opportunity it's ever been given.

You really expect them, at age 70, to record an album like Smiley Smile?

Heroes & Viagras
Vegetables
Falls Over, Breaks a Leg, and Back to Bed (The Would-he-keep-his-Pecker-up Symphony)
We're All Going Bald
Little Incontinence Pad
Good Valiums
Wash Me Tonight
Wind.
Gettin' Grey
Whistle Out


(I'm sure the usual wags can do better!)

this post made my day!

[Wilson Love]

Every great opportunity? Like, was the world clamouring for another Smiley Smile? Have the band been having sleepless nights over the fact they may not be able to reunite, smoke $5000 worth of hash and f*ck about with a Baldwin organ in Brian's house once more? Making another album like Smiley Smile would be akin to finding a £20 note on the street and drawing sunglasses on the Queen before making it into a paper plane and divebombing lollipop ladies with it. That is, nonsense. Like Smiley Smile.

And how is wanting to make records sound like the most artistically AND commercially rich period in the entire 50 years of the group a bad thing?

Truth.

[Iron Horse-Apples]

No news?

I've been away. I would read back over the last 5 pages, but quite frankly can't be bothered. Can anyone condense it, beginning with Paco, and ending in Baldwin, into a manageable soundbite for me?

[SBonilla]

No news?

I've been away. I would read back over the last 5 pages, but quite frankly can't be bothered. Can anyone condense it, beginning with Paco, and ending in Baldwin, into a manageable soundbite for me?

In need of a caterer?