Why aren't the Beach Boys ever played on classic rock radio?

[Ron]

I found an oldies channel locally here a few days ago.  I'd heard it a few years ago, but the signal was weaker then.  Now it's nice and strong. 

Anyways, they play stuff from the 50's, straight through to the early 80's!  I'm takling about FM radio.  Crazy.

Today, driving to, and from work, I heard (swear to god)

1. Rock & Roll Music (Beach Boys)

2. Do It Again (Beach Boys). 

So they're still alive and kicking, at least on certain stations. 

[runnersdialzero]

I hear "Do It Again" almost every time I go to teh Superflesh.

I had to listen to two days of Sirius/XM on a recent trip, going to a collective twelve hours or so. I noticed that the few stations we listened to seemed to play the same four or five artists over and over and f***ing over again, bands I really like, to the point that I never wanted to hear those bands ever again by the end of the trip. Their "humorous" station IDs that basically brought to light all the embarrassing, regrettable sh*t of the day wasn't pleasant either.

Unfortunately, it's my only driving option for music for a short while, but I recently tried out the 60s station on a few different trips having exhausted the contents of the other stations in a mere two days. I enjoyed hearing "I Get Around" and "God Only Knows" but did not enjoy the blathering man who rambled for over 10 minutes (no exaggeration) between songs about absolutely nothing. People get satellite radio because it's advertised as commercial free, thus blather free, thus they'll hear music (unless it's specifically talk radio). Talking aimlessly for ten minutes between songs is equally as annoying as ads, especially coming from the mouth of the very large (yes, he was so large you could actually tell through the radio - never a good sign. I could stand to lose some weight, but Jeezus), blathering man whose voice hurt my brain. Good God, I just wanted to die.

Sorry about the basically unrelated rant, but man, I was not impressed with my recent experiences with satellite radio and I needed somewhere to vent. It's a new frontier, anything can happen! You can swear! Enjoy this one "obscure" cult favorite that the CEO said was okay to play in between fifty Green Day and Soundgarden songs, because only ten bands existed in the 1990s. We're the real rebel every God damn day over here.

[ArtVandalay]

Sounds like the blathering man you're referring to is "Cousin Brucie." Yea, he never shuts up.

[EgoHanger1966]

I was in an indie record store yesterday that had a radio station on, must have been an internet station or something, because they played "Funky Pretty" and I nearly lost my sh*t when it started!

[lee]

One of the muzak stations plays Breakaway quite a bit. It's really nice hearing that one at work.

[Zach95]

Today I heard friggin Wipeout on American Top Forty while at work. Ew. 

[Ron]

Hell Yeah!  Fat Boys FTW.

[Steve Mayo]

had to drive 90 minutes to a work site this morning. was listening to sirius deep tracks station. buried treasures show was on. suddenly around 8:30am they played sail on, sailor..forever..marcella back to back to back. sounded great. nice start to my 12 hour work day in wellston ohio.

[bluesno1fann]

There's two radio stations I listen to. One has never played the Beach Boys as far as I know. The other plays Surfin' USA, I Get Around, California Girls, Wouldn't It Be Nice, Good Vibrations, I Can Hear Music (rarely), and Kokomo. In other words, they only play the usual hits, never the lesser-known or deeper album cuts.

And one radio station I used to listen to plays some of the above songs, plus Cottonfields, Surfer Girl and Sloop John B.

[alf wiedersehen]

One time while in Las Vegas, I was walking through a casino and heard "Surf's Up" coming through the overhead speakers.
I can't remember what version they played.

Tangentially related, I guess, but it really surprised me.