Somehow I missed the official music video of TWGMTR

[Eric Aniversario]

How did I not see this till now?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAmk-Wk2pNA&feature=youtube_gdata_player

It appears that the relatively low number of views, 293k, is an indicator that this video wasn't really promoted well.

[Eric Aniversario]

I take it back...I now remember that this was featured on the screen behind the band when the song was performed live...

[RiC]

I like the video, because it has Love You cover and cool cinematography. But I really wish they would have released video of Isn't It Time instead, featuring mainly the members only. That would've been so cool. Or even video of Summer's Gone. That would've topped even Johnny Cash's video of Hurt.

[MyDrKnowsItKeepsMeCalm]

Thanks for the link... this is new to me too. Towards the end is kinda funny -- "why yes, my garage just happens to be full of old guys!"

I love the Love You album glimpsed at :59.   

[The Shift]

Towards the end is kinda funny -- "why yes, my garage just happens to be full of old guys!"

Not just funny … surreal. Every music fan should imprison their favourite band for 20 years and let them out for occasionally yuppie raves.

[The Cincinnati Kid]

How did I not see this till now?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAmk-Wk2pNA&feature=youtube_gdata_player

It appears that the relatively low number of views, 293k, is an indicator that this video wasn't really promoted well.

It only has 293k views because it was released a few months after the single.  The lyric video does have a more respectable 675k views.

[Steve Latshaw]

I thought it was a great video... with subtle differences in the cinematography, depending on whether the shots were supposed to be taking place in the 1960s, 1970s or 1980s (or present).  Bringing the (young) generations together.  I thought the 1970s footage was particularly well done.

[Summer_Days]

I love that video. I could only image just how good the videos for 'Summer's Gone' or 'Isn't It Time' might've turned out, if they'd been made along those lines.

[Steve Latshaw]

I think the point of the video was how they sold the Beach Boys to a younger audience... as if to say that the music is all about eternal youth and fun to countless generations.  Thus only a brief glimpse of the mostly 70+ band members.

I have to admit, I got a chill when I saw those battered blue equipment cases with the Beach Boys Indian logo stamped on the side.  Those shots brought back a lot of fond memories.

[HeyJude]

It probably doesn't help that the video looks like it's made up mostly of the background stock footage they use for a pharmaceutical TV commercial. I get it, the actual guys are old and nobody but hardcore fans want to really actually *look* at them, but still....

At least the "Do It Again" video had actual footage of the band recording (some real, some staged) mixed in among the generic stock footage.

The BB's have NEVER made good music videos. The ship had sailed for them in that area before MTV even became a big thing. A few of their promotions films are good (mostly the 60's stuff), and of course we folks find it all interesting. But their promo films/music videos have often been *worse* than the worst music from the same era. Their cover of "Crocodile Rock" wasn't exactly A+ material, but the recording is a masterpiece compared to the music video they made to go along with it.

[Loaf]

The video's not very good. The song isn't that great either.

But the best bit is the second time you see the BBs in the video, at around 2:41? Brian's expression says it all.

[Robbie Mac]

This fan-made video was far better than the official video.

http://youtu.be/yg8QqwWb3RI

[Autotune]

Say what you will about the video. But seeing the boys appear at the end of the video was an ass-kicking moment for me back in 2012. It still kicks serious ass. And for a fan, the glorious sight of those five guys together cannot be topped.

[beacharg]

It's not a good video really... it's like they put 100 vines or instagram pics together. I know they tried to seduce the young audience, but... they did it all wrong. It's annoying, superficial and very confusing... all this different-eras guys meet in a house and they have a bunch of old people locked up (doing what?) in a garage?

Jack Rieley... time has proved you right...

[brother john]

This fan-made video was far better than the official video.

http://youtu.be/yg8QqwWb3RI

Excellent.

[brother john]

How did I not see this till now?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAmk-Wk2pNA&feature=youtube_gdata_player

It appears that the relatively low number of views, 293k, is an indicator that this video wasn't really promoted well.

Awful, charmless and without a shred of actual creativity.

[the professor]

Wow! it's well done and often in time with the music..

This fan-made video was far better than the official video.

http://youtu.be/yg8QqwWb3RI

[urbanite]

I never saw this before, but I love the ending.

[kwan_dk]

It's not a good video really... it's like they put 100 vines or instagram pics together. I know they tried to seduce the young audience, but... they did it all wrong. It's annoying, superficial and very confusing... all this different-eras guys meet in a house and they have a bunch of old people locked up (doing what?) in a garage?

Jack Rieley... time has proved you right...

To each his own. I really like it and the good-times vibe coming off all those different sequences. To me the ending falls completey flat though with that cheesy garage scene. You can tell right away that the scene with the boys has been filmed with lesser equipment and a substantial change in Picture quality as a result. To me it just comes across as a case of "oh well, I guess we can't avoid having these oldsters somewhere in the video. Quickly, put 'em in the garage and film them for a few seconds with this shoddy video recorder. That'll do..."

[The Real Barnyard]

The BB's have NEVER made good music videos. The ship had sailed for them in that area before MTV even became a big thing. A few of their promotions films are good (mostly the 60's stuff), and of course we folks find it all interesting. But their promo films/music videos have often been *worse* than the worst music from the same era. Their cover of "Crocodile Rock" wasn't exactly A+ material, but the recording is a masterpiece compared to the music video they made to go along with it.

California Dreamin' video being the exception.

[Alan Smith]

Say what you will about the video. But seeing the boys appear at the end of the video was an ass-kicking moment for me back in 2012. It still kicks serious ass. And for a fan, the glorious sight of those five guys together cannot be topped.

A massive +1 for Putney`s sentiments here.  It was pretty cool and well handled, and over time I've come to appreciate some of the earlier sequences.  Back in the day, I was anticipating a woefully hacked together montage of archival BB footage with clumsy attempts at syncing old performances with the new track; just like the fan video.  So getting a contempoary vid was a nice treat.

[RangeRoverA1]

I saw this vid in 2012, during C50 craze. Didn't like it then, don't now. 1st, the visual range is too fast it hurts the eyes; 2nd, I don't care about the generation thing, seeing unfamiliar faces in a clip to the 1st Beach Boys single is to me a very weird move. If you want to bring in the younguns, give 'em less screen time, show the band. When I click on the link reading "The Beach Boys - That's Why god Made the Radio", I expect to see The BBs, preferably singing exactly TWGMTR. Though cobbling together old footage would've been a nice retrospective of their career, of course. That fan-made video was pretty good.

[Nicko1234]

I hadn`t seen this before but that wasn`t much of a loss. Very nice to see the group members together at the end of course but the rest of the video is deathly dull and far too generic imo.