3 Post(s) Found For: The Beach Boys

  Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie released a new CD, Chuck Berry released his last CD, and Jan & Dean’s REAL Filet of Soul finally arrived …after a quite, well, fishy 52-year delay. Nevertheless, I still found ten more vintage-2017 gems to recommend to all you B-Busters out there. In, as always, strictly alphabetical order […]

  A Summer’s Coming Songfest for putting the Top Down and the Volume UP:   “I GET AROUND” by THE BEACH BOYS (1964) Instrumentally (the arrangement and production effectively trounced all comers that summer of ’64), lyrically (though one can safely interpret “I’m gettin’ bugged drivin’ up and down the same old strip, I gotta […]

  Your fearless columnist busted true Yule balls over the past several weeks, virtually scouring this whole world asking that age-old musical question… Why would YOU rather be listening to The Beach Boys this Christmas ??   “Because I live in Syracuse, and it’s gonna fucking snow until July. I’d rather be surfing!” (Carl Cafarelli […]