Beach Boys - California Saga: California Lyrics

Weeeeeeenish

I love the reference to Cool Cool Water XD

I hear the riff from help me Rhonda somewhere in their

favorite on this album! such an underrated one.

I like how this is basically a grown-up version of California Girls. That one was all about how fantastic the girls are in California, and this one is about how beautiful the place itself is. It's a shame that Mike took control of the band and tried to make their old music again, otherwise we might have gotten more albums like Holland.

Hey, don't blame Mike, he wrote Big Sur on Holland, which is awesome. The problem was that The Beach Boys did not release an album in 1974, so Capitol released the Endless Summer compilation which went 1st as we all know. This signaled to the label that a) Brian should take over producing duties again and b) they should from now on make more nostalgic oldies music. At no point (at least up until Carl's death) was the band ever all that supportive of that idea. Love You is basically the opposite of oldies music, so is BB'85. L.A. also doesn't sound particularly like oldies music, the only ones that do are 15 Big Ones and KTSA. Heck, no matter how much I dislike M.I.U., Still Cruisin' and Summer in Paradise, they were no attempt at doing oldies music.

@Spos Kanal "My Diane" is a harrowing masterpiece, and there are several other good ones on MIU.

ericebryan I never said there were no good songs on it. My Diane is great, so is She's Got Rhythm and I personally even like Hey Little Tomboy. But come on, Kona Coast? Belles Of Paris? That Peggy Sue cover? Just no.

@Spos Kanal "Pitter Patter " is also good, with a cool drum track from Dennis and strong vocals from Al. I would remove "Peggy Sue" but most of the original material is fine with me. Al did a great job with "Come Go With Me" singing all those parts and playing some or most of the instruments on it.

Well, I've admittedly not listened to the album that much, I might just give it another listen now.