4. (OH!) DARLIN’: The Beach Boys vs. The Beatles
Pocket Symphony: A Beach Boys Podcast
Release Date: 08/03/2021
7. LOVE AND MERCY: Brian & Britney
Pocket Symphony: A Beach Boys Podcast
"Kind of wild that every major public update on Brian’s well-being occurs on the Beach Boys’ album cycle, almost like the capitalist desire to keep him working overrides the desire to keep him healthy. Makes you think, huh?" CW: This episode deals with the subject of physical and mental abuse. The movie LOVE & MERCY details some of that abuse, and those scenes will be recapped in this episode. It's our mid-season finale, and we finally tackle the elephant in the room — Brian's fraught relationship with Dr. Eugene Landy. In order to paint the picture more clearly, we've dug into years...
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6. I JUST WASN’T MADE FOR THESE TIMES: Pet Sounds & the Cult of the Uncool
Pocket Symphony: A Beach Boys Podcast
“Rolling Stone is no longer like 50 Cameron Crowes, extolling the ‘never to be experienced again’ majesty of the 70s rock age to anyone curious about music history.” Today, Pet Sounds is widely considered to be one of the greatest albums of all time, but it was met with a lukewarm response from American audiences. Since then, there have been many theories as to why: band infighting, bad marketing, or that it “just wasn’t made for these times.” The album would fall into relative obscurity until it was reclaimed in the 90s as the holy grail of hipsterdom by cool older sisters and...
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5. GOD ONLY KNOWS: Who Owns the Beach Boys' Legacy?
Pocket Symphony: A Beach Boys Podcast
“We’ve come a long way from Hawthorne, California, and now the Boys are handing over their literal likenesses to a company that’s willing to give them the Tupac treatment so that Mike Love can finally put the band to rest.” Oh no! The podcast has gone on so long that we’re now in the later, more commercial stages of our career! 2021 marks sixty years of the Beach Boys and ongoing efforts to capitalize on the band’s legacy, even if that means… a future hologram tour? takes on a wild ride of “God Only Knows” covers that tell the commercial history of the band and the many...
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4. (OH!) DARLIN’: The Beach Boys vs. The Beatles
Pocket Symphony: A Beach Boys Podcast
“Resurrected like some Hawaiian shirt-clad phoenix every ten years or so, the Beach Boys became the act as synonymous to boomer nostalgia as the Beatles are to youth counterculture.” As soon as Beatlemania hit US airwaves, the Beach Boys were pitted against the mop-topped Fab Four… even though the Beach Boys formed first. Throughout the early 60s, the bands exchanged iconic albums like knock-out punches, with each release forcing the opposing group back to the studio to prepare for the next round. The rivalry between the Beach Boys and the Beatles gave us some of the most iconic music of...
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3. I GET AROUND: How the Boys Sold the Beach
Pocket Symphony: A Beach Boys Podcast
“They take up the mantle of being ‘America’s band’ while writing albums overseas, and secure that reputation by becoming peak boomer nostalgia music for an era where gas was cheap, roads were wide open, and the ocean was a playground if you had the privilege of rebellion.” Don’t touch that dial! We’re about to put you onto some hot rod music. The Beach Boys hit it big by riding the wave — pun fully intended — of California culture spreading across the country. But were they really surfers? Or just total posers? tells about the 60s car culture craze and special guest joins...
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2. Meet The Beach Boys
Pocket Symphony: A Beach Boys Podcast
“There’s drugs, there’s sex, there’s girls! There’s an evil psychiatrist who tries to take over his life! There’s marriage and divorce and family drama and cousins trying to sue each other. There’s intergenerational trauma, fast cars, there’s John Stamos, and very questionable haircuts! What more could you want? You could not write a fiction this compelling if you tried!” You know ‘em, you love ‘em, you might love to hate ‘em! They’re the Beach Boys! and introduce the classic lineup of “America’s Band” and their movie focus this season: the 2015 film Love...
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1. Who are the California Girls?
Pocket Symphony: A Beach Boys Podcast
“Discovering the Beach Boys’ music has only made my love for other things stronger. I’ve learned to love so many other types of art, music, movies because of discovering this band.” Even if you don’t know the Beach Boys, you probably know their signature tune “California Girls.” But, who exactly are the California Girls... and why are they hosting a podcast? and discuss the California Girl stereotype and their own origin stories growing up in the Golden State, as Beach Boys fans and best friends. Krista explains the concept of a “Pocket Symphony” badly and Rosie reminds...
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Introducing Pocket Symphony: A Beach Boys Podcast
Pocket Symphony: A Beach Boys Podcast
"Part movie watch-along and part pop culture deep dive, but mostly an exploration of why we, two Asian-American millennial women, keep talking about a white boy band whose best hits lived and died before we were even born." Best friends and are experts at falling down internet rabbit holes. So... how did they end up making a narrative podcast about the Beach Boys? Using the 2015 biopic "Love & Mercy," Rosie and Krista break down each scene and uncover the real-life events that inspired the movie. — FOLLOW US: INSTAGRAM @ TWITTER @ EMAIL US AT [email protected] Art by @...
info_outline“Resurrected like some Hawaiian shirt-clad phoenix every ten years or so, the Beach Boys became the act as synonymous to boomer nostalgia as the Beatles are to youth counterculture.”
As soon as Beatlemania hit US airwaves, the Beach Boys were pitted against the mop-topped Fab Four… even though the Beach Boys formed first. Throughout the early 60s, the bands exchanged iconic albums like knock-out punches, with each release forcing the opposing group back to the studio to prepare for the next round. The rivalry between the Beach Boys and the Beatles gave us some of the most iconic music of the decade, but by its end, only one was left standing — and it’s not the one you think. Krista tells Rosie the origin story of her favorite boy band and how a break-up might’ve been the best thing that ever happened for their legacy. Rosie confuses George Harrison and George Martin (fair) and Krista admits that this whole thing was improv.
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