Uncanny

MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME

Expected Release Date: June 27, 2006
SHOP EMI
CAPITOL RECORDS

NATIONAL REVIEW As I recall, the Godfather of the Conservatives, Ronnie Reagan, chose a Secretary of the Interior, JAMES G. WATT, who wouldn't allow the Beach Boys to play in Washington D.C. on July 4. Hooray for hypocrisy!

Watt said that rock music attracts "the wrong element," and that the Beach Boys, and other such groups, "have not attracted families and have in fact created drug and alcohol problems and other serious dangers for visitors."

NONLINEARGIRL BLOG "On a recent 'night out' I heard PETER AMES CARLIN read from his new biography of Brian Wilson. The reading made me realize that there are some hard-core Beach Boys fans out there and that they take the band's music really seriously. Growing up in southern cal, I'd never thought more of it than the background music to those montage scenes in movies where the kids frolic on the beach while their parents think they are at school."

"I guess I should not have been surprised that people take the Beach Boys seriously. Take any band and you are likely to find adherents who adore everything the band has done and take great offense at any suggestion that the band is less than perfect. Take AC/DC fans. I have nothing against AC/DC, but man, those people have no sense of humor."

"While I'm unlikely to spend a lot of time playing and replaying Pet Sounds, or trying to parse Smile lyrics any time soon, listening to Carlin speak did get me in a bit of a Beach Boys mood. Today I found myself carrying Ada to the couch, singing 'Everybody loves nursing, nursing U.S.A.'"

RONMUSIC BLOG “Fellow Beach Boys fans, take note: there's an interesting digression at one point when [Daniel] Johnston's mother compares her son's psyche and career with Brian Wilson's (though you kind of want to take her aside and say, ‘Uh, Mrs. Johnston, I think there are some better reference materials than Brian's alleged autobiography, which he never even read, and you really don't want to introduce your kid to Dr. Landy...’).”

KAKAMAK BLOG Just a fairly funny, one line description of the Beach Boys.

It's been very slow lately regarding new things related to Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys. Brian has been keeping a very low profile since he was sued by his cousin. Mike Love's version of the Beach Boys is still doing its neverending tour of minor markets and state fairs. We do have the Hallmark CD, but at barely over 30 minutes, and with sloppy notes, it's a small blip on the radar. But, given the mercurial nature of the extended Wilson clan, who knows what will turn up next? One bright spot could be the launcing of BEACH BOYS CENTRAL.

GRAPHIK DESIGNS SPARKS PAGES “Ron Mael & Russell Mael were teenagers during Los Angeles' musical golden period, where bands like the Doors, Love, the Standells and the Leaves played at the Whisky-a-Go-Go on Sunset Strip and Brian Wilson & the Beach Boys would play at the Teenage Fair, an afternoon event where bands performed in one tent and an exhibition for a new line of hipster jeans filled another.”

YAHOO NEWS "On Saturday, May 20, [Sparks] returned to their hometown of Los Angeles to perform their just-released rock opera, Hello Young Lovers, as a special one-night-only stage production that was--rather appropriately--self-hyped as 'the show of the year.'"

"At the conclusion of the mind-boggling set, Russell thanked the crowd for waiting so long, 'listening to Sparks albums in their bedrooms,' for the band's return. 'It's lonely being a Sparks fan,' he quipped. But for the hundreds of people at the Avalon, united in their appreciation for this long-absent and criminally underrated band, this concert was one great big love-in."

THE BOX TOPS "'We were just kids in a band who sounded like whatever group were we trying to sound like: the Rascals, Beach Boys, Beatles … Two of us were still in high school,' Gary Talley said. 'We never had any creative control. Really, the only thing we had that was distinctive was Alex [Chilton's] voice.'"

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PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE "'It just seemed really natural,' says Adam Marsland, of the '90s indie-pop band Cockeyed Ghost. 'Darian Sahanaja, a friend of mine who also plays with Brian, once noted that even though he and I have similar formative musical touchstones, he was really grabbed by Brian's aesthetic, and I was more about Carl and Dennis. Like a lot of people, I was sort of put off by the whole rah-rah surfing thing, but the period where Carl and Dennis sort of ruled the band -- late '60s, early '70s -- and the band was just doing whatever, just throwing things at the wall, was kind of an interesting period.'"