Bonus Song Thursday - The Beach Boys "Forever"

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2015

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

It's bonus song Thursday! In our follow up to Monday's Pet Sounds episode, we examine The Beach Boys' (or is it Jesse and The Rippers'?) "Forever" off of their 1970 album Sunflower. Featuring drummer Dennis Wilson's lead vocals after he took pen to paper to craft this song, the song helped bring the band back to minor chart succes and critical good graces. Luthier and musician Mike Virok (a preview of next week's episode) helps Bill and Brian break down the song, figure out how The Beach Boys fit into the annuls of 90s sitcoms, and develop a morning zoo-esque terrestrial radio program!

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0:00.0	If every word I say could make you laugh, I'd talk forever
0:21.6	I'll ask the sky just what we have
0:30.6	and it's shown forever
0:35.6	If the song I sing to you
0:41.0	And that's the smash hit from Jesse and the Rippers.
0:58.9	No, that's forever by the Beach Boys.
1:02.1	And I'm Bill.
1:02.8	And I'm Brian.
1:03.5	And this is the Great Albums podcast, Bonus Song Thursday.
1:06.9	We have a, in a preview of Monday's episode, We have Mike Virok here with us.
1:11.8	Hi, Mike.
1:12.3	Hi there.
1:12.9	How are you?
1:13.8	Good.
1:16.1	I guess you're going to hear a lot more from Mike in a few days.
1:21.5	But he will be helping us analyze some Beach Boys tunes today.
1:26.5	Yeah, as our quick follow-up to the Pet Sounds episode.
1:29.3	And before we get to that, I'm going to do a little bit of talking about some emails and whatnot.
1:39.3	Go ahead. Engage.
1:41.3	I'm going to try and make this a regular segment for bonus song Thursday in which we have fan
1:47.0	interaction because without you guys, we might still do the podcast, but nobody would be listening.
1:53.9	And we definitely couldn't get people like Mike to come on.
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