381 - The Beach Boys - The Smile Sessions - Daniel Van Kirk
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EPISODE SUMMARY:
Most often, there's really only two possible outcomes you can honestly expect from combining burgeoning psychosis with deep-seeded trauma and rampant drug abuse, and that's either unmitigated disaster or unrivaled brilliance. Yet somehow Brian Wilson of the American rock icons The Beach Boys managed both. How else do you explain their 2011 not-quite-an-album album The Smile Sessions, which amounts to both some of their greatest work ever and also of the most unrestrained self-indulgence in music history? Comedian Daniel Van Kirk's love for the band notwithstanding, he is able to acknowledge both the good and the bad with the trademark wit that has garnered so much acclaim for his wildly-popular podcasts Dump People Town and Pen Pals.
SHOW NOTES:
01:00 - Intro
06:30 - A youth of oldies
14:30 - The music vs. The story
30:45 - True mythology
45:00 - Abandoning your record
48:45 - Fed life
57:45 - Interspecies romance
1:06:45 - Fire magic
1:11:45 - Facts!
1:15:30 - Lightning round
1:23:00 - Outro/New music
Check out the music history of this album here.