Wednesday, December 31, 2025

If It Isn't Scottish, It's Crap: Special "PowerPop's Traditional Beach Boys New Year's Eve" Edition

From November 1964, please enjoy the incomparable Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, Al Jardine and the humongous dickitude that is Mike Love and an alternte take of their incomparable a cappella rendition (the original's on their Christmas album) of that Scottish New Year's Eve song whose title escapes me.

How they were able to do that without auto-tuning is beyond me. 😎

Coming tomorrow: We revisit a PowerPop New Years Day classic. Okay, perhaps "classic" is too strong a word. 😎😎

Coming Friday: A sure to be entertaining new Weekend Listomania. Okay, perhaps "sure to be" is... 😎😎😎

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Those guys sure could sing.

Learned of this French power pop group yesterday. Enjoy The Salt Collective here: https://thesaltcollective.bandcamp.com/album/a-brief-history-of-blindness

Enjoy 2026.

- Paul in DK

edward said...

Pretty impressive imitation of a warped vinyl record there.

pete said...

wow - thanks for posting. and thanks for your work here this year. I think it helps more people in more ways than you know. Onward!

Rob said...

👍

Rob B Mullen said...

Reading a memory of an established recording artist who wrote and recorded with the Beach Boys about recording a movie soundtrack -
" Mike Love exhibited incredible cruelty and insensitivity to Brian Wilson emerging from years of isolation ...in front of everyone he mocked Brian's weight..."
Anyway, you get the jist of it
rob

Rob B Mullen said...

PS - don't get me started about another "humongous...", Robbie Robertson

Guy Incognito said...

Holy crap that's fantastic

pete said...

Creem magazine once referred to JRR as "Snobby Robbie, the most conceited man in show business."