Pocket Symphony: A Beach Boys Podcast
9 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsA narrative podcast exploring the life and cultural legacy of the Beach Boys and Brian Wilson. Using the 2015 biopic "Love & Mercy," Rosie Alejandrino and Krista Kurisaki break down each scene and uncover the real-life events that inspired the movie.
"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."
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7. LOVE AND MERCY: Brian & Britney
September 03, 2021 21:41 - 1 hour - 114 MB"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 re...
6. I JUST WASN’T MADE FOR THESE TIMES: Pet Sounds & the Cult of the Uncool
August 27, 2021 04:34 - 1 hour - 121 MB“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 u...
6. I JUST WASN’T MADE FOR THESE TIMES: Pet Sounds and the Cult of Uncool
August 27, 2021 04:34 - 1 hour - 121 MB“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 u...
5. GOD ONLY KNOWS: Who Owns the Beach Boys' Legacy?
August 17, 2021 03:30 - 1 hour - 120 MB“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? Rosie takes Krista on a...
4. (OH!) DARLIN’: The Beach Boys vs. The Beatles
August 03, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 103 MB“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 nex...
3. I GET AROUND: How the Boys Sold the Beach
July 27, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 86.9 MB“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?...
2. Meet The Beach Boys
July 20, 2021 07:04 - 43 minutes - 59.7 MB“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! Rosie and Krista introduce the classic ...
1. Who are the California Girls?
July 20, 2021 07:00 - 44 minutes - 60.6 MB“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? Rosie and Krista discuss the California Girl stereotype and their own origin stories growing up in the Golden State, as Beach Boys fa...
Introducing Pocket Symphony: A Beach Boys Podcast
July 10, 2021 03:45 - 5 minutes - 7.21 MB"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 Rosie Alejandrino and Krista Kurisaki 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 th...