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In 2012, on the 50th anniversary of the band's first album, ''Surfin' Safari'', the unexpected happened: [http://brianwilson.com/tour/ a full reunion of the surviving Beach Boys], including Mike Love, Brian Wilson, Bruce Johnston, Al Jardine and David Marks (who replaced Jardine for the first few albums, and who reunited with the Love/Johnston touring line up most recently), took place for a 50th Anniversary world tour and the recording of a new studio album, co-produced by Love and a rejuventated Brian Wilson. [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|We'll see how this turns out]].
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* [[Incredibly Long Note]] - [[Large Ham|Mike Love]] has taken to introducing "Be True to Your School" with one of these at concerts in recent years. Examples [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2qE61E0i7s here].
* [[In Name Only]] - The unit currently calling itself the Beach Boys. Despite being advertised with an out-of-date band photo (including Brian and the deceased Carl), only Mike Love and Bruce Johnston appear from the original group.
* [[Intercourse
{{quote| ''Well, I don't care where you wanna go''<br />
''Just so you go with me''<br />
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** ''15 Big Ones'', while partially a reference to the number of songs on the album, was also a reference to how many years the band had been together by that point.
** The very first incarnation of what became the ''Sunflower'' album allegedly bore the tongue-in-cheek title of ''The Fading Rock Group Revival.''
* [[Name's the
** There's a Canadian music critic named Carl Wilson.
* [[Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly]] - ''Smile'' defies pigeonholing. Not only does the whole thing sound nothing like any music that came before or after, each individual song sounds wildly different from the one that came before it.
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* [[Saved From Development Hell]] - ''Smile'', after 37 years.
* [[Self-Backing Vocalist]] - Brian Wilson did this on a couple of ''Pet Sounds'' songs ("I'm Waiting for the Day" and "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times"), when the rest of the band wasn't up to par.
* [[Sex, Drugs and Rock
* [[Signature Song]] - "Surfin' USA" and "Good Vibrations".
* [[Similarly Named Works]] - "[[Intercourse
* [[Sixth Ranger]]- Bruce Johnston, offically
* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism]] - Really, the entire story of Brian Wilson vs. Mike Love can be boiled down to this, as Brian's desire to create moving, spiritual music clashed with Mike's attitude of "don't fuck with the formula". <ref>[[Truth in Television|That's an actual quote.]]</ref>
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* [[The Svengali]] - As detailed above, Eugene Landy, Brian Wilson's therapist from the 70's to the late 90's.
* [[Theremin]] - "Good Vibrations" very famously uses one.
* [[Three Chords and
* [[Throw It In]] - "Here Today" has some background studio chatter that Brian Wilson apparently failed to notice. "Wendy" does, as well.
* [[Vaporware]] - ''Smile'', one of the earliest examples. Which became a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] when Brian Wilson re-recorded and released it in 2004, becoming one of the most critically-acclaimed albums of that decade.
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