{"id":11551,"date":"2012-06-05T00:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T04:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=11551"},"modified":"2020-08-26T08:59:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T12:59:26","slug":"audio-review-thats-why-god-made-the-radio-album-the-beach-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=11551","title":{"rendered":"audio review : That&#8217;s Why God Made The Radio ( album ) &#8230; The Beach Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/posts\/11551.jpg\" alt=\"That's Why God Made The Radio\" style=\"height:200px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Beach Boys sound like they did decades ago. It&#8217;s as if they&#8217;re stuck in the past, not even aware that; with the invention of the internet, iPods and such; AM-FM radio is a dying medium. That&#8217;s not a bad thing. The point of this album is to take rock and roll lovers on a trip down memory lane where they&#8217;d cruise the streets in a relatively recent creation now known as the classic car.<\/p>\n<p>The harmonies are nice and the concepts are fitting. Titles include words like Spring, Ocean and Coast. Brian Wilson&#8217;s soundscape is there, but the Boys sang better melodies in the past. As serene as these songs are, there isn&#8217;t a gem in the sand. It&#8217;s also debatable whether or not &#8220;God&#8221; made the radio as opposed to hard-working people who&#8217;d probably take umbrage with such a claim.<\/p>\n<p>my rating : 3 of 5<\/p>\n<p>2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beach Boys sound like they did decades ago. It&#8217;s as if they&#8217;re stuck in the past, not even aware that; with the invention of the internet, iPods and such; AM-FM radio is a dying medium. That&#8217;s not a bad thing. The point of this album is to take rock and roll lovers on a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=11551\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">audio review : That&#8217;s Why God Made The Radio ( album ) &#8230; The Beach Boys<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9761],"tags":[11454,90,14,89],"class_list":["post-11551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-reviews-with-a-3-of-5-rating","tag-music","tag-religion","tag-the-beach-boys","tag-water"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11551"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98139,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11551\/revisions\/98139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}