The part where they say about playing a Beach Boys song 'California Dreamin' threw me the first time as I thought it was a misquote as this was best known by The Mamas and The Papas. Here I come to find that the Beach Boys actually recorded a version in '86 for a best of album.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Hah, I'll add another layer of humor - I actually thought it was an intentional mistake to illustrate that these were actually dumb kids (I say this as someone who was a dumb kid myself during roughly the same period) who didn't know who The Mamas and The Papas were.

I, too had no idea that the Beach Boys had covered it.

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Hi-standard also covered it and it's the best version

https://youtu.be/QF8v4ghdM0k?si=5jCdGUDJDXpLQInG

This is a live version. There's also a recorded version that sounds better, but this live version is the best

[–] mPony@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

My favourite cover of California Dreaming is by Kelsey Grammer

[–] AHorseWithNoNeigh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pretty much what I chalked it up to as well!

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

FWIW, if someone told me that California Dreamin was coming on the jukebox and then I heard the Beach Boys, I'd probably start screamin' too. 🙂

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I haven't heard this since I was maybe 6? Damn I forgot how fun dead milkmen were.

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

To me this song always sounded dangerously close to old folk/country. That little descending baseline bit at the end of the chorus especially.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not very familiar with DM beyond the album this song is on (all of which is good) but I was surprised to learn years after the fact that they were a punk band - very little on that album sounds like what I think of as punk, but it's all good, and mostly quirky and fun.

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Tbh I only know this song and Bitchen Camaro