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.
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.
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
My favourite cover of California Dreaming is by Kelsey Grammer
Pretty much what I chalked it up to as well!
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. 🙂
One of my favorite songs ever, and the video is even better than I remembered. Nice!
I haven’t heard this since I was maybe 6? Damn I forgot how fun dead milkmen were.
To me this song always sounded dangerously close to old folk/country. That little descending baseline bit at the end of the chorus especially.
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.
Tbh I only know this song and Bitchen Camaro
