Abstract
This chapter examines shift in the Californian ‘beach’ song, comparing those early Beach Boys albums to Weezer’s output, exploring how music that is so inspired by a specific location can have such an impact on someone living thousands of miles away and, with regard to The Beach Boys, in a completely different sociopolitical era. Between October 1962 and July 1964, The Beach Boys, a band who ‘united a nation of teenagers in the California dream’ released six albums, all of which focused on their lives in Southern California, where (to paraphrase a number of their songs) none of the girls went steady, there were waves to be ‘caught’, fuel-injected Stingrays to drive, and letterman sweaters to be worn to schools where ‘football and track’ were the concerns of the day.
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