<P> Wilson and Love discussed the upcoming album and tour in an interview on February 16, 2012 . The duo said the album was halfway done with Wilson doing most of the writing and stating that all of the songs will flow into each other . Wilson considers the title track, "That's Why God Made the Radio", to be one of the group's best . The album ends with a Pet Sounds - and Smile - inspired suite . The suite, originally six tracks and dubbed the "Life Suite", ended up to be the final four tracks on the album: "Strange World", "From There to Back Again", "Pacific Coast Highway", and "Summer's Gone ." One song, "I'd Go Anywhere", was left off as it was unfinished, along with a couple of other tracks . Thomas described the making: </P> <P> He really wanted to do like a kind of reflection of California from the standpoint of a, you know, a guy who's almost 70 years old . So it's driving down Pacific Coast Highway and thinking about his life in retrospect . So this suite was a series of maybe one or two minute vignettes that he had like 15 of them that he would start and never finish . When I put them together on ProTools, it was eerie to me that they all fit together . It was like, wow . This song was written a year before the song that followed it, but yet they fit completely perfectly: modulation, key move, the whole thing . Then Brian started assembling these little bits and I kind of dreamed...I was 10 years old when Smile was recorded, but I kind of dreamed that was how that happened . I have no special authority to tell you that's how it did . It just seemed like all these little pieces became like this theme, and instead of being Americana or whatever Smile was, it was his drive down Pacific Coast Highway . </P> <P> Many of the songs were written in collaboration with Thomas, whose input sometimes included entire chord progressions . Classified as baroque pop, many of the songs have a considerable history: "That's Why God Made the Radio" was written by Brian Wilson, Jim Peterik, Joe Thomas and Larry Millas back in the late 1990s, and that "about 80 hours worth" of demo tapes were sourced from that period . "Spring Vacation" originated during Your Imagination and contained new lyrics by Love written reportedly in five minutes . The track "Summer's Gone" was originally meant to be the final song on the final Beach Boys album, and according to Thomas, the album's original title was Summer's Gone with the intention that it would be the final Beach Boys album . It was changed when Wilson decided he would like to record a follow - up . The song was written in reflection of his mother's death and the end of Carl's life, who died two months after their mother . Whereas songs like "From There to Back Again", "Isn't It Time", "Beaches in Mind", "Shelter" and "The Private Life of Bill and Sue" were written for the new album . During the band's June 15, 2012 show they decided to change some of the lyrics to "Isn't It Time" for unknown reasons . The changes would continue to appear each time they performed the song following that show . The song "Daybreak Over the Ocean" was originally recorded in 1978 by Mike Love for his first, as yet unreleased solo album, First Love (and also re-recorded for his equally unreleased solo album of a few years ago, Mike Love Not War a.k.a. Unleash The Love: this is the version - with additional Beach Boys vocals - that appears on the album). </P> <P> Thomas describes the two sides of the album as the "dark side" and the "sunny side", and also believed that it was important for a Beach Boys album to have a sunny side, catering to both "hardcore Brian Wilson fans" and "Beach Boys fans". For the album, Wilson is credited as the sole producer, a first for the group since 1977's Love You, while Love is credited as executive producer, and Thomas for "recording". Thomas explains his and Wilson's roles in production: </P>

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