Good Timin’ - A Beach Boys Podcast

On this special bonus episode of Good Timin’, we discuss our year in music and share some of the songs and artists that we each listened to the most in 2025. To open the episode, we first share our top 5 most streamed songs of the year (along with some honorable mentions) and then discuss our most listened to artists, our most listened to albums, and a few of our favorite new songs and releases of 2025.

On this 64th and final “weekly” episode of Good Timin’, we share our updated personal rankings of our top 10 favorite Beach Boys studio albums, and explain why we ranked each record where we did. Following this, we briefly review our updated lists of our top 10 favorite songs by the band, and shout out some honorable mentions of other tracks that we love. Lastly, to close out the show, we talk a bit about our future plans for the podcast and reflect back on the past two years of Good Timin’.

On this 63rd episode of Good Timin’, Reilly and Matt share their updated personal rankings of The Beach Boys studio albums from #27 to #11, (minus the Christmas Album and Stars and Stripes) and briefly discuss their thoughts and opinions on each record. (Note- Tune in to our final “weekly” episode of Good Timin’ next week to hear Jake, Reilly, Matt and Nate’s top 10 favorite Beach Boys studio albums!)

On this 62nd episode of Good Timin’, we build our own fantasy ”Best of the Best” album, where we as a group nominate and vote for 30 of our all-time favorite songs from the Beach Boys’ discography. To give our tracklist more variety and make sure that it represents the band’s entire career, we are only allowed to select 5 songs from each of our 6 designated “eras” to be featured on the album. (1962-1964, 1965-1966, 1967-1969, 1970-1974, 1976-1979, and 1980-Present)  In addition, Beach Boys solo material is eligible for inclusion on our compilation, but only one solo track is allowed per era. Check out Steve’s channel, The Beach Boys Basement!

On this 61st episode of Good Timin’, we cover the Beach Boys’ legendary and influential 1966 album, Pet Sounds. As usual with our album discussion episodes, we first go over some of the history behind the record and talk about how it came together, and then we discuss each of the tracks one by one and share our own thoughts and opinions on them. Lastly, at the end of the episode we briefly cover a couple of extra recordings from around the time and share our final thoughts on Pet Sounds’ influence and impact on popular music.