# Episode #45- Friends (ft. David Beard!)

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Podcast: [Good Timin’ - A Beach Boys Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/good-timin-a-beach-boys-podcast-6736593)
Published: 2025-01-29T14:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/good-timin-podcast/episodes/Episode-45--Friends-ft--David-Beard-e2u35ea
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Duration seconds: 8964

## Resource

On this 45th episode of Good Timin’, we discuss the Beach Boys’ 14th studio album, Friends, from 1968. As usual with our album discussion episodes, we first cover some of the general history behind the record and talk about how it came together, and then we discuss each individual track on the album one by one and share our own thoughts and opinions on them. Following this, we cover a few additional recordings and outtakes that the band made around the time, and then to close out the show we briefly discuss the album's critical reception and share a few critic reviews from over the years. Check out David Beard’s magazine, Endless Summer Quarterly!

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