But still the dude is a bore.
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 12 November 2015 20:33 (eight years ago) link
Oh, Blondie in a heartbeat! I'm always torn because, while I love non-Blondie Beach Boys a great deal, his are among my favorite Beach Boys songs but are also generally pretty unrepresentative of the band on the whole.
I never hear anyone talking about this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDf8Ao3-a84
― Puddin' Taint (Old Lunch), Thursday, 12 November 2015 20:39 (eight years ago) link
He's a dick but.... Mike Love. His bass provided an interesting contrast with the rest of the family vocals and he sang lead on some of their biggest songs. No Mike, no Beach Boys.
― skip, Thursday, 12 November 2015 20:58 (eight years ago) link
oh shit Al wrote and sings lead on Wake The World.
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 12 November 2015 21:02 (eight years ago) link
Mike. No contest.
― Caput Johannis in Disco (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 November 2015 21:07 (eight years ago) link
No Mike, no Beach Boys.
More importantly, surely, no Mike, no Can we be shown weirdos + Mike Love?
― Caput Johannis in Disco (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 November 2015 21:09 (eight years ago) link
im p sure there would be lots of really good music w/o mike love but hey thats just me.
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 12 November 2015 21:15 (eight years ago) link
http://40.media.tumblr.com/5af9ef6ca337b677121213a54fd2e2ef/tumblr_meqg0z9klo1r1w11uo1_500.jpg
― new noise, Thursday, 12 November 2015 21:25 (eight years ago) link
when i saw the beach boys live i was a little amused that mike love changed the lyrics of "help me rhonda" from "she was gonna be my wife and i was gonna be her man" to "she was gonna be my woman..."
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 12 November 2015 21:28 (eight years ago) link
I'd be hard-pressed to pick out Al's finest moment as a Beach Boy. Like, what is his biggest accomplishment, getting Brian to arrange and record a cover of "Sloop John B"?
Loop De Loop
― iatee, Thursday, 12 November 2015 21:50 (eight years ago) link
that lyric change is the exact type of thing mike takes tons of pride in.
― kurt schwitterz, Friday, 13 November 2015 00:07 (eight years ago) link
fuckin with the formula
― Οὖτις, Friday, 13 November 2015 00:12 (eight years ago) link
Bruce Johnston of course
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Friday, 13 November 2015 00:52 (eight years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Monday, 30 November 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/2bqVkwI.png
― Poliopolice, Monday, 30 November 2015 18:09 (eight years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link
I wish the Beach Boys with Blondie and Ricky had been a justly-feted proper side project rather than just an anomalous blip in Beach Boys history that unfortunately occurred when people were paying relatively little attention to the band.
― The Featureless Mash That Was Once My Face (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 05:36 (eight years ago) link