Defend the Indefensible: Mike Love

currently sitting at 0.82 on RYM. after listening to it, I can say it is certainly not *that* bad, but if being a total jerkoff is a 1-star penalty then the rating makes sense.

second disc is hilarious by the way. the amount of auto-tune on this record makes me nauseous.

Meanwhile it's sitting at 4.5/5 on Amazon, described by one reviewer as "One of the best solo albums by a beach boy and a sincere effort by Mike Love."

"One of the best solo albums by a Beach Boy" has to be some of the faintest musical praise in history.

lol at ‘a sincere effort’ - he’s doing his best, guys

Better than Al Jardine's "A Postcard from California"!?

i did a track by track review

Ok I'm going to listen to the new Mike Love album Unleash The Love now.

— 🦇 Chaki 🦇 (@AskChaki) November 21, 2017

Haven't heard any of it yet but if it's better than Pacific Ocean Blue I will eat a baseball cap

He's back!

Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue: Beach Boy Mike Love covers the Ramones classic "Rockaway Beach." "https://t.co/v1M7wfOj8A

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine (@sterlewine) May 30, 2019

Imagine "Commando" in the style of "Kokomo." In fact, imagine "Commando" as the direct prequel to "Kokomo."

what is happening

why is happening

Sixty plus years of existence and the Beach Boys will always be this tangled mess, finally turning into the full Jarndyce v Jarndyce it always was. The lawsuits will never be resolved in the end, I suspect.

Message from @BrianWilsonLive: “It has been brought to my attention that on Wednesday February 5, The Beach Boys touring group licensed by Mike Love are headlining at the Safari Club International Convention in Reno, Nevada...” https://t.co/pWDByRcjlA

— Paul Myers (@pulmyears) February 3, 2020

Mike Love: (shoots gorilla in the temple) Namaste.

Isn't there supposed to be like a registered trademark symbol after 'The Beach Boys Touring Group Licensed by Mike Love'?

Mike Love: (shoots gorilla in the temple) Namaste.

LOL'ing in dentist's office; thanx, O.L.

I've always wondered - what is the source/story behind that photo of stripe-shirted Mike Love screaming from the stage, apparently in a white hot rage? you know the pic I mean...

no

https://www.gannett-cdn.com/media/Louisville/Louisville/2014/02/05//1391609558019-Beach-boys-65-7.jpg?width=1280

this one, apparently from a show at Freedom Hall in Louisville in 1964

*mike love voice* my buddies and me are gettin real well known/for our bad faith takes and the brutal self-owns

— brad shoup (@bshoup) February 2, 2020

he's probably singing

Pretty sure that photo was from the first live performance of 'Transcendental Meditation'? I think they made the right choice in giving Brian the lead in the recorded version.

I'd like to speculate that 'Transcendental Meditation' was Brian taking the piss out of the concept by making an atonal jazz-influenced song

The most effective pisstake of TM imo is that thing where Mike Love practiced TM for decades. Good one, Mike!

Chippy sourpuss George Harrison was not exactly a great advert for TM either. Not to mention crazed egomaniac, Donovan.

Or noted weirdo David Lynch!

People also cite the extremely cranky David Lynch, who dedicates much of his time & energy to promoting TM, as a poor advocate for it. But imagine how much more visibly angry these folks would be without spending hours a day centering and calming themselves.

of all the most famous proponents, Lynch is probably the best one tbh

lol xpost

But imagine how much more visibly angry these folks would be without spending hours a day centering and calming themselves

Very fair point

Maybe it’s been asked before, but what makes Transcendental Meditation better than regular meditation?

Listen to the song, it explains everything.

It's cool!

gets you feeling grand iirc

Sixty plus years of existence and the Beach Boys will always be this tangled mess, finally turning into the full Jarndyce v Jarndyce it always was. The lawsuits will never be resolved in the end, I suspect.

― Ned Raggett

it's spelled "jardine"

this one, apparently from a show at Freedom Hall in Louisville in 1964

― Οὖτις

having seen the cover to "chunga's revenge" he's obviously bored out of his skull and yawning

I'd like to speculate that 'Transcendental Meditation' was Brian taking the piss out of the concept by making an atonal jazz-influenced song

― PaulTMA

if that was true johnny carson would have a lot to be mad about

Always felt Mike "Boris" Love was really getting into character for "Monster Mash" in that pic.

I’ll sign Brian & Al’s petition, on the condition that this online protest doesn’t involve saying nasty things about Southern policemen's mothers.

Is this the thread where we linked the 80s interview with Mike in the hot tub getting greased up before a massage and what not? If so, I never want to see that again.

I don’t even want to read your description of it again.

Does anyone have the photo of Mike getting a manicure from about two years ago

I’ve seen that hot tub interview

hot tub love machine

CHALLOPS TRIGGER: The "Beach Boys"-influence thrown around at early Jesus & Mary Chain records was not Brian Wilson songs but the Mike Love songs.

Surfin' USA is a Chuck Berry song, if that's what you're thinking of.

https://secondhandsongs.com/artist/3798/works

didn't know how much love wrote with brian

Love is famously an "add a word, take a third" practitioner.

haha

I think that's fair enough though, didn't he get royally screwed by Murry Wilson while Brian stood idly by? Or should that be royalty screwed?

It's arguable that Mike Love is largely responsible for ensuring that a lot of people who weren't around in the '60s know who the Beach Boys are. I mean, a ton of bands had +/- a dozen hits in that era and pretty much got stuck in the classic rock gravity well. Like, they aren't really broadly remembered for any of their actual new material issued from then until the late '80s. Now, one might argue that that's like Charlie Chaplin being remembered nowadays largely on the back of a popular line of Chaplin-branded handguns, but, well, being remembered is literally all that matters in the end. It's a value-neutral sitch.

They are remembered and revered in spite of Mike Love's antics, not because of them.

He's a terrible guy but it's not like I skip over Mike-heavy tracks

I definitely enjoy his presence on the classic tracks