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.
― frogbs, Thursday, 30 November 2017 21:43 (six years ago) link
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.
― skip, Friday, 1 December 2017 22:26 (six years ago) link
lol at ‘a sincere effort’ - he’s doing his best, guys
― hi i’m darren and i’m a bouncer from bendigo (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 1 December 2017 22:28 (six years ago) link
Better than Al Jardine's "A Postcard from California"!?
― Οὖτις, Friday, 1 December 2017 22:29 (six years ago) link
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
― kurt schwitterz, Friday, 1 December 2017 22:39 (six years ago) link
Haven't heard any of it yet but if it's better than Pacific Ocean Blue I will eat a baseball cap
― Florin Cuchares, Saturday, 2 December 2017 08:46 (six years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 May 2019 15:35 (four years ago) link
Imagine "Commando" in the style of "Kokomo." In fact, imagine "Commando" as the direct prequel to "Kokomo."
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 May 2019 15:36 (four years ago) link
what is happening
― a promiscuous, flighty art student looking for love (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 30 May 2019 16:37 (four years ago) link
why is happening
― a promiscuous, flighty art student looking for love (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 30 May 2019 16:38 (four years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 3 February 2020 19:45 (four years ago) link
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'?
― Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Monday, 3 February 2020 19:54 (four years ago) link
LOL'ing in dentist's office; thanx, O.L.
― dad genes (morrisp), Monday, 3 February 2020 22:10 (four years ago) link
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...
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 February 2020 22:13 (four years ago) link
no
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Monday, 3 February 2020 22:22 (four years ago) link
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
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 February 2020 22:23 (four years ago) link
*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
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 3 February 2020 22:24 (four years ago) link
he's probably singing
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Monday, 3 February 2020 22:29 (four years ago) link
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.
― Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Monday, 3 February 2020 22:30 (four years ago) link
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, Monday, 3 February 2020 22:37 (four years ago) link
The most effective pisstake of TM imo is that thing where Mike Love practiced TM for decades. Good one, Mike!
― Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Monday, 3 February 2020 22:44 (four years ago) link
Chippy sourpuss George Harrison was not exactly a great advert for TM either. Not to mention crazed egomaniac, Donovan.
― (includes digression on farting) (Tom D.), Monday, 3 February 2020 22:47 (four years ago) link
Or noted weirdo David Lynch!
― dad genes (morrisp), Monday, 3 February 2020 22:51 (four years ago) link
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.
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Monday, 3 February 2020 22:52 (four years ago) link
of all the most famous proponents, Lynch is probably the best one tbh
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 February 2020 22:52 (four years ago) link
lol xpost
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Monday, 3 February 2020 22:53 (four years ago) link
But imagine how much more visibly angry these folks would be without spending hours a day centering and calming themselvesVery fair point
― dad genes (morrisp), Monday, 3 February 2020 22:53 (four years ago) link
Maybe it’s been asked before, but what makes Transcendental Meditation better than regular meditation?
― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Hitchcock/Truffaut (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 3 February 2020 22:54 (four years ago) link
Listen to the song, it explains everything.
― (includes digression on farting) (Tom D.), Monday, 3 February 2020 22:55 (four years ago) link
It's cool!
― Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Monday, 3 February 2020 22:58 (four years ago) link
gets you feeling grand iirc
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 February 2020 22:59 (four years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett
it's spelled "jardine"
― you know my name, look up the number of the beast (rushomancy), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 00:53 (four years ago) link
this one, apparently from a show at Freedom Hall in Louisville in 1964― Οὖτις
― 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
― PaulTMA
if that was true johnny carson would have a lot to be mad about
― you know my name, look up the number of the beast (rushomancy), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 00:55 (four years ago) link
Always felt Mike "Boris" Love was really getting into character for "Monster Mash" in that pic.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 01:04 (four years ago) link
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.
― dad genes (morrisp), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 01:50 (four years ago) link
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.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 8 February 2020 14:39 (four years ago) link
I don’t even want to read your description of it again.
― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Hitchcock/Truffaut (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 February 2020 14:59 (four years ago) link
Does anyone have the photo of Mike getting a manicure from about two years ago
― PaulTMA, Saturday, 8 February 2020 15:45 (four years ago) link
I’ve seen that hot tub interview
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 8 February 2020 15:53 (four years ago) link
hot tub love machine
― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 8 February 2020 16:16 (four years ago) link
CHALLOPS TRIGGER: The "Beach Boys"-influence thrown around at early Jesus & Mary Chain records was not Brian Wilson songs but the Mike Love songs.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 15:05 (three years ago) link
Surfin' USA is a Chuck Berry song, if that's what you're thinking of.
― everything, Tuesday, 10 November 2020 18:09 (three years ago) link
https://secondhandsongs.com/artist/3798/works
didn't know how much love wrote with brian
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 18:15 (three years ago) link
Love is famously an "add a word, take a third" practitioner.
― @oneposter (👍) (sic), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 21:10 (three years ago) link
haha
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 21:12 (three years ago) link
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?
― Boring blighters bloaters (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 00:00 (three years ago) link
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.
― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 01:37 (three years ago) link
They are remembered and revered in spite of Mike Love's antics, not because of them.
― everything, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 02:29 (three years ago) link
He's a terrible guy but it's not like I skip over Mike-heavy tracks
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 02:42 (three years ago) link
I definitely enjoy his presence on the classic tracks
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 02:45 (three years ago) link