Defend the Indefensible: Mike Love

everybody knows "She's Goin' Bald" is their signature song

It one of them!

Mike Love's only good solo writing credit is Big Sur on Holland. He probably has credits on more good Beach Boys songs than Van Dyke Parks or any of the non-Brian members, but his contributions aren't the deciding factor.

everything, read my posts. Read them.

I did. They were shit posts.

I Do Not Love everything

"everybody knows "She's Goin' Bald" is their signature song"

Almost everything from Summer Days to Holland is iconic btw.

xpost Oh okay cool I guess you can go and fuck yourself then, dude named after the band who sang 'Hooch'.

xxpost, I mean. Neanderthal knows I'd never tell him to fuck himself.

If you want to talk about how classic the Beach Boys are, there are probably eight billion threads where you can do that. This is the thread where we (almost certainly against our better judgment) defend Mike Love. If you can't make an argument for shitty ballcaps and rolling one's eyes at Brian Wilson's fragility, you'd probably be advised to gtfo of this thread.

Anyway, sorry for getting aggro. Anyone 'round these parts can tell you 'That's Not Me' (a Beach Boys song title)

Big Beach Boys fan and therefore big Mike Love fan here. Eager to defend him any day.

He is not the reason they are "remembered". (Imho)

Please, no fighting, this is the Mike Love thread.

FUCK YOU, LOVE MIKE

(^the name of Mike's first solo album iirc)

Mike Love, Not War

Brian's live bands, often with Al Jardine, play a solid dose of classic cars & girls Beach Boys pop hits amidst the more sensitive BBs songs and Brian's other material.

Mike's live Beach Boys, since he's seen the genuine interest in and love for their deeper catalogue that Brian's shows generate, play killer-no-filler state fair sets and two-hour theatre sets that span the Wilsons-era catalogue (plus Kokomo). He is clearly aware that different people remember, or have come to appreciate, different things about the Beach Boys, and he is happy to sell an experience to both major types of them. But it's unlikely that even he, deep down, believes that his shitty 80s and 90s touring Boys are the reason that either audience remember the sunshine songs or the sadness songs.

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1675115949_16.jpg

He did "The Kid" act in b boys AOK.
shakes ass like a homosexual.
inspired great new MES hex lyric.
TM.
― Snappy (sexyDancer), Wednesday, February 2, 2005 11:34 PM bookmarkflaglink

Look, the purview of this thread was always going to be a minefield. I tried and that's what's important.

MIKE
LOVE
FUCKS YOU

MIKE LOVE made it

If MIKE LOVE Fits, You Must Acquit

good post-Trump anger thread

don’t jinx it bro

Vanilla Ice, Mike Love-Led Beach Boys Headline Trump’s Mar-A-Lago New Year’s Eve Party https://consequenceofsound.net/2021/01/vanilla-ice-beach-boys-mar-a-lago-nye/

Sounds about right

Stop, collaborate and bootlick

Was John Cowsill there? Say it isn’t so.

Jeff Foskett left two years ago (for throat surgery, but it's nice to imagine he stayed away for maga reasons)

Ice is back with a brand new sedition

Berlin?! Sigh.

Yeah

Took my breath away

Granted this is more about Irving Azoff and his minion partner and their fucked up plans for the Beach Boys but Jesus H.

https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/features/beach-boys-rights-sale-azoff-1129316/

Chastan gets most excited talking about the Beach Boys’ brand and future tech possibilities. “That includes VR, AR, 3D, CGI, natural language processing, et cetera,” he says. “That, to me, is probably the most interesting aspect of what’s going to transform our business. In five years, I could send you a text and say, ‘At 2 p.m., let’s put our Oculus Rift glasses on, and let’s go see the Beach Boys record ‘Good Vibrations’ at Western Recorders.’ ”

The CEO continues: “The studio is still there, so we could 3D scan the studio. The Beach Boys’ faces can be digitally replicated pretty easily. You’ve seen it with that Scorsese movie [The Irishman], where he did the de-aging technology. You’ve got natural language processing, which gives you the technology to actually have a conversation. So we could be witness to history from our couch.”

Chastan recently visited with Love in Lake Tahoe, where he looked at old memorabilia. “One thing that Iconic offers, which is absolutely unique, is that we’re a partner while they’re alive to actually help them shape that legacy, which they can’t do once they’re gone,” says Chastan. “How you want to be remembered? How you want to see your legacy in the future, even when you’re not there?”

Love even says there may be a day when the Beach Boys are touring long after he stops singing. “As long as it’s presented beautifully and authentically,” he says. “The beauty of music is, even though the originators might not be there anymore, the music can live on for centuries, as you know from the classics. Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms, you know?”

Beach Boys AR would be weird as fuck

The deal does not give Iconic ownership of much of the Beach Boys’ Sixties material, which is now owned by Universal.

Beach Boys AR = what, Mike Love sitting on yr couch and making shitty comments about all yr stuff

sorry to say that anyone willing to pay for that kind of content is most likely too old to adapt to the technology required

Virtual Mike Love tears up your lyric sheet and tells you not to fuck with the formula.

I'd like a Beach Boys AR where we tell Love to fuck off, throw him out of the studio and replace his vocals with Brian's original guides.

WATCH Mike take more than his share of credit! ATTEMPT to remove Mike's cap! MARVEL as Mike smacks your hand away, harder than was at all necessary!

Your Surfer Girl Is In Another Castle

Beach Boys role playing game

"Do you

A) Do a song that everybody knows OR
B) some acid shit bout "column ruins domino""

I'd like a Beach Boys AR where we tell Love to fuck off, throw him out of the studio and replace his vocals with Brian's original guides.

― birdistheword, Saturday, February 20, 2021 6:11 PM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

You're looking for This is the thread where we tell Mike Love to FUCK OFF and Defenestrate Mike Love

it'll be called Pieces of Mike Love and pieces of his cold dead body are strewn about the studio, with a reanimated Dennis using his thigh bone to drum

Comes with a bonus CD of Tibetan thigh bone music by reanimated Genesis P Orridge

Mike Love was born March 15, 1941. pic.twitter.com/iJARB6pK4T

— Van Dyke Parks (@thevandykeparks) March 15, 2021

Trump missed a chance to name Mike "Secretary of Fun Fun Fun".

Photos provide an interesting contrast in two distinct ways to deal with balding.

every time this thread gets bumped I have to watch this 18 times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdYbymafUd0

LOL @ Parks's tweet.

He even got Skunk Baxter of the Doobies in there.