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Susan
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« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2006, 01:40:06 pm » |
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I think we all know how i feel about this one...but in case we don't, i'll say it again: It is a terrible album. Mike is at his smarmiest, not his charmiest; the singing is bad, he makes good songs ["Teach Me Tonight," for instance] sound terrible...he makes bad songs ["Calendar Girl"] sound like sonic weapons. Bad, bad, bad album. Drek. Garbage. Waste of vinyl.
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« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2006, 01:44:11 pm » |
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I gave this a 10 and I'm dedicating it to Susan.
This is a fine, fun little album. I love it.
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Lee Marshall
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« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2006, 03:43:05 pm » |
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I gave it a 1 in order to register a numeric vote. 'Tis a generous rating I will admit. Illustrates just how much talent the man had/has/will ever have.
With the VERY odd and entirely occaisional exception...it's been 41 years since Mike Love was relevant. And THAT relevance had very little to do with art at the best of times.
While he most assuredly contributed to the groups early success and strong foundation Mike was no more than a bit player by the time the world had wrapped up singing Auld Lang Syne at 12:01:30 am Jan. 1/66.
There are most assuredly better albums to spend your hard earned dollars on...not to mention your valuable time. Marcel Marceau's Greatest Hits immediately springs to mind.
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"No Wilsons...NO Beach Boys." I find it impossible to argue with THAT.
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« Reply #4 on: February 12, 2006, 05:33:30 pm » |
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Lee, I must disagree with you on the talent issue. This is the same guy who wrote the lyrics to The Warmth Of The Sun. To Big Sur. To Only With You. To Please Let Me Wonder. To Fun, Fun, Fun even. He sang great bass vocals and fun lead vocals. I'm sorry, but that's not the definition of someone with no talent.
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Lee Marshall
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« Reply #5 on: February 12, 2006, 05:42:44 pm » |
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Think I gave him some credit...up to '66...and occaisionally beyond.
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"No Wilsons...NO Beach Boys." I find it impossible to argue with THAT.
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Jason
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« Reply #6 on: February 12, 2006, 05:51:52 pm » |
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Credit the man for his vocals, which were always good, if you can't get around his songwriting.
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Lee Marshall
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« Reply #7 on: February 12, 2006, 06:03:53 pm » |
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Sorry Jason. Our ears are different. MOST of the time...particularly from 'Today' on...Mike sounded to me like he had a cold...or...like he was pinching his nose. In the MIX he was usually pretty fine but even then sometimes....argh.
That others like his sound doesn't bother me at all. We just have different tastes. As such...I have to insist on my equal right to abstain and/or complain.
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"No Wilsons...NO Beach Boys." I find it impossible to argue with THAT.
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Jason
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« Reply #8 on: February 12, 2006, 07:04:39 pm » |
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Well Lee, you've been there since the beginning of the band, you've seen them live in their heyday, I'm just a 21 year old who can appreciate the music on its own terms and not as part of some history. We agree to disagree, brother.
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Susan
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« Reply #9 on: February 13, 2006, 07:10:27 am » |
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But we can bash Mike anywhere. What about this album, specifically?
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« Reply #10 on: February 14, 2006, 01:49:19 pm » |
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Dreadful album. It's difficult to know what he was attempting with this. I think Mike is/was a major player regardless of his present day attitude to BW and Al. I love those punchy lyrics for the earlier rocking songs, but I also love the ballads like Warmth of the Sun. His later stuff (mid-70s and beyond) is generally pretty awful (with exceptions like POB); he genuinely seems to have lost it. Listen to his new CD: lush harmonies; bloody awful lyrics for most songs. His voice? Well, around the same period he lost his lyrical touch, his voice went south. Having said that, I saw him and Bruce a couple of years ago on their UK tour and he was great; he kept the nasality for the last few numbers and managed to sing properly when he took lead. His bass still sounds great.
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Not even if it helps the space programme...
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AGD
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« Reply #11 on: February 14, 2006, 02:14:16 pm » |
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This is a reasonable, inoffensive slice of fluff with no pretensions beyond having a good time. I like it and you'll just have to live with that.  |
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« Reply #12 on: February 18, 2006, 06:18:57 pm » |
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It has more good moments than bad. A pleasent enough listen.
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Synthesiser Patel
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« Reply #13 on: February 27, 2006, 04:53:27 am » |
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By no means 'great', but infinitely preferable to any Carl or Bruce solo effort.
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British polo hero, stud hoss, avid collector of Archies memorabilia, drifter who rides into town one day, wins a gunfight with the evil land baron and his hired pistoleros, claims the heart of the mayor's daughter, then rides off again, aloof and alone.
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« Reply #14 on: February 28, 2006, 12:23:01 am » |
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Sorry Jason. Our ears are different. MOST of the time...particularly from 'Today' on...
Hitting his nasal nadir (with the BBs) on the Keepin' the Summer Alive LP -- check out Some Of Your Love, or worse yet, Santa Ana Winds! Eeccchhh... Okay, enough Mike bashing from me. |
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