Middle period Beach Boys (1967-1978)

[jpgray]

[Jara sang]

1. Help me Rhoda

Help, help me Rhoda...

[jpgray]

2. Your copycat thread is much better than your above post

[Jara sang]

3. Blast! I didn't want to just type *kick*

And I needed your thread for juxtaposition.

[LTR]

4. Mike Love strangling a cat with his singing abilities

Or Dennis Wilson hanging out with Charlie Manson and his girls.

[Jara sang]

5. Who played Brian Wilson in that movie of the week?

Wasn't it Beau Bridges or somebody?

[jpgray]

6. That LA nasal squeak is quite annoying

[enigmatic]

7. Depends

When Blondie Chaplin was in the band they were great ("Sail On Sailor"), but other than then that and "Surf's Up" they was horrible.

And based on personal experience, Mike Love is the biggest fucking tool to walk the face of the earth..

[jpgray]

8. See I disagree (not about Holland)

I think there are tracks off Wild Honey all the way through Sunflower that are great stuff--not up to the old standard as far as resonance or adequacy, and terminally unhip, but still some great music. But mixed in with it is "Transcendental Meditation" and such. The first four or so tracks of Friends for example are just great stuff.


edit: And hey--spill your personal experience. I only know based on various tales and biographies and secondhand tales of state fair performances that he's a fuckstick.

[enigmatic]

9. I guess I was thinking past that

and focusing on the 70-78 years, so you're right on that.

I think the run of horrible records in the late 70's (15 Big Ones, M.I.U. Album, Light Album, Keepin' The Summer Alive)were what I was thinking; that was a painful era for them. But then again, "Endless Harmony" (which I still think is the best thing Bruce Johnson ever did)is in my top 5 Beach Boys songs, so there's a few gems there, too..

[jpgray]

10. Yeah--I went as far as 78 to include "Love You"

Which I think is completely batsoid but also very enjoyable. :D "I'll Bet He's Nice" and "The Night Was So Young" are both solid songs despite weird lyrics and somewhat cheap-sounding production.

[StrongBad]

11. Love you is freaking weird!!

It's quite obvious Brian was just starting to climb out of his mental illness stage at this point.

Interestingly, I think it was very influential as an album production-wise as the use of synthesizers was pretty novel for a 70's record.

But Johnny Carson, Ding Dang, Solar System...Geez it's just a festival of quirky tunes with Brian as the main attraction.

[StrongBad]

12. Ooh sounds like you've got a story re: Mike Love

Please share! That is, unless it's too private or embarassing...

And I agree, I think the dude is a tool.

[progmom]

13. I don't have personal experience

...but I have read enough to agree with you.

You've had the misfortune of interacting with him?

[last_texas_dem]

14. I like a lot of it

I've heard around half of the albums from that period, and have heard most of the hits from various anthologies and the like. Summertime Dream is a really cool compilation of the Pet Sounds-to-1970 Capitol stuff, that I believe is now out of print. Post-1970 it's a mixed bag, but for me it's more fun to listen to than much of the earlier stuff because it seems to be more stylistically diverse and a mixed bag, and the hits (well, perhaps in large part because the 1970-78 period had few true "hits" to speak of) haven't been played to death on oldies radio and Sonic commercials!

[XNASA]

15. 'Sunflower' and 'Surf's Up' would be included.....

...so I see that era as something of a mixed bag. I have a deep attachment to 'Holland' too, for some reason that I don't care to explain.

Why are you prompting me to consider Mike Love on a beautiful Friday morning?

You bastard. :*

[jpgray]

16. I think Wild Honey -> 20/20 is pretty good stuff

Lots of dreck in there to wade through though.

[Taverner]

17. Awesome awesome stuff

Loves me some Sunflower