Mike Love, Bruce Johnston and David Marks Salute NASCAR

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Discuss, review and rate Mike Love, Bruce Johnston and David Marks Salute NASCAR, released February 1998.

[Irwin M. Fletcher]

Boooooooooooooooooooo!

[Luther]

I didn't know this existed, and have never heard it. But it sure is funny to think about!

[I. Spaceman]

You are a lucky, lucky man, Luther.

[JRauch]

Terrible. Just terrible.

[donald]

Never heard it.  But I heard OF IT.   I cringe to think about it.

Mike Love exploiting his precious "formula" and the BeachBoys name yet again.

[Irwin M. Fletcher]

The scary thing about this album is that there was a VERY rare album of material put together from these sessions called "Catch A Wave". The Mike/Adrian Baker sessions are dire to say the very least, I only like one of the tunes.

Someone needs to tell Adrian Baker that imitation isn't innovation.

[I. Spaceman]

Someone needs to tell Brian, Melinda, Jeffrey Foskett and Darian Sahanaja that too.

[Irwin M. Fletcher]

Jeff and Darian would benefit from being told that their respective work outside of Brian's camp is imitation at its finest.

[I. Spaceman]

True, I guess, but they don't DO anything with the influence in a progressive way, the way that, say, Elvis Costello did with The Other Side Of Summer.

[Irwin M. Fletcher]

Agree totally.

[Morgan]

It should be:

Mike Love, Bruce Johnston (who quit in '72 and came back in '79), and David Marks (who quit/was fired in 1963) of the Beach Boys salute NASCAR!

[Jeff Mason]

Someone needs to tell Brian, Melinda, Jeffrey Foskett and Darian Sahanaja that too.

Indeed.  Notice how the phrase "Beach Boys" is larger than the surrounding text.  Wonder if Mike got permission to use the trademark on an album like that.  It is guilty of the exact flaw that Brian is being sued over (and more blatantly so).

[Rocker]

That one gets a 1 from me, since I kinda like the version of "Little GTO".
The rest is crap imo. Almost everything sounds terrible and the introduction is one of the dumbest things to ever come out of a  Beach Boy-work.

[JoeP]

I am vaguely familiar that they did some NASCAr thing and from what I read hear, it's what I expected

The Other Side Of Summer.

  Great song!  As is REM's "At my most beautiful"

[Fear 2 Stop®]

Two things:

1. Adrian Baker's voice is ass.
2. Bruce appears nowhere on the album (besides the cover). Blatant false advertisement.

[Smilin Ed H]

I think he plays keyboard on Don't Worry Baby.  Wonder why he agreed to do this?

[RobtheNobleSurfer]

True, I guess, but they don't DO anything with the influence in a progressive way, the way that, say, Elvis Costello did with The Other Side Of Summer.

I would agree with your asessment of Foskett's work, but I strongly, strongly disagree with your assessment of Darian's work.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

I think this record is okay. Not horrible. And Ballad of Ole Betsy is a big plus. I gave it a three. Quite listenable, actually. Nice to see David on the cover too.

[Jeff Mason]

I finally found a used copy of this yesterday (fortunately only paid $5 for it).  Oh, man, is this bad.  People who complain about the digital keyboards on Smile would have a field day on this.  Someone needs to teach Adrian Baker how to make synths sound good, not like a child's toy.  And Mike's voice sounds totally shot on this one.