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Question: Rate Going Public
5 - 4 (6.9%)
4 - 7 (12.1%)
3 - 11 (19%)
2 - 10 (17.2%)
1 - 14 (24.1%)
0 - 12 (20.7%)
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Author Topic: Going Public (Bruce Johnston)  (Read 50440 times)
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« on: December 24, 2005, 11:33:47 AM »
Discuss, review and rate Going Public, released 1977.
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« Reply #1 on: December 24, 2005, 11:42:32 AM »
Listenable Sunday afternoon stuff. Not as bad as it's made out to be.
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« Reply #2 on: December 25, 2005, 04:44:17 PM »
Never understood the relation of "Pipeline" to the original.
Produced by Gary Usher!
Had to have a Sagittarius "Present Tense" Lp after listening.
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« Reply #3 on: December 27, 2005, 12:17:03 PM »
I have this on LP.  Seems almost like a demo, a little sparse and basic.  Makes me think that Bruce really needed the Beach Boys to flesh out his talent.
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« Reply #4 on: December 27, 2005, 08:12:50 PM »
Good to hear I Write The Songs by the guy who wrote it. I use this album to spiral slice ham.
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« Reply #5 on: December 27, 2005, 08:39:19 PM »
My favorite was the headline used for the review in Bomp magazine, "The Fall Of The House Of Gary Usher"!
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« Reply #6 on: December 28, 2005, 11:19:53 AM »
Monkee.  Does it really stand up as a kitchen gadget?
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« Reply #7 on: December 29, 2005, 05:41:02 AM »
I must be the only person here who likes this album for what it is - schlock-filled adult contemporary.
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« Reply #8 on: December 29, 2005, 07:25:20 AM »
I haven´t heard the album yet (and I don´t plan to do it), but it has an amazing cover! Umh...unless it´s meant serious.  Undecided
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« Reply #9 on: December 29, 2005, 07:26:23 AM »
Download Rock And Roll Survivor if you're not gonna buy the album, it's the best song on there.
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« Reply #10 on: December 30, 2005, 01:49:05 PM »
Quote from: JRauch on December 29, 2005, 07:25:20 AM
I haven´t heard the album yet (and I don´t plan to do it), but it has an amazing cover! Umh...unless it´s meant serious.  Undecided

It's a shot from the Sunflower sessions.
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« Reply #11 on: January 02, 2006, 10:02:17 AM »
My Uncle got this for Christmas, and I listened to it while my family visited. I enjoy it. It's nothing spectacular, but I enjoy all the songs except (Won't Somebody Dance With Me). There's enough good material on here for a few listens. While I like the original arrangement of "Disney Girls" I like this version a lot. Rock and Roll Survivor is the best one on the album. Thank You Baby is taken from the Bruce & Terry Melcher days and I like this version better than the original. I think my favorite is Rendezvous, a nice up-beat tempo song. I Write The Songs is great too. I rate this a 4. A 5 if it didn't have Won't Somebody Dance With Me.
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« Reply #12 on: January 02, 2006, 10:07:56 AM »
Quote from: Old_Master_Painter on January 02, 2006, 10:02:17 AM
My Uncle got this for Christmas, and I listened to it while my family visited. I enjoy it. It's nothing spectacular, but I enjoy all the songs except (Won't Somebody Dance With Me). There's enough good material on here for a few listens. While I like the original arrangement of "Disney Girls" I like this version a lot. Rock and Roll Survivor is the best one on the album. Thank You Baby is taken from the Bruce & Terry Melcher days and I like this version better than the original. I think my favorite is Rendezvous, a nice up-beat tempo song. I Write The Songs is great too. I rate this a 4. A 5 if it didn't have Won't Somebody Dance With Me.

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« Reply #13 on: January 02, 2006, 10:43:59 AM »
Quote from: Jason on January 02, 2006, 10:07:56 AM
Brave man.

What can I say, I enjoy writing about music I like, no matter what anyone says.
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« Reply #14 on: January 02, 2006, 01:06:16 PM »
Yeah I dig Going Public too.
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« Reply #15 on: January 02, 2006, 01:28:09 PM »
Surfin' Round The World is the one.
That's the one that needs it's oen thread.
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« Reply #16 on: January 02, 2006, 01:31:24 PM »
I dig that album a lot. Very fun to listen to.
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« Reply #17 on: January 04, 2006, 06:55:43 AM »
Following some of the comments here, I am moved to get out my vinyl and give it another spin.

To me, that is a worthwhile reason for a thread such as this.
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« Reply #18 on: February 14, 2006, 11:02:51 PM »
I heard this once, just to give it a chance.

I like bruce alot, i never heard any mike love solo's yet though....

wont someone dance w/me really creeps me out, was he going for a wayne newton/ mike douglas theme here?

hey i affectionally regard it as Going Pubic!!!
Bruce You Can Do Better, maybe YOU need Brian as well a some of the others!

Don't let that ONE Grammy fool u.
btw, anyone have footage of mr. johnston accepting that award

PS..i love mr. manilow, great ballads somewhere down the road, somewhere in the night,for example;
but come off it, isn't he a queer??? Bette Midler, gay bathouses, the 70's???
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« Reply #19 on: February 15, 2006, 09:13:39 PM »
Hahaha, I absolutely LOVE how one of your pieces of evidence for Barry Manilow being gay is "the 70's".

Hey, isn't Richard Nixon gay? You know.. the 70's? Eh? How could you not see it?
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« Reply #20 on: February 15, 2006, 10:18:27 PM »
Indeed

upon reflection....
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« Reply #21 on: February 16, 2006, 12:06:40 AM »
i should've have just left it at Bette midler & the gay bath houses.
 Straight shoooters like Brucey & Berry Man ill low wouldn't be caught dead in a Gay Bath house,
...now would he???
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« Reply #22 on: July 31, 2006, 12:05:10 PM »
pony asked;

isn't he a queer?   lol!!!!

pop came out of my nose on that one........

sort of like lloyd the bartender in the Shining telling Jack about the n*****........


so inappropriate and out of left field it cracks you up!!
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« Reply #23 on: July 30, 2007, 05:52:06 AM »
I don't know if this has been discussed elsewhere on this board, but last Saturday I was in Amsterdam and I found a very recently released 2fer-CD with "Surfin Round The World" and "Going Public" on it, plus the three bonus tracks that were on the earlier CD-reissue of SRTW. BGO Records (known for the Jan & Dean and Surfaris 2fers) released it.
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« Reply #24 on: August 13, 2009, 04:58:03 PM »
I actually loved this record. Put it on for the first time tonight after buying it in the UK for cheap and was impressed!! WAAAY better effort than Looking Back with Love. Considering getting it on CD


4 1/2 stars!!
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