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Author Topic: Beach Boys Solo Survivor #4 Winner: Mike Love's "Be My Baby"  (Read 66621 times)
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« on: August 18, 2014, 12:20:06 PM »
This album is an easy target, but I actually like it better than a lot of other solo Beach Boys records. Heck I even like it better than a few Beach Boys records!!!  LOL


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Looking Back with Love is Mike Love's only solo album. It was released in 1981 under Boardwalk Records. The track "Be My Baby" was produced by Brian Wilson, who also sings background vocals on the cut.
Strangely, some copies came with stickers promoting the album as "the first solo album by a Beach Boys member", despite the release of Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue four years earlier, Carl Wilson's self-titled album earlier in 1981, and Bruce Johnston recording solo albums before he even joined the band, in addition to his 1977 album Going Public.
Also of note is the fact that the song "On and On and On" was a cover of an ABBA song which was directly influenced by a 1968 Beach Boys song called "Do It Again".

Here is the whole album: http://youtu.be/UYNUF-Sw0RQ

Y'all know the drill. Vote off your LEAST FAVORITE TRACK... and away we go!

Tally on August 20

Looking Back With Love
On And On And On
Runnin' Around The World
Over And Over
Rockin' The Man In The Boat
Calendar Girl
Be My Baby
One Good Reason
Teach Me Tonight
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Runnin' Around The World is my first vote. Ho-hum boring brainless booty fodder.
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« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2014, 12:21:09 PM »
Calendar Girl - Bad Production and Vocals.
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« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2014, 12:26:22 PM »
Calendar Girl for same reason as above.
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« Reply #3 on: August 18, 2014, 12:44:56 PM »
Runnin' Around The World
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« Reply #4 on: August 18, 2014, 02:25:34 PM »
Rockin' the Man in the Boat
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« Reply #5 on: August 18, 2014, 03:00:28 PM »
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« Reply #6 on: August 18, 2014, 03:04:25 PM »
One Good Reason…

Could have been a contender for Going Public!
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« Reply #7 on: August 18, 2014, 03:23:25 PM »
Lookin' Back With Love.

Mike nails Calendar Girl, big time imo.
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« Reply #8 on: August 18, 2014, 07:52:50 PM »
Rockin' the Man in the Boat
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« Reply #9 on: August 18, 2014, 07:59:19 PM »
This isn't quite as good as First Love, but it's a much better album than most people give it credit for.  There are no great tracks here, but most of them are good fun.  Two exceptionally bad tracks stand out, however: the hilariously bad title track, and "Rockin' the Man in the Boat," which is just plain dull.

I vote for "Rockin' the Man in the Boat."  At least "Lookin' Back with Love" is funny.
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« Reply #10 on: August 18, 2014, 10:06:09 PM »
On and on and on
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« Reply #11 on: August 18, 2014, 10:15:41 PM »
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« Reply #12 on: August 19, 2014, 05:41:32 AM »
Paradise Found.
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« Reply #13 on: August 19, 2014, 06:30:52 AM »
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« Reply #14 on: August 19, 2014, 06:33:56 AM »
Quote from: Smilin Ed H on August 18, 2014, 02:25:34 PM
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« Reply #15 on: August 19, 2014, 10:14:50 AM »
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« Reply #16 on: August 20, 2014, 09:26:04 AM »
Rockin' the man.......
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« Reply #17 on: August 20, 2014, 09:28:35 AM »
"Runnin' Around the World"
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« Reply #18 on: August 20, 2014, 10:08:59 AM »
This album is an easy target, but I actually like it better than a lot of other solo Beach Boys records. Heck I even like it better than a few Beach Boys records!!!  LOL


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Looking Back with Love is Mike Love's only solo album. It was released in 1981 under Boardwalk Records. The track "Be My Baby" was produced by Brian Wilson, who also sings background vocals on the cut.
Strangely, some copies came with stickers promoting the album as "the first solo album by a Beach Boys member", despite the release of Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue four years earlier, Carl Wilson's self-titled album earlier in 1981, and Bruce Johnston recording solo albums before he even joined the band, in addition to his 1977 album Going Public.
Also of note is the fact that the song "On and On and On" was a cover of an ABBA song which was directly influenced by a 1968 Beach Boys song called "Do It Again".

Here is the whole album: http://youtu.be/UYNUF-Sw0RQ

Y'all rocked this man's boat quite early! (6)

Y'all know the drill. Vote off your LEAST FAVORITE TRACK... and away we go!

Tally on August 20

Looking Back With Love
On And On And On
Runnin' Around The World
Over And Over
Calendar Girl
Be My Baby
One Good Reason
Teach Me Tonight
Paradise Found
 
Round#1 - Rockin' The Man In The Boat August 20

Runnin' Around The World is my first (and second) vote. Ho-hum boring brainless booty fodder.
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« Reply #19 on: August 20, 2014, 10:42:02 AM »
Well, this is going to be fun.  My favorite song on the album went first...
What to do?  There's so many.
Let's go "Runnin' Around the World" again.
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« Reply #20 on: August 20, 2014, 11:14:35 AM »
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« Reply #23 on: August 20, 2014, 12:57:14 PM »
Quote from: Smilin Ed H on August 20, 2014, 11:49:33 AM
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