Guilty listening pleasures

[Mike's Beard]

I believe I was faulting them for sounding like a bad boyband as opposed to not being Carl Wilson reincarnated. 

[runnersdialzero]

I believe I was faulting them for sounding like a bad boyband as opposed to not being Carl Wilson reincarnated. 

OH FINE

[Jason]

Cool Head, Warm Heart obviously has Michael in there, Adrian Baker does some vocals (and the production), Christian Love is there, Chris Farmer...

The album it was supposed to be on (Unleash the Love/Mike Love, Not War) is nothing to shake a stick at, either. Lots of good stuff on there. The title track and Love Foundation are certainly worth their weight in gold turbans as far as cringing goes, but the other tracks are of a uniformly high standard, and the remake of Everyone's In Love With You is great. A lot of the other tracks are reworked versions of stuff that was supposed to be on his unreleased 1978 LP First Love (Daybreak, Too Cruel, I Don't Wanna Know, Brian's Back; an outtake from the sessions, Glow Crescent Glow as well). The "new songs" are Cool Head, Warm Heart, Unleash The Love, Anything For You, Pisces Brothers, Love Foundation, and Only One Word. The major curiosity on there is the version of 10,000 Years, which Michael wrote with Dennis back in 1975-76. There was never a "finished version" done under Dennis' watch, although parts of some of the sessions were absorbed into bits of Pacific Ocean Blue and the Bambu material. Michael apparently did a version sometime in 1980, using Dennis' melody. I don't know how much of the lyric is indeed Michael's, but it's certainly interesting to hear.

Now, the "new song" that Michael wrote and performed with the Beach Boys on Don Imus' show back in 2006, aptly called Make Love Not War, is truly, truly awful. Get this lyric -

Back in the 60s
It was during Vietnam
I remember brother Marvin
Singing What's Going On

War is not the answer
I distinctly heard him say
But the same old, same old's
Happening today

Very, very bad stuff. Frightening. I don't believe it even went into the band's setlist after that TV show. Look for it on YouTube, if the authorities (or people with good taste) haven't taken it down.

[TheLazenby]

I think the biggest insult on "Mike Love, Not War" was stealing the Beatles' "Spiritual Regeneration" song.... not only that, but cheap-ass Mike didn't even bother getting the actual recording!  It's the same version with a jump in the middle (cutting the narration) from a White Album boot I own!

[MBE]

My favorite from Mike's unreleased album
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf6AkVJYK48
Great stuff.

[Mike's Beard]

Cool Head, Warm Heart obviously has Michael in there, Adrian Baker does some vocals (and the production), Christian Love is there, Chris Farmer...

The album it was supposed to be on (Unleash the Love/Mike Love, Not War) is nothing to shake a stick at, either. Lots of good stuff on there. The title track and Love Foundation are certainly worth their weight in gold turbans as far as cringing goes, but the other tracks are of a uniformly high standard, and the remake of Everyone's In Love With You is great. A lot of the other tracks are reworked versions of stuff that was supposed to be on his unreleased 1978 LP First Love (Daybreak, Too Cruel, I Don't Wanna Know, Brian's Back; an outtake from the sessions, Glow Crescent Glow as well). The "new songs" are Cool Head, Warm Heart, Unleash The Love, Anything For You, Pisces Brothers, Love Foundation, and Only One Word. The major curiosity on there is the version of 10,000 Years, which Michael wrote with Dennis back in 1975-76. There was never a "finished version" done under Dennis' watch, although parts of some of the sessions were absorbed into bits of Pacific Ocean Blue and the Bambu material. Michael apparently did a version sometime in 1980, using Dennis' melody. I don't know how much of the lyric is indeed Michael's, but it's certainly interesting to hear.

Now, the "new song" that Michael wrote and performed with the Beach Boys on Don Imus' show back in 2006, aptly called Make Love Not War, is truly, truly awful. Get this lyric -

Back in the 60s
It was during Vietnam
I remember brother Marvin
Singing What's Going On

War is not the answer
I distinctly heard him say
But the same old, same old's
Happening today

Very, very bad stuff. Frightening. I don't believe it even went into the band's setlist after that TV show. Look for it on YouTube, if the authorities (or people with good taste) haven't taken it down.

Cheers for the info, may have to try track it down.

On a totally serious note I do wonder how many more album titles Mike can possably get out of making puns on his surname. Thankfully he hasn't wrote a full on sex song called "Let the Love in" or something to that effect yet!!

[The Heartical Don]

Cool Head, Warm Heart obviously has Michael in there, Adrian Baker does some vocals (and the production), Christian Love is there, Chris Farmer...

The album it was supposed to be on (Unleash the Love/Mike Love, Not War) is nothing to shake a stick at, either. Lots of good stuff on there. The title track and Love Foundation are certainly worth their weight in gold turbans as far as cringing goes, but the other tracks are of a uniformly high standard, and the remake of Everyone's In Love With You is great. A lot of the other tracks are reworked versions of stuff that was supposed to be on his unreleased 1978 LP First Love (Daybreak, Too Cruel, I Don't Wanna Know, Brian's Back; an outtake from the sessions, Glow Crescent Glow as well). The "new songs" are Cool Head, Warm Heart, Unleash The Love, Anything For You, Pisces Brothers, Love Foundation, and Only One Word. The major curiosity on there is the version of 10,000 Years, which Michael wrote with Dennis back in 1975-76. There was never a "finished version" done under Dennis' watch, although parts of some of the sessions were absorbed into bits of Pacific Ocean Blue and the Bambu material. Michael apparently did a version sometime in 1980, using Dennis' melody. I don't know how much of the lyric is indeed Michael's, but it's certainly interesting to hear.

Now, the "new song" that Michael wrote and performed with the Beach Boys on Don Imus' show back in 2006, aptly called Make Love Not War, is truly, truly awful. Get this lyric -

Back in the 60s
It was during Vietnam
I remember brother Marvin
Singing What's Going On

War is not the answer
I distinctly heard him say
But the same old, same old's
Happening today

Very, very bad stuff. Frightening. I don't believe it even went into the band's setlist after that TV show. Look for it on YouTube, if the authorities (or people with good taste) haven't taken it down.

Cheers for the info, may have to try track it down.

On a totally serious note I do wonder how many more album titles Mike can possably get out of making puns on his surname. Thankfully he hasn't wrote a full on sex song called "Let the Love in" or something to that effect yet!!

Tunnel of Love?

Tunnel for Love?

[Mike's Beard]

 

[Fall Breaks]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: a cover of AC/DC:s "Let Me Put My Love Into You".

[Sheriff John Stone]

Cuckoo Clock

She's Going Bald (I love the gradually speeding up 'Oh what a blow' bit and the whole thing could've been on the Mothers' We're Only in it for the Money and it wouldn't have been that out of place)

When Girls Get Together (I even don't mind some of the lyrics, I like it better than Disney Girls)

Fairy Tale Music (I wish something more was done with some of the feels/ fragments)

Johnny Carson (It reminds me a bit of the Smile sessions version of Vegetables)

Pitter Patter

Livin' with a Heartbreak

Goin' On

Chasin' the Sky (I wish they'd done a whole album of similar stuff instead of BB '85)

Make it Big

Lahaina Aloha (The only SIP song I can get into)

No need to feel guilty. Those are some fine songs there. It actually makes a fun comp...

[Mike's Beard]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: a cover of AC/DC:s "Let Me Put My Love Into You".

Aw man that is the best (or should that be worst?) one yet! I hadn't considered the endless possibilities of covers with the word "love" in it that he could do.

[Jason]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: a cover of AC/DC:s "Let Me Put My Love Into You".

How about "My Love Ran Down Your Leg And Now You're Gone"? An album of Supremes covers done by the Lovester himself.

[runnersdialzero]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: a cover of AC/DC:s "Let Me Put My Love Into You".

How about "My Love Ran Down Your Leg And Now You're Gone"? An album of Supremes covers done by the Lovester himself.

+1 for the Carlin reference.