Why do you hate Mike Love?

[SurfRiderHawaii]

If Mike read this thread he'd see his SSB PR Director, and his minions, have failed miserably.  Hopefully, he take many of the comments to heart and stop making passive aggressive/anti-Wilson comments in his interviews.

[Peter Reum]

I don't hate Mike Love. Life is too short to hate people.  People  who are worth hating are so much more evil.

[SurferDownUnder]

Why is this still open? What is the aim here?

[Douchepool]

The horse hasn't been properly flogged.

[Komera]

Wow, I disappear for a couple of days and this thread gains about ten pages.

I have no intention of going back and reading those pages.  Just commenting on how popular this thread's been in my absence.

[SurferDownUnder]

How did this really get to 34 pages? I stopped at 5... This debate can't possibly have anything new 

[SurfRiderHawaii]

The horse hasn't been properly flogged.

Now that's funny!

[Andrew G. Doe]

If Mike read this thread he'd see his SSB PR Director, and his minions, have failed miserably.  Hopefully, he take many of the comments to heart and stop making passive aggressive/anti-Wilson comments in his interviews.

The sight and sound of deeply misguided posters digging the hole even deeper is one that never fails to gladden my heart and lift my spirits.

[SurfRiderHawaii]

If Mike read this thread he'd see his SSB PR Director, and his minions, have failed miserably.  Hopefully, he take many of the comments to heart and stop making passive aggressive/anti-Wilson comments in his interviews.

The sight and sound of deeply misguided posters digging the hole even deeper is one that never fails to gladden my heart and lift my spirits.

So you finally cracked Andy. You simply have no sense of humor. As Mike's man on the Board, you are doing a piss poor job.                  

[Andrew G. Doe]

You keep thinkin' Butch, that's what you're good at.

[SurfRiderHawaii]

You keep thinkin' Butch, that's what you're good at.

This is fun. Maybe we can set a record and make the "Why do you hate Mike Love" thread the longest in Board history.

Maybe some posters might even start posting about their real life experiences with Mr. Mike. As some of us know, the real life ML is vastly different than what he'd like us all to believe.

Anyway, thanks for keeping the thread going Andy.

[Andrew G. Doe]

Not gonna happen: current champeen is the "insignificant questions" thread, 230 pages and counting. Which is where this rightly belongs, btw.

[SurfRiderHawaii]

 Well, in the meantime, we can do justice to this thread by analyzing Mike Love: the man, the myth, the legend

[Mujan, 8@$+@Rc| of a Blue Wizard]

Well, in the meantime, we can do justice to this thread by analyzing Mike Love: the man, the myth, the legend

His overpowering need to sing about the beach and exotic locations surely stemmed from a deep-seated need to escape his miserable day to day existence. He was disappointed in the world so he built one of his own in the music. Hence why he disliked Brian's sad or drug-inspired songs--these added discord and depression to Mike's happy place. I believe many of his lyrics stemmed from deeply rooted mommy issues and insecurity. Just take "everybody's in love with you" for example...

[Pretty Funky]

The last year or two we have seen pictures of a couple of Mike's beautiful homes on the market. Another of him and his hot wife beside their pool.

I wish I could have his miserable day to day existence!

[Mujan, 8@$+@Rc| of a Blue Wizard]

The last year or two we have seen pictures of a couple of Mike's beautiful homes on the market. Another of him and his hot wife beside their pool.

I wish I could have his miserable day to day existence!

Don't we all? Although it is worth noting that money doesn't buy happiness (just all the things necessary to be happy)

[Douchepool]

That's why all of the bickering is not worth the effort. No one's mind will change. People really think without a touch of sarcasm that Mike actually has "paid" trolls on here. If that's not potentially actionable...

[clack]

The idea behind the thread is fine. I mean, I could see an interesting article being written questioning why so many fans of the Beach Boys hate the band's chief lyricist and main lead singer.

In practice, however, the thread was always going to be an omnishambles.

[Douchepool]

It was a classic example of shitposting that inspired a good fifteen pages of same. We should not be surprised.

[Ang Jones]

The question could be taken on another level because of course it isn't just about what Mike Love is like as a person and as a member of the Beach Boys but what it is about each of those who dislike him that makes them feel this way. We could also ask why some take Mike's side the way they do. Both extremes reveal things about the people who feel that way, not just about Mike Love. This is perhaps a more interesting question - and not a leading question either.

It is perhaps true that people like a black/white, heroes/villains situation rather than those interminable shades of grey that so often make up real life but I don't think I'm being unfair to suggest that Mike does lend himself to the role of villain upon occasion.

[Douchepool]

Both extremes reveal things about the people who feel that way, not just about Mike Love. This is perhaps a more interesting question - and not a leading question either.

And it has a simple answer - people have too much time on their hands worrying about people they've never met.

[Empire Of Love]

That's why all of the bickering is not worth the effort. No one's mind will change. People really think without a touch of sarcasm that Mike actually has "paid" trolls on here. If that's not potentially actionable...

Well, at least you toned the rhetoric down to "potentially" actionable.  Questioning whether or not people are on Mike's pay roll, especially when it is meant figuratively (the clear meaning being that they are doing his bidding), is hardly actionable.  The one person I can recall actually being accused of being on Mike's payroll, AGD, to my recollection, has never been accused of being paid to post in Mike's favor here.  His possibly being on Mike's payroll has been used as an explanation as to why he is so pro-Mike and ready to defend him here.  A huge distinction no court of law would fail to recognize.

EoL

[Douchepool]

We're also talking about the same guy who claimed that a compilation in a UK rag tarnished the band's name.

[Empire Of Love]

Both extremes reveal things about the people who feel that way, not just about Mike Love. This is perhaps a more interesting question - and not a leading question either.

And it has a simple answer - people have too much time on their hands worrying about people they've never met.

As opposed to worrying about people they've never met who worry about people they've never met.  But who would do such a thing? 

[Douchepool]

Too many people!