Mike Love on Love & Mercy: ‘Poor Brian, He’s Had a Rough, Rough Time’

[Robbie Mac]

Any man that hasn't got the balls to get married at least five times isn't a real man. Probably.

So that's why he's your favorite.

[Douchepool]

Without the Mike Love sound there'd be no Beach Boys.

[Andrew G. Doe]

Just dipped into this thread for the first time in a while.

Jesus. Christ. Really wish I hadn't.

[The LEGENDARY OSD]

Without the Mike Love sound there'd be no Beach Boys.

Yeah, shame Brian, Carl, Al & Dennis were such lousy singers. 

[Mendota Heights]

Jesus. Christ. Really wish I hadn't.

"Jesus. Christ. Really wish I hadn't." That was my reaction when I read the Mike Love interview.

[SMiLE Brian]

Exactly Swedish frog!

[Mike's Beard]

Any man that hasn't got the balls to get married at least five times isn't a real man. Probably.

So that's why he's your favorite.

I have no favourites. Only Brian and Dennyistas bother with favourites.

[Empire Of Love]

Any man that hasn't got the balls to get married at least five times isn't a real man. Probably.

So that's why he's your favorite.

I have no favourites. Only Brian and Dennyistas bother with favourites.

The name-calling and bullying must stop!

[Douchepool]

Without the Mike Love sound there'd be no Beach Boys.

Yeah, shame Brian, Carl, Al & Dennis were such lousy singers. 

Clearly they were. Riding on the coattails of Mr. Positivity. Mike Love and the four assholes. Remember it well.

[sea of tunes]

Just dipped into this thread for the first time in a while.

Jesus. Christ. Really wish I hadn't.

I'm sorry I started the darn thing, frankly.

 

[SMiLE Brian]

Without the Mike Love sound there'd be no Beach Boys.

Yeah, shame Brian, Carl, Al & Dennis were such lousy singers. 

Clearly they were. Riding on the coattails of Mr. Positivity. Mike Love and the four assholes. Remember it well.

you are a legend in your own mind!

[Douchepool]

I'm probably the most positive person in music. Brian was melancholy.

[GhostyTMRS]

Wow, now I am being insulted over my actual BBs musical tastes. So what if  I am not a big fan of CATP and Holland's songs, they are lacking from BW's touch.


Even ML on a good day would admit BW was the creative force driving the BBs.

No Brian involvement on Holland and So Tough?

Sail on Sailor - co authored by BW - released in 73 and 75 as a single and on The Departed sound track.
With BW / T. Almer/R. Kennedy/J. Rieley/ VD Parks

Funky Pretty - B. Wilson/M.Love/J. Rieley
Mt. Vernon and Fairway - BW
I'm the Pied Piper - BW/CW
Better Get Back in Bed - BW

Magic Transistor Radio - BW
Radio King Dom - BW

Vocals on Cal Saga - BW

CATP - So Tough

You Need a Mess of Help - BW / J. Rieley
He Come Down - A. Jardine /BW/ M. Love
Marcella - BW/Tandyn Almer/ J. Rieley

It appears that BW had a great deal of involvement on both Holland and So Tough...

This ties in to the other thread about those albums. But let's be honest here, all of these cuts are really snippets, that could add up to one full-fledged song:

Mt. Vernon and Fairway - BW
I'm the Pied Piper - BW/CW
Better Get Back in Bed - BW
Magic Transistor Radio - BW
Radio King Dom - BW

So it's really more like:

Sail on Sailor - co authored by BW - released in 73 and 75 as a single and on The Departed sound track.
With BW / T. Almer/R. Kennedy/J. Rieley/ VD Parks
Vocals on Cal Saga - BW
Mt. Vernon and Fairway (single) - BW
CATP - So Tough
You Need a Mess of Help - BW / J. Rieley
He Come Down - A. Jardine /BW/ M. Love
Marcella - BW/Tandyn Almer/ J. Rieley

So it's really about 6 songs spread out over two albums with Brian involved in the writing of 5. Basically Brian contributed to an album's side-worth of music. That would be a great album side by the way, and maybe both albums would benefit from being pared down to one (at least for me anyway)

[Robbie Mac]

Any man that hasn't got the balls to get married at least five times isn't a real man. Probably.

So that's why he's your favorite.

I have no favourites. Only Brian and Dennyistas bother with favourites.

Why settle for imitators and poseurs when you can have the best?

[Douchepool]

Any man that hasn't got the balls to get married at least five times isn't a real man. Probably.

So that's why he's your favorite.

I have no favourites. Only Brian and Dennyistas bother with favourites.

Why settle for imitators and poseurs when you can have the best?

That's why we have Mike Love...the real Beach Boy.

[Robbie Mac]

Any man that hasn't got the balls to get married at least five times isn't a real man. Probably.

So that's why he's your favorite.

I have no favourites. Only Brian and Dennyistas bother with favourites.

Why settle for imitators and poseurs when you can have the best?

That's why we have Mike Love...the real Beach Boy.

[Douchepool]

Any man that hasn't got the balls to get married at least five times isn't a real man. Probably.

So that's why he's your favorite.

I have no favourites. Only Brian and Dennyistas bother with favourites.

Why settle for imitators and poseurs when you can have the best?

That's why we have Mike Love...the real Beach Boy.

It's "the Mike Love sound" for a reason, bruh.

[The LEGENDARY OSD]

Any man that hasn't got the balls to get married at least five times isn't a real man. Probably.

So that's why he's your favorite.

I have no favourites. Only Brian and Dennyistas bother with favourites.

Why settle for imitators and poseurs when you can have the best?

That's why we have Mike Love...the real Beach Boy.

And the only beachboy in the myKe & br00th band.   

[Douchepool]

Any man that hasn't got the balls to get married at least five times isn't a real man. Probably.

So that's why he's your favorite.

I have no favourites. Only Brian and Dennyistas bother with favourites.

Why settle for imitators and poseurs when you can have the best?

That's why we have Mike Love...the real Beach Boy.

And the only beachboy in the myKe & br00th band.   

He does the work of all five all by his lonesome!

[SMiLE Brian]

That skin flute does wonders.

[The LEGENDARY OSD]

myKe luHv needs 5 minute energy to flap like a chicken these days. 

[Douchepool]

That skin flute does wonders.

Whooooooooooooa, dude...

[Komera]

Without the Mike Love sound there'd be no Beach Boys.

Yeah, shame Brian, Carl, Al & Dennis were such lousy singers. 

Clearly they were. Riding on the coattails of Mr. Positivity. Mike Love and the four assholes. Remember it well.

Do we not speak of Bruce?

[Douchepool]

Without the Mike Love sound there'd be no Beach Boys.

Yeah, shame Brian, Carl, Al & Dennis were such lousy singers. 

Clearly they were. Riding on the coattails of Mr. Positivity. Mike Love and the four assholes. Remember it well.

Do we not speak of Bruce?

Bruce is Historical.

[clack]

Just as the Four Seasons became Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and the Animals became Eric Burdon and the Animals, so should it have become Mike Love and the Beach Boys.

But you know what? Mike is too humble to put himself forward like that. (Do you know he once met Marlon Brando?)