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"I was writing for the Boys, so I thought, 'What am I gonna do without them?'" Um, the same thing you've been doing for the last 25 years? Sorry to spring this on you Brian, but Dennis died over 30 years ago and hadn't sung on a Beach Boys' album for 5 years prior to that. Carl sadly passed away 16 years ago. David Marks is available and you already got Al and Matt Jardine. I guess that leaves Bruce and Mike. Bruce is the one who had zero lead vocals on That's Why God Made The Radio with the exception of a few lines. I guess that leaves your cousin Mike. But not having him hasn't stopped you from releasing live albums of Beach Boys' songs, cover albums that resemble Beach Boys' albums, studio albums that sound more like Beach Boys' albums than solo albums, and numerous re-recordings of old Beach Boys' songs. If you're talking about the harmonies, may I remind you of your pronouncements that YOUR BAND was better than The Beach Boys, and that you had no desire to work with The Beach Boys again. Now I can hear the whining posters saying, "But he changed his mind. He changed his mind...". Yeah, right.
"He invited some of his favorite young singers to Ocean Way Studios in Hollywood, including Lana Del Rey, Kacey Musgraves, and Zooey Deschanel. Frank Ocean rapped on "Special Love"....a track with Nate Ruess from fun was more successful" Brian invited them? His favorite singers? Frank Ocean rapped? What a croc. It insults my intelligence and it makes me very angry.
"He invited some of his favorite young singers to Ocean Way Studios in Hollywood, including Lana Del Rey, Kacey Musgraves, and Zooey Deschanel. Frank Ocean rapped on "Special Love"....a track with Nate Ruess from fun was more successful" Brian invited them? His favorite singers? Frank Ocean rapped? What a croc. It insults my intelligence and it makes me very angry.
Chill out Mike Love fan boy! The examples you cite merely confirm Brian's central importance to The Beach Boys. What's a croc is people like you and the other Love circle jerkers here who are trying to preemptively discredit this album because it's likely to make an impact---along with the film---and do even FURTHER damage to already discredited reputation of your idol, Mike Love. I guess a better offense is better than defense except there IS no offense from the Mike Love side. Mike Love milks the Beach Boys legacy as he trudges across the state fair circuit giving free tix away to fair goers. The only reason the legacy isn't more in shambles is because Brian returned and wrote and produced a final Beach Boys album so the fans could erase the stink of Summer in Paradise. Now go and defend Mike Love's multiple law suits against the bandmembers, his 8 wives, and his masterminding of 9/11
