To the chagrin of the elitists, I suggest Endless Summer would have to be considered.

Toni Tennille.

Grazie, tesoro. LOL

Now, if only we could bring in Al and David, we could have quality and the real deal.   Assuming the boys could act like men.

Thank You, Donald.

Carrie - chime in, please.

Dbags - put a cork in it.

David earned this, people. He's not some schlep in the latest incarnation of the Mike and Bruce
 traveling medicine show and ice cream social.


Kids of the 'Boys - nein, danke.

Murry = no brainer. Should have Audree, too.

"Don't Be Scared" has echoes of Pet Sounds with it's beautiful arrangements. Easily equal or superior
 to anything else the 'Boys were doing at the time. Omit the ill-advised, discofied "Pipeline" and the
nauseating "Rock And Roll Survivor", and Going Public is a strong effort. Love it.

For decades my family's choice has been the epic "Fu*k Christmas" by FEAR.

Pretty much sums up the consumerism of the holidays.

Klaatu comes to mind......lots of us with wishful thinking back then, LOL.

For all of you outside the Bay Area unfamiliar with Selvin's work, I can tell you aside of the G.D. (he's a huuuuuge fan) basically everyone else has been liberally skewered in his column.

He's an angry old man from the sixties who can't disappear soon enough for most Chronicle readers, and fans of music in general.

Thanks, doppelganger !

Does he smoke a pipe, and if so - what's in it?

The elusive duophonic Pet Sounds (ducking to avoid projectiles forthcoming), LOL.

The term "Cult" hardly applies to a (once) mainstream band such as the B.B.'s.

13th Floor Elevators, Love, Chocolate Watchband, Ultimate Spinach and other commercially unsuccessful bands seem to fit that category better, but with the emergence of the internet even they are getting to be mainstream. And that's a good thing. Go Giants !!!.

........or "Hang On To Your Eggo" would be a winner for the frozen breakfast marketing machine, LOL.

Admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery, LOL.

Favorites are subjective, glad you are enjoying the B.B.'s, no matter the era.

This is getting dumber by the minute, wasn't the topic M.L. and not
some stoners debating semantics ?

His humility, generosity and non-confrontational nature. Only a lifetime dedicated to TM
can help you peacefully coexist, levitate, and eventually reach nirvana.

Trader is an epic,departure song by the group and perfect the way it was intended
to be presented in every way.

Heaven, yeah - too long.

Don is a proven producer, and given the previous material to work with
was an unenviable task. You can hang that on BW, solamente .


Does the phrase "polishing a turd" help ?.

Thanks, Stample- best post I've read in a spell. A little levity helps when describing the most western
of the confederate states, LOL

Doubtful if anyone outside the cognescenti would notice, with the product thats been trotted
out for denizens of county fairs and casinos the past two decades. Still, shudder.

Wishful thinking, but likely much ado about nothing, as typified
by the innumerable reunion rumors to date.

Paranoid schizophrenia.

"Drive In" and songs in that vein definitely have the bearded ones greasy fingerprints all over them. If prepubescent / adolescent lyrics are your forte', he's the man with the goods - to be sure. Certainly no one would pigeonhole him with the myriad of serious collaborators that worked with the group, such as Parks, Kalinich and even Rieley. Verbose and flowery he was not - but I concur with the sentiment that he was effective in the early sixties before the world got serious.

Just more fuel heaped on another bonfire of a topic that is Mike Love. Apologists can spin it any way they like, but the sane and rational hear the words of an A-1 DBag in this article.

Prescribed thuggery / "Spiritualism" = Phony.