if mike love wants your opinion, he'll sue you until he gets it.

there is no chin under mike love's beard, only a saxophone that he pretends to play while on stage

onions don't make mike love cry, mike love makes onions sh*t their pants.. then he sues them.

mike love is the long tall texan

mike love's formula: (beach boys + making music) to the gettin' hungry power = me suing the sh*t out of you guys

bruce johnson's "i write the songs" was originally written about mike love.. at least thats what mike love's lawyers will tell you

bow bow bow is the mating call of mike love

mike love has a chair next to his toilet.. so his ego has somewhere to wait


i dont know.. just making a few up..

Thanks for all the awesome replies. I knew you guys would come through! If i had more time and if the topics weren't finalized just 4 days ago, I'd definitely look into those other composers. However with only a week left and a 30 hour work week coming up (kill me now), I think I'll just stick with what I'm familiar with. A few Surf's up songs came to mind for me as well but I wasn't sure about their electronic aspects. I'm actually liking Soren's idea of comparing the 2 different styles of music between GV and Love You. It seems very easy and straightforward. After re-reading the paper info, it says for the two pieces selected I just need to discuss their importance within the composer's overall work or the public interest in those pieces. So it seems the songs don't have to be groundbreaking or anything like that.

I plan on ripping through the 1 page biographical section tonight with no resources and hopefully when I have time to breathe in the next week I can take some books out. Any reccomendations as to which books will be best for "synopsis of composer's compositional style and philosophy?" lol I need to write a page about that as well. I suppose I could elaborate on Brian's 'feels' method but I'm going to read about it before I jump in.

I'm supposed to have 4 pages of a description and comparison of the two selected pieces (oh boy). But I'm sure with enough listens I'll be able to pick out some things and those 4 pages will fill up quickly.

I don't think I will be finalizing the songs I'm going to use until after the weekend so if anyone has anymore suggestions or any input on their electronic music feel free to add to the discussion!!

Thanks again everyone!!

UPDATE: biography is done.. and man, was it hard only making it one double spaced page! lol. it feels so.. scratching the surface!

Its been a while (a few years actually).. and boy have things changed around here! But anyway let me get to the point. Long post but bear with me..

Stupid college courses with stupid 8 page papers bring me back to the beach boys web community. I'm taking a class, intro to electronic music and skill, as an elective. And yes, a month into the semester a paper is due. Nevermind that she only gave us a week and a half to do it.. all 8 pages worth.. from an elective class.. thats besides the point.

But anyway,  the objective is to write about a composer/group/artist that does some work in electronic music. We have to pick 2 of their compositions, discuss their inspiration for using the electronics they used, then compare and contrast them from a musical perspective. Forget the fact that I know NOTHING about music and this is the first music class I've had in my entire life. I love music and can't live without it, but thats as far as my musical experience goes. I'm actually into hip hop music which originally inspired me to take this course, however no resources were available for my hip hop composer choices.

So rather than choose a no name fossil from a list she supplied, the good ol beach boys popped in my head. I'm relatively familiar with them (i was hardcore into the beach boys for about 3 years straight a few years back and know a decent amount about them), however its been such a long time of not listening to them, and not only that, i have no idea what sounds of their's are electronic and which are not! I can't even tell with today's music.. just to show you how inexperienced i am in this music skill department.

Now, we covered the theremin in class, and naturally i brought up the whole good vibrations thing which the professor knew about. I could easily use that song as one of my choices since the use of the theremin was rather groundbreaking for a pop song, however I want to look deeper since thats the only electronic device in the song (at least to my knowledge). For me, the album that immediately comes to mind for this paper is the love you album. I could easily find two electronic songs from that record. And basically.. thats where it stops. I have to go back and listen to the rest of the late 60s/70s stuff to find more. But when I listen.. would I even be able to pick out the electronics? Probably not..

I would suppose the songs would have to be of some importance with their use of electronics (ie: GV). I plan on taking some BB books out and reading up on it. However with only a week left I'm hoping to speed up the process of searching for songs with help from the people here. All I need are song suggestions I can use (2 will suffice) and I can look up the electronic importance of the songs. And if anyone would like to go ahead and explain some of the electronics (importance, techniques) to me.. even better! Maybe I'll even quote you in the paper! lol

So if anyone cares to help me out, it would be appreciated!! I know you guys are good with this stuff..

Thanks!!