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« Reply #25 on: February 19, 2012, 01:34:13 PM »

Both MIU and LA were very weak efforts and what they should've done was release a decent album in 79 using the stronger tracks from both albums, I think it could've looked like this

1) She's Got Rhythm
2) Wontcha Come Out Tonight
3) Pitter Patter
4) My Diane
5) Matchpoint Of Our Love
6) Good Timin
7) Angel Come Home
Cool Love Surrounds Me
9) Baby Blue
10) Shortenin Bread


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« Reply #26 on: February 19, 2012, 01:37:02 PM »

I hope the do matchpoint on this tour  LOL LOL
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« Reply #27 on: February 19, 2012, 01:37:24 PM »

Both MIU and LA were very weak efforts and what they should've done was release a decent album in 79 using the stronger tracks from both albums, I think it could've looked like this

1) She's Got Rhythm
2) Wontcha Come Out Tonight
3) Pitter Patter
4) My Diane
5) Matchpoint Of Our Love
6) Good Timin
7) Angel Come Home
Cool Love Surrounds Me
9) Baby Blue
10) Shortenin Bread
Considering that they owed Reprise an album and were newly signed to CBS, that would have been impossible to pull off.
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« Reply #28 on: February 19, 2012, 01:55:07 PM »

I hope the do matchpoint on this tour  LOL LOL

Me too..

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« Reply #29 on: February 19, 2012, 02:02:59 PM »

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« Reply #30 on: February 19, 2012, 02:04:53 PM »

Wontcha Come Out Tonight, She's Got Rythym and Shortenin Bread are the among the worst songs the BB's ever produced.
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« Reply #31 on: February 19, 2012, 02:05:33 PM »

To me it's the second worse Beach Boys album behind Summer In Paradise, the only good thing is My Diane.

I really like SIP...
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« Reply #32 on: February 19, 2012, 02:11:07 PM »

...Shortenin Bread are the among the worst songs the BB's ever produced.

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« Reply #33 on: February 19, 2012, 02:12:00 PM »

MIU is certainly a better album that 15BO imo.

Al did a good job producing the vocals...especially as Carl was unavailable to him for so long.

Come go With Me is a good cover and Winds of Change is a solid album closer.

My Diane is excellent and Pitter Patter is a nice tune with great vocals by Al.

Country Pie should probably have been included. Any idea why it wasn't?
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« Reply #34 on: February 19, 2012, 02:27:31 PM »

"Pitter Patter" has some soul, man. Listen closely to the chorus - there's some trademark Brian Wilson funky vocal polyphony going on during the chorus, with a lead vocal and two different background parts (the "pitter patter" part vs. the "drip drop" part"). Also, I heard "Pitter Patter" started out as  a Brian Wilson demo, right? He gets a songwriting credit, anyway.

"Match Point of Our Love" should have been Brian Wilson's contemporary late '70s hits, but regrettably, Brian asked Mike Love to write the lyrics right after the latter had finished a rousing game of tennis with a Ronald Reagan political aide (NOTE: if you play "Hey Little Tomboy" backwards, you'll hear weird messages telling you to vote for Reagan, that socialism is evil, and that SOPA is good).

"Hey Little Tomboy" is wonderfully catchy. It's got the melody of an early BBs hit, and yet it's mocking the idea that people want some weird dudes in their 30s and 40s to still make music like that.  To me, there was never anything more to this song than that. People's minds just get led astray by Brian's life story. Plus, who wouldn't want Carl Wilson to make their daughter into a girl?

"My Diane" speaks for itself.

"Wont'cha Come Out Tonight?", "Sweet Sunday", and "She's Got Rhythm" are OK filler. Pleasant enough, but I don't feel like the world would be a worse place if they stopped existing. I do give them credit for putting some real work into the arrangement of "Won'tcha", but it completely lacks punch until the outro. The outro rocks, and again features some classic Brian touches.

The rest of the album should probably drive off of a cliff.


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« Reply #35 on: February 19, 2012, 02:28:44 PM »

i've been trying to listen "all the way through" by listening to youtube video's with the songs on them in the albums order. So far I haven't been able to listen to either MIU or LA. I get so distracted. Its hard to do in an environment like youtube where clicking one wrong video can send you way off. But at this point I'm afraid to buy the twofer cuz I almost feel like it won't be listened to. I definitely know I like the first four songs of LA, and the first couple of songs from MIU, but I haven't gotten much further than that. And the fact that I was able to listen to the self titled on youtube all the way through might say something about MIU and LA (at least as far as my own musical taste goes, I didn't "like" the self-titled, but I could still liisten all the way through)
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« Reply #36 on: February 19, 2012, 02:48:43 PM »

MIU is good but you have to imagine it as a regular easy listening album rather than a Beach Boys album
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« Reply #37 on: February 19, 2012, 02:55:08 PM »

I really like the Christmas versions of the songs that appeared on MIU... Very much, believe it or not. That being said, the "other " version of My Diane is pure greatness.
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« Reply #38 on: February 19, 2012, 03:34:28 PM »

To me it's the second worse Beach Boys album behind Summer In Paradise, the only good thing is My Diane.

I really like SIP...

You talkin' crazy!  Grin
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« Reply #39 on: February 19, 2012, 03:38:14 PM »

To me it's the second worse Beach Boys album behind Summer In Paradise, the only good thing is My Diane.

I really like SIP...

I love the lyrics "I can't wait for the summer cause it's gonna be a summer of love, hey now, well it's a love thing." pure genius!  Cool
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« Reply #40 on: February 19, 2012, 03:54:41 PM »

I'm a sucker for this album, I like maybe 70%

I would never play it around another human though

Same here!

I would like to add that MIU through KTSLA the vocal blend wasn't working.
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« Reply #41 on: February 19, 2012, 04:13:50 PM »

I'm a sucker for this album, I like maybe 70%

I would never play it around another human though

Same here!

I would like to add that MIU through KTSLA the vocal blend wasn't working.
How so? How does Peggy Sue, Good Timin' and Goin' On, etc, have the vocal blend not working? Plus people who do like MIU, like it for just that reason; it sounds like The Beach Boys.
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Your Steak Well Done,
On Stage As It Is In Studio,
Give Us This Day, Our Shortenin' Bread
And Forgive Us Our Bootlegs,
As We Also Have Forgiven Our Wife And Managers,
And Lead Us Not Into Kokomo,
But Deliver Us From Mike Love.
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« Reply #42 on: February 19, 2012, 04:49:49 PM »

I give MIU a try every few months.  Some people love it, Brian is deeply involved -- I must be missing something.  Every time, except for "My Diane" my reaction is revulsion.  No no!  This is not what I want a Beach Boys album to be!
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« Reply #43 on: February 19, 2012, 05:40:19 PM »

I'm a sucker for this album, I like maybe 70%

I would never play it around another human though

Same here!

I would like to add that MIU through KTSLA the vocal blend wasn't working.
How so? How does Peggy Sue, Good Timin' and Goin' On, etc, have the vocal blend not working? Plus people who do like MIU, like it for just that reason; it sounds like The Beach Boys.
To me it doesn't sound like the Beach Boys. It sounds like the Beach Boys trying to sound like the Beach Boys and not quite getting there. That's the biggest problem with the post Holland material is that they spent too much energy trying to sound like an idealized version of "The Beach Boys"...something they had naturally evolved away from. Its like middle aged men trying to project an adolescent vibe, which in practice just makes them seem out of touch and at times creepy.
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« Reply #44 on: February 19, 2012, 05:58:12 PM »

...which is why I wonder if it isn't some weird hell those guys are experiencing singing GV's and other 60's hits while they are hitting their 70's.
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« Reply #45 on: February 19, 2012, 06:05:46 PM »

I've always liked Pitter Patter.  Is that Brian on the falsetto on this or is it Al?
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« Reply #46 on: February 19, 2012, 06:06:48 PM »

I'm a sucker for this album, I like maybe 70%

I would never play it around another human though

Same here!

I would like to add that MIU through KTSLA the vocal blend wasn't working.
How so? How does Peggy Sue, Good Timin' and Goin' On, etc, have the vocal blend not working? Plus people who do like MIU, like it for just that reason; it sounds like The Beach Boys.
To me it doesn't sound like the Beach Boys. It sounds like the Beach Boys trying to sound like the Beach Boys and not quite getting there. That's the biggest problem with the post Holland material is that they spent too much energy trying to sound like an idealized version of "The Beach Boys"...something they had naturally evolved away from. Its like middle aged men trying to project an adolescent vibe, which in practice just makes them seem out of touch and at times creepy.
I remember when Good Timin' was first hitting the radio, folks would often comment to me "Now, that sounds like The Beach Boys". So, if it was The Beach Boys trying to sound like The Beach Boys... Mission accomplished!
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Your Steak Well Done,
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Give Us This Day, Our Shortenin' Bread
And Forgive Us Our Bootlegs,
As We Also Have Forgiven Our Wife And Managers,
And Lead Us Not Into Kokomo,
But Deliver Us From Mike Love.
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« Reply #47 on: February 19, 2012, 06:14:02 PM »

Brian sounds great on "Matchpoint", but those are probably the worst lyrics in the Beach Boys canon by miles and miles. Comically so, I'll grant you (albeit only slightly), which has some value, but still :| damn.
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« Reply #48 on: February 19, 2012, 08:14:36 PM »

MIU is certainly a better album that 15BO imo.

I'm with you on that. MIU is low on my list of favorite albums but I'll take it any day over 15BO.
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« Reply #49 on: February 19, 2012, 09:20:50 PM »

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Its obvious brians voice sounds Great for the period.

This much is true at least. If only he'd sounded that good on Love You. The material, unfortunately, is garbage. The only saving graces are Pitter Patter and My Diane, and I'll grant She's Got Rhythm and the two covers a pass when I'm in a tolerant mood.

I remember reading once that there was a bootleg circulating which contained superior earlier mixes from before Ron Altbach (I assume) got to work with his airbrush. Does anyone know what I'm referring to, or how I can get hold of it?
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