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« Reply #100 on: April 30, 2012, 03:34:03 PM » |
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I suppose there has to be a dud for each gem like "That's Why God Made The Radio."
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« Reply #101 on: April 30, 2012, 03:37:14 PM » |
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Christ, this is awful Someone stop it now!!!!!
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« Reply #102 on: April 30, 2012, 03:37:43 PM » |
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I suppose there has to be a dud for each gem like "That's Why God Made The Radio."
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All roads lead to Kokomo. Exhaustive research in time travel has conclusively proven that there is no alternate universe WITHOUT Kokomo. It would've happened regardless.
What is this "life" thing you speak of ?
Syncopate it? In front of all these people?!
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« Reply #103 on: April 30, 2012, 03:39:36 PM » |
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Lol that's just too funny!  It does almost become so bad its good |
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« Reply #104 on: April 30, 2012, 03:40:07 PM » |
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The chord progression, instrumentation, melody, arrangement sound UNBELIEVABLE. Kind of a modern sound. I think it could have been very accessible to young audiences, if not for the lyrics.
The Beach Boys really are back together! Mike Love takes a beautiful song and quickly transforms it into dreck. That takes talent. Who says Brian was the only genius in the BBs?
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« Reply #105 on: April 30, 2012, 03:41:59 PM » |
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I think the wheels just came off. For God's sake: 50 years together and then this! This is the kind of sh*t that killed the band's rep in the first place. All the good work that BW's band AND Mike and Bruce's band have been doing over the last few years is about to be undone in one swell foop.
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« Reply #106 on: April 30, 2012, 03:42:19 PM » |
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I think Mike lied in that lawsuit in 1994 for lyrics credits, this guy shows like no talent for writing lyrics these days.
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And production aside, I’d so much rather hear a 14 year old David Marks shred some guitar on Chug-a-lug than hear a 51 year old Mike Love sing about bangin some chick in a swimming pool.-rab2591
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« Reply #107 on: April 30, 2012, 03:44:48 PM » |
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I suppose there has to be a dud for each gem like "That's Why God Made The Radio."
Lets hope you're right! Me too! I'm actually sort of glad I got to hear "Spring Vacation"...it makes me realize just great "Radio" really is  |
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« Reply #108 on: April 30, 2012, 03:44:57 PM » |
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Yknow it IS pretty amazing that this is the same guy who wrote kiss me baby
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« Reply #109 on: April 30, 2012, 03:47:06 PM » |
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I think the wheels just came off. For God's sake: 50 years together and then this! This is the kind of sh*t that killed the band's rep in the first place. All the good work that BW's band AND Mike and Bruce's band have been doing over the last few years is about to be undone in one swell foop.
Let's get a grip shall we? The album isn't out. We've heard one full song and 10 seconds of another. And here you are writing this off as a disaster? Reality check...aisle three! |
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« Reply #110 on: April 30, 2012, 03:47:27 PM » |
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Yknow it IS pretty amazing that this is the same guy who wrote kiss me baby
I'm not sure what he wrote anymore, this man has wrote terrible lyrics for such a long time now. |
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« Reply #111 on: April 30, 2012, 03:47:51 PM » |
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Wow! The over-reaction to a 15 second unfinished vocal take is remarkable.
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« Reply #112 on: April 30, 2012, 03:51:21 PM » |
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Wow! The over-reaction to a 15 second unfinished vocal take is remarkable.
Not a vocal take, just for show. And its not the vocals everyone is focused on lol |
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« Reply #113 on: April 30, 2012, 03:52:54 PM » |
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I like it. I don't care that it's stupid. what was anyone expecting?
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« Reply #114 on: April 30, 2012, 03:53:23 PM » |
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I was expecting to get up onstage and jam.
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All roads lead to Kokomo. Exhaustive research in time travel has conclusively proven that there is no alternate universe WITHOUT Kokomo. It would've happened regardless.
What is this "life" thing you speak of ?
Syncopate it? In front of all these people?!
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« Reply #115 on: April 30, 2012, 03:56:04 PM » |
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It's awesome, in a terrible kind of way, that Mike feels like these are good lyrics.
The man has an aesthetic sense, by god. If he doesn't fit in references to at least a half-dozen other songs in the opening verse, he's falling down on the job!
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« Reply #116 on: April 30, 2012, 03:56:27 PM » |
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I was expecting to get up onstage and jam.
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« Reply #117 on: April 30, 2012, 03:57:24 PM » |
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I honestly believe this song is gonna be super entertaining
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« Reply #118 on: April 30, 2012, 03:58:22 PM » |
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It's awesome, in a terrible kind of way, that Mike feels like these are good lyrics.
The man has an aesthetic sense, by god. If he doesn't fit in references to at least a half-dozen other songs in the opening verse, he's falling down on the job!
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« Reply #119 on: April 30, 2012, 03:58:26 PM » |
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I like it. I don't care that it's stupid. what was anyone expecting?
It's not that it's stupid - it's the arrangement and (especially) that drum beat. It's like it's 1995 up in here. I'm hoping the rest of the song sounds different. It makes "That's Why God Made The Radio" sound like "God Only Knows"  |
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« Reply #120 on: April 30, 2012, 03:58:43 PM » |
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It's awesome, in a terrible kind of way, that Mike feels like these are good lyrics.
The man has an aesthetic sense, by god. If he doesn't fit in references to at least a half-dozen other songs in the opening verse, he's falling down on the job!
It makes me wonder if Mike actually, y'know, listens to music by anyone, and not just his peers. Like, is that what he considers acceptable, and so forth? Or maybe he just has the worlds shortest rhyming dictionary |
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All roads lead to Kokomo. Exhaustive research in time travel has conclusively proven that there is no alternate universe WITHOUT Kokomo. It would've happened regardless.
What is this "life" thing you speak of ?
Syncopate it? In front of all these people?!
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« Reply #121 on: April 30, 2012, 04:05:21 PM » |
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I take back everything I was thinking about Bruce's proposed (redone) track, "She Believes In Love Again." I will take that, even the 10 minute disco version, over Spring Vacation's half baked lyrics.  To anticipate some of the reactions out there, this isn't a 'rush to judgement'...what it is is a hope and prayer that this album will create a triumphant coda to a long and distinguished career. Corn ball stuff like this really pisses me off. We're talking legacy. Some of us get indignant because we care. A healthy Brian should've turned to Mike at the piano and said 'ah ahhh...do it again. you can do better' |
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« Reply #122 on: April 30, 2012, 04:05:51 PM » |
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Assuming it is Mike, of course. The others aren't above coming up with crap and playing heavily on the past, although I know he has a tremendous track record for this.
"Wow! The over-reaction to a 15 second unfinished vocal take is remarkable."
Okay. What I heard, lyrically, was sh*t. I'll give your optimism the benefit of the doubt. Maybe the rest of it is pure fucking genius. Or maybe not. This is just the kind of crap I thought they'd avoid this time around, having worked hard to re-establish their legacy.
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« Reply #123 on: April 30, 2012, 04:07:22 PM » |
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I would take waves of love!
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« Reply #124 on: April 30, 2012, 04:09:26 PM » |
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"I take back everything I was thinking about Bruce's proposed (redone) track, "She Believes In Love Again.""
Just what was going through my mind.
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