Favorite Mike lead vocals

[halblaineisgood]

his verse on the album version of isn't it time is pretty great.

[Pinder's Gone To Kokomo And Back Again]

His lead on Cherry Cherry Coop is bad-ass

[Micha]

I think it's rather telling seeing who's not participating on this thread .....

Some folks really just don't like the Beach Boys

Pinder, you managed to bring bitterness to this thread. That was unnecessary. Let's try to be better than this, ok? Be thankful this thread didn't get trolled by the usual suspects (yet) and just enjoy.

[Lee Marshall]

Just enjoyed the heck out of That's Not Me.  Man!!!  That 'Pet Sounds' ain't a bad album still eh?  Even after ALL these years.

These guys might make it big ya know.

[Wild-Honey]

All I Want to do.
Here Today.
California Girls
Johnny Carson
That's Not Me.

[Mike's Beard]

Drive In. Mike really was king of those kind of subjects and delivering them vocally.
California Girls. Iconic.
Meant For You. Never has Mike sung so sweetly.
Kiss Me Baby, Nobody can do bass vocals like Mike Love.

[The LEGENDARY OSD]

Hmmm, by cracky I can't think of a single one outta the bunch. Oh well...

[filledeplage]

Hmmm, by cracky I can't think of a single one outta the bunch. Oh well...

Come on OSD - I bet if you had some truth serum, you'd come clean with all those Mike leads you love...

Your bark is worse than your bite I bet! 

[Joel Goldenberg]

Drive In. Mike really was king of those kind of subjects and delivering them vocally.
California Girls. Iconic.
Meant For You. Never has Mike sung so sweetly.
Kiss Me Baby, Nobody can do bass vocals like Mike Love.

I love, love, love Drive In. When Mike sings the part about the drive-in people chasing the gate crashers, I laugh out loud, and his vocal is suitably comedic.

[MyDrKnowsItKeepsMeCalm]

I love Meant for You and Big Sur/Holland, as they cast Mike against type and are sung so beautifully. As far as classic BB tunes, I'd go with California Girls and Do It Again.

[elnombre]

Drive In. Mike really was king of those kind of subjects and delivering them vocally.
California Girls. Iconic.
Meant For You. Never has Mike sung so sweetly.
Kiss Me Baby, Nobody can do bass vocals like Mike Love.

I love, love, love Drive In. When Mike sings the part about the drive-in people chasing the gate crashers, I laugh out loud, and his vocal is suitably comedic.

Oh yeah! Forgot about that one. 

[Coda Hall]

"Kiss Me, Baby". One of Brian's more stellar efforts too.

It's hard for me to tell, is Brian singing with Mike on the verses, or is it just Mike doubletracked?

[The LEGENDARY OSD]

Hmmm, by cracky I can't think of a single one outta the bunch. Oh well...

Come on OSD - I bet if you had some truth serum, you'd come clean with all those Mike leads you love...

Your bark is worse than your bite I bet! 

Could be, but I've been so over the nasal, teenage dronings of the luHvster for decades now. It was fun for awhile in high scholl and a few years after that but quite honestly, while growing up, I grew out of most of the sand, surf, and beach thing. Every fan ages to their own beat.

[The Cincinnati Kid]

Hmmm, by cracky I can't think of a single one outta the bunch. Oh well...

Come on OSD - I bet if you had some truth serum, you'd come clean with all those Mike leads you love...

Your bark is worse than your bite I bet! 

Could be, but I've been so over the nasal, teenage dronings of the luHvster for decades now. It was fun for awhile in high scholl and a few years after that but quite honestly, while growing up, I grew out of most of the sand, surf, and beach thing. Every fan ages to their own beat.

Not even Here Today or That's Not Me?

[The LEGENDARY OSD]

Hmmm, by cracky I can't think of a single one outta the bunch. Oh well...

Come on OSD - I bet if you had some truth serum, you'd come clean with all those Mike leads you love...

Your bark is worse than your bite I bet! 

Could be, but I've been so over the nasal, teenage dronings of the luHvster for decades now. It was fun for awhile in high scholl and a few years after that but quite honestly, while growing up, I grew out of most of the sand, surf, and beach thing. Every fan ages to their own beat.

Not even Here Today or That's Not Me?

Pet Sounds is da bomb-my favorite however, all they way back to the initial listening, I always wondered why Brian didn't use Al  or Carl instead of the luhvster on those tunes. 

[elnombre]

Hmmm, by cracky I can't think of a single one outta the bunch. Oh well...

Come on OSD - I bet if you had some truth serum, you'd come clean with all those Mike leads you love...

Your bark is worse than your bite I bet! 

Could be, but I've been so over the nasal, teenage dronings of the luHvster for decades now. It was fun for awhile in high scholl and a few years after that but quite honestly, while growing up, I grew out of most of the sand, surf, and beach thing. Every fan ages to their own beat.

Not even Here Today or That's Not Me?

Pet Sounds is da bomb-my favorite however, all they way back to the initial listening, I always wondered why Brian didn't use Al  or Carl instead of the luhvster on those tunes. 

Probably because Brian thinks/thought Mike had some vocal talent suited to the song.

I suspect you wonder that a lot to be honest. We could probably trace it all the way back to wondering why a different sperm didn't make it to Mike's mom's egg. Hey, I'm coming to a conclusion here....and I don't want to put words in your mouth but......I'm starting to think you don't like Mike?

[The LEGENDARY OSD]

Hmmm, by cracky I can't think of a single one outta the bunch. Oh well...

Come on OSD - I bet if you had some truth serum, you'd come clean with all those Mike leads you love...

Your bark is worse than your bite I bet! 

Could be, but I've been so over the nasal, teenage dronings of the luHvster for decades now. It was fun for awhile in high scholl and a few years after that but quite honestly, while growing up, I grew out of most of the sand, surf, and beach thing. Every fan ages to their own beat.

Not even Here Today or That's Not Me?

Pet Sounds is da bomb-my favorite however, all they way back to the initial listening, I always wondered why Brian didn't use Al  or Carl instead of the luhvster on those tunes. 

Probably because Brian thinks/thought Mike had some vocal talent suited to the song.

I suspect you wonder that a lot to be honest. We could probably trace it all the way back to wondering why a different sperm didn't make it to Mike's mom's egg. Hey, I'm coming to a conclusion here....and I don't want to put words in your mouth but......I'm starting to think you don't like Mike?

Ya think??? 

[alf wiedersehen]

I've always trusted Brian's intuition on which singer to use.

[The LEGENDARY OSD]

I've always trusted Brian's intuition on which singer to use.

Oh it has little to do with trusting Brian. More like a personal preference. By the way, did you get your gift??

[alf wiedersehen]

I've always trusted Brian's intuition on which singer to use.

Oh it has little to do with trusting Brian. More like a personal preference. By the way, did you get your gift??

I did! I was going to say something about it, but I kept forgetting. I planned on posting a picture of it somewhere, but I've already forgotten where I put it. It's in my room somewhere. It took me a while to actually figure out how to open the CD case and get to the CD. Why would they make the packaging so complicated? Anyway, thanks.

[Micha]

Pet Sounds is da bomb-my favorite however, all they way back to the initial listening, I always wondered why Brian didn't use Al  or Carl instead of the luhvster on those tunes. 

He did it just to prove you wrong.

[elnombre]

Hmmm, by cracky I can't think of a single one outta the bunch. Oh well...

Come on OSD - I bet if you had some truth serum, you'd come clean with all those Mike leads you love...

Your bark is worse than your bite I bet!  

Could be, but I've been so over the nasal, teenage dronings of the luHvster for decades now. It was fun for awhile in high scholl and a few years after that but quite honestly, while growing up, I grew out of most of the sand, surf, and beach thing. Every fan ages to their own beat.

Not even Here Today or That's Not Me?

Pet Sounds is da bomb-my favorite however, all they way back to the initial listening, I always wondered why Brian didn't use Al  or Carl instead of the luhvster on those tunes.  

Probably because Brian thinks/thought Mike had some vocal talent suited to the song.

I suspect you wonder that a lot to be honest. We could probably trace it all the way back to wondering why a different sperm didn't make it to Mike's mom's egg. Hey, I'm coming to a conclusion here....and I don't want to put words in your mouth but......I'm starting to think you don't like Mike?

Ya think???  

I'm not sure. Post about it another 200 times or so just for clarifications sake on your position?

[The LEGENDARY OSD]

Hmmm, by cracky I can't think of a single one outta the bunch. Oh well...

Come on OSD - I bet if you had some truth serum, you'd come clean with all those Mike leads you love...

Your bark is worse than your bite I bet!  

Could be, but I've been so over the nasal, teenage dronings of the luHvster for decades now. It was fun for awhile in high scholl and a few years after that but quite honestly, while growing up, I grew out of most of the sand, surf, and beach thing. Every fan ages to their own beat.

Not even Here Today or That's Not Me?

Pet Sounds is da bomb-my favorite however, all they way back to the initial listening, I always wondered why Brian didn't use Al  or Carl instead of the luhvster on those tunes.  

Probably because Brian thinks/thought Mike had some vocal talent suited to the song.

I suspect you wonder that a lot to be honest. We could probably trace it all the way back to wondering why a different sperm didn't make it to Mike's mom's egg. Hey, I'm coming to a conclusion here....and I don't want to put words in your mouth but......I'm starting to think you don't like Mike?

Ya think???  

I'm not sure. Post about it another 200 times or so just for clarifications sake on your position?

Tell ya what son, let's make it an even 400 - if that doesn't get it done, we'll go the full 12 rounds. 

[Ron]

My favorite Mike vocals...

"All I wanna Do" - urgh... the pretty one, if I missed the title phrasing.  Simply because it's so different than what he usually did.  Also it's covered in reverb and I really like it when the Beach Boys monkey with vocal effects

"California Girls" - I actually have this stuck in my head, all the time.  It's such a perfect, "Swag" vocal, "Well, East Coast Girls Are Hip!" I catch myself humming that all the time as ridiculous as that sounds.

"409" - Maximum swag on this one.  Something about the start of the song "Well, I saved my pennies and I saved my dimes..." he sounds like such a badass.  It's a style.

"Kokomo" - It's a good song.  He does a fantastic job with the vocal.  There , I said it.

[Ron]

"Fair F**ks"? What's that? Fair Fucks? Fair Folks? Why the asterisks?

But I'll play. There are quite a few very good leads by Mike Love. But let me pull just one of them out of my hat that isn't so obvious to many. A travesty that it wasn't released on "Made In California":

Big Sur (4/4).

Yeah, forgot about that one.  Very well done, I don't know why the hell he never was able to string together a decent solo album with that style on it.  It's almost like his speaking voice, his speaking voice is really nice but he doesn't typically sing like that.