Wolter wrote:I owned the Still Cruisin' album, because I was a huge Beach Boys fan around that time. Woof. So much awful on there.
I have it just because, well, might as well just have it if I got all the rest...
Carl's voice is pretty good on some of those songs, as Hoy points out. Not a ton of merit otherwise. Even the old songs included sound compressed and shitty. Wipe Out is probably the best track there. The album is better than Summer in Paradise, I guess.
I had it on tape. I'm sure it was because of Kokomo, which I loved. I had a bunch of random Beach Boys tapes back in the day. Including this one that has an inexplicable cover photo:
Is there any car wreck quality songs on Summer In Paradise?
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
matedog wrote:Is there any car wreck quality songs on Summer In Paradise?
John Stamos lead vocal "Forever" and the Pro Tools re-recording of Surfin', at least. It's actually the first album to be recorded with (a beta version of) Pro Tools, I guess. And the album was so bad it bankrupted its distributor. Quite the legacy.
Addendum: Oh, and "Summer of Love" which was originally supposed to be a duet with Bart Simpson.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
matedog wrote:Is there any car wreck quality songs on Summer In Paradise?
John Stamos lead vocal "Forever" and the Pro Tools re-recording of Surfin', at least. It's actually the first album to be recorded with (a beta version of) Pro Tools, I guess. And the album was so bad it bankrupted its distributor. Quite the legacy.
Addendum: Oh, and "Summer of Love" which was originally supposed to be a duet with Bart Simpson.
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Two songs in and good fucking lord. Even Carl can't save this. Surfin' is just bizarre.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
Yeesh, this is about as early 90's as you can get: crappy CGI, references to ozone layer destruction, and John Stamos. Good to see the debut of the Mike Love rainbow floral rape vest.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
I had no idea this existed and it's awful
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Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
I'd like to think that this is a snapshot of what the inside of Mike Love's brain looks like, assuming each Corvette contains a dead Japanese girl, blood, and semen.
Thanks Flex for turning me onto Summer in Paradise. I thought the shit show ended in 89, but I'm glad to see it develop and proliferate:
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This is basically Mike "Rape Van" Love's hip hop debut. The video is some sort of tie in to Baywatch. Brian's in there in a black leather jacket, black shirt, and black pants.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
matedog wrote:Thanks Flex for turning me onto Summer in Paradise.
Well, there's a sentence you don't see every day.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
I like to think of myself as a test of intestinal fortitude.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Not that long ago, but worth reposting now that we have a dedicated thread:
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
This is actually a pretty decent song from Summer in Paradise:
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Carl fucking kills the chorus.
*edit* Wikipedia says it's Gnome Al Jardine, not Carl. The point stands.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
