Love You is the one Buck likes.  He did the reissue liner notes.

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From: "Andrew Hickey" <stealthmunchkin@gmail.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: smile smiley]


> > > Dunno if I'd call 15 Big Ones essential ;)
> >
> > Jonathan Richman meets Young Marble Giants... what a concept. Totally
> > Brain. Pete Buck likes it too.
>
> You sure you're not thinking of Love You there? I woudl describe Love
> You in that manner, and it's one of the two or three best albums ever
> recorded. The Brian originals on 15BO are fun, and the versions of
> Palisades Park and Just Once In My Life are great, but Al & Mike's
> contributions are pretty poor and most of the cover versions are just
> dreck (that version of A Casual Look... ugh!)
>
> > >
> > > As for 'trhe others are only great', the ones after Love You are
> > > pretty much uniformly awful:
> > > MIU - Mike Love and Al Jardine's chance to prove that they were the
> > > real talent in the band
> > > LA (Light Album) - Really, really good actually
> > > Keeping The Summer Alive - Appaling
> >
> > The title track of KTSA is worth the price of admission... the other two
> > have one or two good songs each. I didn't think so until I recently did
> > a song by song critique for a 'zine piece.
>
> The title track of KTSA is *AWFUL*! It's the worst thing Carl Wilson
> ever wrote - lazy and unimaginative, and about the same level as
> unreleased songs they were doing at the time like Skatetown USA...
>
> > > Still Cruisin' - Or as John Philips called it Still Kokomoing
> > > Summer In Paradise - Nobody needs to hear Mike Love singing "Doing
> > > unto others is the golden rule, but doing it to you would be so very
> > > cool". Nobody needs that.
> >
> > These don't count against the real Beach Boys do they?
>
> Well, Still Cruisin' does - it had the active involvement of Brian,
> Carl, Al, Mike & Bruce...
> Oh, and I forgot to mention Stars & Stripes vol 1...
> Actually, most post 85 BB albums could have made half-decent EPs,
> except SIP, which is just diabolically, awe-inspiringly bad.
>
> > With all the cds around as doubles, with bonus tracks on the Capitol
> > albums, you can afford to experiment with the non Pet Sounds lps....
>
> Except the last three albums (SC, SIP and S&S) which are all singel
> CDs, and I believe out of print (but not hard to find). But you don't
> want those anyway.
>
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