Unfortunately, all three Wilson brothers were suffering from substance abuse during this period - Brian sliding back down after the first firing of Landy, Dennis never getting the real help he needed, and Carl fighting his substance and alcohol demons.
@@ms8596 Yes, Carl hit bottom in Australia just a month or so after MIU was recorded. Apparently Brian was okay with relocating to a college campus in Iowa in February to record the album, but Carl and Dennis were not pleased. Mike thought it would be good to get all three of the Wilsons away from any illegal substance temptations for a while. This was around the time when the Wilsons started doing heroin. Dennis looks happy in this video, but he and Carl were both unhappy campers.
Al Jardine said it best in the RS article. Brian is in orbit around Jupiter or someplace, and when he decides to come down to earth, he brings us something like this. Or not. It is what Brian decides to do, and his skills are still intact. He can still sing, and probably could hit some of the high notes, but he chooses not to.
Brian does a stunning job on the vocal, ironically, as he was in poor shape during these years. And from the same MIU album, Woncha Come Out Tonight, is another of a stellar vocal. There's actual a few charms from this record, and a couple of duds, but for the most part it's underrated.
What I always tell people is if you care about Brian and the BB's you can always find something to love on an album: She's Got Rhythm, Match Point, Sunday, My Diane, Winds ....
I love this song - the words are actually clever, using a tennis game to convey a love song. The music is really pretty too. No need to knock it - just listen - It's the Beach Boys!
In 1978, it's a small miracle that there was in fact, a Beach Boys, at all. So great were divisions in the group, yet to hear The MIU album, you'd never know. Both Carl & DW spent very little time in the middle of Iowa in the winter, yet Mike, Al, & BW DID manage it, & somehow, pulled off this album, a 10,000% improvement over the disasters of " Big Ones ", & " Love You ". -------This song, with BW actually pulling off a pleasant mid-baritone , along with " Pitter Patter", & my favorite, " Sweet Sunday Kinda Love " , proved to be a joy to listen to. I KNOW ------critics hated & savaged it ; well, what do any of them know ?????? This is, IMO, THE most underrated album by The Boys, ever. And I love it ! ------MJL, 76 y/o
I heard so many people hate this, but I always loved it. Musically it's top notch. But what can you call it? Kinda disco-like. Someone said East Coast beach music. It has a mystic feel. Like Young Idea - Colours of darkness and Fleetwood Mac Dragonfly.
What a beautiful and very candid look at my absolutely favorite band, The Beach Boys. I don't recall ever having seen this video clip before and, to me, it says volumes about each of the boys and what they have evolved into by this time in their oh so very storied career. Seeing Brian taking part in the playing of this song and not just the arranging, looks so melancholy. Carl and Al appear as though they are the prime shaper's of this arrangement. Seeing Denny looking happy yet serious about his contribution to this production is so promising. If I didn't already know how his story would eventually play out I'd be lead to think that he was happy and healthy and looking forward to a long and meaningful life as a cornerstone of The Brothers Wilson and The Beach Boys in general. Viewing the man with this feeling, yet knowing full well what life had in store for his tortured soul brings sadness to my heart. Thank you Daniel for posting this rare gem which brings such real and "recent feeling" emotions to the forefront of my mind. This is such a positive contribution to The Beach Boys saga that this, at least to me, feels as if the viewer is right there in the studio with them all. PS, Since I'm not sure what Mike was trying to achieve here it's just better to let it be without tainting an already poignant and touching portrait of the band which I have loved since I bought my first record album in the summer of 1963. I didn't intend to go on at this length but once started emotions just kind of took over. I humbly hope that you read this Daniel. Thank You!
A great melody is one that touches your heart and soul and lingers in your mind long after the song is over. Like the haunting melody and harmonies of "Surf's Up" this song is destined to school songwriters for generations to come. So fine, so beautiful, so perfect, so Beach Boys!
A highlight of the MIU Album. I remember it saved the money spent in 1978 on this album of mixed quality, along with "Winds of Change" and Al Jardine's "Come go wiith me".
This was a great album. It brought us the stunning cover of Peggy Sue, the song posted here "Match Point Of Our Love", Kona Coast, Sunday Kind of Love and many more gems. Thumbs up for this album.
I do like this track. Brian can always create something memorable. I get the feeling that the MIU sessions were odd in many ways. I suspect this video had nothing to do with "Matchpoint". The MIU album has its beautiful moments, however.
It almost looks like a musical hostage video. Like everyone is there against their will and forced to play. Dennis was probably too high to even notice at the time. 😄
It's when I 1st heard this, that I really began to fully understand the frustration the Boys, & Carl especially, felt when dealing with BW in those days--The late 70's. Any time he wanted to, BW could still--despite cigarettes, cocaine & booze--still sing gorgeously. He decided when & where he wanted to do it, & it drove the guys wild. Carl especially, was hurt by his Brother's total lack of responsibility for anything, while he, Carl, carried it for The Group. Grogeous song. Wolfsky9
Haha, this is great! Wonderful job syncing all this... The drum hits, mouth movements, etc are perfect! If one didn't know better this really could pass for an in the studio performance of this underrated song. Love the back and forth glances between Carl and Mike at the end. :)
I just found the coolest thing on RUclips! This song and video put me in some kind of a trance. When this happens, I do what any one of us would do...I say eye-may-ma. Then I find world peace. 🕊
I say again, " MIU" , is a gem, & this is just one of the many wonderful songs from this work. ------------BW sounds smooth, mature, & confident. -------------------------Wolfsky9, 74 y/o
the MIU album was one of my favorites from their 70's output. Sunflower my favorite followed by Surfs Up then Holland and Carl & The Passions So Tough.
Rob S some people won’t be critical over anything. A once great band sounding like a cheesy band on the love boat here. Brian a genius? Yup. Here? Nope
After 71-72 and the Holland project things pretty well went into decline. The BB were brilliant on tour in 1972. A few gems surfaced occasionally afterwards, but generally it was the solo albums that produced quality, especially Pacific Ocean Blue. A stand-out album by Dennis.and much later the Brian Wilson album. Of course the release of Smile and Brian resurfacing on tour brought quality, while others in the band ensured the BB's just became a 'tribute' band. This video shows the slow decline of the BB.
Unfortunately, the success of Endless Summer in '74 had a lot to do with that. The oldies ratcheted up to the top again, and the Mike Love "don't f*ck with the formula" won out, relegating them to has beens on FM radio (in the 70's, where things mattered) and just a glorified oldies act from the late 70s onward.
great stuff...when was this...aaah caring Carl of the beautiful voice and eyes. ...Do I see Al brushing away a tear? The Beach Boys only cared for Brian as a composer?? After all, they were all responsible to the record company, and there was also the arrangement that Brian would stay at home and compose songs for the marketing arm of the group, whilst they did the touring, which Brian found himself unable to do; both views are understandable, funds were essential as Brian would later discover.
From what I've read, Dennis and Carl were not at all happy that the group was being shunted off to a college campus in Iowa in February to record the MIU album. They felt that Mike was specifically trying to make it harder for them to get drugs during the recording sessions, and they were right. As a result, their involvement in this album was minimal.
Is sad to think that just 2 or 3 years after this Dennis' drugaddiction and alcohol would bring him down. Such a waste of talent... I always thought he would've became one of those powerful rock balladists with that great romantic mid '80s sound we all know and love, if he would've lived more.
I wonder what this song actually sounded like during the concert they were doing, since this is dubbed over with a studio recording. Everyone looked like they were suffering.
Excellent job of synchin When MIU came out in 78, Rolling Stone had an article with Brian's picture.The captian:"The producer gets rubbed out ". The song is weak but lyrically does maintain a consistant metaphor. It's just OK as a song. I hate the background voices 'Matchpoint Matchpoint'; but historically this was pivotal point for the group I think. About the only thing I will probably ever agree with johnston about is when he said 'something like', 'It sounds like a bunch of old tired men.
Love this song but the 'Boys look very nervous here. They all have that "I don't want to be here look" and then there's Dennis. He just smiles and doesn't give a fuck all.
It is from the MIU Album in 1978, the song is terrible, as many songs from that time. But it stills has the charm of the BBs late 70´s! Brian probably wrote the song in an hour or so.
From an 1977 french Tv SHow called On Ne Manque Pas D'air (The episode is 1 January 1977), the original clip has a narration, interviews with Mike and Dennis, and a showing of the Anaheim Stadium clip of It's Ok. In the footage of Brian in the bass they are actually performing Surfer Girl, in the shots of Dennis they are performing Love is A woman, The clouseups of Carl they are actually dialoguing and in the clouseups of Mike they are performing airplane. the original clip is 8:23 long. the best source doesn't have the Jimmy Logo,
Dennis hated this album "That album is an embarrassment to my life. It should self-destruct. I hope karma will F*** up Mike Love's meditation forever." If you look up the history of this album, Carl and Dennis didn't want anything to do with it because Brian wasn't producing it and Mike demanded it be recorded at MIU. It's all about his meditation stuff. It has VERY minimal involvement from Carl and Dennis and Brian well, he was always trying to keep everybody happy. NOT the best BB album.
Brenda Marzipan his words were a bit harsh. I never really understood why a lot of folks don’t like this album. It’s no Pet Sounds or Sunflower but still. Out of 12 songs 6 are very good. It’s definitely better then Keepin The Summer Alive, Beach Boys 85, and Summer in Paradise.
Love Dennis because he was a Beach Boy. I think a lot of the post-Holland albums were inferior. Having said that, I don't think Dennis had the 'embarrassment' gene.
Having just turned 78 y/o, I will say again, " MIU " is THE least appreciated, really excellent album of the 70's, for me. Yes, critics & would-be critics just hated it---------why, I'll never understand. even with the limited participation of Carl & Dennis, the music is, at last, listenable, & even enjoyable. What more is there to ask ? I personally , loved it then, & do so, now. --------MJL, 78 y/o
This was a present surprise from Brian after the hideous vocals of the previous two albums. The metaphor of the lyrics is a bit forced, but the melody is nice. A unfairly bashed piece.
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does no one here realize this isn’t an official video just the same like 5 clips stitched together it’s honestly hilarious
Dennis's face, watching his big brother so proudly, is beautiful.
So well stated! Upon my first viewing of this clip, I felt the exact same emotion as well.
He wasn't watching Brian. This video is a bunch of mixed-up clips edited together to simulate a studio performance.
The repeated shots of Carl nodding are hysterical.
Unfortunately, all three Wilson brothers were suffering from substance abuse during this period - Brian sliding back down after the first firing of Landy, Dennis never getting the real help he needed, and Carl fighting his substance and alcohol demons.
@@ms8596 Yes, Carl hit bottom in Australia just a month or so after MIU was recorded. Apparently Brian was okay with relocating to a college campus in Iowa in February to record the album, but Carl and Dennis were not pleased. Mike thought it would be good to get all three of the Wilsons away from any illegal substance temptations for a while. This was around the time when the Wilsons started doing heroin. Dennis looks happy in this video, but he and Carl were both unhappy campers.
this music video plays like an acid trip
i'm always coming back to smile and sing along
"Match Point of Our Love" is my favourite song from M.I.U---just splendid throughout!
Agreed such a great song. That whole album is underrated
Al Jardine said it best in the RS article. Brian is in orbit around Jupiter or someplace, and when he decides to come down to earth, he brings us something like this. Or not. It is what Brian decides to do, and his skills are still intact. He can still sing, and probably could hit some of the high notes, but he chooses not to.
The MIU Album is a guilty pleasure for me.
The Beach Boys have so many songs from 1967 that are great and relatively few people know about them - like this one!
Brian does a stunning job on the vocal, ironically, as he was in poor shape during these years. And from the same MIU album, Woncha Come Out Tonight, is another of a stellar vocal. There's actual a few charms from this record, and a couple of duds, but for the most part it's underrated.
brtherjohn All of their material up until "Keeping the Summer Alive". Very underrated. Total ear candy.
He got his voice back on this.
He quit smoking for a few months in '77.
@@evanwright9016 There's a few reasonable Brian vocals on Love You and Adult Child too but nothing quite as smooth as this.
What I always tell people is if you care about Brian and the BB's you can always find something to love on an album: She's Got Rhythm, Match Point, Sunday, My Diane, Winds ....
Brians voice is... so.... Nice,beautiful.soft,sweet, it's amazing!
Haha, “It's been a long, long while since we've been strung out on love.” That’s such a Brian Wilson lyric. it’s good. I haven’t heard this before
Was he referring to Love it'self or Mike Love?
I love this song - the words are actually clever, using a tennis game to convey a love song. The music is really pretty too. No need to knock it - just listen - It's the Beach Boys!
Love and sex have an infinte sort of metaphors.
As they say, everything is about sex except sex itself which is about power.
Damn I love this song.
i love brians voice on this one. ironically, it sounds very "smooth".. hes too cool.
Dennis looks great here!
In 1978, it's a small miracle that there was in fact, a Beach Boys, at all. So great were divisions in the group, yet to hear The MIU album, you'd never know. Both Carl & DW spent very little time in the middle of Iowa in the winter, yet Mike, Al, & BW DID manage it, & somehow, pulled off this album, a 10,000% improvement over the disasters of " Big Ones ", & " Love You ". -------This song, with BW actually pulling off a pleasant mid-baritone , along with " Pitter Patter", & my favorite, " Sweet Sunday Kinda Love " , proved to be a joy to listen to. I KNOW ------critics hated & savaged it ; well, what do any of them know ?????? This is, IMO, THE most underrated album by The Boys, ever. And I love it ! ------MJL, 76 y/o
That 1st line kills me....as they were 'strung out' on a bit more than just 'love'!?!
I heard so many people hate this, but I always loved it. Musically it's top notch. But what can you call it? Kinda disco-like. Someone said East Coast beach music. It has a mystic feel. Like Young Idea - Colours of darkness and Fleetwood Mac Dragonfly.
Thank you Beach Boys for the fabulous music and memories. You will live forever in the hearts of music lovers everywhere.
What a beautiful and very candid look at my absolutely favorite band, The Beach Boys. I don't recall ever having seen this video clip before and, to me, it says volumes about each of the boys and what they have evolved into by this time in their oh so very storied career. Seeing Brian taking part in the playing of this song and not just the arranging, looks so melancholy. Carl and Al appear as though they are the prime shaper's of this arrangement. Seeing Denny looking happy yet serious about his contribution to this production is so promising. If I didn't already know how his story would eventually play out I'd be lead to think that he was happy and healthy and looking forward to a long and meaningful life as a cornerstone of The Brothers Wilson and The Beach Boys in general. Viewing the man with this feeling, yet knowing full well what life had in store for his tortured soul brings sadness to my heart. Thank you Daniel for posting this rare gem which brings such real and "recent feeling" emotions to the forefront of my mind. This is such a positive contribution to The Beach Boys saga that this, at least to me, feels as if the viewer is right there in the studio with them all. PS, Since I'm not sure what Mike was trying to achieve here it's just better to let it be without tainting an already poignant and touching portrait of the band which I have loved since I bought my first record album in the summer of 1963. I didn't intend to go on at this length but once started emotions just kind of took over. I humbly hope that you read this Daniel. Thank You!
Unfortunately, I don't think Carl and Dennis are much related to this album. It is sad because I also really like this album and the Beach Boys :)
In 1978, it was a miracle there was a Beach Boys at all.
this song is brilliant I have listened to it a thousand times I love singing it
A great melody is one that touches your heart and soul and lingers in your mind long after the song is over. Like the haunting melody and harmonies of "Surf's Up" this song is destined to school songwriters for generations to come. So fine, so beautiful, so perfect, so Beach Boys!
A highlight of the MIU Album. I remember it saved the money spent in 1978 on this album of mixed quality, along with "Winds of Change" and Al Jardine's "Come go wiith me".
I love this video. Musically, it's a pretty sub-par song, but there's such a tragic beauty to it. It sounds so tired and world-weary.
@@paljardine1538 Brian didn't produce the album.Al Jardine and Ron Altbach did.
"Tragic Beauty" and "World-Weary," indeed! Excellent observation.
They all look seriously depressed except Dennis.
I would be depressed if I had to play on MIU
@@chocolatechocolatechocolat159 🤣
He just got laid!
you would too if you worked with Brian. God only knows how many times they had to record this song.
@@chocolatechocolatechocolat159 The actual footage is rehearsal for the Love You tour.
I believe the original clip was to "Surfer Girl" which was the only occasion Brian regularly would play bass live during that period...
Timeless like no other.
Have never seen this before! Excellent!
One of their best songs, incredible feeling...
At first I didnt like this song but I love it and can't get it out of my head
This was a great album. It brought us the stunning cover of Peggy Sue, the song posted here "Match Point Of Our Love", Kona Coast, Sunday Kind of Love and many more gems. Thumbs up for this album.
Dennis is absolutely beautiful. Happy there. God bless him 😢💔❤
I do like this track. Brian can always create something memorable. I get the feeling that the MIU sessions were odd in many ways. I suspect this video had nothing to do with "Matchpoint". The MIU album has its beautiful moments, however.
It almost looks like a musical hostage video. Like everyone is there against their will and forced to play. Dennis was probably too high to even notice at the time. 😄
This is the greatest history revisionist video ever. Cobbled together and honestly glorious. Brian looks absolutely out of his mind.
It's when I 1st heard this, that I really began to fully understand the frustration the Boys, & Carl especially, felt when dealing with BW in those days--The late 70's. Any time he wanted to, BW could still--despite cigarettes, cocaine & booze--still sing gorgeously. He decided when & where he wanted to do it, & it drove the guys wild. Carl especially, was hurt by his Brother's total lack of responsibility for anything, while he, Carl, carried it for The Group. Grogeous song. Wolfsky9
This song has great groove. Cool. :)
Dennis looks Cool in this video
Brian is cool!
an underated classic! I think MIU was the last great BBs album
for some reason I like this song
Haha, this is great! Wonderful job syncing all this... The drum hits, mouth movements, etc are perfect! If one didn't know better this really could pass for an in the studio performance of this underrated song.
Love the back and forth glances between Carl and Mike at the end. :)
Love this song 🎼🎤🎧xxxx❤️❤️❤️❤️
I just found the coolest thing on RUclips! This song and video put me in some kind of a trance. When this happens, I do what any one of us would do...I say eye-may-ma. Then I find world peace. 🕊
It certainly IS hypnotic!
@@timford3599 😉 🍎🍌🍊🥦
I say again, " MIU" , is a gem, & this is just one of the many wonderful songs from this work. ------------BW sounds smooth, mature, & confident. -------------------------Wolfsky9, 74 y/o
the MIU album was one of my favorites from their 70's output. Sunflower my favorite followed by Surfs Up then Holland and Carl & The Passions So Tough.
Its a great little record, underappreciated
@@paulsun1001 so true.
I have listened to this song since the album came out. It sounds like the Beach Boys until you listen to the lyrics.
Rob S some people won’t be critical over anything. A once great band sounding like a cheesy band on the love boat here. Brian a genius? Yup. Here? Nope
Just a fine, fine job!
great song man :-)
Great video, good work. Superb song
Hatless Mike!
Brians voice sounded clear again
i like this song
After 71-72 and the Holland project things pretty well went into decline. The BB were brilliant on tour in 1972. A few gems surfaced occasionally afterwards, but generally it was the solo albums that produced quality, especially Pacific Ocean Blue. A stand-out album by Dennis.and much later the Brian Wilson album. Of course the release of Smile and Brian resurfacing on tour brought quality, while others in the band ensured the BB's just became a 'tribute' band. This video shows the slow decline of the BB.
Unfortunately, the success of Endless Summer in '74 had a lot to do with that. The oldies ratcheted up to the top again, and the Mike Love "don't f*ck with the formula" won out, relegating them to has beens on FM radio (in the 70's, where things mattered) and just a glorified oldies act from the late 70s onward.
pretty much
haha thank you for posting one of my favorite Brian Wilson tunes. great sync job!
lol "empty love" *cuts to mike love*
great stuff...when was this...aaah caring Carl of the beautiful voice and eyes. ...Do I see Al brushing away a tear? The Beach Boys only cared for Brian as a composer?? After all, they were all responsible to the record company, and there was also the arrangement that Brian would stay at home and compose songs for the marketing arm of the group, whilst they did the touring, which Brian found himself unable to do; both views are understandable, funds were essential as Brian would later discover.
Dennis seems to be the only one who enjoys it😄
Dennis looks great, Brian haunted, Carl angry, Alan resolved, + Mike trying to appear cool. Wonder what was really going on under the surface here
From what I've read, Dennis and Carl were not at all happy that the group was being shunted off to a college campus in Iowa in February to record the MIU album. They felt that Mike was specifically trying to make it harder for them to get drugs during the recording sessions, and they were right. As a result, their involvement in this album was minimal.
Dennis pretty cool here
love this - great work!!! Always loved this song for it's total unfettered cheesiness
Amazing!
You can see brian staring at mike as he walks over to als mic like "please end me" at around 1:12
Why is this song so good and it’s on MIU?!
Never seen this snip before, love it, more Magyar
Is sad to think that just 2 or 3 years after this Dennis' drugaddiction and alcohol would bring him down.
Such a waste of talent...
I always thought he would've became one of those powerful rock balladists with that great romantic mid '80s sound we all know and love, if he would've lived more.
He would have killed it in the 80s. That huge Springsteen sound blew up
Quite a nice song
Every time I see this video,I wonder this was around the time of Al divorce.He looks so sad and he shed a tear 😪
Good job!
Nice work linking up the song with video footage from the right era! You obviously know your stuff.
agreed. it's like a completely different voice
Fantastic work Magyar!
Crafty but clever!
Fantansic work Magyar!
Sweet song. Nice video, I wonder what song they are really singing to. Why run a video that doesn't match the actual song being sung?
Was al crying
I think so. Everybody except Dennis looked tired of living.
Lol. How ironic.
What I don't understand is why the MIU/LA two-fer is out of print. I had to pick it up on iTunes rather than pay $59 on eBay for the CD. I
good editing
Brian may have been in bed, but he didn’t sleep much judging by his face
Anyone know which song they were actually performing in this video?
I wonder what this song actually sounded like during the concert they were doing, since this is dubbed over with a studio recording. Everyone looked like they were suffering.
All of them looked depressed ecxept Dennis.
Excellent job of synchin When MIU came out in 78, Rolling Stone had an article with Brian's picture.The captian:"The producer gets rubbed out ". The song is weak but lyrically does maintain a consistant metaphor. It's just OK as a song. I hate the background voices 'Matchpoint Matchpoint'; but historically this was pivotal point for the group I think. About the only thing I will probably ever agree with johnston about is when he said 'something like', 'It sounds like a bunch of old tired men.
Thanks for this :-)
Was this technically the first Beach Boys music video?
Not sure if it's the first one, but Sloop John B certainly predates this one
@kickhunter1 thanks!
What is the real audio to this footage ?
Surfer Girl, Love Is A Woman and airplane
@Ibraam yes, I have it, I will send it when my hard drives are less busy
@Ibraam drive.google.com/file/d/1eVfbz-k0OprP43NMU8oGMgaiZd318ALO/view?usp=sharing I forgotten I had the footage uploaded in a google drive
Love this song but the 'Boys look very nervous here. They all have that "I don't want to be here look" and then there's Dennis. He just smiles and doesn't give a fuck all.
It is from the MIU Album in 1978, the song is terrible, as many songs from that time. But it stills has the charm of the BBs late 70´s! Brian probably wrote the song in an hour or so.
Where the original clip is taken from?
From an 1977 french Tv SHow called On Ne Manque Pas D'air (The episode is 1 January 1977), the original clip has a narration, interviews with Mike and Dennis, and a showing of the Anaheim Stadium clip of It's Ok. In the footage of Brian in the bass they are actually performing Surfer Girl, in the shots of Dennis they are performing Love is A woman, The clouseups of Carl they are actually dialoguing and in the clouseups of Mike they are performing airplane. the original clip is 8:23 long. the best source doesn't have the Jimmy Logo,
Do you have the links?
@@jaggass No, but i have it on a Bootleg. (SORRY FOR BEING LATE)
Is this the video that was actually shot for this song? It just looks so weird?
no someone edited a different video on top of the song
@@ImaginationMeme Thanks so much for letting me know, I appreciate it 😊👍🏿
@@bethgirl18 you’re welcome, someone in the comments said the original is footage from the “love you” tour rehearsal
@ImaginationMeme Thanks . I'm going to try and find some of the actual footage.
Give this to Sophie Ellis-Bextor... 😉
😂😂😂😂😂
Dennis hated this album "That album is an embarrassment to my life. It should self-destruct. I hope karma will F*** up Mike Love's meditation forever." If you look up the history of this album, Carl and Dennis didn't want anything to do with it because Brian wasn't producing it and Mike demanded it be recorded at MIU. It's all about his meditation stuff. It has VERY minimal involvement from Carl and Dennis and Brian well, he was always trying to keep everybody happy. NOT the best BB album.
Most of this album is written by Love/Wilson. The follow up, LA ALbum written is worse than MIU, and it includes more originals by Dennis and Carl
I love both Dennis and this album, i respect his opinion, although his words were a little too harsh.
Brenda Marzipan his words were a bit harsh. I never really understood why a lot of folks don’t like this album. It’s no Pet Sounds or Sunflower but still. Out of 12 songs 6 are very good. It’s definitely better then Keepin The Summer Alive, Beach Boys 85, and Summer in Paradise.
Love Dennis because he was a Beach Boy. I think a lot of the post-Holland albums were inferior. Having said that, I don't think Dennis had the 'embarrassment' gene.
Having just turned 78 y/o, I will say again, " MIU " is THE least appreciated, really excellent album of the 70's, for me. Yes, critics & would-be critics just hated it---------why, I'll never understand. even with the limited participation of Carl & Dennis, the music is, at last, listenable, & even enjoyable. What more is there to ask ? I personally , loved it then, & do so, now. --------MJL, 78 y/o
This was a present surprise from Brian after the hideous vocals of the previous two albums. The metaphor of the lyrics is a bit forced, but the melody is nice. A unfairly bashed piece.
Brian.one 2 many pills. He is high.
I've always thought this was a pretty good song, nice melody. But man, this video...
Actually, it's a nice song but the lyrics need changing
Super cursed syncups.
Brian looks a bit scared, bless him. Dennis looks very cool here! Not such a bad song, but I think this may be the worst album from the boys
Summer in Paradise is worse. By several country miles. It's arguably one of the worst albums ever recorded by anyone.
Not much happening here.
Out of Sync