The Thread to Ruminate About Mike Love's Rape Van

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the world is a terrible hellscape so this is good to me now, actually
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JoseUnidos wrote:
05 Jul 2017, 2:28pm
coffeepotman wrote:
05 Jul 2017, 1:56pm
Who/What the hell was that? Is that the so called "Beach Boys"? And who is the other guy singing, looks like Vanilla Ice? That was painful! Couldn't make it through the whole thing...and I'm a Beach Boys fan. I saw them on their 50th tour with Brian and they were awesome...I'm not sure what that was in the video.
That's Mark McGrath. He used to be in a terrible band, and he's terrible. And that's John Stamos pretending to play the drums. He's equally terrible.
I was wondering why the vocals sounded so pristine and then Stamos did that thing at around 2:08 and gave away the backing track.
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.

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Do It Again isn't one of their better hits, right?
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.

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matedog wrote:
05 Jul 2017, 2:47pm
Do It Again isn't one of their better hits, right?
Inder will rep for it, I think it's sort of fun, but kind of dire in terms their direction to golden moldies. I think it was a successful single tho.
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Hey Flex, on the real, worse album: CtC or SiP?
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.

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Flex wrote:
05 Jul 2017, 3:02pm
matedog wrote:
05 Jul 2017, 2:47pm
Do It Again isn't one of their better hits, right?
Inder will rep for it, I think it's sort of fun, but kind of dire in terms their direction to golden moldies. I think it was a successful single tho.
It's catchy enough, but it's a bit pathetic in longing for the old days. Very Mike Love, wanting desperately for a return to the formula.
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matedog wrote:
05 Jul 2017, 3:08pm
Hey Flex, on the real, worse album: CtC or SiP?
Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhblurggghhdsfd. Probably SiP. CtC has a few genuinely decent tracks and a decent "what-could-have-been" based on demos and live tracks. SiP is basically unlistenable throughout and even the live unit at the time kinda sucked.
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Flex wrote:
05 Jul 2017, 4:45pm
matedog wrote:
05 Jul 2017, 3:08pm
Hey Flex, on the real, worse album: CtC or SiP?
Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhblurggghhdsfd. Probably SiP. CtC has a few genuinely decent tracks and a decent "what-could-have-been" based on demos and live tracks. SiP is basically unlistenable throughout and even the live unit at the time kinda sucked.
I know I am going to live to regret asking, but...SiP?
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JennyB wrote:
05 Jul 2017, 5:02pm
I know I am going to live to regret asking, but...SiP?
The first album ever recorded in protools! 92's great masterpiece!

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Flex wrote:
05 Jul 2017, 5:03pm
JennyB wrote:
05 Jul 2017, 5:02pm
I know I am going to live to regret asking, but...SiP?
The first album ever recorded in protools! 92's great masterpiece!

Oh, wow. I am going to go bleach my brain now.
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JennyB wrote:
05 Jul 2017, 5:04pm
Flex wrote:
05 Jul 2017, 5:03pm
JennyB wrote:
05 Jul 2017, 5:02pm
I know I am going to live to regret asking, but...SiP?
The first album ever recorded in protools! 92's great masterpiece!

Oh, wow. I am going to go bleach my brain now.
Track 3 is Mike Love's rap debut:
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.

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matedog wrote:
05 Jul 2017, 5:22pm
Track 3 is Mike Love's rap debut:
How bad is that? WBTCORNR is unambiguously superior.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
05 Jul 2017, 5:26pm
matedog wrote:
05 Jul 2017, 5:22pm
Track 3 is Mike Love's rap debut:
How bad is that? WBTCORNR is unambiguously superior.
And it includes maybe my favorite Mike Love Rape Van couplet:
Doing unto others is the golden rule
But doing it with you would be so very cool
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.

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matedog wrote:
05 Jul 2017, 7:36pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
05 Jul 2017, 5:26pm
matedog wrote:
05 Jul 2017, 5:22pm
Track 3 is Mike Love's rap debut:
How bad is that? WBTCORNR is unambiguously superior.
And it includes maybe my favorite Mike Love Rape Van couplet:
Doing unto others is the golden rule
But doing it with you would be so very cool
He actually might be worse than Gene Simmons.
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Do it Again is great.

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