The Thread to Ruminate About Mike Love's Rape Van

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Re: The Thread to Ruminate About Mike Love's Rape Van

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Flex wrote:
24 May 2023, 10:57pm
This observation belongs in the rape van:

I am very on the record for hating be true to your school, dorky ass shit when it was released and truly vile that they keep performing it as fuckin' crypt keeper old 90 year olds or whatever, but i'm listening to Spirit of America right now (killer comp) and for some reason When I Grow Up (To Be A Man) induced a gag reflex that it hadn't before, particularly when considering this is another song the band won't retire just because it's insanely, insanely age inappropriate:
Will I look for the same things in a woman that I dig in a girl?
(Fourteen, fifteen)
Will I settle down fast or will I first wanna travel the world?
(Sixteen, seventeen)
:yuck: :yuck: :yuck: :yuck: :yuck: :yuck:
Roman Polanski and Woody Allen fail to see what's wrong with this classic tune.
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Re: The Thread to Ruminate About Mike Love's Rape Van

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Flex wrote:
24 May 2023, 10:57pm
This observation belongs in the rape van:

I am very on the record for hating be true to your school, dorky ass shit when it was released and truly vile that they keep performing it as fuckin' crypt keeper old 90 year olds or whatever, but i'm listening to Spirit of America right now (killer comp) and for some reason When I Grow Up (To Be A Man) induced a gag reflex that it hadn't before, particularly when considering this is another song the band won't retire just because it's insanely, insanely age inappropriate:
Will I look for the same things in a woman that I dig in a girl?
(Fourteen, fifteen)
Will I settle down fast or will I first wanna travel the world?
(Sixteen, seventeen)
:yuck: :yuck: :yuck: :yuck: :yuck: :yuck:
I never really took it that way. I assumed the count up was highlighting the narrator aging through teenage years as he ponders his life changes. I don't read anything too skeevy or lascivious about it.
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:
25 May 2023, 10:27am
Flex wrote:
24 May 2023, 10:57pm
This observation belongs in the rape van:

I am very on the record for hating be true to your school, dorky ass shit when it was released and truly vile that they keep performing it as fuckin' crypt keeper old 90 year olds or whatever, but i'm listening to Spirit of America right now (killer comp) and for some reason When I Grow Up (To Be A Man) induced a gag reflex that it hadn't before, particularly when considering this is another song the band won't retire just because it's insanely, insanely age inappropriate:
Will I look for the same things in a woman that I dig in a girl?
(Fourteen, fifteen)
Will I settle down fast or will I first wanna travel the world?
(Sixteen, seventeen)
:yuck: :yuck: :yuck: :yuck: :yuck: :yuck:
I never really took it that way. I assumed the count up was highlighting the narrator aging through teenage years as he ponders his life changes. I don't read anything too skeevy or lascivious about it.
I'm with you on this one. This song never seemed sleazy to me. I've always heard it as an honest look at what growing up means.
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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

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Flex wrote:
24 Jun 2023, 3:48pm
If you don't buy that, you don't deserve to be America's Most Rabid Mike Love Fan.™
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Mike Love can really and truly go fuck himself:

Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
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Flex wrote:
09 Jul 2023, 7:40pm
Mike Love can really and truly go fuck himself:

Was he trying to be funny? Failed miserably.
God, what a mess, on the ladder of success
Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung

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Flex wrote:
09 Jul 2023, 7:40pm
Mike Love can really and truly go fuck himself:

Hey, the man knows his audience are bitter assholes who hate the world.
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Re: The Thread to Ruminate About Mike Love's Rape Van

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Dr. Medulla wrote:
09 Jul 2023, 8:43pm
Flex wrote:
09 Jul 2023, 7:40pm
Mike Love can really and truly go fuck himself:

Hey, the man knows his audience are bitter assholes who hate the world.
Jeez, subtweeting Hoy in a big way here
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Mike knows his biggest fans read Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/nancyberk/ ... fcbda94591
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Re: The Thread to Ruminate About Mike Love's Rape Van

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Dr. Medulla wrote:
17 Sep 2023, 6:25am
Mike knows his biggest fans read Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/nancyberk/ ... fcbda94591
It would actually be pretty fun to see the beach boys at stagecoach.
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Flex wrote:
17 Sep 2023, 11:17am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
17 Sep 2023, 6:25am
Mike knows his biggest fans read Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/nancyberk/ ... fcbda94591
It would actually be pretty fun to see the beach boys at stagecoach.
Seems like an opportune time to finally release Stars and Stripes vol 2.
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:
17 Sep 2023, 11:17am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
17 Sep 2023, 6:25am
Mike knows his biggest fans read Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/nancyberk/ ... fcbda94591
It would actually be pretty fun to see the beach boys at stagecoach.
You just want to "accidentally" see Nickelback.
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Flex wrote:
09 Jul 2023, 7:40pm
Mike Love can really and truly go fuck himself:

It's even worse that he sullies Surfer Girl with his nonsense.
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matedog wrote:
17 Sep 2023, 11:37am
Flex wrote:
17 Sep 2023, 11:17am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
17 Sep 2023, 6:25am
Mike knows his biggest fans read Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/nancyberk/ ... fcbda94591
It would actually be pretty fun to see the beach boys at stagecoach.
Seems like an opportune time to finally release Stars and Stripes vol 2.
I''m holding out hope for a country version of Summer of Love.
"They don't think it be like it is, but it do." - Oscar Gamble

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