https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMTMTQkyIvY&list=PLe4-LW5Atpg5jxCxkheqS_em_1P1Ayiyv

Side A

A1 - Let Us Go On This Way
A2 - Roller Skating Child
A3 - Mona
A4 - Johnny Carson
A5 - Good Time
A6 - Honkin' Down The Highway
A7 - Ding Dang

Side B

B1 - Solar System
B2 - The Night Was So Young
B3 - I'll Bet He's Nice
B4 - Let's Put Our Hearts Together
B5 - I Wanna Pick You Up
B6 - Airplane
B7 - Love Is A Woman

Running time: 35 minutes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beach_Boys_Love_You
https://www.discogs.com/The-Beach-Boys-Love-You/release/515969

This at 7pm?

I am available.

I think you'll find I've already booked the television room for televisual feasts 2nite.

WhatDoesThisButtonDo? wrote:

YMO and Spın̈al Tap 2morrow.

I'm not available for the 7pm Session on Monday.

We can do this tomorrow at 7pm if you want.

A bit of background/word of warning about this Beach Boys album...

This is from 1977 and was supposed ostensibly to be the long awaited reunion of all of the main players and core members who'd all been fighting various neuroses, psychoses, drug addictions, nervous breakdowns and all-round disfunctionality and bitter in-fighting.

So, anyway, Brian's back, writing virtually all the songs.

Dennis, Carl, Mike and Al are all back.

What could go wrong, eh?

Well, this is a truly bizarre album.

Brian plays, in the style of a demented fairground ride, a MiniMoog throughout and the lyrics are frequently rambling, anecdotal and, at times, completely childlike and inane.

Anyway, I've said too much already.

It's quite a ride.

Basically, I'd recommend reading the Wiki page on it.

It is genuinely interesting and reflects the album's profound bizarreness very well.

18 minutes to go.

Is this the one we're going at 7?

Oh, apparently not.

Although I'd prefer to do this than Spinal Tap.

Spinal Tap should be in the Oubliette IMHO.

No. It's got better music than half of the stuff we do*, and there's plenty of talking points, which you've already listed..



* Or is it? There's only one way to find out,



album running commentary

The Beach Boys Love You is not an album that can be judged by other albums or standards.

It is weird.

It is unique.

It deserves to be paired with something equally baroque.

Is this the 7 o'clock album?

Yes.

ButtonZ'z decreed it.

I don't know whether he's going to show up though.

Again.

This is a weird album.

It's started!

Track 1 - Let Us Go On This Way.

The mad funfair sound has started.

Sounds like Wizzard.

Carl sounding uncharacteristically rocking.

And now it has faded out.

Mike sounding like, Mike.