I guess I'm alone here, but I thought it was pretty funny. And "It sounds like a Crosby, Stills, and Nash thing with college boy harmonies" is perceptive and clever.
On a side note, have a look at that weeks top 10 singles. Whether you love it, hate it or anything in between, it features some of the insane eclecticism that I love about that period. You've got Heavy Metal, Reggae, R & B, Psychedelic Soul, Adult Easy Listening, absolutely insane. Makes me yearn for those times.
@@andrewmoonbeam321 I remember seeing Des O’Connor on US television. Back in the late 60s, the variety show that he had playing in the UK, some of those episodes got shown on the Kraft Music Hall as a summer replacement. That was typical back in the day for variety shows to . My introduction to him was through that show.
I loved his comment about Colosseum being really able to play. I think Mike actually acquitted himself pretty well! I really don't think of Mike as being an evil person at all, and I found myself agreeing with almost everything he said.
Mike Love is talking about Creedence Clearwater Revival at the Royal Albert Hall in 1970 (1:45) which funnily enough was just released last year as a live album.
The first act l saw live in concert was Little Richard. I was just twelve -years - old. After that experience l was just bound to become hooked on live music😊
'Jesus Take a Hold'...written and recorded by the late, great Merle Haggard and The Strangers in June 1970. Went to #3 on the Billboard Country Chart...
Thank you, YP, for your outro of Black Sabbath’s Paranoid. It would be that album that would begin the war between me and my parents as to the type of music I was listening to. I have to comment about Mike Love. He seemed to be jerking the chain of the interviewer, but if there was an element of confusion, wow, oh, wow! Identifying Colosseum as Creedence? I hate to break it to Mike, there is no confusion here. Ignorance is not bliss.
Not surprised about what Mike Love said. He has always been a smug jerk and for decades his peers in the music industry have done what they can to avoid him.
Wow. YP, you are multitalented! That said, I have a number of thoughts about Mike Love, whom one commenter on this video referred to sarcastically as “everybody’s favorite Beach Boy.” It is regrettable that Mr. Love of all people should be one of the few Americans thus far represented in the old Melody Maker interviews. His apparent ignorance of much of the contemporary popular music scene in autumn 1970 is painfully evident and, given what I know of him, is not an inaccurate representation of who he was, and is, as a person- smug, egotistical, and blissfully clueless. The important bands in the U.S. at the time, the ones making relevant and interesting music, included The Doors, Sly and the Family Stone, and Creedence Clearwater Revival. That very month, November 1970, the Grateful Dead released what is arguably their best studio album, “American Beauty,” following its predecessor, “Workingman’s Dead,” also excellent, by a scant five months (both reflected a turn toward roots and away from the psychedelia of their previous albums; 1970 was also the only year in the Dead’s history that they released two studio albums of original material). Mr. Love evinces little knowledge or interest in any of these things, as evidenced by this interview. Sadly, The Beach Boys appeared to be a hopelessly dated group even at that time, having ground to a creative halt several years earlier with the abandonment of Brian Wilson’s ambitious magnum opus labor of love (no pun intended), “Smile,” intended as a follow-up on their groundbreaking 1966 concept album “Pet Sounds,” in early 1967 and reverting to crowd-pleasing surf music (including the 1968 hit “Do It Again”) as Mr. Wilson withdrew into quasi-reclusion. (Mr. Wilson completed “Smile” decades later, in 2004, with none of the other surviving Beach Boys involved; by that time, both of his younger brothers, Dennis and Carl, had died). Mr. Love has not distinguished himself in his public persona over the years. Several years back, he fronted a highly-disputed lineup of The Beach Boys that played a political benefit gig for the then-incumbent U.S. president (and, God help us, possible future president- let us pray not). To their everlasting honor and credit, both Brian Wilson and Al Jardine, no lovers of the orange-toned would-be dictator, signed off on a public statement rejecting the gig, the current Beach Boys lineup, and this Leni Riefenstahl-like acquiescence to fascism. In any case, I am inclined to take anything Mr. Love has to say on any subject with a giant, Pacific Ocean-sized grain of salt.
Hopefully you understand that anytime Love is credited as a "co-writer" with Brian it just means Mike came up with the vapid lyrics. The music, melody and arranging were all Wilson.
@@termsofusepolice As much as I dislike Mike and him continuing to use the Beach Boys name, I dig his performance and word choice on this more than any BB song that he sings lead.
The more harder or progressive the rock, I was all in. But, I had my secret life where I listened to the Carpenters and Bread. I was just reading that in 1975 a poll was taken as to who was best rock drummer for that year and Karen Carpenter won. She beat out John Bonham!
@@grokeffer6226 Their music marked milestones in my life. Back in the mid 1970s I lived in Downey, California, which was home to the Carpenters. They owned two apartment buildings that were across the street from each other. They had the names of The Close To You and We’ve Only Just Begun apts. The 5 freeway is a major transportation artery that runs through Downey. There were major billboards as you approached Downey to remind you that it was home to the Carpenters.
Mike Love re: Ray Davies : " ... I'd really like to meet the guy. Does he go around clubs and things?" Ray may have frequented his locals, but I've never known of any evidence that he visited the big music clubs in downtown London. Dave did, though, and he writes about it in his first autobiography. There's even a film clip out there, somewhere, of him at one of them (The Scotch of St. James?, The Bag O' Nails?, The Speakeasy?). Ray shouldered all the pressure of writing for The Kinks, so he was always at home working - and from everything I've ever read about him, he was never the type to be out socializing, much. I take it that this was a major issue between him and C Hynde when they were together. She liked going out. He didn't. Still, I'm happy to know that Mike Love was aware of him, knew his name, and wanted to meet him. I'm not much of a Mike fan, but this revelation, alone, awards him 1000 points, in my book. Thank you, YP! PS : I met Mike once, in May of 1973, while I was standing in line to get ice cream. He pulled up in a white, chauffeur-driven limo and stood behind us. He was wearing a white suit with a white Panama hat, and he asked us directions to a guest house in town. One of the friends I was with - who wasn't a pop music fan, particularly - asked him who he was. When Mike replied that he was with The Beach Boys, my friend said - very casually, bordering on dismissively "Oh, I've heard of them".
I laughed when he said that i know that i don't know personally Ray Davies but he describes himself (and is described) as the stereotype of an introvert so i can't imagine him just hanging around in clubs😅
That may have been the worst job I have seen of the 'guest' being able to identify who they were listening to. Glad he took up singing over reviewing records for a living.
working with brian was mike's calling card and way of asserting instant credibility. mike did contribute a good deal to the lyrical content of bb tunes to a point but i think brian was looking to break out of his shell. i did appreciate his appreciation for maybe the great songwriter ever in ray davies.
Love the great Desmond Dekker, yah mon. I never was a Beach Boys fan, though over time I came to appreciate the beauty of Good Vibrations and Wouldn’t It Be Nice and maybe a couple other BB songs. I’ve never sat down and listened to an album of theirs, tho, tbph, guess I never really wanted to, lol.😮 Brian Wilson basically _was_ the BB, writing & arranging the material, his harmonies and producing, etc. To me, M. Love sounded a little overly egotistical as well as a bit thick, as you Brits say, haha:🗿 🏖️🏄🏼♂️🛟
I saw archive footage of Bernie Leadon with the Flying Burrito Brothers on the History Of The Eagles documentary and thought Gram Parsons looked like a younger Nick Lowe there!
Cool episode! "I prefer this(John Mayall) to that heavy band rock". And I like your alternative version of "Paranoid", it was always too loud for me! 🤣
Ray Davis on Apeman sounds like Mungo Jerry.... correct...They were both trying to sound like Marc Bolan. Ride A White Swan was just rising up the charts that month.
For a Beach Boy, Mike wasn’t terribly informed on the music of his contemporaries. The Charts are far more indicative of the music that was popular at the time and coupled with your excellent Paranoid outro YP, was the highlight of this video for me.
Funny that 2 years later Mike and Ray at least met once, since I saw this concert with my little sister. The Beach Boys / The Kinks / Looking Glass. Aug 19, 1972. New Jersey State Fairgrounds Trenton, NJ.. I was at Rider College with Jeff Grob from Looking Glass. (Switlick C dorm). He left to go on tour when Brandy was a hit.
Sometimes the people who post comments here think that the celebrity musician doing the reviewing has to be an expert on the level of John Peel. Did anyone ever really look to Mike Love as this guy who would know every band out there? Like he would know Clem Clemson in Coliseum?
Thanks for this! These are gems for a certain generation. Egads! Can you believe “Ball of Confusion” 👍👍👍is on the same chart, so close, to “Which Way You Going Billy” 👎👎👎👎👎?
Honestly, having read/viewed some of his past interviews, I was expecting a lot worse from Mike Love, as that particular body part from the full functioning body that the Beach Boys were (Brian W. being the brain, Dennis W. the beating heart, etc., and Mike L. being the asshole). But frankly here he sounds quite reasonable.
He was flirting with taking a few jabs at Ray Davies, but just couldn't. It's hard to go negative on the brilliant Ray Davies, but I do agree, you can hear a touch of Mungo Jerry in a few early 70s Kinks tracks.
mike love is the anti-crhist i have no idea how one can hate the flying burrito bros, who i heard a ton of times playing free concerts in golden gate park heard....didnt see...my family home is only a couple of blocks from the park and how does one put down creedence one of the few bands who could recreate what was on their albums in live concerts
Mike is being facetious in a lot of his comments -- I'm not sure it entirely comes across when read with that accent. Pretty funny about "Apeman", coming from someone who was intimately involved in creating "Kokomo" with the Boys. It is good to hear from an American fogey for once.
Yeah, he has no room to talk about anyone's musical ability---especially, since his own musical prowess is limited to shaking a tambourine (which any 6 year old can do) or making "car horn" honking noises with a saxophone on "Shut Down"
@@thewkovacs316 Well, he did learn the theramin, as that was needed for "Good Vibrations" on tour, but again--any 6 year old could move that knob up and down--doesn't take a great amount of skill. I don't know if he was in band class in high school, but he brought along a saxophone in the early years, but he was no "Boots" Randolph---it was really only used like a sound effect machine on their early garage numbers, so he could look busy on stage. When they got to more challenging music requiring a sax, they gave his sax the boot---as he said in one interview, "I lost it in Urbana, Ohio"🤣🤣
I guess I'm alone here, but I thought it was pretty funny. And "It sounds like a Crosby, Stills, and Nash thing with college boy harmonies" is perceptive and clever.
Abbey Road still on the charts in November of 1970. Impressive.
One of the best albums recorded.
When he listened to Colosseum and asked if it was Creedence, I spat out my coffee.
That was funny, I agree.
Both band names starting with a C - most likely Mike Love never reads nor listens to words from start to finish.
On a side note, have a look at that weeks top 10 singles. Whether you love it, hate it or anything in between, it features some of the insane eclecticism that I love about that period. You've got Heavy Metal, Reggae, R & B, Psychedelic Soul, Adult Easy Listening, absolutely insane. Makes me yearn for those times.
The whole Top 30 set the bar beyond the reach of future generations
Even Des O'Connor in there. And Roger Whitaker. RIP
Such a great mix of music and artists in the charts back then.
@@andrewmoonbeam321 I remember seeing Des O’Connor on US television. Back in the late 60s, the variety show that he had playing in the UK, some of those episodes got shown on the Kraft Music Hall as a summer replacement. That was typical back in the day for variety shows to . My introduction to him was through that show.
"Ray Davies has really written some great songs" That's an understatement if I ever did hear one 😂 I love that outro, YP 🎸❤
I’m not sure how saying someone has written great songs could be an understatement
Thanks, Sophie! Glad you dug it.
@@YesterdaysPapers ❤
I was so blessed to see the great John Mayall in concert!
Me too!
I loved his comment about Colosseum being really able to play. I think Mike actually acquitted himself pretty well! I really don't think of Mike as being an evil person at all, and I found myself agreeing with almost everything he said.
Mike Love is talking about Creedence Clearwater Revival at the Royal Albert Hall in 1970 (1:45) which funnily enough was just released last year as a live album.
Isn't he talking about Ginger Baker's Airforce? That was a big band like rock orchestra that was recorded live in the Royal Albert Hall in early 1970.
How confused WAS he?
The first act l saw live in concert was Little Richard. I was just twelve -years - old. After that experience l was just bound to become hooked on live music😊
Gosh! You peaked early!
@@martyhopkirk6826 Doesn’t get much better than Little Richard does it Marty. Mind you, l did see Jimi Hendrix!
In Mike's defence, he punched out Murray Wilson who really, really deserved it
and then he and his bro proceeded to rip off the band
family bands are almost always dysfunctional
The old saying, "A clock is right twice a day," certainly applies here.
That was his own uncle as well
Before that Brian and his father ripped off Mike.@@thewkovacs316
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Gasoline Alley Bred is in the charts, which is great! The Hollies began to make really really deep lyrically rich songs around this time.
I bet Terry Sylvester had a lot to do with that.
Elton John on piano on that one
@@cybertronian2005Not on THAT one actually. He was on "I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top". Plus the other one.
Sound Of Music soundtrack still in the top 20 over 5 years later!
I'd like to see the Mop Tops match that!
It's a monster.
It was the biggest selling album of al time until Tapestry knocked it off the top.
@@TestTheCoals69 It's not a race.
'Jesus Take a Hold'...written and recorded by the late, great Merle Haggard and The Strangers in June 1970. Went to #3 on the Billboard Country Chart...
Thank you, YP, for your outro of Black Sabbath’s Paranoid. It would be that album that would begin the war between me and my parents as to the type of music I was listening to. I have to comment about Mike Love. He seemed to be jerking the chain of the interviewer, but if there was an element of confusion, wow, oh, wow! Identifying Colosseum as Creedence? I hate to break it to Mike, there is no confusion here. Ignorance is not bliss.
Thank you, Boomtown Rat! Mike Love definitely seemed to be quite clueless about contemporary music.
Not surprised about what Mike Love said. He has always been a smug jerk and for decades his peers in the music industry have done what they can to avoid him.
“Is it the Who?” Hahahaha!!!!
Glad you used a flattering photo of Mike in the thumbnail, everyone’s favorite Beach Boy!!
Cheers Yesterday!!
"Everyone's"? I beg to differ.
@@mackb909 Mike Love favourite singer along with Yoko Ono. Phil Spector as Producer and Allen Kline as Manager.
@@mackb909 You didn't get the sarcasm lmao
@@WaitingForTheHook thank you sir!
brilliant sarcasm
Mike Love sure didn't know much about contemporary music.
mike love didnt know anything about contemporary music
His guesses were laughable. Maybe he was high.
I don't disagree, but I think there were moments he was being facetious.
@@currawongs yo man don't you know the female gospel vocalist from the who??
@@iSkully99 female gospelist? Didn't Wenner call Townsend a "Master"?
Gram and Chris covering Gene Clark is good music. It may have not been a hit but it was good music.
"I can sing but not judge instruments" explains why he rejected The Flying Burrito Brothers.
Okay it took me a minute to realize that he was not taking this seriously at all and pretty much joking his way through.
#28 in the UK single New World in the Morning by Roger Whittaker with this video posted on the day of his passing. RIP Roger
Yes, spooky isn't it. RIP Roger.
Considering what i like is nothing like RW, i really liked him. A sad loss.
Love The End Tune! Thank You, ☮
Ah yes, during Mike Love's Dostoyevsky phase
he pretended to be spiritual while he was running around chasing tail
he was russell brand before russell brand
Cut him some slack, even in the early '60s; he looked like he was the father of the band.
Love the funky organ-driven instrumental cover of Black Sabbath's "Paranoid"- where did you find it?
BTW I could write a book about this, and about the U.S. rock scene in 1970; I'll try to later.
Nice cover YP
I believe all covers on this page are by YP himself.
Thanks, Mack. Yes, all the instrumentals at the end of these Blind Date videos are recorded by me. Glad you dug it!
Wow. YP, you are multitalented!
That said, I have a number of thoughts about Mike Love, whom one commenter on this video referred to sarcastically as “everybody’s favorite Beach Boy.”
It is regrettable that Mr. Love of all people should be one of the few Americans thus far represented in the old Melody Maker interviews. His apparent ignorance of much of the contemporary popular music scene in autumn 1970 is painfully evident and, given what I know of him, is not an inaccurate representation of who he was, and is, as a person- smug, egotistical, and blissfully clueless.
The important bands in the U.S. at the time, the ones making relevant and interesting music, included The Doors, Sly and the Family Stone, and Creedence Clearwater Revival. That very month, November 1970, the Grateful Dead released what is arguably their best studio album, “American Beauty,” following its predecessor, “Workingman’s Dead,” also excellent, by a scant five months (both reflected a turn toward roots and away from the psychedelia of their previous albums; 1970 was also the only year in the Dead’s history that they released two studio albums of original material). Mr. Love evinces little knowledge or interest in any of these things, as evidenced by this interview. Sadly, The Beach Boys appeared to be a hopelessly dated group even at that time, having ground to a creative halt several years earlier with
the abandonment of Brian Wilson’s ambitious magnum opus labor of love (no pun intended), “Smile,” intended as a follow-up on their groundbreaking 1966 concept album “Pet Sounds,” in early 1967 and reverting to crowd-pleasing surf music (including the 1968 hit “Do It Again”) as Mr. Wilson withdrew into quasi-reclusion. (Mr. Wilson completed “Smile” decades later, in 2004, with none of the other surviving Beach Boys involved; by that time, both of his younger brothers, Dennis and Carl, had died).
Mr. Love has not distinguished himself in his public persona over the years. Several years back, he fronted a highly-disputed lineup of The Beach Boys that played a political benefit gig for the then-incumbent U.S. president (and, God help us, possible future president- let us pray not). To their everlasting honor and credit, both Brian Wilson and Al Jardine, no lovers of the orange-toned would-be dictator, signed off on a public statement rejecting the gig, the current Beach Boys lineup, and this Leni Riefenstahl-like acquiescence to fascism.
In any case, I am inclined to take anything Mr. Love has to say on any subject with a giant, Pacific Ocean-sized grain of salt.
Mike Love co-wrote and sang The Beach Boys’ “All I Wanna Do” that year, which influenced the later shoegaze, dream pop, and chillwave music genres.
Hopefully you understand that anytime Love is credited as a "co-writer" with Brian it just means Mike came up with the vapid lyrics. The music, melody and arranging were all Wilson.
@@termsofusepolice As much as I dislike Mike and him continuing to use the Beach Boys name, I dig his performance and word choice on this more than any BB song that he sings lead.
New world in the morning storming up the charts. Always liked that even though it's not really my thing, just a great song. Rip Roger ❤
I laughed at the image of a complete square like Mike Love sitting down and listening to Colosseum. I couldn't even imagine it.
Hahaha! Surprisingly, he actually seemed to like the song.
Gotta han it to Mike Love. He didn't just recently become unbearable, he has been consistently unbearable all along.
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He is a twit, that's for sure!
He liked Colosseum, so despite many reports to the contrary, he can’t be all bad! Cool outro soundtrack… I see ‘Paranoid’ was #2 that week!
Cheers!
Ha. The elevator music version of Paranoid. A real toe tapper.
There were a lot of good albums out that month. The Carpenters' music really grew on me as I got older.
The more harder or progressive the rock, I was all in. But, I had my secret life where I listened to the Carpenters and Bread. I was just reading that in 1975 a poll was taken as to who was best rock drummer for that year and Karen Carpenter won. She beat out John Bonham!
karen had a great voice
the industry destroyed her
@@thewkovacs316 Yes, very sad.
@@boomtownrat5106 Their's was very serious-minded music. Makes me think about some of the first crushes I had as a young dude.
@@grokeffer6226 Their music marked milestones in my life. Back in the mid 1970s I lived in Downey, California, which was home to the Carpenters. They owned two apartment buildings that were across the street from each other. They had the names of The Close To You and We’ve Only Just Begun apts. The 5 freeway is a major transportation artery that runs through Downey. There were major billboards as you approached Downey to remind you that it was home to the Carpenters.
Mike Love re: Ray Davies : " ... I'd really like to meet the guy. Does he go around clubs and things?"
Ray may have frequented his locals, but I've never known of any evidence that he visited the big music clubs in downtown London. Dave did, though, and he writes about it in his first autobiography. There's even a film clip out there, somewhere, of him at one of them (The Scotch of St. James?, The Bag O' Nails?, The Speakeasy?).
Ray shouldered all the pressure of writing for The Kinks, so he was always at home working - and from everything I've ever read about him, he was never the type to be out socializing, much.
I take it that this was a major issue between him and C Hynde when they were together. She liked going out. He didn't.
Still, I'm happy to know that Mike Love was aware of him, knew his name, and wanted to meet him. I'm not much of a Mike fan, but this revelation, alone, awards him 1000 points, in my book.
Thank you, YP!
PS : I met Mike once, in May of 1973, while I was standing in line to get ice cream. He pulled up in a white, chauffeur-driven limo and stood behind us. He was wearing a white suit with a white Panama hat, and he asked us directions to a guest house in town. One of the friends I was with - who wasn't a pop music fan, particularly - asked him who he was. When Mike replied that he was with The Beach Boys, my friend said - very casually, bordering on dismissively "Oh, I've heard of them".
I laughed when he said that i know that i don't know personally Ray Davies but he describes himself (and is described) as the stereotype of an introvert so i can't imagine him just hanging around in clubs😅
That may have been the worst job I have seen of the 'guest' being able to identify who they were listening to. Glad he took up singing over reviewing records for a living.
I'm not.
Mike Love in this era was a dead ringer for Fyodor Dostoevsky...and had about the same level of knowledge about music
Glad I’m not the only one who thought that💀
Thought for sure it was Dostoevsky
Serfdom Safari
@@AJWRAJWR Putin Sounds
Bar Bar Bar Bar Barbara Anna Dostoevskaya.
working with brian was mike's calling card and way of asserting instant credibility. mike did contribute a good deal to the lyrical content of bb tunes to a point but i think brian was looking to break out of his shell. i did appreciate his appreciation for maybe the great songwriter ever in ray davies.
Love the great Desmond Dekker, yah mon. I never was a Beach Boys fan, though over time I came to appreciate the beauty of Good Vibrations and Wouldn’t It Be Nice and maybe a couple other BB songs. I’ve never sat down and listened to an album of theirs, tho, tbph, guess I never really wanted to, lol.😮
Brian Wilson basically _was_ the BB, writing & arranging the material, his harmonies and producing, etc.
To me, M. Love sounded
a little overly egotistical as well as a bit thick, as you Brits say, haha:🗿
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listen to pet sounds and any fan edits of smile
"This is good, but why is he singing about ape men?" Mike Love, in a nutshell. lol
Ha ha
About time we saw theYesterday's Paper album!!!! Yes please? Download will do. Preferably on LP, MC,8 track Cartridge or R2R.
"I'm not really much of a musician, myself. I know about arranging because I worked with Brian"
A broken clock is right once a day
Your clock truly must be broken if it's only right once a day.
@@scottandrewbrass1931 Probably a digital clock.
"Is this that reggae stuff?" I was actually quite impressed that he claimed to like Colosseum; I assumed he would slam them.
Whenever Mike Love is the focus of any UA-cam video, the Mike Love bashers come in in full force. I was not disappointed.
He deserves it
What's he do apart from taking credit away from Brian Wilson? His nasal lyrics get on my nerves and he doesn't play anything!
The worst Beach Boy by far
Fin as always, and elevated by that very swanky Paranoid outro!
That cover of Paranoid over the chart listings is incredible. Anyone know who it is?
@@markboyd9275 Thank you
I agree, that cover is fantastic!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed that cover. Yes, all the instrumentals at the end of these Blind Date videos are recorded by me.
@@YesterdaysPapers Wow! That's quite an achievement!!
@YesterdaysPapers That piece is great, sounds like it's been beamed in from 1970. Love it
3:20 "Is it The Who?" 😂Come on, that one was funny.
Creedence and The Who made me laugh. Well done, Mike!
does anyone else think the flying burrito brothers were the template for nick lowe and his cowboy outfit?
I saw archive footage of Bernie Leadon with the Flying Burrito Brothers on the History Of The Eagles documentary and thought Gram Parsons looked like a younger Nick Lowe there!
Cool episode! "I prefer this(John Mayall) to that heavy band rock". And I like your alternative version of "Paranoid", it was always too loud for me! 🤣
Cheers, Edwin!
to him, Colosseum, Mayall or Black Widow must've sounded like Celtic Frost or Napalm Death. it's like asking Taylor Swift to rate the Swans. FUN.
Ray Davis on Apeman sounds like Mungo Jerry.... correct...They were both trying to sound like Marc Bolan. Ride A White Swan was just rising up the charts that month.
For a Beach Boy, Mike wasn’t terribly informed on the music of his contemporaries. The Charts are far more indicative of the music that was popular at the time and coupled with your excellent Paranoid outro YP, was the highlight of this video for me.
Thanks, Linda!
Mike Love, demonstrating that everyone has a least one redeeming quality, let us know that he likes Little Richard.
Wow, that old version of paranoid! That is a cool way and this. Never heard that before.
Am I the only thought it was Dostoyevsky in the video thumbnail? XD
Funny that 2 years later Mike and Ray at least met once, since I saw this concert with my little sister. The Beach Boys / The Kinks / Looking Glass. Aug 19, 1972. New Jersey State Fairgrounds Trenton, NJ.. I was at Rider College with Jeff Grob from Looking Glass. (Switlick C dorm). He left to go on tour when Brandy was a hit.
Smart guy. Perceptive and surprisingly humble at times.
Sometimes the people who post comments here think that the celebrity musician doing the reviewing has to be an expert on the level of John Peel. Did anyone ever really look to Mike Love as this guy who would know every band out there? Like he would know Clem Clemson in Coliseum?
"Who the hell is this? Is this The Who?"
I was just going to make that comment.
He was being (or trying to be) funny.
Nice tune over the charts rundown
Lovely to see Canned Heat’s Future Blues in the album list. Al Wilson had only just died…
Mike Love is a legend and has seen it all.
Organ playing Black Sabbath- good stuff.
Wow. I have 14 of those top 30 albums in my collection.
Thanks for this! These are gems for a certain generation. Egads! Can you believe “Ball of Confusion” 👍👍👍is on the same chart, so close, to “Which Way You Going Billy” 👎👎👎👎👎?
As a great Beach Boys fan, it's good to hear Mike's views. Some odd records to review though. One of my favourite charts at the end.
Honestly, having read/viewed some of his past interviews, I was expecting a lot worse from Mike Love, as that particular body part from the full functioning body that the Beach Boys were (Brian W. being the brain, Dennis W. the beating heart, etc., and Mike L. being the asshole). But frankly here he sounds quite reasonable.
How long was The Sound of Music on the charts ? !!!!
It was on the charts for at least 10 years, I think.
I have to respect that Mike Love is exactly the person that I'd expect him to be in 1970 as he would be in any other year
Love the version of Paranoid at the end. Cheers.
He was flirting with taking a few jabs at Ray Davies, but just couldn't. It's hard to go negative on the brilliant Ray Davies, but I do agree, you can hear a touch of Mungo Jerry in a few early 70s Kinks tracks.
ray has a distinct sounding voice
only someone with a tin plated ear wouldnt recognize him immediately
Mike came off as likeable and humble there. Refreshing
Mike Love had a great look back then sort of a mash up of late Howard Hughes and the Maharishi.
Mike and that robe; “Shaman Mike” period.
I seriously need that amazing cover of Paranoid at the end.
What on earth is he doing at the start of that song???
Cheers!
Black Sabbath got 2 albums in top twenty! That's nice!
私は日本人ですが自動翻訳でこのチャンネルをいつも楽しんでいます。
素晴らしい動画をありがとう！
Thanks!
That's a funky organ Paranoid version. Cool 👍
mike love is the anti-crhist
i have no idea how one can hate the flying burrito bros, who i heard a ton of times playing free concerts in golden gate park
heard....didnt see...my family home is only a couple of blocks from the park
and how does one put down creedence
one of the few bands who could recreate what was on their albums in live concerts
The flip side of the FBB is better, should have played that.
At least Mike Love admits he's not really a musician.
Mike Love is being insanely ironic. Sometimes one has to play the fool. Love the inclusion of the GP video, though.
the ending music is black sabbath's paranoid but it sounds like its being played by booker t and the mgs. cheeky!
Surf's Up! 🌊🏄🌊🏄🌊🏄🌊
to this day, mike is confused by the lyrics to that song
As others have said, that outro is great. Did you play it on keyboards or use a pedal of some sort? Really good.
Thanks! It was a clavinet with a wah-wah pedal.
GOD SAVE THE KINKS!!! 🍷🍷🤩🤩
Mike is being facetious in a lot of his comments -- I'm not sure it entirely comes across when read with that accent. Pretty funny about "Apeman", coming from someone who was intimately involved in creating "Kokomo" with the Boys. It is good to hear from an American fogey for once.
"Is it The Who?" 😂
Any PJ PROBY videos in the future?
Mike Love may be a jerk, but you gotta hand it to him for writing The Brothers Karamazov
if only mike had come a few months earlier, could you imagine him hearing black widow - sacrifice instead of that lackluster 2nd album 🤣
Nice version of "Paranoid" at the end😮, who recorded this one?
Yeah, he has no room to talk about anyone's musical ability---especially, since his own musical prowess is limited to shaking a tambourine (which any 6 year old can do) or making "car horn" honking noises with a saxophone on "Shut Down"
it's interesting that despite being surrounded by tons of musical talent, he never actually tried to learn a single musical instrument
@@thewkovacs316 Well, he did learn the theramin, as that was needed for "Good Vibrations" on tour, but again--any 6 year old could move that knob up and down--doesn't take a great amount of skill. I don't know if he was in band class in high school, but he brought along a saxophone in the early years, but he was no "Boots" Randolph---it was really only used like a sound effect machine on their early garage numbers, so he could look busy on stage. When they got to more challenging music requiring a sax, they gave his sax the boot---as he said in one interview, "I lost it in Urbana, Ohio"🤣🤣
He is consistent I'll say that. 🐞
I'd love to meet Ray Davies as well.
Mike es una parte muy importante de los Beach boys y por lo tanto de la mejor música el siglo 20. Nadie se lo puede quitar ni siquiera él mismo.
Agreed! 👍
@@petestaint8312 👍
The chart featured was from September 1970 not November
Mike Love Not War
Hahaha!
I thought that's Dostoevsky on the thumbnail.
That organ version of Paranoid was the best.....who is it?
I recorded that myself.
@@YesterdaysPapers I dig it, brother!😎
@@impalaman9707 Thanks!
I didn’t realize that by 1970 Mike Love had become Rasputin.
A bit harsh on Tom Baker (he played Rasputin in the film Nicholas and Alexandra)
He doesn't know much about music in general at all and this confirms it.