I met Mike Love in London earlier in the year and told him my favourite album was Summer In Paradise. He eyed me suspiciously, then offered a fistbump. I felt like I betrayed all of music as I returned the bump.
@@octurn i dont make a habit of meeting controversial band members. They were book signing and I couldn't bring myself to say what amazing work you were a part of. But I wanted the book.
The Beach Boys have a legitimate claim to having made the best and worst albums of all time. That is pretty impressive. I think it's also worth noting that Brian has almost 0 involvement in this one. As for Mike, I don't think there's a County Fair in the US he hasn't performed at.
Brian's only connection was as the writer of "Surfin'." The version on "Summer in Paradise" gets my vote as the musical low point in the Beach Boys' history. Brian wasn't listed as a member of the group in the liner notes.
Mike Love seriously misunderstood what it was that made the Beach Boys matter. He had absolutely no shadow of a clue that Paul McCartney's respect for his cousin Brian didn't particularly extend to Brian's brothers, let alone a fortunate cousin. Mike's longevity has become tedious, his ego as embarrassing as his delusions of relevance.
I'm a huge Beach Boys fan, so I bought this when it came out. You are too kind to it. It is truly the worst piece of garbage ever released by a major act. I've only been able to listen to it twice. The second time just to prove to myself it was as truly horrible as I thought it was on first listen. I am embarrassed for Carl Wilson and Al Jardine for being involved with it. If any more proof were needed to demonstrate conclusively Mike Love's total lack of artistic vision and creativity, this album is it.
@@TZ1000-zu7ki Honestly not wanting to tarnish Carl's memory would be a perfectly valid reason for why this has never been reissued or made available on streaming platforms like Spotify.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again......calling Summer in Paradise a dumpster fire is an insult to the fine infernos that come from large metal trash bins. Great video once again!
Even when they do, it's like, "No, please don't, no, no, just don't, Mike, hey, look at me, don't do it, Michael, listen..." Egomaniac: Nah, it'll be fine, the fans will love it.
I'll give you three reasons why I think you're wrong about this album. 1). I'm unreasonable 2). I'm absurd and 3). I have no idea what I'm talking about.
Discovering 'Summer In Paradise' is like finding a used condom washed up on the coast of California's Big Sur: At first you're appalled, and then you consider... well, someone must've had fun with this. I found a $5 used copy on CD at my local pawn shop ages ago, and I've heard they made less than 10,000 of them worldwide; maybe less than 5,000, by some accounts.
@@SpaceCattttt Good point, but eternity makes for several million repeats, and I'm afraid I won't be able to join you there in hell's den of ultimate torture.
@@brotherWesley Eternity has no number. A few million repeats is just enough to get the party started. Why can't you join me? I can see why you wouldn't want to, but there's nobody keeping you out...
While I won't refute most of Mike Love's well-documented faults, I don't think he was completely useless to the Beach Boys. To his credit, he did write some very good lyrics (Warmth of the Sun, Big Sur, All This is That...and his revised lyrics to Good Vibrations are much better than Tony Asher's original set), and while he had none of the vocal range of his bandmates, he did have a distinctive tone that worked perfectly on some songs, and his deep baritone was a nice addition to their vocal harmonies. But that aside, yeah, he's pretty much an asshole.
Haha. I figured the Beach Boys were done in 1967. Good Vibrations was the end of The Beach Boys for me. I still liked their earlier surfing and hotrod songs, but I'd moved on to The Doors, Hendrix, Cream, etc.
From friends in 68 to Holland in 73,they made great albums,Where Carl & Dennis,showed that they had enormous talent.I saw them tour summer in paradise at Wembley,great as usual,I liked the album cover,& yes,the albums an embarrassment,but I have heard worse in the passed,including Lou reeds Metal music.
Truly wretched. Bill Wyman can relax, this record outshines Wymans 'Monkey Grip' as the worst collection of vinyl excrement ever. I'd rather have a root canal then listen to Mike Love ever-forever. Thanks brother, you're appreciated.
I'm still trying to figure out why "Pet Sounds" is held on such a high pedestal. The Beach Boys have some good tracks, but I don't consider any of their albums to be "killer".
It's a very unpopular opinion and one that I agree with. I have given Pet Sounds several listens and didn't think much of it. Yeah, it's okay but I'd rate "Revolver" light years ahead of it.
The horrible drums courtesy of Jim Keltner on the E-Mu SP-1200 sampling drum machine…I give Keltner, a studio stalwart, major credit for changing with the times and embracing electronics in the 80s. But ugh. I have always loathed this album!
Anyone who owned the original CD will know the only redeeming feature was the fact that the case was almost impossible to open. Yep so bad it needed a child proof lid.
@@111Benzie I know the CD came in a case with a complicated latching design. I own a copy. And I know by Beach Boys standards (my favoutite band) it is a very poor effort. So sorry I don't know what YOU'RE talking about.
Hmmm...lessee...there's the M.I.U. album, L.A., Still Cruisin'...need we continue? Anything that begins with "Mike Love" has already started its trip downhill.
@@dj71162 Had the album since its original release. I stand by what I -- and many others -- have said. You are, of course, entitled to your own opinions.
MIU and LA have some stunning tracks on them. A few crap ones, admittedly - but that’s the case with most albums. But although Mike Love’s voice is a great part of the classic vocal sound he has always behaved like a prat on stage.
@@TheOverlordOfProcrastination Agreed, it’s too easy to just discard any post Pet Sounds output. Holland, 20/20, Friends, Love You, Surf’s Up are great albums. And MIU and L.A. have their moments too. It’s a pity Mike Love’s terrible reputation put such a blemish on The Beach Boys brand. But if you put all of that crap aside, 70s Beach Boys is pretty good.
L.A. doesn't receive the credit that it deserves. It starts of with an excellent song by Brian and Carl, contains Dennis's last ever output which is among his best, and has some great songs by Carl too. The songs by Mike and Al are not bad at all. Bruce's 11-minute disco version of Here Comes The Night is maybe not everybody's cup of tea, but it's a historical landmark, a lot of fun and really well produced. And it closes with the equally historical, only official release of Brian's quintessential 1970s oddity, Shortening Bread. Even the album sleeve has a front side that is apt and pretty, and a back side that is weird and creepy. The whole thing is a classic of their late period.
It's not the worst album ever. The worst album ever is, Anne Frank The Music For Today (2004). 22 young people from Lincolnshire, with the guidance of five professional music producers made an album based on the Anne Frank exhibition. Track listing 1. Dark Eyes 2. Wrong Time Wrong Place 3. What Have We Done? 4. Child Free/Tree of Hope 5. Music is My Freedom 6. In Spite of Everything 7. Two Years 8. Concentration 9. I Just Wanna Play 10. Sit and Hope TRIGGER WARNING FOR TRACK 11 😂 11. Jews Blues Yeah. Worst. Album. Ever.
I'm up to Track 5. Track 1 is ok, Track 2 is forgivable when you realise it's made by a bunch of kids and then... The highest praise I can give this is that Frank Zappa would have liked it.
Well, it wasn't easy, but I made it through the whole album. The standout track has to be the last one, "Jews Blues." It's an upbeat number sung by a kid who appears to be doing a bad impression of Louie Armstrong, with catchy lyrics like "aw, aw, we're dyin'. All the Jews are dyin'." I highly recommend it.
Like a lot of bad music, a lot of this is boring, really boring. But 'Jew's Blues' is like driving past a fatal car crash. You shouldn't stare but you can't help it. Mad lyrics-'Don't know why but Hitler does not like us!' Really has to heard to be believed.
The Beach Boys are one of a long line of 60's bands who captured a moment, and then spent the rest of thier lives trying to re-live it, with increasingly poor and uninspiring results. The belligerent nostalgia of thier original fanbase carried them through otherwise indifferent times, and none of them realised that nobody wanted or needed to hear Kokomocodamol apart from that one loudmouth, berating the youth about how they had real music back in his day. Mike Love is the equivalent of Yoko Ono; a hack, getting by on his out dated association with real and genuine talent.
@@Midnightmidway but I am old enough. They are boring and simple and any guitarist that’s played for 6 months could play an Ace solo. Strange assumption considering you don’t know me😄
I love The Beach Boys. It’s a shame they are often derided for the -admittedly- terrible stuff they made. Post Pet Sound albums like 20/20, Friends, Holland, Surf’s Up and particularly Beach Boys Love You are really great. It’s too bad their reputation got so tarnished by the Mike Love shenanigans and Brian Wilson’s mental issues. It undermined the quality of music they were capable of and did put out. So forget all that, put on Holland and just listen without prejudice.
Good show Barry. Never heard that album but I don’t think I’m missing anything. The Beach Boys ended for me with Surf’s Up though I did like Getcha Back and their California Dreamin’ cover as exceptions.
I'll have to take your word on that particular Beach Boys album = However - I nominate Ted Nugent - Shutup & Jam. The cheese factor could not be higher and the guitars couldn't be more generic. Contains classics like I Love My BBQ (I love my barbecue, it's what Americans do) brilliant lyrics...
It’s a terrible album, but my vote goes to Cut The Crap by The Clash. Tinny, out of sync and out of time drum machines that clearly nobody knew how to use, ghastly synthetic horns and totally random synth stabs, brain dead lyrics, oi! style football terrace chant choruses in EVERY SINGLE SONG….the album is completely unlistenable. ‘Summer In Paradise’ and the other albums mentioned in the comments are awful, but not to the extent they have been almost completely airbrushed from bands’ histories, like Cut The Crap has (apart from the song ‘This Is England’, which is quite good I admit). Ok Mick and Topper had been sacked by the time Cut The Crap came out, but it is still technically a Clash album, and for an album to be practically airbrushed out of a band’s history is to the extent Cut The Crap has is virtually unprecedented. I mean, the title of the album alone - they couldn’t have set themselves up any worse for the reviews if they tried.
@@bradcomer4524 yes I've seen Todd's video on Cut The Crap, it's great. His line about the song Dictator sounding like 'two radio stations trying to share the same frequency' is spot on. Seen a few of his videos and really enjoyed them and his dry, world weary sense of humour, didn't know he'd done Summer In Paradise, will give it a watch next!
Be interesting to get your take on the trend by some bands to change their lyrics "for modern times" (Duran Duran removed the word "Queer" and replaced it with "Queen" for their version of Bowie's Five Years) - and also the censorship of original album covers: e/g the Blind Faith album and also Hendrix's bevy of naked beauties :-) To me its all art and should stay as it was.....
Hendrix absolutely hated that cover concept. That's why he didn't show up for the photo shoot for it and the models hold pictures of him and the "Axis: Bold As Love" cover. He had sketched out his own concept around a Linda Eastman photograph that he wanted to be used. The record label completely ignored it.
When I saw the title of this video I assumed you were going to talk about Mike Rutherford’s Acting Very Strange which sounds throughout like someone singing into a bucket whilst someone else scrapes a metal rod across some tarmac in the background.
I met Mike Love in Australia in 1978. The concert was terrible but he still had a very high opinion of himself. I once had an album where the harmonica was in the wrong key & it wasn’t Jazz.
Saw the Beach Boys perform in Adelaide (South Australia) in the early 2000s. By the Beach Boys I mean "Mike Love and several other guys none would know". Mike spent the whole performance wiping away whatever it was constantly running out of his nose. Can't think what caused that! IThe show was a triple act of old performers: Beach Boys, Christopher Cross (who was quite good) and the original line-up of Daddy Cool who were fantastic (and the real reason I was there).
I'll have to dig this album up somewhere, I've never heard of it or listened to it. My #1 for worst album is the self-titled "Its A Beautiful Day" with the big hit 'White Bird'. Besides that standout track, its just 35 minute of droning violin and cello. Having to spend an hour listening to a grade school orchestra recital would be preferrable to this album. Its so loathsome it could be played to ward off zombies. And to think about 20 years ago a clean copy of it would sell for $1500.
Actually, if they had of listened to Mike, the guy who stayed sober and off the drugs ,then they may have been successful with the old surf ,hot rod songs,and furthered their carrer . The wilsons lost the plot and everyone blames mike? He was goofy fair enough, but I think he gets a bad rap
I only know this album from the Todd in the Shadows Video (and now this one I guess), but I think what sets it apart from merely bad is that it is bad anyway, and then has Mike Love's oozing, leering, dirty old man creepiness all over it. A basic problem with late Beach Boys is their songs are thematically stuck in youth, but the other Beach Boys are able to perform such material in a nostalgic vein, whereas Mike Love clearly just wants to go cruise for chicks. Off-putting.
Not to interrupt the well-deserved Mike Love bashing, but that oh-so-beloved mad genius Brian Wilson went full paedo on "The Beach Boys Love You" album in 1977. He was a total creep in his lyrics long before his cousin. At least Love wasn't perving on little girls on roller skates and fantasising about whatever the hell kind of deranged sickness is going on in "I Wanna Pick You Up". Then again, Mike had no problem singing Brian's weird creepy brain farts, like the "Loves You" stuff or "Hey Little Tomboy". And that thing was basically Brian's solo LP that was just marketed as a Beach Boys album. It was even supposed to be called "Brian Loves You", initially.
@@henrygvidonas9573 Oh I know, and agree. He even married a minor in his actual life. I'm just talking about who gives me creepy vibes strictly as a performer when singing old Beach Boys 60s classics, and it's Mike Love. And it's not really so much a "oh the poor tortured genuis" thing (though that no doubt helps). Brian Wilson is just too strange and fragile a presence for me to find knee-jerk repulsive in the same way even if intellectually I know the case against him, whereas Mike Love is a very ordinary kind of creepy, and the knee knows exactly how to jerk. I doubt it's just me.
I worked at a corporate record store when this came out and we were supposed to play it in the store to promote it. I think hearing it first actually hindered sales. Surf's Up will always be my go-to Beach Boys album. By the way, I love that painting to your right. Beautiful. Thanks for the video!
It wasn't on one of their recognised studio albums (possibly a single release), but it is on Greatest Hits Vol. 3: The Best of the Brother Years. (I think that's what it's called.)
I picture Mick Jagger cites the imagery Mike Love conjured up for this album as a major influence on his later career; surrounding himself with girls a fraction of his age whom we are supposed to believe are REALLY into him. And I love the Stones, but every time I see Jagger insisting on doing a duet with some hot, young, it-girl pop star, it comes off like Al Bundy at The Jiggly Room. Mike Love did that here, and we must recognize him for the visionary he is.
I have a real soft spot for the beach boys, they wrote some amazing songs but they really did some awful stuff too. But why does it keep showing Bruce Johnson while naming Al Jardine 😂
The second guy isn't Al Jardine. Al was the cutest. The replacement was born to become a Wal*Mart greeter yet magically ended up in a legendary band. Huh.
The reason Mike Love clings onto the Beach Boys name is that he has nothing else to offer. All the others had respect and careers away from the BB brand, but he was a coattail holder. His speech when being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame said it all. He has the grace of a tapeworm and an ego the size of his much loved State of California.
Kind of hard to reclaim those glory days when most of the creative force behind them are dead and buried, and when everything you release has to compete with "Pet Sounds".
Let me preface that I really like the Beach Boys, from the period of Pet Sounds to Holland or thereabouts they released some fantastic albums. That being said, I saw them (the only time I have, actually) in June 1991, a year before Summer in Paradise was released, and it remains the worst concert I have yet seen. It was at Lake Compounce in CT. As the tickets were only $3, I guess I can't rightly complain too much. I didn't know much about the band back then, aside from knowing their hits. Mike Love would go on lengthy rambles about long-past glories in the band's history, and they had women in cheerleader outfits run around for "Be True to Your School." Just extremely cheesy. When they broke into "Kokomo" (a godawful song, in my opinion) the group of friends I was with got up and left, and it seems a lot of others in the audience took that opportunity to exit as well. I guess that time frame, the late 80s-early 90s, was their artistic nadir.
I saw the thumbnail and thought you were going to say Journey's Escape album, I would have disagreed but agree about The Beach Boys. They had so many albums but just couldn't seem to find their sound after Pet Sounds.
If you want to hear the best Beach Boys music listen to a greatest hits album . Most of their albums are really bad . After Pet Sounds it all went down hill
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Can't say I agree with that. Sunflower and Surf's Up were good. After that, yes.
How does this album compare to what's on my list as far as worse album? Judas Priest- Turbo Judas Priest- Ram it down Kiss - Unmasked Kiss- Sonic boom Queen - Hot space
This isn't the first place I've dropped this comment, but I still stand by it: If the songs on Summer In Paradise were as awesome and magnificent as the sleeve art, this would have been one of the BBs absolute greatest albums. Alas, of course, this wasn't the case, though I do think "Lahaina Aloha" is a pretty decent piece of work and keeps this album from being a complete dumpster fire.
You're mistaking "worst" with "not my taste". BB85 is a 1980s classic and objectively a good album, though maybe not what fans wanted to hear. SiP comes with a health warning. Be careful with that stuff.
I was also really sad when they supported Status Quo on a truly awful version of "Fun, Fun, Fun." With all due respect to the Quo, the Beach Boys playing second fiddle to Status Quo is rather like the Beatles playing second fiddle to Showaddywaddy.
Well, it was the 1980s and many of those 1960s bands attempted to remain relevant in a world that had come down from its' collective acid-trip and was trying to find a new path. For most of those bands from the 60s, it just didn't work for them in the 80s. Jefferson Airplane is my favorite band from the 1960s but their "reunion" album from 1989 entitled Jefferson Airplane was horrible so I felt that pain too. I can't think of any of those 60s bands that actually thrived in the 1980s aside from the Grateful Dead who had massive success with the song "Touch Of Grey" back in 1987 which pushed them into the mainstream but other than that I can't think of any other 1960s era bands who really made waves in the 1980s.
The Dead acted their age. They came off gracefully playing their own brand of music and not following the current trends unlike other 60s acts in the 80s such as CSNY and Neils solo output.
yeh agree only time saw dead was the 87 tour arena both nights and rfk 94 at least they could play the music they wanted to some good others not so much94 was outdoor rain mudfest so sound not as good indoor arena 87
Beach boys started out strong but became overrated. As time went on, Brian wilson's level of genius produced music that only a stoned alien could enjoy.
I have a Beach Boys "Greatest Hits" CD album. The last track on it is a cover of The Mamas and Papas' California Dream from around 1986. Was that from this album?
No. That cover is not on this steaming pile of an album. It first appeared as the final track on the 1986 "Made in USA" album which was a "greatest hits" album (since it doesn't use that phrase, the better term would be "compilation" album) and it was the last track. But, it also appeared on some other compilations (per Allmusic, it's the last track on "The Absolute Best, Vol 2" and the "Greatest Hits Vol 3: Best of the Brother Years").
I will always be deeply annoyed that the one time I saw a celebrity in the wild at Disneyland, it was Mike Love (accompanied by an all-douchebag entourage).
I met Mike Love in London earlier in the year and told him my favourite album was Summer In Paradise. He eyed me suspiciously, then offered a fistbump. I felt like I betrayed all of music as I returned the bump.
And let me guess. After meeting Mike Love you turned the corner and bumped into Carl Palmer.
@@octurn i dont make a habit of meeting controversial band members. They were book signing and I couldn't bring myself to say what amazing work you were a part of. But I wanted the book.
You did but at least you know what you did and will behave better in the future 😜
Hey @@ackerjawaka4742! How do you know I don't love the album?! Ok, ok, I'll be better behaved when Bruce comes to town.
@@shamilton2556 lol 😂 😂 😂 nice retort ⚡
Mike Love "pimped out" the band...nailed it...
Actually, he outright stole the band.
"This is a festering dog turd of an album" - come off the fence and tell us how you really feel :-)
Along with "this excremental offering", lol 😊
@@RogueReplicant It was one of the best reviews I've seen in a while! Glad I wasn't drinking my coffee when he said that!
The Beach Boys have a legitimate claim to having made the best and worst albums of all time. That is pretty impressive. I think it's also worth noting that Brian has almost 0 involvement in this one. As for Mike, I don't think there's a County Fair in the US he hasn't performed at.
Hey, fifty bucks is fifty bucks.
Not "almost 0". Just 0.
Brian's only connection was as the writer of "Surfin'." The version on "Summer in Paradise" gets my vote as the musical low point in the Beach Boys' history. Brian wasn't listed as a member of the group in the liner notes.
Best & worst, great observation 👍
Those poor girls having to pretend to like the song for video. They should get combat pay.
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Having to hang out with Mike Love, in and of itself, qualifies them for combat pay.
Mike Love seriously misunderstood what it was that made the Beach Boys matter. He had absolutely no shadow of a clue that Paul McCartney's respect for his cousin Brian didn't particularly extend to Brian's brothers, let alone a fortunate cousin. Mike's longevity has become tedious, his ego as embarrassing as his delusions of relevance.
Boy, you nailed it on all accounts. I couldn't agree more.
And his political "activism"is a disgrace to the Beach Boys legacy.
Disagree on the Wilson brothers. They moved out of Brian's shadow in the 70s and wrote some decent stuff.
Positively dreadful album
@@harvey1954 "decent"
I'm a huge Beach Boys fan, so I bought this when it came out. You are too kind to it. It is truly the worst piece of garbage ever released by a major act. I've only been able to listen to it twice. The second time just to prove to myself it was as truly horrible as I thought it was on first listen. I am embarrassed for Carl Wilson and Al Jardine for being involved with it. If any more proof were needed to demonstrate conclusively Mike Love's total lack of artistic vision and creativity, this album is it.
@@TZ1000-zu7ki Honestly not wanting to tarnish Carl's memory would be a perfectly valid reason for why this has never been reissued or made available on streaming platforms like Spotify.
And I'll bet Brian Wilson wasn't on it
I've said it before, and I'll say it again......calling Summer in Paradise a dumpster fire is an insult to the fine infernos that come from large metal trash bins. Great video once again!
Yeah--like that rates as the worst album when you got all those overrated, in with the critic's records.
This album is a reminder that some truly terrifying stuff occurs when friends and loved ones fail to say "No, please don't. That's a terrible idea."
Even when they do, it's like, "No, please don't, no, no, just don't, Mike, hey, look at me, don't do it, Michael, listen..."
Egomaniac: Nah, it'll be fine, the fans will love it.
Mike Love has friends? That's a bold assumption if ever I heard one.
I'll give you three reasons why I think you're wrong about this album. 1). I'm unreasonable 2). I'm absurd and 3). I have no idea what I'm talking about.
You have me convinced. 😏
This guy's making a lot of sense... I propose we make him our leader.
4) I'm Mike Love.
Donald…. Is that you !?
Mike Love has done a fantastic job of tarnishing the name and credibility of the Beach Boys.
He sure has!
Discovering 'Summer In Paradise' is like finding a used condom washed up on the coast of California's Big Sur: At first you're appalled, and then you consider... well, someone must've had fun with this.
I found a $5 used copy on CD at my local pawn shop ages ago, and I've heard they made less than 10,000 of them worldwide; maybe less than 5,000, by some accounts.
"... well, someone must've had fun with this. "
Summed up brilliantly!
Unfortunately, that "someone" happened to be Mike Love going solo.
Its colossal commercial failure had the ironic effect of making it one of the Beach Boys' most collectible items.
Coney Island white fish
@@orbyfan Somehow I doubt that.
I hear that the album was so bad that Charles Manson finally canceled the decades-long fatwa against the Beach Boys and Melchior.
He was in prison by then and feeling pretty good about not having access to this album.
Oh, it's an atrocious album, but I'd rather listen to it on repeat for eternity than anything by Ed Sheeran, Harry Styles or Justin Bieber...
@@SpaceCattttt Good point, but eternity makes for several million repeats, and I'm afraid I won't be able to join you there in hell's den of ultimate torture.
@@brotherWesley Eternity has no number. A few million repeats is just enough to get the party started.
Why can't you join me? I can see why you wouldn't want to, but there's nobody keeping you out...
Hmm...not much of a choice there.
Enough to make a point.
Or ANYTHING in the rap/hip-hop genre.
Surf! Summer! Album sounds like an episode of Beverly Hills 90210
Or Baywatch, for that matter!
Oh that's right.....
How dare you insult the treasure that is Beverly Hills 90210!
Van Morrison's Contractual Obligation Album gets my vote.
No, that album is amazing! I can just never figure out if my favorite song from it is "Blow In Your Nose" or "Nose In Your Blow". 🤣
While I won't refute most of Mike Love's well-documented faults, I don't think he was completely useless to the Beach Boys. To his credit, he did write some very good lyrics (Warmth of the Sun, Big Sur, All This is That...and his revised lyrics to Good Vibrations are much better than Tony Asher's original set), and while he had none of the vocal range of his bandmates, he did have a distinctive tone that worked perfectly on some songs, and his deep baritone was a nice addition to their vocal harmonies.
But that aside, yeah, he's pretty much an asshole.
Haha. I figured the Beach Boys were done in 1967. Good Vibrations was the end of The Beach Boys for me. I still liked their earlier surfing and hotrod songs, but I'd moved on to The Doors, Hendrix, Cream, etc.
Your age is showing
You old rocker
From friends in 68 to Holland in 73,they made great albums,Where Carl & Dennis,showed that they had enormous talent.I saw them tour summer in paradise at Wembley,great as usual,I liked the album cover,& yes,the albums an embarrassment,but I have heard worse in the passed,including Lou reeds Metal music.
Metal Machine Music is a zen masterpiece. Side 3 is the best.
@@TranceMasterJack Each to their own
I use to like the Partridge family before I heard Lou Reed
@@gerrylambert5225 I am old, that is a fact
Rumor has it Mike Love originally wanted to title this album "Mike Love's Beach Boys in Mike Love's Summer In Paradise, starring Mike Love"
Doesn't even have his sister, Darlene, singing on it either.
Truly wretched. Bill Wyman can relax, this record outshines Wymans 'Monkey Grip' as the worst collection of vinyl excrement ever. I'd rather have a root canal then listen to Mike Love ever-forever. Thanks brother, you're appreciated.
I'm still trying to figure out why "Pet Sounds" is held on such a high pedestal. The Beach Boys have some good tracks, but I don't consider any of their albums to be "killer".
It's a very unpopular opinion and one that I agree with. I have given Pet Sounds several listens and didn't think much of it. Yeah, it's okay but I'd rate "Revolver" light years ahead of it.
Pet Sounds is overrated.
I agree, Pet Sounds has some good individual tracks, but is nothing like a concept album as many seem to portray.
You're not listening completely.
@@eaglebauer944 Okay, whatever you say.
The horrible drums courtesy of Jim Keltner on the E-Mu SP-1200 sampling drum machine…I give Keltner, a studio stalwart, major credit for changing with the times and embracing electronics in the 80s. But ugh. I have always loathed this album!
How do you make such a legendary sampling drum machine sound so bad? lol
Anyone who owned the original CD will know the only redeeming feature was the fact that the case was almost impossible to open. Yep so bad it needed a child proof lid.
I bought a cassette copy, which in Canada was released on the Attic label.
@@orbyfan I still have trouble opening the CD case. Not that I do that very often. I've only kept it to keep my Beach Boys collection complete.
@@andrewwarrenmusicnz4373 It's a good omen! The music gods are protecting your hearing 😊
You don't know what you are talking about.
@@111Benzie I know the CD came in a case with a complicated latching design. I own a copy. And I know by Beach Boys standards (my favoutite band) it is a very poor effort. So sorry I don't know what YOU'RE talking about.
Hmmm...lessee...there's the M.I.U. album, L.A., Still Cruisin'...need we continue? Anything that begins with "Mike Love" has already started its trip downhill.
Have you heard "Big Sur" off the Holland album? He has written some good songs.
@@dj71162 Had the album since its original release. I stand by what I -- and many others -- have said. You are, of course, entitled to your own opinions.
MIU and LA have some stunning tracks on them. A few crap ones, admittedly - but that’s the case with most albums.
But although Mike Love’s voice is a great part of the classic vocal sound he has always behaved like a prat on stage.
@@TheOverlordOfProcrastination Agreed, it’s too easy to just discard any post Pet Sounds output. Holland, 20/20, Friends, Love You, Surf’s Up are great albums. And MIU and L.A. have their moments too.
It’s a pity Mike Love’s terrible reputation put such a blemish on The Beach Boys brand. But if you put all of that crap aside, 70s Beach Boys is pretty good.
L.A. doesn't receive the credit that it deserves. It starts of with an excellent song by Brian and Carl, contains Dennis's last ever output which is among his best, and has some great songs by Carl too. The songs by Mike and Al are not bad at all. Bruce's 11-minute disco version of Here Comes The Night is maybe not everybody's cup of tea, but it's a historical landmark, a lot of fun and really well produced. And it closes with the equally historical, only official release of Brian's quintessential 1970s oddity, Shortening Bread. Even the album sleeve has a front side that is apt and pretty, and a back side that is weird and creepy. The whole thing is a classic of their late period.
It could have been worse...Melcher might have brought in Manson.
Probably would have been an improvement, lol.
@@mondoenterprises6710 Beat me to it lol.
@@mondoenterprises6710 I'll listen to Lie over this any day.
Ironic that Melcher's connection to Manson was through one of the Beach Boys.
Actually, Manson wasn't all that bad. If he hadn't gone on to become a mass murderer, he'd have been a big music star.
It's not the worst album ever. The worst album ever is, Anne Frank The Music For Today (2004). 22 young people from Lincolnshire, with the guidance of five professional music producers made an album based on the Anne Frank exhibition.
Track listing
1. Dark Eyes
2. Wrong Time Wrong Place
3. What Have We Done?
4. Child Free/Tree of Hope
5. Music is My Freedom
6. In Spite of Everything
7. Two Years
8. Concentration
9. I Just Wanna Play
10. Sit and Hope
TRIGGER WARNING FOR TRACK 11 😂
11. Jews Blues
Yeah. Worst. Album. Ever.
I thought you were joking, but after a quick Google search...
Oh good Lord.
I'm up to Track 5. Track 1 is ok, Track 2 is forgivable when you realise it's made by a bunch of kids and then...
The highest praise I can give this is that Frank Zappa would have liked it.
Sounds like it is going to be dreadful. Don't know it but will check it out! Thanks! 👍
Well, it wasn't easy, but I made it through the whole album. The standout track has to be the last one, "Jews Blues." It's an upbeat number sung by a kid who appears to be doing a bad impression of Louie Armstrong, with catchy lyrics like "aw, aw, we're dyin'. All the Jews are dyin'." I highly recommend it.
Like a lot of bad music, a lot of this is boring, really boring. But 'Jew's Blues' is like driving past a fatal car crash. You shouldn't stare but you can't help it. Mad lyrics-'Don't know why but Hitler does not like us!' Really has to heard to be believed.
"A bevy of bikini beauties"
I appreciate your witty alliterations.
And not a bikini in sight,as far as I could tell. Only Guantanamo color one-pieces. Would a “Gaggle of Gurning Girliesl” be a better fit?
"Mike Love unashamedly pisses on the band's creative spark". Spectacular!
We all know somebody like Mike Love.. I've been trying to avoid them all my life.
The Beach Boys are one of a long line of 60's bands who captured a moment, and then spent the rest of thier lives trying to re-live it, with increasingly poor and uninspiring results. The belligerent nostalgia of thier original fanbase carried them through otherwise indifferent times, and none of them realised that nobody wanted or needed to hear Kokomocodamol apart from that one loudmouth, berating the youth about how they had real music back in his day. Mike Love is the equivalent of Yoko Ono; a hack, getting by on his out dated association with real and genuine talent.
Weird Al Jardine
Yeah, I drew the line at that album. Funny how each of Brian's solo lps from this time on are not that bad.
Anything by Kiss is the worst album ever😆
You got that right
Live album beats 'em all
Easy to spot those who aren't old enough to have experienced the magic of KISS in the early/mid 70s
@@Midnightmidway but I am old enough. They are boring and simple and any guitarist that’s played for 6 months could play an Ace solo. Strange assumption considering you don’t know me😄
I guess some of us define "magic" differently @Midnightmidway
Mike Love is to music like Kathleen Kennedy is to Star Wars.
Eloquent brutality!
I love The Beach Boys. It’s a shame they are often derided for the -admittedly- terrible stuff they made.
Post Pet Sound albums like 20/20, Friends, Holland, Surf’s Up and particularly Beach Boys Love You are really great. It’s too bad their reputation got so tarnished by the Mike Love shenanigans and Brian Wilson’s mental issues. It undermined the quality of music they were capable of and did put out.
So forget all that, put on Holland and just listen without prejudice.
Elton John's 1980 disco album 'Victim of Love' springs to mind (especially when you consider the dozen or so albums that preceeded it).
Good show Barry. Never heard that album but I don’t think I’m missing anything. The Beach Boys ended for me with Surf’s Up though I did like Getcha Back and their California Dreamin’ cover as exceptions.
You didn't like Holland?
the beach boys were always overhyped for me,no balls in their songs to speak of at all.just audible candy floss
There are thousands albums worst than this one.
No.
I doubt it's that many.
Continuously shite! Brilliantly put. Mike love’s love vacation. Oh the horrors. 😂
I'll have to take your word on that particular Beach Boys album = However - I nominate Ted Nugent - Shutup & Jam. The cheese factor could not be higher and the guitars couldn't be more generic. Contains classics like I Love My BBQ (I love my barbecue, it's what Americans do) brilliant lyrics...
You haven’t heard of “The Shaggs.”
Why do i always think of the old gray whistle test when i come across you. 😂
As a Beach Boys fan I’m proud to say I’ve never listened to it. I’m also very sad to have heard the snippets you played. Long live Brian Wilson.
It’s a terrible album, but my vote goes to Cut The Crap by The Clash. Tinny, out of sync and out of time drum machines that clearly nobody knew how to use, ghastly synthetic horns and totally random synth stabs, brain dead lyrics, oi! style football terrace chant choruses in EVERY SINGLE SONG….the album is completely unlistenable. ‘Summer In Paradise’ and the other albums mentioned in the comments are awful, but not to the extent they have been almost completely airbrushed from bands’ histories, like Cut The Crap has (apart from the song ‘This Is England’, which is quite good I admit). Ok Mick and Topper had been sacked by the time Cut The Crap came out, but it is still technically a Clash album, and for an album to be practically airbrushed out of a band’s history is to the extent Cut The Crap has is virtually unprecedented. I mean, the title of the album alone - they couldn’t have set themselves up any worse for the reviews if they tried.
Excellent summary of a terrible album. My thoughts exactly. But it at least has one listenable song whereas Summer in Paradise has none.
yes terrible record when came out friend dj got no way im plsying any of these crappy songs
He referenced the youtuber todd in the shadows, it's a great channel and he has highly entertaining videos on both of those albums.
@@bradcomer4524 yes I've seen Todd's video on Cut The Crap, it's great. His line about the song Dictator sounding like 'two radio stations trying to share the same frequency' is spot on. Seen a few of his videos and really enjoyed them and his dry, world weary sense of humour, didn't know he'd done Summer In Paradise, will give it a watch next!
Dr. Adamski's musical pharmacy has my vote certainly for the worst album I've ever heard!
As soon as I clicked on this I knew what it was gonna be!
I don't mind the fit babes in the video but that Casio drum sound undoes it all.
@@krissymarklewis1793 The auto-tune equivalent of the day ushered in by the absurd Cher and weaponised against us to this day.
To say this is "a festering dog turd..." Is being very unfair to dog turds.
Several tracks were redone for the UK version in an effort to salvage the album, which means the US version is EVEN WORSE.
Steer clear of anything that fart did as a solo outing. Stars & Stripes was a BB duets LP with country acts. It’s a vomit bucket as well.
…not bloody likely, i’ve heard OK Computer, what a pretentious load of rubbish…
Be interesting to get your take on the trend by some bands to change their lyrics "for modern times" (Duran Duran removed the word "Queer" and replaced it with "Queen" for their version of Bowie's Five Years) - and also the censorship of original album covers: e/g the Blind Faith album and also Hendrix's bevy of naked beauties :-) To me its all art and should stay as it was.....
Hendrix absolutely hated that cover concept. That's why he didn't show up for the photo shoot for it and the models hold pictures of him and the "Axis: Bold As Love" cover.
He had sketched out his own concept around a Linda Eastman photograph that he wanted to be used. The record label completely ignored it.
Manfred Mann removed "Super Spade" from "My Name's Jack" and replaced it in later versions with "Superman".
When Love sings love vacation it sounds like a creepy uncle eyeing his neice... Yuck.
Maybe this record is better in reverse?
When I saw the title of this video I assumed you were going to talk about Mike Rutherford’s Acting Very Strange which sounds throughout like someone singing into a bucket whilst someone else scrapes a metal rod across some tarmac in the background.
Can't stand We Can't Dance either
I met Mike Love in Australia in 1978. The concert was terrible but he still had a very high opinion of himself. I once had an album where the harmonica was in the wrong key
& it wasn’t Jazz.
...Carl was the one who got hauled over the coals by the press for that one - it's a bad move for a big name US act to dud Aussies with a lousy show!
Saw the Beach Boys perform in Adelaide (South Australia) in the early 2000s. By the Beach Boys I mean "Mike Love and several other guys none would know". Mike spent the whole performance wiping away whatever it was constantly running out of his nose. Can't think what caused that! IThe show was a triple act of old performers: Beach Boys, Christopher Cross (who was quite good) and the original line-up of Daddy Cool who were fantastic (and the real reason I was there).
I'll have to dig this album up somewhere, I've never heard of it or listened to it. My #1 for worst album is the self-titled "Its A Beautiful Day" with the big hit 'White Bird'. Besides that standout track, its just 35 minute of droning violin and cello. Having to spend an hour listening to a grade school orchestra recital would be preferrable to this album. Its so loathsome it could be played to ward off zombies. And to think about 20 years ago a clean copy of it would sell for $1500.
Yeah, that is amazing amouth of money for an album having one good song
Mike Love: Always looking back; never forward.
Actually, if they had of listened to Mike, the guy who stayed sober and off the drugs ,then they may have been successful with the old surf ,hot rod songs,and furthered their carrer . The wilsons lost the plot and everyone blames mike? He was goofy fair enough, but I think he gets a bad rap
I only know this album from the Todd in the Shadows Video (and now this one I guess), but I think what sets it apart from merely bad is that it is bad anyway, and then has Mike Love's oozing, leering, dirty old man creepiness all over it.
A basic problem with late Beach Boys is their songs are thematically stuck in youth, but the other Beach Boys are able to perform such material in a nostalgic vein, whereas Mike Love clearly just wants to go cruise for chicks. Off-putting.
Not to interrupt the well-deserved Mike Love bashing, but that oh-so-beloved mad genius Brian Wilson went full paedo on "The Beach Boys Love You" album in 1977. He was a total creep in his lyrics long before his cousin. At least Love wasn't perving on little girls on roller skates and fantasising about whatever the hell kind of deranged sickness is going on in "I Wanna Pick You Up". Then again, Mike had no problem singing Brian's weird creepy brain farts, like the "Loves You" stuff or "Hey Little Tomboy".
And that thing was basically Brian's solo LP that was just marketed as a Beach Boys album. It was even supposed to be called "Brian Loves You", initially.
@@henrygvidonas9573 Oh I know, and agree. He even married a minor in his actual life. I'm just talking about who gives me creepy vibes strictly as a performer when singing old Beach Boys 60s classics, and it's Mike Love.
And it's not really so much a "oh the poor tortured genuis" thing (though that no doubt helps). Brian Wilson is just too strange and fragile a presence for me to find knee-jerk repulsive in the same way even if intellectually I know the case against him, whereas Mike Love is a very ordinary kind of creepy, and the knee knows exactly how to jerk. I doubt it's just me.
"You know me. I'm not one to be contentious or snippy," ...long pause.
Come on Barry, we love it when you are.
The horror!
Excuse me while I puke.
I worked at a corporate record store when this came out and we were supposed to play it in the store to promote it. I think hearing it first actually hindered sales. Surf's Up will always be my go-to Beach Boys album. By the way, I love that painting to your right. Beautiful. Thanks for the video!
They did a great job on California Dreaming, IDK what album it was on.
It wasn't on one of their recognised studio albums (possibly a single release), but it is on Greatest Hits Vol. 3: The Best of the Brother Years. (I think that's what it's called.)
It was a single and then included on the collection Made in the USA.
bobby womack did the best version
That pause at 1:35 was comic timing at its best
And you didn't even talk about the hideous cover that provided clues as to how disassociated from reality the music inside would be.
I picture Mick Jagger cites the imagery Mike Love conjured up for this album as a major influence on his later career; surrounding himself with girls a fraction of his age whom we are supposed to believe are REALLY into him. And I love the Stones, but every time I see Jagger insisting on doing a duet with some hot, young, it-girl pop star, it comes off like Al Bundy at The Jiggly Room. Mike Love did that here, and we must recognize him for the visionary he is.
“I’m not a happy bunny.”
The worst album ever? You obviously have never heard Victim Of Love by Elton John lol
The creativity of this album is on par with bro country minus the beer and the pick up trucks
I have a real soft spot for the beach boys, they wrote some amazing songs but they really did some awful stuff too. But why does it keep showing Bruce Johnson while naming Al Jardine 😂
Blimey, If it's worse than Pet Sounds it must be bad
The second guy isn't Al Jardine. Al was the cutest. The replacement was born to become a Wal*Mart greeter yet magically ended up in a legendary band. Huh.
The reason Mike Love clings onto the Beach Boys name is that he has nothing else to offer. All the others had respect and careers away from the BB brand, but he was a coattail holder. His speech when being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame said it all. He has the grace of a tapeworm and an ego the size of his much loved State of California.
Kind of hard to reclaim those glory days when most of the creative force behind them are dead and buried, and when everything you release has to compete with "Pet Sounds".
You are wrong! They are not bikini beauties. There is not a bikini in sight as they are all one piece bathing suits. Other than that you are spot on!
Check out the video for 'hot fun in the summer time' th-cam.com/video/mRDCmUglZw4/w-d-xo.html
Those few seconds of the Hot Fun cover hurt. You should’ve warned us first.
Let me preface that I really like the Beach Boys, from the period of Pet Sounds to Holland or thereabouts they released some fantastic albums. That being said, I saw them (the only time I have, actually) in June 1991, a year before Summer in Paradise was released, and it remains the worst concert I have yet seen. It was at Lake Compounce in CT. As the tickets were only $3, I guess I can't rightly complain too much. I didn't know much about the band back then, aside from knowing their hits. Mike Love would go on lengthy rambles about long-past glories in the band's history, and they had women in cheerleader outfits run around for "Be True to Your School." Just extremely cheesy. When they broke into "Kokomo" (a godawful song, in my opinion) the group of friends I was with got up and left, and it seems a lot of others in the audience took that opportunity to exit as well. I guess that time frame, the late 80s-early 90s, was their artistic nadir.
Just the clips you share give me cringe chills.
I saw the thumbnail and thought you were going to say Journey's Escape album, I would have disagreed but agree about The Beach Boys. They had so many albums but just couldn't seem to find their sound after Pet Sounds.
For anyone who thinks this is the worst album of all time never heard my last album. It's that bad...
"... this excremental offering..." Wow, that escalated quickly, lol 😊 👊 😭
I actually looked for this on iTunes and I can’t find it anywhere.
Bill Clinton couldn't get enough of this musical sleaze fest.
If you want to hear the best Beach Boys music listen to a greatest hits album . Most of their albums are really bad . After Pet Sounds it all went down hill
Can't say I agree with that. Sunflower and Surf's Up were good. After that, yes.
How does this album compare to what's on my list as far as worse album?
Judas Priest- Turbo
Judas Priest- Ram it down
Kiss - Unmasked
Kiss- Sonic boom
Queen - Hot space
I played it once through. Listening to it was akin to being water-boarded, covered with honey and red ants while sitting in a Judas chair.
"...you know me I'm not one to be contentious or snippy (pause)" a contender for one of your top ten quotes 😁
This isn't the first place I've dropped this comment, but I still stand by it: If the songs on Summer In Paradise were as awesome and magnificent as the sleeve art, this would have been one of the BBs absolute greatest albums. Alas, of course, this wasn't the case, though I do think "Lahaina Aloha" is a pretty decent piece of work and keeps this album from being a complete dumpster fire.
I'd even rather go to Paradise City where the girls are green and the grass is pretty.
Summer in Paradise is my guilty pleasure. Beach Boys 85 is their worst album.
You're mistaking "worst" with "not my taste". BB85 is a 1980s classic and objectively a good album, though maybe not what fans wanted to hear. SiP comes with a health warning. Be careful with that stuff.
@@jasnostj Nope. I chose my words very carefully. I meant “worst”.
I was also really sad when they supported Status Quo on a truly awful version of "Fun, Fun, Fun." With all due respect to the Quo, the Beach Boys playing second fiddle to Status Quo is rather like the Beatles playing second fiddle to Showaddywaddy.
Well, it was the 1980s and many of those 1960s bands attempted to remain relevant in a world that had come down from its' collective acid-trip and was trying to find a new path. For most of those bands from the 60s, it just didn't work for them in the 80s.
Jefferson Airplane is my favorite band from the 1960s but their "reunion" album from 1989 entitled Jefferson Airplane was horrible so I felt that pain too.
I can't think of any of those 60s bands that actually thrived in the 1980s aside from the Grateful Dead who had massive success with the song "Touch Of Grey" back in 1987 which pushed them into the mainstream but other than that I can't think of any other 1960s era bands who really made waves in the 1980s.
The Dead acted their age. They came off gracefully playing their own brand of music and not following the current trends unlike other 60s acts in the 80s such as CSNY and Neils solo output.
The Moody Blues
@ndogg20 Exactly. I 100% agree and that's why they made it through the 80s.
yeh agree only time saw dead was the 87 tour arena both nights and rfk 94 at least they could play the music they wanted to some good others not so much94 was outdoor rain mudfest so sound not as good indoor arena 87
The Rolling Stones with Start Me Up/Tattoo You.
Or was it too early in the decade?
Beach boys started out strong but became overrated. As time went on, Brian wilson's level of genius produced music that only a stoned alien could enjoy.
I have a Beach Boys "Greatest Hits" CD album. The last track on it is a cover of The Mamas and Papas' California Dream from around 1986. Was that from this album?
No. That cover is not on this steaming pile of an album. It first appeared as the final track on the 1986 "Made in USA" album which was a "greatest hits" album (since it doesn't use that phrase, the better term would be "compilation" album) and it was the last track. But, it also appeared on some other compilations (per Allmusic, it's the last track on "The Absolute Best, Vol 2" and the "Greatest Hits Vol 3: Best of the Brother Years").
Beach boys early stuff was good as well ..62 - 70
Great,your stuff is excellent!
I will always be deeply annoyed that the one time I saw a celebrity in the wild at Disneyland, it was Mike Love (accompanied by an all-douchebag entourage).
NO! I WILL NOT LISTEN TO IT! YOU CAN'T MAKE ME!