The Beach Boys - M.I.U. Album/L.A. (Light Album)
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Artist: The Beach BoysEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-08-15
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- She's Got Rhythm - The Beach Boys, Wilson, Brian
- Come Go with Me - The Beach Boys, Quick, Clarence E.
- Hey Little Tomboy - The Beach Boys, Wilson, Brian
- Kona Coast - The Beach Boys, Jardine, Alan
- Peggy Sue - The Beach Boys, Allison, Jerry
- Wontcha Come Out Tonight? - The Beach Boys, Wilson, Brian
- Sweet Sunday - The Beach Boys, Wilson, Brian
- Belles of Paris - The Beach Boys, Wilson, Brian
- Pitter Patter - The Beach Boys, Wilson, Brian
- My Diane - The Beach Boys, Wilson, Brian
- Match Point of Our Love - The Beach Boys, Wilson, Brian
- Winds of Change - The Beach Boys, Altbach, Ron
- Good Timin' - The Beach Boys, Wilson, Brian
- Lady Lynda - The Beach Boys, Jardine, Alan
- Full Sail - The Beach Boys, Wilson, Carl [1]
- Angel Come Home - The Beach Boys, Wilson, Dennis [1]
- Love Surrounds Me - The Beach Boys, Wilson, Dennis [1]
- Sumahama - The Beach Boys, Love, Mike
- Here Comes the Night - The Beach Boys, Love, Mike [Beach B
- Baby Blue - The Beach Boys, Wilson, Brian
- Goin' South - The Beach Boys, Cushing-Murray, Geo
- Shortenin' Bread - The Beach Boys, Traditional
Free Music Notes for M.I.U. Album/L.A. (Light Album)
Free Music Review: Swap the album titles! ;))
Hit: 5 Stars
When I was going to buy this CD, I was a bit afraid, because everyone was saying and writing how "MIU Album" was bad, and after the dreadful "Beach Boys Love You", I was expecting to survive another disappointment. To my surprise, "MIU" proved to be extremely good to my taste! I have no idea why people hate this one or, f.ex., "Summer In Paradise" (which is great on its own). "MIU Album" contains very beautiful and catchy songs, simple and unpretentious, i.e. exactly what can be said about the band's "surfing" classics from the early 60's. My personal faves are "Kona Coast", "Peggy Sue", "Belles Of Paris", the great "Pitter Patter" and "Winds Of Change", while the other half of the album is almost as good. I think you could swap the album titles and name this release "Light Album", leaving "MIU" to its more meditative successor. Yes, "LA Album" is more serious and darker record, hence very Dennis-styled. It features such gems as "Good Timing" (archetypal BB), "Lady Linda", "Sumahama" and "Going South". Sometimes this album shows too much variety, I mean the disco version of "Here Comes The Night", which I always skip.
I highly recommend this release, because this is undoubtedly the best pair of Beach Boys 70's albums after Sunflower/Surf's Up and a huge improvement after the band's downhill inbetween.
M.I.U. Album/L.A. (Light Album) Poster
Want a party game sure to clear the room in record time? Try playing Name the Beach Boys Worst Album; two-plus decades on, 1978's M.I.U. remains a dogged contender. Vocalist Mike Love, perhaps stunned by the massively weird, if eminently lovable, originality of the Love You album, somehow cajoled the band to sojourn from Southern California to cut their next effort in that somewhat lesser-known recording Mecca--the Maharishi International University in Fairfield, Iowa. Cascading effortlessly from one sentimental, ill-conceived aural greeting card to the next, the forms and harmonies are familiar, if virtually substance-free, in service of a pop sensibility--Love's--that makes Barry Manilow sound like Rimbaud. Bruce Johnston returned to the fold after a long absence just in time for 1979's L.A. (Light Album)--and a shot at another round of everyone's least favorite party game. The band was right about one thing: this is one light album, a virtually fat-free concoction that shamelessly borrows Bach one moment ("Lady Lynda"), then apes Japanese modalities (Al Jardine's clumsy "Sumahama"), and pimps waning disco fever (a clich?-ridden redux/remix of "Wild Honey's "Here Comes the Night") the next. All it desperately needed was a soul, a commodity the devil had apparently collected in a previous deal. Though the infectious "Good Timin'" was both a highlight and moderate hit, Brian Wilson's creative guidance is sorely missed throughout; judging from these two albums, he may indeed have been crazy ... like a fox. Both albums are newly remastered on a single disc. --Jerry McCulleyClassic Rock Music CDs
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