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2008-07-23When 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 suprise, "MIU" proved to be extremly 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 personel 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 sourth". Sometimes this album shows too much varity, I mean the disco version of "Here Comes The Night", which I always skip.
I highly recomend 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.
2008-04-21The Beach Boys M.I.U.album suprised me in a good way.Some of the cuts are done well.Winds of Change is my favorite with good harmonies.I would rate this album based against other Beach Boys albums,so I would give it 3 out of 5 stars.Maybe if they would have spent more time on these songs,they could have been better.Overall ,I love the Beach Boys and collect all they have done. The other album on this CD is The Light Album. I give it four stars for great harmonies on Good Timin,Lady Lynda,Full Sail,and Baby Blue.I gets me a singing along.P Campbell Colorado
2008-04-06I am VERY pleased of how good a shape my cd came and how fast
2007-09-21I give this album 4 stars. If nothing else for Baby Blue alone. Arguably the most heartwrenching song the Beach Boys ever did. I never cry at anything but one night while listening to this song the tears just flowed at the pure beauty of this song. Carl sounds like an angel from heaven and Dennis like a broken soul crying for help. This might also be Dennis' best vocal effort. personelly I think Dennis was a great vocalist, just diffrent from Brian and Carl. Love surounds Me and Full Sail are also great. Try not to listen to Here Comes the Night or anything Mike Love sings. Beach Boys Forever!!!!! Peace!!!
2007-08-12This is the last in a series of CDs reissuing albums recorded for the group's own Brother Records at the start of the 1970s. At that time the band had signed a collaboration aggreement with Warner Brothers/Reprise to take advantage of their vast distribution capabilities, and the first products produced in 1970/71 were the albums Sunflower and Surf's Up, followed in 1972/73 by Carl & The Passions "So Tough" and Holland. All were done without the input of Brian Wilson.
Three years later, and under conciderable pressure to fulfill the condidtions of the orginal contract, Brian returned to produce 15 Big Ones which, in addition to becoming a hit album, also delivered their first Top 10 single since Good Vibrations in 1966 - a cover of Chuck Berry's Rock And Roll Music which hit the # 5 Billboard Hot 100 spot b/w The T.M. Song. That was followed in 1977 by the LP The Beach Boys Love You.
Each of the other three CDs in this series pull together two of the foregoing albums, while this one combines their last in the collaboration with Warner/Reprise - 1977's The M.I.U. Album - and their first for CBS/Caribou, the L.A. (Light Album) released in 1979.
Both also produced hit singles, with a cover of Buddy Holly's Peggy Sue hitting # 46 Adult contamporary (AC)/# 59 Hot 100 in the fall of 1978 b/w Hey Little Tomboy from the M.I.U. Album, while from the other one sprung three hit singles. The first was a disco re-working of Here Comes The Night, intially done for their 1967 LP Wild Honey, and this new version reached # 44 Hot 100 in April 1979 b/w Baby Blue. However, if you're planning on recapturing some of that old disco magic by dancing to this album cut, you better have retained some conciderable stamina over the past quarter of a centruy because it runs in excess of 10 minutes.
Another 1979 hit single from that album was Good Timin' which peaked at # 12 AC/# 40 Hot 100 in June b/w Love surounds Me, while the third, not released as a single untill 1981 by Caribou, was a cover of the old Del Vikings hit Come Go With Me. With a non-album cut, Don't Go Near The Water as the flip, it went all the way to # 11 AC/# 18 Hot 100 in late December.
Six pages of liner notes covering both albums, and providing track-by-track details, were written by Jeff Tamarkin who says, of the M.I.U. Album, that, "in spite of the climate in which it was made [internal problems], such sheer sonic beauty (was displayed) and boasted the presense of some extrordinary - if under-apprieciated - tracks is a testament to the raw talent inherent within The Beach Boys."
For the other album he quotes from the orginal vinyl release which says "The word "light" referrs to the awareness of, and the presense of God. Here in this world is an ongoing, loving reality." To Tamarkin "there is undeniable brilliance here if one dares to look."
As with each of the other releases, all essesital additions to any serious Beach Boys collection, the sound reproduction is nothing short of excelllent.
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