"I Don't Think I Can Bear The Mamas and the Papas"

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Maybe its the stupid hats, or that annoying big mama, or that littel tease with the fine ass, or their freakin fingers....

― mike hanle y, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But "California Dreamin'" is such a nice song. I would think that you would at least like that flute-thing in the song's bridge, Mike.

Other than that, don't really care one way or the other re this group.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

mike please come on AIM

― rainy, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Aim away

― mike hanle y, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I like "safe in my garden" but all their other songs are covers.

― jel --, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I like California Dreamin' it's one of my top ten best songs. who's on aim??

― Ms. S., Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

mmm bacon

― Queen G of the onwards and upwards, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think I also hate jan and dean

― mike hanle y, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

They bring the Beach boys down by association.

Plus, they really weren't very good showmen.

― Chief White Lotus, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't get me started about The Association

― mike hanle y, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

along comes hanle y ...

hee hee hee

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

let them eat cake

― mike hanle y, Monday, 8 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My friend (Chris Linnane) has a dad who used to play guitar with the association. He says they were really nice, and really sincre about how corny and lame thay were. so if you knew them personally, it adds to the quality of the music..........................

― Chief White Lotus, Tuesday, 9 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Is that the band where one guy is asian? Remember the great sixties band " Flog My Rectum With the Pancreas of King Kong" ?

― mike hanle y, Tuesday, 9 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mr. Hanley, you are mistaken, in that the band Flog My Rectum With The Pancreas of King Kong did not form until 1980. Your confusion is no doubt due to the overlap in personnel between that later band and the sixties band, The Surf Puppies.

― Aimless, Tuesday, 9 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Rmember the Kathy Ireland's Dead Frogs ? They were really funky

― mike hanle y, Tuesday, 9 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, one man was asian. He was a short man from Hawaii who just wanted a girlfriend.

― Chief White Lotus, Wednesday, 10 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Can't you help him with your bait and switch tecnique?

― mike hanle y, Wednesday, 10 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

Association trivia yay!

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 5 June 2004 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

"California Dreamin'" is still a great song, and "Monday Monday"'s not bad...but I'm struck by how poorly their other hits have aged. Stuff like "Creeque Alley," "Words of Love," and "San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair" (which John Phillips wrote for Scott McKenzie), just ooze flower-child treacle. Punk rock was invented to counter such sentiments as "summertime will be a love-in there" and "young girls are coming to the canyon." Plus the ex-band members come across as thoroughly self-absorbed and shitty people.

I don't mind the Association at all.

― mike a, Sunday, 6 June 2004 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

churls all of you!

― Wong Kar Wai (Enrique), Sunday, 6 June 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

By the time I finished watching Chungking Express finally last week I was so goddamn sick of California Dreamin' I wanted to see Faye Wong's head get smacked with a cricket bat.

― TOMBOT, Sunday, 6 June 2004 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

It's funny you should mention that, HK Flix has a sale on...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 04:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I was hoping it would be a sale on cricket bats!

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 04:12 (twenty-one years ago)

The song itself has been overplayed to the extent that I'd be very happy if I never heard it again.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 04:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Cricket bats signed by Faye herself...IN HER OWN BLOOD

As for the song, it's like every other classic radio/oldies song -- ie, die and go away.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 04:14 (twenty-one years ago)

That's an acccurate summation, Ned. Why the heck do so many people insist on living in the past, anyway? (rhetorical, of course)

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 04:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Erm, cos one day 'Loveless' will be a golden oldie?

― Sir Stewart Wallace (Enrique), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 07:25 (twenty-one years ago)

It's all about "Dedicated To The One I Love", "Dream A Little Dream Of Me" and, especially, "It's Getting Better" as far as I'm concerned. That last one might be Mama Cass solo; for an upful optimistic love's-first-bloom anthem, I find it euphoric and heartbreaking at the same time.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 07:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Dedicated to the One I Love is great.
Dream A Little Dream of Me is one of the best songs ever written.

The one that goes "you gotta go where you wanna go, do what you wanna do" is the best though - I have it on a tape somewhere, must dig it out . . .

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I like "safe in my garden" but all their other songs are covers.

This is incredibly ill-informed.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Punk rock was invented to counter such sentiments as "summertime will be a love-in there" and "young girls are coming to the canyon."

Is the thought of young girls coming to a canyon really so offensive? So, the Mamas and Papas sang of finding joy at the simpler things in life, that really isn't so terrible. Give me that over John Lydon's narcissistic ranting any day.

Actually, though, what you're offering is something of an over-simplification. Listen to 'California Earthquake' and tell me all the Mamas and Papas offered was syrupy sentimentality. 'Safe In My Garden' isn't actually a song about being safe at all. If you MUST look for a dark side, you could find it by investigating this band a little more thoroughly. Personally, I think its a shame to ask for a brooding petulance where none is really necessary.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:45 (twenty-one years ago)

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