Worst Beach Boys Song on M.IU. - Part 2 in an Ongoing Series

It's been a long, long while
Since we've been strung out on love
And there's no mask of a smile
That can hide what we're thinkin' of
From your heart I hear
Only distant echoes of empty love
I guess this must be the matchpoint of our love
Early in the game when you broke me
Just like a serve (matchpoint matchpoint)
We shoulda walked off the court
But we both didn't have the nerve (matchpoint matchpoint)
So we volleyed a while with small talk
And a smile and as push comes to shove
I'd say this must be the matchpoint of our love
No one ever held me the way you did
No one could ever love me the way you did
How could love slip away from me?
In life's lonely game love too often
Can let you down (matchpoint matchpoint)
And tho' no one's to blame
Love is stil the only game in town (matchpoint matchpoint)
When it's love's last play you can only say by the stars above That this
must be the match point of our love
Da da da, da da da da da da (matchpoint matcpoint)

i think this is the only 70s beach boys album I've never heard ... judging from those lyrics, though, I need to! some deep shit goin on there.

Hey, little tomboy, sit here on my lap
I got things that I gotta tell you
No more skateboards, put away your baseball mitt.
Your rough livin' days are through

You could find places to go
You could see that boys love you so
They're doin' it all over the world

Hey little hey little hey little tomboy
Time to turn into a girl
Hey little hey little hey little tomboy
They're doin' it all over the world

Hey, little tomboy, I've had my eyes on you
Thinkin' what a girl you could be
Mmm, I smell perfume, let's try some cut-off jeans
Look at all the changes I see

I'm gonna teach you to kiss
You're gonna feel just like this
They're doin' it all over the world

Hey little hey little hey little tomboy
Time to turn into a girl
Hey little hey little hey little tomboy
They're doin' it all over the world

(Hey little hey little hey little tomboy)
I'm gonna make you a girl
(Hey little hey little hey little tomboy)
You'd make a beautiful girl
(Hey little hey little hey little tomboy)
They're doing it all over the world

oh wau

good lord

These guys
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Dennis Wilson, when questioned about the release by the British music press: “I don’t believe in that album … I hope that the karma will fuck up Mike Love’s meditation for ever. That album is an embarrassment to my life. It should self destruct …”

those Tomboy lyrics are like Jonathan Richman as a pervert.

I like Tomboy a lot musically but the lyrics are indeed creepy. At least they had sense to omit the original recordings (on Adult Child bootleg) voiceover -- "Shave your legs now for the first time" etc.

pretty sure all the Wilson Bros were coked out of their minds during this (altho Dennis was almost entirely AWOL). Clean livin Al and Mike don't really improve things tho, tbh

Adult Child... yeah that is a pretty disturbing collection, I can't really listen to it. the production leaves a lot to be desired and some of the cover choices (Deep Purple? really?) are just bad.

damn it ILM you are making me want to buy TERRIBLE BEACH BOYS ALBUMS.

oh don't worry about it I've already bought them all... I think this is really the worst one though. I'm listening to it now and its got the least number of redeeming tracks. At least with LA Light there's the Dennis stuff, the disco song, Good Timin (and bizarro Shortnin' Bread). This doesn't really have any standout tracks. The best stuff on it is pretty much just okay. Mike Love's Hawaii song is actually pretty good, but its not amazing or anything...

Yeah, there's little to recommend this one. I like She's Got Rhythm, the next two are ok, as is My Diane. The rest show little inspiration. Voted Belles of Paris.

yeah so did I. that Montmartre/art rhyme is unforgivable.

funny trivia - all the Capitol two-fer CD reissues have celebrity-penned liner notes. The prime-era stuff is covered by Beach Boys biographer/confidante David Leaf and then the 70s ones are written by various musicians (Peter Buck, Elton John, Tom Petty, etc.) The only two they couldn't get anybody of substance to vouch for was, uh, the one for this and L.A. (Light Album).

I think I agree with Shakey - the fact that 'My Diane' is the best song on here proves that it's devoid of anything worthwhile. Just the way it starts with that horrible drum fade and that glass-shattering Bee Gees falsetto, bleurgh! I mean, I can't decide on the worst one. I'm tempted to vote 'Hey Little Tomboy' were it not for the sicko comedy value of the whole thing. Think I'm gonna go for 'Peggy Sue' which follows a long tradition of '70s Beach Boys covers that manage to vacuum any joy out of the original.

That said, these polls are making me dig out these old Boys' albums I listened to unconditionally for 2-3 years at the start of the decade when I was discovering they were my favourite band in the world. I still wuv them and can still forgive the major cockups along their career.

hey little tomboy is legendary. matchpoint might actually be the worst. however, pitter patter is on my ipod!

this looks like the Army of the Potomac circa 1863

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also, "Shave your legs now for the first time"

last band that should talk about shaving amirite

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(Pisses self)

Is that Mike third from the left?

My friend's little brother found a copy of this at a thrift and bought it for me, SUPER stoked. I tried really hard to like it as he played it for me, but it was hard going. Later I was the first person to whom he came out.

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looks like my dad's bachelor party

maybe if you could 'shop in the guys from Alabama

This album is terrible. I thought I'd entirely erased it from my memory banks but the horror that is "Match Point of Our Love" persists.

The thing is, the Boys would actually go on to make worse albums than this with "Beach Boys" (1985 and "Still Cruisin" in '92 (which is the only one I haven't even dared to listen to). I wonder if the Beatles would have made similar travesties had they continued into the '70s and '80s? They may have had some solid or even classic solo efforts, but then so did the Beach Boys (Dennis and Brian especially).

...and, without wanting to bleat about the Beatles too much, if they had continued, would the Beatles' theoretical '70s and '80s record been as disastrously entertaining as MUI or even Love You?

"disastrously entertaining" sums it all up pretty well

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really popular album I see

Match Point of Our Love is awesome

maaaaaatch point
maaaaaatch point

I found myself really enjoying a lot of stuff from this unexpectedly last summer -- largely because while the lyrics and overall aesthetic sucks, the melodies are there in abundance. "She's Got Rhythm" feels a little like a Frankie Valli pastiche -- but the chorus smokes. As bad as the lyrics to Tomboy are (if memory serves, this is from the Landlocked era), the "They're doin' it all over the world" part has liftoff. "Belles of Paris" has a nice intro. "Pitter Patter" has some atrocious lyrics but a pretty awesome groove and melody. "My Diane" (written for his wife's sister, gah) is kind of everything I love about Brian and Dennis putzing around -- sloggy piano, over-emoting, nice if not revolutionary melodic turns.

There's enough to like about MIU record that I'll turn to it a lot more often than some of those early 60s records that have 3 incredible singles and 9 other pieces of doggerel.

tomboy originates somewhere between 15 big ones and love you.