Not everything done by a genius is neccessarily brilliant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkZ8Mzpj948

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDz650aJxQ0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-x_FHj9yLo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWoT9elA-oY

It Ain't Neccessarily So
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBOgH5f36cQ

The Frog Chorus is a pretty good kids song though

Is Mike Love a genius?

Is Mike Love a genius?

Well... Certain people in Beach Boys are/were, but it could be argued Mike Love is not among them... :)

Mike Love is a little underrated for sure, but SDT is indeed poop. I dunno who exactly performed on it, but I assume Brian and Dennis were elsewhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8qE6WQmNus

laughing gnome haters can take a hike!

Must Be Santa is also totally charming

hahaha wait did 10cc just get brought up in the genius list up there

Thought he was taking the piss but it's geir so anything is possible.

There's actually songs by all of these artists which I find more dull and stupid than these ones.

10cc were surely geniuses. But not anymore in 1983....

(Might have brought up "Dreadlock Holiday" as well, but in spite of really stupid lyrics, that song still works somewhat musically)

10cc were surely geniuses.

No. Great band though.

Sack the chorus, and "Dreadlock Holiday" is a perfectly fine song.

Must Be Santa is also totally charming
Yeah, I mean Dylan's released his fair share of dreck over the years but what's not to love about that cover (and video, which I played over and over again when it first came out)?

Alright, alright, it's charming! For my own edification, please serve up some Dylan dreck more suitable to the thread

Aw man, I LOVED that Cab Calloway clip!

Dreadlock Holiday is amazing.

i always thought "wiggle wiggle" was dylan's nadir

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Lb8feh0T6s

OK, yeah, that's pretty odious

i couldn't find a youtube for "handy dandy" from the same album

Elvis Presley did some pretty horrible stuff in the mid 60s and mid 70s. Any idea what might be the worst?

With Elvis, the Harum Scarum soundtrack is top to bottom bad. I don't think he even released a single from it, whereas even such masterworks as Kissin' Cousins had their own promotional tie-in singles that charted. (Although the Harum Scarum LP somehow made the Top Ten).

I don't have any use for Elvis's post-1972 singles, "Raised on Rock" standing out as one I especially don't care for. But his records of that final phase of his life are filled with gospel-style backing vocals, interesting country/rockabilly guitar-picking, and Tony Joe White-style swamp rock, among some amusingly bombastic arrangements. All mitigating factors raising it above the '60 soundtrack hackwork.

Yeah, I've talked before about Elvis's trilogy of albums released in '74 and '75 - Good Times, Raised On Rock and Promised Land, parts of each of which were recorded at Stax. Each one is about 50% schlock, and 50% really awesome country/gospel/rockabilly/soul that nobody else ever did anything like. But some of the movie soundtracks? Gurgh.

I like Promised Land too (It's Midnight in particular) - and on Good Times he covered O'Keefe's Good Time Charlie's got The Blues, a fine fine choice.

The Elvis 70s box (Walk A Mile In My Shoes) is one of the most consistently brilliant boxes I've heard. He had incredibly precise control over his (increasingly rich and complex) voice, and his band was the swingingest and most emotionally invested he'd had since the Sun era.

really don't need to resort to mike love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz0SnpN_O00