Any admissions from Members who… 1) followed the dotted line and cut the mask out of the cover? and/or 2) wore it in public?
Tough, not many respected acts have made a transgression like Love Beach where both the music and cover art suggests yacht rock or similar cheesiness.
I really like the first Bobby & The Midnites record..........the black cat album. Their 2nd album........where "I Want To Live In America" is from.......is terrible. I don't have this video.....................
Seems to be an appropriate place to use the following quote: "Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process." E.B. White
Every band has its Beach. Ok, seriously, you are taking this serious? Never said it was bad. Love every note they ever recorded. I love the record. Puppets fan since 1983, saw them at Satyricon before most ever heard of them, saw them live touring every record thru No Joke. Paid cash for their recent work on physical media, no Spotify. As much a Puppets fan as anyone here. You know the way people act about Beatles and Kiss here? That is how I am about Meat Puppets, with one difference: I can laugh at my bands. Speedracer thread. Lighten up.
I get where you're coming from, but a lot of this is better than average pop of it era IMO. I'm not that offended by prog bands doing pop unless it's bad pop or didn't age well. Now if you'd suggested Big Generator I'd be with you.
The cover art had gone downhill since Duke, but there was at least some pretense of artiness and a handful of nice songs. This looks like bad clip art. And it's better than virtually all of the music on it.
Hmmm. I don’t know about that. Even the “Waters can do no wrong, Gilmour kicked my dog” crowd has to admit that Storm hit it out of the park with this one.
Ok ok, time out. Folks are taking this all too serious. The point here is that every band has its Love Beach, so maybe everyone needs to cut ELP some slack. We may disagree on which record is which band's Beach, but The Beach is an inevitable milestone in the commercial development of a music brand.
Solid Silver - I have mixed feelings about this one, their reunion album, as I had stopped following them after Cippolina had left. He's back here, and it's great to hear his guitar playing again, but so is Valente, who just gets on my nerves. The cover looks like it was taken on a yacht though, and they all look pretty tan and healthy here, so I hope they all were having a good time.
If the video's live, it's probably good. I saw the tour, behind the horrible second album, and the band (w/Kenny Gradney & Billy Cobham) gave those songs more than they deserved (but also played the decent stuff from the debut).
The funny thing about Go to Heaven from the OP is that it was making fun of this very topic. They KNEW what they were doing and parodied it. Never trust a prankster
There are some really great songs spread across his maligned post-Music for a New Society 80’s records
It was taped in '82 before Gradney. Alphonso Johnson is still the bassist. The photo on the cover is from a couple of years later.
I will buy that, am sure a lot of these are tongue in cheek. It is a slippery slope: “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.” – Kurt Vonnegut
I was always under the impression that the cover to Go To Heaven was meant to be ironic/tongue in cheeck?