![]() Pom Pom Squad's Death of a Cheerleader has some pretty good songs but I thought this band would become more of one of my favorites. Willie Nelson's The Willie Nelson Family isn't bad at all, it's just non-essential considering the high bar he's set for himself. Parquet Courts’ Sympathy for Life is a repetitive math-rock-new-wave bore, which is hard to say for a band that has mesmerized me for a decade as New York post-Talking Heads rock. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit's Georgia Blue is a very competent collection of covers about the Peach State but it lacks excitement. The Killers' Pressure Machine seems to have a rural concept going on, but there just aren't many good songs to go with the odd dialogue sprinked throughout. ![]() Prince's Welcome 2 America is a let-down despite a couple of fun tracks, this is mostly stuff lacking in originality. Low Cut Connie's Tough Cookies: Best of the Quarantine Broadcasts is a mildly fun barrage of covers but also pretty unnecessary from a band that brings much higher expectations. Fucked Up's Year of the Horse brings a sub-par release from one of the better pure punk bands around. Lou Barlow's Reason to Live is really no different than some of his masterful lo-fi Sebadoh releases of the 1990s, but it's just kind of depressing and unnecessary in 2021. Vincent’s Daddy’s Home is creative and even sounds a little like Pink Floyd at times but it’s just not catchy or memorable like her other releases. Not that I ever expected much from Greta Van Fleet, but their derivative rock has fallen from Led Zeppelin homage to painful poor-man's Tesla. The Weeknd's House of Balloons is really unexciting, even more since it was released soon after he was given the Super Bowl halftime spotlight. Loney Dear's A Lantern and a Bell didn't exactly have high expectations (the promising band has been absent for the past decade or so) but this was a particularly bumming return during a pandemic year. I was excited for Julien Baker's Little Oblivions, but after several listens, I can't get past the sheer boredom of it. I've loved all of BC Camplight's work, but Shortly Takeoff is a mostly painful stinker. Mac McCaughan’s The Skin of Yourself has three perfect songs and the rest is instrumental soundtrack filler. That would definitely be the only thing that would get me out to see Mike Love.īiggest Disappointments: There are three great songs on Foo Fighters' Medicine at Midnight, but the rest is gross alternarock. Love says he would reform the original band but Brian is quoted saying "I don't like Mike Love at all" because he's "too egotistical." The film does end on a note that doesn't completely rule out a reunion.He agreed to finally perform songs from his lost album Smile, but still has hallucinatory angels and demons whispering in his ears each day. Brian has re-entered the touring game with a Beach Boys cover band named the Wondermints that backs him.As Brian was coming out of his funk, he appeared in a short video with Dan Ackroyd and John Belushi forcing him to get out of bed to catch a wave.In 1968, the year Brian had a bad LSD trip and left the band floundering without him, Dennis Wilson began hanging out with the Charles Manson Family.It’s hard to believe that Carl Wilson, not Brian or Mike Love, was the lead singer on the band’s greatest song, “God Only Knows.". ![]() In 1964, when Brian was 22, he married a 16-year-old girl. ![]()
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