NEWS: Mike Love Sues Brian Wilson Over Smile

MUSIC: Mike Love Sues Brian Wilson Over Smile

Here's an interesting thing about libel laws. I couldn't write that, say, Beach Boy Mike Love is a fraud or a criminal without having to prove my case, but I can safely call him a god damn motherfucking asshole douchebag. This is, after all, the guy who took the genius of one of the greatest writers of pop music in the 20th century and turned it into a fucking State Fair nostalgia tribute act of itself.

To be fair to Mr. Love, a 1994 lawsuit proved that he had written the lyrics to many of the Beach Boys' biggest hits. Big fucking deal. The lyrics to the Beach Boys' early songs are superfluous. No one listens to "Help Me, Rhonda" for the poetry. They listen to it for one of those Brian Wilson melodies that make even the staunchest atheist wonder if there really is a God. By the time Wilson had moved on to the famous Pet Sounds album and the aborted Smile project, he was collaborating with lyricists outside the band, and had reduced the other Beach Boys to mere backup singers -- when they were used at all.

Typically, however, Love doesn't see it that way:

"Shamelessly misappropriated the Beach Boys' likeness and trademark"? "Diluted the Beach Boys' brand name?" Funny, that's how I'd describe Mike Love's entire career since the mid '60s. One word: "Kokomo".

What a fucking asshole.

and nice work with the 'Kokomo' jab, Keith. i fucking hate that song.

I always liked the version of Kokomo with all the muppets in it.

But yeah, what a loser.

You speak the truth, my faithful Indian companion.

Mike Love is his name, but it sure isn't his attitude. He's been suing Brian for one thing or another for decades.

Man, his penis must be soooo tiny.

Ooooh, you pulled the "Kokomo" card! Nicely done. NICELY done.

I hope Brian's lawyers crush him like a steamroller on a bug.

Actually, that's backwards. The libel laws always work in the media's favor. If you write that Mr. X is a cock-sucking douchebag, you don't have to prove that he is. Mr. X has to prove (beyond a shadow of a doubt) that he isn't.

Freedom of the Press!

So no Beach Boys reunion tour this year?






Thank FUCKING god!!!

What an asshat!

the defense rests.

Indeed. WELL PLAYED CHUM.

Seriously, what the hell is Mike Love smoking? Wilson even had the decency to not call it a Beach boys album, when in fact it was more of Beach boys album than anything Love and the rest of the "band" have put out over the last 30 years or so. If anything, he's lucky Wilson hasn't sued his ass off for driving the bands name into the ground all while performing Wilson's songs live. Wow, he wrote a small portion of the lyrics. He should thank his lucky stars he even had the honor to do so. Mike's going to get his ass kicked so bad in court that it's almost a non issue, it's just that he has the nerve...

I thought Mike Love pretty much disowned "Smile" back in 1967, when Brian Wilson was originally recording it. To sue over the "finished" version of that album that Brian Wilson have painstakingly recreated is to me pointless and redundant.

I have one point to make here, it's that this is a battle for more money which is sad enough, but also that your tax dollars are being wasted to hear it while two self diluted, old codgers bitch about who wrote what when. Here's a goddamned news flash old fucks, get over it, if you haven't got enough money right now, you probably should kill yourselves. Your music was out of date and lame in the 60's, not to mention how lame it sounds now.
This stupid lawsuit also proves how lame ass their music is, they're fighting over who made drivel. Besides, the best music is timeless and no one argues on who made it, these guys haven't made a timeless tune and ought to be shot for making such asinine, bubblegum pop. They are the precedent set for such greats as The Backstreet Boys, Wham, Brittney Spears, 98 Degrees (of faggotry haha), The New Kids on the Block and, many more that are now played seven times a day on TRL, so fuck Brian Wilson and Mike Love in the ass with a big rubber dildo, break it off and, beat them to death with what's left of it.
P.S. Lawsuits should only be filed when there's a genuine grievance that can be settled monetarily, like when your insurance company doesn't pay your medical bills even though they should be.

As opposed to Static-X, whose trancendant and thoughtful music echoes through the ages and touches the heart of every man, woman, and child like the celestial harps of a thousand angels?

It ESPECIALLY touches the children. The ones who are about 14. The female ones.

I've always thought the rest of the Beach Boys got a pretty raw deal with most critics. I mean, listen to the new SMiLE and tell me that the songs that had already been recorded don't sound a million times better than the remakes. Carl and Mike's voices, in particular are definitely missed.

Unfortunately, Mike Love has proved himself to be such a dick that I hope he not only loses this lawsuit, but loses all rights to the Beach Boys name.

Yeah, faggots are funny (haha). And your understanding of musical history is most impressive.

I'll be he thinks the Beatles suck, too.

NO shit dude. When Paul Mcartney is an admirer, you know you have a good songwriter on your hands.

Brian Wilson is a musical genius.

The backstreetboys, anyway, don't have ANYTHING in common with the Beach Boys except they are popular with young girls.

... and the word 'boys'...

So who was on full house?

Well, at least he got the Turd part right.

Solely in the interest of accuracy, Barbara Ann wasn't wrirtten by the Beach Boys.