10 Artists That Will Not Defend Their Own Albums

For as long as the Beach Boys have been the soundtrack to summer, you aren't going to find a better fan of the band than Mike Love. Outside of the fact that he treats himself as the de facto leader of the group, the '80s were where America's Band were getting a bit of a renaissance, scoring a hit in their middle age with the song Kokomo off of a movie soundtrack. Ever the businessman, Mike Love knew not to mess with the formula, and it made for one of the most unlistenable records from one of rock's giants.

Now that Brian Wilson wasn't available to work after still being in psychiatric treatment, this entire record is helmed by Mike Love's vision, with some of the most dated production you will ever hear. By trying to sound modern and hip in the '90s, every one of these songs sounds crazy dated these days, from the drums that are mixed way too loud to songs that wouldn't feel out of place on a '90s MTV title crawl. It also doesn't help that Mike is banking on people's nostalgia here, making references to different Beach Boys songs in the lyrics and making an attempt at rapping on Summer of Love.

While there hasn't been too much said about this album after it came out, you can tell a lot from everything that Mike has said about it since. Being the biggest hype man for the group for half a century, it has been virtually crickets from him, only bringing up one song in his memoir and not even touching the rest of the album. Whereas some albums might be hard to defend, Mike seems content just pretending it doesn't even exist.