L.A. (Light Album)
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L.A. (Light Album)
L.A. (Light Album) is the 23rd studio album by the Beach Boys, released on March 19, 1979. Produced by Bruce Johnston, James William Guercio and the band itself, the album was the Beach Boys' first on CBS Records, and the first to feature contributions from Johnston since his departure from the band in 1972. Johnston was brought in when it became clear that the ailing Brian Wilson was in no fit state to produce the album, and he has remained in the band ever since. -WIKIPEDIA
Critic Reviews
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RollingStone
1979 - this LP is worse than awful. It is irrelevant.
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ALL MUSIC
was yet another oddball attempt to push the Beach Boys into the contemporary mainstream despite their many songwriting and production flaws.
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sputnik music
2017 - Not great, not bad. Just there.
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Steve Hoffman
2007 - This is the last truly great Beach Boys album.
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Adrian Denning
Well, this is a fine latter day Beach Boys album!
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Mark Prindle
This is Beach Boys Outbore Manilow.
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Aphoristic Album Reviews
L.A. is a discombobulating mixture of whatever the group had on hand at the time, but there’s some strong work here.
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Starling Rinet
Gonna be defendin' this one, too, to my very last breath. Yeah, I'm perfectly aware that L.A. is often taken on by critics and fans as just about the absolute nadir of the Beach Boys' career, but see, I'm actually rating records primarily according to their melodic strength, not according to various socially tinged prejudices.
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blog critics
2008 - an album with a lot of low points. Given today’s technology I would advise downloading the first three songs and avoiding the rest.
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Alan's Album Archives
2014 - L. A. Light is something different, a forgotten gem, an amazing last gasp of inspiration when the band finally seemed to be stretching their impressive array of talents and concentrated on making a ‘good’ album, not just one that would sell.
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