Funny, I’ve always loved Face Dances, although I acknowledge it’s not the greatest selection of songs. You Better You Bet, Another Tricky Day, and Don’t Let Go the Coat are my favorites… plus Daltry turns in a freaking EXCELLENT vocal performance across this whole record despite not liking the material very much and having the same beef with Townshend that you do about keeping his best songs for solo material. Some of it is hilarious, too, like the way he belts out “And I look pretty CRAPPY sometimes” in YBYB. God I love that.

Love “Tango in the Night “

Thanks so much for bringing up The Beach Boys 15 big ones. My father bought it for me and my brothers on release back in 1976. Yes, it is not Pet Sounds but damn it, I liked it back then and I still like it. Great memories and thanks for your fun video.

I really like the Kinks Album Phobia which Norman calls out in his video. Some great tracks, Close to the Wire, Wall of Fire, Still Searching, Drift Away, Scattered, Its' All Right and of course Hatred etc.

“Tango in the Night” is a hell of an album. It doesn’t suffer from 80’s production-it dazzled me because of it’s production. 🤷‍♂️

Shakedown Street cover was by Gilbert Shelton, who did the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers comic. Everybody thinks it's Crumb.

Phobia is a mess, mostly. But two Davies diamonds stand out: Only a Dream, and the exquisite, timeless Scattered. (Videos on KZfaq) Love your stuff!!😅

Came here for some banter only to learn of the passing of Melinda Wilson (Ledbetter). My thoughts are with Brian and i hope he overcomes this tragic loss.

Broad Street is good. Not only No More Lonely Nights, but No values and Not such a bad boy. The movie segments work as good music videos separately.

Great video Mazzy! Hilarious too. Give my Regards…was my intro to Paul for me. I was like “what’s the big deal about this guy? I don’t get it…” You should do a video about 80s production and artists of the 60s and 70s. Really did impact them more than the current artists at the time. Ok, I’m trying to think of my 10…

"It was all over after the second album..." -- Levon Helm (sharing refreshments with Billy Bob Thorton in the doco film.."Ain't in it for my health") The Dead tunes.."Good Lovin" and "Fire on the Mountain" are on many of the Dead's (archival) live albums. And those versions (the ones I have) are pretty good.

Mazzy excellent video 💕 Live you my Brother ✌️

This has been fun, thanks. These groups all had to try new things in order to survive and it obviously didn’t always go well.

I notice a trend with these albums. Many have alot of cover songs on them.

Face Dances is a much better record than It’s Hard. But yeah, Chinese Eyes stomps all over both of them. As far as Procol’s 9th goes, it’s worth noting that the best song on there, which they open the album with, was a leftover from 1967. Shakedown Street cover is by the underground comix great Gilbert Shelton, but it looks like something he knocked out in five minutes.

How about a top 10 of albums you like that are generally derided by others? You hinted at it in this video.

ha - I was at that Dylan show as well - such a weird vibe. Remember the home made banners hanging from the balcony with bible verses?

I really enjoy Face Dances. I did not enjoy their next album, It's Hard.

BTW Mazzy, how did you miss 'Time' by Fleetwood Mac? It puts the 'awful' in 'God awful'! And 'Mardi Gras' by CCR - John Fogerty torpedos his own band by letting them do more.

Great video but i will defend most of these albums. Islands is a top 3 Band album for me. Saga of Pepote Rouge is a killer song and the cover of Georgia on my Mind brings me to tears. 15 Big Ones isn't a great album but it still has some stellar tracks. It's O.K. is one of their best singles , Had to Phone Ya is a wonderful Brian song and the last 2 songs are a wonderful closer to the album. As for Face Dances I haven't dived much into The Who's earlier albums from the 60's but I always put this album on when i want to listen to them. It flows together perfectly and never jolts you out of the album For a while there I didn't even know that the album ended with Another Tricky Day until I listened to the LP because the bonus studio tracks fit it amazingly. Love your content Maslov and have a wonderful day!

Interesting choices Mazzy! I think all of us can pick terrible albums by artists we love! And yes the curse of the 80's Queen : Hot Space? 😆

First time I came across this channel - lovely - laid back and amusing summaries ... keep it up, yeah?

That 80’s production stuff you talk about is to me audio leg warmers and the wrong kind of big hair.

Being a long time Beach Boys follower I have to agree with you on 15 Big Ones. They took some classic oldies and did a poor job of covering them

No, not 15 Big Ones! That and Endless Summer were my intro to the Beach Boys! I used to live across the river from Gong Show Host Chuck Barris' penned Palisades Park! And it did come out around the '76 Olympics! lol.

I have to admit I love Broad Street but it's a sentimental favorite for me. It was the first McCartney album that I owned and was given to me as a Christmas gift. I still listen to it, but agree the movie is pretty bad.

I saw you "promoting" this video on Rachel's Ghost livestream and had to give it a look! Perfect choices. Spoiler Alert: When you showed Shakedown Street I had a flashback from high school. I had a friend who was trying to get me into Grateful Dead. I was at a record store and saw Shakedown and thought, "Ill give this a try." Didn't buy another GD album for years. Thankfully, I did eventually recover. Love Beach from ELP would have made my list.

I'm one of those weirdos who likes Jefferson Starship more than Jefferson Airplane. Dragon Fly, Red Octopus, Spitfire and Earth are all strong albums.

Afternoon Mazy, fun video, I was chuckling, while listening to Beatles For Sale as it happens. Now I'm listening to 15 Big Ones, and Face Dances will be next so cheers for inspiring my Sunday easy listening! Btw, don't you think aforementioned BFS could be on your list,in all honesty? It's kinda flimflam innit..have a great day!

I got Face Dances in 1982, in the $1.99 cut out bin at Sam Goodies. Part of the cut got on the inside poster of the album cover. When you unfolded it, there were 4 separate nicks on the poster.

There was a moment when Brian Wilson heard the Beatles and thought: we're finished. And they should have been. But then we would have had to live without Good Vibrations. Thanks Brian!

Well, you almost lost me by attacking Face Dances. I'll admit it took some getting used to, but it really grew on me. It's way better than It's Hard. So, I was pouting and ready to give up on this video. Then you pronounced 'Davies' correctly for the Kinks. I instantly hit 'like'. Finally, someone on YT pronounces the name correctly!

Oh yeah, those are some stinkers! I do like the cover of Shakedown. As for the Who, I think their latest album is a big improvement over Face Dances or anything else since the Moon years. Worth a listen! Jefferson Airplane reunion was 1989. I remember being excited about it until I heard it..

I know diehard Deadheads don’t like it, but I ‘m the one who’ll say ‘Shakedown Street’ is a good album! I actually enjoy the grove of Good Lovin, plus Shakedown Street, France, I Need a Miracle, Fire on the Mountain- a fun listen imo!

Great video per usual! Tangent note: Love that hat! What make is it?

I love Shakedown Street.

Getting ready to watch this!! By the way, don't know if you saw my comment on Rachel's show, but the Joan Baez documentary is on Hulu.

its cool that you still have them even if you dont like the albums.

I'm new to this channel. Have you done a video on "10 great albums from bands [you] hate"?

Great video Mazzy, and great choices.

Shot Of Love Is far from terrible. In The Summertime is a good song. Groom's Still Waiting At The Altar too. And Every Grain Of Sand is absolutely amazing.

Fifteen Big Ones has two tracks I like, It's Okay which sounds like a mashup of The Beach Boys' Do It Again and ELO and Had to Phone Ya. There are 60's and early 70's outtake versions of Back Home much better than the Big Ones version. Long John Silver has a few tracks I like but Grace Slick made the point in her book that everyone was more focused on the solo and side projects by then and it shows.

I always felt if you had taken the best songs from "Face Dances" and "It's Hard" and put them on one album you would've had a very good Who record. Worst album by Fleetwood Mac is "Time", the one with Bekka Bramlett and Dave Mason. There are worse albums by the Beach Boys than "15 Big Ones".😎

I would love to hear what the reaction was for that Dylan concert!!

Thanks for reminding me of some songs I like. E.G The Who You better you bet and Athena....

Must hear: "Just Once In My Life" on 15 Big Ones is SUCH a killer track. Carl + Brian. Huge favorite song of mine.

After seeing your thumbnail, it's no wonder people laugh at my love for the Beach Boys. They're made a joke of for their missteps, and ignored for their brilliance.

I like Tango in the Night, Islands and Face Dances. Fun topic, I'll put one up later this week.

That’s not even the worst Beach Boys album…. Big Ones does have “Susie Cincinnati”, which is pretty cool.

This one made me laugh in spots, love these vids!😂

Any thought to including Human Touch by Springsteen or Lawyers in Love by Jackson Browne?

Got some juice there Mazzy - shockers.

15 Big Ones is a god damn masterpiece, look at Brian smiling on the cover as he eyeballs a big piece of pie, how can you not love that?

I couldn’t do this thread, because if it’s a terrible record I get rid of it. No time in my life or collection for records I’ll never listen to. But still interesting seeing your take on it.

you're bonkers with your assessment of face dances

Bob Dylan - Empire Burlesque David Bowie - Never Let Me Down/Labyrinth Neil Young - Trans/Everybody's Rockin' Led Zeppelin - Coda Rolling Stones - Steel Wheels/A Bigger Bang The Who - It's Hard (Eminence Front is ok) Pete Townshend - The Iron Man

Amazingly Interesting Upload,Mazzy!!!

Very interesting presentation

I remember that Dylan show at the Warfield. The audiance got hostle. Didn't he cut the show short?

15 big ones are one of 3 Beach Boys albums I really Love

Who's Last by The Who on MCA records. a live concert album of their final live performance held in Montreal Canada in December 1982, which was also aired live on TV. I was horrified to discover it was the same sound quality as aired on TV. Just a pair of cheap microphones likely used for sporting events and sounded like it was recorded on a cassette player. Compared to their epic 1970 Live At Leeds album Who's Last, sound quality was so sub-par and half-assed. I believe the album went out of print within a year or 2 of its release.

That Paul McCartney cover looks like a selfie from today.

Well done, with a choice of thousands narrowing it down to ten is commendable!

I went to the premiere of give my regards to broad street, Most people who criticize it haven't even seen it

Hey Mazzy...still catching up with things that I DID NOT listen to in my youth...but...I know you're love with Jefferson Airplane. And since this is about terrible albums...I wondered what you thought about Jefferson STARSHIP Red Octopus. I really cannot stand their "we built this city" phase, but I streamed Red Octopus the other day and was kind of "good" with it.

Great video Mazzy. I'm a mexican fan of your videos. The Broad Street movie was not good, I agree, even though it works as separate music videos. But the "Give My Regards To Broad Street" Album is great! Not one of his best, but a great album to listen to. It got to #1 in the UK at the time. I really enjoy the Beatles songs he plays (with Ringo and George Martin) and the new songs were great, not only No More Lonely Nights, but also No Values and Not Such a Bad Boy, which are great rockers in the McCartney catalog. Eleanor's Dream was an early taste of the classical music he would do in the 90s. By the way you can find the complete version only in the cassette and the CD, not in the vinyl record version which was severly edited in various songs. I still love the "Give My Regards To Broad Street" Album.

Before the video started I knew The WHO would show up. Faces Dances is a great album.

Christmas must be tonight is the most underrated Christmas song of all time in my opinion. Great video Mazzy.

A perfect 10 on shiny albums. We all have crapp records. I bundle those with okay ones and sell these to the most avaricious dealers.

15 Big Ones did one thing: got Brian back working with The Beach Boys again. It was his idea for mostly covers on the album.

Saved???? Top 5 Dylan for me.

i know its personal taste. i love " shakedown ". the cover is by stout. a famous bootleg artist.

Quite a funny approach. Exlplaining why some albums are rubbish altough possessing them. It could have happened with my collection as well, as the records are from so many different sources and you don't feel you should get rid of them. Of the ten albums you showcased, I have got only one, i.e. Fleetwood Mac's Tango In The Night. I also don't like the sound, but still some songs.

its funny when you mentioned Broadstreet - I was yelling at my screen "What about Gilmore on No More Lonely Nights".........luckily I kept listening... :0

' no more lonely nights' is pretty good, and you're right about the solo, I can just about remember it all although I've not heard the song in 30 years

I like Shakedown Street. Cover art is from Gilbert Shelton.

Rachel ghost livestream made me watch this video. Thx Mazzy

That Beach Boys album was the first BB album I ever bought. I was 12. Loved it then and haven't heard it in 45 years and I think back ... yeah, your assessment is probably right. Not a high point to be sure. But it did introduce me to a lot of those songs.

Agree on Fifteen Big Ones - and that did refer to their 15th year as a band (beginning Labor Day 1961) It was that post Endless Summer/Spirit of America time - the two BIG selling oldies compilations - so they did their own covers here and a few originals. I did buy it when it came out and wasn't crazy about it either. But the sound was well done - and produced by Brian Wilson.

I am a big Jefferson Airplane fan. Long John Silver is an embarrassment. Jorma's song Trial By Fire was okay. Even the LP Bark was on shaky ground but was passible. Both Kantner/Slick and Hot Tuna faired pretty well individually during this period (1972 I believe.)

I knew the man who co-wrote the song-'Good Lovin'-and he loved The Grateful Dead's version of it. At the time he told me this, we were sitting at the table with the man who did the Fleetwood Mac 'Rumours' album cover. Whether he also did the 'Tango In The Night' album cover, I don't know. I'll have to look that up.

I used to have "Procol's Ninth," but my copy didn't come in a gatefold sleeve. I didn't think much of the album except for "Pandora's Box," which was a top-20 hit in the U.K. I like the singles from "Tango in the Night," especially "Big Love," which I never hear on oldies stations. I like the B-side--"You and I Pt. 1"--even better, but it wasn't on the album.

I must say I agree with you and don't own these albums except for the Who's album which I bought second hand. I went to see that McCartney movie at the theater but don't remember seeing it after. It's almost as insignificant as the Sergeant Pepper Lonely Hearts Club Band movie which came out in the 70's. I also agree about the Procol Harum's album live in Edmonton being a good one. Being from the Montreal, Canada area, the Beach Boys album cover is pretty obvious as we had the Olympics in 1976. And finally, I think a lot of older bands sold their souls in the 80's trying to sound new and in tune with the current music being produced but that ended up being a sad period for most of them.

Even though you dislike these records, what stands out to me is how nice the jackets look! I guess it’s obvious that you don’t pull them out much if at all. I can’t think of anyone else who would make a video like this. Well done!

If you look closely at the couple on that Long John Silver album, you will see that they look completely stoned. You miss it.

i think face dances is pretty darn good

I've been thinking about putting a together a collection of songs i love by bands that, otherwise, I don't particularly care for.

I guess that why I haven’t heard of those albums in my journey. Lol

Glad to hear someone other than me loves the Kinks' "Soap Opera"!

15 Big Ones - I love that LP! So good! 🙂

Some dope gets on youtube and blasts good lp’s like 15 Big Ones and Tango In the Night.

I just picked up airplane long John silver here in the UK for £5.ok. not great but I like the cover 😅😅😅

I'm very nostalgic for 15 Big Ones as it was my 1st Beach Boys LP and I can have a good time with it if I'm in the right mood for it. The covers are pretty weak (especially "In the Still of the Night") but I love some of the originals like "It's OK" and "Had to Phone You." Of course, the album went through several stages of developmental hell so (like all of their 1976-80 albums), it feels pretty scrambled and unfocused. Not my pick for their worst one, but I totally get the hate for it. Awesome collection!

I respect your choices. F.Y.I., my local record store had The Who’s “Face Dances” in their Record Store Day clearance rack. You can do whatever you wish with that information.

Tango in the Night is great album.

Brian was not all there , literally and figuratively during 15 big ones.

Love Mazzy for being careful to make sure those 'terrible' LPs he's casting aside land flat and don't get damaged.

i agree with you about jefferson airplane being tops of the san fransisco scene except for sly and the family stone who i prefer. i don't agree with you in the slightest about face dances or saved. i'll take your word on procol harum's 9th and say that daltrey's version of "say it ain't so, joe" (performed by gary brooker) would have made a nice addition to "face dances". if a band or artist finishes 10 songs and owe record company a record and they only have one "no more lonely nights", "christmas must be tonight" or "little lies", i suppose you're inclined to put the songs out and hope you do better the next time. your videos are always interesting. thanks.

Face dances is great!!! You better you bet? Don’t let go of the coat? The quiet one?

I do enjoy Hatred(A Duet) off of Phobia