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| Length = | Label = Brother/Reprise | Producer = Brian Wilson | Last album = ''15 Big Ones'' (1976) | This album = ''Love You'' (1977) | Next album = ''M.I.U. Album'' (1978) | Misc = }} ''Love You'' (also known as ''The Beach Boys Love You'')〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Apple Inc. )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Bret Wheadon )〕 is the twenty-first studio album by American rock band the Beach Boys, released on April 11, 1977. Originally conceived as a Brian Wilson solo album entitled ''Brian Loves You'', the album is almost entirely written and performed by Wilson, with the other band members mainly serving as additional lead vocalists.〔 One single was released from the album: "Honkin' Down the Highway" backed with "Solar System". Penned during a process of mental and drug rehabilitation for Wilson, ''Love You'' has been praised by critics for the album's honest, unpretentious lyrics, and has been described as a portrait into his sense of self in 1977. Heavily reliant on 1970s analog synthesizers, the album has been recognized as an early work of synthpop,〔 a forerunner to new wave experiments, and an idiosyncratic and creative oddity in the Beach Boys' canon. A followup album, ''Adult Child'', was completed by the group, but left unreleased. ==Background== Three months following the release of ''15 Big Ones'', Wilson commenced recording the bulk of ''Love You''—then tentatively a solo project entitled ''Brian Loves You'' or ''Brian's In Love''〔—that he had mostly written alone. The songs were largely performed by Wilson through the aid of multitrack recording.〔 From October 13 to November 10, 1976, Wilson demoed over sixteen tracks for the Beach Boys' next release at Brother Studios, and claimed to have written about 28 new songs.〔 In comparison to the Beach Boys' previous ''15 Big Ones'', Wilson intended ''Love You'' to be "more creative, more original" and "lyrically much more interesting."〔 Wilson stated optimistically: "We're going to do another 'Good Vibrations' () time. Another masterpiece." Due to internal struggles with the group, Wilson felt unable to pursue a solo career, likening his place in the band "a commodity in a stock market." To make the album seem more democratic, its title was changed to ''The Beach Boys Love You''. Brian said he chose the name ''Love You'' because he "thought it would be a good sound people could feel secure with". Containing twelve of the songs the Beach Boys had worked on throughout 1976 and 1977, the album also sourced two tracks from earlier recording sessions. "Good Time", co-written by Wilson and Al Jardine, was the first of these, having been recorded on January 7, 1970, during a ''Sunflower'' session.〔 It is abnormal in the context of the ''Love You'' album, because the song features a Wilson lead vocal recorded prior to the deepening of his voice. The second of the tracks, "Ding Dang", was largely conceived by Wilson with lyrics contributed by Roger McGuinn.〔 Wilson became obsessed with the vocal arrangement of "Ding Dang" (adapted to or from the traditional folk song "Shortnin' Bread") and as such, various sessions of the songs and its derivatives were recorded throughout the 1970s, creating ambiguity in determining the version on ''Love Yous precise recording date. Beach Boys historians have estimated that it was likely recorded sometime in spring and fall 1973. On November 27, 1976, eleven days after compiling the first rough mix of the ''Love You'' demos, Wilson made a solo appearance on ''Saturday Night Live'' at the instigation of Landy to promote the upcoming album by performing Beach Boys oldies and the work-in-progress track "Love Is a Woman". A few weeks following this performance, he was released from Landy's program due to disputes over the doctor's monthly fee. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Love You (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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