M.I.U. Album
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| Studio album by The Beach Boys | ||||
| Released | October 2, 1978 | |||
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| Length | 32:19 | |||
| Label | Brother/Reprise | |||
| Producer | Al Jardine, Ron Altbach | |||
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| Robert Christgau | (C) |
M.I.U. Album is the 22nd studio album by The Beach Boys, released on October 2, 1978 on Brother/Reprise. Recorded during a fraught time for the band, only Mike Love, Al Jardine, and Brian Wilson appear consistently throughout the album, with Carl and Dennis Wilson audible on only a few tracks. Produced by Al Jardine and songwriter Ron Altbach, the album's title stems from Maharishi International University in Fairfield, Iowa, where the majority of the album was recorded.
After the release of Love You, The Beach Boys fell into dispute over the direction of the band, and were close to breaking up. Brian Wilson began regressing back into drug use and mental illness. Dennis was readying his debut solo album, Pacific Ocean Blue. Intended as a follow-up to Love You, sessions and mixing for a new album called Adult/Child were completed by The Beach Boys with Brian Wilson as producer, and it would have included "Hey Little Tomboy", which can be found on M.I.U.. The album was subsequently rejected by Reprise Records for not being commercially viable, although some of its tracks would reappear on later releases.
Dennis was largely unavailable for the new project, of which he and brother Carl were not in favor. The idea, by staunch Transcendental Meditation follower Mike Love, was to record another new album—initially intended as a Christmas release—at the Maharishi International University in Fairfield, Iowa, (hence the M.I.U. title). Consequently, when it was time to record the album in September 1977, only Love, Jardine and Brian Wilson showed up.
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