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Sounds of Summer: Very Best of The Beach Boys
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Track Listings
1 | California Girls |
2 | I Get Around |
3 | Surfin Safari |
4 | Surfin U.S.A. |
5 | Fun, Fun, Fun |
6 | Surfer Girl |
7 | Dont Worry Baby |
8 | Little Deuce Coupe |
9 | Shut Down |
10 | Help Me, Rhonda |
11 | Be True To Your School |
12 | When I Grow Up (To Be A Man) |
13 | In My Room |
14 | God Only Knows |
15 | Sloop John B |
16 | Wouldnt It Be Nice |
17 | Getcha Back |
18 | Come Go With Me |
19 | Rock And Roll Music |
20 | Dance, Dance, Dance |
21 | Barbara Ann |
22 | Do You Wanna Dance? |
23 | Heroes And Villains |
24 | Good Timin |
25 | Kokomo |
26 | Do It Again |
27 | Wild Honey |
28 | Darlin |
29 | I Can Hear Music |
30 | Good Vibrations |
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Product Description
This the ultimate Beach Boys album. Thirty hits fa vorite songs, the most Beach Boys music ever availa ble on 1 CD. Over 74 minutes of classic Beach Boys tracks. The timeless soundtrack to an "American Su mmer."
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The cynic may question just how many Beach Boys greatest hits albums are enough. Everyone else, however, will appreciate what makes Sounds of Summer unique. This is the first single-disc collection to feature such a large cross section of hits from the group's entire career, spanning 1962's "Surfin' Safari" through 1988's "Kokomo." All 30 tracks, spanning several label changes, were Billboard Top 40 hits and are probably now as identifiable as the national anthem to anyone with radio or TV access. The fact that the tracks aren't in chronological order helps make for a fresh listening experience, as does the crisp digital sound. And yet these songs--even those that are more than four decades old--always sound strangely fresh and will likely remain so as long as there are beaches, young people, and that symbolic season of freedom and dreams. Which is to say that the title here passes the "truth in advertising" test. Perfect for those casual fans not yet ready to spring for the individual albums, Sounds of Summer is in many ways a better representation of this legendary band's art than Elvis' 30 No. 1 Hits and The Beatles 1 were of the King and the Fab Four. --Bill Holdship
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Product Dimensions : 4.84 x 5.55 x 0.47 inches; 4.97 ounces
- Manufacturer : Capitol
- Item model number : 2129987
- Original Release Date : 2003
- Date First Available : December 12, 2006
- Label : Capitol
- ASIN : B000093BDX
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #16,458 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #17 in Surf Rock
- #28 in Baroque Pop
- #241 in Classic Psychedelic Rock
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Now, having put down greatest hits collections, I have to qualify my opinion. I make exception when I'm dealing with pre-Beatles rock or pop music. The Beatles made albums the main medium for fans to buy music. Before that, the 45 rpm single reigned supreme. Little emphasis was put on albums and they sold in relatively small numbers. Albums from that era were mostly a hit or two and a bunch of filler.
This isn't intended to imply that the Beach Boys produced albums that included a lot of filler. They have produced some excellent albums. However, my problem has always been that most of their best-known hits came out before the Beatles hit the U.S. They're scattered among many among many albums and hits collections, and I was never enough of a Beach Boys fan to want to attempt the acquisition of their rather large catalogue. Further, it always seemed that despite the many previous collections of Beach Boys "greatest hits", each collection was incomplete, omitting a few favorite tunes. As recently as a two weeks, I was browsing through the CDs in a local store and found myself unhappy at being unable to find a Beach Boys collection that had everything I wanted.
Finally, Capitol Records has come to my rescue. SOUNDS OF SUMMER actually has all the Beach Boys hits I was looking for on one CD. Not several different collections with lots of duplication, not an expensive multiple-CD set. I'm aware that some reviewers here have expressed issues with this CD regarding stereo versus mono recordings, while others have criticized the selection of one song over another. For me, however, it isn't important whether "Wild Honey" or "Warmth Of The Sun" was included, or that some of the early tracks are mono instead of stereo. What counts is that this CD includes all the a m radio hits from the early '60's, along with a few later additions that I actually remember (i.e. "Sloop John B" and "Kokomo").
Hard core Beach Boys fans may find reason to be critical of this CD, but for the more casual fan, like myself, who just wants a reasonably complete set of the Beach Boys a m radio hits, SOUNDS OF SUMMER is as good as it gets. It beats any of the other compilations out there. I recommend it very highly on that basis and I think most buyers will be more that satisfied with it. I love it (incidentally, my twelve-year-old daughter loves it, too).
If you have grown up with synthesized and electronic music, you will find it hard to imagine the impact of The Beach Boys' music when it was first released. "Good Vibrations" in particular, created a sensation and a real sense that popular music would not be the same again. There was also considerable unease when it was realized they could not create the same sound live on stage. How times change.
Some reviewers have expressed disappointment that not all the tracks have been remastered into stereo versions, but bearing in mind that it was often a deliberate choice to record them in mono originally (the fact that Brian Wilson was deaf in one ear might have had something to do with it), you could argue that it is wrong to rerecord them in stereo. You're hearing what they intended.
Their two main influences, Chuck Berry and The Everly Brothers, are very obvious in this compilation. It includes a Berry song, "Rock and Roll Music" which I could have done without, but it does help to show where they came from musically. They began as a fusion of hard rock and soft country.
Also obvious is their affinity with The Mamas and the Papas - complex vocal harmonies, a love affair with California, a smooth, tuneful sound. If you like one group, you'll almost certainly like the other. No surprise therefore that this album includes "Kokomo", a late hit co-written with a couple of Papas. Also no surprise that offspring of Boy Brian and Papa John went on to form Wilson Phillips.
The traditional "Sloop John B" serves to remind us that the 60s folk revival influenced The Beach Boys as well as it did the more obvious groups. Lonnie Donegan had already had a hit in the UK with this song, years before, and when the Boys' version was a hit, he re-released his, "Because there's renewed interest in it." Inevitably, his version bombed. When all is said and done, The Boys were more rockers than folkies.
There is a huge number of 'best of' Beach Boy collections to choose from, so you may want to shop around. This album has 30 tracks, comprising their big hits, and is available at discount prices. So I recommend this as your best single-disk choice.
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Eben habe ich das Album gehört. Die Songs versprühen gute Laune und viele der Lieder waren schon in anderen Filmen zu hören. Von "Guck mal wer da spricht" über "Tatsächlich Liebe" bis hin zu "The Big Bang Theorie" sind The Beach Boys mit ihrer Musik vertreten. Mich als riesen Filmfan freut dies natürlich besonders.
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