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The Beach Boys - Summer in Paradise Audio CD

A fair review of the The Beach Boys "Summer in Paradise" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all The Beach Boys reviews here, or go back to the The Beach Boys tabs.

The Beach Boys Band: The Beach Boys
Title: Summer in Paradise
Rating:
Release Date: 1992-08-03
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Hot Fun in the Summertime 2: Surfin' 3: Summer of Love 4: Island Fever 5: Still Surfin' 6: Slow Summer Dancin' (One Summer Night) 7: Strange Things Happen 8: Remember (Walking in the Sand) 9: Lahaina Aloha 10: Under the Boardwalk 11: Summer in Paradise 12: Forever

Summer in Paradise Instant Collector's item
Well. . . Let me tell you. I had the pleasure of being with these guys while they did their summer tour in Massachusetts. This landmark issue was supposed to kick off a relationship with Navarre distribution. The cd was hard enough to find when it first came out. This is also the very first Beach Boys record that was totally and digitally recorded in Massachusetts. Was very proud that they used studios in Southboro(My Hometown) and Cape Cod.
Funny, when I was growing up listening to new capitol 45's of the Beach Boys - I always thought that Salem, MA was in California. . . . silly.

44 out of 45 stars

Wish EMI would grab this one and do it up again!!

PS This was also heavily used around the Full House episodes during the wedding of Jesse and Rebecca.


Curiosity Only
You are just too curious to pass it up and you think why not? I picked this up having read that the cover was better than the contents. It gets to the point where once you have heard everything by a band and you have that one thing left. There are points here when I could fool myself into thinking this alright music. If wasn't so overproduced I could see it having a slightly lesser chance at being just a lesson in pure mediocrity. Kids may like this as it really does sound like a bad children's record, but please spoil the kids with quality whenever you can. This is not quality Beach Boys music. .


Summer In Paradise Indeed
I've been a Beach Boy Freak for 42 years now, and this is the best this group has done since Sunflower. I don't get it ? This is a great CD. So it was all done electronically--that doesn;t take away from the voices. Summer Of Love is the only downer on this CD, nice try Mikey, but you stink. This CD, is a collectors item now, and finding it in print, is hard. Thats why I bought 2 when it came out. Why they did not reissue this when they reissued the 2-fer's again is beyond me.
John Stamos try's to immitate Dennis with Forever, and comes close. I think Dennis would of approved it.
Don't be so quick to throw this CD in the trash, give it a dozen try's, and I am sure you will change your mind about it.


A Fun Album, and NOT Carl's Last Recordings
It's a fun record, OK? Some nice new songs like Lahaina Aloha, Island Fever, and Still Surfin. I'm a die-hard Beach Boys and Brian Wilson fanatic - and nothing after 1977 is close to 5 stars (unless you count Brian's solo work) - BUT as a lover of tropical music and Beach Boys sounds, I enjoyed their late 70's early 80's work, and the 1985 album, and Kokomo, and Still Cruisin, so when this hit stores I bought it and was immediately impressed with the sounds and harmonies. A great cover of Hot Fun In The Summertime. (but I never listen to the John Stamos thing at the end. . ) Do the recent albums by Chicago or America or Neil Diamond or Paul McCartney sound like or equal the ones from the 60's and 70's? No, but many are still great. Hey, it's Carl Wilson and Mike Love singing about summer!

NOTE: Carl Wilson made another album after this, a great one with Robert Lamm of Chicago and Gerry Beckley of America called BECKLEY LAMM WILSON - "Like A Brother". It was recently reissued with 3 bonus tracks (see Robert Lamm's website).


This is Paradise?
I. To prove my point that this is one of the worst Beach Boys albums ever (along with the truly dreadful "M. U. "), just look at these insipid lyrics:

Surfers recycle now dont you know
Like everyone from california down to kokomo
We're gonna keep on rockin
And raising world consciousness
We gotta fix this mess

The only mess they need to fix is this album. Sadly, it's the last one that included the incredible voice of Carl Wilson. Try not to remember this as his swan song, please.


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