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The Beach Boys - Surfer Girl/Shut Down, Vol. 2 Audio CD

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The Beach Boys Band: The Beach Boys
Title: Surfer Girl/Shut Down, Vol. 2
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Release Date: 2001-03-13
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Surfer Girl 2: Catch A Wave 3: Surfer Moon, The 4: South Bay Surfer 5: Rocking Surfer, The 6: Little Deuce Coupe 7: In My Room 8: Hawaii 9: Surfers Rule 10: Our Car Club 11: Your Summer Dream 12: Boogie Woodie 13: Fun Fun Fun 14: Don't Worry Baby 15: In the Parking Lot 16: "Cassius" Love Vs. "Sonny" Wilson 17: Warmth Of The Sun, The 18: This Car Of Mine 19: Why Do Fools Fall In Love 20: Pom Pom Play Girl 21: Keep An Eye On Summer 22: Shut Down Part 2 23: Louie Louie 24: Denny's Drums - (mono) 25: Fun, Fun, Fun - (mono, bonus track, single version) 26: In My Room - (bonus track, German version) 27: I Do - (bonus track)

Last of the Surf Albums and some Car songs
Surfer Girl was the last of their surf themed albums, but what a great one. Interesting pairing of albums/CD's. They had matured musically quite a bit by this time and it shows. There is some filler instrumentals here, but a great album. The title "Shutdown Vol. 2" is slightly misleading in that it implies that there was a Beach Boys album titled Shutdown. There wasn't, but there was a fairly rare Capitol compilation album called "Shutdown" that had 2 Beach Boys songs on it including the title song, "Shutdown". The rest of the songs on the album are not real good compared to the Beach Boys songs, but its a collectable now. I have a copy of it autographed by all of the Beach Boys circa 1964, really cool! Shutdown Vol. 2 does have some great songs on it quite a mix of song types, not all car songs although the album cover(one of my favorites)seems to imply that. "Don't Worry Baby" is one of Brian's most beautiful songs even if it is about somebody about to race and his worrys. I also really loved the extra track, "I Do". Obviously Brians feelings about his wife and marriage were the inspiration, it made me choke up thinking about similar feelings I have in common. Wow!.


A Classic, Back Again (Good As New!)
These two albums gave the first hint of just how bold that vision was, how far it might go. It's easy after all these years to forget the brilliance of Brian Wilson's vision.


Great Albulms
Brian Wilson did a great job in the composition of the songs and they sound great in stereo ( In Sounds of Summer you only get these songs in mono) Shut Down Vol. Surfer Girl is really a great piece of work. 2 is alright album with some good songs as well ( Don't Worry Baby in stereo)I highly recommend this disc.


Brian's genius starts here
They are all worth the price of admission for this cd, it's worth sitting through the filler for these 3 masterpieces of surf angst. The oldest Wilson's talent is already peeking through the clouds on Surfer Moon, Warmth Of The Sun, Keep An Eye On Summer.
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The songs are great , the quality is great and the booklet's great!
Shut Down Volume 2 was actually the 5th album they ever released and Surfer Girl the third about. This Album Was About The Tenth Album They Ever Released. Brian Made Surfer Girl, the song, while he was driving to a hot dog stand, and he wrote down the notes and words when he got home. And when G. Usher and B. Wilson wrote "In My Room" Brian's Dad said to G. Usher: "Good work, Usher. " And G. Usher says that was the nicest thing B. Wilson's dad had said to him ever. My Favorite song is "Hawaii," which happens to be number 8 on this album. .


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