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The Beach Boys - Little Deuce Coupe/ All Summer Long Audio CD

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The Beach Boys Band: The Beach Boys
Title: Little Deuce Coupe/ All Summer Long
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Release Date: 2001-03-13
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Little Deuce Coupe - Beach Boys 2: Ballad Of Ole' Betsy - Beach Boys 3: Be True To Your School - Beach Boys 4: Car Crazy Cutie - Beach Boys 5: Cherry, Cherry Coupe - Beach Boys 6: 409 - Beach Boys 7: Shut Down - Beach Boys 8: Spirit Of America - Beach Boys 9: Our Car Club - Beach Boys 10: No-Go Showboat - Beach Boys 11: A Young Man Is Gone - Beach Boys 12: Custom Machine - Beach Boys 13: I Get Around - Beach Boys 14: All Summer Long - Beach Boys 15: Hushabye - Beach Boys 16: Little Honda - Beach Boys 17: We'll Run Away - Beach Boys 18: Carl's Big Chance - Beach Boys 19: Wendy - Beach Boys 20: You Remember? - Beach Boys 21: Girls On The Beach - Beach Boys 22: Drive-In - Beach Boys 23: Our Favorite Recording Se - Beach Boys 24: Don't Back Down - Beach Boys 25: True To Your School - Beach Boys 26: All Dressed Up For School - Beach Boys 27: Little Honda (Alternate Take) 28: Don't Back Down (Alternate Take)

the amazing songwriting ability of Brian Wilson
Many songs are familiar big hits, and some are gems in the rough. This is a great compilation smack in the middle of the Beach boys most productive period. The harmonies are simply some of the best. Yes there are a few tunes that are not as polished as I would like. But, I would not pass up on this disc, no way no how. The line notes are excellent giving short insightful summaries of each song. .


One Of The Better Beach Boys Compilations On The Market


What I would like to add is a comment on the great liner notes, nine pages which include a track-by-track commentary, all written in 1990 by David Leaf, author of the Brian Wilson biography The Beach Boys And The California Myth. This volume has been reviewed to death when it comes to the musical content, but I would recommend you read those of Peter D Harris and Thomas Magnum to get a good synopsis of the contents. The insert also contains a complete discography of the contents, along with numerous photographs and album/45 rpm/poster reproductions.

Easily one of the better Beach Boys compilations still on the market. .


Two of their Best
I personally love them the most when they had their signature "Beach Boys" sound, probably through to "Pet Sound" where their sound markably changed. If you are a hardcore Beach Boys fan and love them all the way from their first 45(Surfin on Candix), through all of their albums starting with Surfin Safari to their most recent release, you will see the quantum leaps they made in musical maturity with every album. You saw hints of the changes to come in the couple of albums prior to "Pet Sounds" but it matured into full bloom then. They have always had though no matter what their instrumental style was their trademark vocal arrangements that Brian patterned after the Four Freshman songs he loved. And no one does it better or has come close to although we are seeing vocal groups begin to come back recently. These 2 albums(Little Deuce Coupe & All Summer Long)I think have some of their best signature songs/hits at a time when Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys were really hitting their stride. They have all of the youthful exuberance and energy we love them for, but with some experience and polish that the two previous albums didn't have. They are in their Car/Hot Rod period but there are still some Beach/Surf songs too(although this kind of is their swan song there), the Girl songs are always there as well. If you love them for their sound at this time, probably starting with LDC and continuing up to but not including Pet Sounds, these are their best albums vocally, instrumentally, and of course in production(on Brians end). There are some extra tracks which in some cases are pure joy when finding a killer rocking song(I loved All Dressed Up for School). This CD with 2 albums is an absolute essential to anyones Beach Boys music collection. Don't get me wrong, I love just about everything Brian and the Beach Boy's have done, including one of Rock and Roll's classic albums of all times(Pet Sounds), but this is the Beach Boys I fell in love with and will play over and over again, period. I just wish there were more music like this today, but it isn't being done and it also was a place and time that has long been gone. Get these and sit back and enjoy their Sun drenched/Hi Revving genius.


A car concept album & a small masterpiece of teenage angst on 1 CD!

All Summer Long is highly recommended and Brian's first peak. Little Duece Coupe is the ultimate car concept record and plays great even though a few tracks are a few years old and already released. These 7 songs listed here are ESSENTIAL listening.

Hushabye
Little Honda
We'll Run Away
Wendy
Girls On The Beach
Don't Back Down
All Dressed Up For School
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Car songsfor cool kids
Although the car or automobile has ruined the planet with its incessant demands for streets
and parking spaces and gas wars, these songs rule!.


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