Budget price 'Best Of' featuring 21 tracks, 'Good Vibrations', 'Help Me Rhonda', 'Surfin' U.S.A.', 'California Girls', 'I Get Around', 'Surfin' Safari', 'Surfer Girl', 'Catch A Wave', 'The Warmth Of The Sun', 'Be True T... more »o Your School', 'Little Deuce Coupe', 'In My Room', 'Shut Down', 'Fun, Fun, Fun', 'Girls On The Beach', 'Wendy', 'Let Him Run Wild', 'Don't Worry Baby', 'Girl Don't Tell Me', 'You're So Good To Me' & 'All Summer Long'.« less
Budget price 'Best Of' featuring 21 tracks, 'Good Vibrations', 'Help Me Rhonda', 'Surfin' U.S.A.', 'California Girls', 'I Get Around', 'Surfin' Safari', 'Surfer Girl', 'Catch A Wave', 'The Warmth Of The Sun', 'Be True To Your School', 'Little Deuce Coupe', 'In My Room', 'Shut Down', 'Fun, Fun, Fun', 'Girls On The Beach', 'Wendy', 'Let Him Run Wild', 'Don't Worry Baby', 'Girl Don't Tell Me', 'You're So Good To Me' & 'All Summer Long'.
CD Reviews
Solid, splendid--one of the best from the Boys
04/13/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)
"A must-have, simply put. A friend once looked at the songs on "Revolver" and said "Is this a greatest hits CD?" The same can be said about this album. (Two-fer or not, buy it. It's only money.) Now check out "Shut Down, Vol. 2." Long live 1964."
Really cool songs that even teenagers will definitely like.
10/13/1999
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Any Beach Boys fan will love it and even people who aren't Beach Boy fans will learn to love it and will love to listen to it. It's really cool and up to date. Buy it and listen to it! It's really great!"
Brain Wilson is a genius, what more do you need to know?
06/11/1999
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I'd hunt for a copy of the "Little Deuce Coupe/All Summer Long" two-fer before dropping change on this single album CD. It is still in print in Canada and you'd get more bang for your buck. Nuts to Capitol records for deleting the wonderful two-fer series. Despite what some folks might claim the song "Drive In" is not about "the joys of dining out" but actually about the joys of the drive in movie theatre!"
America's #1 group responds to Beatlemania with a #1album
S. Lyons | Pleasantville, USA | 04/20/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)
"In the 1960s, albums released in America usually timed out at appx. 1/2 hour, with about 12 songs. Sadly, Capitol Records deleted the catalogue of Beach Boys two-fers, in favour of the original packaging seen here. As it is, All Summer Long is a first -- first response to the Beatles, first of the magnificent Brian Wilson-produced albums featuring all of Phil Spector's musicians, the Wrecking Crew, and first to really break the mould of only surf and car songs. Brian wouldcompletely realise this non-fad album cycle with Today and Pet Sounds in the following two years. This album stands at the beginning of BB Phase II: Phase I was the surf/car records, Phase II inclu- ding All Summer Long/Summer Days/Today/Pet Sounds, and Phase III was the post-Pet Sounds, non-Brian-produced, collaborative period for the Beach Boys. Stellar production and vocal arrange- ments, catchy timeless tunes...what more is there?"
Another Truncated Beach Boys CD, But Great Music
S. Lyons | 05/24/1999
(3 out of 5 stars)
"Of all of the major music groups, the Beach Boys are probably one of the worst served by their record label. This album was originally packaged along with the "Little Deuce Coupe" album, bonus tracks, and song by song annotation. Mysteriously, all of that is gone and we are left with a short single album, no liner notes or packaging, and no bonus tracks. This is wonderful music but it is frustrating to know that the original CD package is out of print in the USA."
Track Listings (21) - Disc #1