The Beach Boys - 15 Big Ones/Love You
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Artist: The Beach BoysEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-08-15
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- Rock and Roll Music - The Beach Boys, Berry, Chuck
- It's OK - The Beach Boys, Love, Mike
- Had to Phone Ya - The Beach Boys, Love, Michael
- Chapel of Love - The Beach Boys, Spector, Phil
- Everyone's in Love with You - The Beach Boys, Love, Mike
- Talk to Me - The Beach Boys, Seneca, Joe
- That Same Song - The Beach Boys, Love, Michael
- TM Song - The Beach Boys, Wilson, Brian
- Palisades Park - The Beach Boys, Barris, Chuck
- Susie Cincinnati - The Beach Boys, Jardine, Alan
- A Casual Look - The Beach Boys, Wells, Ed
- Blueberry Hill - The Beach Boys, Lewis, Al [1]
- Back Home - The Beach Boys, Norberg, Bob
- In the Still of the Night - The Beach Boys, Parris, Fred
- Just Once in My Life - The Beach Boys, Spector, Phil
- Let Us Go on This Way - The Beach Boys, Love, Mike
- Roller Skating Child - The Beach Boys,
- Mona - The Beach Boys, Wilson, Brian
- Johnny Carson - The Beach Boys, Wilson, Brian
- Good Time - The Beach Boys, Jardine, Alan
- Honkin' Down the Highway - The Beach Boys, Wilson, Brian
- Ding Dang - The Beach Boys, McGuinn, Roger
- Solar System - The Beach Boys,
- The Night Was So Young - The Beach Boys, Wilson, Brian
- I'll Bet He's Nice - The Beach Boys, Wilson, Brian
- Let's Put Our Hearts Together - The Beach Boys, Wilson, Brian
- I Wanna Pick You Up - The Beach Boys, Wilson, Brian
- Airplane - The Beach Boys, Wilson, Brian
- Love Is a Woman - The Beach Boys, Wilson, Brian
Free Music Notes for 15 Big Ones/Love You
Free Music Review: His Mind Was So Young
Hit: 5 Stars
15 Big Ones is a really corny album. It's over-produced, has way too many covers, isn't a full-fledged Brian Wilson album on any level with Pet Sounds. The production is pretty similar to Mark Hudson's (he has commited production overkill on many Ringo albums.)The production was an attempt to sound retro while taking advantage of the current recording technology and production trends. Therefore, even though this album is a tribute to rock and roll, the album doesn't rock. Any time that the Beach Boys really rocked, it was when the instrumental and vocal rawness rose above the production values. Mind you, there's not one bad instrumental sound or bad vocal. In fact, this album is really quite enjoyable despite the gripes. It's a really well-made prodcut. It just doesn't have quite enough soul. Carl still manages to get soulful and Brian does some pretty good, but slightly ragged singing. Just Once In My Life has the most emotional vocals from Brian and Carl. It's probably the best song on the album. The second best song Had To Phone Ya... which happens to be a Brian original. I also really enjoy That Same Song. It's a happy mixture of corny music and wonderful lyrics that talk about how music went from Gregorian Chant to Rock over time. A song like That Same Song almost makes 15 Big Ones feel like it's a lesser version of a concept album. Mike Love doesn't add much to this album. His originals are lame and his vocals don't make matters better for the cover of Rock And Roll Music. Carl's leadership and songwriting is missing on this album. He's relegated to his old role of best vocalist.
Once you get past that commercial stuff, we get to the real art. We get the REAL Brian Wilson. He was back and he delivered the goods! This album has production that works, fun lyrics, rocking songs, intricate instrumentals and vocal harmonies, and some songs that even have the same emotional power as the songs from Pet Sounds. Best of all, this album actually ROCKS. Even with the complex chord progressions and layers of synths! The lyrics are mostly simple, but fantastic. From the childlike fascination in the stars of Solar System to the fantastic love song The Night Was So Young. Solar system is actually a marvelous song and you feel Brian's wonderment evoked through his vocals. Brian actually sings the best vocals on the album. He sings with a true passion and more emotion that nobody would've expected back then. He did a wonderful and beautiful job on the vocals for The Night Was So Young and Let's Put Our Hearts Together. Both songs are actually pretty moving and poigniant. I Wanna Pick You Up and I'll Bet He's Nice have really sentimental lyrics and Brian and Dennis both provide great, ragged vocals. Carl's vocals are the best on the latter song, though. Carl Wilson sings a great lead vocal for Let Us Go On This Way and Roller Skating Child. He has soul that goes back to Wild Honey and it sounds like he's having a lot of fun. Mike even sounds pretty good during Roller Skating Child. Mona does EVERYTHING that 15 Big Ones failed to do. It's a fantastic tribute to rock and roll before The Beatles. I could imagine Phil Spector loving it... and being flattered for the mention of some of the songs he produced and his name. Great job, Brian. Johnny Carson is this great bluesy... um... rocker about... Johnny Carson! The lyrics are funny, but brilliant. Once again, Carl steals the show. He sings with such convincing soul... and Mike did another decent job. Honkin' Down The Highway has a great lead vocal from Al who sings the song's somewhat silly lyrics with fun and passion. Airplane has great instrumentals and harmonies... It actually would've been a good song for Bruce to sing during the choruses. Both Honkin' Down The Highway and Airplane actually sound like classic Beach Boys songs. The only song that i don't really like is Love Is A Woman. The synths are great, but this song is too much like the stuff from 15 Big Ones... You'll hear why. Ding Dang is better and way more fun. It's a nifty little rocker with catchy lyrics and more fun vocals from Carl. The Night Was So Young is the best song on the album. Everything about it is GREAT. Carl turned in fine lead vocals, the harmonies are perfect, Brian's couple of lead vocal parts and his falsetto vocals are fantastic. Long story short, this is a great Brian Wilson album and every song has fantastic lead and harmony vocals from the group. I CAN'T complain about the music OR production... everything is tastefully done down to the experimental use of synths and keys... so go listen to Love You. You will feel the love and you will love this wonderful album.
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Touted by a highly suspicious media blitz ("Brian is Back!"), 1976's 15 Big Ones caught the nostalgic wave generated by the surprise success of Endless Summer and Spirit of America, the double-album compilations of the Beach Boys' mid-'60s, summer-music prime, and rode it close to the crest of the charts. One doesn't have to get much further than the tepid (albeit top 10) cover of Chuck Berry's's "Rock and Roll Music" to realize that band founder/original creative spark Brian Wilson may indeed have been back, but sounded like he was working under duress--if he was working at all. With a covers-heavy tack best described as a parody of the band's original trademark sound, wed to some of the mid-'70s worst production trends, it's an album that shows just how much the public still yearned for the band's classic sound, even if their faith ended up being "rewarded" by the likes of Mike Love's embarrassing "Everyone's in Love with You" and "T.M. Song." Conversely, Brian was definitely back for '77s Love You, an album that's become something of a critic's darling, if only because it hews so bravely to the strange musical vision that seeped from Wilson's then-troubled mind. Brian's synth-heavy production managed to be at once dense and minimalist, while the songs remain some of the most consistently loopy concoctions the band ever recorded. While his vulnerable romanticism is also on display, it's Wilson's playful sense of humor that dominates, from strange odes to "Johnny Carson" and the "Solar System" to innocent romps like "Ding Dang" and "Mona." A quarter-century later, it's an album that can still both surprise and delight. Both albums are digitally remastered on a single disc. --Jerry McCulley
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