The Beach Boys - Sounds of Summer: Very Best of The Beach Boys
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Music CD Cover Artist: The Beach Boys Edition: Music CD Format: Original recording remastered CD Release Date: 2003-06-10 Music Label: Capitol Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Sounds of Summer: Very Best of The Beach Boys Album
Free Music Review: Mongo NOT impressed
Hit: 1 Stars
This won't take long.
Speaking humbly (really!) as a musician & longtime (from day 1) in-depth fan of Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys:
a) Lousy selection - I could go on forever about the songs picked,
( I know... - I KNOW ... it's called 'Sounds of Summer - where in hell is 'All Summer Long' then? )
but the fact that 'Caroline No' and 'Surf's Up' isn't on this (and the dreaded "Kokomo" is) - says it all.
It's like Mike Love's set list from Hell.
b) Mediocre to bad sound - who picked these particular mixes and even worse, chose which ones are in 'stereo' / mono ??
Could have been worse, but not by much (see the Pet Sounds Sessions box set) http://www.amazon.com/Pet-Sounds-Sessions-Beach-Boys/dp/B000002U4U
c) Liner notes and package = meh!
SUMMARY:
Don't buy this. There are so many better box sets, anthologies ... if nothing else, just pick up a copy of the original 'Pet Sounds' if you don't have it ... almost *anything* is better than this.