The Beach Boys - Today/ Summer Days (and Summer Nights)
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Artist: The Beach BoysEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-03-13
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- Do You Wanna Dance
- Good To My Baby
- Don't Hurt My Little Sister
- When I Grow Up (To Be A Man)
- Help Me, Rhonda - (LP version)
- Dance, Dance, Dance
- Please Let Me Wonder
- I'm So Young
- Kiss Me Baby
- She Knows Me Too Well
- In The Back Of My Mind
- Bull Session With "Big Daddy"
- The Girl From New York City
- Amusement Parks U.S.A
- Then I Kissed Her
- Salt Lake City
- Girl Don't Tell Me
- Help Me, Rhonda - (single version)
- California Girls
- Let Him Run Wild
- You're So Good To Me
- Summer Means New Love
- I'm Bugged At My Ol' Man
- And Your Dreams Come True
- Little Girl I Once Knew, The - (stereo track, single version)
- Dance, Dance, Dance - (stereo, bonus alternate take)
- I'm So Young - (bonus track, alternate take)
- Let Him Run Wild - (stereo, bonus track, alternate take)
- Graduation Day - (bonus track, studio version)
Free Music Notes for Today/ Summer Days (and Summer Nights)
Free Music Review: A Note On The Sound Quality - from an Audio Engineer
Hit: 1 Stars
5 Stars for the music, Minus 4 for the transfer and mastering. Granted, most of the music on this CD ranks right up there with the Pet Sounds material. That is why this music deserves better audio! From the first time I listened to this CD, I noticed something was wrong - the music sounded dulled somehow, there was no detail or sharpness - in short: it did not sound the way I expected a year 2000 "remaster" to sound. So eventually I imported the tracks into Pro Tools to see if there was anything I could do to remedy the situation. Not a thing. What I found was exactly what I suspected upon first listen - ugly, distorted, "brick walled" waveforms! On a Beach Boys album! Either in the tape transfer in the or the supposed "remastering" process, something went horribly wrong. [In summary for the non-audio folks: your equalizer will not make it sound better - it will only emphasize the "clipped", distorted sound.] If anybody else gives a damn about these things in this day and age - speak up now! It's 9 years later and about time that the folks who own and distribute these recordings got wise to their mistakes.
Today/ Summer Days (and Summer Nights) Poster
Put simply, this is the Beach Boys at their mid-'60s prime. Ironically, the band's greatest evolutionary leap was spurred by its leader, Brian Wilson, who decided to drop out of the band's live performances after a December 1964 nervous breakdown to concentrate on honing the Beach Boys' studio sound. With Wilson's productions gaining a significant new depth and confidence (note the innovative modulations on "Dance, Dance, Dance"), the first half of Today seems a logical, upbeat step forward from its predecessors. But it's the album's second act that steals the show, setting the stage for the triumph of Pet Sounds. Indeed, it's easy to imagine gorgeous, introspective tracks such as "Please Let Me Wonder," "She Knows Me Too Well," and "In the Back of My Mind" intertwined with the best of Sounds. Set against that standard, the follow-up, Summer Days, feels like a step backward, despite the presence of another Wilson world-beater production, "California Girls," and the band's second No. 1 single, "Help Me, Rhonda." Ever pressured by commercial concerns, Wilson and the band created what was in essence the true follow-up to the All Summer Long album. Still, there's a level of musical sophistication to tracks such as "The Girl from New York City," the Phil Spector tribute "Then I Kissed Her," and especially "Girl Don't Tell Me" and "Let Him Run Wild." Reissued (with 24-bit digital remastering) in a long out-of-print twofer edition to mark the band's 40th anniversary and Lifetime Achievement Grammy, this set features several bonus tracks as well as the insightful notes of David Leaf (The Beach Boys and the California Myth). Bonus cuts include the spectacular "The Little Girl I Once Knew" and revealing outtakes of "Dance, Dance, Dance," "I'm So Young," and "Let Him Run Wild," along with a studio version of a song previously only available on the Beach Boys Concert collection, "Graduation Day." --Jerry McCulleyClassic Rock Music CDs
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