15 Big Ones

The Beach Boys | Format: Audio Cassette

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• Audio Cassette (January 10, 1991)
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B00000EI97
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,067,146 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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3.0 out of 5 stars It's OK., February 22, 2006

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Johnny Heering "trivia buff" (Bethel, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 15 Big Ones (Audio CD)

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." By the way, "15 Big Ones" refers not only to the number of songs on the album, but also to the number of years the Beach Boys had existed as a band.