All Summer Long

The Beach Boys | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 28, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B000002TR3
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #386,808 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I Get Around

2. All Summer Long

3. Hushabye

4. Little Honda

5. We'll Run Away

6. Carl's Big Chance

7. Wendy

8. Do You Remember

9. Girls On The Beach

10. Drive-In

11. Our Favorite Recording Sessions

12. Don't Back Down

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

The Beach Boys' second album of 1964 (they released four that year!) was released at the height of rampant Beatlemania. But that stiff competition only served to push Wilson and his band to new creative heights. The budding transatlantic rivalry also effectively made this the final album of Brian Wilson's early sun-'n'-fun period--his personal introspection and insecurities would increasingly inform his work hereafter. That either dates All Summer Long or marks it as a time-capsule classic (more likely the latter). Wilson's Phil Spector-inspired production blossoms in service of such pressing concerns as the fun of motorcycling ("Little Honda"), seasonal fun ("All Summer Long") and the joys of dining out ("Drive In"). But the Hawthorne Hedonists also convey Wilson's romantic brooding on "Hushabye" and "Girls on the Beach," bittersweet reminders of how fragile their leader was at heart. All Summer Long now seems an ironic tribute to a simpler, long-vanished American ethos. --Jerry McCulley

Product Description

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' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Solid, splendid--one of the best from the Boys, April 12, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: All Summer Long (compilation) (Audio CD)

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.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Really cool songs that even teenagers will definitely like., October 13, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: All Summer Long (Audio CD)

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!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brain Wilson is a genius, what more do you need to know?, June 11, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: All Summer Long (Audio CD)

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!