We're proud to present this comprehensive retrospective of one of the most influential pop bands of all time! Features 44 of their classic hits, including: All Summer Long * Barbara Ann * Be True to Your School * California Girls * Caroline, No * Catch a Wave * Do It Again * Do You Want to Dance? * Don't Worry Baby * 409 * Fun, Fun, Fun * God Only Knows * Good Vibrations * Help Me Rhonda * Heroes and Villains * I Get Around * In My Room * Kokomo * Pet Sounds * Surfer Girl * Surfin' Safari * Surfin' U.S.A. * When I Grow Up (To Be a Man) * Wild Honey * Wouldn't It Be Nice * and more!
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: The Beach Boys Anthology (Paperback)
This is a pretty good collection of Beach Boys tunes, arranged for piano. It also has the guitar chords and fingering charts, which is nice. My only complaint is that some of the songs have been abridged horribly. The instrumental bridge from Please Let Me Wonder is missing, as are several sections of Good Vibrations. I was also disappointed that one of my favorite Beach Boys songs, Surf's Up, was not included. Otherwise it's a decent book, though.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Not great; not bad!,
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This review is from: The Beach Boys Anthology (Paperback)
This book contains a good number of classic Beach Boys songs. THe selection is certainly decent. The voicings/harmonies contained in the piano section at times are great, but at other times somewhat lacking. A couple of songs have some wrong chords, i.e. not what you hear on the recordings, and some songs are presented in abbreviated format so you can't really play them all the way through as is done on the original recordings. There is enough satisfaction in this collection to make it worthwhile, but a somewhat more thorough and faithful representation of the songs would be very desirable. There is another way to go, namely a CD-ROM compilation of their songs that you can print out ONCE per song, but you can change the key it prints out in, etc. I have no idea if that one is any better but I may check it out myself!
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Good, but double check the lyrics...,
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??? "Miniature golf and hunting in the hills" ???This lyric from "All Summer Long" should read "Miniature golf and Hondas in the hills" My dad loved hunting, but it isn't part of the Beach Boys iconographic imagery and those aren't the words. This is almost as bad as the often misheard "Scuse me while I KISS THIS GUY" Hendrix lyric. So some editor or proofreader dropped the beach ball, at least on this song. Other than that, this book includes numbers that you won't find in other books, including the aforementioned "All Summer Long," "Do It Again," "Don't Back Down," "Pet Sounds," "Please Let Me Wonder," "Surfers Rule," "Wendy," "Wild Honey" and "You're So Good to Me," 44 songs in all. I'm curious how it stacks up against other Hal Leonard collections; "Beach Boys CD-ROM Sheet Music" which provides 50 songs in electronic versions that can be printed or "Beach Boys-The Little Black Songbook" which has 90 songs but comes in a smaller (4.5" by 7.5") format. For my money, the 2 best BB books are: The Beach Boys Note-for-Note Vocal Transcriptions and The Beach Boys Definitive Collection Both of these are much more specialized and the "Definitive Collection" is lots of fun to read and execute for guitarists and Beach Boys fans alike. That being said, either of those books contain half as many songs as you will find in "Anthology." And this book is quite useable; I have picked out a chord melody to "Wouldn't It Be Nice" and found "Anthology" to be a 96% functional book. Since Brian Wilson wrote these songs on piano in keys suited to a vocal ensemble, this is a very good tool to have indeed for the average guitarist trying to find their way around more than just the hits. Though you could get by on this book alone, without references geared toward vocals and guitar, you would not be getting the whole picture. The Beach Boys went from some of the most visceral Garage-band music ever made to a level of sophistication that influenced the Beatles. It seems appropriate that a group of kids singing about surfing should be one of the few American bands able to stand up creatively to the overwhelming tide of the British Invasion. They created and maintained a totally unique sound; if you want to take a look at how they did it, this book will help. Just double-check the lyrics.
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