Surfer Girl & Shut Down Vol 2 [Original recording remastered]

The Beach Boys | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 24, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B000008D9X
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #303,475 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Surfer Girl

2. Catch a Wave

3. The Surfer Moon

4. South Bay Surfer

5. The Rocking Surfer

6. Little Deuce Coupe

7. In My Room

8. Hawaii

9. Surfer's Rule

10. Our Car Club

11. Your Summer Dream

12. Boogie Woodie

13. Fun, Fun, Fun

14. Don't Worry Baby

15. In the Parkin' Lot

16. "Cassius" Love Vs. "Sonny" Wilson

17. The Warmth of the Sun

18. This Car of Mine

19. Why Do Fools Fall in Love

20. Pom Pom Play Girl

See all 27 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Digitally remastered two-on-one featuring their Capitol LPs'Surfer Girl' (1963) and 'Shut Down Volume 2' (1964)together on one CD, plus three bonus tracks: 'Fun, Fun,Fun' (Single Version), 'In My Room' (German Version) and thepreviously unreleased 'I Do'.

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars REMEDY FOR AN ENDLESS WINTER, November 18, 2000

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ALAIN ROBERT (ST-HUBERT,QUEBEC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Surfer Girl & Shut Down Vol 2 (Audio CD)

An AMERICAN under 50 without a BEACH BOYS album it's impossible is it?I know your argument;why buy an original(it's actually 2 in this case)when i can buy a two set collection?i'll tell you why, because its worth it.This one is priceless because BRIAN finds his own turf here,he is as we say coming through after the first two albums that served as his apprenticeship.Along with their masterpiece PET SOUNDS and SUMMER DAYS AND SUMMER NIGHTS(also available one 1cd)it's an essential from these guys.Each march i play that cd in the hope that winter will finally end.It helps a little to support the freezing rain.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Tremendous reissue of two Beach Boy classics, June 9, 2000

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hyperbolium (Earth, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Surfer Girl & Shut Down Vol 2 (Audio CD)

Capitol ignored and mistreated the Beach Boys catalog for so many years, it was truly amazing when they reissued all of their albums as 2-fers with bonus tracks and extensive liner notes. Of course, it was only a matter of time until the regime changed and the 2-fers were deleted, as they now are in the USA. Rumor has it they'll be reissued, but for the time being you have to pick them up as imports.

Surfer Girl and Shut Down Vol. 2 represent prime mid-period Beach Boys. It's more sophisticated than the first pair of albums, with more assured and complex productions, but retains the simpler song topics that marked the early years.

Brian Wilson's arrangements and the Beach Boys singing was already beyond comparison by the time of these two LPs. Even the themes of girls and cars are lent tremendous import by their masterful touch, whether its yearning ballads like "Surfer Girl" and "Don't Worry Baby," the braggadocio and pride of "Little Deuce Coupe" or "Our Car Club," the contemplation of "In My Room," or the sheer glee of "Fun, Fun, Fun."

Sleepers like "Your Summer Dream" and "The Warmth of the Sun" show the direction that Wilson would ultimately take, with sophisticated melodies and chord changes that moved away from his surf roots.

Two brilliant albums, remastered in sparkling sound and augmented with three bonus tracks. Hard to imagine a more worthwhile CD purchase.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Brian's Songwriting Matures On These Early Albums, June 24, 2000

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Steve Vrana (Aurora, NE) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Surfer Girl & Shut Down Vol 2 (Audio CD)

This is the Beach Boys' third and fifth albums Surfer Girl (September 1963) and Shut Down, Vol. 2 (March 1964), released during a two-year period which saw the release of eight albums! Because of Capitol's pressure on the band to release product to keep up with their labelmates the Beatles, these early albums would contain a certain amount of filler--songs like "South Bay Surfer" (which sounds suspiciously like "Swanee River") is corny at best, "The Rocking Surfer" is a competent but mundane instrumental (both from Surfer Girl), the studio chatter of "'Cassius' Love Vs. 'Sonny' Wilson" is only mildly interesting to hear once and what's the point of a two-minute drum solo from a solid but uninspired drummer? [Even Ringo waited until Abbey Road, and his drum solo lasted only fifteen seconds--brevity can be the esence of art.]

Now with the negatives out of the way, there is much to enjoy here. For starters, Brian was now officially producing the albums. And while surfing ("Surfer Girl") and cars ("Little Deuce Coupe" and "Fun, Fun, Fun") would still provide the hits, Brian was expanding his writing subjects to include more serious subject matter like the gorgeous "In My Room," which even though it was released as the b-side to "Be True To Your School," it reached No. 23. As a bonus track you also get their German version of the song. In the same vein is one of Brian's most beautiful songs ever, "Don't Worry Baby." [Again, buried on the b-side of "I Get Around," it still managed to reach No. 24.] Then there's the melancholy "The Warmth of the Sun," which the liner notes indicate Brian wrote after the breakup with his first serious girlfriend and within hours of the JFK assassination. Brian was flexing his creative muscles and proving that there could be more to music than hot rods and surfing.

Dennis turns in a terrific vocal performance on "Surfers Rule." "The Surfer Moon" in addition to featuring a lovely vocal by Brian also marks the first use of a string arrangement by the Beach Boys. There are only two non-originals (both from Shut Down, Vol. 2). There's the terrific "Wall of Sound" production of Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers' "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" and their take on the garage band classic "Louie Louie."

Of the bonus cuts you also get the single version of "Fun, Fun, Fun" and the previously unreleased "I Do," a song Brian originally produced for the Castells. This version uses the original backing track with the Beach Boys vocals dubbed in.

All told, this is amazing music from a time in the Beach Boys career when they were still growing musically, and this two-fer allows you a first-hand look at that growth. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED