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Now That's What I Call Christmas! [Universal]
(2001)
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The Now series is known for crossing the boundaries of record labels in its attempt to provide definitive collections of hits -- usually from contemporary hits, but also of different eras and styles from the past (at least in its U.K. incarnation). Thankfully, the double-disc, 36-track collection Now That's What I Call Christmas! lives up to the ...
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Pet Sounds [Mono + Stereo]
(1966)
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The best Beach Boys album, and one of the best of the 1960s. The group here reached a whole new level in terms of both composition and production, layering tracks upon tracks of vocals and instruments to create a richly symphonic sound. Conventional keyboards and guitars were combined with exotic touches of orchestrated strings, bicycle bells, ...
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Classic Disney, Vol. 1
(1995)
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As the title suggests, Classic Disney 1 collects some of the best-known and loved songs from Disney's films, including "Someday My Prince Will Come" from Snow White & the Seven Dwarves, "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" from Song of the South, "You Can Fly! You Can Fly! You Can Fly!" from Peter Pan, and "Spoonful of Sugar" from Mary Poppins. The album also ...
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Two Rooms: Celebrating the Songs of Elton John & Bernie Taupin
(1991)
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Two Rooms is a wildly uneven star-studded tribute to a wildly uneven superstar songwriting team. Though Elton John and Bernie Taupin wrote many of the best pop songs of the '70s and '80s, they have written more than their fair share of clunkers as well. Some of them were chosen for this collection. Tina Turner, for example, tackles the ludicrously ...
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Little Deuce Coupe/All Summer Long
(1990)
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The Beach Boys
This two-on-one CD reissue offers a pair of "firsts" -- the group's first concept album (in the Sinatra sense of the term, referring to an LP built on a specific theme or subject) and their first long-player to overlap with the British Invasion. The interesting thing about the group's albums up to All Summer Long, including Little Deuce Coupe, was ...
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Stars and Stripes, Vol. 1
(1996)
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The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys cashed in on the popular boom in country music in the early '90s with Stars and Stripes, Vol. 1, with a twist. Instead of recording a country album themselves, they hired a batch of country vocalists -- ranging from Toby Keith to Willie Nelson and Lorrie Morgan -- to perform the group's old hits. As for the Beach Boys themselves, ...
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The Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
(1999)
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The Beach Boys
Since Capitol's two-volume 1999 Greatest Hits only seemed to be chronological -- the label followed a rough time line, but Vol. 1 had many curious omissions from the early years, yet it basically stopped after Pet Sounds -- there were many early hits that should have fit on the first volume that were saved for the second. In other words, if you ...
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Smiley Smile/Wild Honey
(1990)
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The Beach Boys
The spring 2001 version of this two-LP-on-one-CD compilation, in 24-bit sound, is the best way ever to hear either of these albums. Smiley Smile was one of the most genial and unpretentious examples of psychedelic music to emerge in 1967, although at the time it was a difficult album for many fans to appreciate. A lot of it is comprised of what ...
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Greatest Hits, Vol. 1
(1999)
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The Beach Boys
With the Absolute Best collections out of print at the end of the '90s and the 20 Good Vibrations: The Greatest Hits missing about as many great singles as it included, Capitol's release of two generous Beach Boys Greatest Hits discs in 1999 was welcome. Unfortunately, they got it only half-right. Since the Beach Boys had too many hits to fit onto ...
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Carl and the Passions - So Tough/Holland
(2000)
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The Beach Boys
Capitol's 2000 two-fer reissue program of Beach Boys LPs continued apace with 1972's Carl and the Passions - So Tough and 1973's Holland, a pair of albums whose quality, style, and sound fit each other perfectly. After ten years of alternating sun-and-fun with doom-and-gloom, the Beach Boys were in obvious need of a musical recharge during the ...
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Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of the Beach Boys
(1993)
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A five-CD box set, containing a whopping 142 tracks and covering the group's entire career, that manages to feel like too much and not enough at the same time. True, all of the key hits and most of their finest album tracks are here. The group's decline after 1966 -- and very sharp decline after 1970 -- is inescapable, and even though most of the ...
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The Ultimate Rock & Roll Collection: The 60's
(2001)
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Various Artists
Though this album bills itself The Ultimate Rock 'N Roll Collection: The '60s, it's neither ultimate, nor even that rock & roll; with the possible exception of Tommy James & the Shondells' "Mony Mony," it's a solid and diverse collection of '60s pop. Spanning hits like the Supremes' "Stop! In the Name of Love," the Beach Boys' "Surfer Girl," and ...
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Endless Summer
(1974)
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This was the album by which millions of sons of late baby boomers (and sons and daughters of the early ones) first really discovered the Beach Boys, beyond hearing the occasional oldie on the radio. It was the summer of 1974, and the Beach Boys were still trying to get themselves back on track commercially after a seven-year commercial dry spell, ...
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M.O.M., Vol. 2: Music for Our Mother Ocean
(1997)
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Dick Dale and Gary Hoey's hard-charging "Misirlou '97" sets the tone for this aggressive surf rock compilation, which consists of mostly newly recorded (or otherwise unheard) tracks from such surf and sand stalwarts as well as the Beach Boys and Jimmy Buffett, along with some less likely contributors who nevertheless turn in worthy performances. ...
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Greatest Car Songs
(1992)
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The Beach Boys
The idea behind Greatest Car Songs is a little gimmicky -- collect all of the Beach Boys' cruisin' and drivin' songs on one budget-line disc -- and while it's not executed particularly well ("Don't Worry Baby" should have been included), it's still a really fun listen, featuring 12 hits like "I Get Around," "Little Deuce Coupe," "Fun Fun Fun," ...
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Merry Christmas from the Beach Boys [EMI Special Product]
(1992)
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Somehow, in the flurry of recordings that the Beach Boys made during the mid-'60s, the band found time to issue an entire album of Christmas songs, nearly half of them originals written by Brian Wilson. Released in October of 1964, The Beach Boys' Christmas Album remains one of the few holiday recordings that merits serious discussion as an album ...
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Still Cruisin'
(1989)
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The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys' success with soundtracks, notably their number one 1988 hit with "Kokomo" from Cocktail, provides the rationale for this hodgepodge of oldies and one-off singles. Their new savior, producer Terry Melcher, helps them sound like a professional '60s cover band. Meanwhile, Brian Wilson has quietly disappeared. ~ William Ruhlmann, All ...
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A Rock'N'Roll Christmas, Vol. 2
(1998)
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PSM's A Rock'N'Roll Christmas, Vol. 2 is a weird collection of pop/rock, new wave, post-grunge, R&B, adult contemporary, novelty, and pop-metal Christmas tunes. There's nothing linking these songs together -- Dave Edmunds' "Run Rudolph Run" and Squeeze's "Christmas Day" are the only ones that could possibly be connected, stylistically -- but there ...
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The Pet Sounds Sessions
(1997)
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The Beach Boys
There's little arguing that Pet Sounds is one of the greatest albums in rock & roll, and its cult, if anything, has only grown in the decades since its intial release. Part of the fascination with Pet Sounds lies in its detailed, multi-layered arrangements, in which all the parts blend together into a symphonic whole. The richness of the music is ...
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Surfin' Safari/Surfin' U.S.A.
(1990)
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The usual perception of the Beach Boys' early albums is that they're primarily for completists and principally of historical interest. This CD goes a long way toward dispelling that myth. The group's first two LPs were originally compiled together on one CD in 1990 as part of a reissue of their complete Capitol output, and were upgraded in March ...
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Concert/Live in London
(1990)
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This pairing is a sort of natural, capturing the Beach Boys at the end of Brian Wilson's tenure as a regular performing member of the group, and at the peak of their late-'60s period, when they were making great music that was not only not getting heard but wasn't even being written about. The December 1968 performance was one of the best they ...
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Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of the Beach Boys
(2003)
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The Beach Boys
After gaining control of the Beach Boys' entire catalog (including all the band's post-1969 material), Capitol released two-fers covering their out of print '70s records and a Brian Wilson-selected compilation titled Classics, then later, this hits compilation -- the longest single-disc American collection ever seen. With all but five tracks ...
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The Warmth of the Sun
(2006)
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The Beach Boys
The Warmth of the Sun is designed to serve as a companion piece to 2003's Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of the Beach Boys, and as such, it is perfect. While that earlier volume contained most of the Beach Boys' biggest hits, the cornerstones of the catalog such as "I Get Around," "Surfer Girl," "California Girls," and "Fun, Fun, Fun," the follow ...
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All-Time Greatest Christmas Records
(1990)
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The Beach Boys' Christmas Album
(1964)
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While it may seem rather incongruous for the definitive voices of summertime to tackle the music of the holiday season, The Beach Boys' Christmas Album succeeds brilliantly; Brian Wilson's pop genius is well suited to classic Yuletide fare, and the group delivers lush performances of standards ranging from "Frosty the Snowman" to "White Christmas" ...
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