All Summer Long (studio album) by The Beach Boys

From indieshins 04/21/2024 00:34

I think of their first 6 albums - i.e. what they released from 62-64 - this is by far the best. Still has some awful filler (e.g. Our Favorite Recording Sessions), but the best tracks have a new level of sophistication, beauty and maturity. I Get Around bears lyrical similarities to their previous surf hits, but the arrangement and production take it to new heights; the title track is surprisingly wistful, like a goodbye to the Boys' surf-pop past; Girls on the Beach, Wendy, Little Honda - great stuff. They would get even better going forward, but this was an encouraging sign of things to come.

I get Around is sooooo fucking amazing. Banger. Otherwise pretty bleak

From LebowskiRams 04/30/2020 23:55

The recording sessions and Drive-In nearly derail an otherwise FANTASTIC album. Still their best work up to this point.

All Summer Long (1964) by The Beach Boys - 5.81818182/10 (Rating Doesn’t Include Tracks that aren’t songs) - Listened to on 9/14/2019
A1 - I Get Around - 8/10
A2 - All Summer Long - 6/10
A3 - Hushabye - 6/10
A4 - Little Honda - 5/10
A5 - We'll Run Away - 6/10
A6 - Carl's Big Chance - 7/10
B1 - Wendy - 5/10
B2 - Do You Remember? - 7/10
B3 - Girls on the Beach - 5/10
B4 - Drive-In - 4/10
B5 - Our Favorite Recording Sessions - 7/10 (Not Song)
B6 - Don't Back Down - 5/10

All Summer Long is the first Beach Boys album that feels like a serious stab at a complete album; it’s still only 25 minutes long, but there’s lots of substantial material despite only the opening ‘I Get Around’ qualifying as a Beach Boys standard.

From flamingyesdept 12/07/2016 18:08

A solid early effort - the best of their pre-Today output. We'll Run Away is especially beautiful, and of course I Get Around is awesome.

Another summery beach boys albums. It's typical of their early records that it includes some good stuff, the title track, and especially, girls on the beach, but there's so much filler, especially the totally pointless, our favourite recording session, they obviously we're short on material. Usual, beach boys, corny, harmless, but fun.

A pretty solid effort by the Beach Boys in these early days. Some really good songs like I Get Around and Wendy.

From RoundTheBend 03/21/2013 06:56

1 and 8 stand out pretty well. The rest didn't grab me much and were pretty average.

From eclab 03/14/2013 11:00

Aside from "I Get Around", these songs just aren't that good.