SUMMER DAYS (and Summer Nights)
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SUMMER DAYS (and Summer Nights)
Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) is the ninth studio album by American rock band the Beach Boys, released on July 5, 1965, on Capitol.[1] The band's previous album, The Beach Boys Today! (March 1965), represented a departure for the group through its abandonment of themes related to surfing, cars, and teenage love, but it sold below Capitol's expectations. In response, the label pressured the group to produce bigger hits. Summer Days thus returned the band's music to simpler themes for one last album, with Brian combining Capitol s commercial demands with his artistic calling. Produced by Brian Wilson, Summer Days reached number two on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number four on the UK Albums Chart. Two singles were issued from the album: "Help Me, Rhonda", which became the group's second chart-topper in the US, and "California Girls", which peaked at number three. -WIKIPEDIA
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BBC
2011 - If Pet Sounds is the critics’ fave, Summer Days is perhaps the people’s day at the beach.
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ALL MUSIC
Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) was a bit of a regression from the success of Today!, lapsing back into that distressing division between first-rate cuts and lightweight also-rans that characterized their pre-1965 albums.
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sputnik music
2007 - Written and performed in the peak of their popularity, first sings of boredom with fun in the sun style.
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spectrum culture
2009 - We can say in retrospect that Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) is brilliant based on its status as the album before Pet Sounds.
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blogcritics
2008 - is a pleasurable listening experience. Sometimes that is more than enough.
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Adrian Denning
'Summer Days And Summer Nights' despite its unfortunate title, is certainly a good album overall.
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Mark Prindle
Musically, this album hits all the same high poppy, sad, surfin', doowoppy, soulful notes as Today!, but produced much more cleanly and less Wall of Soundy
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Wilson & Alroy's Record Reviews
Neither a classic nor exactly a cash-in, Summer Days is just a peculiar step backwards.
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Don Ignacio
Brian Wilson (the only real genius of the group) is even more on top of his game with his immensely creative song arrangements!
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Aphoristic Album Reviews
In some ways Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!!) is the quintessential Beach Boys album; it feels summer drenched, while there’s a very tangible sense of Brian Wilson’s genius being dragged down by record company expectations of timely and marketable material and the crassness of Mike Love.
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Starling Rinet
A good album that's a regression in some ways despite a few advances. There's much more filler here than on the previous album.
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