'Endless Summer' versus 'Sounds Of Summer'

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Yes, the thirty-years-apart Beach Boys comps.

The new one, 'Sounds...' omits 8 songs that were on 'Endless':

Catch A Wave
Warmth Of The Sun
Girls On The Beach
Wendy
Let Him Run Wild
Girl Don't Tell Me
You're So Good To Me
All Summer Long

But it's got more songs total, and most of the same stuff. Is it an improvement? Or does 'Endless' flow better? etc etc

― John 2, Saturday, 6 November 2004 22:21 (twenty years ago)

AMG links:

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:y2jb7i2jg77r

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:5v2tk65xtkrf

― John 2, Saturday, 6 November 2004 22:23 (twenty years ago)

SoS has some real crap on it. ES didn't.

― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Saturday, 6 November 2004 22:25 (twenty years ago)

New one omitted most of the best songs from the original (partly b/c they haven't been overplayed.) And 2 or 3 of the best ballads. Endless Summer by a million miles.

― Mark (MarkR), Saturday, 6 November 2004 23:51 (twenty years ago)

Wendy
Let Him Run Wild
Girl Don't Tell Me
You're So Good To Me

What is pathetic is that these are the best songs on Endless Summer. Add In My Room and Don't Worry Baby, slap it on a 12" and you have the single greatest EP of all time.

― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Saturday, 6 November 2004 23:54 (twenty years ago)

Endless Summer is a great collection of the pre-Pet Sounds period with "Good Vibrations" tacked onto the end (but who can blame them).

Sounds of Summer includes some great late 60s material as well as later shit like "Kokomo" and "Rock and Roll Music".

For a compilation covering the entire Beach Boys career, Classics Selected By Brian Wilson has "Sail on Sailor" on it -> it wins

― a banana (alanbanana), Sunday, 7 November 2004 00:36 (twenty years ago)

"GV" was a bonus track on the "Endless Summer" CD.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 7 November 2004 01:15 (twenty years ago)

― a banana (alanbanana), Sunday, 7 November 2004 08:34 (twenty years ago)

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