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15 Big Ones/Love You
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0724352794522
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
Label: Capitol
Manufacturer: Capitol
MPN: 27945
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Capitol
Release Date: August 15, 2000
Studio: Capitol
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Editorial Review:
Touted by a highly suspicious media blitz ("Brian is Back!"), 1976's 15 Big Ones caught the nostalgic wave generated by the surprise success of Endless Summer and Spirit of America, the double-album compilations of the Beach Boys' mid-'60s, summer-music prime, and rode it close to the crest of the charts. One doesn't have to get much further than the tepid (albeit top 10) cover of Chuck Berry's's "Rock and Roll Music" to realize that band founder/original creative spark Brian Wilson may indeed have been back, but sounded like he was working under duress--if he was working at all. With a covers-heavy tack best described as a parody of the band's original trademark sound, wed to some of the mid-'70s worst production trends, it's an album that shows just how much the public still yearned for the band's classic sound, even if their faith ended up being "rewarded" by the likes of Mike Love's embarrassing "Everyone's in Love with You" and "T.M. Song." Conversely, Brian was definitely back for '77s Love You, an album that's become something of a critic's darling, if only because it hews so bravely to the strange musical vision that seeped from Wilson's then-troubled mind. Brian's synth-heavy production managed to be at once dense and minimalist, while the songs remain some of the most consistently loopy concoctions the band ever recorded. While his vulnerable romanticism is also on display, it's Wilson's playful sense of humor that dominates, from strange odes to "Johnny Carson" and the "Solar System" to innocent romps like "Ding Dang" and "Mona." A quarter-century later, it's an album that can still both surprise and delight. Both albums are digitally remastered on a single disc. --Jerry McCulley
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - The Dramatic Return Of Brian Wilson
This is another in the Capitol/Brothers Records 2000 releases which pulled together their 1970s albums [see also Carl & The Passions "So Tough" and M.I.U. Album].
In the 6 pages of liner notes covering the album 15 Big Ones, Dennis Diken opens by saying "In 1976 the words that were planted on the lips of Beach Boy fans all over this whole world were "Brian is back." Apparently under severe pressure from Warner Brothers to produce not only an album but a hit as well as part of the ... Read More
Rating: - Brian is back with 14 songs and a raspy voice
On Love You - Brians voice takes some getting used to here. He went from a sweet falsetto to a raspy croak after 3 years of heavy drug use. However he is back in action with loads of new songs and a mediocre Brian is better than no Brian.
Rating: - brian is back!
15 big ones was the return of brian wilson to the producers chair & major involvment in the studio,some fun in the sun songs are on the album with 1/2 oldies,1/2 originals,just sit back and lie in the sun!"love you"is brian back in full form bb fans have come to love this album.From "roller skating child" to "solar system" the album reflects brian's genius and sense of humor.
Rating: - Brian is back!
Triumphantly,Brian Wilson is back with his Beach Boys bandmates! It is 1976,and the Beach Boys are now 30ish,bearded and "Beach Men". The girls will never forget how handsome they all were a decade earlier. One of the 15 BIG ONES is a cover of Chuck Berry's ROCK AND ROLL MUSIC,earlier covered by The Beatles. THE BEACH BOYS LOVE YOU was released in 1977,a year after 15 BIG ONES. I vaguely remember,as a child in the 70's,seeing the Beach Boys on American Bandstand performing RARM. These are the group's ... Read More
Rating: - superb reissue of two albums that really go well together
Now here's a damn great reissue--take these two quirky albums that make an ideal pairing and put them together on a single disc; remaster them exquisitely; and add solid, informative liner notes. Not counting the "Endless Summer" & "Spirit Of America" compilations, the Beach Boys hadn't put an album out in well over 2 years when "15 Big Ones" appeared in July of 1976. With those two aforementioned compilations having been surprisingly huge commercial successes, it seems that Mike Love felt it was ... Read More
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