Little Deuce Coupe/Ballad Of Ole’ Betsy/Be True To Your School/Car Crazy Cutie/Cherry Cherry Coupe/409/ Shut Down/Spirit Of America/Our Car Club/No-Go Showboat/A Young Man Is Gone/Custom Machine
This car themed album Little Deuce Coupe was rush released only a few weeks after Surfer Girl and combines new material with some already released tracks. The track Be True To Your School is a different version to the US No. 6 hit single. (US:4)
"For an album recorded so quickly, the quality was amazingly high. In particular, Brian Wilson's songs and their arrangements were becoming more and more dazzling and complex, specifically No-Go Showboat and Custom Machine."
"Little Deuce Coupe is arguably the first rock & roll concept album. Combining car songs from The Beach Boys' previous three albums with several new car-related numbers, it celebrates the simple joys of being a teenage automobile owner."
"Little Deuce Coupe is a car-themed concept album that has some good rock moments, such as Car Crazy Cutie and Cherry Cherry Coupe. The rest are mostly car classics from the previous three albums. This was a rushed record, but it stands pretty strong, if a bit corny."
"Despite the fact that nearly half the record wasn't new it sounds like a very real album to me. Great singing on Ballad Of Ole Betsy and the cheery Car Crazy Cutie will always raise a smile." ,p> "This is the typical cars, sunshine, surfboards and girls Beach Boys LP. It perfectly captures that feeling and time."
"Little Deuce Coupe has ideas and performance that astonish almost four decades on. The songs, harmonies and musicianship equal anything The Beatles did later."
“Hardly enough time to give the ever-more talented arranging skills of Brian Wilson a chance to shine. Little Deuce Coupe was very much made by people with dollar signs in their eyes.”
“It's a vague collection of car songs, many of which are either recycled duds (Shut Down, Car Club), or indistinguishable ‘rockers’.”
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