Keepin' the Summer Alive
| The Beach Boys
Keepin' the Summer Alive
Keepin' the Summer Alive is the 24th studio album by American rock band the Beach Boys, released on March 24, 1980, on Brother, Caribou and CBS Records. Produced by band member Bruce Johnston, following aborted attempts to have founding member Brian Wilson return to his former role, the album is the last with founding drummer Dennis Wilson, who would drown in December 1983. The album also features the Eagles' guitarist Joe Walsh on the opening track "Keepin' the Summer Alive". WIKIPEDIA
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RollingStone
1980- gleams like a well-kept Edsel, with harmonies as passionless as they are precise and lyrics that hark back to seasons so long gone and territories so provincial that the nostalgia here is of more pathological than historical interest.
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Adrian Denning
It doesn't have a single song that can be said to have that undefinable magic.
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Mark Prindle
Wouldn't it be nice if they were younger? Then there wouldn't be so many bad songs? And wouldn't it be nice if Brian Wilson hadn't lost his mind from sucking bongs? You know it seems the more I talk about it - it only makes it worse to listen to it.
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Starling Rinet
The Beach Boys go Dorky. Not synth-heavy, not electronic, not trendy - just Dorky.
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blogcritics
2008 - 28 years after its release finds an album with fine vocals and good production. It is the song structures that are problematic. They are more quirky than catchy. Also by 1980, music had irrevocably moved away from the sound the Beach Boys were capable of creating.
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ALL MUSIC
Keepin' the Summer Alive isn't just a low point of the band's career, it is the low point.
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People
1980 - The Boys seem to have been trapped for 18 years on the freeway in their little deuce coupes. Their rhyming has all the inspiration of an 11th-grader passing time at a red light.
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Steve Hoffman
2018 - the album certainly has it's charms, if one looks in the right places, and enters the arctic summer bubble with patience and forgiveness in their hearts.
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Austin Chronicle
manages to be inoffensive.
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Wolvez
2011 - Aside from a depressing lack of Dennis, the album, however is a sheer delight.
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Alan's Alabum Archives
2013 - the kind of album you only buy to complete your collection and see how the story went after the hits dried up, but it will put more of a smile on your face than the other collection fillers you feel like buying when you've got all the good stuff.
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