The Beach Boys Album: “Little Deuce Coupe [Special Markets]”

I'm not sure what the other reviewer is saying about some songs not being on the album. "I Get Around" IS on this album. The first song I ever heard from this band was "I Get Around", so this is a good introduction to their music. Sure, it doesn't include every song they've done. Buy more of their albums if you want it all.

I must respectfully disagree with Jerry McCulley concerning his review of this album. "Little Deuce Coupe" is by no means a bad record, but to pick this album as an "essential recording" instead of ALL SUMMER LONG, TODAY, SUMMER DAYS (AND SUMMER NIGHTS), FRIENDS and SUNFLOWER, to name just a few, boggles the mind.

This is hardly an album that properly introduces a listener to Brian Wilson & Co. A Beach Boys collection is not THAT incomplete without "Little Deuce Coupe". It IS incomplete without the previously mentioned records.

This album has a nice, pleasing pop sound, and Ballad of Ol' Betsy, Cherry Cherry Coupe and Shut Down are classics. But an essential recording? No.

Furthermore, "I Get Around" does not appear on this album. Look it up.

This isn't the real Little Deuce Coupe album. Buy the Little Deuce Coupe/All Summer Long twofer and you'll get the real Little Deuce Coupe album and also the great album All Summer Long.