It wasn't a huge hit at the time – it reached No 39 in the US – but the Beach Boys were on their uppers at the time, having been disavowed by the Serious Rock crowd and not yet had their commercial revival as America's Band, which came with the Endless Summer compilation in 1974.
The release two years earlier of Endless Summer, a compilation of Brian's Sixties hits, had earned them a whole new audience and thanks to Jim Guercio, the producer of Chicago who had managed the band through the period, they had been resurrected as a live draw.
YouTuber Clip Nation figured out the one thing that the Internet's endless supply of FAIL compilations has been missing: scantily clad women.
From top-selling titles like the United DJs of America mix CD series to endless Ministry of Sound label compilations and even Richie Hawtin's ubiquitous Plastikman avatar, labels churned out new album artwork with a factory-like efficiency, eschewing personalization in favor of brand repetition.
Compilation... compilers?
In the past, YouTube and Twitch have each issued statements about how hard they're working to prevent hateful speech on their platforms, but the comment sections of any of these "booby streamer" compilations is an endless spigot of hate.
But when it's just about the music it's like an endless K-tel Father's Day compilation album.
As a general rule, heavy breathing is unnecessary, and even counterproductive, when a writer's subject is atrocity, and much of Goldhagen's book is a compilation of atrociousness: seemingly endless passages recount the awful things said about Jews over the past several years.
All of Murakami reads like a compilation of Murakami – like an endless LP of improvised jazz.
"I think people just see the endless potential," says Nada, who's soon to release the scene-defining Blow Your Head compilation on Diplo's Mad Decent, and is working on original moombahton tracks as part of Nadastrom.
