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Still Cruisin' is the twenty-sixth studio album by the Beach Boys, their thirty-fifth official album (counting compilations and live packages), and their last release of the 1980s. It is also the last album of new material released during a brief return to Capitol Records.

Still Cruisin'
Studio album by The Beach Boys
Released	August 28, 1989
Recorded	1987–1989; Except "I Get Around": April 1964, "Wouldn't It Be Nice": January–April 1966, and "California Girls": April & June 1965
Genre	Rock, new wave, reggae fusion
Length	33:44
Label	Capitol
Producer	Brian Wilson Terry Melcher Al Jardine Albert Calbrera Tony Moran
The Beach Boys chronology
Made in U.S.A. (1986) Still Cruisin' (1989) Lost & Found (1961–62) (1991)
Singles from Still Cruisin'
"Kokomo" Released: July 18, 1988 "Still Cruisin'" Released: August 7, 1989 "Somewhere Near Japan" Released: January 1990

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Blender	[2]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[3]
Rolling Stone	[4]

Released August 28, 1989, the album was panned by critics, with Allmusic referring to the band's sound by producer Terry Melcher as sounding "like a professional '60s cover band."[1] Still Cruisin' was left out of Capitol's Beach Boys re-issue campaign in 2000 and 2001, along with their following album Summer in Paradise.

Background

After "Kokomo" (when released as a single from the Cocktail film soundtrack) gave the Beach Boys their first number one hit in the US since 1966's "Good Vibrations", the band decided to put together an album of recent and classic songs. The classic songs included had been heard in recent films. The songs "Still Cruisin'", "Somewhere Near Japan" and "Island Girl" were recorded for the album by the touring Beach Boys band as well as studio musicians and producer Terry Melcher. Due to his ongoing relationship with Dr. Eugene Landy, Brian Wilson's lone contribution to this album was "In My Car", a song credited as being co-written by Landy and girlfriend Alexandra Morgan. However, as subsequent court actions have seen Landy's name removed from other period songs,[5] such as those on Wilson's 1988 album, these credits may be negated. "Kokomo" was a recent single, as was "Wipe Out", a duet with American rap group the Fat Boys. (The song was originally to be recorded with Run-DMC, but Mike Love apparently struck a deal with the other group.)[5] "Make It Big" was recorded for the film Troop Beverly Hills, and the remaining three songs - "I Get Around", "Wouldn't It Be Nice" and "California Girls" – were the "classic" recordings, ones from the group's earlier period, that had been used in recent films. The inclusion of these hits gave the album a more acceptable running time.

Mike Love said of the album: "The theme of that album was to have been songs that have been in movies. It was basically a repackage. But then it got watered down with politics, meaning Brian's Dr. Landy forcing a song called "In My Car," which was never in a movie, and a song by [Al] Jardine, which ultimately ended up on the album, called "Island Girl," which was never in a movie either. So to me the concept was a little bit diluted there politically."[6]

Riding on the coattails of "Kokomo", Still Cruisin' went gold in the US and Austria[7] and gave the Beach Boys their best chart showing since 1976. During Capitol's Beach Boys re-issue campaign in 2000 and 2001 however, Still Cruisin' was left behind and allowed to go out of print.

Promotional videos

Four music videos were produced for Still Cruisin':

• "Still Cruisin'"
• "Somewhere Near Japan"
• "Kokomo"
• "Wipe Out"

Track listing

Side one

Side two

Singles

• "Kokomo" b/w "Tutti Frutti" (Little Richard) (Elektra), July 18, 1988 US #1; UK #25
• "Still Cruisin' " b/w "Kokomo" (Capitol), August 7, 1989 US #93
• "Somewhere Near Japan" b/w "Wipe Out" (Capitol), January 1990

Still Cruisin' (Capitol) reached #46 in the U.S. during a chart stay of 22 weeks. It reached number 12 in Austria[8] number 25 in Switzerland[9] and number 43 in Sweden.[10]

Personnel

Partial credits; credits exclude those for the 1960s songs.[11][12][13][14][15]

The Beach Boys

• Mike Love – lead and backing vocals
• Al Jardine – lead and backing vocals, guitar
• Carl Wilson – lead and backing vocals, guitar, keyboards
• Bruce Johnston – lead and backing vocals, keyboards, bass guitar
• Brian Wilson – lead and backing vocals; keyboards and synthesizers on "In My Car"

Additional musicians

• The Fat Boys – rapping on "Wipe Out"
• Craig Trippand Fall – lead guitar on "Still Crusin'" and "Somewhere Near Japan," bass guitar, mandolin
• Joseph Brasler – lead guitar on "In My Car"
• Keith Wechsler – drums and keyboards on "Still Cruisin'"
• Mike Kowalski – drums on “Island Girl”
• Vinnie Colaiuta – drums on "In My Car"
• Jeffrey Foskett – backing vocals on “Island Girl” and acoustic guitar on "Kokomo"
• Jim Keltner – drums on "Somewhere Near Japan" and "Kokomo"
• Van Dyke Parks – accordion on "Kokomo"
• Rod Clark – bass on "Kokomo"
• Joel Peskin – saxophone on “Kokomo”
• Chili Charles – percussion on "Kokomo"
• "Vince," "Milton," and "Mike" (last names unknown) – steel drums on "Kokomo"
• Adam Jardine – backing vocals on “Island Girl”
• Matt Jardine – backing vocals on “Island Girl”
• James Grunke – synth programming on “Island Girl”
• Michael Bernard – synth programming on “In My Car”

Chart positions

Chart (1989)	Peak Position
U.S. Billboard 200	46
Australian Album Chart	10[16]
Dutch Album Chart	92[17]
German Album Chart	26
UK Top 40 Album Chart	78[18]

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[19]	Gold	35,000^
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

External links

• Still Cruisin' at Discogs (list of releases)

На других языках

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[de] Still Cruisin’

Still Cruisin’ ist ein Album der US-Band The Beach Boys. Es wurde 1989 unter dem Plattenlabel Capitol Records veröffentlicht. Es sind fünf neue Lieder enthalten, die von Terry Melcher produziert wurden – als Ausnahme sind „In my car“ (produziert von Brian Wilson) und „Island girl“ (produziert von Al Jardine) zu nennen.

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[es] Still Cruisin'

Still Cruisin' es el álbum de estudio número veintiséis por The Beach Boys, y el número treinta y cinco oficial (contando compilaciones y álbumes en vivo), y su último lanzamiento de los años 1980. Este álbum alcanzó el puesto n. º 46 en Estados Unidos durante 22 semanas en venta, años después fue galardonado como disco de platino.

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[it] Still Cruisin'

Still Cruisin' è il 27º album di studio dei The Beach Boys, ultimo lavoro discografico del decennio. Album contenente per lo più materiale inciso per diverse colonne sonore, dove trovò spazio tra le altre la hit Kokomo incisa l'anno precedente per il film Cocktail di Roger Donaldson con Tom Cruise come protagonista. Kokomo frutto della collaborazione tra Mike Love, John Phillips, Scott McKenzie e il produttore Terry Melcher riporto' i Beach Boys in cima alle classifiche americane e internazionali (Giappone e Australia) dopo circa 22 anni di distanza dalla loro ultima #1 hit Good Vibrations, distribuita nel 1966 nell'epoca d'oro e più fortunata della loro carriera musicale. Il contributo dello storico leader Brian Wilson fu ridotto al minimo, una sola traccia (In My Car), evidente dimostrazione di quanto Wilson in quel periodo desse più importanza alla propria carriera da solista avviata di recente. Still Cruisin' raggiunse la 46ª posizione nella classifica di Billboard, permanendo nelle classifiche per 22 settimane.

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[ru] Still Cruisin’

Still Cruisin’ — двадцать шестой студийный альбом американской рок-группы The Beach Boys. Диск вышел в августе 1989 года на Capitol Records и занял 46-е место в американском хит-параде журнала Billboard.

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