Editing Summer in Paradise (section)

== Reception ==
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| rev1score = {{Rating|1|5}}<ref name=Allmusic>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r70987|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]</ref>
| rev2      = ''[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]''
| rev2score = {{Rating|1|5}}<ref>{{cite web |first=Douglas |last=Wolk |url=http://blender.com:80/guide/reviews.aspx?id=2261 |title=The Beach Boys ''Summer in Paradise'' |magazine=[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]] |date=October 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060630150541/http://blender.com/guide/reviews.aspx?id=2261 |archive-date=June 30, 2006 |access-date=June 2, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| rev3      = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev3score = {{Rating|1|5}}<ref>{{cite book|editor-first=Colin|editor-last=Larkin |year=2006|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |edition=4th|location=London |publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-531373-4|page=479}}</ref>
| rev4      = ''[[Music Week]]''
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| rev5      = ''[[Sputnikmusic]]''
| rev5score = 0.5/5<ref>{{cite web |last=W. |first=Aaron |url=https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/73387/The-Beach-Boys-Summer-in-Paradise/ |title=The Beach Boys - Summer in Paradise |publisher=Sputnikmusic |access-date=April 4, 2017}}</ref>
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''Summer in Paradise'' was received very poorly commercially and critically. Described by ''[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]'' as a "train wreck", the album is the only Beach Boys studio album that failed to make ''Billboard'''s [[Billboard 200|Top Pop Albums]] chart; it reportedly sold fewer than 1000 copies on its release, making it the Beach Boys album with by far the poorest commercial sales performance. The poor sales of the US release reportedly contributed to independent distributor Navarre becoming [[bankrupt]].<ref name="Doe 1997 1000">Doe and Tobler. Andrew Doe quotes the 1000 figure from Terry Melcher, who got it from his royalty statements.</ref> Navarre and EMI each only issued one print run of the album on CD. It has been out of print since its initial release and has since become a [[collectable|collectors' item]]. A large number of unsold copies of the album were unloaded when the [[QVC]] network bundled them with the ''[[Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of the Beach Boys]]'' CD box set in 1993. 

Andrew G. Doe and [[John Tobler]], authors of ''The Complete Guide to the Music of The Beach Boys'', described ''Summer in Paradise'' as, "the absolute nadir of their recording career."<ref name="Doe 1997">Doe and Tobler.</ref> In an online interview, Doe said he had to listen to the album three times while writing the book, "which has probably scarred me for life."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.earcandymag.com/andrewdoe-2005.htm|title=Interview with Andrew G. Doe (7-31-05)|website=www.earcandymag.com|access-date=April 10, 2018}}</ref> William Ruhlmann of [[AllMusic]] said the band had deteriorated under Love's leadership to become "a pointless parody of themselves" by "writing bad new songs [and] recording bad covers of old songs".<ref name=Allmusic/>