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Title: Dance, Margarita...
Review: Some good fragments, to be sure. But that old Brian Wilson magic--that mix of haunting and exuberant, that swirl of youth and summer--is mostly absent. Parks' lyrics are a match. There are few bits of genius, and you can see he was reaching for something epic--but he never quite gets us there: "Blue Hawaii lay beyond the sea" -- and just a bit too far off. For a Beach Boys fan, though, it's still worth the price: there are parts where the old brilliance--musical and lyrical--shimmers through, and you can feel it in your gut, like when you were a kid.
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