A track from The Beach Boys That's Why God Made the Radio, which is a full studio album made just six months after their official reunion. It sounds like a group of old friends getting back together for a trip down memory lane. Its a glimpse in the rearview mirror.

Most of the album is forgettable until the final three tracks – From There to Back Again, Pacific Coast Highway and Summer's Gone – that form a kind of suite written by Brian Wilson:

There are good melodies, sparse instrumentation, and the vocals take center stage. Wilson has the knack of blending the individual voices of The Beach Boys into a virtual choir that has been and remains unique in American music history.

Summer's Gone evokes California Girls but ’ the melancholy side of summer wins out over the fun, fun, fun.

It sounds and feels like not only the perfect end to the album and at the end of a fifty year career. The ripple of a wave as the record ends, aptly marries beach imagery with resignation, pain and sadness of growing old. It's time to go.