Carl and the Passions – "So Tough" to be released, or re-released, as a single album. A Warner/Reprise catalogue number, MS 2090, had been assigned to this single disc release, but nothing came of it. The album was released as a standalone album in Europe on Reprise Records. Carl and the Passions was Brian Wilson and Mike Love's high school band. This was the first album released under a new deal with Warner Bros. that allowed the company to distribute all future Beach Boys product in foreign as well as domestic markets. In 1971, Carl Wilson, who served as the group's de facto musical director at this
Carl and the Passions – "So Tough" back in Quad by most of today's audio-video receivers. The surround sound information can be extracted using the Dolby Pro Logic setting, albeit imperfectly, due to the different matrix coefficients. "Carl and the Passions – "So Tough"" met with moderate commercial success upon release, reaching number 25 in the UK and number 50 in the US. It was reviewed favourably in The San Diego Door. And unfavourably by Robert Christgau. Stephen Davis in a contemporary review in "Rolling Stone" felt that only four of the tracks were "acceptable", and that Brian Wilson's lack of genuine involvement hurt the album. Elton