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Beach Boys
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.4912
Beach Boys Album Rankings
1
Recorded and released in 1966, not long after the sunny, textural experiments of "California Girls", "Pet Sounds", aside from its importance as Brian Wilson's evolutionary compositional master piece,
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2
We open with the Dennis Wilson song 'Slip On Through'. You notice straight away the rich production and backing track. A convincing rocker, it leads into the Brian Wilson song 'This Whole World'.
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3
The Beach Boys, who released their first record 30 years ago, have been living off their past for so long that it's easy to hate them for it.
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4
Brian Wilson's retirement from performing to concentrate on studio recording and production reaped immediate dividends withToday!, the first Beach Boys album that is strong almost from start to finish
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5
'I Get Around' was a one number single, a massive hit and one of their all time most perfect songs.
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6
My love forPet Soundshas been established, and it has taken its rightful place in the list of Jeff's favorite albums.
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7
These two albums represent the point in their history where the Beach Boys essentially divide into two distinct yet interlinked musical entities:Carl Wilson,Dennis Wilson,Mike Love, andAl Jardine(with
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8
The opener 'Meant For You' is thirty seconds long, it's 'Friends' all over, an album less than thirty minutes long.
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9
And, so begins the second great era of Beach Boys music. This is unlike any album they've recorded before or since. It's a special album in it's own right, however.
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10
What have we here? Well, an album pieced together from 'Smile' out-takes, concert favourites. Featuring almost no new Brian Wilson compositions but a couple of older one's.
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11
This was the album by which millions of sons of late baby boomers (and sons and daughters of the early ones) first really discovered the Beach Boys, beyond hearing the occasional oldie on the radio.
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12
The Beach Boys' catalog is littered with forgotten 1970s LPs that barely scraped the charts upon release but matured into solid fan favorites despite -- and occasionally, because of -- their many and
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13
'Soulful Old Man Sunshine'! And a NEW vocal from AL with 'Loop De Loop'. It's good, too.
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14
The Beach Boys' third and fifth albums make a good pairing on one CD, different as they are in content and origins.
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15
This two-on-one CD reissue offers a pair of "firsts" -- the group's first concept album (in theSinatrasense of the term, referring to an LP built on a specific theme or subject) and their first long-p
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16
Capitol, which had already released ten Beach Boys albums in three years, was bugging the group for product that it could release in time for the 1965 Christmas season.
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17
Track listing: 1) The Girl From New York City; 2) Amusement Parks USA; 3) Then I Kissed Her; 4) Salt Lake City ; 5) Girl Don't Tell Me; 6) Help Me Rhonda ; 7) California Girls ; 8) Let Him Run Wild ;
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18
Track listing: 1) Fun Fun Fun; 2) The Little Old Lady From Pasadena; 3) Little Deuce Coupe; 4) Long Tall Texan; 5) In My Room; 6) Monster Mash; 7) Let's Go Trippin'; 8) Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow ; 9) The Wande
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19
The album that replaced 'Smile'.
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20
The first album to bear the credit 'Produced By Brian Wilson'. Sonically, it's certainly an improvement over either of the first two albums.
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21
The groups third studio album of 1963 and released a mere 30 days after 'Surfer Girl', so several of the songs have already been heard on previous albums or singles.
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22
Along withthe Who, it's nearly impossible to keep track of all the Beach Boys compilations that have littered the marketplace since the 1960s.
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23
While it may seem rather incongruous for the definitive voices of summertime to tackle the music of the holiday season,The Beach Boys' Christmas Albumsucceeds brilliantly;Brian Wilson's pop genius is
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24
Track listing: 1) Darlin'; 2) Salt Lake City; 3) Sloop John B.
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25
Track listing: 1) Surfin' Safari ; 2) County Fair; 3) Ten Little Indians ; 4) Chug-A-Lug; 5) Little Miss America ; 6) 409 ; 7) Surfin'; 8) Heads You Win - Tails I Lose; 9) Summertime Blues; 10) Cuckoo
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26
Learning quickly from the utter failure of their modernist, roots rock bent (circa 1972-1973) and the overwhelming success one year later of their greatest-hits packageEndless Summer, the Beach Boys r
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27
All Beach Boys ‘nay-sayers’ should be directed to “Surfs Up” (originally a track from the abandoned Smile project) a beautiful fragile tapestry that shifts in tone and mood adr
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28
Track listing: 1) Getcha Back ; 2) It's Gettin' Late ; 3) Crack At Your Love ; 4) Maybe I Don't Know; 5) She Believes In Love; 6) California Calling; 7) Passing Friend ; 8) I'm So Lonely; 9) Where I B
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29
Whilst the first album had served a purpose and little more, it sold well enough to convince Capitol Records there was money and sense in recording a follow up set.
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30
The sound of The Beach Boys, even the sound they achieve here, had huge commercial potential circa the mid to late eighties.
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31
Now here's a curious thing, possibly the worlds first ever karaoke disc! Whilst it no doubt went down well in Japan or somewhere, it was seen really as more Capitol records milking of The Beach Boys c
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32
Why the hell did Van Dyke Parks agree to work on this thing??? The fate of The Beach Boys, into the nineties and beyond, as anonymous puppets of Mike Love is sealed.
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33
The first documents the group at the height of Beach Boy mania, complete with hysterical, screaming girls; the latter is sans Brian , of course, but documents that the group was still capable of good
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36
This 29-track CD represents the final phase of the Beach Boys' first go-around with Capitol Records, as well as the tail end of their 1960s output.
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55
I am unashamedly a Robbie fan, but I didn't make it to Knebworth. But you had to be there to enjoy this album - as a record of the experience.
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56
An adequate collection of their best 1970-1980 period music, but missing some tracks.
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