TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Van Dyke Parks
Van Dyke Parks
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
1.3014
Van Dyke Parks Album Rankings
1
Van Dyke Parks moved on fromthe Beach Boys' abortiveSMiLEsessions to record his own solo debut,Song Cycle, an audacious and occasionally brilliant attempt to mount a fully orchestrated, classically mi
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2
Given Van Dyke Parks' well-documented fascination with the various and sundry collision points of American musical culture with the rest of the world, he was as good a candidate as any to make a conce
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3
Van Dyke Parks' first album,Song Cycle,released in 1968, was a dizzyingly eclexoteric work that had the critics alternately gushing, "The emergence of a super-genius!" and hissing, "Insufferable prete
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5
Van Dyke Parks is probably best known as Brian Wilson's collaborator on the Beach Boys' lost-to-the-ages Smile, the never-completed follow-up to the band's monumental Pet Sounds.
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