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Van Dyke Parks

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All Time

of 150,012

6,553
Decades
- 1970s
  
  of 328
  
  0
- 1980s
  
  of 1,418
  
  922
- 1990s
  
  of 7,254
  
  5,275
Genres
- Classic Rock
  
  of 841
  
  256
- Folk
  
  of 936
  
  613
- International
  
  of 2,379
  
  2,237
- Miscellaneous
  
  of 2,544
  
  1,395
- Pop
  
  of 13,665
  
  7,457
- Rock
  
  of 8,170
  
  6,498

CAREER SPAN:

Decade

Album Score

# Albums

1970s

0.0000

1980s

1.2075

1990s

1.3218

Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.

Overall Band Score: Van Dyke Parks is ranked overall as 1.3014 out of 4 stars

1.3014

Van Dyke Parks Album Rankings

Van Dyke Parks scores a combined 3.2460 out of 4 stars for Song Cycle

Song Cycle (3.2460)

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 ...more

8.56

to

11.98

from (5) sources

Van Dyke Parks scores a combined 1.8198 out of 4 stars for Tokyo Rose

Tokyo Rose (1.8198)

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 ...more

1.99

Van Dyke Parks scores a combined 0.3040 out of 4 stars for Discover America

Discover America (0.3040)

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 ...more

8.56

to

17.86

from (6) sources

The Clang of the Yankee Reaper by Van Dyke Parks

Van Dyke Parks scores a combined 0.0000 out of 4 stars for The Clang of the Yankee Reaper

The Clang of the Yankee Reaper (0.0000)

No review available

14.93

Moonlighting: Live at the Ash Grove by Van Dyke Parks

Van Dyke Parks scores a combined 0.0000 out of 4 stars for Moonlighting: Live at the Ash Grove

Moonlighting: Live at the Ash Grove (0.0000)

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. ...more

9.89

to

16.98

from (5) sources

Van Dyke Parks scores a combined 0.0000 out of 4 stars for Jump!

Jump! (0.0000)

No review available

8.34

to

11.98

from (5) sources

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