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Mostly agree. For me: S tier is Today, Pet Sounds, Smile. A tier is All Summer Long, Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!!), Sunflower, Carl and the Passions, 20/20. B tier is Surfin’ U.S.A., Surfer Girl, Shut Down Vol. 2, Surf’s Up, Holland, Friends. C tier is Surfin’ Safari, Little Deuce Coop, Beach Boys’ Christmas Album, Beach Boys Party, Wild Honey, Beach Boys Love You, That’s Why God Made the Radio. D tier is Smiley Smile (sorry) and 15 Big Ones. E tier is M.I.U. Album, L.A. (Light Album), Still Cruisin’, Summer in Paradise. Below E tier is Keepin’ the Summer Alive and Stars and Stripes Vol. 1. I guess take into account these are relative to each other. For me a C tier isn’t a mid album so much as it is a few ranks lower than a Pet Sounds or Today. It’s all graded on a curve. There’s even select tracks on D tier albums that I really like. Only two albums that do absolutely nothing for me are KTSA and Stars and Stripes.

It will always be 2 categories. With and without Brian. I do like Friends and 20/20. Sunflower is Ok but never felt the love the other BB fans do. Today thru Smile are the penultimate BB albums but not Party.

surfin' safari is what it sounds like : a bunch of kids. the beach boys were never a garage band. they were a living room band. surfin' usa is a HUGE improvement; a giant leap forward. the lonely sea is one of my all time favorite songs. the first glimpse we get of bw's more melancholy side. to me surfer girl, little Deuce Coupe, shut down volume 2, all summer long, Christmas album, TODAY! (my all time favorite album by ANYONE), summer days/nights, pet sounds, SMiLE! sessions, smiley smile (in the 70's this album was my favorite album by anyone of the previous decade, then i heard TODAY! and the doors's debut), wild honey, friends and 20/20 are all classic albums. i don't really count party! as a studio album. i could live without it. i like most of sunflower. i like almost as much of surf's up. i really can't get into much of carl/passions and holland. i appreciate them more than i actually enjoy them. Mount Vernon and Fairway however is amazing. 15 big ones is a HUGE disappointment. LOVE YOU is my favorite album of the 70's. it is their last truly great, classic album. i wish they had retired the name or retiring from recording with this album. l.a. light album has some good songs, but everything else post-love you i just wish would cease to exist. still crusin' to me isn't a studio album; just a compilation with left overs. That's Why God Made the Radio is a good reunion album.

I think your analysis is pretty spot on - and I agree with most of your criticisms. I think this album is overrated, and think Ye's master works came years later.

A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

They should’ve gone to butch vigi or Brendan o’nrien.

Brutal.

I've loved this album since it released, and it honestly stands as one of my favorites ever, even after listening to AFUT & LaBH. 8.5 seems a little shy of what I was expecting you'd say, but still a great score nonetheless, and yes absolutely a hard recommendation. I just wanted to compliment that I really enjoyed the cinematography of this video, and hope this channel grows, really good stuff!

Complete agreement

Since your review, have you listened to the album again and do you have a different feeling about it? I think it is one of their best albums to date. Love this album from the first track to the last.

Lot of interesting things about this album. 1: Where Did Our Love Go... their big breakthrough, in this session, they stood Florence WAY back from the microphone, so you can barely hear her... the background almost sounds like Mary singing by herself. 2: Run Run Run... This was an earlier recording, with Babrara sppearing on the background vocals here. 3: Long gone Lover.. I LOVE the hippity hoppity cadence of it, Mary starting it out with her booming alto, and Florence's righteous adlibs at the end were just wonderful. 4: Come See About Me... This was originally recorded by Nella Dodds, and if you hear her version, you can hear it wasn't a hit for her. 5: Ask Any Girl..... This song was plagiarised by Len Barry with his hit record "1-2-3". Motown sued, and Jobete now owns the publishing rights to "1-2-3".

Great video guys! Keep it up!!!

I think this is pretty OK, but Smiley Smile, Wild Honey, 20/20 should NOT be stuck in B

Ah man, noone likes the disco Here Comes The Night remix. I love that one, 10min of fun Carl sounds good on Bruce Johnsons production

Thoughts on Ding Dang?

12:18 Album: 15 Big Ones- “Brian is back…except now he sounds like a big old grizzly bear…” 😂

6:39 “If you can’t at least appreciate ‘PET 🐐 SOUNDS,’ I don’t want to know you.” 👍 ❤️

I would rank both Sunflower and Surf's Uo as S albums. Sunflower is actually my favorite Beach Boys album, just over Pet Sounds.

I’m sure you know this already BUT… the stereo remix of Wild Honey album on the Sunshine Tomorrow compilation is worth checking out! Less mud & more Sun 🌞

Best album

I loved your clear concise presentations and mostly agree with your choices, but you could have gone harsher on their late albums.

My top 10: 1. Pet Sounds, 2. Surf's Up, 3. Smiley Smile/Smile, 4. Sunflower, 5. Holland, 6. Wild Honey, 7. The Beach Boys Today!, 8. Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!), 9. 20/20, 10. Friends

Wild honey> friends

Another bs TH-cam assessment of "Smile"...including your second guessing Brian's 2004 true masterpiece...But you know better than Brian....No wonder I don't subscribe to your channel....

Yo drink some water That dry swallowing noise Is makin me thirsty

I feel like a lot of people want to impose their tastes when critiquing their music. The whole point of this album is that it’s what they wanted to do. They made this album for them. I can respect that. I like most of the songs on the album with split screen being my favorite. Also, they can’t please everyone. In fact, they should have named the album can we please everyone now? If they make all hits then they are called sell outs. If they do what they do they are called mid.

I thought the album Wild Honey was a phenomenal album. Great R and B rendition of Stevie Wonders I was made to love her and the Title Track Wild Honey and Darling. Great album. Love your reviews of all The Beach Boys albums.

Cómo que 6 caon?? Un 8 para arriba aunque sea haha

Get back to reviewing soulless corporate music pretending g to be important

Totally deserve their flowers this band, they are special. For some reason, though, I hardly ever listen to them - probably personal taste or because it feels there's something overly dramatic in the vocals

Never heard of this band! Looking forward to giving them a try.

I think this album is amazing i would personally give it a low 9 but I think it is a bit overshadowed by the Ants From Up There, their second album, as I feel it takes everything this album did right and improves on it

How can you justify wild honey amid summer days?! Think! Otherwise almost perfect tier. Id give WH a B+ and Summer Days a B B-

No way should Love You exist on the same level as Sunflower !

Beach Boys Party was definitely the result of pressure from Capitol to get product out. It bought Brian time to work on Pet Sounds.

Great record,he wad great.

Fantastic sum of their parts, with electro rock intro that they need to expand on with their next album. The first song you played is my favorite right now

Do they touch on the Smile Sessions much?

Friends has always been my favorite Beach Boys album. Summer Days is also my favorite, every track on that album is unique, even "I'm Bugged At My Old Man" which I really have fun listening to. I love the album cover with them on the boat. That's all I need on a desert Island, Friends and Summer Days. But I would also need a copy of Smiley Smile because my favorite Beach Boys song is on that album, "Little Pad."

I have always thought, much to the disagreement of others, that the L.A. (Light Album) is seriously underrated. Yes, the disco version of Here Comes the Night” may not have been the best idea. However, songs like Good Timin, Lady Lynda, Baby Blue, Goin’ South, and a couple of others make this album push this album, in my opinion, into an upper tier selection. Fantastic vocal performances by Carl and Dennis highlight several songs. The harmonizations by the guys are just gorgeous on several songs, especially Lady Lynda. I think people diss this album way too quickly because of the Disco on Here Comes the Night and completely miss all the beautiful, heartfelt, and gorgeous aspects of this album.

I listen to this album daily!

I don't like this beachboys keeping the summer alive, it's nearly worse than Summer in Paradise. In terms of Beachboys albums last best Beachboys album was probably L.A light album.

I have to agree with you their as well Sunflower is favourite beachboys album after Pet sounds. I'm glad you said that. Sunflower album is a Superb Underrated albums and doesn't get the Credit it deserves.

The Light Album apart from the horrible disco and shortnin' bread is pretty strong. Love Surrounds Me, Baby Blue and Full Sail are pretty strong early 70's style BB tunes...

Someone who just doesn’t get it .. never mind.

Maybe this album will grow on me over time, but it certainly didn’t wow me on first listen. Solid review!

Can you review Magical Mystery Tour by The Beatles? I have been anticipating that.

Everything in A, would be S for me, and I’d throw smiley smile in S, all summer long in A or S as well

I love The Beach boys 👦 . Sunflower is such a great album of course Smile , Pet Sound s they for me from Today to Holland I love em ..

Every single review I hear online is constantly comparing their work to their old stuff, it’s so boring. Every single band in history changes their sound, why can’t kol do it? I thought this album was great. Judge it on its own merit. I think it’s really lazy reviewing by comparing it to kol’s earlier albums. I mean you didn’t even mention the song ‘seen’. This song is one of the best they ever done.