The ending of Surf's Up, with A Day in the Life of a Tree, Til I Die, and Surf's Up, is maybe my favorite run in their whole discography. It's like descending into Brian's brain, laying there in that bed with him.
@@Michael-hc2vs Most of people only know Pet Sounds, if they know something about Beach Boys. Maybe in USA they're Gods (and probably U.K.), but it's not like that in the rest of the world. Sunflower should be as praised as Pet Sounds.
I just can't get into Sunflower. The songs don't grab me as much as songs like on 20/20 or Wild Honey do and there's too many misses on the album for me. Got To Know The Woman and It's About Time take me out of the album usually.
Ive never heard Love You described so perfectly. Its such a touching and funny record that you can tell came from Brian Wilsons heart. Fun fact: Ill Bet He's Nice is the only beach boys song where all 3 Wilson brothers share the lead vocals!
Yeah, and Sgt Peppers was originally going to be a double album and should have had Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane. There's a million things that could have been, but sadly never were.
@@spanoaustraliano Feet..? That’s not a song on the album and I don’t even think they have a song called Feet... unless you’re talking about Feel Flows and the “t” was a typo lol, but if that’s the case I gotta disagree! Feel Flows is my jam!! haha!
I can’t explain why, but The Beach Boys Love You is just my favorite album ever made. It is just so strange but also pure and sweet and completely sincere in a way that only Brian can be
I agree 100% about Sunflower. Tears In The Morning, Deirdre, Break On Through, All I Wanna Do, and Cool Cool Water are some of the best songs they ever put out.
Slip On Through: The Beach Boys song, because their harmonies are so smooth they slip right through into your heart. Break On Through: The Doors song, because they break into your brain like a burglar and force your head to bob uncontrollably. Both amazing songs, but different songs and bands.
I picked up "Sunflower" during the late 70s when I was trying to complete my collection. I put it on the turntable, and the music blew me away. I couldn't believe it was sitting in a $1.99 bucket. Best $1.99 I ever spent. My Top 10: 1) Sunflower 2) Pet Sounds 3) Today 4) Surf's Up 5) Holland 6) Summer Days And Summer Nights 7) Love You 8) 20/20 0) Friends 10) Wild Honey
my favorite albums (and songs) 1. pet sounds (sloop john b) 2. friends (little bird) 3. surf's up (till' i die) 4. sunflower (all I wanna do) 5. wild honey (country air)
My top ten 1 pet sounds 2 today 3 summer days and summer nights 4 20 20. 5 sunflower 6 shut down volume 2 7 all summer long 8 concert 9 surfer girl 10 surfin safari
Great list and I would have All Summer Long in my top 10. Nice to see you've discovered the late 60's/early 70's albums when the band wasn't selling as much. Lots of great stuff there.
The beach boys were a band full of potential held back by the american music industry, their manager (their father) and mike love. If Brian Wilson was just left to do what he wanted to do they might have been able to reach the heights and popularity of the beatles. But pet sounds is a perfect album and I am very happy for it being in my life, that album alone makes the beach boys one of the greats for me.
@@Jackson-jd1um but he didn't stop it from doing so. The only thing he really changed on pet sounds was the lyrics to hang on to your ego. Brians drug abuse and other stuff is the reason smile wasn't finished
I can't believe I just found your channel! great stuff man, I love the decor and the vintage vibes. Great list, too - The Beach Boys Today! is such a fantastic album, plus, it contains a historical moment - Please Let Me Wonder, the first song written by Brian under psychedelic influence. It's so remarkable because up until that song, the album is slowly ramping up in harmony until it finally breaks free of the surfing sound in Please Let Me Wonder and a whole new landscape of slower and richer ballades is introduced.
Man I was really hoping you’d include the smile sessions as an album in and of itself. But I understand why you didn’t, great list I, glad someone finally shed some light on their brilliant post pet sounds/SMiLE era albums.
Oi! Don't you be dissing (honk honk) "Hockin' Down the Highway" Great track :) Interesting fact: in the Endless Harmony documentary series Brian claims Love You to be his favourite Beach Boys album. EDIT: What a great summing up of an under appreciated LP.
@@Agos226 I never knew that. Played it this afternoon and while it's no classic Love You still holds up as enjoyable listen, though IMO the audio mix seemed oddly hollow.
@@Agos226 I never knew that. Played it this afternoon and while it's no classic Love You still holds up as enjoyable listen, though IMO the audio mix seemed oddly hollow.
Learned a lot. Now I'll have to pick up Sunflower and Friends. They sound like my cup o'tea! Btw, I'd love to see you do the same discography review thing for one of favorite 60's bands, The Monkees.
Oh wow, I do NOT regret voting for this in the Patreon poll! I must say, though, I'm surprised you didn't include Holland - but kudos for giving That's Why God Made The Radio an honourable mention, that album was a very pleasant surprise.
so glad you discovered all those great beach boys albums! the albums from wild honey to love you are all great (except 15 big ones), and almost completely forgotten compared to their early career. you know what also doesn't get the attention it deserves? the big 7 moody blues albums, from days of future passed to seventh sojourn are all bangers.
Hi, there Vinyl cool guy, Long time no see. Ah the Beach Boys. No band even comes close to those harmonies. There is not and there will never be another. A class all their own. This being said... I am hearing some songs making the internet for the forthcoming Feel Flows box set (comprising of Sunflower and Surf's Up plus sessions etc).... and oh my Lord.... I cannot wait to get it. I hope you will be acquiring it too and do an unboxing. I love the Beach Boys and I find their music comes to save my uneasy spirit in these uneasy times. Thank God for the Beach Boys and music. That's why God made the Beach Boys. Enjoy and agree with your list. Tino
Strictly musically speaking, from around 1964 to 1974, The Beach Boys could almost do no wrong. My personal top picks would be: 1. Sunflower 2. Friends 3. Pet Sounds 4. 20/20 5. Today 6. Surf's Up 7. Carl & The Passions 8. Summer Days (and Summer Nights) 9. Holland 10. Love You
10: 20/20 9: Surfs Up 8: Love You 7: Friends 6: Wild Honey 5: Sunflower 4: Summer Days (And Summer Nights) 3: Today! 2: Pet Sounds 1: The Smile Sessions
If the beach boys replaced Student Demonstration Time with (Wouldn't it Be Nice To) Live Again (which was planned by dennis to be on the album) it would've been the perfect album for me. People dislike Take a Load of Your Feet, but personally I think it compliments the album well unlike SDT.
Hey Geek, long-time sub here: give “Holland” another listen if you get a chance. I think it’s unfairly slept on. Keep up the good work. I’m happy to see your channel growing from the early days.
TBH Summer days and summer nights is incredible from a musical standpoint; it sounds a lot like Pet Sounds and Smile and has some very complex artistic compositions breaking through despite Capitol forcing more pop-streamed lyrics
Pet Sounds trivia: everyone places the stress on the first word and says PET Sounds, when in fact it is Pet SOUNDS. Brian Wilson would call the sounds he created in the studio his “pets,” so that’s what the title of the album refers to, his pet SOUNDS. Like his pet dogs or his pet turtles. His pet sounds.
Beach Boys "Today thru about "Holland" are all great! My favorites are "Friends ", "20/20" "Sunflower" & "Wild Honey". Carl & The Passions" ain't bad either and of course "Pet Sounds!
Pretty good list, I gotta say. Man, where is Holland? Holland is a pretty solid top five for me. Even though the best of, say, Surf's Up reaches more stratospheric heights, I would say there's really not a bad song on Holland. Dipping into the Beach Boys extended universe some, I would certainly give high marks to Dennis's Pacific Ocean Blue and Brian's That Lucky Old Sun. I can respect the decision to not include SMiLE. That said, if I had to choose one favorite body of musical work of all time, that honor would have to go to SMiLE. Wow, it's just sublimely inventive, yet still conveys classic beauty. For me, it doesn't get better than SMiLE.
I really enjoyed watching your video and hearing your review of Beach Boys albums. I have been a fan of theirs since 1966, and although I absolutely respect your views, I almost entirely disagree with your 'ratings'. I could be way off base, but I believe a part of the story is the difference between viewing the Beach Boys albums as artifacts versus contemporary releases. One big thing was your comments about Surf's Up which I also agree is close to their best of all time. You mentioned a dislike for Student Demonstration Time and a reference to imagining the late 1960s. I got this from my dad's record store right after it was released. I also listened to the late radio broadcast about Kent State shootings and how many people cheered them, and about the blacks going on a rampage in 1967 and 1968 and burning and shooting and breaking everything in site, and of flipping over cop cars in the park in the Midwest. Not to mention all the nonsense with the Tet lunar new year 1968. With this reference the song is completely relevant to both the times and the theme of the lp, especially when I consider the painting on the front cover and the state of the U.S. back then. I was into Manassas and Santana and Guess Who and Grand Funk back then. For example, American Woman and Share the Land may seem irrelevant now but were statements of their times. Don't forget Barry Sadler had a song that charted a few years earlier. I got Sunflower when it was brand new and I don't think I have listened to it since maybe the 1980s. In my mind it is horrible. I too think Today is a marvelous transitional album that goes along perfectly with Summer Days as the end of an old world and beginning of a new, both for the lads and for 'our' consciousness. I have often said that when I listen to music I have a reference to events in my life like the time I first heard it or from when it was released, and I know that music from before I was born is more difficult for me to have a connection with because I can't reference it to the time it came from. I still love the Boy's car music, probably most of all Surfer Girl as being the best overall performance, and then I think Surf's Up and Holland both being sort of temporal masterpieces and very insightful to the times they were released. Cheers
I probably agree with the top 3. But Holland, All Summer Long, maybe Carl and the Passions, maybe BB85 would make my top 10 at the expense of some of your picks. These four are definitely worth checking out!
15 Big ones has a lot of that early 60s beach boys sound mixed with some covers and what not, definitely not top 10. But I just can’t stop listening to It’s O.K. very modern song I’d imagine for the time and Dennis’ “FIND A RIIIIDE!” perfect way to close the song.
I'd love to see you rank your top ten songs per decade. I think it'd be a frustrating task with hundreds of honourary mentions but I want to see the songs you would take over anything if it came to it. Personal favourites not generally accepted best songs of course
Guess I'm Dumb not making it onto Today is right up there with Strawberry Fields Forever not being on Sgt. Pepper's. A real "what where they thinking?" head scratcher.
@@jimk2000 As a rule yes. However George Martin was probably right when he advised the band to release Penny Lane with When I'm 64 on the b side while holding Strawberry Fields Forever back for the LP. However as that would have meant two McCartney songs on one single that was never going to happen. When I'm 64 is fun but Sgt.Pepper's would be a better album if Strawberry Fields Forever took it's place, perhaps opening side 2 and being followed by Within You Without You.
I agree Boogalooed and Mama Says kinda blemish the album, but Country Air is a gem. Replace Mama Says and Boogaloed with Brian's Can't Wait Too Long and the cover of The Letter and you have a perfect Brian Wilson record with two covers.
I like your list, but there are 2 albums I would not have included: Love You and Smiley Smile. I think I would've gone with All Summer Long and Holland, Party and Carl/Passion are runners up.
Glad that Love You made the cut, personally It's probably my 5th or 6th favourite. I do think that All Summer Long deserves a spot somewhere in the top 10 as well as potentially Holland but at what album's expense? Time to Get Alone off of 20/20 is quickly becoming one of my favourite Beach Boys song of all time. I would count Smile as an album and put it at no.1 also
2 years late, but here’s my top 10 (I put 11 since somebody might not consider Smile a real album…): 1. Smile (The Smile Sessions) 2. Pet Sounds 3. Smiley Smile 4. Surf’s Up 5. Sunflower 6. Today! 7. Friends 8. All Summer Long 9. Surfer Girl 10. Holland 11. Wild Honey
Wish Surfer Girl was included in this top ten… I feel that it was the most definitive demonstration of their early sound with amazing harmonies and songwriting, although of course it has their early album filler present like the rest…
As an avid Beach boys fan, I love this vid! Awesome work! Here are a few points you might find interesting- 1. Both Transcendental Meditation and Student Demonstration Time were Mike Love's ideas, that's no coincidence lol. 2. The song 'Never Learn Not To Love' on the 20/20 album was originally written by Charles Manson except it was called 'Cease To Exist'. Dennis (Wilson) liked it and used it without crediting Charlie (Capitol made them change the title and alter the opening lyric from cease to exist to cease to resist, because they found it too dark) Crazy right?? And people think it was the Beatles that had more to do with Manson. 3. Speaking of Dennis Wilson, he had an awesome solo album in 1977 called 'Pacific Ocean Blue' which in my opinion (including anything Brian has done) is the best BB's solo album. Worth it for the amazing opener 'River Song' alone! 4. Lastly, check out The Flame's self titled album from 1970, It was produced by Carl Wilson and put out on the Beach Boys own Brother Records. Though it failed to chart I think it's an odd foot note in BB's history and great album none the less (very Beatle-esque/ Badfinger sounding). Also the lead singer/guitarist Blondie Chaplin and drummer Ricky Fataar from The Flame later Joined The Beach Boys and played on their 'So Tough' and 'Holland' albums as well as their epic in concert album from 1973. Anyway, Thanks again for the Video! P.S. Sunflower is SUCH an underrated gem! Easily one of my faves, could call it their 'Abbey Road' frankly.
Great video, though I personally count the Smile Sessions (and Brian’s ‘04 Smile) as the Smile album and Smiley Smile is its own thing. Smiley Smile has a lot of musical hold overs but aesthetically and sonically it’s completely different than the Smile sessions.
How the hell do you not have The Christmas Album anywhere in the top 10? That has the best 5-part harmonies of all the albums, with flawless production!
My top 10: 1. Pet Sounds 2. Summer Days and Summer Nights 3. Surf's Up 4. Sunflower 5. Today 6. 20/20 7. Wild Honey 8. Holland 9. All Summer Long 10. The Beach Boys (1985) I've read through a few dozen comments and haven't seen anyone mention my #10 yet. No love for the 1985 self-title? If not, I'll bet some of you are dismissing it without giving it a chance. "Where I Belong" might be my all-time favorite Beach Boys song which was not released as a single, plus "Getcha Back", "It's Gettin Late", other tracks are good too.
Interesting, I feel sad listening to Smiley Smile too, but it was also the album that really got me into the band to begin with so I can't ever discard it.
Y tiene razón, son canciones desechables no las puedes comparar con i'm the walrus, in My life, something o strawberry fields forever, en las que no pienso lo mismo son yesterday y lucy in the sky with diamonds, pero al final era muy crítico con su trabajo en The Beatles
Add the Stereo version of Al's version of Cottonfields ( uk version of Sunflower has mono version) to Sunflower and it completes it. Solid #2 behind Pet Sounds
The problem I have with Beach Boys albums past 1966 is that through the years and albums they seem to reuse songs from the Smile sessions thereby the albums don't really sound like complete projects more just like compilations of songs. I like ' Surf's Up ' tho :)
Yes but, it wasn't really released back then so they had to use material from it on later albums. Contractual obligations from Capitol and Warner. Warner wanted Smile in the 70's.
That was a coherent and smart list 👍🏻👍🏻 I'd go: 1. Smile 2. Pet Sounds 3. Surf's Up 4. Sunflower 5. Today 6. Love You 7. Friends 8. Wild Honey 9. 20/20 10. In Concert (1973)
Today! gets a bit lost because people see Pet Sounds as the moment they embraced albums as thematic wholes. Admittedly I myself worked forwards through their discography from Pet Sounds through to the 80s, before going backwards to the start. Today! Really isnt "half" an album - yes, the second side serves as a suite of songs connected thematically - which Rubber Soul then embraced full across two sides - but actually, it's clear that side 1 and side 2 were presented as a juxtaposition to showcase the transition of the band ON record as opposed to when bands drop a new album of radically different music without the fans knowing what happened in between. This makes it an arguably more interesting concept than Rubber Soul. Additionally, people talk a lot about Brian's perplexing decisions to include filler tracks on early albums - like Bull Session and Our Favourite Recording Sessions - but again, it seems Brian liked having the juxtaposition of complex music in a professional setting against amateurish studio chatter which presents them as real people, real kids who goof around like all their peers while simultaneously helping the audience relate to the members. Theyre like Easter eggs, and I believe the fans at the time enjoyed hearing them and seeing their characters come through
It sounds like some of these songs, the clunkers, should've been B-sides. I hate saying that, because B-sides are usually better, but yeah. Great review, m'man.
PLEASE REVIEW “WE ARE FAMILY” BY SISTER SLEDGE, ITS MY ALL TIME FAVORITE ALBUM & IN MY OPINION THE BEST PRODUCED ALBUM EVER. Do some Black People albums.
Hard to argue with your list. I might have swapped All Summer Long for Smiley Smile. Was the Party album eligible for this list? You really nailed it about how those bad tracks really derail some of those albums. I've always thought Today! would have been as important and almost as influential as Pet Sounds had it not been for "Bull Session With Big Daddy." And considering what we know about Murry Wilson, "I'm Bugged at My Old Man" isn't really fun to listen to. In fact, it's pretty much unlistenable. But, when it's all said and done, Pet Sounds still lives up to its legend.....and always will. th-cam.com/video/_hokKtT3N-0/w-d-xo.html
I think every Beach Boys album has at least one song that lets the concept of the album down. You're right with Transcendental Meditation ruining Friends but Sloop John B (while an okay song) completely juxtaposes the rest of Pet Sounds in terms of overall themes. Still one of the greatest albums and maybe the best of 1966 but repeated listens does not make a cohesive listen when you look at it objectively. I agree with your choices but I'd shift a few of them around. I love Pet Sounds but I usually lift the needle once Sloop John B starts, I blame Mike Love for its unwarranted inclusion on Brian's otherwise masterpiece
The ending of Surf's Up, with A Day in the Life of a Tree, Til I Die, and Surf's Up, is maybe my favorite run in their whole discography. It's like descending into Brian's brain, laying there in that bed with him.
Three brilliant songs to be sure.
dont you like lookin at tomorrow??????
The harmonies at the end of Tree are beyond belief
I bought Surf's Up when it came out and listened to the fade of Tree to Surf's Up repeatedly, my greatest musical listening experience.
Til I Die is a song I like and appreciate, but sometimes I can’t listen to it- it’s too intense
Today! is the Rubber Soul of The Beach Boys. Sunflower is an absolute criminally underrated one.
Sunflower is underrated? I thought it was widely regarded as the second best Beach Boys album. It's my personal favourite.
@@Michael-hc2vs Most of people only know Pet Sounds, if they know something about Beach Boys. Maybe in USA they're Gods (and probably U.K.), but it's not like that in the rest of the world. Sunflower should be as praised as Pet Sounds.
no antojar
I just can't get into Sunflower. The songs don't grab me as much as songs like on 20/20 or Wild Honey do and there's too many misses on the album for me. Got To Know The Woman and It's About Time take me out of the album usually.
Sunflower is my favourite. Pet Sounds is ridiculous, but Sunflower had a different draw on me.
Ive never heard Love You described so perfectly. Its such a touching and funny record that you can tell came from Brian Wilsons heart. Fun fact: Ill Bet He's Nice is the only beach boys song where all 3 Wilson brothers share the lead vocals!
I personally believe that if Smile would've been completed it would today be considered on of the greatest albums ever released
Everyone knows that
The greatest. Hands down. No other band could dream of making Cabinessence, Surf's Up, Heroes and Villains
There is a version of it. It’s called Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE
It already is. It's called the Smile Sessions.
Yeah, and Sgt Peppers was originally going to be a double album and should have had Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane. There's a million things that could have been, but sadly never were.
Beach Boys are my favorite group.
My favorite album is Surf's Up.
I love Surf’s Up, but I absolutely hate Student Demonstration Time. I feel like that song is just totally out of place with this record.
@@iamdylancheek Feet is more out of place.
@@spanoaustraliano Feet..? That’s not a song on the album and I don’t even think they have a song called Feet... unless you’re talking about Feel Flows and the “t” was a typo lol, but if that’s the case I gotta disagree! Feel Flows is my jam!! haha!
@@iamdylancheek Take a Load Off Your Feet I meant.
@@iamdylancheek feel flows is the gem which makes this my favorite album by The Beach Boys
I can’t explain why, but The Beach Boys Love You is just my favorite album ever made. It is just so strange but also pure and sweet and completely sincere in a way that only Brian can be
I agree 100% about Sunflower. Tears In The Morning, Deirdre, Break On Through, All I Wanna Do, and Cool Cool Water are some of the best songs they ever put out.
Slip On Through: The Beach Boys song, because their harmonies are so smooth they slip right through into your heart.
Break On Through: The Doors song, because they break into your brain like a burglar and force your head to bob uncontrollably.
Both amazing songs, but different songs and bands.
I picked up "Sunflower" during the late 70s when I was trying to complete my collection. I put it on the turntable, and the music blew me away. I couldn't believe it was sitting in a $1.99 bucket. Best $1.99 I ever spent.
My Top 10:
1) Sunflower
2) Pet Sounds
3) Today
4) Surf's Up
5) Holland
6) Summer Days And Summer Nights
7) Love You
8) 20/20
0) Friends
10) Wild Honey
my favorite albums (and songs)
1. pet sounds (sloop john b)
2. friends (little bird)
3. surf's up (till' i die)
4. sunflower (all I wanna do)
5. wild honey (country air)
"I'm Bugged at My Old Man" is FANTASTIC if you take it for what it is!
My top ten
1 pet sounds
2 today
3 summer days and summer nights
4 20 20.
5 sunflower
6 shut down volume 2
7 all summer long
8 concert
9 surfer girl
10 surfin safari
Great list and I would have All Summer Long in my top 10. Nice to see you've discovered the late 60's/early 70's albums when the band wasn't selling as much. Lots of great stuff there.
The beach boys were a band full of potential held back by the american music industry, their manager (their father) and mike love.
If Brian Wilson was just left to do what he wanted to do they might have been able to reach the heights and popularity of the beatles.
But pet sounds is a perfect album and I am very happy for it being in my life, that album alone makes the beach boys one of the greats for me.
I think it was more brian wilsons fault than mike love but idk
Pet sounds alone rivals the Beatles best
@@the_bluespartan2730 mike love refused to let the band progress
@@the_bluespartan2730 mike love was the Og for “sticking with the formula” we have in the music industry today
@@Jackson-jd1um but he didn't stop it from doing so. The only thing he really changed on pet sounds was the lyrics to hang on to your ego. Brians drug abuse and other stuff is the reason smile wasn't finished
1) pet sounds
2) smile sessions
3) today
4) Christmas album
5) all summer long
I can't believe I just found your channel! great stuff man, I love the decor and the vintage vibes. Great list, too - The Beach Boys Today! is such a fantastic album, plus, it contains a historical moment - Please Let Me Wonder, the first song written by Brian under psychedelic influence. It's so remarkable because up until that song, the album is slowly ramping up in harmony until it finally breaks free of the surfing sound in Please Let Me Wonder and a whole new landscape of slower and richer ballades is introduced.
Just when I was getting back into the Beach Boys, here comes Vinyl Rewind to refuel the fire.
Synchronicity, baby!
Me too bro!
Same! Hahahah
Holland gang rise up!
That album is pretty great!
Bonus EP!!
One of my favs!
Love Holland
Love Holland
You got my listening to The Beach Boys, and it takes a lot to sway me. Surfs up is my favorite so far
Great video, Eric. Thanks for the mention of Sherry, She Needs Me - I wasn't aware of that nugget.
Man I was really hoping you’d include the smile sessions as an album in and of itself. But I understand why you didn’t, great list I, glad someone finally shed some light on their brilliant post pet sounds/SMiLE era albums.
Sunflower is my album. I absolutely love it.
got this notifications as i was finishing surf’s up. good timing
Oi! Don't you be dissing (honk honk) "Hockin' Down the Highway" Great track :)
Interesting fact: in the Endless Harmony documentary series Brian claims Love You to be his favourite Beach Boys album.
EDIT: What a great summing up of an under appreciated LP.
He still calls Love You his favorite album in recent interviews!
@@Agos226 I never knew that. Played it this afternoon and while it's no classic Love You still holds up as enjoyable listen, though IMO the audio mix seemed oddly hollow.
@@Agos226 I never knew that. Played it this afternoon and while it's no classic Love You still holds up as enjoyable listen, though IMO the audio mix seemed oddly hollow.
Learned a lot. Now I'll have to pick up Sunflower and Friends. They sound like my cup o'tea! Btw, I'd love to see you do the same discography review thing for one of favorite 60's bands, The Monkees.
Oh wow, I do NOT regret voting for this in the Patreon poll! I must say, though, I'm surprised you didn't include Holland - but kudos for giving That's Why God Made The Radio an honourable mention, that album was a very pleasant surprise.
Those last few songs on TWGMTR are G.O.A.T. material.
so glad you discovered all those great beach boys albums! the albums from wild honey to love you are all great (except 15 big ones), and almost completely forgotten compared to their early career. you know what also doesn't get the attention it deserves? the big 7 moody blues albums, from days of future passed to seventh sojourn are all bangers.
Hi, there Vinyl cool guy,
Long time no see. Ah the Beach Boys. No band even comes close to those harmonies. There is not and there will never be another. A class all their own. This being said... I am
hearing some songs making the internet for the forthcoming Feel Flows box set (comprising of Sunflower and Surf's Up plus sessions etc).... and oh my Lord.... I cannot wait to get it.
I hope you will be acquiring it too and do an unboxing.
I love the Beach Boys and I find their music comes to save my uneasy spirit in these uneasy times. Thank God for the Beach Boys and music. That's why God made the Beach Boys.
Enjoy and agree with your list.
Tino
AGAIN- (chronologically):: surfin safari, surfer girl, all summer long, today, summer days, pet sounds, smiley smile, wild honey, sunflower, surfs up, holland, love you. The dozen timeless classics.
Strictly musically speaking, from around 1964 to 1974, The Beach Boys could almost do no wrong.
My personal top picks would be:
1. Sunflower
2. Friends
3. Pet Sounds
4. 20/20
5. Today
6. Surf's Up
7. Carl & The Passions
8. Summer Days (and Summer Nights)
9. Holland
10. Love You
@Jeff Celentano Finally someone who isn't afraid to commit blasphemy and rate Pet Sounds lower than #1 for a change. Well done Jeff!
Good list, Carl and the Passions is actually pretty underrated to be fair (as are most of the early '70s albums of their tenure).
good lsit, most people focus on theri 60s and early 70s period,,, i just listened to BB Loves You and its amazing,,,
@@johnnyguitar7921 Agreed man.
I watched this and then listened to Sunflower. What an immaculate album! Better than pet sounds in my opinion.
Good list, and thanks for giving Sun Flower the credit it deserves.
Great list! Today and Sunflower are a must on any list👍❤️👍
Beach Boys In Concert double album is also underrated
Love You is an absolute banger
10: 20/20
9: Surfs Up
8: Love You
7: Friends
6: Wild Honey
5: Sunflower
4: Summer Days (And Summer Nights)
3: Today!
2: Pet Sounds
1: The Smile Sessions
To me, 'Love You' is the true sequel to Pet Sounds.
If the beach boys replaced Student Demonstration Time with (Wouldn't it Be Nice To) Live Again (which was planned by dennis to be on the album) it would've been the perfect album for me.
People dislike Take a Load of Your Feet, but personally I think it compliments the album well unlike SDT.
Hey Geek, long-time sub here: give “Holland” another listen if you get a chance. I think it’s unfairly slept on. Keep up the good work. I’m happy to see your channel growing from the early days.
TBH Summer days and summer nights is incredible from a musical standpoint; it sounds a lot like Pet Sounds and Smile and has some very complex artistic compositions breaking through despite Capitol forcing more pop-streamed lyrics
Pet Sounds trivia: everyone places the stress on the first word and says PET Sounds, when in fact it is Pet SOUNDS. Brian Wilson would call the sounds he created in the studio his “pets,” so that’s what the title of the album refers to, his pet SOUNDS. Like his pet dogs or his pet turtles. His pet sounds.
pet *SOUNDS* pet *SOUNDS*
got it.
Very nice roundup of your top 10 beach boys albums
My favourite Beach Boys albums in chronological order: Pet Sounds, Smile, Smiley Smile, Wild Honey, Friends & 20/20.
Beach Boys "Today thru about "Holland" are all great! My favorites are "Friends ", "20/20" "Sunflower" & "Wild Honey". Carl & The Passions" ain't bad either and of course "Pet Sounds!
Your videos are so relaxing dude, good vibrations
Damn, I'm Bugged At My Old Man is my favourite on that one
Love You was not the final album with Dennis. M.I.U, Light Album and Keeping the Summer Alive also featured him.
Pretty good list, I gotta say. Man, where is Holland? Holland is a pretty solid top five for me. Even though the best of, say, Surf's Up reaches more stratospheric heights, I would say there's really not a bad song on Holland. Dipping into the Beach Boys extended universe some, I would certainly give high marks to Dennis's Pacific Ocean Blue and Brian's That Lucky Old Sun. I can respect the decision to not include SMiLE. That said, if I had to choose one favorite body of musical work of all time, that honor would have to go to SMiLE. Wow, it's just sublimely inventive, yet still conveys classic beauty. For me, it doesn't get better than SMiLE.
I really enjoyed watching your video and hearing your review of Beach Boys albums. I have been a fan of theirs since 1966, and although I absolutely respect your views, I almost entirely disagree with your 'ratings'. I could be way off base, but I believe a part of the story is the difference between viewing the Beach Boys albums as artifacts versus contemporary releases. One big thing was your comments about Surf's Up which I also agree is close to their best of all time. You mentioned a dislike for Student Demonstration Time and a reference to imagining the late 1960s. I got this from my dad's record store right after it was released. I also listened to the late radio broadcast about Kent State shootings and how many people cheered them, and about the blacks going on a rampage in 1967 and 1968 and burning and shooting and breaking everything in site, and of flipping over cop cars in the park in the Midwest. Not to mention all the nonsense with the Tet lunar new year 1968. With this reference the song is completely relevant to both the times and the theme of the lp, especially when I consider the painting on the front cover and the state of the U.S. back then. I was into Manassas and Santana and Guess Who and Grand Funk back then. For example, American Woman and Share the Land may seem irrelevant now but were statements of their times. Don't forget Barry Sadler had a song that charted a few years earlier.
I got Sunflower when it was brand new and I don't think I have listened to it since maybe the 1980s. In my mind it is horrible. I too think Today is a marvelous transitional album that goes along perfectly with Summer Days as the end of an old world and beginning of a new, both for the lads and for 'our' consciousness.
I have often said that when I listen to music I have a reference to events in my life like the time I first heard it or from when it was released, and I know that music from before I was born is more difficult for me to have a connection with because I can't reference it to the time it came from. I still love the Boy's car music, probably most of all Surfer Girl as being the best overall performance, and then I think Surf's Up and Holland both being sort of temporal masterpieces and very insightful to the times they were released.
Cheers
I probably agree with the top 3. But Holland, All Summer Long, maybe Carl and the Passions, maybe BB85 would make my top 10 at the expense of some of your picks. These four are definitely worth checking out!
Love this list! I would have definitely put All Summer Long somewhere on it. That album rules!
This was a nearly perfect video! I gotta say what keeps this from being a perfect video, in my opinion, is the ads. $$$$$
gotta make that money somehow man
15 Big ones has a lot of that early 60s beach boys sound mixed with some covers and what not, definitely not top 10. But I just can’t stop listening to It’s O.K. very modern song I’d imagine for the time and Dennis’ “FIND A RIIIIDE!” perfect way to close the song.
I'd love to see you rank your top ten songs per decade. I think it'd be a frustrating task with hundreds of honourary mentions but I want to see the songs you would take over anything if it came to it. Personal favourites not generally accepted best songs of course
Great video!
Sunflower number one!!!!! Real heads know!!!!!! Holland is good too.
Guess I'm Dumb not making it onto Today is right up there with Strawberry Fields Forever not being on Sgt. Pepper's. A real "what where they thinking?" head scratcher.
SFF was not on Sgt Peppers because in Britain "singles" were never included on the albums
@@jimk2000 As a rule yes.
However George Martin was probably right when he advised the band to release Penny Lane with When I'm 64 on the b side while holding Strawberry Fields Forever back for the LP. However as that would have meant two McCartney songs on one single that was never going to happen.
When I'm 64 is fun but Sgt.Pepper's would be a better album if Strawberry Fields Forever took it's place, perhaps opening side 2 and being followed by Within You Without You.
@@desperatemohammedantheworl5833 yes I agree with you completely
I agree Boogalooed and Mama Says kinda blemish the album, but Country Air is a gem. Replace Mama Says and Boogaloed with Brian's Can't Wait Too Long and the cover of The Letter and you have a perfect Brian Wilson record with two covers.
This is what I'm talking about! Do you own any Beach Boys reissues from Analogue Productions?
Country Air holds Wild Honey back? Never heard that take haha… hey, to each their own! It’s one of my favorites from that album
I was thinking the same thing, I love Country Air. Its like Brian taking a deep breath, and decompressing after SMiLE
I like your list, but there are 2 albums I would not have included: Love You and Smiley Smile. I think I would've gone with All Summer Long and Holland, Party and Carl/Passion are runners up.
Glad that Love You made the cut, personally It's probably my 5th or 6th favourite. I do think that All Summer Long deserves a spot somewhere in the top 10 as well as potentially Holland but at what album's expense? Time to Get Alone off of 20/20 is quickly becoming one of my favourite Beach Boys song of all time. I would count Smile as an album and put it at no.1 also
2 years late, but here’s my top 10 (I put 11 since somebody might not consider Smile a real album…):
1. Smile (The Smile Sessions)
2. Pet Sounds
3. Smiley Smile
4. Surf’s Up
5. Sunflower
6. Today!
7. Friends
8. All Summer Long
9. Surfer Girl
10. Holland
11. Wild Honey
Wish Surfer Girl was included in this top ten… I feel that it was the most definitive demonstration of their early sound with amazing harmonies and songwriting, although of course it has their early album filler present like the rest…
As an avid Beach boys fan, I love this vid! Awesome work! Here are a few points you might find interesting-
1. Both Transcendental Meditation and Student Demonstration Time were Mike Love's ideas, that's no coincidence lol.
2. The song 'Never Learn Not To Love' on the 20/20 album was originally written by Charles Manson except it was called 'Cease To Exist'. Dennis (Wilson) liked it and used it without crediting Charlie (Capitol made them change the title and alter the opening lyric from cease to exist to cease to resist, because they found it too dark) Crazy right?? And people think it was the Beatles that had more to do with Manson.
3. Speaking of Dennis Wilson, he had an awesome solo album in 1977 called 'Pacific Ocean Blue' which in my opinion (including anything Brian has done) is the best BB's solo album. Worth it for the amazing opener 'River Song' alone!
4. Lastly, check out The Flame's self titled album from 1970, It was produced by Carl Wilson and put out on the Beach Boys own Brother Records. Though it failed to chart I think it's an odd foot note in BB's history and great album none the less (very Beatle-esque/ Badfinger sounding). Also the lead singer/guitarist Blondie Chaplin and drummer Ricky Fataar from The Flame later Joined The Beach Boys and played on their 'So Tough' and 'Holland' albums as well as their epic in concert album from 1973.
Anyway, Thanks again for the Video! P.S. Sunflower is SUCH an underrated gem! Easily one of my faves, could call it their 'Abbey Road' frankly.
Thank you!
Great video, though I personally count the Smile Sessions (and Brian’s ‘04 Smile) as the Smile album and Smiley Smile is its own thing. Smiley Smile has a lot of musical hold overs but aesthetically and sonically it’s completely different than the Smile sessions.
How the hell do you not have The Christmas Album anywhere in the top 10? That has the best 5-part harmonies of all the albums, with flawless production!
Sunflower should be near the top of anyone's list
My top 10:
1. Pet Sounds
2. Summer Days and Summer Nights
3. Surf's Up
4. Sunflower
5. Today
6. 20/20
7. Wild Honey
8. Holland
9. All Summer Long
10. The Beach Boys (1985)
I've read through a few dozen comments and haven't seen anyone mention my #10 yet. No love for the 1985 self-title? If not, I'll bet some of you are dismissing it without giving it a chance. "Where I Belong" might be my all-time favorite Beach Boys song which was not released as a single, plus "Getcha Back", "It's Gettin Late", other tracks are good too.
How about California Calling, that's probably my favorite song on there. Sounds like the old Beach boys songs.
Oh, and Holland was pretty good too.
Summer Days was the one that came before Pet Sounds, not Today! (apart from Party!, which doesn't really count as a proper album for me)
He was in the runnaways biopic
Holland is perfect in every way.
5 wild honey
4 holland
3 surfs up
2 SMiLE
1 pet sounds
Interesting, I feel sad listening to Smiley Smile too, but it was also the album that really got me into the band to begin with so I can't ever discard it.
Oh hell yes!
Y tiene razón, son canciones desechables no las puedes comparar con i'm the walrus, in My life, something o strawberry fields forever, en las que no pienso lo mismo son yesterday y lucy in the sky with diamonds, pero al final era muy crítico con su trabajo en The Beatles
Add the Stereo version of Al's version of Cottonfields ( uk version of Sunflower has mono version) to Sunflower and it completes it. Solid #2 behind Pet Sounds
H&V and GV were recorded in different album sessions all together.
I didn't know Sherry She Needs Me was released. I'm familiar with Wilson's solo reworking of it called She Says That She Needs Me.
It was finally released on made in California in 2012
i know it maybe doesn't count, but i would've put The Smile Sessions at like 2 or 3.
The problem I have with Beach Boys albums past 1966 is that through the years and albums they seem to reuse songs from the Smile sessions thereby the albums don't really sound like complete projects more just like compilations of songs. I like ' Surf's Up ' tho :)
Yes but, it wasn't really released back then so they had to use material from it on later albums. Contractual obligations from Capitol and Warner. Warner wanted Smile in the 70's.
@@danerd8978 ow now I see , thanks
SUNFLOWER SUNFLOWER SUNFLOWER!
That was a coherent and smart list 👍🏻👍🏻
I'd go:
1. Smile
2. Pet Sounds
3. Surf's Up
4. Sunflower
5. Today
6. Love You
7. Friends
8. Wild Honey
9. 20/20
10. In Concert (1973)
Today! gets a bit lost because people see Pet Sounds as the moment they embraced albums as thematic wholes. Admittedly I myself worked forwards through their discography from Pet Sounds through to the 80s, before going backwards to the start. Today! Really isnt "half" an album - yes, the second side serves as a suite of songs connected thematically - which Rubber Soul then embraced full across two sides - but actually, it's clear that side 1 and side 2 were presented as a juxtaposition to showcase the transition of the band ON record as opposed to when bands drop a new album of radically different music without the fans knowing what happened in between. This makes it an arguably more interesting concept than Rubber Soul. Additionally, people talk a lot about Brian's perplexing decisions to include filler tracks on early albums - like Bull Session and Our Favourite Recording Sessions - but again, it seems Brian liked having the juxtaposition of complex music in a professional setting against amateurish studio chatter which presents them as real people, real kids who goof around like all their peers while simultaneously helping the audience relate to the members. Theyre like Easter eggs, and I believe the fans at the time enjoyed hearing them and seeing their characters come through
What you said about Smiley Smile makes me sad
Johnny Carson sped up to 1.5 speed changes the song entirely in a good way.
It sounds like some of these songs, the clunkers, should've been B-sides. I hate saying that, because B-sides are usually better, but yeah. Great review, m'man.
PLEASE REVIEW “WE ARE FAMILY” BY SISTER SLEDGE, ITS MY ALL TIME FAVORITE ALBUM & IN MY OPINION THE BEST PRODUCED ALBUM EVER. Do some Black People albums.
Their bassist is one of the best
@@javier86050 he was the best!
Johnny Carson is proto Wesley Willis
Surfer Girl should be in the 10 - no question.
BRO HOLLAND IT'S LITERALLY ON YOUR WALL
i’m upset that you didn’t include smile on the list but i understand why, where would you put it though? for me it alternates between one and two
I think that wild honey is better than how you ranked it
Today is a great album....Pet Sounds is what drove BW into the early stages of depression.....The BB viewed it as a flop.
Hard to argue with your list. I might have swapped All Summer Long for Smiley Smile. Was the Party album eligible for this list?
You really nailed it about how those bad tracks really derail some of those albums. I've always thought Today! would have been as important and almost as influential as Pet Sounds had it not been for "Bull Session With Big Daddy." And considering what we know about Murry Wilson, "I'm Bugged at My Old Man" isn't really fun to listen to. In fact, it's pretty much unlistenable.
But, when it's all said and done, Pet Sounds still lives up to its legend.....and always will.
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I think every Beach Boys album has at least one song that lets the concept of the album down. You're right with Transcendental Meditation ruining Friends but Sloop John B (while an okay song) completely juxtaposes the rest of Pet Sounds in terms of overall themes. Still one of the greatest albums and maybe the best of 1966 but repeated listens does not make a cohesive listen when you look at it objectively. I agree with your choices but I'd shift a few of them around. I love Pet Sounds but I usually lift the needle once Sloop John B starts, I blame Mike Love for its unwarranted inclusion on Brian's otherwise masterpiece
Sunflower is AMAZING!!!
Minus Bruce's songs & @ my window.
Does anyone agree with me that Sloop John B. doesn't fit in with the theme(s) of Pet Sounds?
I read/hear that a lot and I kind of get it. However, I've been listening to PS a lot these past few days and I now think SJB fits just fine...
Friends #1