@@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.
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.
Even if it is technically a compilation album, the Smile Sessions is without a doubt my favorite Beach Boys album and probably my favorite pop album period. It's such a travesty that it was scrapped. I always wonder how different pop music would have been if Brian Wilson didn't lose his mind in the process and Smile was released as the follow up to Pet Sounds.
That would have changed everything. But well...destiny. I've always thought that there's music and there's SMILE...it's something so creative and big that It surpass music itself...
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.
I’ve only recently started diving into their discography and I’m so glad because they’ve so many great records. My favourites are All Summer Long, Friends, Smiley Smile, Wild Honey, 20/20 (so underrated).
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!
Their run of albums from Surfer Girl to Holland is just fantastic, and Love You, L.A (Light Album), and That's Why God Made The Radio aren't too shabby either.
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
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.
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 just listened to Sunflower all the way through for my first time. I’d skimmed through the album and All I Wanna Do is one of my favorite Beach Boys songs of all time, but damn! Sunflower is great and one of the few albums that I can sit all the way through without skipping a track.
@@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 think a more in depth review of Surfs Up would be really cool, like how The Wall was covered. A song by song review, a video about the making of the album and Carl taking leadership of the band, and something else like what was going on with Brian at that point
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
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.
Here's my list! 10. Summer In Paradise 9. Summer In Paradise 8. Summer In Paradise 7. Summer In Paradise 6. Summer In Paradise 5. Summer In Paradise 4. Summer In Paradise 3. Summer In Paradise 2. Summer In Paradise 1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
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
I didn't know about the exclusion of, 'I 'guess I'm dumb', from the 'Beach Boys Today'!? I had recently discovered Glen Campbell's first rate version of said song and thought , this has got a real Brian Wilson circa. '66 prod. vibe to it, and ,yes ,even as an instrumental it would of made a stelar addition to the 'Today' lp.
Sherry She Needs me was recorded in between the 15 Big Ones sessions and the Love You sessions. It was a rerecording of a song from the Summer Days sessions called Sandy. The song Sandy hasn't been officially released and only appears on the Unsurpassed Masters bootleg. Sadly, that version never got a lead vocal, but other then that it's pretty much done. As for Sherry, that was added to the Made in California box set with a new remix that adds the original backing vocals to the fade. Both Sandy and the original mix of Sherry She Needs Me can be found in amazing quality on TH-cam. Remember, Sandy was first, Sherry was second. P.s. Brian later recorded it as She Says She Needs Me for his album Imagination
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.
Fantastic video! Love You has been slowly becoming my favorite BB album, it's so unapologetically honest, and those farty late 70s Moog synth tones were an excellent choice for instrumentation on Brian's part
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.
I think Brian Wilson’s “Smile” is addictive listening. The album is like a musical puzzle you can get lost in and the melodies stick in your head forever!
This is so cool, I've been waiting too long for this video to came out, Beach Boys are so great but so hard to find in good shape, thanks for this, love your work !
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
You did an enormous amount of excellent work here, obviously hundreds of hours. I used to race home from 8th Grade, immediately put on 'I Get Around,' and play it over and over Every fall I listen to 'We've Been Having Fun All Summer Long,' and I still really dig the tunes you mentioned, like 'Disney Girls,' 'Heroes and Villains,' and 'Surf's Up,' and others like 'When I Grow Up,' 'In My Room,' and the drag strip classics 'Shut Down,' and 'Little Deuce Coupe.' For a while in the 70s I lived in Hawthorne, a few blocks from the Beach Boys childhood home, and "Rhonda" was etched in the sidewalk near my place, so I've always had a feeling about that tune. For the last few years I'd have to say my favorite Beach Boys song has become 'Darlin'.' Thanks so much for doing this one--I've seen a number of your posts, but until now I'd missed this one, and it's a doozey..
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
I was literally searching youtube for a video on the top 10 beach boys albums bc Pet Sounds is my fave album ever but I haven't really checked their other albums out and then one of my favourite music youtubers drops the exact video, THANK YOU!!
For me the greatest Beach Boys song and one of the greatest songs ever written. They did a great job in adding it to the "Bed Montage" in Love and Mercy (my favorite part of the movie).
It's a tough one - Surf's Up is pretty inconsistent and throwaway up until you get to the last 3 songs, the 3 Brian Wilson songs. That suite of songs is so ridiculously profound and introspective and transcendental they kinda carry the rest of the album. Genuinely think Surf's Up is the greatest song ever recorded
Yep that song deserves a shout out. Not only in my BB top 5… I really believe it’s one of the greatest songs ever recorded. Hyperbole? Maybe, but it is a perfect song and it truly sticks to your soul
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.
Thanks for this video. I won a nice collection of Vinyl from a Beach Boys Facebook contest a number of years ago and found Smiley Smile, Wild Honey, MIA, La Album, and Carl and The Passions all at the same thrift store. I’m still needing Holland and now Sunflowers! I was really touched by Love You. We still sing “pat, pat, pat her on the butt” to our kids sometimes. I do have a soft spot for I’m Bugged at My Old Man but can’t stand Student Demonstration. I have the Good Vibrations best of The Beach Boys which is a great mixture of Pet Sounds onward. It might be my go to Beach Boys record. I have three pressings of Pet Sounds and my favorite is from a two in one Carl and the Passions combo record.
My favorite albums by Brian Wilson & The Beach Boys: 1 Pet Sounds Sessions - 2 Smiley Smile (Stereo) - 3 Surf´s Up - 4 Holland - 5 Sunflower - 6 20/20 - 7 Friends - 8 Carl & the passions. All these wonderful albums have saved my life from 1968 up til now. I have listen to these albums almost every week. I thought The Beatles was my favorite. As I´m getting older, it´s The Beach Boys that I listen to at the most. ❤
This is a great list and I'm so glad you love Sunflower so much, but I think Holland really should've been on the list. I would rank them: 10: Summer Days 9: Smiley Smile 8: Love You 7: Wild Honey 6: Holland 5: Surf's Up 4: Friends 3: Today! 2: Sunflower 1: Pet Sounds
Wild Honey, Sunflower, Surf's Up, and Holland are all excellent albums that are too often forgotten. I think 20/20 and Friends are pretty damn good as well, though more uneven.
Beach boys today is a perfect record. Don't understand complaining about the skit at the end. It's at the very end, after the conclusion. It doesn't interrupt the flow of the album. It's like complaining about a bonus track. Still, great video.
Glad to see you had Carl & The Passions - So Tough in your honorable mentions, it’s an underrated album for sure, even for relative beach boys fans, i think it’s fantastic, and i might put it in the top 10 myself!
I've never noticed student demonstration time being out of place. Me and my mates love it. It also helped me in my gcse exam because of the historical context
I have to agree with your assessment of Summer Days, it's like Brian wrote California Girls which is a top tier song then rushed a bunch of filler material to release an album. That being said I really do like Let Him Run Wild
I love this band and I think that 'their non hits are overlooked. The sad thing with albums like Surfs up and Sunflower are many of the songs left off due to "Beach Boys politics"! The two Dennis Wilson tracks not on Surfs up is a crime! They were always a band that could shoot itself in the foot at the drop of a hat!
Thanks for making this video. I LOVE the Beach Boys and some of these lesser known albums (especially Sunflower) definitely don't get enough recognition. Solid list but if it were me, Love You would make the top half. Oh, and like someone else on here said, Country Air is a JAM.
I think That's Why God Made the Radio deserves a spot on this list. All the surviving Beach Boys along with key sidemen made an album that is consistently enjoyable. There are lyrical nods to the early fun in the sun along with more mature subjects of aging, mortality, and loss. It's a beautiful album that I keep returning to and a fitting bookend to an unbelievable career and legacy. Give me a thumbs up and comment if you agree.
I agree that it was a surprisingly good fresh effort in 2012. It doesn't make my top 10, but not far out. I rank That's Why God Made the Radio 12th, so still well into the top half, and for me higher than Love You, Smiley Smile, and Friends which made his top 10.
For me the Smile Sessions is not only the best Beach Boys album. Its the best album of all times. And you can choose your own version of it. Cant touch this.
Your confessed technique of listening to some of the albums only recently for the prep of this video doesn't give them enough perspective. You need to hear each one several times and also have the perspective of time to come to a "stable" long-term, rooted opinion of each one. I need to, anyway. For any album I listen to just once or twice and just in one day, I'm going to have a different opinion of it a couple years later after having heard it more times and many other albums in between. On the other hand, this task got you to listen to them all which is certainly cool, and you've got to start from where ever you are! Thank you for this video which brings the Beach Boys catalog to deeper consideration in all your viewers' minds. 😀
Beach Boys Love You wasn’t even close to being Dennis’ last hurrah. LA Album (1979) would be considered that since Dennis’ songs from the Bamboo sessions were put on here since he pretty much gave up on that solo album for a variety of reasons. And that’s the last batch of songs Dennis would release before his death. Love You was mostly a Brian Wilson solo effort.
Thanks Eric, this is a video I really appreciate. I've been a Beach Boys fan most of my life (the very FIRST record I ever bought was the Surfin' Safari/409 45rpm, when it first came out...yeah, I'm THAT old). But I've never been a Beach boys ALBUM fan (except for 'Holland,' that one I would play all the way through a lot!). It was always the individual songs. But this inspires to think of the band in complete album terms and now I'm eager to go and experience them that way. I'm sure this will be a very joyful ride and it will be interesting to compare your list to any I come up with! Thanks again, great job!
1. Pet Sounds 2. Sunflower 3. All Summer Long 4. Surf's Up 5. Shut Down Vol. 2 6. The Beach Boys Today 7. Smiley Smile 8. Holland 9. Summer Days (And Summer Nights) 10. The Beach Boys Love You Honorable Mentions 20/20 Surfin' USA Carl & the Passions Wild Honey Surfer Girl That's Why God Made the Radio Very hard to rank their albums. I included the early albums when they were about the surf culture. But the mid 60s material is just fantastic 😊. I had Carl & the Passions in the top 10, but it got kicked out on the top 10. Still an awesome album. Holland is fantastic as well. Very underrated album if you ask me.
Excellent reviews. Small disagreement on "Student Demonstration Time," from "Surf's Up," the song itself a reworked " Riot In Cell Block #9" by Dr. Feelgood. Saw The Beach Boys play this song live and loud in the early 70's, and now have what a friend affectionately calls my " Beach Boy Ear," a slight dip in the hearing of my left ear. 😀 It was a real crowd pleaser, as the audience showed great enthusiasm for it. A great reworked cover from a great album.
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.
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! I've watched this particular video before but I've only just noticed the curved corners. I'll have to watch some of your other videos again to see if they are always there. Very retro.
Wow. Didn't expect to see you ever talk about The Beach Boys Love You today. I've been making it a ruining gag to bug you on the Q&A hangout streams for your thoughts on that album. I never meant it to be a thing but it became one over time. I am a big fan of the album's weird vibe though out. One of the best descriptions about the album I've ever heard was a comparison to "Eraserhead." Kinda in the sense of the weird, child like songwriting having a uncomfortable, autobiographical truth drenched in metaphor. "Johnny Carson" is the off sited example I see the most, with how Brian worships Johnny in the song also being about the stress of Dr. Landy and the others on him. I'm not even getting into the trio of songs on the back half that basically hint at the breaking up of his marriage a year or two later. Even with that in mind, it always makes me happy in it's goofy, honest nature. Brian actually said this as his favorite album he made a few times. I even going as far to say that you should listen to "Love You" after you hear "Pet Sounds" if you wanna get The Beach Boys. I don't agree with that statement about The Beach Boys as a whole (Sunflower and the early 70's Jack Riley trilogy are much better in that regard), but that makes much more sense if we are talking about Brian. While the Proto-synth pop/punk vibe is not for everybody, it is a completely sincere album in its intentions. Brian just wanted to make something that made him and others happy, and I think he showed that and more in its emotional ideas.
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.
Tough to choose just 10, the car concept album Little Duece Coupe and All Summer Long are early highlights. Underrated songs like spirit of america, a young man is gone, ballad of betsy, no go show boat, girls on the beach, we'll run away and hushabye
Ooh, my all-time favorite band. The top one is my favorite album ever. I’m not gonna count SMiLE because it was never completed and released. 1. Pet Sounds 2. Sunflower 3. Today! 4. Wild Honey 5. Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) 6. Friends 7. Love You 8. Holland 9. 20/20 10. All Summer Long
There’s a great live double album, also can’t believe you didn’t list Holland as one of the best albums they ever did!! Some good solo albums by Brian Wilson too imo
@@desperatemohammedantheworl5833 I feel that the Good Vibrations summarised Mt Vernon and Fairway in the best possible way - th-cam.com/video/41Ml5HHuNp8/w-d-xo.html
I think you're talking about The Beach Boys In Concert from 1973... that's a great record. The tracklist sails really good between their discography up until that point...they can go from the softer Pet Sounds songs to rocking out on "Marcella"...I think that's their best live era
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!
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.
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
This was fantastic. “I’m Bugged At My Ol’ Man” is such an odd track but hey, if Murray Wilson was my dad I’d stick it on the album too.
Even if it is technically a compilation album, the Smile Sessions is without a doubt my favorite Beach Boys album and probably my favorite pop album period. It's such a travesty that it was scrapped. I always wonder how different pop music would have been if Brian Wilson didn't lose his mind in the process and Smile was released as the follow up to Pet Sounds.
Yeah it’s my favorite too and awful that it can’t be included. Remove those random Smile tracks from later albums and their quality drops.
same, I always say that it's my favorite as well. even unfinished, it is leagues above some of the other "masterpieces" of the time
If he just didn't take all those pills man
That would have changed everything. But well...destiny.
I've always thought that there's music and there's SMILE...it's something so creative and big that It surpass music itself...
@@drifter402it wasn’t just pills
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.
I’ve only recently started diving into their discography and I’m so glad because they’ve so many great records. My favourites are All Summer Long, Friends, Smiley Smile, Wild Honey, 20/20 (so underrated).
Love “I went to sleep” from 20/20
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!
Excellent analysis. There really is a lot more to the Beach Boys than just Pet Sounds and a few surfing songs. I wish more people would see that.
Their run of albums from Surfer Girl to Holland is just fantastic, and Love You, L.A (Light Album), and That's Why God Made The Radio aren't too shabby either.
5: Sunflower
4: Summer Days (And Summer Nights)
3: Today!
2: Pet Sounds
1: The Smile Sessions
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
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.
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 just listened to Sunflower all the way through for my first time. I’d skimmed through the album and All I Wanna Do is one of my favorite Beach Boys songs of all time, but damn! Sunflower is great and one of the few albums that I can sit all the way through without skipping a track.
I’ve been in a knife fight before defending Country Air, and I’ll happily do it again goddamit!
Please elaborate 😂
@@nicholasperl 1
Country Air is one of the better songs on Wild Honey I don't know what this man is smoking but apparently he's not smoking enough of it
Best B Boys quote ever!
It love it, it gives me chills
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
Sunflower is probably the most underrated album of all time. It’s Perfect 👌
I think a more in depth review of Surfs Up would be really cool, like how The Wall was covered. A song by song review, a video about the making of the album and Carl taking leadership of the band, and something else like what was going on with Brian at that point
Definitely an album where every track has interesting things to say about them.
How was The Wall covered?
"I'm Bugged at My Old Man" is FANTASTIC if you take it for what it is!
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
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.
Here's my list!
10. Summer In Paradise
9. Summer In Paradise
8. Summer In Paradise
7. Summer In Paradise
6. Summer In Paradise
5. Summer In Paradise
4. Summer In Paradise
3. Summer In Paradise
2. Summer In Paradise
1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
This is ridiculous. Summer in Paradise is way better than Sgt. Pepper.
Based
SIP isn’t as bad as everyone’s it is
@@41moose
Oh, it's not as bad yes.
It's worse.
where is Ding Dang?
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
Mona on Love You is a truly incredible song. I really wish it were longer than two minutes.
I love Mona almost as much as Brian likes Be My Baby!
I was new at work and my colleague introduced herself. Her name was Mona. And there it was again in my head for weeks. :D
A literal masterpiece
i love '''i wanna pick you up''
I didn't know about the exclusion of, 'I 'guess I'm dumb', from the 'Beach Boys Today'!? I had recently discovered Glen Campbell's first rate version of said song and thought , this has got a real Brian Wilson circa. '66 prod. vibe to it, and ,yes ,even as an instrumental it would of made a stelar addition to the 'Today' lp.
Great video, Eric. Thanks for the mention of Sherry, She Needs Me - I wasn't aware of that nugget.
Sherry She Needs me was recorded in between the 15 Big Ones sessions and the Love You sessions. It was a rerecording of a song from the Summer Days sessions called Sandy. The song Sandy hasn't been officially released and only appears on the Unsurpassed Masters bootleg. Sadly, that version never got a lead vocal, but other then that it's pretty much done. As for Sherry, that was added to the Made in California box set with a new remix that adds the original backing vocals to the fade. Both Sandy and the original mix of Sherry She Needs Me can be found in amazing quality on TH-cam. Remember, Sandy was first, Sherry was second.
P.s. Brian later recorded it as She Says She Needs Me for his album Imagination
I was scared you weren't gonna put Sunflower in here, but what a great surprise it was to see it so highly ranked!
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.
Fantastic video! Love You has been slowly becoming my favorite BB album, it's so unapologetically honest, and those farty late 70s Moog synth tones were an excellent choice for instrumentation on Brian's part
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.
I think Brian Wilson’s “Smile” is addictive listening. The album is like a musical puzzle you can get lost in and the melodies stick in your head forever!
This is so cool, I've been waiting too long for this video to came out, Beach Boys are so great but so hard to find in good shape, thanks for this, love your work !
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
You did an enormous amount of excellent work here, obviously hundreds of hours.
I used to race home from 8th Grade, immediately put on 'I Get Around,' and play it over and over
Every fall I listen to 'We've Been Having Fun All Summer Long,' and I still really dig the tunes you mentioned, like 'Disney Girls,' 'Heroes and Villains,' and 'Surf's Up,' and others like 'When I Grow Up,' 'In My Room,' and the drag strip classics 'Shut Down,' and 'Little Deuce Coupe.' For a while in the 70s I lived in Hawthorne, a few blocks from the Beach Boys childhood home, and "Rhonda" was etched in the sidewalk near my place, so I've always had a feeling about that tune.
For the last few years I'd have to say my favorite Beach Boys song has become 'Darlin'.'
Thanks so much for doing this one--I've seen a number of your posts, but until now I'd missed this one, and it's a doozey..
Holland gang rise up!
That album is pretty great!
Bonus EP!!
One of my favs!
Love Holland
Love Holland
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
YES been waiting for another beach boys video
Lovely Top Ten! (Love the Friends Album!)
You got my listening to The Beach Boys, and it takes a lot to sway me. Surfs up is my favorite so far
I was literally searching youtube for a video on the top 10 beach boys albums bc Pet Sounds is my fave album ever but I haven't really checked their other albums out and then one of my favourite music youtubers drops the exact video, THANK YOU!!
"Till I Die" is enough to push the Surfs Up album to number 2, in my book. That track is such a beautiful insight into Brian's head.
I totally agree with you 100%!
For me the greatest Beach Boys song and one of the greatest songs ever written. They did a great job in adding it to the "Bed Montage" in Love and Mercy (my favorite part of the movie).
It's a tough one - Surf's Up is pretty inconsistent and throwaway up until you get to the last 3 songs, the 3 Brian Wilson songs. That suite of songs is so ridiculously profound and introspective and transcendental they kinda carry the rest of the album. Genuinely think Surf's Up is the greatest song ever recorded
Yep that song deserves a shout out. Not only in my BB top 5… I really believe it’s one of the greatest songs ever recorded. Hyperbole? Maybe, but it is a perfect song and it truly sticks to your soul
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.
You are spot-on about Sunflower. It really is THAT good.
Thanks for this video. I won a nice collection of Vinyl from a Beach Boys Facebook contest a number of years ago and found Smiley Smile, Wild Honey, MIA, La Album, and Carl and The Passions all at the same thrift store. I’m still needing Holland and now Sunflowers! I was really touched by Love You. We still sing “pat, pat, pat her on the butt” to our kids sometimes. I do have a soft spot for I’m Bugged at My Old Man but can’t stand Student Demonstration. I have the Good Vibrations best of The Beach Boys which is a great mixture of Pet Sounds onward. It might be my go to Beach Boys record. I have three pressings of Pet Sounds and my favorite is from a two in one Carl and the Passions combo record.
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
got this notifications as i was finishing surf’s up. good timing
All summer long is one of my favorites, surprised that didn’t come on the list, but other than that great list!
Same man I think it’s the most beach boys, beach boys record. Little Honda, the title track, and I get around make it one of their best in my opinion.
great video
I have to check these albums
Your characterization of Beach Boys Love You was spot on, love that album.
My favorite albums by Brian Wilson & The Beach Boys: 1 Pet Sounds Sessions - 2 Smiley Smile (Stereo) - 3 Surf´s Up - 4 Holland - 5 Sunflower - 6 20/20 - 7 Friends - 8 Carl & the passions. All these wonderful albums have saved my life from 1968 up til now.
I have listen to these albums almost every week. I thought The Beatles was my favorite. As I´m getting older, it´s The Beach Boys
that I listen to at the most. ❤
I still don't understand how this channel doesn't have more subs despite having such quality uploads
This is a great list and I'm so glad you love Sunflower so much, but I think Holland really should've been on the list.
I would rank them:
10: Summer Days
9: Smiley Smile
8: Love You
7: Wild Honey
6: Holland
5: Surf's Up
4: Friends
3: Today!
2: Sunflower
1: Pet Sounds
Wild Honey, Sunflower, Surf's Up, and Holland are all excellent albums that are too often forgotten. I think 20/20 and Friends are pretty damn good as well, though more uneven.
Beach boys today is a perfect record. Don't understand complaining about the skit at the end. It's at the very end, after the conclusion. It doesn't interrupt the flow of the album. It's like complaining about a bonus track. Still, great video.
The Dennis Wilson rockers on sunflower are more of a let down to me than a skit. Those break the flow a bit. That said - still love sunflower.
Cool video! Holland would have made my list for sure, probably top 5
Glad to see you had Carl & The Passions - So Tough in your honorable mentions, it’s an underrated album for sure, even for relative beach boys fans, i think it’s fantastic, and i might put it in the top 10 myself!
The Blondie/Ricky era is my favorite.
@@Jbones72 i just love it because it’s so different, like i’m sure you could play it for someone without them even having a clue it’s the beach boys
Elton John went out in the press declaring his love for the album when the criticis bombed it.
@@tablehetfield9508 I did that with a good friend of mine and you're totally right, he had no clue. :D
Honerable mention Beach Boys Concert (1964) play loud too
I was just writing something about 1964 and was thinking about this. Get out of my head. Keep up the good work.
I've never noticed student demonstration time being out of place. Me and my mates love it. It also helped me in my gcse exam because of the historical context
Hahahahah I really liked your early April fools joke you did where you didn’t put summer in paradise at number 1
Nono I think the joke was not putting Surfs Up at number 1
@@maxv0085 oh had no idea what summer in paradise was until just now lol
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.
I have to agree with your assessment of Summer Days, it's like Brian wrote California Girls which is a top tier song then rushed a bunch of filler material to release an album. That being said I really do like Let Him Run Wild
Sunflower is my album. I absolutely love it.
I love this band and I think that 'their non hits are overlooked. The sad thing with albums like Surfs up and Sunflower are many of the songs left off due to "Beach Boys politics"! The two Dennis Wilson tracks not on Surfs up is a crime! They were always a band that could shoot itself in the foot at the drop of a hat!
Thanks for making this video. I LOVE the Beach Boys and some of these lesser known albums (especially Sunflower) definitely don't get enough recognition. Solid list but if it were me, Love You would make the top half. Oh, and like someone else on here said, Country Air is a JAM.
I think That's Why God Made the Radio deserves a spot on this list. All the surviving Beach Boys along with key sidemen made an album that is consistently enjoyable. There are lyrical nods to the early fun in the sun along with more mature subjects of aging, mortality, and loss. It's a beautiful album that I keep returning to and a fitting bookend to an unbelievable career and legacy. Give me a thumbs up and comment if you agree.
Underrated for sure. A few songs sound a little bland but there are some gems on this record.
I will check it out, cheers for the tip
I agree that it was a surprisingly good fresh effort in 2012. It doesn't make my top 10, but not far out. I rank That's Why God Made the Radio 12th, so still well into the top half, and for me higher than Love You, Smiley Smile, and Friends which made his top 10.
@@strawmancomicsoverrated. If it wasn’t the reunion album it would be lost in the mix
1) pet sounds
2) smile sessions
3) today
4) Christmas album
5) all summer long
For me the Smile Sessions is not only the best Beach Boys album. Its the best album of all times. And you can choose your own version of it. Cant touch this.
My top 2 is
1.Close to the Edge by Yes
Beach Boys - The Smile Sessions
Thank you
I just started listening the Beach Boys, and I didn't know what album listen to first.
Sunflower it is!
Great list! Today and Sunflower are a must on any list👍❤️👍
Good list, and thanks for giving Sun Flower the credit it deserves.
Your confessed technique of listening to some of the albums only recently for the prep of this video doesn't give them enough perspective. You need to hear each one several times and also have the perspective of time to come to a "stable" long-term, rooted opinion of each one. I need to, anyway. For any album I listen to just once or twice and just in one day, I'm going to have a different opinion of it a couple years later after having heard it more times and many other albums in between. On the other hand, this task got you to listen to them all which is certainly cool, and you've got to start from where ever you are! Thank you for this video which brings the Beach Boys catalog to deeper consideration in all your viewers' minds. 😀
I've always dismissed most of their stuff, but after this I'll give a good listen to at least a few of their albums. Thanks for the recommendation.
Surf’s up and sunflower are my favorite 1970s beach boys albums and they rank up there with pet sounds and beach boys today
I would love to see your 11-20 rankings. Holland to me is another underrated one that deserves a listen
Holland should have been around #2 or 3 in my opinion
Beach Boys Love You wasn’t even close to being Dennis’ last hurrah. LA Album (1979) would be considered that since Dennis’ songs from the Bamboo sessions were put on here since he pretty much gave up on that solo album for a variety of reasons. And that’s the last batch of songs Dennis would release before his death. Love You was mostly a Brian Wilson solo effort.
Thanks Eric, this is a video I really appreciate. I've been a Beach Boys fan most of my life (the very FIRST record I ever bought was the Surfin' Safari/409 45rpm, when it first came out...yeah, I'm THAT old). But I've never been a Beach boys ALBUM fan (except for 'Holland,' that one I would play all the way through a lot!). It was always the individual songs. But this inspires to think of the band in complete album terms and now I'm eager to go and experience them that way. I'm sure this will be a very joyful ride and it will be interesting to compare your list to any I come up with! Thanks again, great job!
I’m trying to get into Beach Boys and this video helped me a lot!
1. Pet Sounds
2. Sunflower
3. All Summer Long
4. Surf's Up
5. Shut Down Vol. 2
6. The Beach Boys Today
7. Smiley Smile
8. Holland
9. Summer Days (And Summer Nights)
10. The Beach Boys Love You
Honorable Mentions
20/20
Surfin' USA
Carl & the Passions
Wild Honey
Surfer Girl
That's Why God Made the Radio
Very hard to rank their albums. I included the early albums when they were about the surf culture. But the mid 60s material is just fantastic 😊. I had Carl & the Passions in the top 10, but it got kicked out on the top 10. Still an awesome album. Holland is fantastic as well. Very underrated album if you ask me.
Very nice roundup of your top 10 beach boys albums
I really agree with the list, they are also my 10 favorites, not so with the order. Sure, it's a personal choice. My number 1 is Wild Honey.
Excellent reviews.
Small disagreement on "Student Demonstration Time," from "Surf's Up," the song itself a reworked " Riot In Cell Block #9" by Dr. Feelgood.
Saw The Beach Boys play this song live and loud in the early 70's, and now have what a friend affectionately calls my " Beach Boy Ear," a slight dip in the hearing of my left ear. 😀
It was a real crowd pleaser, as the audience showed great enthusiasm for it.
A great reworked cover from a great album.
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.
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! I've watched this particular video before but I've only just noticed the curved corners. I'll have to watch some of your other videos again to see if they are always there. Very retro.
Your videos are so relaxing dude, good vibrations
I watched this and then listened to Sunflower. What an immaculate album! Better than pet sounds in my opinion.
Wow. Didn't expect to see you ever talk about The Beach Boys Love You today. I've been making it a ruining gag to bug you on the Q&A hangout streams for your thoughts on that album. I never meant it to be a thing but it became one over time.
I am a big fan of the album's weird vibe though out. One of the best descriptions about the album I've ever heard was a comparison to "Eraserhead." Kinda in the sense of the weird, child like songwriting having a uncomfortable, autobiographical truth drenched in metaphor. "Johnny Carson" is the off sited example I see the most, with how Brian worships Johnny in the song also being about the stress of Dr. Landy and the others on him. I'm not even getting into the trio of songs on the back half that basically hint at the breaking up of his marriage a year or two later.
Even with that in mind, it always makes me happy in it's goofy, honest nature. Brian actually said this as his favorite album he made a few times. I even going as far to say that you should listen to "Love You" after you hear "Pet Sounds" if you wanna get The Beach Boys. I don't agree with that statement about The Beach Boys as a whole (Sunflower and the early 70's Jack Riley trilogy are much better in that regard), but that makes much more sense if we are talking about Brian.
While the Proto-synth pop/punk vibe is not for everybody, it is a completely sincere album in its intentions. Brian just wanted to make something that made him and others happy, and I think he showed that and more in its emotional ideas.
Side note: check out Daniel Johnson if you like "Love You." Very much in the same vibe.
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.
Sunflower is my favourite of theirs - and yes, it is better than Pet Sounds.
Tough to choose just 10, the car concept album Little Duece Coupe and All Summer Long are early highlights. Underrated songs like spirit of america, a young man is gone, ballad of betsy, no go show boat, girls on the beach, we'll run away and hushabye
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
Ooh, my all-time favorite band. The top one is my favorite album ever. I’m not gonna count SMiLE because it was never completed and released.
1. Pet Sounds
2. Sunflower
3. Today!
4. Wild Honey
5. Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)
6. Friends
7. Love You
8. Holland
9. 20/20
10. All Summer Long
Great video!
There’s a great live double album, also can’t believe you didn’t list Holland as one of the best albums they ever did!! Some good solo albums by Brian Wilson too imo
Perhaps the Mount Vernon bonus EP dragged it's rating down?
Either way can't argue with his top 5.
@@desperatemohammedantheworl5833 I feel that the Good Vibrations summarised Mt Vernon and Fairway in the best possible way - th-cam.com/video/41Ml5HHuNp8/w-d-xo.html
I think you're talking about The Beach Boys In Concert from 1973... that's a great record. The tracklist sails really good between their discography up until that point...they can go from the softer Pet Sounds songs to rocking out on "Marcella"...I think that's their best live era
@@camilofalco4095 👍Yes
Love You is an absolute banger
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!