CC00003: The Beach Boys
Submitted by lbangs on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 10:24
Tags:
- Pet Sounds (10)
- Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of the Beach Boys (10)
- Surf's Up (9)
- Endless Summer (9)
- Wild Honey (8.5)
- The Beach Boys Today! (8.5)
- Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) (8.5)
- Sunflower (8.5)
- Pet Sounds 30th Anniversary Box Set (8)
- Smiley Smile (7.5)
- All Summer Long (7.5)
- Love You (7)
- Friends (6)
- Holland (6)
- Spirit of America (6)
- Beach Boy Rarities (5.5)
- 20/20 (5)
- Carl and the Passions - So Tough (5)
- 15 Big Ones (4.5)
- L.A. (Light Album) (3.5)
- Keepin' the Summer Alive (2)
- M.I.U. Album (2)
This is the third in a new series I call Critical Consensus. I am averaging the opinions of several excellent music critics to produce a list of each artist's albums. The albums will each have a rating between 1 and 10. The albums will be listed in a recommended purchasing order, so new fans will have an idea of where the best place to start buying an artist's work is. These are not my opinions, although, since I have chosen the critics used (and I'm using many), my taste will perhaps seep through a bit.
Terribly nerdy, I know, but maybe this will help people only now beginning to dabble into certain artists' bodies of work.
With the Beach Boys, I am limited by the amount of critical material for each albums. A few of their earliest (which tend to go in and out of print) lack enough reviews for consideration (I'm working on this), and I have decided not to include every best-of that has been released, as they are legion.